"You're a cocksucker, aren't you?" Mr. Stern asked calmly. "Tell me the truth."
Bob Headly swallowed hard, shocked. His eyes shifted away from his boss, down, down to the floor he wanted to disappear into. Blushing furiously, he quelled the impulse to leap out of the chair and run. He gasped, speechless, paralyzed and sweating.
The silence loomed ominously. The older man sighed. "I know where you went for lunch, Bob." He paused, amused by the accidental allusion. "You've been coming back from lunches so late and so often that I had to investigate."
Why, Bob asked himself, had Mr. Stern gotten involved? Had his supervisor complained?
Bob continued to stare at a spot on the floor halfway between his feet and the boss's desk. What could he say? Oh, my God, he thought. Who else knows? What if my wife finds out? Maybe I'd better say something.... clearly the cat was out of the bag.
He took a deep breath. "Yes," he whispered, his eyes still fixed on the floor.
"What was that, Bob? You'll have to speak up."
Bob turned his eyes up without lifting his head, still hung in shame. He cleared his throat. "Yes." His voice was clear if noticeably shaky.
"Yes, what, Bob?"
His face burned as he acquiesced. "Yes, I'm a cocksucker." He felt his cock pulse at the mere utterance of the word "cocksucker," only increasing his shame.
"Good boy. Now, was that so hard?"
Bob was furiously fighting back tears. He stifled a sob. Then, drawing on some deep foundation he didn't know existed, he straightened up. "Who else knows about this?" he demanded. Desperately afraid that his life was destroyed, he felt the need to justify himself.
Stefan Stern smiled calmly. "This is just between us, cocksucker."
Ohhh... that word again! But Bob's alarm only increased. "Hey, what is this?" The prospect of being fired was suddenly very real. Ohmygod, ohmygod, what'll I do? What would he tell Angie?