It was late, gone 7 and already dark outside. Christina had had a trying day in the office and was tired and ready to go home for a long, hot bath and a glass of wine. Packing her things up into her bag she was startled to hear a door close in the other section of the office. She had thought she was the only one left, everyone else had gone home at least an hour earlier. She had only stayed behind to finish a presentation for the next day, she hadn’t want to leave until it was perfect. Fastening her coat she turned around to see Ed, one of the guys from Finance, throw his papers down on his desk and slump down in his chair. He didn’t look happy.


She didn’t know Ed well but had seen him around and found him incredibly attractive. He wasn’t her usual type but there was something about the way he came across that was very sexy, almost like he didn’t quite realise how good looking he was. She doubted he even knew her name, she was pretty new to the company and kept herself to herself- she wanted to do well and was quite shy with the opposite sex. That’s not to say she didn’t like sex, she just had a very discreet way of carrying herself so no one would know what she really got up to in the bedroom, or wherever else took her fancy.


Anyway, now she found herself with a dilemma…he hadn’t seen her but would hear her if she left. Yet she felt uncomfortable speaking to him, especially if he was as pissed off as he appeared. Which he clearly was, he was slamming desk drawers and sighing loudly, ‘Fuck!’ she heard him exclaim. She looked over at him and studied him intently, He looked so hot as he sat with his head in both hands on the desk, a look of pure frustration on his face. She must have been daydreaming because his voice brought her back to reality with a bang.
“Hey, everything ok?” He was staring at her with an unexpectedly warm smile. “You’re a million miles away…..”
Shit. She’d been caught gawping red handed.

“Umm yes, sorry, I was just looking who else was in the office, I heard someone…’ she stuttered. God, she was such an idiot, digging herself deeper into a massive hole. “He knows you were checking him out “she thought, cursing herself. As if he would ever be interested in her.

“Well, it’s just me…” he shot her a shy grin. She felt her stomach flip over. “Sorry, I just had a really bad call with some clients”, he continued. “Totally fucked it up- I’ll be here until midnight if I can’t sort this out. I was just letting off steam before I have to start looking at this spreadsheet again”.

“Oh, I thought it must be something like that. Can I help at all?” the words came out of her mouth before she had even thought them through. Like he would want her help with anything. He would probably laugh in her face. She was just about to brush it off and say “no, of course there isn’t, I was just joking” when Ed cut in with “well, I could really do with a second pair of eyes to try and see where I have gone wrong with this, if you have time?” The exhaustion she had felt 5 minutes previously transformed into a flicker of excitement. She didn’t know why, he only wanted her to look at a spreadsheet, it was hardly like he was asking her out on a date but it had been a while since she had had any male attention having split up with her boyfriend a couple of months previously. She’d preferred to keep focused in her new job for a while. It had been a good few months since she had last had any sexual contact with a guy and she couldn’t deny she was incredibly frustrated- her vibrator was great but no replacement for the touch and scent of a real man.

“No problem, let me just take off my coat and I’ll be right over” she replied, more confidently than she felt. “Before we start can I get you a coffee or something? It might help?”

“Coffee? Thanks, but no” he replied, “I have something stronger in my desk that I keep for nights like this when I have to work late.” Opening his bottom drawer he pulled out a bottle of whiskey and poured a generous measure into two plastic cups. Pulling another chair over to his desk, he gestured for her to sit down. “It’s really good of you to offer to help me like this, surely you must have something far more exciting to do than spend your evening with me?” he said.