Chapter FIVE: An incredible Journey
I spent the rest of the morning finalising the details of my presentation against Louise's precise presentation plan, and making sure that I had everything I needed for the trip. A last minute service inquiry, which could not wait and which could not be delegated, meant that I was still wrapping out e-mails when Louise popped her head round my office door to signal her readiness for departure.
"Are you ready, Charles?" she demanded in a manner which, if I had not had such a direct and intimate series of encounters with her, could rightfully be considered as a tad insubordinate.
"Yes, just coming!" I replied, not even looking up to meet her enthusiastic gaze.
When I did, I was pleasantly rewarded. She wore a broad smile, her long blond hair brushed back to reveal a radiant face. She also wore a very revealing top and a wonderfully short pale blue miniskirt. She slapped her bare thigh provocatively.
"Come on then, we've got a plane to miss!" she firmly encouraged me.
I hurriedly clicked the send button, closed Outlook, and shut down my PC. I gathered up my suitcase and flight bag, and followed Louise at a brisk pace down the corridor and into the already waiting lift. We found ourselves alone in the lift car, and, as soon as the doors had closed, and in the time it took to travel down from the 7th floor, she lifted her skirt, briefly showing me the full length of her bare legs.
"I bet you can't wait, sweetheart!" she said in a low murmur, letting her skirt fall back to its minimal full length. I did not respond. I simply followed her at a respectable distance out of the lift.
"Off somewhere nice?" asked Dawn, the pretty young receptionist, looking up from her PC screen.
"A conference in Madrid!" replied Louise, smiling broadly.
"Oh! Have a good trip! Don't do anything I wouldn't!" said Dawn with a slightly cheeky grin. Neither of us replied.
"Your car is here for you. The white Merc." said Dawn as we walked past the reception desk towards the exit door.
"Thanks Dawn," I replied, as we manipulated our luggage and ourselves through the clumsily small compartments of the somewhat pretentious revolving doors. I couldn't help thinking that Dawn herself was also a pretty good candidate for my "best legs in the office" award. Although not spectacular looking, she was definitely one of the "short skirts, bare legs" brigade. I had noticed her observing me sending investigative glances in the direction of her legs whenever she got up from behind her well-screened reception desk - and she seemed to relish my attention.
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The company always used an executive car service for its business trips, and the luxurious white Mercedes with as smoked glass windows was waiting for us right outside the building. The quietly spoken uniformed driver placed our cases in its capacious luggage compartment.
"Keeping your flight bags with you sir?" he asked.
"Yes please," I replied, speaking for both of us.
He opened the near side rear door, and Louise climbed in and shuffled across to the far side, making room for me to sit next to her in the back. I noticed that her skirt had ridden carelessly up her legs as she moved across to her seat.
"The back alright sir?" asked the driver politely, stealing a casual glance at Louise's extensive legs as he did so.
"Yes, sure." I replied, taking my place beside Louise. We both sank back into the soft leather seats as he gently closed the door with that self-satisfied low clunk associated with vehicles of this calibre. He checked that the door was fully closed, and walked round to the driver's side. I noticed that Louise had not adjusted the hem of her skirt.
"Heathrow, terminal two is it?" he asked, looking at his paperwork. I checked mine, and affirmed.
"You just relax now! We should be there in about 45 minutes. Don't worry, I'm not the chatting sort. I'll just put some music on, and you just sit back and enjoy the ride!"
He slid the tinted glass privacy window across with a reassuring click, as some innocuous mood music began to flow mellifluously from the high quality in-car 'entertainment system'. Louise pushed the leather-covered arm rest between our seats into its upright position and leaned into the far corner of the car, giving me a spectacular view of almost the full length of her perfect smooth bare legs. Her legs seemed to have a sort of luminescent glow about them somehow. They were perfectly smooth, and completely uniformly tanned. Neither a single hair, nor even the slightest hint of a blemish was discernable.
She saw me staring at her legs, and smiled with what can only be described as an expression of complete self-satisfaction on her beautiful face.
"Good, aren't they?" she said quietly, "I got them waxed last night, just for your benefit. My beautician Angela does a superb job, don't you think?"
"She certainly does!" I replied, not sure whether or not I was really being invited to respond.
Louise looked around her, seeming to check out the tint in the windows and the privacy screen. She kicked off her light shoes and gently swung her beautiful long legs up, and across my lap. I was initially somewhat surprised at this move until I remembered the total ease and complete comfort with which she had introduced me to her legs every time we had met in the last two weeks.
"You don't mind if I get comfortable do you Charles!" she asked. This time, I decided that I definitely was not being invited to respond. I said nothing, but folded my hands across my waist, at least six inches away from the remotest possibility of any direct contact with her smooth bare legs.
I continued to stare shamelessly at them, utterly captivated. I felt her left leg move across my lap towards the backs of my stationary hands. Her right leg remained in position. the result was that I was able to see the crotch of her panties where she had deliberately parted her legs. Her smooth warm calf brushed up against the backs of my hands, and, almost involuntarily, I began to stroke her legs, from her ankles to just above her knees, in long slow movements.
"It's ok, no one can see us!" she reassured me, taking hold of my hand' and guiding it onto her smooth warm inner thigh. "You take your time, sweetheart! You just explore my legs all you like - we won't have this sort of privacy on the plane, will we!"