No Strings Attached

Chapter 7

"What?" James squeak. "Are you going with  Zee Pruk somewhere?" James's voice accusing and he can't help but bit his lower lip. "Be safe, NhuNu. I don't want you to end up like Kimmy Walt."

"Kimmy Walt?"

"Long story. She's the model of your conditioner. Tell you about it when I come back. Lunch on Friday, okay?"

Nunew can't help but agree. "Okay." "Later, Princess."

He end up the call.
He sigh and then continued walking.
Kimmy Walt. He shook his head.
He look at his phone again and checked if there's other message or missed call.
And of course, there is none.

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When the clock strikes eight thirty in the evening, Nunew was no longer surprise to see Zee's 458 Italia Ferrari in the parking lot.

It was stupid, but still he caught himself breathless at the sight of Zee. He was wearing a different clothes; a black dress shirt and slacks. He can't help but stare at Zee a little longer. This man was imposing, a vibrating mass of dark energy that seemed to dominate the vast space around him.

Zee's gaze heated his skin. The taller man walk towards him and then place his hands on the sides of his hips. He can feel the heat of his palm on his trousers. His body really reacts to Zee's slightest touch.

Then Zee's mouth was already at his. It was fast and hard kiss meant to incite lust and hunger. Zee succeed in doing so.

Zee quietly drive his car out of the Park Building.
He brought Nunew to the same Italian restaurant they dined in before. Once again, Zee requested for the Rose Room.

"I already ate dinner." Nunew said.

"But you told me you still eat light snacks before bed."

The food was elegantly serve in a long table. It was a five-course meal with fruits and flowers, decorating the long elegant table. It seems like the food is for ten persons not for two.

"You call this light snack?" He throw Zee a deadly glare but Zee's gaze towards him is also as hard.

"You can't really sleep without fighting with me even just for a day, aren't you?" "I am not~~~"

"Just sit down, Nunew."

He grouchily sat in the high back mahogany chair.

"Fine. I suppose, I just have to be the bigger person and stop arguing." "Whatever makes you sleep at night." Zee sat down beside him. Once again, he can feel the hotness all over his body.

"How was your day?" He heard Zee ask him.

"Do you really want me to talk about it?" He replied blandly while he put some double tomato bruschetta in his plate. "I tend to talk nonstop about work and I might bore you to death."

"Try me."

He wanted to laugh so loud. Zee was going to learn the hard way. "We are conducting a test awhile ago. We did reverse engineering and turned drug resistance inferring mutations into wild type dengue virus, and we identified the compound targets the NS3 helicase domain of dengue virus." His eyes sparkles. "We're pretty close right now, we just have to make sure the compound is not cyctotoxic in multiple cell lines and it should be non-mutagenic and of course, it has to show proof of concept efficacy in non lethal murine model through intraperitoneal injection."

"Oh? Did a molecular beacon based-assay and ATP hydrolysis assay confirm that NS3 helicase is the compound target?"

He stop from biting those tomatoes and his big doe eyes staring in amazement at Zee. If he learn that time that Zee can fly, he would still be more shock with what the latter have just said.