"Great!" She muttered under her breath. "Where's an umbrella when you need one?"
She didn't even have a jacket or a sweater that she could use to shield herself against the worst of the unexpected summer downpour.
She took one more furtive glance around the warm, and more importantly
dry
, coffee shop where she had enjoyed a very long lunch. Perhaps this was karma's way of punishing her for stretching her sixty-minute lunch break into a ninety-minute bitch session.
Her coworkers had opted to head back to the office on time, but Sophie couldn't be bothered to follow the rules.
Just ask Harold, her former boss. She had talked him into a long lunch break more than once. Harold was a legendary defense attorney, and he had fucked her into submission more times than she could remember. He had fucked her once or twice on his enormous mahogany desk, a handful of times on the microfiber couch that had sat under the window in his corner office and on one very memorable occasion in his private bathroom.
Ah, those days were over. Harold had transferred to the New York office almost a year ago. That had meant Sophie had not only waved goodbye to Harold but also to all that steamy office sex that had broken up the monotony of the work week. There were certainly new prospects, Chris Wood in research for one, but none of them had the balls to get down and dirty on company time, or furniture.
"Enough stalling!" she whispered to herself as she opened the coffee shop's front door. She ran the entire way back to the office. When she burst through the first bank of glass doors, she was winded and soaking wet. Her open-neck white blouse was all but see through; and although Sophie hadn't noticed that her nipples were poking through the fabric, the security guard stationed at the entrance sure had. He was now in possession of a semi-hard dick. He thanked god he was behind the information desk when she turned around and sent up a quick wave.
"Where in the hell am I going to get a towel?" Sophie asked the empty elevator. The elevator was walled in dark brown carpet reminiscent of coffee colored corrugated cardboard so she couldn't even check her appearance before stepping off onto her floor. Thankfully the office was quiet and...empty?
"
Where is everyone?"
Sophie wondered. "
Whatever! At least I don't have to explain myself! Not yet anyway
." She needed to find something to dry off with, and quick.
Sophie wanted to get seated at her desk as soon as possible, that way she could attempt to look like she had been there for the last hour. This made the firm's bathroom a little out of bounds. The only other place with some paper towels was the staff room, or what some people liked to call the "break" room. Sophie made a bee-line for it now, praying there was hot coffee. She had started to shiver under the ever blowing central air. She made herself a silent promise that if she got out of this without incident today, she would do better from here on out. No more long lunches!
"Why can't I be like everyone else? Why can't I come back to the office when I am supposed to? Jesus! Is it so hard to follow the rules?" A voice from behind her answered, "I am glad you aren't like everyone else." Sophie's heart skipped a beat. She had just stepped into the staff room and was searching the cupboards for a new package of towels, the damn dispenser was out. She didn't turn, too afraid she would give herself away. Instead, she continued opening and closing cupboards.
"Where is everyone?" she asked the voice, as nonchalantly as possible.
"They have all gone upstairs for the quarterly report. Did you forget?" This time it came from directly behind her.
"
Shit!"
Sophie thought. "
Quarterlies are today! Now I really am in trouble!"
"Susan told me I didn't really need to be there this time, it's no biggie. What about you?" she replied, hoping to come off as unaffected, "Why aren't you up there?"
"Well, actually I am down here looking for you. Susan told me to come down and see if I could find you."
"So much for that,"
Sophie thought.
"Oh, she must have forgotten. God dammit! Trevor, do you know where there are some extra towels?"
"As a matter of fact, I do." Sophie could hear a smile in his voice.
She was startled to see him standing so close but relieved to see he was holding out a new package of towels. Sophie snatched them from his hand and began to leave the little room. Before she reached the door Trevor stepped in front of her.
"I would much rather you stayed wet, Sophie."
"I bet you would Trevor but I think we'd both better get upstairs before we lose our jobs," she countered, smiling.