I wore my best suit, had a haircut and psyched myself up. I talked my way past the secretary's bullshit, took a deep breath, ignored the plush surroun...dings of the massive office, barged in and cut right to it. The secretary tried to chase me but I shut the door behind me.I started talking as soon as the door closed."My wife is having extramarital sex with two of your employees on work time. One of them is her immediate superior, so I think there could be some bullying and harassment involved. I. She said little as she methodically filled in all the ‘across’ clues in the cryptic crossword. Diane finished those by the time Harry had started to eat and completed the ‘down’ clues a few seconds after he had finished. ‘Now Harry,’ she announced standing up, ‘Listen to this,’ she used the remote control she had on the table to turn the cd player on. ‘Hey, that’s one of the tunes you used when you taught me to dance a couple of years ago.’ ‘Well come on, show me whether you remember it.’ Harry. Smells great, I mean.”He tickled her palm on the way to their apartment. She didn’t take her hand away but said “exhibitionist” when they were inside. Then she said “whew” and dropped onto the bed.“It wasn’t exhibitionism,” he explained. “Nobody could see.”“If you’d waited ‘til we were inside, you could’ve had any intimacy you wanted.”“I’ll take that as an invitation.” He accepted the invitation with a long kiss but didn’t lie down beside her.“People could have seen that,” she said, pointing at. Never before had he been so aware of his own body. It was dark compared to hers, dark and threatening. The jut of his sex seemed obscene. The hard angularity of his frame was harsh, jarring senses that had been consumed with her innocent fragility. The demon howled. Struggling fiendishly at its bindings, it screamed, ordering him to rip away her innocence, to plunge into her with no regard for her sanctity. It howled at him to spread her thighs and sunder the barrier forever, drown her in lust.