A1386G Ch 17

I was pretty well spent after driving four hours and then spending a couple more in the waterpark, even if I hadn't just fucked a woman so hard she was currently giddy and half asleep on a daybed.

So, for the first time, I had let someone else clean me up after sex.

I was still wound pretty tight, just spent for the moment, and being spent didn't help me calm down. So after Marie and Mint's teasing, and Rebecca's encouragement, I was still vibrating with arousal.

Honesty had disappeared and Mint was somewhere between loitering and tidying up, so it felt like I was the only one in the room with Marie and Rebecca. Both of them were now curled up on the daybed, Marie once again laid out limply like a used dishrag across the bed, with Rebecca curling up next to her for a nap.

Marie really was beautiful, her blonde hair spread out below her and her pale skin glistening with sweat as she put a hand over her womb. She was the first person I had fallen in love with, and the first to tell me they loved me. I did love her, but it definitely wasn't on the same level as her near-devotion to me, and she had definitely gotten clingier once Mint was around.

Still, I sat there and I let both of them drift off to sleep for a bit while I recovered. Checking my phone, Kelly had sent me a text reminding me to call her tonight after dinner as well as to not get involved with any of my grandmother's whores. It wasn't the strangest text I had received today, but I always wondered why she had agreed to Dad when she felt like that about any other women he knew?

I sighed as I put the phone away.

"Something wrong?" Mint asked, as she passed behind me.

"Kelly wants me to call after dinner, and I don't think she's going to appreciate that Grandma made you our concierge." I replied.

Mint circled around in front of me, my eyes drawn to her trim hips, enhanced by the lines of her green micro. "She loves you and she cares about you." Mint said. "You're very lucky, you know. You're surrounded by love, and of your parents, she's the one that loves you most. She still loved you and was concerned about you when everyone else focused on Grace."

"I know that," I replied, "I just don't know how to deal with her sometimes. She likes Marie, and she's fine with her having a baby, but she hates you of all people."

Mint plopped down in my lap, facing me and stared into my eyes. "Because she knows what I am and she cares about you."

I tried to look away from her staring eyes, but she held my chin tightly with her hand, so I could only glance away.

"She knows that I'm a seductress and a whore and she's always afraid I'm going to steal you away from everyone and ruin your life and the family reputation." Mint said, with a sigh. "I honestly wish I could. It'd certainly be easier than being in love with someone I can never be with."

"You're in love with me?" I sputtered, rousing Marie and Rebecca out of their slumber.

"Yes, which is why I kept trying to drop hints." Mint answered dejectedly. "Not that I'm going to pursue it. You're better off with those three, and I'm not going to break you apart."

"What do you mean?" I replied.

"You know, I was always jealous of you then, and today the envy I feel inside is just tearing me apart." Mint said, showing me a side of her I hadn't seen before.

"I didn't know that." I said.

Mint sighed. "Steven, I love you but you're not very observant when it comes to people."

If I had missed all that, She was right about me.

"I didn't meet my mother. She didn't love me, I was just a painful reminder of why she had to come here. I wanted to know who she was, for her to give me any sort of love. Iris even told me I wasn't allowed to meet her. So the only person I've known who ever loved me, who ever cared about me was the Mint before me." Mint cried. "But every summer I had to watch you and your sisters be loved and adored by your parents, your grandmother and aunt, and even my boss, while I was just there to be your playmate."

"You were my friend," I replied.

"I was assigned to be your friend. Every year, for a month, that was my job. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, and it's why I'm here today, but I had to watch you just get everything I ever wanted. It wasn't fair, and I couldn't help being envious, and try to take advantage of it while I could." Mint continued, never stopping her assault. "And yet you were still kind to me. I wasn't a person, I was a replaceable cog here, and you still treated me better than that. You made me love you."

"I didn't mean to." I replied, as Rebecca and Marie started looking over, and Rebecca realized what was going on. "All I ever wanted was to be your friend."

"And yet you did. I wanted you to save me from this so badly. For seven years I tried to leave hints and make your mothers like me so they'd be okay with me as a gift. Maybe if I had been more assertive, I could've been Marie. I could have been freed from my life here and become your birthday present. But I wasn't and I'm not." Mint said, as she broke down into tears, "I would have traded in my chance to buy my freedom to be a pet bird you keep in a cage in a heartbeat. If you offered me it today, I'd probably still be tempted by it."

