I knew the moment she started working under me in my department that I was going to have trouble being the kind of boss I needed to be. She was gorgeous, in that southern European way, which is my weakness. Long brunette hair, dark eyes, tan skin, and when she smiled the whole world around her lit up just a bit. But, I was her manager, and we were both married, so I knew that behaving myself was most important. Don’t dip your pen in the company ink, right?
I’ll admit to fantasizing over her for the next 6 months working together. It was hard not to. She was the only person working under my supervision, so we regularly went to lunch together and would talk about everything. Over the months, we became super close friends. And she always had a bit of a flirty side to her that came out around me. She’d walk over to the filing cabinet to file papers and bend over directly in my view, and then on her way back to her desk would look at me and smile that smile. I had to keep telling myself it was just my imagination, and she was my employee, so off limits!