"You know she doesn't wear any panties."
"What?" I questioned, unsure if I'd heard correctly.
"Annette Bond doesn't wear any panties. Those stockings end around 4 inches below her pussy, and from there on it's nothing but bare flesh baby."
"No way! You're kidding me."
"Not at all. I have it on good authority," my colleague Stu Ferguson said with a wide grin.
"With your own eyes?" I asked smiling, acknowledging Stu's prowess with the ladies.
"Don't you worry Rob. If I felt there was even half a chance, I'd be in there like a rat up a drainpipe," he replied, which saw us both burst out laughing. "However, there's no chance of that for any man here at Landberry Mining."
"What; is she gay?" I asked honestly, which saw Stu have a brief laughing fit.
Stu was General Manager of Marketing and the woman he was referring to was Annette Bond. She had recently joined his Marketing team as a Manager with six or seven people reporting to her. The appointment had taken many by surprise, because Landberry Mining was a conservative Company, dominated by middle aged men, who liked to appoint other middle-aged men to such positions.
While Stu was superior to me at Landberry, we worked in different departments, had been on work trips together, and had always gotten along well. The problem with Stu was, he didn't like to rock the boat. When faced with a headstrong subordinate, he wouldn't pull them into line. However, he was more than happy to gossip all day about them, over a drink in his office.
"Annette Bond is a lot of things, but gay isn't one of them. Came out of college with an honors degree, went to work at Tufnell and Armstrong and promptly began fucking her way up the ladder."
"Really?" I said, sitting up and taking notice.
"Yep! A right little minx by all accounts. Anyone she felt could be used to improve her position was allowed access to what lay just above those stockings. And it worked for her. Before you knew it, she's mid-twenties, in a middle management position, having leap-frogged people who'd been waiting years for promotion."
"That wouldn't have made her popular."
"It did not; but evidently, she didn't give a fuck. Top up?" Stu asked, shaking the bottle before leaning forward to fill my glass.
"But then she ended up here at Landberry's?"
"Yes she did! That had to happen. Her final conquest at Tufnell's was Ben O'Connell."
"Of the O'Connell family?"
"A cousin I understand, but very wealthy in his own right. Poor young Ben fell hook line and sinker for Ms. Bond. They began dating and that put an end to her promotion for favors routine. Next thing old Landberry gets a call and she's working here, in my fucking marketing team. She's now living with Brad, and gone from readily available, to completely untouchable. Just my luck!"
"Oh dear! That's no-good Stu. So, I gather you're telling me that there's little you can do in regard to my issue."
"Exactly! Look, I like Vanessa and don't want to see her upset. You can talk with Ms. Bond if you want too. Go with my blessing. See if that gets you anywhere, but leave me out of it," he said, taking his predictable stance. "Now tell me about that young nicely proportioned blond in your team, Rob? Emily! She is hot!"
"Ha ha! You old fox. Recently married and very happy to be so, I'm afraid Stu."
"The happily married one's are always the sweetest, Robert."
"Well, Penny and I attended the wedding and Emily and Mike looked very much in love. I think we'll all just need to go on admiring her assets from afar."
"Ahhh well, no harm in asking," he said rising. "Let me know how you get on with Ms. Bond, and give my regards to your Penny."
I wasn't too deflated as I walked back to my section. I'd not expected much from Stu. He was sitting there waiting for retirement and didn't want trouble. At least he'd given me the OK to speak to the woman in question. That was something. When I returned to the office I informed Vanessa that I'd do just that, which at least meant she saw me taking some action on her behalf.
I sat at my desk and contemplated recent events. They hadn't been great. Work was turning to shit. Albert, our man in Ghana, had informed us that the Chinese were talking to the Ghanaian tribe, who I'd received an undertaking from. Formerly, when we were looking to exploit some obscure tribe, handshakes and an exchange of gifts had always served us well. However, it appeared this particular deal was not proceeding to script.
I'd been due to speak with our Ghanaian connections, along with my immediate boss Paul Blackwood and Mr. Landberry himself. That prospect was very unnerving. Fortunately, it had been postponed, because Albert couldn't locate the interpreter who'd taken me to the village, where I'd been gifted the ring. However, I knew the link up would have to occur at some point.
On the home front it had been two weeks since I'd fucked my wife against the wall in our hallway. That had been unexpected, because I'd not previously considered using the rings power on her. However, I was increasingly aware my ring had a mind of its own. While it worked it's magic on all woman it came into contact with, on occasion it appeared to be driving me toward a particular woman. The sensations I felt on viewing such woman, and the orgasms I had when fucking them, were more intense. This had been the case with my wife Penny, the sex we'd had that evening reaching heights far beyond anything we'd previously experienced as a couple.
While the ring driven sensations felt unbelievable, the women promoting them seemed random and caused me some considerable concern. They included my subordinate, the happily married Emily, who Stu had asked after. My daughters 18-year-old friend Tara was another, plus a former lover of mine Bridget, who I really didn't like. My body reacted when I viewed these women, in a similar manner to the reactions of women I touched with the ring. It was as if the ring had a similar power over me as I had over the women. I didn't like this notion. Of most concern and one I couldn't countenance in any way, was a growing sexual attraction to my own daughter Adele. Understandably, I found such feelings quite distressful and looked to remove the ring whenever I was at home with her.
There was another aspect to the ring that I'd become conscious of. It was impacting on my personality, causing me to become far more sexually domineering than was in my nature. My wife Penny had certainly experienced that, during the evening two weeks pervious. Prior to that, I'd acted in a similar fashion when fucking her friend Lauren. While they'd loved the multiple orgasms they'd experienced, both women had found my actions far too aggressive for their liking. During my sex session with Penny, I'd been extremely demanding of her, the likes of which had never previously occurred in our marriage. Subsequently, I'd made sure to remove the ring. Penny seemed happy to revert to more routine sex.
More mundane matters were also dogging me at home. Penny's sister Caroline's husband, Gerry, had left her. I couldn't blame him for this; Caroline was a bitch. Like her sister, Caroline was olive skinned and attractive, but she had a nasty streak. She'd told tales to her parents about me and Penny, when we were courting and subsequently looked to cause problems in our marriage. As a result, we'd never gotten along. My problem now was, Penny spending so much time visiting and having to console her sister.
"I have to go, because you don't like her coming over here."
"No, I don't, and you know why. Go and be with her, but do you have to stay over? You've got other sisters."
"Yes, but they're not as close."
"They're not close because they know she's a bitch."