"Mint, if I had known." I tried to say, before she kissed me briefly.

"But, for seven years you didn't know, and I was too cowardly to just say it. Thanks to that, no matter what I did, you were just my friend when I needed a saviour." She paused for a second, and I saw Rebecca hold Marie back out of the corner of my eyes.

Marie struggled a bit, and Rebecca shushed her while putting her in a headlock.

"Then today, you just show up with a girlfriend, and two other women, one of whom you four all but told me is going to have your child. Like you expected me to be happy for you. Do you know how much it hurt seeing the four of you from the bar? But, I had to swallow all of that because I know you'll be happier with them than I could ever make you, and I know you love Marie."

"I'm so sorry," I replied.

"And yet, I found out you can't even show her that properly." Mint said. "I'm green with envy, and yet here I am mad on her behalf, because you can't give her what she really needs!"

Marie looked a bit less irritated at hearing that, while Rebecca somehow looked more annoyed.

"I expected better of you." Mint replied as she pushed me back in the chair. "Marie is repressed enough that she can break down and stop crying completely at the drop of a hat, and yet she's having to compete with another woman. Do you even know what she needs? She is crying out for the comfort and intimacy I never had, and you're still making her question who is first in your heart."

"Mint, that's enough." Rebecca said from her seat.

"No it isn't." Mint shot back, "Steven, if I were you, I'd grab hold of her and I'd never let her have the slightest doubt she's loved. I'm sure Rebecca feels the same way about how you treat Marie."

"Mint." Rebecca said more insistently. "Stop."

"Fine, but I do want to be a bigger part of your life when I'm finally free. All of you." Mint continued. "Even if just as a friend, and even if that's years away. At least promise me you'll let me have that."

"How much do you have saved up?" I asked, as I let her rest her chin on my shoulder, glancing over at a sullen but sympathetic Rebecca, and a jealous Marie.

"Three hundred fifty." Mint replied. "Nowhere near enough yet, and I know you can't afford me, or give me the nest egg I need without marrying me."

I nodded.

"You know, Steven or I could just buy you, and bring you on as a personal assistant." Rebecca said. "Even if it's just a matter of getting the money out of the trust and getting approval, it can't be that hard."

"Buying me out is going to be three million dollars, I don't want to be owned and under the control of Steven's mothers, and I won't have enough of my own money to feel comfortable being just another part of your household." Mint replied, as she got up and sat on the arm of my chair to face everyone.

"Do I get a choice in this?" I asked.

"No," said Mint and Rebecca simultaneously.

Marie didn't know how to respond, so she just sat there. Looking at her, I felt a great deal of sympathy. Rebecca noticed that, and hugged the shorter blonde. "That wouldn't affect you or the baby." She said to Marie.

"I don't like this." Marie said, as she got up, and walked over to sit on my lap and hug me. "I understand how you feel, but I'm not going to give up what I have with my Master because of someone else's confession."

"We will actually need an assistant though." I replied, as I stroked Marie's hair.

"Master, you should deal with that when it comes up." Marie said, as she leaned into my shoulder. "I don't think your parents would appreciate you asking for money to buy a friend because of something you might need in a few years."

I nodded.

"She's right." Mint replied. "We'd all need to think about it anyway. So there's no point in making plans now."

"Also, it's too hot." Marie said. "Master, can we go on the rides again?"

"A slide sounds so nice right now." Rebecca said, as she stood up to take a shower,. "When Honesty gets back, let's go out again."

I acquiesced.

About ten minutes after that, once we had all washed off, Honesty returned, turkey leg in hand, and we got dressed, or undressed, enough to go out.

Marie was completely naked, and just stayed that way because she didn't want to keep taking off and putting on her pareo while we went around, and shoved it in the bag Honesty was holding onto. Meanwhile, Honesty was also completely naked and unlike Marie, self-conscious about it. Not enough to stop eating a turkey leg, but still blushing across her entire body. It was a sight to behold given that she was six foot two and had abs glistening in the sunlight from a mixture of sweat and turkey grease.

