His cock stiffened, threatening to display a bulge he was not sure he could hide, as he watched the glass tip and the smooth, expensive wine disappear behind the matching red lips and into the crimson mouth of the blonde sitting across from him, a freshly-cleaned plate of exquisite, $60 prize cut steak with all the extras sitting on the table before her beneath a pair of generous, perky, and button-stretching breasts. His eye fell to them momentarily, catching the slight shadow of light brown bosom and dark cleavage through the gap between two buttons, and he grinned, a one-sided, coy grin that made him look only more handsome to her. She smiled back, girlish and giggly.
'Is it just me,' she slurred slightly, 'or am I a bish drunk?' She swallowed, blinked. 'A bit shrunk. A bit... Drunk.' She plonked the wine glass down, frowning comically at him. 'Oh my god! I am, aren't you--I?'
It was date number 5, and Charlie Vaughn wore a striking maroon velvet suit jacket over a stunning black under layer, complimented by a deep grey shirt and a clean, crisp white tie. It was a bold, elegant look - something Ed Sheeran might have worn. Vaughn pulled it off, his short, spiked black hair sticking up uniformly from his head, aided by a modest, matte gel. He had shaved the night before, and so his after-5 now complimented his features, and the browning of his skin, unlike that of the blonde woman sitting across from him, was natural, the result of a love for his private getaway; a premium, modest private yacht, a simple two-level structure with a few downstairs beds and living and an upstairs deck complete with cabin, sun deck and enough recreation space for a ping-pong table. He kept the thing in a simple waterside shed a few miles up the coast, and it was only a ten-minute sail from there out to the nearby point, where he could sit in the open shallows free from any fishers, trawlers, carriers or ferries for fifty miles all around, his only contender for visibility being one automated lighthouse nearby.
Vaughn was a biologist. A very,
very
good one. At thirty-two, he had made a name for himself right out of high school with a propensity for biological understanding; he had completed college a few years later near the top of his class, his marks only falling due to missed deadlines and unfocussed work, his essays and hypotheses often going off on a tangent that related to human virology or DNA, cell reproduction or hormone interferences. He left his class with a respectably high score and immediately applied for, and was accepted into a biological development team supporting a global clinical research company, a private entity tasking minds with finding the answers to everything from cancer to pimples.
For a few years, he performed his studies with little majesty, but quickly grew bored of the repeated minute progress-making, followed almost ritualistically by a shareholder-and-investor-focused pushback when it came to active trials, resulting in, so to speak, the drawing board. Vaughn quit the day after his third anniversary at the place, and had only been off the books for five hours when he had received a private phone call from a very highly-placed director in the company. By close of business that day, he had been reinstated under the private directorship of a much smaller, much more focused team of bio-developers and researchers, now answering directly to his new boss and senior director.
Progress was quicker then, and more exciting. The boredom of a new flu vaccine was gone; now, he was fast-tracking skin regrowth treatment and neuro-plasticity triggers to lab trials, showing results to only one manager and more often than not either being congratulated, or pointed in a direction to focus himself on, quickly resulting in rapid and groundbreaking developments. He made excelled then, and climbed the ranks until he was the head of the division, overseeing the team's developmental work personally and reporting directly to his board-member boss. He had personal projects, hired whoever he wanted, had garnered respect and freedom of operations, and he even got paid pretty well for it all.
And of all his projects, one in particular was, at that very moment, coursing down the blonde woman's throat and into her digestive tract, where the serum was rapidly being absorbed into her bloodstream, carrying with it a neuro-reactive agent and a generous dose of a virus-based, DNA-utilizing, hormone-altering drug, the effects of which were quite obviously taking hold inside - and outside - her body, even at that moment.
The blonde smiled and hiccupped slightly. She must have been a lightweight - the bottle of wine, while mostly finished, had been equally shared between them. Well, it had
mostly
, anyway - and yet she
was