Hussein waited patiently for her to arrive. He couldn't wait for tonight...it has been six days...he knew it was going to be tough to get her to open up and get to know him...but he was willing to give her all the time that she needed. It was not going to be easy for her...or for him... He still remembered how hard it was for him to get her to agree to go out with him.
Jas had just joined the faculty and he couldn't take his eyes off her when she was presenting the details of her thesis and how she would contribute to the growth of the faculty during the staff meeting. She was confident, and yet demure. She smiled readily and exposed a warm nature. That afternoon, he invited her out for coffee to get to know her better. She readily accepted, after all, he was her boss.
During that brief coffee session, he learnt a lot about her. How she was divorced and was a single mother of two little kids. She has moved cities after her divorce and now lived with her father and spends time after work looking after her father and her kids. She was a dedicated mom and seemed to be very much in control of her life in terms of finance and career.
Hussein liked that sense of independence and freedom that she exuberated. He was drawn to her sexually and could not block out images of him in her as she sipped her tea and chatted innocently. She was very attractive..big eyes, button nose, full lips, tanned olive smooth skin, slim top and full shapely bottom. She dressed with a feminine touch and had the top button open in her blouse. She carried herself well and was just pleasing to his eyes.
It has been three long years now since Hussein dated anyone seriously. He too was a single parent but his children were much older and he had lesser responsibilities as opposed to her. The last women he dated seriously turned out to be only interested in his professorial paycheck. After that break up, he kept his relationships and sexual encounters pretty casual. He used women as they would let him do so. He never asked anyone out and was never short of a date. He was very good looking man and hardly looked his age of being 58.
Jas on the other hand did not seem to be attracted sexually or in any other way towards him. She treated him as a colleague and occasionally joked or laughed as she would with everyone in the room. He could see that she treated him with great respect and talked mainly about the development of her courses, journal articles, current curriculum and grants. When he joked with her, she would just smile and when things got a bit personal, she would find some excuse to leave his room.
By the end of two months in the faculty, everyone had heard about and knew Jas. During a regular end of the month meeting with the old boys from other faculty, Hussein heard Jas being mentioned. The Unit Chair from the Business and Engineering Unit was musing how easy Jas was to talk to. She had met him along the corridors near the left wing lecture theatre and since then her presence in the hall way or at the common staff room had created a new buzz. The old professor said he couldn't help ogling at her smooth flesh above the bra that showed through the slight opening of her blouse. It was certainly a 12 C cup he said as he licked his lips greedily. He said he felt a slight arousal that instant and wanked hard that night thinking of her screaming under him while he forcefully fucked her.
Hussein was seething with an unknown sense of jealousy and rage and was yet getting aroused at the thought of her being a center of attraction among these old academics. I must have her before any of this bastards get to her. It was a matter of time that one of them would ask her out and soon have her as a side dish like they did with many of the innocent and yet wanting female lecturers in the university.
But Jas hardly looked the sort to be seduced. She never gave anyone more than 10 minutes of her time unless it was a curriculum or faculty meeting. She was a conscientious worker who came in at 8.30 am and headed home after 5 pm. She hardly came for faculty drinks or stayed for dinner functions. Her excuse was that there was no one to take care of her father and her children.
Hussein wanted to date her at all cost. After the usual staff meeting, he asked her to stay behind to discuss a student query. When the rest left, he said he was kidding and the real reason was to ask her out for dinner that Friday. Jas smiled at him and asked if his wife, Mrs Hussein would be joining them. He explained that there is no Mrs Hussein but she is more than welcome to take that role. Jas's smile faded away. She then told him rather seriously that she respects him a lot as her boss and that he should refrain from making such remarks in future.
Things then changed as Jas started avoiding him. She would walk in late for staff meetings and walk out early giving class or student management as an excuse. Hussein knew that she was avoiding him but kept his cool.
After three weeks of cold and indifferent looks from Jas, Hussein knew that this drift between them would only give a window for the others to date her out more easily. He thought hard and came up with a plan. He asked Pam, his PA to look into her diary to book an afternoon meeting in the city at a hotel with some grant officers. Pam said Thursday afternoon is free for both of them as Jas has no classes to teach that day but she had to leave by 4 to pick up her kids from school.
He told Pam to book Jas's time from 1.30 to 3.30 pm and to inform her to meet him at a Hotel in the city where a few grant officers will also be present. He then booked out his morning with an off site meeting. He gave Pam the address of the hotel and that he would meet Jas at the hotel lobby after his morning meeting. He also asked Pam to send a few papers for the meeting through Jas as he would not have time to print it out in the morning.
Jas was surprised to see her entire Thursday afternoon being booked out by Pam with an offsite meeting. She asked Pam what the meeting was all about and was surprised to hear that Hussein wanted her to attend a meeting with some overseas grant officers in the city. The meeting should finish early and that she can go home from the city.
Jas agreed and on Thursday, she finished her paper work and just as she was about to leave for the city, Pam ran towards her with a stack of papers that were sent via email from Hussein to bring to the meeting that afternoon. Jas glanced at the papers and saw that there was an agenda and some African names of grant officers from an organization that she never heard of. But seeing that Hussein is already out, she couldn't verify anything and just took the papers with her to the meeting.
Upon reaching the hotel, she called Hussein on his mobile but there was no answer. She then sat on the lobby lounge and waited. She had dressed in casual office wear since she had no classes to teach today. She wore a A-line black skirt and white short sleeved blouse. She had the top buttons off and wore a thin black cardigan to just keep her warm just in case.
