Chapter 3

“Oh, I don’t know about all that, Maria. Some of it may be true yes, but not all of it ... necessarily,” Adam said.

“What do you mean, Adam?” she asked puzzled.

“Well, your history prior to coming here may be true enough and it probably is. And it’s true that you have been here two years – I’ve seen your file here. But that part about being alone and not having anyone special in your life isn’t quite accurate. I mean, I don’t think I’m all that special, but you might,” he said.

Adam watched her, trying very hard to keep a straight face while waiting for her reaction. At first she just looked at him as if trying to assimilate the information he just gave her.

“Adam I don’t...” she started. Then the light came on and her eyes got wide and her mouth dropped open. “Adam are you trying to say...”

“Maria, you have gotten the raw end of this deal and have gone through way more than anyone like you should have. I know I have just started here but I plan on being with the company for a long, long time. This is what I enjoy doing and, with all due modesty, what I’m pretty good at.

“As for you, well you are without a doubt the hottest, sexiest and most beautiful woman I have ever seen much less had sex with and since it looks like you too will be here for the forseeable future, I don’t see why we...”

“YES! Yes, Adam, whatever you were about to say, as long as it means we can be together, then yes! Oh Adam! You don’t know what this means! Oh, I am so happy! Adam, Adam, you wonderful, amazing man!” she said. She threw her arms around his neck and began kissing him with a barrage of kisses all over his face, ending up at his mouth in a deep, powerful, passionate kiss.

And so between rounds of sex, the two co-conspirators began working out the details of their misadventure. They both knew it was against company rules for them to associate outside the lab setting much less have relations and that he could get fired for it, but they didn’t care – they both wanted this and were determined, rules be damned!

Maria told Adam that no one ever came into her room so he said he would bring over a suitcase full of clothes so he could spend the night and get dressed before he went to the lab. Maria was so looking forward to sleeping with him that he had to figure out a way.

So the next day after work, Adam went out to his car and brought a suitcase into Maria’s room. She had set aside one side of her closet for him and a drawer for his underwear. It was just enough clothes for him to have a change a couple times a week. The rest of his clothes and things he kept at his apartment and he figured he would go there on the weekend and switch out his clothes so it looked like he came from his apartment each day.

For the next couple of months things went fine – the pair were able to keep their clandestine relationship hidden and still maintain the appearance of a working association to the others in the lab. Both of them got their sexual needs fulfilled and it looked like this might just work out.

But, of course, something was bound to come along sooner or later to spoil what was working so well. And it did ... one day Maria woke up not feeling well. She felt queasy and like she was going to throw up. She thought at first it was something she ate, and things got better during the day. But the next morning she felt bad again. And this time someone took notice.

“Are you feeling all right, Maria? You don’t look well – you are acting like you just got off a bad boat trip!” Dr. Phillips said.

“I’m all right, just not feeling myself today,” Maria replied. Maria had a suspicion what was wrong, but she didn’t want to admit it – to herself or to Dr. Phillips!

“Still, I want to run some tests ... it might be a side effect of the medication that we haven’t seen yet,” Dr. Phillips said.

Maria knew not to argue or try to dissuade him – she was afraid her objections would make it seem she was hiding something. She just hoped that these tests wouldn’t reveal something best kept private!

She was scheduled the next day for a series of tests. Things started out easily enough – just simple things at first like her blood pressure, pulse rate and temperature were taken and recorded. Since she was acting wobbly on her feet, they checked her ears for any unusual conditions.

“Plugged ears or ear infections can make you seem off-balance,” the doctor explained. But nothing unusual was found.

Then the doctor ordered some blood tests to see if they would shed some light on her feeling out of sorts.

“It will take a few hours to get the results back from these tests. I hope to have some answers by this evening,” the doctor said.

Maria went back to the lab and her cage to finish off the rest of the day. She was worried about these tests ... what if they found something. She had an intuition what was going on, but she didn’t want the test to show anything. She was terrified of what the test results might reveal.

