I noticed Deb soon after I took my new assignment in the office at the gold smelter. She is easy to notice, because not only was she very pretty, she is a full head taller than the average woman in that building and has a slender body like a fashion model.
Perhaps it was jealousy, but soon after a management change, Deb's position of authority over the secretarial pool was challenged by the two women who were sent from the home office a hundred miles away, and although her performance was steady and her work was predictably well done, she found herself answering numerous questions about why the procedures in the local office weren't consistent with those used in the home officeโwhich, by the way, didn't face the same sort of day-to-day problems because the clientele served there were primarily with retail customers while the local office handled wholesale deliveries.
Within a few weeks of taking notice of her I found that Deb was sometimes in my office twice a week asking for advice about how to handle the odd circumstance she was facing, and although I tried to help by explaining how I handled my own issues with the new management team, I was sure I wasn't giving her much help because the things that were happening to her were far different than my problems and hers appeared to be violations of the state employment laws and an attorney might have been better able to construct a permanent solution for her than I.
Still, I felt good about being a receptive ear to her problems and helping her find solutions to the nightmare that the management had laid on her. There was a sort of protective feeling that came over me when I thought about how she was getting the shaft. I'm not wired to deal with injustice without reacting.
During my conversations with her I discovered that I was developing an attraction to her because of her warm smile and her easygoing way that was always pointed at making the people around her feel at ease. Deb would often joke with me and others in the office, and I found that we were soon able to feed off each other's sense of humor. It was clear to me that she enjoyed that as much as I.
I felt odd about the connection I was making with her because I was careful to go home to my wife, Brandy, every evening and loved her very much. Nevertheless, I had found that most of the time my wife was rejecting my amorous advances and I had a tremendous unmet need that I hardly acknowledged to even myself. I should have known that by befriending Deb I was placing myself in a situation that I wouldn't be able to stop before it got out of hand, and if it did, we'd both be in for possible job termination.
I told Deb during one conversation in my office that although my situation at work was nearly as bad as hers I had a peaceful home to go to after work every day, and although I looked forward to going home every day because I loved Brandy very much, I was terribly frustrated sexually. Deb responded that her life was bad at home, too, and confrontational with her husband who had no concern for meeting her needs and only had sex with her so as to use her to gratify himself with no concern about giving her the pleasure during the once-a-quarter event. She was half-ashamed of the confession and we both made a small joke about it.
In the same "innocent" and joking manner that we had treated everything else we talked about, I told Deb that it was so bad for me that I found myself masturbating several times every day when I was alone, and Deb confessed to me that she was also having to satisfy her own needs alone. Soon thereafter, I told her that I was thinking about her when I masturbated, and was having sex with her in my mind. When I was telling her about the thoughts I was having when I climaxed, although she didn't respond in kind, I could tell that she was telling me by her look that she was thinking of me when she was climaxing, too. It was during those times that I started thinking about what it would be like to have an affair with her.
A few months later, I quit the job and took up a job doing consulting work for other smelting companies, and she quit her job, too. The intimate day-to-day contact at work was now over as was the potential of having an affair discovered by our workmates if we were to have started one.
My consulting work gave me a lot of time alone while I worked from my home office trying to line up the next consulting contract. I didn't forget Deb, though, and had kept her home telephone number and e-mail address so as to not lose track of her. I was surprised at myself that I had kept the thought of being with Deb in the back of my mind even after we no longer worked together.
For a few months I kept up a stream of innocuous-sounding e-mails to Deb and tried to think of ways to see if she might now be receptive to my sexual advances and worked out in my mind how I might seduce her via e-mail and telephone. I determined the best way to test her would be to tell her that I had been entertaining myself writing pornography for myself. She bit and asked me to send her one. I sent her one within the next few days.