"I had no idea you were such a good actor, professor."
My Habibi told me when we got in his car.
"In my line of work, I sometimes have no choice but to deceive and fabricate lies."
"We are different in that aspect, then," Habibi replied. "I may hold the truth back at times, but I always tell the truth."
I turned to face him with a sigh.
"Yeah, I noticed. Didn't I tell you to pretend we don't know anything about Blondie? And to think, that you almost told Reubert that you're a DOME, too!"
I snubbed him and look at the students loitering around the vast university campus.
"Truth be told, I'm finding it tedious to hide everything from my family. Even that idiot Louie... sometimes, I just want to disappear so they won't get caught up in my problems..."
"Good. Come with me to UACME. In fact, we can go anywhere you want, anywhere in the world."
"As if we can do that. You know exactly what would happen as soon as I go AWOL."
Aahmes had no reply for that.
He knows, as well, why I can't just leave the country.
I have already told him everything. The only thing I hid from him, were the restricted information about DOME. After all, I don't want to get him too involved with all my problems. I didn't want to bother Reubert, either, but if this is what Aahmes wants...
"You've gone quiet, professor?" asked Aahmes as we left he parking area.
"I was just thinking, it's still early, why don't we go back to the office to catch up on some work?"
"I was thinking the same thing," Aahmes replied, "let's catch up on work, then, you can tell me more about your DOME when we get back home."
Unfortunately, due to the volume of work in the lab, it took some time `till we finally had a chance to sit down and talk about Dome. Of course, I didn't mention about the inhumane experiments. Just the happy memories I had with the kid.
"I remember this one time, it was Nathan's birthday, I brought Dome some cake Blessing baked. It was the first time he actually opened up to me. He likes to hear about Nathan, you see, especially when he's having a hard time in the lab. Like that time he was trying to suppress his heat without the use of suppressants. We laughed at Nathan's antics until he settled down and fell asleep on my chest..."
"He slept on your chest?" asked Aahmes who looked up from my chest with an eyebrow slightly raised.
"Didn't I tell you he was like a little brother to me?" I told him, stroking his hair.
Is he actually getting jealous?
"As he slept, I would whisper things to him, like 'you're a powerful dominant omega' and 'don't let those bastard alphas take advantage of you' or 'those lowly alphas are so much weaker than you'. And look what that brought me."
I took a deep sigh and held Aahmes tighter.
"I really think I messed that kid up by brainwashing him..."
"Any person treated unfairly would one day break. Especially a person as powerful as a dominant omega," said Aahmes who rubbed his face on my neck. "What happened has already passed and would eventually happen even without your intervention," he added. "You should be proud that you have created an exquisite dominant omega specimen. Think of all the alpha extremist groups he had subdued and all the abused omegas he have helped."
"I guess you're right. Last thing I heard, he was going after white slavery rings in South America. People there are so impoverished that the parents themselves are selling their children like livestock just to make ends meet."
"So, you still get news about him?" asked Aahmes.
"Yeah, well, Dr. Webb keeps me updated every once in a while..."
"Your mentor still keeps in touch with you?"
"Of course, he's still part of Universal Labs, after all, in fact he just came by last year when–"
I stopped myself from talking.
I forgot that the Spider's identity was strictly confidential!
"Last year?" Aahmes raised himself to stare at me.
Damn! I have once again, triggered my Habibi's curiosity!
"Ah... nothing..."
"Who is he?" He took hold of my shoulders and shook me.
"Sorry, but that's confidential!" I grinned at him.
"Is that so?" Aahmes' eyes narrowed.
"Sorry, Habibi, but there are things that I just can't tell you and the Spider's identity is – Hey!"
I jumped as Aahmes suddenly grabbed my dick!
"So, it is confidential, huh?"
He pulled my boxers off and went down on me, licking my shaft playfully before mouthing the tip!
"Waah! Habibi... ahh... I-I thought you said you were too tired tonight?!"
He didn't answer, instead, he mouthing me whole and started sliding down my shaft!
"Ahh... Habibi... damn... that feels good..."
He kept sucking me until I was at my limit.
"I'm gonna..."
Then he suddenly stopped and tightened his hold.
"What the –"
"Tell me his name."
"Ha?!" I looked at him, have crazed with pleasure.
"Dr. Webb. The Spider's real name."