Just before it was time for her to head back to her dorm room for the evening, Dr. Phillips called her into his office. Waiting for her was Adam and Dr. Phillips.

“Hello Maria. We need to talk about your test results,” Dr. Phillips said. Maria looked at him then over to Adam. Her heart sank when she saw his face.

“There were some very curious findings in your tests, Maria ... some quite unexpected results to be frank. It would seem that you hCG levels are higher than they should be. Not dangerously high, just curiously high. Now I understand that Adam here has been working closely with you here in the lab and that’s fine – I brought him on here in order to help with the project. But now my question is, just how closely have you two been working?”

“I-I don’t understand...” Maria said.

“My dear, let me cut to the chase. You are pregnant, Maria ... about two weeks, actually. Now since you have not been out in public in over two years and the only contact you have had with men is here in the lab, it’s not hard to deduce how this happened. Adam here is the only one that is spending any real time on your case – everyone else has other projects going on.

“It shouldn’t take someone with a PH.D in mathematics to figure this equation out. Now I will ask you again ... have you and Adam gotten more involved than just a lab tech and test subject?” Dr Phillips said calmly.

Maria broke down then sobbing into her hands. “Oh Dr. Phillips, we didn’t mean to – I didn’t mean to. I was just sitting in my cage one day feeling very horny. I began trying to ease my frustrations when I dropped my favorite toy and it rolled out of reach. Adam came in to help me and I guess ... I seduced him into letting me ... suck his cock. I needed to so badly, Dr. Phillips – you don’t know how hard it’s been these past two years! I have thought I would go crazy or try to do something terrible many times over these past years.

“When Adam came in and let me, you know, it was so wonderful. Then, I don’t know, neither of us wanted to stop there. He began coming to my room after work. I know we shouldn’t have and it’s against the rules, but it’s just been soo hard, doctor. So hard on me. Please don’t fire him because I can’t control myself. It’s not his fault. Please!” Maria sobbed.

“I’m not going to fire anyone just yet. I need to take this matter under consideration and discuss it with some of the others before I make any determinations. We need to figure out what to do about what has happened and what will happen – there seems to be a new player in this game that we need to take into account.

“Until then, you two can continue on with what you are doing – I see no reason to shut the barn door after the horses have already escaped. And I don’t want to stress out mother here when this little one is just starting out. Besides, I think the two of you have some things to discuss as well.

“You’d better have a heart to heart and decide what’s to become of junior here. You two need to figure out where you both are in this relationship of yours, where you want it to go, and whether or not you are going to go there together. You have a lot to figure out and a very short time in which to do so,” Dr. Phillips said.

“Now it’s time to knock off for the day. I’m going home, but I suggest you two go back to her dorm or wherever you go after work and do some talking. I will call you back in when I have figured out what to do about this. And then you can tell me what your ideas are. Together we will see what we can come up with as far as a plan forward.”

“Yes, doctor. Thank you,” Maria said.

“Don’t thank me just yet, my dear. We have a long road ahead of us, I fear, no matter what we decide,” Dr. Phillips said as he moved towards the door.

“Pregnant...” Adam said once they were back in her dorm room.

“I’m so sorry Adam! I’ve ruined everything! It’s just I was so ... and you were the first man to help me since I got here. You looked at me as a woman – a woman with needs – and not just a test subject. I never even gave a thought to birth control. I should have, I know. But the thought never crossed my mind! Dammit why did this have to happen! Just when things were going good too!” she said, her bottom lip trembling as she fought to hold back the tears.

“Well it’s not like it’s ALL your fault, Maria. I mean I had a little to do with this, too. Had I followed the rules and stayed out of your room to begin with, none of this would have happened. Or at the very least not come to your dorm room after work that first time,” Adam said.

“Yes, but if you had we would have never met and ... well we have had some wonderful times together, despite this latest turn of events,” she said, trying to work up a smile.