Back home after a weekend in Vegas.

(The following Tuesday, back at "Lionheart Images".)

"So, Alex," Shannon asks you, "did you end up...sleeping...with any of the models?"

"Other than a couple of exotic dancers that I was introduced to over the weekend," you ask her, "only Charlotte."

"That busty blondie you love taking photos of?" Shannon asks, pouting playfully. "When I look at those photos of her in her corsets, sometimes, I wonder how she keeps her boobs contained."

"Not to mention all the hard work & tight corset training she's done, to have that hourglass figure." You tell her. "We both know that she didn't pout when she filled out to the curvy body shape she has. She made the most out of what fate has given her, and she's a very lovely, busty model."

"That is true, Alex." Shannon tells you. "Who were those other models you took photos of? Some of them tweeted their smartphone photos to the company page."

"Carmella & Stephanie." You tell her. "Those two exotic dancers are the 'Sugar & Spice' duo that people in Vegas have been talking about."

"Those two ladies, Alex?" Shannon asks you. "I mean no offense, but with bodies like theirs, & a sex drive like they have, I don't know why they're so picky about having the right kind of man."

"I was fortunate to spend a night with them," you tell her, "but I believe they want rich, hulky men."

"Good luck to them." Shannon tells you, as she puts a weekend + two weekdays worth of mail onto your office desk. "I hope the staff at 'Intimate Fantasies' were pleased with the photos you took of their models."

"I'm positive they're more than happy with the photos I've taken." You tell her. "Charlotte has been at the centerfold of many of those issues, and it's likely she'll be there again, when the corresponding issue comes out."

"I would've preferred Stephanie myself." She tells you. "Don't get me wrong, Charlotte is a great role model for women with curves. I want to see more petite models make the centerfolds of magazines like that, to help instill confidence in such women."

"Maybe some of them will come and visit, before the year ends." You tell her.

"Just so that you can see Charlotte pose in her 'snow queen' outfit again?" Shannon asks you, pouting playfully. "You had her bounce around, hoping to take a photo of her in mid-air last year, only to have her boobs spill out."

"That was an accident, Shannon." You tell her.

"Yeah, right!" Shannon tells you, pouting playfully again. "You just wanted to see her nipples! (Front desk bell rings.) We'll talk more about this at day's end, Alex."

You grin playfully, as Shannon heads to the front desk. As you go through the extended weekend mail, you look at the photos you've taken of the lingerie models over the previous weekend. Some of those photos have already been retouched, & sent to the magazine publishers for review. Others, which have been pre-approved for public consumption by the magazine, were already posted on social media, as a preview of the next issue. As you go through the last set of photos taken with Charlotte, you can only think of the sadness that washed her face, when you dropped her off at her home the previous morning in Vegas, then made the long drive home.