** Chapter Three: Crossing the Threshold **
Truth be told, their nominal boss William was really the instigator of the illicit pre-testing. Victor had forgotten his wallet in the lab somehow and returned after-hours to retrieve it. Entering the air locked complex of inner observation and examination chambers, he was surprised to find the corridors well lit, but figured Denise was working late again. The neurologist was surprised to instead find the Vice President seated at an observation window, and Victor was truly shocked when he saw what the man was watching. In the control room, a red-haired woman slid a vibrator in and out of her pussy at an increasing pace. Almost immediately, her head lolled back as her back arched and she fucked herself into a noisy orgasm.
Despite the strange circumstances, Victor felt his cock react to the obviously legitimate cries of lust and the sight of the pale skinned, smoothly curved earthquake in the next room.
At that moment, Cromwell finally acknowledged the other scientist's entry. Indicating the frenzied woman in the other woman, he spoke: "My wife, Dr. Navarre. An acute case of sexual response disorder. She--well, we--had to find out...". His voice trailed off as Victor's eyes widened, but he quickly added, "it's voluntary, of course, and she seems to be responding very well."
Victor knew he should say something, anything, but his eyes were glued to the woman--William's wife! She was approaching the one-way glass, running her hands over her body as she walked. "Please, baby. Please, come fuck me. I've got to have that cock in me, now!" Her eyes were slightly unfocused and hazed with lust but she seemed fine otherwise. He hadn't had sex in months--the project ate up all his time--and he was getting horny as hell.
"Make a deal, Victor?" William abruptly broke into a grin, changing tone to adopt a conciliatory posture. He certainly hadn't anticipated this turn of events, at least not at this juncture, but couldn't help but be pleased by how easy it was going to be. While his voice betrayed nothing, he could sense the other man's eagerness to join him in violating their professional codes, making further off-the-books experimentation all but inevitable.
"What do you have in mind, Mr. Cromwell?" Navarre asked, emphasizing the formal name and implication of authority that came with it. While he was still in a state of shock so acute the he kept expecting to wake, he was no fool. This man was his boss, the woman his wife, and (particularly after what he'd just seen) the job was too good, the work too promising, to risk it all because he needed to get laid.
Cromwell seized his moment, counting the emphasis on his status as acquiescence to his authority, giving him license to set the terms for a pact between the men that would open a host of new doors. Also, something in him was proud of his wife at this moment, enjoying showing her off like an exotic pet to the other man, one for whom he'd always felt an unacknowledged envy. And a sadistic impulse in him made the idea of violating his wife's trust by exposing her in this state--even of allowing the other man to take more direct advantage of her drug-induced lust--deeply, if perversely, gratifying.