Approaching the front entry of the excellent hotel the firm had put him up in that trip, Sutton glanced up to see a man in a cheap, grey suit sprint from the front door past him into the busy street. Immediately on the man's tail came a security guard and not far behind a woman Sutton assumed was a server from the bar.
"Grab that guy!" The security guard implored Sutton, but the fleeing figure was already past the shocked executive.
"That creep drugged a woman in the bar!" the server shrieked as the darting, grey-suited man jostled through the New York City night life.
Stepping into the lobby, unsettled by the commotion, Sutton saw the front desk was unattended, the office door swinging closed slowly, as if just jostled. Movement snagged his attention and Sutton spotted his coworker Willow teetering, on the verge of falling over. Isolated in the middle of the hotel lobby, she appeared to be passing out.
Rushing to Willow, Sutton managed to catch her as she lost her battle with whatever was making her so unstable. Slumping to her right bonelessly, Willow toppled over and Sutton lunged to protect her head from hitting the marble floor. At the last possible moment for her to save herself, Willow threw out a foot and managed to halt her headlong fall enough that Sutton was able to brace her and hold her upright.
As Sutton adjusted her weight in his arms, Willow appeared to realized someone was holding her. The drugged woman flinched away from him with a lurch, but she was so feeble and uncoordinated she only managed to start falling away from the person holding her up. Forced to grip her tight and wrap her in his arms, the uncomfortable executive whispered to her in a soothing voice one might use with a child.
"Its ok. It me. Its Sutton. you're safe now."
Whirling her head around in a dazed panic, Willow tried to focus heavily lidded, uncooperative brown eyes on her captor.
"S'ttn?" she mumbled.
"Yes. Its me."
"Take meh t'my rmm. S'Sleepy" and she passed her key card to Sutton.
There was no staff left in the lobby, the security guard, server and front desk person had all left. The obviously drugged woman was abruptly his responsibility. They had travelled there together, working on the same project and she didn't know anyone else in the City, as far as he knew. Not that any of that actually mattered right then, Sutton was deeply concerned about her well-being in that moment and wanted her to be as comfortable as possible, so he took her to her room.
It took several moments to help the drugged woman to the elevator and, as they rode up, she lost control of her legs and would have fallen if he hadn't been holding her tight. Walking down the hall was beyond her by that point, so Sutton lifted her in his arms like a groom, impressed by how light she was and how strong he felt. Adrenaline was working wonders. If he hadn't known what her room number was from check-in, Sutton wouldn't have been able to find it, but once he had her safely inside, he helped her lie on the bed and sat at the foot of the bed catching his breath.
Before he had even gotten his heart rate back to normal, Willow was unconscious. Worried about her, Sutton moved to her side and lifted her hand in his to check the pulse at her wrist. While he counted her heartbeat, he watched her chest to be sure she was breathing. When he found her pulse it seemed slow to him and she was breathing very slowly as well.
Pulling out his phone he opened the stopwatch and watched the dial count a minute while he counted her pulse. After sixty seconds and fifty eight beats, he watched her chest rise and fall gently for one more minute, counting fourteen inhalations. Looking it up online, Sutton determined Willow was in no immediate danger of overdose. If she grew nauseated, sweaty or if her heart rate or breathing slowed more, he would call for an ambulance, but given the cost and potential liability for the company, he chose to wait and see.
Taking a deep breath to steady himself, Sutton watched the beautiful young woman sprawled on the bed and chuckled to himself that he was in the exact situation the guy who drugged her had wanted to be in, alone, on a bed with an unconscious woman who would presumable have no memory of what happened to her.
Sutton froze as he realized Willow's hand was resting on his penis where he'd dropped it to stop the timer on his phone. It was just an accident, a fluke of bio-mechanics that he'd most comfortably held her hand over his lap as he checked her pulse. Shamefully, he'd also been staring at her breasts for some time, assessing their shape as he waited for her chest to rise with each breathe. The silk blouse she wore revealed the contours of her breasts fairly clearly given that Willow wore only a camisole beneath.
The situation had suddenly become electric with forbidden potential.
Sutton discovered to his fascinated horror that he was actually tempted to molest Willow. The pleasant weight of her small hand on his penis was heavy enough to hold him immobile, pinned to the spot by its subtle burden. Blood rushed to his cock in an illicit surge, inciting him to lechery. Lifting his gaze to Willow's elfin features, he brushed a lock of brown hair from her face and even that small act of kindness was tainted by the swiftly mounting lust he felt staring at her beautiful visage.
Before that moment, Sutton had never had any lewd thoughts about Willow beyond the briefest appreciation for her physical attractiveness. Sutton was disciplined regarding how he viewed the women he worked with. Flipping an internal switch, they either became aunties, sisters or daughters in his mind the moment they started working for the company. Sex was as far from his thoughts as he could keep it throughout any work situation.
Abruptly given the opportunity to test himself, to actually determine if he were a good person or not, Sutton found he was failing.
As his hand lowered from Willow's face, Sutton brushed his fingertips across her closest breast. The thrill he felt from the slightest brush of his fingertips across forbidden zones electrified his already filling penis, sending a swelling of guilty pleasure through his libido. Closely watching her face for any hint of a reaction to his prohibited actions, Sutton cupped Willow's breast, feeling the warmth of her skin through silk, hefting the slight weight of her flesh. Assessing the firmness of her tissue with scientific thoroughness for future recall, he fondled his drugged co-worker, increasing his anxiety as he did so.
Finally, too full of apprehension and shame from what he was doing, Sutton heaved himself from the bed with a grunt and fled to the window as far from Willow as he could get while still able to see her.
Astounded by what he had just done, Sutton looked down at the offending hand bewildered by its independence from his conscious will. In his pants a pulsating erection revealed just how excited he was by his power over Willow. Expecting his brain to be full of arguing voices convincing him to
do
or
not to do
things, Sutton found his mind a relatively quiet place as he hovered at the edge of an act that would forever alter his view of himself.
Convincing himself he did it merely for her comfort, Sutton returned to the bed and removed Willow's shoes, elegant pumps that fit her so well there were hardly any marks on her bare skin when he pulled them off and set them beside the bed. With a gentleness that flew in the face of how utterly he was violating her, Sutton caressed Willow's feet, marvelling at the warmth and smoothness of her skin. The tiny toes were adorable, with paint that matched her fingernails and eye shadow.