I smiled at my conquests as I let Specimen 1 order me another glass of wine and we found a nook in the room to stare out at the party. University bigwigs gossiped in little cliques, whispering, no doubt mostly about me, likely seeing the innocent act of Specimen 1 bringing me a glass of wine as me luring him into my lair. Which I am, of course, but it’s not seemly to be gossiping right in front of my face.
“Your peers?” Specimen 1 asked as he caught me frowning.
“Colleagues, perhaps,” I said, drinking deeply from the wine he gave me. “However, most of my friends aren’t from the university. And my colleagues rarely see me. I do the majority of my work in my home laboratory. More convenient.”
“Oh,” he said. “What do you do?”
“I’m a scientist but I love to read, which is why I’m here tonight,” I started to walk so that we weren’t trapped in a corner. “I love to mingle with authors and publishers. I also love to go dancing. Clubs. Parties. Probably not really the run-of-the-mill geek you conjured up in your mind.”
“You’re too beautiful to be a scientist,” he said. His youthful earnestness slipped out for a moment from the too-cool-for-school author pose.
“You’re very kind,” I said.
“I’ve always been intrigued by mature women,” he said.
My dear writer boy did not disappoint. He was indeed the classic womanizer.
My heart raced as he spoke; he had a wonderfully crisp accent that I could have listened to for hours. He was only in town for a few days, a special guest-author speaker at the university as part of a seminar series. We easily bantered about books. His face was lean and he had an air of sadness about him. He writes about dark things, maybe because he’s lived them or maybe now that he’s drawn such ideas in with his fantasies, they haunt his reality. It will be interesting to find out.
I will find out.
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