The Grove (Devil Inside)
Everyone engaged in sexual activity in this story is over eighteen.
This is the third (and penultimate) story in the "Devil Inside" storyline. The entire series will be:
Teacher: Parts 1 and 2
Descent
The Grove (this story)
Finale (coming soon)
You should be able to enjoy this story without having read the prior ones, but I hope you'll read the whole thing!
Your comments and ratings are seriously appreciated!
Sir
The decision to head to the mountains to clear my head was a good one. I took a couple of days to do some hiking on some of the peaks off the Blue Ridge Parkway, staying in a nice little AirBnB near Blowing Rock for a night. I had no qualms about using my powers to put my hosts to sleep early in the evening and to "convince" their daughter to fuck me silly.
The next afternoon I drove down to Asheville and checked into the Grove Park Inn for a few days. They were full but I didn't have any trouble getting the clerk to put me in one of the wonderful rooms in the old part of the inn, overlooking the golf course and spa. I left it to her to figure out what to tell the people whose reservation I'd stolen.
I spent the next two days poring over the Codex and using the Internet to make some comparisons with other texts and to do some other research. I had dinner on the terrace the first night, watching the sun set while I enjoyed a very nice Zinfandel and some locally caught trout.
I also thought about Ronnie's parting words to me in Charlotte. She wanted to think that I was a good person, or at least that I wanted to be. But I had to admit to myself that I wasn't so sure anymore. The taste of power that I possessed through the demon was getting into my head, and I kind of liked it.
It was during my second night at Grove Park that I had a breakthrough. I'd gotten engrossed in my studies and had dinner and a bottle of Cabernet sent up to my room so that I wouldn't be interrupted. I didn't even take advantage of the cute server that delivered room service.
While I was on the third glass of wine, it all came together in my head. I was sure that I now knew how to rid myself of the demon, or at least to significantly reduce its presence. The way forward was honestly not all that hard, but I realized that I would have to inflict some permanent damage on others to accomplish my goal.
And I had to decide, now that all this research was finally paying off, if I really wanted to change the situation. I had come to enjoy the perks and the power of having a demon inside me and I'd managed to find ways to keep it fed without the more egregiously horrible things I'd had to do in the beginning. I'd socked away a ton of money and that wouldn't change if I went through with the process, but I found myself liking being the one in control.
After a long night's sleep, I decided to avail myself of the underground spa to clear my head. The massage was nice, but I mostly enjoyed floating in the underground mineral pool, de-stressing and trying not to think about much of anything. That reverie was mostly undisturbed, and I felt relaxed for the first time in maybe years.
I moved over to one of the hot tubs semi-hidden along the side of the "quiet" pool and amused myself by reading my fellow visitors. In addition to a number of couples, there were a few local women who seemed to avail themselves once a month or so. There were also a couple of young women that were there early for a bridal shower that was happening the next day. That piqued my interest -- a night of debauchery with two twenty-something hotties had some appeal.
Then Marie walked by and all thoughts of anyone else fled my head.
She honestly looked like someone drawn by a comic book artist -- just under six feet tall, big round ass and boobs separated by a tiny waist, pretty face with blonde hair in a French braid halfway down her back. And she was troubled.
At first, I took her dark thoughts as being on par with Mona's narcissism. I reached into her mind and made her decide that spending some time in the seemingly empty hot tub was a good idea, so she slipped her robe off, giving me a better look at her brickhouse of a body in her one-piece suit.
She slipped into the hot bubbling water with a sigh, resting her head on the side of the tub, while I kept myself out of her sight. I dug around in her head and realized that her anger at her family might well be justified. She worked for her father-in-law's company, and she liked the job and him, but her slack-ass husband took credit for all her work.
And worse, her husband was openly enamored of their college-aged daughter, who used that to her advantage at every opportunity. She had heard from other parents in high school that her daughter had a reputation as a horrible tease and she didn't hesitate to practice that on her father, who seemed to be edging much closer to trying something with her.
I pushed Ronnie's warnings to the back of my head, as I thought of a perfectly wonderful, nasty plan to enjoy some time with Marie and her family. When I brought her over, I was thinking of letting the demon loose on her, but I thought of a completely different way to use my devilish partner.
Marie
She thought that a couple of days in the spa would clear her head and help her relax a bit. But even the hot water and bubbles of the hot tub couldn't stop the torrent of thoughts bouncing around in her head. It didn't help that her husband had ignored her again last night, while flirting openly with their daughter. And DeeDee had egged him on, dressing as slutty as she thought she could get away with.
She was on the verge of getting out, drying off and drinking herself stupid at the hotel bar when she heard a voice coming from her right. "I can help," it whispered, although she couldn't see anyone there. "I can make it better."
She looked to both sides and then twisted around on the bench, but there was no one there. "All you have to do is give yourself to me," the voice whispered once more. "Give yourself to me and I will make it all better."
Now she felt a presence on her right and slowly turned, to find herself looking up into a gloriously hideous face. Her body shuddered from lust as she stared at the green, scaly beautiful monstrosity that was looking calmly back at her, waiting for her response. He was impossibly terrifying, and she wanted him more than anything she'd ever wanted.
"I... I..." she started, caught by the deep amber eyes and her own longing for something better. Then she made her decision, as though it was already made for her. "I am yours, Master. Do with me what you will."
He leaned towards her, his scaly lips approaching hers as she strained upwards to meet them. Her body felt like it was glowing -- like a wire stretched so tightly that it was generating its own heat. Then the demon rasped, "Good girl." And she thought she would explode with pleasure.
Her soft lips met his hard ones and her mouth opened to receive his forked demon tongue. Because surely a demon was the only thing that he could possibly be. She found that she had no problem with that realization.
His tongue invaded her, sliding into her throat like a cock, except she'd never had a cock half as big. She felt warmth infuse her body that was not from the hot water she was sitting in. A sense of well-being, of being wanted, pervaded her soul.
The slimy tongue withdrew, and she felt empty, wanting to be filled again. She looked again at her new master, eight feet of brilliant horror. She felt his clawed hand stroke her thigh and she spread herself for him, willing him to take her right there.
He pressed the back of a talon against her clit through the cloth of her bathing suit and her body exploded into a million prisms, rainbows of light cascading around her and through her as she shook and vibrated. She was sure she screamed but she didn't hear it, only the sound of the overhead waterfall roaring into the hot tub.
She opened her eyes (when had she shut them?) and where her Master had been, there was now a man. A dark man, not dark-skinned, but wreathed in shadows. She could tell that this too was her master, and why shouldn't he look however he desired to her?
He leaned over to her once more. "Marie, I will meet you in your room in an hour. We will start to make things right."
She nodded once and said, "Yes, my Master." She almost melted as he smiled down at her before stepping out of the pool and putting his robe on. He didn't look back as she watched him walk towards the men's locker room.