WARNING: If you don't like stories where the cheater gets away with it or gets forgiven for it, this story and many others in my catalog are not for you. Unless otherwise labeled, my stories are fiction no marriage has been endangered to create this story.
Management Training
I parked the car in the garage, opened the door to the back hall, and shouted "Larry! News!"
Larry shouted back from the den, "Good news I hope?"
I walked through to the den, stood in the doorway and announced. "I got it, I got the promotion!"
Larry jumped up and hugged me. "Great news. I know how hard you worked for it."
I hugged him back. "About a 10% jump in pay, and an office of my own."
Larry responded "More overtime hours at no extra pay, and a lot more work."
"Yeah, but that's what I wanted." Larry grinned at me. "I will need to go to New York for a one-week management training course. They will let me know the dates for the next course."
"This sounds like we should celebrate. How about we go out for dinner."
Ten days later an envelope landed on my desk. I open it, and pour out the training course details, airline ticket and a schedule of events. I see the travel department has signed me up for the frequent flyer program. A week Sunday, I fly out. Depart at 11 AM arrive 7:40 PM. Return on the Friday, leaving 5 PM, getting in at 10:20 PM. I have been booked into the Casablanca Hotel. One I had never heard of. I text the details to Larry, who says he will drive me to the airport and pick me up.
Over the next week I talk with my BFF Sherry and we go over the schedule, and pack my bag. I have never been to New York, and the hotel is within walking distance of Times Square. I am bouncing with anticipation. The schedule even includes a bus tour of the city, a show and time off to go shopping, I have never heard of the hotel chain, but I am assured by the Internet that it is a 5-star hotel. I have never stayed in a 5-star hotel. It even has a pool! Sherry insists I need to buy a new bikini. She grins, "Maybe it will help you to find someone to keep you company."
"Sherry, I could never do that to Larry."
"Who said you had to tell him." She grinned and sashayed away a few paces.
Later I show Larry, his response "Wow, now I wish I was coming, the boys are going to eat you alive. That is a really sexy bikini." His grin is a mile wide.
It feels like my flight day arrives in minutes, not a week and a half.
Larry drives me to the airport. I collect my roller bag from the trunk, lean across and kiss him goodbye. "I will text you when I get in, and see you Friday night."
"Have a good flight, and if you can't be good, don't get caught." He smiles at me. I think it is a bit of a dumb goodbye, of course I will be good. I open the back door and kiss the kids, Grant 8 and Sylvia 6. I turn and head for security. I am in group five, so I gate check my bag. I am in row 42, a middle seat between a young man, and an elderly business man. He must be in his 60's. The young man plays computer games the whole way, and the elderly man reads a paperback. When the food comes through, I purchase a sandwich. The flight is uneventful.
Being at the back I am one of the last ones off the plane, and my bag is waiting at the carousel when I get there. The instructions are to take the hotel shuttle to the hotel. I wander a bit before asking for directions to the hotel shuttle, only to find I had been walking away from the shuttle pickup location. I check in and head to the hotel restaurant arriving just in time to get food before they close. The waitress seats me near the back next to an attractive man. The front desk had given me a package of materials for my course, so I am perusing them while waiting for the food.
"Ah, I see you are here for the training as well, my name is Josh." I look over at the man, he is very attractive.
"My name is Lynn, are you here for the course as well?"
"Yes, I am in from Toronto. Where are you from?"
"San Diego, California."
"California, I have never been there, but I would like to visit. There is so much to see, Hollywood, the Redwoods, the Santa Monica Pier. I could probably spend a month there."
At that point, my dinner arrives, I thank the waitress. Josh gets up to leave. "I hope to see you tomorrow."
I smile "That would be nice." Now that I see him standing, I realize he is probably six foot tall. I like really like tall men, I am 5'9" and it is so nice to have a man who is taller than me. Larry is just barely taller than me at 5'10". I watch him walk out of the restaurant; he is so sexy.
MONDAY
In the morning, I have a shower, and put on sensible shoes, pants and a loose shirt. I walk the ten minutes to the training site. I register at a table in the lobby and am given a guest ID. It gets me through the turnstiles and up to the 17
th
floor. I find the training room, and the breakfast room is next door. Breakfast had started at 7AM and it is now 8:30. The first session starts at 9. I collect scrambled eggs, bacon and yogurt. I scan the room and see a couple of places at a table with two other women at it. I walk over, "Mind if I join you? I am Lynn."
"Please, I am Marcy and this is Sue." I sit down next to Marcy, and start my breakfast. A moment later Josh sits down next to me and places a plate with two croissants on it in front of me. "When I was getting my food, I noticed that the chocolate and almond croissants were almost gone, I got one of each for you. I didn't know which one you would prefer."
I looked over at Josh, "Thank you Josh that was very considerate of you." I point to Marcy. "This is Marcy and Sue."
"Good to meet you Marcy, Sue"
Marcy smiles "Well Josh, it looks like you are a keeper. How do you two know each other?"
I my mouth is full of Chocolate croissant, so Josh answers. "We met in the hotel restaurant last night. We were both late arrivals."
Sue jumps in. "Sounds like you two are set up for some work travel fun. Josh, if Lynn doesn't want you, call me. You are quite the hunk. Much more attractive than my husband."