"He's not exactly the most handsome man, neither was he the romantic nor flirtatious sort. But there was something that made me want to be with him."

For a while, "I didn't know if he felt the same way" because he didn't let his feelings show. It didn't help that both of them are married, or that his wife would always tag along with him at events.

"I only suspected something was wrong when I started getting hostile stares from his wife, but I wasn't quite sure what prompted it," she says.

Until late one night, when they were holed up in the office after a bad day at work.

"Everyone had left and we were supposed to lock up. Then his phone rang and it was his wife, demanding to know why he was still not home."

He walked away to continue the conversation and didn't return to the conference room even after several minutes.

When she walked out to the main office, she saw him leaning against a table and staring blankly into space.

"He looked so dejected from the back, like he was so weary, and all I wanted to do was to comfort him."

She walked up to him, stretched out her right hand and placed it gently on his left shoulder.

"Are you okay? That was all I said," she recalls.

"He turned around, said nothing but just pulled me into his arms."

They had sex that night.

"Not the wild, passionate kind of sex. I'd describe it more like, you know, comfort sex," she whispers.

"It was something that happened naturally. We are not saints, just human beings.

"When you see someone day in, day out, and if that person is a good man or woman, it's very easy to develop more than casual feelings.

"Of course, you'd have to respect that person first. And in many ways, I had loads of respect for him. He was like my mentor.

"He groomed me. I bloomed under him. That, plus we were working so closely together, made me compare him to my husband."

She says: "I think it's easier - or harder, depending on how you see it - when your spouse is not as involved.

"So in this case, (her lover) and I had the same mission, we were working on similar goals and we connected.

"It's like he'd know what I wanted to say before I could even vocalise my thoughts.

"Or, he'd pitch an idea and it'd be one I was probably toying with.

"In fact, I felt we were like soulmates."