As always, thank you to my readers for the favorites, follows, voting, and comments. Less Vicky action in this chapter, but hopefully the rest of it will make up for that.
Chip Key:
Nickname
: value, favor, color
Clouds
: 1, Touching, White
Canaries
: 2, Kissing, Yellow
Lipstick
: 5, Oral, Red
Skies
: 10, Sex, Blue
Grass
: 25, Anal, Green
Doubles/Oranges
: 50, Double, Orange
Fucked
: 100, Forefit, Black
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Vicky settled back into the same chair she'd placed Evan in when she cashed in her favor with him and finally allowed herself to relax a bit once 2:30am had passed. She had an odd feeling of excitement running through her.
After the blowjob she'd given Evan, she laid low for the most part, sitting in corners and not trying to engage anyone in conversation. The night game had come up and Vicky was both thrilled and nervous when Cyn decided to throw Vicky's entire sit-out fee into one ante pool. She'd been nervous, obviously, because that was a lot of her chips going to one person by default, but she'd also been excited to see how many people would bet. The answer created another bout of positive and negative anxiety as she'd watched no less than eight people put money in the pot, including Noelle and Evan, but also Robin and Ammad. The hand had ultimately gone to Noelle. The twenty chips she'd paid both this week and last had been made up of two red fives and a single blue ten each time, but she also had the red chip she'd paid to sit out of the "pro" game last Saturday night. Someone hunting around could have gotten their hands on a full set of lipsticks from her, so she'd waited around for a while to see if anyone would actually approach.
In the end, no one had come over to her, another event that caused objectively opposing reactions. On the one hand, she was a bit relieved that some unknown person wasn't catching her off guard with a request, but on the other hand she'd kind of been looking forward to it; seeing all of her chips on the table, giving Evan the blowjob, and doing a bit of fantasizing about the other spa members had excited her a bit. Her brain and her libido were definitely crossing wires somewhere.
She blamed that excitement for her current state. When it was clear no one would demand any time from her that evening, she'd hunted around and grabbed a spare blanket, come out to the solarium, and stripped off the tight slacks she'd worn for the day, settling into the chair in just her v-cut panties with the blanket over them. As she sat, she squirmed around a bit, perversely hoping to find a wet spot that might be left over from her time with Evan.
But all the positive anxiety vanished and was replaced by raw tension when she heard the door open, followed by very soft but firm footsteps. She only heard four, but she instantly knew who was there. Neither of them said anything for a while, and Vicky actually began to latch onto her fear as a source of titillation.
I wonder if he'll try to force himself on me. We're in a remote part of the house, and almost everyone else is fucking each other. Would he even give me time to scream?
Would I actually stop him?
The last thought shocked Vicky out of her own reverie and she almost shouted at herself, as stupid as that would be. Still, the traitorous thought threw her for a loop, so much so that she didn't make out what Vincent said once he finally spoke.
"Sorry, what?" she asked.
"I said, I can leave if you prefer," Vincent said.
Please do
is what she thought. "You don't have to," is what she said, then cursed herself for apparently still being confused between her brain and her baser instincts.
Vincent traversed the room behind her, never entering her field of view, but she heard him sit. She could picture the chair he sat in; it was another plush wingback, identical to hers, but it was behind her chair and facing in a different direction. It still looked out through the windows, but in order for either of them to see the other they'd have to lean forward and twist around to look past the backrest.
The silence stretched out again, but this time Vicky used it to relax and let her mind wander. At first she tried to put Vincent out of her mind, but he remained like a flickering light just out of sight in her mind's eye, so she mentally relented, allowing some of her thoughts to incorporate him. The ridiculous fantasy of him jumping her while they sat alone played out in her mind again, but didn't have the same impact as before. After a while she instead imagined what they must look like to someone standing outside: two people, seemingly ignoring each other, but sitting close together, looking at the stars. That brought a question to her mind she actually felt like vocalizing.
"Do you sleep here?" she asked.
"I rarely sleep these nights," Vincent replied almost immediately, "But I often meditate. It's restful for me, enough that I feel ready enough for tomorrow night."
Vicky again reevaluated her perception of the Irishman. Not only was he a very dangerous poker player, he apparently went into the highest stakes game of the weekend after being awake for nearly 48 hours. She was
never
sitting down at that table.
"May I ask why you came here?" Vincent said.
Vicky wanted to tell him off, but she had asked the first question and she had no reason to act like a bitch.
"I like the stars," she said, "Growing up we always lived in cities or suburbs with lots of light pollution. We've still got a lot from the city near Veretrum, but this place is in the opposite direction and it's a pretty remote part of the country anyway, so the view is better. I never get tired of looking at them."