A few weeks ago, I'd stumbled into sex with this redhead at the casino, and we'd hooked up again when I'd come to her town on business.
The business - we were looking at buying out this little company, and I went over there and talked to their management. They knew it was going to get out as a rumor, so they decided to have a meeting and tell everybody what was going on. Whatever, it's their ballgame, and it's not like they're a publicly traded company or anything.
They had a company meeting in their auditorium, and invited me on stage to say "hi" once they'd told them what was going on. I was telling them what a great opportunity this was - synergy, that sort of thing rather than duplication of effort and layoffs - and looking around the room when I saw her, Sue, the redhead. For a second I lost my train of thought, so I coughed to give me a chance to check my notes, then got back to it.
When we were done, they said I'd be coming around to meet people, and everybody dispersed.
I excused myself to take a phone call and called HR.
"So here's the thing," I told our HR director, "I might have had a fling with one of the girls here."
"OK..." she said.
"And she's married."
"Ooooooo... Kkkkkkkk..."
"She said it's an open thing."
"OKkkk..."
"What should I do?"
"Well," she said, "just carry on. We haven't set anything in stone yet, and we can just make sure she's not going to be one of your direct reports. Or we'll put her in the first round of any layoffs."
"That seems unfortunate," I said. "Isn't there a better way?"
"Let's see what happens, but for now you might want to just be nice to her and see what she wants to do."
"Thanks," I said, maybe a little bitterly, "you've been outstanding."
The local boss, Sam, tapped on my door. We'd agreed I'd have this office to myself, and that people would have to be allowed in so I could hide away anything they shouldn't see.
"Come on in," I called - I hadn't got anything out of my locked drawer yet.
"I was going to introduce you around," he said.
"Great," I said, faking enthusiasm I didn't really feel. "Let's do this."
We went around and met people. Some were dead eyed drones, but some were really smart seeming, enthusiastic people.
When we got to Sue's department, Sam introduced me first to Emily, who said "hi," then I said "hello Sue."
Sam looked confused. Sue seemed nervous.
"We met at the casino," I told Sam, and we moved on.
When I was finished meeting everybody, Sam walked me back to "my" office.
"Anything else you need?" he asked me.
"Actually," I said, "I'm going to be here by myself, any chance you could see if Sue would want to meet up for dinner?"
"You know she's married, right?"
"Of course," I said, "she can bring him if she must."
"On it, boss," he said giving me a mock salute.
Whatever. I went to work, looking at spreadsheets and statements.
I'd been at it for maybe 10 minutes when somebody knocked on the door.
I started shuffling everything out of the way, calling out "just a moment."
I opened the door and it was Sam and Sue.
"Come in Sue," I said. "Thanks, Sam, I'll let you know if I need anything else."
She came in and I closed the door behind me.
"What's with the note on the door?" she asked.
I pointed out a chair to sit down and sat behind the desk.
"I'm working on some confidential stuff that I need to put away. I know this is awkward," I said, "bearing in mind our... history?"
"Yeah," she said, "I figure I should probably find another job."
"Oh no," I told her, "it's not a definite thing that the... merger... goes through. And if it does, I doubt I'll be here very often. If at all."
"Even so..."
"Let's just have fun and see what happens. I'm really looking forward to meeting your husband."
"Ah," she said, "about that. He can't get here until later, so I was thinking I'd go home and get ready for the evening."
"Nonsense, we could go back to the bar in my hotel and pregame."
I looked at her properly.
"What have you got on under that," I asked her.
"My work stuff, tights."
"Show me?"
"This skirt is too tight to pull up."
Shit.
"Uh, we're going to need to go shopping and get you something nicer to wear then. We have time, apparently."
She just looked at me.
"Go back to work," I told her, "and we'll meet here at the end of your day, OK?
She nodded at me and got up and left.
I got all my documents out and went back to work. There was a lot of data to crunch, and I lost track of time.
There was a tapping on the door.
I called out "coming," shuffled everything away then opened the door.
"Sue, just give me a minute."
She came and I went and closed my laptop. I put it in my bag along with the other stuff.
"Let's go," I said. "We can take my car, then Dave can drop you back later or something."
We walked down and dropped stuff at her car, then walked to my car. I opened the door to let her in, then climbed and and we set out.
We parked and walked to the hotel.
"How about I leave you here while I drop my stuff," I told her in reception, "otherwise if you come up, we might miss your husband."
"Um, OK," she said. "I'll be over there."
I went and dropped my stuff off in the room, then headed back down.
"OK, boss, where now?" she asked.
"Well," I said, "there's a lingerie place not far from here, so we should start there, eh?"
Google truly is invaluable.
She stood and I took her hand heading out to the street. I took her to a women's clothing shop.
We were working our way towards the back when the saleswoman noticed us. She waved from the register and came over to us.
"Hi," she said, "is there anything specific you're looking for?"
"Lingerie," I said, "I think Sue needs something sexy to wear."
"This way, sir," the lady said, ushering us towards their lingerie section that we'd been heading towards anyway.
We got there and the saleswoman asked "did you have anything in mind?"
"Something small and sexy, and I reckon in black," I said.
"Tops and bottoms, stockings? Garter belt?"
"I don't think we need stockings."
"I think I'm a bit pale for bare legs with this skirt," Sue said.
"Hmm," he said, "what about opaque black thigh highs? Oh, and a push-up bra?"
The saleswoman looked Sue up and down, then went and collected a couple of items.
"Here you go," she said, handing them to me.
I looked at them, and said "sure, you want to try these on?"
"I thought we could just go back to the hotel and I'll put them on," Sue said.
"Nah, try 'em on."
She took the lingerie, handed me her bag and we set off to the changing rooms.
"Come on," I said to the saleswoman, "I'm sure we'd like your opinion too."
Sue went in, taking off her jacket and hanging it with the underwear on the hook. She turned to close the curtain but I held the curtain open.
Sue didn't argue. Facing the wall, she unbuttoned her blouse and draped it on the bench.
She unhooked her bra and dropped it with her blouse.
She went to pick up the black bra, but I said "not yet." I wanted to see her naked first.
She unzipped her skirt and took it off. It landed on the bench.
"That is dull," I said, looking at the pantyhose as she pulled them down.
She kicked her shoes off and pulled her feet out of her pantyhose. She slid her panties down, taking them off. They, and her hose, ended up on her pile of clothes. She was naked.
"Let's see you first," I said
She turned to face us, holding her arms apart, then grabbed the thong. She took it off the hangar and pulled it on.
I liked it. It was tiny.
"Turn around," I said, and she faced us.
"No, the other way... I want to see it up your ass."
She kept going until her back was to us.
"Bent over," I said. She bent forward, keeping my knees locked like a good girl.
