The Road to Redemption (6 page)

He walked through the office past the open plan desks where the agents sat. The office was about half full, which is quite normal, as agents spend most of their time in the field, showing clients around. There is no need for them to be in the office as John could judge how hard they were working, or at least how successfully they were working, from the amount of commission each was earning. Agents in the office, said good morning to him as he walked past them. Maria sat at the last desk just outside his office.

“Morning Maria.”

“Morning John.”

Maria was his best agent and as such had pride of position, just outside his office, which was at the back of the room, so he could keep an eye on everything. There is quite a subtle pecking order in the way a real estate agent’s office is laid out, starting with Rebecca furthest away from John at the front desk, through to the other agents, then Maria at the rear, right outside John's office. John’s was the only enclosed office, signaling his level of importance.

He was just sitting down at his desk, when Rebecca appeared at the door,

“Sorry John, there’s another message I meant to give you.”

She walked in and handed him the message slip. Yes attractive he thought but for him not sexy. Initially of course he had found her sexy, but she was only 19 and after a while somehow the initial attraction had worn off. Also seeing her every day he had started to notice little things that he had overlooked at first. For instance her eyes were rather small for her face and her legs had a slight bow in them, when she wore a mini skirt. Also she was certainly a real blonde, but unfortunately had those rather thickish blond hairs on her arms, that a lot of blonde girls get. Still it all came together well and she was proving to be a real asset to the office. The more responsibilities he gave her, the more she seemed to revel in it.

John looked at the new message, as Rebecca returned to the front desk. It was from the Wilson’s solicitor, who needed to clear something with the Wilson’s and make, what he said were, some minor changes to the contract. It was in John’s interest to keep things moving smoothly. Even though contracts had been exchanged and the buyer had paid 10% deposit, he would not get his commission until final settlement, in about six weeks time. After John had sold their house the Wilson's had immediately traipsed off on an overseas luxury holiday, without informing their solicitor how to get in touch with them. They hadn’t told John much either, but they had mentioned something about staying at the Surfrider Hotel in Hawaii, so he passed this on to the solicitor. Lucky rich bastards he thought.

The other calls he had to make were routine and he arranged to meet a potential buyer at another property he was selling, not far from the Wilson’s.

He was back in the office around 11:45 am and asked Rebecca to bring him the Wilson contract, so he could look at the changes the solicitor wanted to make. He sat there for a while studying the contract, when he heard something and looked up. There was Rebecca standing at his office door and striking an unusual pose. She had her right hand up against the doorframe and her other hand on her waist striking a sexy pose.

“There’s someone here to see you John,” she said, in a provocative voice.

This was highly unusual, as she always phoned through to see if John was available and whether or not he wanted to see the person. Still holding the pose Rebecca continued,

“Its a Mrs.”...... she paused,  “A Mrs. Alice Johnson.”

She had a look on her face as if to say, “I know this is no ordinary client.”

“OK,” said John, trying to maintain his composure.

“Tell her I will be out shortly.”

“Okay...” said Rebecca with a big smile on her face, as she turned and left.

John sat there and tried to steady himself. He tidied up the papers on his desk, straightened his tie and adjusted his hair, in the mirror he kept in the corner. He did everything about three times. Finally he took a deep breath and went out to meet Alice.

Alice was sitting in the reception area casually chatting to Rebecca with her legs crossed looking very poised. She saw John emerge from the office and slowly and deliberately rose from her chair and confidently glided across the reception area towards him. What a vision she was. Today she was wearing an awesome cream business suit, with a jacket and short skirt. Underneath she had a soft grey blouse, low at the neck, showing just a hint of cleavage. She had a small cream Gucci handbag on a long thin strap, over her right shoulder and light high heeled, expensive, platform leather shoes to match.

She seemed to just float across the room towards him. John felt himself go weak at the knees. She was a picture of perfection. She had her long dark hair down again and the light coloured suit she was wearing, highlighted her beautiful clear olive skin.

“Hello Mrs. Johnson,” he heard himself mutter trying to look professional.

But she was having none of that,

“Hello John,” she said smoothly, as she softly planted her usual greeting kiss on his right cheek.

Over his shoulder he caught a glance of Rebecca, watching the whole scene intensely, with a huge smile on her face. She quickly put her head down and pretended to be working, when John looked at her.

“Come through to my office,” said John, still in vain trying to continue with the professional masquerade.

When an extremely attractive woman enters a room there is a moment of silence, as everyone stops what they are doing, just for a second. And so it was with Alice, as she walked with John, through to his office. It felt like a thousand pairs of eyes were watching their every move. Well that's how it felt to John, even though there were only five people in the office at the time.

As they walked passed Maria at the last desk, she gave John the same look that Rebecca had given him, at his office door. How do they all know he thought?

