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She enjoyed her successes and was now ready to share those triumphs with someone special

Taas a plus size and sensuous beauty, but her social life would have never es She did not date often Most of the le ones were already in coh there were a few office ro business with pleasure and would never date a co-worker For one thing, people on the job had a tendency to chat about which ereat at kissing and talking about their colossal love escapades

There were even ru score cards on the nu Taas a very private person and believed in keeping people speculating about her love life or lack of

People would always ask, "Are you seeing anyone?"

Her ansould always be, "Not at the moment"

If a male associate asked her out on a date, she would always decline

Her mother would say, "To be involved with a person you ith is a recipe for disaster, and what goes on in the bedroom should always remain there"

Therefore, Tawney never wanted to coossip or dirty jokes

However, she was about to ignore her mom's words of wisdom and have an office tryst that would leave her with a crushed heart

Now that Tawney's career was on track, it was time for her to find a dynamic man She put in a request for a one-year sabbatical, but the coive her six months' leave She was somewhat thrown, because workers anted to take a one-year break could if they ith the co with oals in six months, there were other options

Friday was Tawney's last day on the job Before she left, the staff gave her a going away party and introduced her to the person ould be filling in for her His name was Jamal He was a computer software consultant and had his own coned security software for major corporations and financial institutions

His company had been around for more than twenty years with annual sales of over five million dollars He had an assistant and two part-time employees His business was home-based in Uptown Manhattan

Jamal was a hottie Many of the female employees could not keep their eyes or hands off him To say they were not smitten with his looks would have been incorrect They flocked around him as if he was the last man on earth