James was sitting at his desk in his home office. His watch read 10:30PM. The pile of reports on his desk were slowly being whittled away. He had to cross check all the information submitted by the people below him against the work that'd been done that week. James' eyes were bloodshot and a coarse stubble had grown on his cheeks. He'd spent a full day at the office and now he was trying to get more work done at home. Rick, his boss had caught him on the way to the elevator that afternoon.
"James, I need you to come in tomorrow. Summers
just called in sick for Saturday."
James had begrudgingly agreed to it. He could use the money. Maybe take Cassie and the kids on a holiday or something. James finished another report and put it in a file. He took his glasses off and rubbed his nose where they sat.
"Summers, you fuckin' lazy ass."
James muttered to himself. There was a soft tap at the door. James looked up at the open doorway. Cassie stood hugging the door frame in her white terrycloth robe. Her black hair was tied back in a loose ponytail.
"Are you coming to bed anytime soon, sweetie?"
She asked sweeping her fringe over and behind her ear softly.
"I just need to finish a few more reports so that Rick won't ream me in the morning. I'll be up soon."
James said replacing his glasses.
"Hmm are you sure you can't come up now? You've been at it all day."
She asked running the soft belt of her bathrobe slowly between her thin fingers.
"Sorry but I need to get this done."
James said apologetically looking up into her green eyes. She walked over and kissed his lips, and put her palm against his bristled face.
"Okay, but don't you bring any work home tomorrow or I'll go down to that office and give that Rick a piece of my mind."
Cassie kissed James again feeling the sting of his stubble and he smiled wearily. Cassie turned and walked out. James smiled and took another report down onto his desk. It was midnight by the time he'd finished it and retired upstairs to bed. James was careful to avoid the creaky top step to avoid waking his children. He quietly went into the main bedroom and slipped out of his clothes. He regarded the curved shape of his wife asleep in bed. She always looked so peaceful in her sleep, deep sleep that is. An illusion suddenly shattered when she made a sudden fully body twitch and snorted before rolling over. James laughed into his hand at one of his wife's funnier quirks.
The next morning James woke to a fairly chilly morning, as he was on a weekend shift he only had to go in at 9AM which let him sleep in a bit longer. He nuzzled back into his pillow and felt to his side for Cassie. She was already up and in the shower in the ensuite. James lay dozing til he heard the hiss of the shower cut off. He watched Cassie walk back into the bedroom as she was closing her bathrobe. He caught a glimpse of the edge of her hip and the outer edge of her left breast leaving one whole naked stripe from her shoulder down. The most exciting part of that flash of creamy skin was the gentle curve in her waist which swept down to her body, around her supple hips and thighs before tapering down her calves. Her skin glowed in the morning sun.
"Good morning, handsome."
Cassie said knotting her bathrobe and kneeling on the bed beside James. He yawned just before she leant down and kissed him. His stubble was nearly a beard today and her face was immediately nipped by the hair.
"You need to shave, James. I'll get breakfast going while you shower. Wake the kids up when you come down okay."
James rolled out of bed and stretched. Cassie stared at the muscles in his back in the morning sun as it filtered through the sheer bedroom curtains. James walked around the foot of the bed and towards the wardrobe. He could faintly make out Cassie's nipples puckered up to stiffness in the morning's cool air through the material of her robe. As he passed her she clapped him on the butt with a firm hand.
"You know the curtains in here could use some dressing up. I was thinking I'd sew some kind of trim on them."
Cassie said as James pulled his clothes out and hung them on the wardrobe's door handle. Cassie left the room as James settled in to take a leak.
James started showering. His mind kept going to that flash of flesh he saw earlier. It'd been a while since he'd seen her naked. She was always so tired from looking after the kids and keeping the house clean and going to the gym. She simply didn't give off the sensual vibe she used to, her eyes didn't say "come and get me" like they used to. It wasn't even the sex James missed, well not the biggest thing he missed. Mostly it was the intimacy of being naked together and holding each other or showering together or even just being able to admire her body and its shape and texture and scent.
James finished his shower, shaved and dressed. He woke up his children Millie and Stephen on the way down to the kitchen. Millie was 9 and Stephen was 13. Stephen was adamant it was the Lord's Day and you should sleep in on Sundays.James reminded him about the actual day before tugging the covers off his son and throwing them in the corner. That usually got him out of bed.
James was mostly done with his breakfast when Millie came down to the kitchen. James was running late by now. He gulped down the last of his coffee. He kissed Millie on the crown of her head as she sat down.
"Have a good day, Mills. Don't let your damn brother sleep too late."
James kissed Cassie on the cheek and headed out to the car. The drive to work was quick and uneventful as the traffic on a Saturday normally is. James settled into his work with the skeleton crew of a Saturday shift. Around lunchtime his phone vibrated. It was a picture message from Cassie. It was a photo of a strip of intricate black lace. James texted her back.
"Is that for the bedroom curtains?"
There was a delay of nearly 15 minutes before Cassie replied. James couldn't believe the photo. It was a picture of Cassie's ass, the black lace was part of a thong which clung to her pale, smooth buttocks. The picture was taken squarely and James could see a faint triangle of daylight between her thighs. James felt his cock twitch. He drooled over the image for a good 5 minutes, he imagined the touch of the soft sin and the scent of her pussy.
"What'd I do to earn that gem?"
James sent back, feeling his cock begin to grow at the thought of cradling Cassie's firm buttocks in his hands.
"So much hard work deserves a hard reward. Don't be late coming home tonight and no bringing work back with you. You're all mine tonight."
James didn't reply. He simply tried to get on with his work while fantasising about Cassie's beautiful ass.
James checked his watch. It was nearly 5 o'clock. James could clock out soon and in an hour he'd be pulling into his driveway. James filed the last report in the stack and started his computer to shut down. Suddenly his ears picked up on a phrase coming from a cubicle not far away. Rick was learning on the corner of the cubicle wall talking to one of the newer people in the department.
"Come in on Sunday? We really need the man-power here."
Rick was hunting people to come in tomorrow.
"Not fucking likely, Rick."
James said to himself as he grabbed his bag and childishly squatted down to avoid being seen. He darted out of his cube and skittered down the hallway. He rounded the corner just as Rick was coming to his office, narrowly avoiding Rick's gaze. James sneakily made his way to the hallway and pushed the call button for the elevator. He pressed up against the wall to hide. The elevator came and James shot into the doors, he pressed the ground floor button and began to assault the close door button. They slid shut and James breathed a sigh of relief. He hummed the theme song from Mission Impossible as he walked to his car and headed out.