I'd been with the company for seven years, starting in their billing department and rising through the ranks to my current role as the Director of Commerce. Not bad for a high-school drop out from the wrong side of the tracks, right? In the early days I had to keep checking myself, feeling like I'd lucked out and landed a job that I wasn't qualified for. Each day felt like a tightrope walk, was I here because they needed more 'diversity hires' or was I here because my boss had seen something in me and was willing to take a chance.
It turned out I was actually pretty good at my job and working in an office meant that there were always females around to admire. I've got a great-uncle that warned me about 'pissing where I eat' and it made sense. Why would I possibly fuck up a job that was probably the best I'd ever have for some pussy? Pussy was everywhere, I didn't need to hunt for it at work.
By the time I had become a Director, the company had grown considerably, there were multiple projects happening all focused on more growth. It was like the company had become this ravenous beast, I worried that it would eventually implode. With all of these projects happening, we brought in a number of contract workers. Among those were a small group of software developers that were tasked with some kind of application upgrade. Among that group was an Indian woman named Anushka, she was a pretty twenty-something that seemed quite introverted. She was here on some kind of work visa, apparently her and her husband had both come to the States for work.
My work had nothing to do with the work the developers were involved with and so I paid it no attention beyond noticing the additional people in the office. We have these get-togethers on the last Friday of each month. It's totally voluntary and happens after work, still we average about 15 people for these gatherings. They happen at a few differing locations but always places that are quiet enough to talk and enjoy good food and drink. This month the get-together was at a place called Livingstone's, I loved the place, it was decorated how I suppose fancy restaurants were decorated back in the 1930's or 1940's. As my co-workers began arriving were were in our typical 'TGIF' mood, and happy that the weekend was upon us. I was surprised when Anushka showed up, and it looked like she had brought her husband along as well.
We had a big table and then a smaller table set off to the side to accommodate the 12 of us that were already gathered. At some point, Anushka had began introducing her husband to her co-workers and eventually she brought him around to where I was chatting with one of the men that worked in my old department.
'Cal, this is my husband, Prakash." She said, while looking from me to her husband.
I've heard both arguments about first impressions, but Prakash immediately struck me as an asshole of epic proportions.
He smirked at me and extended his hand, and I was happy to give him a vise-like grip that wiped that smug look off of his face. They moved on and as Anushka introduced her dickhead husband to the rest of the workers, I noticed he seemed happy, smiling, and engaging.
It seemed easy to assume he wasn't much of a fan of Black folks. So I decided that I'd confirm my suspicion. After it seemed like everyone who was going to show up was already there, we decided to settle in and order dinner. I waited until I saw Anushka sit down, and then I slipped into the seat directly across from her. Once again, her husband gave me a look. I felt reasonably confident by this point that he was just a racist who must have forgotten that most of his family bathed in the same river the people in it were pissing and shitting in. As the meal progressed, it became even more obvious, I had been discussing the recently improved weather, and involved Anushka and her husband, going so far as to ask him questions about the weather back in India. His answers, when they were more than single words, were curt. Several other co-workers noticed his behavior as well. By the time the night was over, I'd managed to expose Prakash.
The following Monday, work was uneventful until someone came by my office and asked if Friday night had been as awkward as he thought it had been.
"Anushka's husband?" I asked.
He nodded, and then said that he'd heard there was still a lot of prejudice over there, at least that was what he heard. I've got no idea if that's true or not, but it did feel like Prakash had a problem with me.
We finished up chatting and he went back to his desk, just before lunch another worker stopped by and a similar conversation transpired.
During lunch, I wondered about Anushka. Did she feel the same way as her husband? It didn't seem likely, but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Three weeks later, our CTO had invited me to a meeting where he outlined how our current growth initiatives impacted our existing commerce offerings. It turned out that much of our existing software applications would be getting additional capabilities and that the work would begin the following week.
The developers were gathered in one of our conference rooms when I walked in and everything was discussed. At the end of the meeting, Anushka followed me back to my office, and asked if she could have a quick word.
I welcomed her into my office and closed the door.
"I want to apologize for my husband's behavior, I've never been so embarrassed. I've had people at work approach me and ask me what was going on. Is there anything you can do about this?" She asked, hopefully.
"I'll be blunt Anushka, he didn't leave a good impression on me." I answered directly.
"His parents, they raised him with some prejudices. It won't fix anything, but I can tell you it's much worse in my country."
"You're right, it doesn't fix anything. A word of advice though, your husband is going to upset someone that's not as tolerant as I am. You may want to get in front of that."
We finished chatting and she was off. As I sat there, I wondered how difficult it would be to seduce her.
She wasn't actually an employee, she was a contractor that would finish whatever work they had for her here, and then she would be off to the next company and repeat the process. So I reasoned that this wasn't exactly the same as fucking the receptionist.
I'd never been with an Indian woman, and while that had never been a bucket list item of mine, I did enjoy imagining the thought of me thrusting into Anuska, filling her with cum, and sending her home to her asshole racist husband.
I made a mental list of reasons why I should do it, and then a list of reasons why I shouldn't. The 'shouldn't' list was longer, by a lot.
I decided to do it anyway.
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The following day, I invited Anushka to lunch. I figured that if she said no, then there wouldn't be any simple way of fucking her, but if she said yes, that at least offered the possibility.
"I want to apologize Anushka, what I said yesterday was out of line. It's not my place to give you advice about your husband. I'm sure there's plenty that I don't understand about him, and I can either operate on a level that imagines the worst about people or I can be a better person and just give everyone the benefit of the doubt."