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