My thanks to MormonJack for edits and crits.
Chapter 2
The alert was from Canary1. That's what I call a node I leave somewhat exposed. If you want to scare yourself sometime I suggest you log into your router (yes, you have one) and watch the incoming. You'll see a constant rain of attempts to get into that device. If you have a decent router and a strong password they won't get through. But they never stop trying. I have Canary1 set up to look like one of those stupid Internet cameras, a favorite target. The hackers get in easily but then are stuck in a dead end because to them it looks like a broken camera-- a broken camera that is trying over and over to reconnect to its server, which has now somehow become them, and won't let go. So they break off. But not before the Canary has turned into a vulture and scraped enough data to locate the intruder.
They were pros, whoever they were-- a teenager in his bedroom won't find a Canary-- but not experienced. Canary1 picked up some breadcrumbs. Then, just as I was starting to trace the crumbs they compounded their mistake by hitting the same Canary again. Foolish. I hopped their close links by hand and let Canary1's scripts take it from there.
It was Corporation C. They were after me again. You know Corp. C, probably use one of their Internet services. They didn't know who I was. They hated that and they hated me-- the feeling was mutual-- but I knew who they were. Big advantage. Their PR department does a good job of making outsiders think it's the coolest place in the world to work-- high salary, free lunch, luxurious gym, RSUs, beer bashes, and so on-- but the corporate culture is shit. I earn a Lambo or two every year ID'ing talented managers and brilliant scientists for their competitors.
I spent most of the night taunting their security database, leading it to big, "secret" data repositories they could mine, looking like low hanging fruit to their algorithms but really just dry husks. And so to bed.
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I wake uncovered with a head of dark hair at my waist and lips around my growing erection. Avery is giving me what she calls her "balancing" blow job. Yes, she needs to balance last night's blow job with a blow job. It's almost recursive. She did have more orgasms than I did, but still.
However, there's no talking her out of it. She's on a mission. I'm way short of enough sleep. Faint early morning light is starting to seep around the blinds. But if I have to wake up now there's no better way than between Avery's lips. And I know she'll be done with me all too soon and send me back to dreamland with a big smile.
I'm wrong. When I'm right on the edge she shortstops me for a bit of cowgirl. Her pussy needs attention. Okay, fine. An orgasm or two on my cock, taking her time, and she's back to work on me. I get ready. I don't realize yet that there's something a little different in store this morning.
"I had this dream," she says, lifting her mouth from my cock. It's both torture and relief. When she gets me this way, it's always the case. When she's sucking me the pleasure is always more than I can take, and I'm helpless to resist; yet there is always this contentment underneath that I'm getting my cock sucked again, and by a cute woman who could give master classes in the act. Now, when her lips have just left my cock, I feel relief that I've made it through another pleasure torture; and yet still I long for her and wish for nothing more than to feel her lips once again on my cock. It's a paradox, one which, paradoxically, I never want to figure out.
"I dreamt there was this planet with these humans. And when they settled the planet the men, who controlled everything, had the first generation of colonists genetically engineered so that all the men produced this powerful hormone in their semen and the women were engineered so that the hormone was a powerful stimulant and totally addictive. Like, a guy comes in her mouth once and she's addicted for life."
"To him?"
"To any cock."
"Sounds great for the guys."
"Exactly. That was their evil plan. But wait." She holds up her hand, the one not holding my cock, like a teacher. "That happened centuries ago and their computer models were flawed. Since then some unintended evolution has taken place. The hormone is really a variation on testosterone. For the men it's a super-hormone that turns out to have its own addictive properties for
them
. Makes for great sex, but it causes certain areas in the male brain to be overdeveloped at the expense of certain other areas."
"Are you sure you didn't just read this in Nature Genetics?"
She laughs. "The result is a limitation of intelligence in most men, something about the-- what's it called-- prefrontal cortex?" She points here and there on her forehead. "I think. On the other hand, the super-hormone turbocharges a female brain."
"Hmm. I'm beginning to see trouble in guy paradise."
"You don't know the half of it." My cock gets more oral attention. I groan in appreciation. "In fact," after she's enjoyed a bit of phallic appetizer, "that's the name they gave the planet, Paradise." Her head starts to dip back down.
"Wait." I'm trying to recover from the latest onslaught and slow her down. "You dreamt all this?"
"Well, the first part. Then I woke up and remembered and... you know."
Did I know? I can't decide because she's going down on me again without waiting for a response. She might be showing me what a blow job feels like on this planet, the way she sucks me, deep, hard, rhythmic, unrelenting, as if she owns me. It's a clue to the next chapter in her dream/story, but I don't pick up on it because as she does this to me I lose body control and begin to curl up around her head and shoulders in a fetal ball. I can't help it. Just happens. She's uncontrollably intense. She pulls off me then and gives me a few seconds to begin to uncurl and catch my breath.