The next morning I was up and gone before Sandi got up. I had breakfast at a coffee shop just up the street from work and when I got to the office I did just what Frank had suggested. I put the names of all six women on my PA list in a small box, shook it up and then reached inside and pulled out a name.
Pauline French was going to be my new personal assistant. Were the Gods fucking with me? Pauline is the only one of all the women on my list that I had lustful thoughts about. I imagined myself telling her that my wife was also a PA and then telling Pauline about how my wife took care of Dale and then telling Pauline that I wanted the same kind of PA. Then I saw myself in a sexual harassment suit and the thought faded fast.
Frank looked in on me and I told him that I had taken his advice and had pulled Pauline's name out of the box and that I'd offer her the position when she came in. He laughed and said:
"Keep it clean Bob. I've seen the way you look at her south side when she's walking north and what's more I've seen the way she looks at you when she thinks no one is watching."
"You can't be serious."
"Just keep it clean buddy. I'd hate to lose you over a bit of tail."
He left for his office leaving me with the thought "Pauline has been checking me out?"
Wanting to keep everybody as happy as possible under the circumstances I called all six women who had applied for the PA position into my office and then explained to them that they were all well qualified and so much so that I was having a hard time picking one of them. I told them what Frank's solution to a similar problem had been and that I had decided to do the same. I put a deck of cards and a box on my desk and said:
"I've put all your names into the box and to be fair I'm going to let one of you make the decision for me. High card will draw a name from the box and that will be the person I offer the position to."
Ann Marie was high with the ten of spades and she reached in the box and pulled out a slip. She went to hand it to me, but I told her to read it out loud. She did and while all the girls were congratulating Pauline and no one was looking I put the box with the slips that all had Pauline's name on them on the floor and put the box that had all the names but Pauline's on the desk in case any one wanted to take a look. After everyone had congratulated Pauline and had gone back to work Pauline sat down across from me and said:
"You seem to have overlooked something?"
"What is that?"
"You didn't offer me the position and give me a chance to say yes or no."
"You are right; I never thought of that, but to be fair to me you did apply for the job so why would I think I needed to offer it to you? You don't want it?"
"I did when I applied, but I didn't know about your wife at the time."
"Sandi? What does she have to do with this?"
"Maybe nothing, I don't know and that is what I guess we need to talk about."
"You have my interest Pauline. Just what do we need to talk about?"
"You had no way of knowing, but my sister works at Martin in the same department as your wife and her boss Dale. Pat, that's my sister, told me about three months ago that your wife and her boss were getting it on. She found out by accident. She was in the supply room getting a ream of paper for the copy machine and the supply room shares a rather thin wall with the men' bathroom and she overheard your wife's boss telling two other guys about the visit to Amalgamated and how your wife took care of the guys from Amalgamated and clinched the deal.
"One of the guys he was talking to asked if your wife was as hot as she looked and her boss said she was even hotter than she looked and then said that since she had done a gangbang in Chicago and had loved it maybe he could set up another one for them and they both said to count them in. This made Pat curious and she started watching your wife and her boss. She said they took a lot of long lunches together and a lot of times your wife came back from them with what Pat called a 'just fucked' look about her.
"One time when everyone was at lunch Pat came back early and had been walking by your wife's boss's office just as he heard:
"Oh God, but I do love this tight ass of yours."
Pat went and sat down where she could keep an eye on the door of the office and about twenty minutes later your wife came out with that 'just fucked' look that Pat had mentioned."
"So what does that have to do with me offering you the PA position?"
"I'm wondering if you are expecting me to be the same kind of personal assistant that your wife is?"
"God Lord no! Absolutely not! What my wife did destroyed our marriage. Why would I want that with you?"
"That's too bad."
"Why?"
"Because that's the kind of PA that I want to be."
"You can't be serious?"
"Of course I am. I've wanted you since the day I hired in and first saw you. I've fantasized being bent over your desk like your wife was probably bent over her boss's. When the position as your PA opened up I couldn't wait to apply. I imagined us on business trips and being in rooms with connecting doors that I would come through to you when our day was over. I saw myself sealing deals for you so you would get raises and promotions and become even more important to the company. I saw myself doing whatever it took to make my man need me enough to keep me around."
"Your man?"
"Yes, my man. I saw myself taking you away from your wife and then showing you that I would do anything for you. Absolutely anything!"
"You can't mean that."
"Oh but I do. I want you so bad I'll do whatever you want. Do gangbangs and pull trains to get you the deal? Done! Fuck the president and CEO of the company to get you promoted? Done! I'm yours to do with what you will. I'll fuck the world for you if you want me to, or I'll stay at home and raise your babies and no other man will ever touch me if that's what you want."
"I don't know what to say Pauline. No, that's not true. I do know what to say about part of it. If I have to provide sex to get a signature on a contact it will never happen and the customer can stick the contract up his ass. The same goes for providing sex for promotions or raises. I'll resign before that ever happens."
"Okay then; that leaves bent over your desk, connecting doors on trips together or staying at home and having your babies."
"None of that is going to happen Pauline. I'm a married man and until I'm not I won't cheat on my wife even though she has cheated on me. That's just the way I am."
"I know. That's just one of the reasons why I want you."
"That just doesn't compute Pauline. On the one hand you want me because I won't screw around on a wife who screwed around on me and on the other you say you will be a promiscuous slut."
"You didn't listen to me. I said I would do anything for my man. That was the key. My man. My man would be my life and I would do whatever he wanted. From being a saint to being a slut. I give myself to my man. Totally!"
"Well I can't be your man while I'm married to Sandi." I paused and then said, "And besides, I don't know you well enough to consider you as a replacement for Sandi."
"Then why do you stare at my ass and legs every chance you get?"
"I didn't say I didn't lust for you, just that I don't know you very well."
"You will know me well enough by the time your divorce is final."
"You are assuming that Sandi and I won't work it out."
"Not likely and for the same reason you previously mentioned."
"Previously mentioned?"
"You won't cheat on a wife who cheated on you. A man with a moral code like that won't stay with a woman who stabbed him in the back."
I had no answer for that so I said, "I'm offering you the personal assistant's position Ms. French. Please let me know your decision as soon as possible."
"You know I'm going to take it. I need to be as close to you as possible if I am going to have any chance at getting what I want."
"Okay then; your first job will be to get me a new secretary. Doris has given me two weeks notice. Her husband has taken a job in Boston. Get with Doris and she can give you a feel for what my secretary needs to be like. I require more of a secretary than she be able to answer a phone and type."
"You do know that any secretary I pick for you is going to be ugly as sin right? I'm not going to allow anyone that even remotely looks like competition to get close to you."