In.

"I'm in." You state the words quietly but firmly before you are fully aware that you have had the thought, but know as soon as you have spoken them that it feels right.

"I'm glad." Kate's smile is warm. "So." Her voice is quiet, barely audible above the gurgle of the coffee maker. "How was your week?"

Despite yourself, you glance around the kitchen. It is just the two of you, but it still feels too public. "Here?" you ask.

Kate shrugs. "I'm not saying you should shout. I just can't wait to hear, and ..." here she raises her arms then stretches them out, cat-like, along with an exaggerated yawn. "I've got to get some coffee." The stretching accentuates her chest, and you don't suspect that's accidental. She smiles at you innocently.

"Well. I would say that Monday was the most surprising and eventful day of this week, but as you're already up to speed on that I figured I'd skip it."

Kate nods. "I am interested in ... well, that can wait. Continue."

"Tuesday was ... surprising. I guess the whole week was surprising. Monday I surprised myself, in determining to do what I did. You surprised me, as well. Still, I could rationalize that explosion of action as at least fueled by stress and frustration and familiarity, emotions I am used to. Tuesday though I was filled with lust, to a degree that shocked me. I didn't expect my body to react like that any more, my brain to run with it so enthusiastically. Yesterday was surprising too, though somehow not as surprising as Tuesday." You pause to consider what you have just said, as it doesn't seem right, though on further reflection, it is. "Yesterday was wild, don't get me wrong. But the choices themselves didn't seem as ... dangerous as Monday, and the emotions didn't seem as unhinged as Tuesday."

Kate smiles. "So this is all rote, now?" she asks, grinning.

"Not at all, I just ... had some direction for yesterday, and it felt good to have that direction. It was still surprising, and sometimes terrifying, but ... exciting. Exciting, the whole time. And definitely not rote."

Kate's eyes glitter, her gaze on you appraising. "So you're still interested in ... working for me?"

You gulp, but the answer is no longer a difficult one. "Yes," you whisper.

Kate's smile widens, and there is something predatory to the cast of her face. Just then, the coffee maker begins the burbling noise of the brew finishing, and Kate turns to pour out two mugs of it. You take a deep breath to try and slow your racing heartbeat, but it just ramps back up when Kate turns back to hand you one of the coffee mugs. She watches you take a pull of the nearly-scalding hot coffee before she speaks. "Good," she says. "Come, and tell me about yesterday." She walks out of the kitchen, and you follow her back to her office. At the doorway, she gestures. "Why don't you stand here for our casual chat. That way you can keep an eye out for Jim or Deb, whichever of them gets in first, and we don't have some out-of-the-ordinary closed door meeting going on whilst alone in the office." She walks past you to sit on the front of her desk, facing you. You, for your part, lean against the doorway, your body positioned so that you can easily glance down the hallway, your eyeline just clearing the tops of the cubicle walls.

You recount your arrival at the clinic and conversation with Maria. At the telling of your adept deflection of the phone call from Rachel, Kate nods, satisfied. You continue with a description of the group therapy room, and of Maria, and of kissing and going down on her, of the quick ejaculation on to her tits and the following of Kate's advice to continue on anyway, and fucking Maria. Here Kate interrupts for the first time.

"Hold on. You were still hard?" Kate looks you up and down, reevaluating.

"Yes. As I came I immediately thought of what you said and ... I guess it kept me hard."

Kate nods, her eyes glazing over for a second while she thinks, then she says "interesting. Well. Continue."

That was about it with Maria, you explain, telling about the knock on the door and mad scrambling dash to re-dress and vacate the scene. Kate chuckles at this.

"And that brings me to Rachel." You pause again, to gather your thoughts. Kate is watching you very closely. "My flight was late, so by the time I got home the whole house was asleep, including her. I thought about what you said, though, and went for it."

Kate looks confused. "Went for it? What does that mean?"

"I was already hard, so I whispered in her ear, lubed up, and entered her." Your cheeks feel hot as you recall the mix of lust and shame you felt.

"Wait, I missed something. You didn't wake her up first?" Kate looks incredulous.

"No." That probably would have been a good idea, you think to yourself.

"And how did that go?" Kate, while still incredulous, has developed a hint of a smirk.

"Not well. She screamed and elbowed me in the face," you point to your jaw, "and fell out of the bed. Unsurprisingly, that woke up the kids, or at my daughter."

Kate shakes her head ruefully. "Christ, Sean. I said 'right away' but I had no idea you would ... well, do that." She looks at you, and scowls. "It certainly is in keeping with your oddball behavior. So did she make you sleep on the couch? Did she throw you out? Is that why you're acting like such a sad-sack this morning?"

"No." You gulp again. Your mouth is incredibly dry, and it takes you a second to remember that you are holding a mug of coffee. You take a long, careful sip of coffee. "No, I explained myself, somewhat, at least. I did not mention you putting me up to it, obviously, but I said that it had been a long time and that I wanted her, wanted to fuck her. And she said yes, though I could tell she was expecting, well, The Regular."

Kate nods slowly. "By which I gather you did not give her 'The Regular'." The way she emphasizes the term is somewhat derisive.

"No. Like you said. No foreplay, no going down. I fucked her." Just like that.

When you do not continue, the mixture of confusion and frustration returns to Kate's eyes. "And then what? She made you stop in the middle? You were relegated to the couch after all?"

"No, I, uh, 'finished.' But we ... well, I ... woke up my daughter again due to the, shall we say, rather vigorous and noise-producting nature of my performance. That, and I apparently yelled out 'I Fuck' as I climaxed, which undoubtedly did not help."

As you speak, Kate's eyes widen in surprise, and at the last sentence, her confusion melts into mirth which breaks out in a single cackle. "Excuse me?!" Her voice is excited. "You yelled out what?!"

"I think you heard me." You shift uncomfortably on your feet.

"Yes! But I very badly want to hear it again." Kate stands up, and advances towards you until she is just inches away. "What is it you do?" she says softly, smiling as she looks into your eyes.

You have 3 XP, -1 Hard, +3 Hot, +1 Cool, -1 Control, Cunnilingus, and Take Direction (Kate). Desire levels: Kate +1, Rachel -1, Maria +0.

This is a prime opportunity to perform an act of seduction on Kate. Roll +hot (+4: +3 hot, +1 Desire) to seduce her. On a 10+, she gains +1 Desire. On a 7-9, it costs you, or you get in trouble doing it.