I joined Medium to write about writing, but I’ve realized that I’d better do some actual fiction writing as well.
We read a lot of hotwife stories told from her perspective or from her husband’s — what about the view of “the other man”?
It’s embarrassing to remember just how green I was back then. Twenty-three years old, newly minted BS degree and a job in IT right out of school.
I’d been working for a pharmaceutical company for about a year when I got reassigned to provide VIP support for Mahogany Row. I was good technically but, more importantly, I’d learned at a young age how to talk to people.
The people you needed to impress on the C-suite floor were the admins. The CxOs were mostly not that hard to please as long as their admins were happy. So I schmoozed, I asked them about their kids, I brought them little gifts and fixed their (mostly easy) problems quickly and efficiently.
That attention to detail got me kudos and a nice big bonus after a few months, then a promotion not long afterwards. And it brought me to the attention of a couple of the leadership members, including the chief legal counsel.
David Jennings was an older guy, at least compared to me. He was in his late 50's, with a serious number of years of tenure and a corner office that was only rivaled by the CEO and the…
