We worked for the same company, with offices all around the world, she was a raising star, perhaps the most promising under 30 in the whole company, I was already past my peak, but still knew my tricks at 41. I saw her for the first time, when she had just been promoted to senior manager, and I was in that video meeting, in an office 5000 miles away. I was astonished by her beauty, I would say it was love at first sight, but I’m sure it was not.
After the meeting, I sent a email, congratulating her, just as s formality, and started looking for a way to start working with her, not sure why.
We started exchanging emails, first weekly, then every couple of days, we ended up sending us several emails per day, and texting us after hours. Somehow sexual tension grew between us, and we started flirting and teasing each other. Knowing there were 5000 miles between Seattle and Dublin, made it look innocent, it was just a virtual relationship.
I learnt about her husband, Mark, and her 2 children, I told her about Mary, my wife, and our 3 children. We cared about each other, and respected our families, but still, there was something growing between us.
And then a startling realization hit us, our company holds an annual senior management meeting. All senior managers, from all around the world, spend 1 week together. It’s the year’s kick off, we align and set the year goals. That year, San Diego was the destination. 1 week away from home, away from husbands and wives, away from children. We had still a month before the event.
I stopped texting and emailing her, unless it was work related, which made things worse. 3 days after I received an email “I miss you” was the subject, of course it was from her. It was short, ans it said:
“Hey Rod (or do you prefer to be called Rodney now?). I miss the flirting, I miss the teasing, I miss you. If you stopped talking to me because of San Diego, please get back to me. If it’s something I said, let me know. And remember whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.”
That phrase, that last phrase, showed me how mature she was. I was trying to avoid the conflict, to get some distance from her, like a teenager, and she just brought me to earth, in 1 phrase.
I didn’t reply that email, but started messaging her again. I could see something changed between us, like the sexual tension was 10 times greater than before. Somehow, we knew we couldn’t control it, we didn’t want to control, and probably San Diego was going to be really special for us.
[Chapter 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/eroticliterature/comments/fwzlbb/we_finally_met_chapter_1/)
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