Already bright red from my accidental groping, I pulled away letting my hands go to my side. She simply laughed and pulled me down to the seat next to...hers, her breasts brushing my elbow as I took the seat. Again, she smiled that little smile of hers, slipping her arm through mine and running her fingers over my forearm. Was it me or was it getting harder to breathe in here? She looked up at the waitress and asked if they had any chicken fried steak. Oh lord, a girl after my own heart, not. There wasn’t a single day we were apart. We were in classes together, studied together and hung out at each other’s houses. Some people might get bored with the same-old-same-old. But we thrived on it.Still, a little rain has to fall into everybody’s life. Our mutual problem was Duke Williams. Duke was the king of the smooth operators. He wasn’t exactly good-looking. But he was big and brash, with the confidence born of being the son of a rich man.Betty gave Duke a huge hard-on. So, Duke made. I mean we do genetic engineering don’t we, so once they explain our scientists will be able to catch up?“We think you’re right that it’s an issue, your mother and me.” Claude was taking her seriously. “It’s done with a virus, in fact, to seed cells with the modified DNA. Not a computer virus but a live synthetic virus, as a vector, or carrier. You don’t have to change that many cells, actually. So we’ve been talking about it. What do you think?”“Well I don’t want to die and nor does Mia, or. Of course she knows , Hamon thought. Whenever he had a spare moment, or whenever Hamon had been in his presence, she was there, it was as if she was this all-knowing presence around the house. Those light green eyes of hers were ever alert and ever suspicious. Yet, if she did know, she hadn’t pressed him on the matter or judged him, and he was glad and thankful of that. Yet she couldn’t exactly judge him. She too was living in sin, except hers was the sin of adultery and he wagered that people.