My wife, Cindy, had not worked since we moved to London 12 months ago. But she was growing bored at home and had decided to start looking for some secretarial work to keep busy and meet new people. I was shocked when she returned home after her first day job hunting to tell me that she had taken a job with a company in central London. She told me it was an import business and she started the day after tomorrow. I was really pleased for her as she seemed so excited and the extra money wouldn't do us any harm at all. Her new boss was a man named Rob and there were three other guys in the firm, she would be the first new staff member they had hired since starting the firm.
Cindy spent the next day shopping for work clothes in town and we celebrated that night with dinner at restaurant near where he would be working. The next morning Cindy was up and dressed before me, eager to make good impression, she left for work early.
"Good luck and enjoy babe", I shouted to her as she left.
When I arrived home that night there was a message on the machine from Cindy telling me to sort out my own dinner as she was still at work getting everything sorted out. I got dinner and Cindy arrived home just as I was getting into bed.
"How was it?" I enquired.
"Great, the guys are really nice and the business seems to be doing really well" she replied.
"So what exactly do they do?"
"Well they import clothes and sell them on to retail outlets, nothing to exciting", she replied while heading for the shower. I was asleep before she got back. We left for work together the next morning, Cindy looking gorgeous in a new grey skirt suit that suited her petite 5'6" frame and long blonde curly hair.
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Everything was going really well for her at work and a few weeks later she came home with news.
"Were getting into a new line of ladies clothes and I'm going with Rob to the suppliers tomorrow to give him my opinion."
"Great, at least you know they value what you have to say" I replied.
When Cindy got home the next night I asked her about the new clothes.
"Oh, it's just some new lingerie" she replied quite quickly.
"Really?"
"Yeah, nothing to exciting, we have a photo shoot at the office for our catalogue tomorrow" she stated.
"I didn't know you did photo shoots at the office or on weekends."
"Yeah we have a studio down stairs and we get the models and photographers in as we need them plus we need these catalogues out on Monday."
I gave it no more thought and went to sleep. Cindy got a call early that morning, it was Rob asking if she could come in early as there was a problem at work. So she left in a hurry and promised to call me later.
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I rushed into work that morning as Rob had told me there was an emergency. I arrived to find Rob and Tom, one of the other guys in a panic because the model they had hired for the lingerie shoot had pulled out and the catalogues had to be completed today. I started ringing around but after an hour it was clear we wouldn't get any models until tomorrow.
"Damn" shouted Rob when I told him the bad news. I had never seen Rob even slightly worked up about anything and it was a little intimidating as he is 6'4", black and quite well built.
"I tried everyone in the book", I pleaded.
"Sorry Cindy, it's not you I'm angry at. It's just that I stand to lose about ten thousand pounds if these catalogues are not in print by tonight." Rob explained as we walked down into the studio where the photographer was waiting.
When we entered the photographer was a new man I didn't recognise, he looked me up and down then turned to Rob.
"Great, she's here, lets get started", he said.
"But I'm not the model!" I explained. When I turned to look at Rob he was looking me up and down as well.
"He's right!! You could model the stuff. I'll even pay you the five hundred the model would have got".
"But I'm NOT a model!!!" I exclaimed.
"But Cindy, you are in great shape and this would really help me and the company out. Plus you look about the same size as the model we had hired. Please, I'm begging you".
"I've never modeled anything before and it's really quite revealing stuff. I'm just not sure".