Chapter 10: You Smell a Little…

Chapter 10: 10: You Smell a Little...

"Ed, that was close. One more minute and you would’ve been late."

"I’m sorry. I overslept..."

"You know that’s the excuse I hate most, don’t you?"

I knew.

But when I woke up in the hotel, it really was already past eight.

Selena must have left first. By the time I opened my eyes, all her things were gone.

Fortunately, she had paid the extra charges herself and left some cash on the table for my taxi fare.

"Get yourself together. You may be low-ranking, but you aren’t new anymore."

"Yes, ma’am."

"Don’t make me nag you over every little thing."

Amazingly, Selena looked exactly as she always did.

Yesterday, we had left the bed, sofa, and chairs covered in fluids.

After making that kind of mess, how could she behave this calmly?

"That’s enough. Go to your desk and start working."

"Yes, ma’am."

I answered politely, as though everything were normal.

At the same time, my eyes moved quickly over her, searching for changes.

She had not had time to change, so the suit was the same one she wore yesterday.

A faint smell of semen clung to it.

There were stains she had not managed to remove completely.

And then there was the way she walked.

Selena moved through the office with a slight stiffness.

She looked almost like a woman whose virginity had just been taken.

No one else seemed to notice because she was working so hard to appear composed.

But once I watched for it, the awkwardness was obvious.

After all, I had kept her legs spread in a mating press several times last night.

The fact that she could pretend to walk normally at all was impressive.

Some things simply could not be hidden.

"Hmm..."

I wanted to walk over and say, Manager Selena, you remember the filthy sex we had last night, right?

But I had to wait.

I needed to make her body so dependent on me that, even after she discovered I was MonsterCam_Guy, she could not leave.

"..."

Still, perhaps I could tease her a little.

"Manager Selena, is something wrong with your leg?"

"...What?"

Wow. That glare was vicious.

"You looked uncomfortable when you walked. I wondered if you had hurt yourself."

"...Your eye for useless details is remarkable, but you don’t need to worry. My slippers are uncomfortable, that’s all."

They were the same slippers she wore yesterday.

After offering an excuse that barely qualified as one, Selena started past my desk.

Then she turned and came back beside me.

"...Does it look that obvious?"

"A little."

"I see. It’s nothing, so forget about it."

Saying that was practically an admission that something had happened.

And now that she was this close, I could genuinely smell semen.

"Instead of studying the way other people walk, do your work."

"Yes, ma’am!"

I answered crisply and pretended to focus.

Just as I thought.

Selena was trying desperately to act normal, but last night was very much on her mind.

"Ed, getting scolded again?"

A man’s voice came from across the office.

Fuck. I had attracted the worst possible person.

I sighed as soon as I saw his face.

"You know what she’s like. Why do you keep getting on her nerves?"

The man smiling obnoxiously as he approached was Assistant Manager Barry, thirty years old.

He came beside my desk and patted my shoulder as though we were friends.

"You still can’t read the mood? One look at her and you should know."

"What mood?"

"Oh, come on. It’s that time of the month. Her period."

"..."

With Selena away from her desk, the lunatic was openly making sexual remarks about our boss.

Admittedly, after spending half the night having sex with her, I was hardly in a position to moralize.

"Our manager is an old maid, so she’s dissatisfied with everything. You need to learn how to notice that kind of thing if you ever want women to like you."

"You must be good at noticing it, Assistant Manager Barry."

"Of course. That’s why I have a fiancée and I’m preparing for marriage. Unlike certain lifelong virgins."

"..."

Why did this bastard keep needling me?

It was practically a hobby. He seemed unable to breathe unless he irritated someone.

Naturally, he flattered everyone above him and remained a favorite with management, so his evaluations were somehow excellent despite the way he behaved.

"Ed. That expression."

"I was smiling."

"Like hell. You looked ready to kill me."

Barry patted my shoulder again, this time as a warning not to get arrogant.

"You know recommendations for permanent employment go through the assistant managers first, right? This is an important time for you. You need to stay on my good side."

"...I’ll work hard."

"That’s the spirit. Oh, right. I have something that needs doing Saturday, but I’ll be busy making wedding arrangements with my fiancée. You can handle it for me, can’t you? It isn’t difficult. Even you should manage."

You fucking bastard...

I forced myself to endure it.

I still wasn’t in a position to challenge him openly.

"I’ll do my best."

"Good. Ed, keep fighting. I’m counting on you."

He gave my shoulder another patronizing pat and went out for a cigarette.

"...Fuck."

Office life was miserable.

I had lived like this for two years, enduring humiliation, abuse of authority, and constant harassment.

But things were going to begin changing now.

I took out my phone and opened my DMs.

The conversation with Selena remained pinned at the top.

"..."

There was no chance that bastard Barry had sent me a DM too... right?

***

"Haa..."

Selena had been sighing far more often than usual.

Something troubled her so deeply that she could not focus on work.

Yesterday.

She had sent a DM to a man she saw online, met him in person, and done every filthy thing imaginable before giving him her virginity.

’I must have lost my mind.’

Even now, she could hardly believe she had done it.

Ordinarily, she would have regained her senses midway through and stopped.