By comparison, the rest of us were more normally clothed. Spent sexually and emotionally, I had worked my way back into my squarelegs, and joined Rebecca and Mint in being the only members of our group still in the swimsuits that we had started the afternoon in...

...for a while anyway. Rebecca and Mint were racing down the speed slide when Mint's top finally came undone. I knew Mint wasn't the most endowed creature on the planet, but I had figured a top that small would either have come off sooner, or was firmly taped down.

"I knew I should've worn my mesh suit." Mint muttered under her breath as she slipped out of her bottoms, and wrung both parts of her suit out before putting them in the bag.

Rebecca was just laughing next to her as she fixed her own top. "Maybe I should just join you three." Rebecca said. "It'd save the work, and this is Boca. God would forgive me for dressing like a local."

"Miss, you don't have to. Your suit is cute, and a free woman going around in the buff gives everything very different vibes compared to when we do it." Mint replied, as she glanced over at Honesty and Marie, who were just standing there watching and snacking on churros without a care in the world.

"Honesty, where did you find a churro?" Rebecca said, completely derailed. "And give me some."

"Mistress, there's a churro machine at the snack bar." Honesty replied. "If Steven's grandmother said we could just charge to her room, I'm gonna do it."

"You're going to make me look bad." Rebecca countered, as she stormed over. "Not to mention ruining your diet."

"You know today is my cheat day, ma'am." Honesty replied before tearing some off for the smaller girl.

"That doesn't mean you can just do what-mph." Rebecca said as Honesty shoved a three inch piece of churro in her mouth. The fried dough just made the anger dissipate from her body, and Rebecca stopped to eat it before continuing on. "We shouldn't just eat junk food. It's close to five right? We should start thinking about dinner."

I shrugged. "There's a bunch of dinner places here that are pretty nice, and we can use grandma's status to just get a table." I said. "Mint knows all the options better than I do though."

Mint stood there for a second, tying a towel around herself, before speaking. "So, in the adult section there's a chophouse and a sports bar that are pretty good, but you have to be down for the vibes in both."

"Vibes?" Rebecca asked.

"You know how Carnism is like this invisible ideology tying meat consumption to virility, patriarchy and all that?" Mint said, "And free people go nuts for it?"

I was a little lost, and Rebecca was kinda confused, but Marie and Honesty seemed to get it. If nothing else, they could explain later if it turned out to be important.

"Well, it's not invisible at either of them. Especially the sports bar, since the guests are horny, drunk and not weighed down by a one pound Delmonio." Mint continued. "The steak place is absolutely worth it, but I always want to take a nap afterwards."

Marie raised her hand. "I'd actually like something where I could eat something vegetarian, or maybe just a little lighter than a steak." She said.

Honesty hemmed and hawed a bit for contributing. "I still need to hit my macros, so I need to get steak or fish. It's a meat day for both of us."

"For you. I had fish for lunch, so I'm up for whatever." Rebecca countered. "As long as it isn't tacos or anything like that."

I shrugged when Mint looked at me to make a decision. She frowned.

"Isn't there that one Japanese place?" I said, "I didn't hear anything about it being replaced."

"It's still there." Mint replied as she lightened up. "It has wagyu to go with a decent vegetarian menu and sushi. But it's not in the adult section, so we will have to get dressed."

The three other girls muttered various sounds of agreement or disappointment, and I swear I saw Marie clench her fists in victory out of the corner of my eye.

"We'll live." I said, as I stood up. "So back to the room?"

"Might as well." Rebecca said, as she started to towel off. "Mint, do you think you could get us a table in an hour and a half?"

It was unusual and a bit uncomfortable walking into a restaurant I had eaten at twice a year for most of my childhood with a woman on each arm and two more following behind, but this was my life now so I just ran with it.

The dining room was actually a lot more intimate than I remember, or Mint had gotten us a table in an area I hadn't sat in before. While the rest of the dining room was open, airy and just a mixture of light wood furniture and neutral colored fabrics, our table was in a quiet nook, with a sliding door separating it from the rest of the dining room. The woods were the same, but the chairs had been replaced by tatami mats and low backed cushions, and the table itself was large enough Honesty and I could have almost laid side by side, although with our feet dangling off the table.