John closed the door to his office. Rather than sit in his visitor’s chair Alice positioned herself on the corner of his desk, amply showing off her well toned legs.

“What can I do for you Alice?”  he continued, still pressing on with the effort to be professional, as he walked around to his chair.

“Well for a start you can take me to lunch.”

Chapter 8  Lunch and Desert.

John had his favourite restaurant for lunch, where he often took clients and other business associates.

Alfredo met them at the door.

“Hello Mr. Mason,” I get you the best table,” he said in his broken English.

This wasn’t going to be hard, as they were a bit early and there were no other customers in the restaurant.

“How you been? Plenty of good business?”

“Yes Alfredo. This is Mrs. Johnson.” He somehow had to keep up the pretence.

“Hello Mrs. Johnson, welcome to my restaurant.”

“I get you both a drink before lunch?” Alfredo enquired.

“No, that's not necessary Alfredo, just a bottle of my normal Sav Blanc will do. That's Ok with you isn’t it Alice?” said John trying to be in charge.  She nodded.

Alfredo brought the wine and poured it.

“What you like to eat today?”

“I’ll just have an avocado salad,” said Alice

“Yeah, that's fine with me also,” said John as he caught Alfredo taking a sneak look at Alice’s cleavage.

‘I bring you my best Italian salad,” said Alfredo, “Special just for you, just like always.”

“He seems to know you well,” said Alice, as Alfredo walked away. “ Do you bring all of your girlfriends here?”

In fact John did have girlfriends and yes he did occasionally bring them here. Mostly they were married. One recent one had been Annabel. She had worked in his office as a temp, when they had an overload of typing. Like Alice sitting in front of him, she was also into fitness, but also along with some bodybuilding. Annabel had the largest pair of firm breasts he had ever seen. A lot of girls have large breasts, but they are usually quite soft, like Mary’s, when they had their threesome many years ago. Annabel's were very large and very firm, almost muscular, if that is possible. She looked magnificent in the nude and when they went to hotel rooms, John would get her to pose naked in front of the mirror and admire her.

While she was looking at herself, he would give her flowing complements about what a beautiful body she had. This would really turn her on and she would grab him, go down on him and give him oral stimulation. She would then jump on top of him and climax very quickly. Her husband had premature ejaculation and she had adjusted her sexual needs to accommodate this. She had never had children and John loved it that she was very tight. She really turned him on. The more she made love with John, the more she was able to hold her orgasm back and the better was the sex. He loved the way she wrapped her legs around him and held him in, as they moved in time with each other.

There relationship had gone on for quite a while, until one day they were in a hotel room, but she didn’t want to make love. She wanted to sit on the bed and talk.

“What do you think about me John?” she asked.

He was not sure how he should answer this.

“I think you are wonderful and we have wonderful sex together,” said John rather sheepishly.

“Apart from that, what else do you think about me?” she asked

“Well I think you are very attractive.” And she was. Perhaps attractive, rather than beautiful.

“And you have one of the best bodies I have ever seen.”

“What about relationship wise, where are we going with this?” Oh dear thought John, here it comes.

“Well, we are both married and we have a great relationship, we really enjoy sex together and we should continue doing what we are doing,” he tried to parry her.

“Well I am not happy with this. I need to know where we are going with it.”

“What can I say?” said John.

“Well I’m not happy with it,” she repeated, “I’m leaving my husband. He spends all his time in his printing business and is never at home. I want to have children.”

Oh dear, thought John. He loved the sex with her, but had never thought of leaving Audry for her. In fact apart from the sex, they really didn’t have all that much in common to talk about. All they ever discussed was what new exercises she was doing at the gym and who she was working for as a temp. To him it was just a physical relationship, not a give up everything for it relationship. He had too much to lose. Besides he already had two children and didn’t want any more.

He could see there was nothing he could say and just sat there looking at her. Time passed. It was probably not all that long, but long enough for Annabel to make her decision. His lack of response was all she needed to know.

“OK, well that's it isn’t it?” With that she grabbed her handbag and went to the door.

“I’ll see you around John,” she had said as she left, but he had never did see her again.

Alice’s comment about bringing other girlfriends to Alfredo’s restaurant had reminded him of Annabel. It had taken John, totally by surprise and reminded him of a past girlfriend. Why was Alice insinuating that he had girlfriends? Was Alice insinuating that she would like to be his girlfriend? For a second he didn’t know what to say.

“Well I only bring the best ones here,” he finally managed to get out.

“That was a great night on Saturday,” Alice continued.

“Especially the part in the kitchen,” countered John, who had decided he needed to be more combative with this woman, to see how she would react.

“Yes especially the part in the kitchen,” said Alice coming back at him with her soft sexy voice.