Exploring A Young Colleague Overseas Part 1
I am Deepak. I live in Australia. I am in my early thirties and happily married, I am an executive for an international company and often end up traveling. I like to keep fit and go regularly to the gym. My colleagues find me young for the executive role. I get signals from female colleagues, but I never entertained any of it. I never felt the need as I didn’t want to upset my relationship. My wife and I are passionate and have sex regularly. This incident happened during one of my business trips. I usually keep a very professional relationship with my colleagues. I don’t end up flirty or cozy with anyone given my position as it could be seen as taking advantage of my position. Two years back, my company asked me to take over the leadership of a new branch in London as one of the executives was leaving the company. I didn’t want to move to London since we were settled. It was hard to uproot to another country at this stage of my life. I ended up traveling every month to London. It was excruciating to travel on a monthly basis. I used to stay for two weeks a month in London and two weeks here. The team at London was already established. It was a mix of ethnicities and as you would expect there were some Indians. There was one girl from Kerala her name was Shruthi. She was in her mid-twenties and was taking care of the marketing department for the London office. She was gorgeous, well dressed, dusky in complexion around 5’6 height. She carried herself very well and had something to her which made her attractive. In my first week, I started to have coffee chat with everyone and didn’t have a chance to chat to Shruti on day one. It was not intentional, but I was so busy. However, we were looking at each other when we passed, the look had something to it. A few days passed and eventually had a chance to catch up with Shruti. By now I met everyone, and we had a casual chat. Shruti was friendly from the word go, the conversation went this way Shruti: “Finally you have time to catch up with me? You managed to catch up with everyone in the office.” I was a bit shocked at this statement but recovered and said, “Yeah sorry. I am new here and so many things to take care of. The HR and other work were so demanding.” I asked her about the role and how long she was with the company. Shruti: I have been working with the company for the last three years and take care of the marketing activities. As usual, after the usual round of questions, I asked her about the family Shruti: I am married, and my husband is currently in India. I am alone here. I found it a bit odd as to why would she mention about living alone. She changed the topic and asked, “Where do you stay and what you do for food?” I am not sure after the first two days of staring at each other. Maybe I was away from my wife so I was attracted to her. She was looking hot and had this aura with her and her friendly tone made me start flirting with her. I said, “I stay at this hotel and it’s quite boring after work. The food I end up eating at hotels as I don’t know any good place nearby.” Shurti: Why don’t you try this place, it’s near your hotel and it quite good. I wanted to ask her out to dinner that too after knowing her husband is away. I didn’t want to risk at that situation. It could be an HR disaster if I read the friendly tone as an attraction. I then wanted to close the chat. I said, “I got to go for a meeting, how about I message you later for a restaurant recommendation.” This way I can make an excuse to chat with her later. Shurti: Happy to help, just ping on our office chat. I have got on my mobile. The rest of the day went off quite quickly. I went back to the hotel and ended up in the gym for an hour. However all I could think was Shruti, why did she mention her husband is not in station. Did she say it because she is interested in me? I was quite horny away from family and having all these spare time for myself. I came back to the room and was not sure if I should message her. I couldn’t resist ended up saying Me: Hi Shruti. Got an immediate reply from her saying, ‘Hi’. Shruti: Hi. Me: I am hungry, could you recommend a good restaurant. Shruti: You should try the Chinese restaurant, it’s like 30 minutes drive from your hotel. Me: Ahh, I don’t have a car. (I did have one, but I thought this is a great way to get her to come with me). If you have one could you take me? I didn’t hear from her for a few seconds, and my heart was beating so fast wasn’t sure if it was appropriate. Shruti: Sure, I can come and drive you to the restaurant. I can only come after 8 pm. Me: Thank you, I would rather eat something tasty, tired of eating in the same restaurant. The next few hours were so hard, it felt like an eternity. I was scenario planning what I should do. If I should try my luck today or not. I groomed well and was ready to go. Finally, it was time and she came over to the reception and gave me buzz. I went down and was jaw struck. She was looking gorgeous. She had nice tight jeans and a white t-shirt. I could see her curves very well. I complimented her and said she is gorgeous. Shurti was not fair but of a dusky complexion. She knew exactly what to wear for her complexion and it was so hot. We got into her car and she started driving. I could smell her perfume, the dress and her attitude were very intoxicating. We were chit chatting and I couldn’t take my eyes out of her beautiful curves. She noticed me staring at her and she didn’t mind me staring this kinda gave me some confidence. I was thinking about three scenarios in my mind and thinking about which one I should I apply for the night. Scenario 1: Have a nice dinner, flirt around a bit and then go back to the room and try another day. Scenario 2: Have dinner and invite her for a drink at my hotel, and then see how it goes.