Now he starts rubbing me while plugging the tip with his thumb!
"I-I can't! Habibi... enough...!"
"A name."
He rubs me even faster.
"Naahhh! H-haabiiibiii...!"
My body quivered. I tried pushing his hands away, but he just grabbed me tighter!
"A name, professor."
"Naahh... no..."
"Professor..."
He leaned down once more and started sucking my balls!
"Ahhh! Anansi! Dr. Albert Nancy!!!"
Sigh...
I really am such a big pushover when it comes to my Habibi.
Aahmes stared at me wide-eyed. He let go of me a moment later, sending a jet of semen in the air.
"Ahhh!" I gasped, shivering with pleasure.
"Dr. A. Nancy... The former head of Universal Laboratories in the US?" he confirmed.
"One... and only..." I tried to catch my breath. "He uses the code name 'Spider', based on a character from an African folktale. A trickster god who loves to play with other people's lives."
"So, Dr. Nancy is your mentor..."
"Have you ever worked with him?" I asked.
"Just for a while..." Aahmes seemed deep in thought. "Actually, he visited the UACME branch shortly after I entered the company. He lent me a magazine with an article about you. He told me I should meet you since you were a very talented professor who is also studying the omega genome."
"Really?" now, it's my turn to wonder. "And just what was he thinking, wanting us to meet?"
"I have no idea," Aahmes settled back on my chest. "All that matters is that we're together now."
"Ah, how sweet my Habibi is!" I kissed his temple. "Remember, no one else knows about these things I'm telling you. Hardly anyone still knows about the DOME Project. Everyone connected to it have already died, except for Dome, the Spider, and me aside from..."
Again, I had to stop myself.
"Aside from?"
Why is Aahmes so fast on the pick up?!
"Well... there's this high ranking military official that survived that night..." I sighed, "Reubert wasn't able to kill him."
"Who?"
"Ahh, Habibi, that person is too dangerous, He's not just tricky like the Spider. That bastard could actually kill us both!"
"I don't care. I can keep you safe from him."
"Not this one, Habibi, you don't know what this person can do..." I sat up and face him seriously. "This person bows to no one. He doesn't care about anyone or anything, as long as he gets what he wants. I thought at first that he died with the rest of the bastards that day, but he's just too tough to beat."
"A millitary man, huh?"
"That's right. He's the person who proposed the DOME project in the first place, and he holds one of the key's to Dome's neurochip, while the other one is with the Spider."
"Dome's neurochip has two keys?" Aahmes asked with a frown.
"They were worried that one of them might use the DOME for their own interest, so they had two keys made. A single key wouldn't work on its own"
"How about you? What is he holding against you?"
"He's the son of a bitch who's got Louie's family under surveillance."
I took my cellphone and showed him a couple of text messages.
"This is how I guessed that Nathan might have met Reubert."
'He's back but you are not allowed to meet him'
"While I got this message as soon as we arrived in Nathan's University..."
'I told you not to meet with him'
Aahmes scrolled up to read the rest of the messages.
I don't erase any of them.
I keep them to remind me that they are always watching.
That they can easily get rid of my family and I.
I could never be at ease, knowing that the devil is lurking and can strike at anytime.
"How come you never told me about this?"
"`Coz I don't want you to get involved any deeper. I don't want him to use you, too!"
"But I am already part of you, professor, and whoever threatens you, threatens me as well!"
I was taken aback by Aahmes' words, but not as much as his furrowed brows and his pouting lips.
"Habibi, what if something happens to you? I wouldn't know what to do or if I could ever live through it..." I said, defeated. "I won't ever be able to forgive myself if I get you caught up in my messed up past..."
"I would like to see him try to mess with me," Aahmes snorted. "I can take care of myself, professor, you know that well, I can even take care of you, and have been doing so for the last four years."
I sigh and shake my head in surrender.
"Habibi, just what will I do with you...?" I whisper as I held him near. "It's so hard to say no to you... harder still to stay mad at you for so long..."
With another sigh, I conceded to my beloved and whisper in his ear, the name of the devil who has been persecuting me.
Of the mad man who held the chains that bound around Reubert's and my neck.
Aahmes' eyes widened.
"Remember that name," I told him, "never trust the devil. For once his claws grab hold of you, he would never let go, until there's nothing left of you, not even your soul."