The letter was waiting on my desk when I arrived the next morning. My name handwritten on the envelope. I felt my hands shake slightly as I opened it. Were they going to fire me? I wouldn't put it past them. Mrs Beckwith had been very clear how much they all wanted me to succeed. And my time for the 100 metres hadn't been good enough.
The letter was typed. I read it through twice. Then sat back in my chair, not knowing what to think.
Dear Mark
Your training yesterday evening, though starting well, failed to hit the time we need to have a chance of winning the 100 metres sprint. Last year, the winning time was 12.2 seconds. We are looking for you to achieve 12.1 or better. We are therefore going to incentivise you to meet your target through the course of today. You will make yourself available to everyone in the office duties.
1. Every time a member of the firm addresses you with the words "Twelve point one," you must answer "Yes, Ma'am" and obey their instruction.
2. If the instruction demands you strip naked, you must obey at once.
3. If the instruction demands you touch yourself, you must obey at once.
4. If the instruction demands you submit to being touched, you must obey at once.
5. If the instruction demands you urinate publicly, you must obey as soon as you are able.
6. If you are commanded to touch yourself, orgasm is forbidden. You must apologise at the appropriate moment, stop what you are doing and place your hands on your head.
7. If you are being touched, you may warn the toucher if orgasm is approaching and your Ma'am will decide what to do with you.
8. You will remain in this position of subservience until 5pm.
9. You will demonstrate that you accept the challenge by taking the bucket from the cloakroom and placing it in the middle of the typing room.
10. Then return to your desk and sit with your hands on your head. After five minutes you may begin work.
As I reread, I could feel my penis start to grow within my trousers, stretching the cotton. I might not be sure about whether to accept this forfeit but my cock certainly was. I went to the cloakroom and took the old metal bucket by the handle. Like a milkmaid of yore, I carried it to the typing pool and, watched intently by six pairs of female eyes, placed it down in the middle of the lino floor.
I sat, hands on head, and waited for something to happen. For a while, nothing did. I took down my hands opened my folder for the day and scanned the legal tasks I'd been set. I was just about to embark on the first one when my desk phone rang. It was one of the senior partners, Lucy.
"Twelve point one. Mark, make me a cafetiere of coffee please and bring it to my office on a tray with a mug and jar of milk. With cock out, please."
I felt the bulge in my trousers bulge more still. This was hell. But it was a glorious way to be damned. I stood, went to the empty kitchen and prepared the coffee, set up the tray and took a deep breath. Then I unzipped my fly, pulled the fully erect penis out of its constraints and, its head pointing, the way ahead, I picked up the tray.
Helen and Moira were standing in the corridor. I think, with the tray at waist level, they didn't notice my stiffie poking out. No sign of sniggering behind me. Now I was at the door of Lucy's office and balanced the tray in one hand to knock.
"Come."
My cock preceded me through the door, its head pointing straight at the seated Lucy. She looked up, smiled, and gestured for me to put the tray down on a side table.
"Thank you Mark, that will be all. No, wait a moment. Just turn around so you're in profile. Ah, yes." She was gazing straight at my stiffness.
"Pull it out a little further, there's a good boy."
"Yes, Ma'am." I did as I was told.
"Now back to face me."
"Yes, Ma'am."
The head of my cock was bucking with desire, pointing at the ample cleavage showing above Lucy's formal white blouse.
"Very nice, Mark. Now, put it away, thank you very much."
I tuck myself in.
"You are dismissed for now."
I get as far as the door before she calls me back.
"The Gentlemen's toilets are banned for the day, as far as urinating is concerned. Do you understand, Mark?"
"Yes, Ma'am."
"If you need to pee, you report to the typing pool. Now, off you go. I'm sure you've plenty of work to do."
I'd hardly returned to my desk before I'm called over to where Helen and Moira are still standing. It's Moira who summons me.
"I have some photocopying for you, Mark."
"Yes, Ma'am."
"The pile on my desk. Two copies of each."
"Yes, Ma'am."
I go to move off.
"Wait, Mark, I haven't finished."
"Sorry, Ma'am."
"Wearing only your shoes and socks."
This means I am going to have to walk naked through the open office, through the typing pool to Moira's office. Then walk back again to the copywriter, then back a third time with the copied documents.
Best not to think, just get on with it.