[piecenick]

I worked with the woman, Patti, who was always pleasant, nice looking, quiet and shy type. I wasn't not attracted to her, but she did her job and I could count on her work being correct. The longer we worked together the more she opened up, she lingered around my office longer than she had to and she was more careless about her skirt being pulled down, or her blouse gaping open. My wife was pregnant at the time, so I was more pre-occupied about that than anything else.

One afternoon one of the senior women in the company came in my office and shut the door, she was a similar management level as I was. She sat down and said "we need to talk", that is never good. She just straight out asked me "how long has this thing been going on with you and Patti?"

I wasn't sure I heard correctly, I asked her to repeat and she did. I was a little stunned, so I asked "what the hell are you talking about?"

I got this look as if I were lying, she said "you're denying that there is anything sexual going on with you two?"

I just nodded affirmatively. She went onto tell me that Patti has been telling another woman in the office the details of our affair. What a great lover I was, that my wife was pregnant by another man, she was keeping our marriage together by satisfying me, a long line of complete fiction. The only knowledge I had was one of the guys told me that Patti had a crush on me, I figured he was kidding.

Office politics took over from there, my boss got involved and brought Patti in. Her defense was that she just made that up to amuse the other woman, she meant no harm. Patti was suspended, offered a transfer, then quit. I told my wife all about it before she heard it elsewhere, she thought it was the funniest thing ever.