The Science Of Love: A Billionaire BWWM Romance (10 page)

David
became a regular feature at her college, which did not go unnoticed
by the staff. Knowing a wealthy computer executive was seeing one of
their graduate students provoked intense debate in the physics
department. Half wanted to approach him for a grant, the other half
wanted to name a building for him if they got one. David would tell
her professors he didn’t want her to receive any special
treatment and they assured him she was one of their brightest
students.

Two
months later, they were in the Jacuzzi again relaxing. Jada had just
finished another round of exams and he’d completed some more
financing for an addition to the company. They had the TV off and
were just spending time alone. It was something David was finding too
infrequent. Some days he just wanted to stay home and make love to
her, but their schedules were becoming increasing erratic. He’d
managed to fly with her for a weekend in Paris, which made up for a
lot of neglect, but they were still having trouble being together as
often as they wanted to.

That
evening, David was braiding her hair in the Jacuzzi, something he
loved doing. She had taught him how to do it right, even letting him
sit in on a session at a hair salon so he would know how. It was part
of their love-making some evenings. He would have her sit in the tub
just below him and she would put her head down as he would make tight
rows in her hair with his nimble fingers. David would kiss each row
when finished and she would kiss him on the lips in response. It
would take him an hour to do it right. She could feel his erection on
her back all the while he was doing the braiding. When finished, she
would float up to his level, lay back on the side of the Jacuzzi and
place her thin, strong dancer’ legs on his shoulders. He would
kiss her between the legs until she couldn’t take it any
longer.

David
had learned where her most sensitive spots were and, as he liked to
put it, enjoyed “teasing the cum out of you.” Jada would
nearly pass out from what she called his “golden tongue”.
When finished, it would be his turn and he’d exchange places
with her as she took him in her mouth, slowly stimulating him while
he felt the tight rows on her head till he begged her to release him.
She would continue sucking him until just at the point of his climax;
she would stop and tell him to ask for it. He would beg in
increasingly flowery terms and she would finish him off, enjoying the
way he spurted down her throat. They would wipe their faces off with
towels and spend another hour cuddling, sharing the “I love
you” talk.

That
night, after they had finished making love again, Jada put her head
on David’s chest and looked up at him. He still couldn’t
believe he was sleeping with the most beautiful woman he’d ever
known. And she knew about so many things! He had to ask Jada some
more about this new form of power generation.

“
So,”
he said kissing her on the lips, “you think it’s possible
to duplicate the sun’s way of making heat on earth?”

“
It’s
theoretically possible,” she told him, rubbing his chest.
“People have been trying to get it to work for years. Look at
the hydrogen bomb; it’s the same way one of those functions.
But no one has been able to get the reaction to a controlled
temperature where it will sustain itself. The tokamak system has
always been thought to be the best one; just nobody has been able to
create a magnetic bottle which will hold it.”

“
What
about battery technology? Isn’t that improving all the time?”

“
Yes
it is,” she told him, the moonlight reflecting off her naked
skin. “But it all involves materials which are going to become
increasingly hard to get in the future. Where do you get the rare
earths needed to make the batteries work? There’s plenty of
lithium in the sea, but a pure lithium battery is dangerous which is
why you have to complex it with other metals.”

They
dozed off talking energy and power transmission.

David
wanted to make the engagement ring special. He had planned to buy
both the wedding and engagement ring as a set. He sought out a
jewelry designer and picked out the rings just to remind him of the
first time they had met. He was sure Jada would like it. A few months
into the relationship he had seen her looking at rings on the
internet. David knew why, but didn’t want to tell he had that
part covered.

He
wanted to make the presentation very special and planned to take her
back to the original restaurant where they had their first date. He
would book a room just for the two of them and present the ring just
as the waitress brought out the appetizers. At least this was his
plan. But, “best laid plans” and all that. Sometimes
plans don’t work out so well, but it is not always the result
of poor planning.

They
were relaxing in front of the TV a few weeks after David had first
started planning on how he would present the engagement ring when
Jada showed him something on her computer screen. She had been doing
some school work on it and found a very interesting article for David
to look at.

“
What’s
this?” he asked her.

“
It’s
an article about a Tokamak generator,” she told him.

David
scrutinized the article and tried to read it. His was the field of
computer language not high energy physics. Jada could see his
confusion as he tried to make sense of the article. He finally gave
up and handed the laptop computer back to her.

“
Why
is this so important?” he said to her. “I see it’s
important to you, but it might as well be Greek as far as I’m
concerned.”

“
It’s
one of the best options for producing clean power: nuclear fusion,”
she told him. “It’s something that has been on the
drawing boards for years. But no one has found a way to make it
profitable. There was a man who was involved with the Department of
Energy for years who pushed the idea, but it never went anyplace. If
someone was smart enough and had enough resources to put behind it,
it just might take off. And if that happened, you would go down in
history as the man who made energy clean and plentiful.”

“
But
I don’t understand,” David said to her, “I thought
nuclear power had been around a long time and there are all kinds of
problems with it.”

“
Nuclear
fission
power has been
around a long time,” Jada explained to him, “Not nuclear
fusion
. There’s
a difference. Nuclear fission creates heat the same way a nuclear
bomb does, nuclear fusion creates the heat like the sun creates it.”

