It was mid November and it was the first time the senior partners had sent me to the IRS New Tax Law Symposium, mainly, I assumed, because they were all embroiled in a heap of shit with one of their clients, who was unfortunately, just indicted for racketeering. The firm was actively trying to put some distance between them and the false books they had been given from the client. According to the IRS the client had had $15 million dollars of undeclared income from off coast investments that were never reported. Probably due to their probable connection to illegal drug trafficking, but that was their problem not mine. I was now in the Grand Hilton Hotel of Manhattan sipping on a Manhattan. I thought it would be only fitting to celebrate my recent run of good luck to toast the city with a drink of the same name. It was not often that the partners sent a mid-management account manager, such as me, on such an important assignment and I was determined that I would bring back every ounce of information I could. Hopefully, this lucky turn of events would help propel me up the corporate ladder that, before now, I hadn't been able to climb very far. There were reasons for this, I assured my self, when each year the promotion list came out and my name wasn't on it. To be honest, I think they were right not to look at me s their next junior partner. Her death, my wife's death that is, had occupied my every thought of every waking minute and my mind was rarely on my job. We were married as youths and I loved her with all my hearth and soul. How could she have died and left me here all alone? Now after 4 years, the kids are all grown up and I'm still a basket case. My lust was gone, buried deep and forgotten, and my heart has gone cold too. I felt like an empty shell waiting to be crushed by the simplest of blows.
But now, at this very moment, I was away, just for one night, and I was determined that this evening would be without stress and sadness and I would forget about everything else. I took a leisurely sip from my Manhattan as I noticed her too sitting all alone in the dinning room of the Hilton. Our eyes did not touch nor did she acknowledge my presence but I felt my heart race anyway. She was sipping something sweet and brown; I imagined it a Kailua drink of some sort. I slowly pecked away at my dinner enjoying the charbroiled steak, courtesy of the partners, relishing every morsel, knowing this would probably be my first and only out of town assignment. An after dinner drink of Brandy flushed my face and warmed my gut and I headed for the elevator and a restful night's sleep. Tomorrow I will prove to the partners they had sent the right man.
I pushed the button for floor number nine after I entered the elevator and waited for the doors to close. Just before they had completely slid closed, they were jolted back open as a slim hand with exquisitely long fingers pushed forcefully against them. When the doors were fully open again she gracefully entered the elevator like she owned it and ME.
She looked over at me with a smile and then at the floor number buttons. "Number Six please" was all she said. Realizing this was the woman from the dinning room I noticed that she was even more ravishingly beautiful up close that from afar. Her black high healed shoes glistened in the light of the elevator and the pointed toes seemed somehow erotic. I couldn't help but follow her legs up from the pointed shoes to her lovely round, firm looking ass. As I followed the contours of her body upwards I paused for a moment on her breasts, noticing her nipples pushing pertly through her bra and silk blouse. The hard bump under her clothing seemed to get bigger as I looked on. Being afraid that she might catch my look I directed my eyes to the beautiful silver necklace draped around her lovely neck. The necklace was a beaded starburst type of design and the longest point of the starburst hung directly in the cleavage of her supple breasts. As I cast my eyes up to her face to again enjoy her classic beauty but instead I saw her looking directly back at me, a seductive smile on her glossy, full lips.
A little embarrassed I muttered "Sorry" and looked quickly away.
"Not a problem" she said "I'll take it as a complement."
The elevator ground to a halt and with a ding of a bell the doors opened.
"Well, this is your stop" I said, relieved that my embracing moment would soon end.