She was Gujarati, slim and pretty. She dressed well– professionally, but never tediously. She was older than I was, perhaps 34 at the time, and ran a team, which at the time I did not. She was also married– clearly unhappily, but unable to remove herself from the situation.
We eyed each other up every time I passed her desk, which was often. We could tell what the other had in mind– there was no pretence of it being anything professional or platonic. It was a fun office, by the standards of the City, for being a very large company, and drinks events were common. At the end of particularly fun evening, we found ourselves next to each other at the bar (not entirely by chance). I bought her a drink, and after perfunctory small talk for the sake of those on either side of us, she leaned in and told me that she had thought from the moment she first laid eyes on me that I looked like the man from 50 Shades of Grey. I asked her if she liked that; she looked me in the eye and slowly nodded.