But yesterday, once the excitement took hold...

She went all the way.

With that man. Again and again.

Sex♡

"Mm...!"

She touched her lower abdomen lightly.

It still feels as though he’s inside me.

Her first sexual experience had been with a man whose size was absurd.

She could not forget the feeling of his cock pressing all the way against her womb.

"Manager Selena? Manager?"

"Ah...!"

A voice pulled her back to reality.

"...Rhea?"

"Is something bothering you? You’ve been lost in thought all morning."

"...No. Nothing."

Rhea Yale.

She had joined the company at the same time as Ed but had already converted to permanent employment.

She was a capable and exemplary employee.

Unlike Selena, she was also lively and socially confident.

She has probably had more sexual experience than I have...

For an instant, Selena considered asking for advice.

Then she realized it would amount to confessing, I was a virgin until I had sex for the first time yesterday.

She abandoned the idea immediately.

Years of experience had taught Selena that revealing private matters rarely benefited anyone.

"This is the report you requested yesterday. I wanted you to review it before I gave it to the department head."

"Ah, yes. Good work. Thank you, Rhea. I’ll look through it and speak to you later."

"Yes, Manager Selena."

She was refreshingly direct, energetic, and cheerful.

Was that because she was younger?

"Manager Selena, um..."

"What is it?"

Rhea suddenly checked their surroundings and leaned closer.

"You might want to use some perfume."

"...Perfume?"

"Yes. You know... that smell. Ahaha..."

Ah...!

She noticed.

Heat flooded Selena’s face.

She had been in such a rush that she could not go home and change.

And that man had ejaculated all over her clothes.

"If you need some, I have perfume you can use."

"...Thank you. Please."

"Of course."

Rhea had apparently anticipated the need. She took out a small bottle and discreetly sprayed Selena’s clothes in several places.

"But, Manager..."

"Yes?"

"Did you get a boyfriend?"

"..."

Apparently, a woman with more experience could see through her immediately.

Selena learned something new that day.

"...No comment."

"Understood. I’ll keep it secret too. A woman’s secret♡"

"..."

At least she was perceptive and considerate.

Wait.

What if Ed had smelled it when they spoke earlier...?

No.

He was insensitive to that kind of thing.

He probably hadn’t noticed.

Probably.

Yet once the thought appeared, she could not stop worrying about it.

"I’m going up to the roof for a moment."

"Would you like company?"

"No. I want to be alone."

Selena carefully rose and headed upstairs.

The roof was normally a smoking area, so as a nonsmoker she rarely visited.

But she wanted the wind to clear her head.

Sitting in the office kept reminding her of yesterday.

’Why did I choose an office theme...?’

The desk, chair, sofa, and bed...

It had only been a decorated hotel room, not a real workplace.

Even so, being in the office made it impossible not to remember.

"Haa..."

She reached the roof and released a long breath.

Curiosity, stress... Yesterday had been a single act of rebellion that released everything she had accumulated until then.

Once is enough for an escape.

Selena knew that perfectly well.

If she stepped any farther into this, she might lose control entirely.

Her body already refused to forget yesterday.

A warm line of moisture slipped between her thighs.

"Mm..."

MonsterCam Guy.

His cock still felt painfully vivid.

She knew neither his name nor his face.

He had kept his sunglasses and mask on through sex and even while sleeping afterward.

Before leaving the hotel, she had considered secretly checking his face, but stopped herself.

Yesterday was only a one-night mistake.

She would never meet or contact him again.

There was no reason to know his face.

I won’t see him again.

She had not been in her right mind yesterday.

The experience was not worth disrupting her ordinary life this badly.

"..."

With a trembling hand, Selena turned on her phone.

She opened TwiXter and entered the DM tab.

If she blocked him now, every problem would disappear.

He probably had countless other women contacting him. He would not care about someone like her.

Block him.

Selena hardened her resolve and placed her finger over the button.

Then a message arrived.

╭─ [TwiXter — Direct Messages]

│ Did you enjoy yesterday?

╰─

It appeared in real time.

Ah... I saw it.

Because she already had the window open, the message immediately showed as read.

Now she had no choice but to answer, didn’t she?

At the very least, courtesy demanded a farewell before she blocked him.

Selena moved her finger away from the block button and tapped the conversation.

"Manager Selena!"

"Eek?!"

At the sudden male voice behind her, she hurriedly hid the phone behind her back.

"Hm? What’s wrong?"

"N-nothing. Nothing at all."

"You’re moving awfully suspiciously for someone with nothing to hide. Are you keeping a secret?"

Crouching with the phone concealed behind her made it painfully obvious that she had something to hide.

She quickly turned off the screen and restored her usual posture.

"Ahem. I said it was nothing, Ed."

The person who had appeared behind her was Ed.

A perpetual contract employee with several unreliable qualities.

"And I’d prefer that you not take such an interest in other people’s private affairs. The same goes for the way you watched me walk earlier."

"Yes, ma’am. I’ll be careful."

Feeling guilty, she tried to reassert herself.

"Why are you up here?"

"No special reason. You looked tired today."

Ed held something out.

"I thought you might want one of these."

"...!"

Selena’s body froze.

He was offering her a can of Monster.