Precarious Positions (6 page)

Liv barely made it to work on time.  Dave
staying over had not been a very good idea after all.  She cautiously sped
through the halls of the psych building careful to avoid Reid.  She was far
than ready to let him in on the details of her newest research. Stepping
through the door of her office she was ready to exhale a huge sigh of relief
but to her surprise there he stood.  Somehow people always managed to surprise
her in this office.  Alongside of him was non-other than Roxanne from the
restaurant.  She could feel herself flush. Roxanne’s eyebrows rose in surprise
the moment she saw Liv.  “Roxanne, this is Dr. Olivia Belmont she’s one of our
most accomplished professors in the psych department.  This is Dr. Roxanne
Kline she comes to us from Virginia Tech.”  He began rattling off many of
Roxanne’s impressive statistics but Liv was oblivious, all she could think
about was that this woman knew she was having an affair with a student. 
Roxanne held out her hand to Liv.  “I believe we met a few days ago and I
remember I liked you immediately.  I’m really looking forward to working with
you Dr. Belmont.”  At first Liv was stunned but then relief washed over her as
she realized this was Roxanne’s way of letting her know her secret was safe. 
Liv took Roxanne’s hand.  “Likewise; please call me Liv.”

“Sure, I’m Rox.”

“Well I’ll let you two get acquainted.  By
the way Liv, I’ve managed to secure the new lab for your project.  In fact, if
you have time why don’t the two of you come take a look?  You might be
interested to know Roxanne was recently published for her research on Sex in
America.  It appears you two have done a lot of investigating along the same
lines.  You might think about partnering up, just a thought.”  Reid smiled over
at Roxanne and electricity filled the air. Liv shot her a glance but Rox was careful
to avoid making eye contact with her.

Reid led them into the main area of the
psych department’s new lab.  It was a fairly good size room with several long
tables, desks and what looked like a sound room in the back.  “You’ll find that
the new lab is completely equipped with all the latest research technology
thanks to our newest grant.   The main computers are housed back in that small
glassed room.  Out front here there are several IPads and TV’s that can be used
wherever you may need them.  If you need to check any of the equipment out of
the lab you can certainly do that too.” 

Roxi stepped up next to Reid and he
flushed.  “Those three windows on the far wall over there; are those connected
to observation rooms?” she asked.

“Yes, their small but there’s three of
them.” He proceeded down a short hallway that consisted of three doors.  “Each
of these doors leads to one of the rooms.”  Reid opened one of the doors and
the trio stepped inside.  “You’ll find two of the rooms can be connected by
simply pulling back the divider.”

“I hate to be critical being the new guy
but, they look more like interrogation rooms rather than observation rooms,
don’t ya think?  I mean for the kind of research we’re proposing they don’t
really set the mood much, ya know what I mean?”

Liv smiled.  The more she was around Rox
the more she liked her.  Dr. Reid’s face turned a shade pinker once again as he
tried desperately to find the right words to respond.  “Well, uh, you can do
what ya like with them.”  He looked around nervously trying to avoid eye
contact with either woman.  “Whatever it is you think you need for your
experiments.”  Before Reid could make completely good on his escape he was
unknowingly blocked by the completely uninhibited Roxanne.  They did a short
jig as they tried to maneuver out of each other’s way.  Reid who had by now
turned completely red finally managed to get himself through the door and down
the hall as he blurted out, “If you need anything else Rox just let me know.”

Liv managed to make eye contact with Rox
now and gave her a sly smile.  “Mmhmm.  So is it safe to assume that you will
be needing something Rox?”

“You never know? “She replied with a grin.

“Well I do know one thing.  I think we’d
make awesome partners in crime.  So are you the same Dr. R. Kline who did the
study on Factors that influence the American male libido?  If so we have
definitely got to pair up.”

“Yea,” Rox dragged the word out as she
crinkled up her nose.

“I have an idea for a project that easily
falls along those lines.”

“Really?  Well shoot.”

“It’s a little different and I don’t think
there’s actually been whole lot of work done on it, at least not the kind I’m
proposing.”  Liv couldn’t believe she was continuing to expose herself to this
woman, but then she felt so comfortable with her the words just flowed.  “I was
thinking of basing the research along the lines of male domineering sexual
habits and rather or not they could possibly affect behavior outside the
bedroom?  What do you think?”

Rox just smiled.  “I think that’s a most
interesting prospect doctor and one that we as psychology professionals are
well equipped to handle.”

“Yes indeed.” Liv agreed.

Over the next few weeks Liv and Rox became
fast friends and began gathering data and deciding what direction to take their
research project in.  Dave and Liv had become a regular secret habit while the
feisty Roxanne continued to tease Dr. Reid mercilessly. 

“Ok so that’s it then?  This is the main
focus for our study.” 

“Yep, it’s a great idea plus it never hurts
to discover if “the boy toy” might get out of hand at some point.”  Rox
smiled.  She knew how much Liv hated her to refer to Dave as the boy toy,
especially since it was so obvious that he was very much a man.  Rox guessed
that’s why she did it.  She couldn’t help but be a little envious.  Dave was
gorgeous.

“Funny.  Ok, so our title is “Demographic
and psychosocial features of sexually dominant and submissive preferences as
they relate to controlling and possessive behaviors outside the bedroom.” Liv
sat back looking at the computer screen for a moment. 

“Pretty long isn’t.” Rox responded.

“Yea but I think it might be ok.  Then
again it does cover an awful lot of ground.  Rox maybe it is too much for one
study?”

Rox waved her hand back and forth.  “It
works for now anyway.  Let’s move on to methods.  That’s gonna be the fun
stuff!”

