As we talked I became more and more comfortable with her and started to like her quite a bit.As we talked I became more and more comfortable with her and started to like her quite a bit. She was smart, perceptive, witty, and quite sexy. I often found myself staring at her legs which were crossed right in front of me, and I couldn't help but notice her body, which seemed relaxed and loose under her clothes. Most women in business seemed so stiff and uptight, and Rachael's apparent comfortableness with her body was a striking change from that. As we continued to chat, I began to notice that Rachael was acting quite businesslike and I saw no evidence that she had any knowledge of Mary's antics. This made me wonder if perhaps I was wrong about Rachael having something to do with Mary's behavior. Maybe Mary's actions had nothing to do with Rachael wanting me to stay with the agency. At any rate, I began to feel better about dealing with Rachael as we continued to talk. After a few minutes of this, I had all but forgotten about Mary. Those few times she intruded into my consciousness, I just dismissed the thought about her with a reminder to myself that she would still be there when I was done here. I found myself drawn to Rachael, but in a different way than I was drawn to Mary. She was sexually attractive to me, but in a less blatant and more refined manner than Mary was. She wasn't doing anything that could be labelled as flirtatious, and didn't seem to be intentionally trying to arouse me -- at least not in the way that Mary had done. Rachael was just behaving like a confident, refined woman who knows she's beautiful and who always does her best to show off her charms. We were long done with the subject of the decline of American values, and our conversation had meandered into many related areas: art, politics, current events, literature, etc. Finally, it was Rachael who got us back on course. "You really are a stimulating conversationalist, Al," she said, sending a shiver of arousal through me as I savored the compliment. "But as much as I'd love to continue this with you, we have some business to attend to, I'm afraid. |