Free Trusting Love by Billi Jean Page A

clubs has now been cut to merely fun for us when we need a more, shall we say, stimulating experience, am I right, my dear?”
    “Yes, I agree. The clubs were Duke’s way of enjoying his life in all its various levels. Now, though, we have each other for that,” she offered. She appeared to mean it too—for all her ogling Eric’s rod, she hadn’t really taken her hands off Duke since they’d sat down. Newlyweds, no doubt. It’d wear off.
    “And now, you are married and stay at home?” Eric asked, half in disbelief when the couple shared another softer kiss.
    They laughed and Victoria pouted. “I assure you, I can satisfy all my husband’s cravings, Eric. And he, I can most readily admit, satisfies me in every way.”
    Eric heard the sexy tone and went to total hard-on. Inappropriate as hell, but what could he say? A woman like Victoria could make a saint hard. Duke caressed her arm down to her hand and back again, clearly as enthralled by her as she was by him.
    “You see, our relationship has also benefited from my newest batch of experiments on genetic modifications. You might say we are living proof of its success. The newest round of drugs has by far exceeded my wildest dreams,” Duke said. “Don’t you agree, my dear?”
    “Absolutely. Without Duke, I would be incomplete, still wandering,” she murmured. “Now, I have my other half.”
    “Yes, exactly. The newer, improved modifications make this possible.” Duke nodded and fed Victoria a bit of scone, kissing her softly afterwards. He turned back to Eric, and leant forward, his hands on the table between them in the casual pose of a man wanting to talk shop. Eric sat forward as well, meeting the man halfway, intrigued despite how corny the two of them sounded.
    “Our success, though, depends on us retrieving and eliminating this flash drive and the formula on it. If someone else can produce similar results, Eric, I won’t own the market on this research. For us to be absolutely assured, I must have all of Dr Chung’s notes from his first attempts on to the serum he created. The first batch was closer to success than he ever understood—if he’d only realised what the potential was. Someone else with that file might discover what I have. If they do…”
    “Then they can become competitors. But DeRoy did have the original hard drive, so we know that McNeil has it now. We find that and destroy it as soon as we can and all is golden, right?”
    “Ah, yes, but it’s best to be assured of success. I want Chung checked out thoroughly, eliminated if possible. If he designed this once, I can’t believe he’d eliminate all his notes, no matter what the Pentagon says. Sonya has taken a team to secure that end for me, and you will clean up this mess here for me, won’t you?”
    “Yes, of course.” He made a move to get up, and Duke shook his head.
    “No, no of course not now, please, it’s snowing. My men say it will continue on today until early tomorrow. By late tomorrow afternoon we will be drinking a toast to success, Mr Walters. But now, I wanted to share with you my results of the modification drug, and to show you the new improved solider drug. And, of course, if you would like, you may also begin treatments.”
    Eric was no fool. He sat back down. He’d seen a few of the new soldiers on Duke’s drug. They were high performance hot rods, and he was still working on an older model Mustang engine. He nodded. “I’d like that.”
    Duke grinned and brought his little woman’s hand off his lap to his lips. “See my dear. I knew Mr Walters was the right choice.”
    Right choice?
    She nodded, and slid one long leg off the other with a slow smile as the silk rubbed and made a sexy sound. Right when she went to cross them back over, Duke reached between her legs, and shifted her skirt up enough that Eric spotted the lace at the top of her thigh-highs and swallowed.
    “You see, the modifications have taken into account the high sex drive the