On a business trip, I was staying in a nice hotel where I was supposed to spend a few nights. Since it was a business trip, I had no idea that my new boss was also staying in the same hotel – a young, beautiful brunette, whom I had only known from work.

After a hard day, I went to the hotel restaurant for dinner. And that’s where I met her by chance.

She was sitting at the table and when she saw me, she smiled.

“So you’re here too?” she asked in surprise.

“It looks like it,” I replied with a laugh.

We soon found out that we were both staying at the hotel. We started talking, and what had initially been a business conversation gradually turned into a much more personal one. We talked about everything, laughed, and I began to notice that there was a strange tension between us.

After dinner, we walked together towards our rooms. As we stopped in front of her door, she looked at me.

“Actually… I wanted to show you something else,” she said.

We went inside.

She opened her laptop on the table and started showing me some work items we had to take care of the next day. I tried to focus on the screen, but I was increasingly aware that neither of us were really focused on work anymore.

After a while, she looked at me.

“You know what? I think I’m going to put on something more comfortable.”

She smiled.

She was my new boss …

“Make yourself comfortable and wait a minute.”

So I sat down, trying to look completely calm. I could hear her getting ready from the bathroom, and thoughts began to swirl in my head. I had no idea what exactly was going to happen next, but the atmosphere in the room was suddenly completely different.

When she appeared in the bathroom doorway a moment later, I was silent for a moment.

She was wearing only a simple T-shirt, which she clearly felt comfortable in, and her long dark hair fell loosely over her shoulders. She looked completely different than she did during the day at work. More relaxed. More natural. And maybe even more attractive for that reason.

“So?” she smiled. “Are you comfortable now?”

“I think so,” I replied, although at that moment I wasn’t at all sure.

She sat down next to me and we were both silent for a moment.

The laptop remained open on the table.

The work matters I had originally come here to do were suddenly completely irrelevant.

She, my boss, looked me straight in the eye.

“Do you know what’s the strangest thing about tonight?” she asked.

“What?”

“That if we hadn’t met in the restaurant today, we might never have discovered that we could actually talk about things completely different than work.”

I smiled.

“And you think we met by chance?”

She paused for a moment.

Then she leaned a little closer to me.

“Maybe not.”

At that moment, there was only silence, looks, and a strange tension between us that gradually increased throughout the evening.

It was clear that no one would open the laptop again today.

And when our eyes met once more, we both understood that the evening, which had begun as a completely ordinary dinner in a hotel restaurant, was just starting to turn into something that neither of us would easily forget…