“Well, I’ve already got the one open ended
survey out there.  We seem to be gathering some good data with it.”

“Please.  Good data?  How boring is that. 
This is supposed to be a sexperiment.  It should be wild and exciting!  I think
we need to see about getting some focus groups goin on here and maybe making
some of our interview rooms a little more appealing as well.  Hubba hubba!”

“Dr. Kline!  We do have to be professional
here you know.”  Liv poked her head out from around the screen and almost
whispered, “But that’s a good idea.”  Liv felt a big smile cross her face. 
“This is gonna be so fun isn’t it.”

“Yep and I bet we learn things we never
even knew existed.”

“Ok this has to be a blind study.  Two
groups and they really can’t know what we’re looking for.  We need to have one
group of dominant and submissive couples and the other group for lack of a
better term, couples with normal sexual habits.” 

Rox wiggled her chair closer and tried to
put her most professional face forward before responding.  “We need to be able
to observe them in both sexual and non-sexual environments to see how they
relate to one another.” Rox lit up.  “We want to see and may I stress the word
see how they relate.”

“Roxanne!  I’m shocked at how
unprofessional your being.  Then again, yes we do need to observe.  But whose
gonna let us do that?”

“You never know.  We might get some
volunteers.  Who would ever think someone would let a TV show set up in their
house and record everything they do?  There’s got to be some horny morons out
there somewhere.”

“Morons, really, that’s not exactly a variable
we want to include Rox.”

Rox cocked her head and began tapping the
desk with her pencil.  “Ok seriously now, we could set up one of the rooms with
cameras.  They wouldn’t have to necessarily know when they’re being recorded,
as long as they agree to the possibility of being recorded.  That way, maybe we
could avoid them performing for us in particular.  We need them to be
natural.”  Both women looked intently at each other.  “Well as natural as they
can be.”  They both giggled.   “The biggest problem that I see is not losing
validity.”

Liv lifted her head up as if in deep
thought, “I think the first thing we need to do is bring Jack on board.”

“Jack?” asked Rox.

“Jack?” a deeper voice asked as well.  Both
women turned around to see “the boy toy” standing in the doorway. 

“How long have you been there?” Rox asked.

“Well, I've been here long enough to hear
you call me “the boy toy.” Dave raised his eyebrows and cocked his head with a
little smile at Roxanne.  For once not only was Roxanne speechless but she
actually turned red.  Now he turned his attention back to Liv.  “Who’s Jack?” 
He pretended to be jealous. 

“Jack?  That would be Jack Daniels; I do my
best work with him.”  They all laughed as Liv brought a bottle out of her
bottom desk drawer. 

“Is there anything legal on campus you keep
in that drawer?” Roxi asked.

“Nope.” 

“What no “boy toy” in there Liv?”  Dave
sucked in his lips and shook his head as if ashamed of her. 

Liv displayed a wishful smile before
answering.  “I think in this case it would be classified as more of a “girl’s
toy.”

“Ok that’s it ya’ll are gett’n gross I’m
outta here.”  Rox pushed her way out around Dave’s muscle bound body that was
posed as if to hold the doorframe up, if not the entire building. 

“See ya Professor Kline.” He called after
her.

 Spotting some notes on the couch, Dave
reached over to pick them up.  Liv quickly snatched them away.  “What is it top
secret research?  Are you working for the government now?”  Dave let out a
chuckle and spun Liv’s chair away from the desk where he promptly placed both
hands on the arms blocking her in it.  “Things do seem to happen in this
office, don’t they?”

Liv smiled up at him.  He was so easily
distracted? Still she wondered how much he had heard.  She could just ask him
but then she would tip her hand and alert him to the fact that there may be
something more to this project than what she’d led him to believe. When Dave
kissed her hard on the mouth and cupped one of her breast, she decided she’d go
with the distraction method. Besides he was now squatted down in front of her
running his other hand up her skirt.  At this point, there really wasn’t a
choice to be made.

Dave whispered in her ear, “I plan to kiss
you, lick you, suck you and fuck you everywhere.”  Liv could feel his fingers
slowly inching forward on her inner thigh.  At the touch of his finger on her
soft pussy lips she shuddered.  “However, first you’re going to tell me what
this research is really all about and if you refuse I’m going to torture you
until you do.” Then she heard her infamous bottom drawer slide open as a
delicious smile of anticipation crossed Dave’s face.

To be continued………

Liv and Dave are obviously far from
finished with one another and the research project has barely begun.  You’re in
for a wild ride with the companion novel, Compromising Positions.  Watch for it
to debut on Amazon Kindle later this month. 

Compromising
Positions

Dr. Olivia Belmont is on the brink of discovery. 
Together with her colleague, Dr. Roxanne Kline, they are looking for answers as
to what motivates the male dominant libido.  Liv’s new boyfriend and one of her
students, has her coming undone at the seams.  Refusing to sacrifice her career
she desperately seeks a means to break things off with Dave.  However, his
charming persistence and incredible talent for exploring the female anatomy
weakens her resistance time and time again.  Their impromptu sexual rendezvous
bring her career to the brink of disaster. Frustrated and humiliated, Dave
takes a strong and purely alpha male approach to waking Liv up to her own
sexual reality, even if it means she’ll hate him for the rest of her life.  Not
without humor, perhaps the most compromising position is upon discovering Dave
has unknowingly put himself and her in the middle of her latest research
project on human sexuality.  In the end, Dave’s unique sexual appetite awakens
Liv to the reality of what it means to accept your own true self without
remorse, sexual desires included.

*****

Thank you so much for reading my book.  If
you enjoyed Precarious Positions please recommend or lend it to a friend and
don’t forget to check out Compromising Positions. 

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