Again Daniel turned around and headed for the door. He could not make up his mind. He decided to hit the golf course for the rest of the afternoon and cool off. He was too upset at having Jane dare to face him down about Sara. Sara must have said something because that nosey sister of his seemed to know quite a bit. He texted Sara from his car and told her he was done for the day.
Daniel: Sara, I will be out for the rest of the afternoon.
Sara: Okay. Is everything okay.
Daniel: No. Everything is not okay. So...I am going to work my aggressions out on the golf course with a few Martinis. Have a good afternoon.
Sara: What would you like me to do this afternoon?
Daniel: I gave you enough to do this morning to keep you busy for two days.
Sara: I finished it all before lunch.
Daniel: Take the afternoon off and go home and think about how sore your ass is going to be when I calm down enough to spank you. I told you not to talk to my sister about our personal life.
Sara: I didn't.
She waited for him to respond but when no response came, she put her phone away. She looked around her work space and started straightening and organizing things the way she wanted them. She cleaned and created new files and made the space her own. When she finally looked up several hours later, it was 6:07 p.m. It was dark outside. She started closing down the Executive Suite. She peeked into Daniel's office, tidied up his desk, pushed in his chair and shut off his desk lamp. She grabbed her coat and handbag and locked up before heading to her car. She drove home in complete silence. She was nervous about how the night would proceed. By the time she pulled into her parking space at home it was almost 7:00 p.m. It had started to rain and Sara pulled the drapy hood over her head on the way to her front door.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Little Red Riding Hood."
Sara turned, startled, to see Daniel leaning on his car.
"And the wolf.." She sniped back.
"Where in the hell have you been?" he asked.
"I stayed at the office and organized my space and cleaned up. If you thought I was going to come home and sit around like a scared cat waiting for you to come pounce on me, then you were wrong. There is no sense in wasting time on that nonsense."
"I told you to take the afternoon off and come home."
"Well, I didn't want to sit here stressing out so I kept myself busy. Are we going to stand out here in the rain or can we go into the house?"
Daniel held out his open palm for her to precede him.
"After you..." Their eyes locked for a second sending messages back and forth before she started walking. Sara knew this was not going to be fun. He was mad at her. But it also was not her fault he had a nosey sister and she wasn't going to give up easy.
Daniel followed her trying to assess her attitude.
If she keeps flipping sassy remarks at me I am going to push her, facedown over whatever surface we are near and tan her little ass for her. That will teach her a lesson or two about her smart mouth.
"Have you eaten dinner?" he asked as they entered the foyer and hung their wet coats and kicked off their shoes.
She shook her head no. She reached down and picked up her new heels. She dried them off so that she could put them back in the box. They still looked brand spanking new after a full day of wear. She was having a hard time looking at Daniel because she was nervous.
"What would you like to eat?"
"Can we talk first? I am not going to be able to eat right now."
He took off his suit jacket and hung it in the front hall closet. He started to removed his cufflinks and roll up his sleeves. Sara froze and tears filled her eyes as they fixated on his hands and his sleeves. He stopped and looked at her as she clutched her shoes to her chest.
"You're going to spank me...I didn't say anything to her, Daniel. I promise you I didn't." Tears began spilling over her cheeks. She was hanging onto her shoes for dear life and had begun to tremble.
"Then how in the hell did she know we were having sex and how did she know I bought you new clothes?"
"She asked me if we were romantically involved and I told her please don't ask. Then she immediately asked if you bought me new clothes and that's when your call came through. As soon as she dropped her phone in her purse she reiterated her question about the clothes. I told her I can't answer any of her questions and we dropped it. That's all that was said."
Daniel stood staring at the frightened creature in front of him for a long moment. He thought about what he knew of Jane and her manipulative ways and how easily she could probably corner this innocent slip of a woman. He nodded and stepped forward to hug and comfort her and help her calm down.
"Okay, Sara. Alright. Calm down. I am going to make us a quick dinner. I am in no mood to go out and we should eat something." She nodded and let him wipe her tears away.
"Honestly though...I wish you hadn't let the silence hang. You could have told her you wouldn't share it if we were involved and if I had bought you clothes you would never tell anyone. But your answers gave her what she wanted. I spent an hour trying to shut her up because it is none of her goddamned business."
"Well, she said as much when I wouldn't answer her. She told me it wouldn't make a difference because she likes me and that she just wants you to be happy."
"Did she, now?"
Sara shook her head and wandered off to put her shoes back into the box. She slipped into one of the night shirts Daniel bought on their shopping excursion and came back out to help with dinner. He immediately hugged her and pulled her against him and held her bottom in both of his hands.
"Do you feel better?"
She nodded.
They decided on chicken salad and ate them out on the balcony with a glass of wine. After supper they went to bed early. The day had been stressful and had taken its toll on both of them.
Daniel told Sara to take her night shirt off and they climbed into bed naked, wrapped around each other and both fell into a deep sleep.
It had been about three months since Sara had started working for Daniel. She had gotten used to her job and better understood what her new boss expected of her. The company and its attorneys were investigating Sara's brother and keeping him under Daniel's watchful eye. She had been spanked a few times for slipping up in attitude or openly disobeying him. It was a Friday afternoon and the office was slow and Sara was bored. Daniel had left for the afternoon to meet a business associate out on the fairway. She wandered into Daniel's office where she was always allowed to go and ran her hands over his chair and smelled the leather...the smell of his cologne lingered there...she sat in his chair and for the first time and saw the office as he saw it. She had never been in his office chair before. It seemed so...
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