It was happening again. Syrie gasped as she woke up, realizing that the sweaty state of her sheets and the creeping feeling beneath her skin that burned its way around her body could only mean one thing. Her fever was back.
"Oh God, no," she whispered. She thought she had gotten past this. She thought that after intensive therapy, after changing her name and her job and moving to another country, she had finally put the past behind her. But now it was back, back to consume her life once more.
She quickly leapt out of her bed and headed to the bathroom to take a cold shower. As she stood beneath the punishingly cold water, she kept repeating her personal mantra over and over to herself: "I won't let this consume me. I won't let this consume me. I won't let this consume me."
She managed to get her clothes on. The sensible business attire was tangible proof that she'd changed, and it made her feel better even as her skin continued to burn and her head began to pound. She put on talcum powder and perfume, hoping to disguise the fact that she was still sweating, in spite of her icy bath.
Syrie opted to walk to work, and didn't bother to bring her coat. She hoped that a nineteen-block hike in the winter cold would both exert her physically and chill her raging body out. She couldn't afford to go to work like this, and she had to get on with her life. She needed the long workday to help distract her; it would be the perfect way to get past what was happening.
Nineteen blocks later, she knew it was useless. Her head was throbbing, her skin was pulsing . . . there was only one cure for this, and she knew exactly what it was. Syrie angrily punched the elevator's call button, and walked into the lift just behind another man who worked in her firm. "Good morning," he said in a friendly way. Syrie didn't trust herself to speak. They were in the elevator alone as the doors closed, and both of them were going to the 42nd floor. Syrie looked at the man as she began unbuttoning her blouse. He was a pudgy, balding account executive who kept pushing his glasses up his nose as he read the morning paper and ignored Syrie completely. But all she was thinking was, "Thank goodness his trousers are zip up and not button. This will go a lot faster."
She abruptly hit the emergency stop button on the elevator wall, and the lift shuddered to a halt. The man looked up, momentarily confused. He'd been riding the elevator up to the 42nd floor for years, and he knew how long it took to get up there. He turned to Syrie to ask her what was happening, and his eyes widened in shock as the newspaper slipped from his hands. Syrie was fast, Syrie was on fire. Her shirt, bra and skirt were already on the floor, and her panties soon followed.
"What the hell are you doing, Miss?" the man asked, backing up against the wall.
"I'm sorry, but this has to be done," Syrie murmured. "It will all be over quickly, and then it can be like nothing happened. But please, please, please let me do this . . ."
"Do what?" might have been the question the man asked, if Syrie hadn't distracted him by walking over to him, her 38D cups full and swinging, and knelt down in front of him. She unzipped the fly on his trousers and undid the clasp at the top, then yanked them down along with his boxer-briefs. His cock leapt out immediately, already hardening from Syrie's little strip-show. He seemed incapable of saying anything else, especially after Syrie swallowed him whole.