She went
on to describe to him how nuclear fission reactors create their
energy by the reaction of uranium or plutonium to generate heat,
which can leave a lot of radioactive material. A fusion reaction, on
the other hand, works much in same matter where hydrogen fuses in
helium at super high temperatures and once the reaction reaches a
high enough temperature, it sustains itself. The problem in
harnessing fusion reactions is keeping it going; it had almost been
impossible to control the reaction in a laboratory setting to get
high enough temperatures to make a useable reactor. There had been
countless attempts and the design based off the Russian idea, the
Tokamak generator had the best possibilities.

“
I
think it’s something you should look into,” she told him.
“Aren’t you looking for new places to invest your
company’s money?”

“
I
am,” he said, “but I would have to know more about this
project. I can’t blow the corporation’s money without
having some reason. The last thing I need is to have the investors
bail on me. Is there someone we can talk to about it?”

Jada
told him she would schedule an appointment with one of her professors
at the college to talk to him. She’d have him read the article
and see what his impression was.

The
article talked about a project to get a fully functional
thermonuclear reactor up and running in a laboratory in the Florida
Keys. The man behind the idea was a former scientist employed by the
government who had attracted a group of investors to get his pilot
plant in operation. He’d gone so far as to get some seed money
from a man who published scandal magazines in the supermarket. Now he
was concerned he was running out of funds to keep the project
running.

“
It’s
just that I’ve heard this so many times before,” David
told her. “Somebody has a great idea to create perpetual energy
or a hyperspace drive. And they always seem to be able to prove it if
they have ten billion dollars in cash to build their massive
spaceship in the desert. When you look at the plans they show you, it
always violates some fundamental law of thermodynamics.”

Jada put
her arms around him and looked into his eyes. “Don’t do
this for me,” she said. “Do it because you think it’s
a good idea and a good investment. I’ll have my professor
explain it to you if he thinks the guy has a sound idea. If not, I
won’t bring it up again.”

David
went ahead and made his engagement ring plans. He contacted the
jewelry designer and told him to go ahead with the concept they had
jointly come up with. He felt it would symbolize their union: an
intricate pattern of black and white diamonds on a gold ring. The
engagement ring would be a solid diamond of a very high quality
worked into a plain band. The jeweler had him look at it as it was
close to completion. He even found a way to get Jada’s ring
size without her knowing about it by “borrowing” one of
her fashion rings and getting it “appraised”.

He went
ahead and booked the room in the original restaurant to take her on
the six month anniversary of their original date. Jada told him she
still had the dress from that evening and would wear it for him.
David found a way to hide the ring box inside his jacket.

But when
the evening came, they turned on the news report to discover the
restaurant had burned down from an electrical fire. David was
disappointed as he had wanted this to be the place where he popped
the question. Jada told him it was fine they could find another place
to go that evening. They ended up finding a spot at a small French
restaurant near her college campus.

They
arrived earlier than planned with the hostess telling them they could
have the table ready in a few minutes. All they had to do was wait in
the lobby until a place was cleared for them. David had requested a
secluded spot to present the ring to her, so they were forced to wait
longer than he would have liked.

But
while they were waiting, one of her professors came by and sat down
with his wife across from them. Jada introduced him as Dr. Sheen, one
of the senior professors in the department of physics and she had
taken several of his courses. He was also the professor she had
wanted David to talk with about the thermonuclear power article. They
both had some time to wait so David asked him what he thought about
the article.

“
I
think the guy’s on to the right idea,” he told them, “but
he’ll never get it off the ground unless he has more money than
he’s playing with right now.”

“
Always
seems to be the trouble,” David responded. “These big
dreamers just don’t have enough funds to get their project into
operation. Look what happened to Tesla with that tower of his…”

“
The
power transmission tower was a good idea,” Jada cut into the
conversation. “Tesla just couldn’t get enough money in
the early twentieth century to finish it.”

Her
professor went on to say the project in the Florida Keys might have
something going for it, but the money needed to make it happen would
be astronomical before the first watt was even generated. It was the
same thing that always stopped nuclear fusion reactors from being
practical. David told him he would look into it further before the
hostess came and took the professor and his wife away.

The same
hostess eventually found the secure, isolated table David had asked
for. They sat down and ordered their dinner, since the appetizers had
already been brought out in advance. The food was good, although
David had little knowledge of French cuisine; Jada did and helped him
with the order. David looked at her and was stunned at how beautiful
she looked. It was merely six months since had asked her out the
first time and now he was all ready to ask her to marry him. They had
joked around about marriage for months, but it had only been in fun.
He didn’t think she actually felt he was serious, but David
wanted nothing more than to spend his life with her.

“
I
have something for you,” David told her and brought out the box
when dessert was served. He sat the box in front of her.

The
waitress was headed back to see if they needed anything, saw the box
and knew from experience what it meant, she did a complete turn and
went back to her station. She also knew from experience it was going
to go one of two ways and five minutes was needed.

Jada
opened the box and her eyes were bright. She picked up the ring and
looked at it.

“
David,”
she said to him, “is this what I think it is?”

“
Yes,”
he said, putting it on her ring finger. “Jada, will you marry
me?”

She
threw her arms around him from across the table.