This is a story about how a week away for a project led me to hook up with an mature woman who was also my boss. This story is a little long to build up the how we ended up hooking up in a hotel.
I couldn't have picked a better time to escape the winter storms of Philadelphia and spend a week in Florida. My company paying for the trip was just the cherry on the top. It was a warm Saturday morning in Orlando and I was looking forward to spend a nice weekend in the city before heading to our Orlando office for the week long project I was there for.
"Hey Om?" I heard a questioning call for my name as I was waiting at the carousel for my luggage.
I turned back to see Sonia.
"Oh hey Sonia, I see you decided to get in early as well," I said.
"Yeah, I needed to get out before the storm hits. Also, need to get some work done before the project begins on Monday," She replied.
"Not planning to get any sun?"
"No not really. I don't suppose I will get much time to do anything else," she said with an urgency on her face that was quite common, "Hey listen, I am glad you are here early as well. I am assuming you are staying at the Hilton near the airport as well?"
"No actually I am staying at the one near the downtown. I thought," I said before I got interrupted.
"Yeah yeah no issues. It's not too far. Let's plan to meet in a few hours. I have some documents I need to review and I could use your help to get it done. I think I see my baggage coming too, I will give you call later. See you in a bit!" she said and hurried to her bag before I could say a word.
I picked up my luggage and took an uber to the hotel.
I was furious. Not only did she never apologized for what she did previous week, she expects me to work with her on the weekend instead of enjoying the beautiful city. Sonia was a Director at the company and was the Program Manager for the project I was travelling to Orlando for. She had recently joined the company and held a very important portfolio of projects that I wanted to be part of. For all my efforts to impress her, she almost every time ignored me and my work like everything I did was just regulation work. Not to mention the reaming she gave me during a team meeting previous week for missing my deadline once by a single day.
She was an Indian, like me. She seemed like she was in her early 40s. Short, about 5'2", and a slim figure. She had straight short hair to a shoulder length. Her hair were straight and always perfect whenever she was seen by anyone. Not sure if it was the discontent towards me or if her eyes just had the cold dismissive look.
I got to the hotel, checked myself in and immediately took a shower to wash off the flight lethargy off me. As I was in shower, I heard my phone ring twice, I got out to see it was Sonia who had called. I saw her text, "Hey, Good Morning. Please meet me at my hotel after lunch around 1 pm."
I was irritated but I knew this was a major project for the company and I would learn a lot from this but project. Sonia was brought in the company for her expertise is Patent Technology. She had an extensive an reputed network and I definitely wanted to get on her good side. Everyone wanted to but at the same time very few could manage to get past her attitude. She wasn't the most easy person to work with.
I replied back with a simple "Okay." I got dressed, got some lunch and then headed to the hotel.
Then I started thinking, she asked me to come to her hotel, could that mean something more? My thoughts broke as I heard the concierge's word, "Ms. Verma said she will see you in conference room 2B. Once you get out at the elevator on the 2nd floor you will find it two doors down to your left." I thanked her and moved on.
