...and then? Nothing.
After that night ended, with me sneaking out of the door at one in the morning before her husband Paul came home? Nothing.
Back in work after the New Year, she was the same as she'd ever been with me. I knew that she couldn't act differently in the office, but I'd thought that there would be a call, a message, or an e-mail β something. Something to acknowledge what we'd done; done over and over, on her sofa, in the shower... Nothing.
Work became torturous. As I say, she was the same as she'd ever been with me β the same way she had been when just the thought of fucking her was driving me wild. After we'd actually done it, every smile as she passed my desk, every time I got her a coffee, watching her walk around the office; it was hellish. She was still wearing the same variety of either smart business suits that showed off her curves or just-about-appropriate-for-the-office dresses with high slits and low necklines that showed off everything. I obsessed over her at my desk, snatching glances when I could β her desk was in my line of sight, sitting removed from me in it's separate office β my eyes pouring over her.
She'd let her hair grow and it hung down to her shoulders, framing her bone structure, her high cheekbones and strong jaw-line that tapered off to her delicate chin, preventing her face from losing it's femininity. Her eyes, a delicate shade of blue that kept them twinkling and mischievous, always topped with a permanently arched eyebrow so it seemed. Her figure... Oh, many work-hours lost contemplating her figure β it's outline against her clothes β full, curved and welcoming.
I'd pondered all this over and over, of course; but now I had immediate context for it all. Her hair? Remembering how it felt between my fingers or draped across my stomach as she kissed me. Her eyes? How wide they would go each time I entered her, how they'd narrow as she licked around the head of my cock. Her figure? Where to begin? The natural firmness and size of her breasts in my hands as I sucked one of her hard, dark pink nipples... The way I could feel her muscles working in her ass as she rode me, watching her trimmed pussy moving up and down the shaft... The sense of instruction in her posh accent as she would wrap a leg around me and tell me to move deeper inside her... I sat at my desk half-hard most days, trying not to stare and look too lust-stricken.
It was this that I was focussing on when she said it. "Michael?"
I looked up. "Yes, Kate?" She looked incredible today, a dark-blue dress that hung to her like smoke around Lauren Bacall.
She passed me a box-file. "Could you take this down to the accounts department, please?"
I nodded forlornly; another random work task that an office junior could have carried out. "Sure."
I was at the door when she shouted me. "Oh, and Michael? Could you just check that everything's OK with it before you hand it in?"
I walked down to accounting wondering how it'd come to this level of obsession, when it was clear that all it was to her was a one-night stand, a revenge fuck against Paul's indiscretions. I shook my head and opened the box-file.
A pair of black panties lay inside, on top of the files. There was a post-it note on them: 'Stay late?'
I slammed the lid shut again and checked to see who was around. Nobody. I opened the file again and took the underwear out. They were warm.
After removing and pocketing the underwear, I dropped the file off and headed to the men's bathroom. Once inside, I took them out and smelled them, relishing the aroma of Kate's pussy. Running my fingers around inside them, I could make out traces of wetness. I rushed back to our department with them in my pocket and walked to her office. After knocking, I put my head inside and said, "Dropped the file off. There may be one or two things that need my attention though, so I'll be staying late tonight."
She nodded, deadpan. "Right. Well, I am as well so you'll have some company at least..."
I nodded back was turning to leave when she quietly said under her breath, "It's been killing me not having you." I didn't react and walked back to my desk to spend the rest of an agonising afternoon watching the clock crawl towards the evening.