"That's good. It will be nice to take it easy for a few days. Karen, we do have a formal dinner on Thursday evening for the math department to welcome...new arrivals for the coming semester. I am invited and spouses or partners are welcome and somewhat expected. You can wear something slinky." I grinned. My beautiful wife grinned back. She had found that she enjoyed showing off for me. She was now the owner of a LBD that was short at the bottom and cut low on top. She looked very hot in it.We. Long periods of time apart because of their jobs and when they were together, they almost always fought. Jessica loved him and knew he felt the same way about her, but after three years her nerves were down. They had decided to put their relationship on pause, to take a break. After three years Jessica was single again, well, pretty much single.To get her head clear she had decided to take a week vacation, away from the Hollywood life, get some distance before she sorted her life out. The idea. About ten percent of the building was sectioned for the offices where all the so-called clean jobs were. With many stenos, accountants, office girls. The office closed at five pm while the warehouse was a 24 hour operation. I schedule myself different hours and some late night shifts too. It was when I was looking to re-organize some of the traffic flow of merchandise that I got the brainwave. I was studying a plan of the old building and noticed that the offices joined against the unused part. ‘Hello, Mike.’ I gulped air into tortured lungs. ‘Thank you for singing my song. I really liked it.’ He stood there, stunned, for what seemed an eternity. I felt him begin to open his arms as if to envelop me in a hug, but then he stopped and shook my offered hand in both of his. ‘I never thought…. Why didn’t you tell me? How did you get here?’ The words tumbled from his mouth in quick succession. ‘I wasn’t sure I’d be able to come. I’m at a conference, we finish tomorrow. I didn’t want to.