This story is based off true events. The identity of the characters has been changed for protection. This is my first attempt so please stay patient and I do not have an editor. If I get positive feedback, I will continue.
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I am a consultant for a small company in the southern part of the US. I am an educated, married, African American male in my mid 30's who's worked for this company for the past 10 years. As the small company continued to grow, we began hiring new faces. Since my position requires me to travel quite a bit all over the world, I really don't get a chance to meet and get to know the new people.
During springtime, my travel tends to slow down which allows me to stay in the office and catch up on paperwork. As I mentioned earlier, we began hiring quite a bit of new faces, while I was out on the road and since I was not in the office much, my boss decided to kick me out of my office and into a cube to make room for the new hires. I did not like the idea since I've had my office for the past 6 years and was used to the peace and quiet.
My department decided to hire a consultation manager to help with our scheduling named Stella. Stella was your average height, jet black hair, slim body, medium sized c cup bust, with a tight butt and a strong Russian accent. Her English was perfect, just had the strong accent to go along with her English. Her cube was catty-corner to mine. Stella was not a super fancy woman, but you can tell she loved to dress up. Twice a week, Stella would wear these nice fitting dresses that will show her curves. She was always on the move walking back and forth and I would always see her walking by from the corner of my eye.
Since the company was growing at a fast pace, Stella was giving us new processes to follow to make everyone's jobs a lot easier. Stella and I had to review the process to see if this will work for me and my team. With us working with each other, we started to get to know each other better and had to exchange phone numbers to keep in communication. When I had a question after work hours, I would text her rather than emailing since the email may not get read until the next business day.
My marriage was at a halt. The sex was no longer there. I was rarely at home and when I was home, there were so many personal things I needed to take care of that we couldn't spend much time with each other. We were complete opposites; she was a night owl and I was the early bird. She liked to spend money, I liked to save. She wanted kids early in the marriage and I wanted to wait. Now that I want kids, she is no longer interested in having them. Marriage was getting rough.
While in the office one day, Stella happened to walk by wearing a creamed color dress showing off her awesome legs which caught my attention. As she walked by one time, I turned my chair to check her out. Her dress was damn near see-through and I saw a dark-colored T on her butt. I did not want to make her uncomfortable or make sure it didn't seem like I was harassing her so after work, I sent her a text stating "I am not trying to offend you but I don't recommend you wearing that dress."
Shortly after, Stella replied, "why?"
I stated, "Were you wearing a black or dark-colored thong today?"
Stella replied, "OMG how do you know that?"
I replied, "I apologize for saying this and I don't mean to offend you but as you were walking by, I was checking you out."
Stella replied, "OMG I am so embarrassed and asked do I think anyone else saw?"
I stated, "I'm sure they did but the view was nice so I don't think anyone will say anything".
I saw that the message was read but did not get a response back thinking she was fully embarrassed. I decided to text her one more time to ease this situation.
I said, "You looked fucking hot today. You should dress like that every day."
Stella replied with double heart eye emojis.
Since it was starting to get late, I did not reply and got in the bed and went to sleep.