The fallout from the evening in the locker room showers was much easier for LJ to process than it was for Hope. Being a man, especially one with military training, it was more natural for him to compartmentalize what he'd shared that night with Hope. Hope, on the other hand, found herself overwhelmed by the complicated and intertwined directions she was being pulled. She'd remembered standing there after he'd ravaged her body, allowing him first to shower her, then help dry her off before watching her get dressed and finally sending her on her way.
That could have easily been the end of their arrangement, but when Hope walked into LJ's office two days later for their next scheduled appointment to work on the Farmhouse Project, she surprised herself way more than she surprised him.
Her body still sore and battered from the sexual ringer he'd put her through, the physical toll was nothing compared to the mental gymnastics Hope had to do to walk back into LJ Addison's office 48 hours later. If not in a state of outright denial that it all had happened, Hope was still feeling the shock of seeing what she was capable of with the right man pulling her strings. That level of unease wasn't diminished in the least when she walked back into the Coach's office two days later and saw just how unfazed he seemed.
Sitting at his desk, sipping a cup of coffee behind a packet of Xeroxed papers, LJ looked up and smiled at Hope when she appeared in the doorway.
"Hi Hope..great to see you," he offered between sips.
"..H..H..Hi," Hope managed to reply, the pit in her stomach only growing as her feet went numb.
"Downloaded some financial forms a few minutes ago and printed them out..left them laying right over there by the computer if you want to look them over," LJ smiled with absolutely no hint to what had happened two days earlier in the boys locker room.
Sizing Hope up as she turned towards her tiny, modified work area in the corner of the office, LJ half studied the game plan he'd printed up for his team's next opponent at the same time he subtly and silently gauged the shape the woman taking a seat across from him was in.
The longer he sat there feigning attention to the basketball prep in front of him, the more fascinated LJ became in the dichotomy of the woman sitting on the other side of the desk. Hope was the unquestioned epitome of what everyone should strive to be. Virtuous, charitable, humble and keen, she was the type of person that would gladly go without food for a week if it meant no one else around her would have to fall asleep hungry. Then there was the primal part LJ had managed to cull from deep within Hope's psyche a couple of days earlier.
A long time student of human psychology, LJ knew everyone possessed that sort of potential, but the thing he truly marveled at was just how stunningly vivid and pronounced the two different sides of Hope seemed. The contrast was almost as night and day as the two colors of their skin pressed together. LJ couldn't help but take a measure of pride knowing he might perhaps be the only person in the world who'd seen Hope at both ends of her extreme. It was then he felt his cock throb in his pants, thinking back to two days earlier and the way Hope shouted and begged for him to fuck her, not to mention just how gloriously tight her almost virgin-like cunt felt twisting around his manhood.
Shifting in his seat as he continued to study Hope, LJ decided to excuse himself for a couple of minutes to catch his breath.
"Headed to the teacher's lounge..want a cup of coffee?" he asked as he rounded the desk.
"Sure," Hope nodded, trying her best not to make eye contact with LJ for fear he might see what was internally consuming her.
"How do you want it?" he started to ask before knowing he'd bust out laughing if Hope replied "Just black."
"Cream and sugar?" he asked instead.
"That's fine..double of both," she offered, keeping her eyes glued to her paperwork.
Besides the obvious reason to freshen up his coffee, LJ ulterior motive was to take a quick trip around the school just to see if anyone else was prowling the halls at that time of the evening. When he was pretty sure he and Hope and the run of the building, just as they had the other day, LJ knew he had an opportunity to try something he'd been pondering for quite awhile.
Strolling back into his office and handing Hope her cup, LJ spent the next 15 minutes or so working out some details with the project. Watching how Hope had steadily lost herself in concentration, it wasn't until he'd slipped quietly out of his chair and eased up behind her to look at some of the financial numbers on the computer screen that he decided to make his move.
Smelling that same sweet perfume from the other day fill his brain, LJ placed his right hand on the small of Hope's back as she recited some information from a website. Freezing in place when LJ touched her, Hope's voice became jumbled then finally went mute when he leaned down and softly caressed his lips along the right side of her neck. Sliding his left hand beneath Hope's arm, LJ reached around then closed his hand tight over her left breast.
"AAHH," Hope shuddered, her fingers making a scratching noise as they fidgeted nervously on the keyboard.
"Come with me," LJ whispered down to her.
"To the locker room?" Hope asked, her voice sounding distant and dreamy.
"No," LJ calmly replied, "Somewhere even better."
Hope's breath instantly lodged in her throat contemplating what LJ would have in mind that would match what they'd shared two days earlier in the locker room showers.
Helping the shaken woman to her feet, LJ braced his left arm around Hope's back and led her to the door.
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Walking side by side with LJ down the hallway leading from his office, Hope couldn't help but feel the pangs of Pavlovian excitement shoot through her system when she passed the door to the boys locker room, remembering in graphic detail what had happened inside. Instead of stopping however, LJ kept walking until the couple was standing in front of the entrance to the school's gymnasium and basketball court.
Hope's impression of walking between the large wooden doors was one of entering a large castle or fortress. That vision was heightened by the metallic sound of the heavy door closing behind them once they were inside.