Kim had worked for the company for about as long as I had but our paths didn't cross until my company acquired her company and we ended up working together. I liked her right away because she didn't abide any bullshit and she knew how to get things done. I knew she'd be somebody I'd want as an ally so I was very careful in how I cultivated our working relationship. When her legacy company and my legacy company finally co-located to a single office location, she was instrumental in getting our business line organized and set up. It shouldn't have surprised me that she was just as savvy, as it turned out, in getting something for herself. Once we were working in the same office and seeing each other daily, our relationship naturally developed but it was mainly business with just an occasional personal interaction; there was definitely no flirting and nothing to suggest what ultimately happened between us. It was after a few months in the new office, when she must have determined that she could trust me and that we might be able to mutually benefit each other, that she shared a secret with me.
I had stopped in to ask her about some supplies and she grabbed her keys and took me to the storage closet. It was a large closet with a lot of shelves and cabinets and, as it turned out, another door that you almost didn't even notice. Once she'd shown me where to find what I was looking for, she told me there was one more thing that she wanted to show me. Selecting one of the keys from her keyring, she slipped it into the lock on a door in the corner that I was surprised to realize I had paid no attention to until that moment. Behind that door, I discovered as I followed her inside, was a very small additional space that happened to have a couch, a desk and a desktop computer and monitor.
"What is this?" I asked, suspecting that it was Kim's hideout, where she could escape from whatever was giving her stress on any given day.
"This is where I go to get away from it all," she said, "when I have limited opportunity to get away from it all."
"I like it," I replied, "I assume no one knows about it, much less has access, aside from you."
"That's how it's been since we moved in," she said, "but I've been giving a lot of thought to sharing my secret and who to share it with. I think if you take a look in that bottom drawer, you'll understand what I'm getting at."
The room was small enough that I could sit on the couch and open the bottom drawer of the desk. Inside, there was a small stockpile of DVDs, all of the adult-oriented variety. Kim didn't seem the least bit embarrassed to show me these.
"As you can see," she continued, "my relaxation methods may be different than what one might expect. This is one of the reasons why I had to carefully consider who to share my secret with. Was I correct to assume that you'd find the occasional meeting in here with me to be relaxing and refreshing?"
"Without a doubt," I replied, "In fact, just thinking about you in here 'relaxing' by yourself is getting me in the mood for some relaxation with you."