Given that we were five people this was an excessive amount of space, but a welcome amount of privacy considering how some of us were dressed. The staff had probably diverted us that way to keep us out of sight, and I tried to not be embarrassed. This also meant no Omakase, but that was fine.

I was fairly reasonable in a sport coat and some linen trousers with a printed shirt, and Marie's cocktail dress was downright conservative for everyone else, only really having some lace trim around her hem and bust, but otherwise reaching her collarbone and knees with little fanfare. We also ended up sitting next to each other at a corner.

Honesty was somewhere in the middle, and sat opposite the rest of us, with her back to the door. Her black-calf length capris, and white trimmed blazer were reasonable and nice looking. Unfortunately, Rebecca had taken away most of her clothing, and so all she really had on under it after her blazer was hung up on the wall was a mesh bra and a pair of pasties. If she didn't already have a jacket, I probably would have offered mine because of how cold the outfit looked.

Rebecca and Mint were in particularly showy outfits, a pair of gowns which revealed more than they hid. Rebecca's metallic gown had a plunge neck that went to the bottom of her breastbone, and matched with a side slit that ran from hip to hem. Mint's halterneck gown was more conservatively cut, actually going down to ankle length, but I could see her panties and a pair of pasties through the almost sheer fabric. The two of them sat next to each other in a corner, with Rebecca directly across from me.

All of us still had swimwear on underneath, or packed in the bag Honesty was carrying around.

After our drinks were ordered and the door closed by a disgusted waitress, I just looked at the girls. "Alright, show of hands, who has eaten sushi before" I asked.

Everyone's hand went up aside from Marie's. Mint glanced over at her, and immediately started making cheaters for her chopsticks.

"Okay, Marie, I'll talk you through this." I said, as she started scooting even closer to me.

"Master, I do know how to order food." Marie replied indignantly. "And I can use chopsticks already. I'm not a child."

"Okay, so then it's just what different things are." I replied, as she narrowed her eyes at me.

Marie flipped open the menu, and immediately made for the side dish section as I got an order card ready. Across the table, Rebecca and Mint readied their own card, and Honesty just giggled while staring at the menu.

"What's ganmodoki?" Marie asked, as she scrutinized the menu.

"It's a tofu fritter with carrots and gobo in it." Mint replied. "It's surprisingly hearty."

Marie gave her a side eye, and then looked over at me. "Master, can I have one, and an order of Agedashi dofu?" She asked, looking up at me.

"Yes, you can order whatever you want." I replied, as I tried not to glance at her puppy-dog eyes.

"Are there sardines?" Marie asked, with her same expression. I looked over at Mint, who had probably eaten her way through this entire menu already.

"Iwashi," Mint said, without glancing away from her card. "It's preserved differently, but it's a sardine, it's in the nigiri section."

I added that down, plus the rest of Marie's order, including an oshinko maki with egg that looked delicious enough I wanted to share. My own order was fairly simple comparatively, largely just a spread of nigiri and hosomaki. My usual Hamachi, Isaki, and Ahi nigiri, two tobiko gunkan, and a single spider roll.

By the time the waitress, who apparently knew Mint and kept shooting me dirty looks, returned everyone was ready to order, and aside from Honesty handed over their order cards.

Honesty on the other hand. "I'll have the Omi tenderloin, the pickles and a brown rice kappa maki." She said between giggles. "To start."

Rebecca shot her a dirty look, but continued to drink her chuhai until the waitress left. "Really, the wagyu?" Rebecca said.

"Mistress, Master Steven's grandmother is picking up the tab and told us to eat as much as we wanted." Honesty replied, as she sipped from a glass of water. "I, for one, intend to be full."

Mint laughed, and I barely managed to avoid laughing as well. "Actually, what is your dynamic, and what are the rules?" Mint said, between giggles. "I haven't seen anyone from outside that forward in years."

"Honesty is my maid, childhood friend and close companion, she's allowed to be informal with me or make decisions that won't embarrass me." Rebecca replied, before looking over at Honesty. "Like blowing her macros by ordering a steak at a sushi restaurant."

"A half pound of wagyu isn't going to blow my macros Mistress." Honesty replied. "Your rice might blow yours though. We might have to work it off tonight."

"Maybe if Mint joins in." Rebecca said. "Actually, how is that going to work out. Steven? Would your grandmother let me borrow Mint for the night?"