They couldn't have planned it better if they'd tried. That was my first thought, once the initial panic was over. A moment of wry, bitter sarcasm as I studied the mess they had made of my clothing. My suit was very likely ruined by the black coffee stain, and my shirt and trousers were soaked through. Not a very expensive suit, thankfully, but I only had two and the other was at home. More alarming, however, the outline of the chastity belt could just be discerned through the wet fabric. I hurriedly folded my arms to conceal the belt.
"Fuck, Rach!" I hissed.
"I'm so sorry!" she cried, grabbing a towel and making a futile attempt to undo the damage. Martin stood by uselessly, looking guilty.
The truth, of course, is that they had planned it. I can only blame my dim intelligence and foggy wits on the fatigue of frustrated arousal that I had condemned myself to by leaving the belt's key at home. What had started as an entertaining challenge had become an endurance test, not at all helped by Rach spanking me so severely at lunchtime. The skin of my cheeks and thighs was raw, each caress of my trousers a subtle torture.
Rach might have been satisfied by our encounter, but I was far from satisfied. She had left me on my knees in the accessible loo, my face, and also my shirt, wet from her fluids. I'm not a lesbian, but I had wanted more of her, more from her, more more just more. More pain. More humiliation. Instead I'd had to stand up, somehow, and return to the normal world of suits and spreadsheets.
My make-up was a mess. My hair was a mess. My crotch and thighs were wet. Sticky. Ten, fifteen minutes passed while I sorted myself out into a semblance of normalcy. Shield plate locked in place. Key resting between my breasts. Anyone who knew me well would see at once that it was a faΓ§ade. But it was the best I could do.
And now I had been undone again. An accidental collision between Rach and Martin, just as Rach had turned around from the sink with a glass of water and Martin had rounded the corner muttering about yet another coffee left to grow cold.
I had been lost in thought, trying to work out how to explain to my best friend that I had no wish to be her girlfriend or her sex slave (although, perversely, I almost certainly wouldn't resist her if she dragged me back into the accessible loo for more punishment), unaware that Rach was still intent on making me suffer for denying her access to my pussy. Not that I had had a choice.
"Fuck!" I repeated. "What am I going to do?"
"Wait here," Rach said, and darted off. I caught Martin staring at my crotch, and he looked away hurriedly, his cheeks flushed. Not for the first time I wondered how much Rach had told him about our lunchtime encounter. Before I could ask again, Rach was back with a bag. "I went shopping at lunchtime," she said.
I stared at her. While I was recovering in the loo, she had gone shopping?
"I think these clothes will fit you." She took my elbow and guided me towards and into the stationery closet. As she closed the door, she said to Martin, "Stand guard."
I hurriedly stripped out of my wet clothes, leaving on only my bra and, of course, the chastity belt, and used the back of my vest to dry my skin. Rach handed me the shopping bag and picked up my wet clothes. "I'll hang these somewhere to dry," she said.
"Wait!" I cried after her as she slipped out of the closet, but she flashed me cheeky grin and left me alone. It was only at that moment that I understood this was a set-up. With sudden dread I opened the bag to see what she had given me to wear.
There was only one thing inside the bag - a stylish, colourful Desigual dress, mid-thigh-length with a low-cut 'v'-neck. Infinitely preferable to walking out of the closet effectively naked, I supposed. With a sigh, I worked myself into it, slipped back into my heels, and looked down at myself. It would do. Far more revealing than anything I had ever worn to work before, and I would have to be careful how I sat, but the only visible evidence of the chastity belt was the little key dangling between my breasts.
"Bitch," I muttered. I felt I should have been angrier with Rach, but she was forcing me to live out my fantasy. The fire she had stoked at lunchtime had cooled to a simmer during the afternoon as I struggled to focus on numbers and procedures, but suddenly it was raging hotter than ever. Removing my bra, I leaned with my back against the door, massaging my breasts, squeezing my nipples. It did nothing to relieve the aching need, the throbbing demand for attention below that the belt denied, but I had to try, even knowing that I would fail, as I always did.
With a muffled scream of frustration, I abandoned the effort. I adjusted the dress, my hard, prominent nipples making sharp points in the fabric - I no longer cared who noticed - and dropped my bra in the shopping bag. I had only to survive one more hour, then I could go home and liberate myself. My faithful pink rabbit was waiting for me, and maybe I would invite Tom and Ricky over later to satisfy me in ways no vibrator could.
Emerging from the closet, I scowled at Martin and Rach as I swept past them on my way back to my desk. I felt many eyes on me as I crossed the office, but ignored everyone. Opening my e-mails, I read all the way through a long message, only to realise I had no idea what I had just read. I read it again, but my brain refused to process it. The phone rang and I picked it up automatically. "Hello?"
"Come to my office, please." It was my boss.
A cold shiver ran down the spine. I could hardly deny him. "Yes, Mr Darcy."
I looked round to see Rach and Martin watching me like a pair of guilty conspirators. Rach winked at me. "Bitch," I mouthed, and she laughed.
There was nothing for it but to walk into the lion's den. I stood, smoothed my dress down, and walked over to his office. Emily, his secretary, glared at me suspiciously. She was not the first of Mr Darcy's secretaries to have succumbed to his charm, and wouldn't be the last, but she was still a sufficiently recent conquest to hope somehow that she would be the one to lure him away from his wife.
Mr Darcy - not his real name, but if my life were a film then Colin Firth would be a suitable casting choice - had never made a move on me, both to my relief and to my disappointment. I had no desire to be yet another of his meaningless conquests, or worse a pining mistress, but I can't deny that I'd often had fantasies of him laying me on his desk and taking me there. When his eyes strayed to my breasts during tedious group meetings, it excited me with thoughts of his mouth kissing about my areolae, his lips and tongue teasing my nipples, his fingers trailing down across my belly to discover the wetness eager for his touch.
But he had never called me for a private meeting in his office. Wooden panels on the walls and a soft carpet spoke of power and wealth, but also of seclusion and secrecy. The sound insulation was very good. As I closed the door behind me, I knew no one would hear me if I screamed.
Mr Darcy was seated behind his desk. "Please sit," he said, indicating a chair in front. I walked over and sat carefully, keeping my legs together and my dress straight. He observed me silently for a minute, my hard nipples not escaping his notice. "I have received a complaint about your dress," he said.