"Gracie, you never cease to surprise me."
Was that her name? Didn't working girls invent their professional names? She wanted to reply, but she didn't know what to say, whether to pretend that wasn't her name or to pretend it was. Yes, she had a name, but it had no more meaning to her than her driver's license number. It was crazy, but she felt free, free of something though she didn't even know what she was free of, some postulate she'd been accepting her whole life that no longer applied in this new space she had entered. Just free. She tried to smile with her tongue still out. She'd done it. Done
him
. She felt unaccountably happy. But she had to close up to keep his seed from dripping down her chin. It was her come now.
He moved in close. She felt his hand go up her skirt. "Want another tip? How about this one?"
A finger slid up, pushing away her panties, and into her. Of course she was soaking wet. Damon also knew what to do with a G-spot and a clit. Soon she was leaning back against his front door, his come leaking from the corners of her mouth as she struggled to keep from opening her lips to cry out. But in one of her quickest orgasms ever she was swallowing a man's come while she was coming herself. She stayed on her feet through it only because his hand in her crotch kept her weak knees from collapsing.
"Th-thanks," was all she could think to say. She took her phone from him, slipped out his door, and staggered down the hallway to the elevators, his very handsome, very surprised face the last sight of him as his door closed. She stopped a second, searching for her purse, and realized it was still on her shoulders. She hadn't even bothered to take it off to blow her first customer.
# # #
"Go ahead," Dahlia told her during their next one-on-one, "indulge. You've earned it. Version 3.1 is amazing."
Gracie had to laugh at herself when she heard that remark. Yes, she'd earned her pay, and a bonus, the other night at Damon's, but in her daze after he'd made her come, and with his new and different taste filling her head, she'd totally forgotten about the cash littering his hallway floor.
I'll keep your fee for next time,
he'd texted her later that night. It should have been embarrassing, a dis-honorarium, but when she returned to the lobby, not twenty minutes after she'd first entered, the men's stares made her feel so sexy, and the woman's glare from behind the concierge desk made her feel so superior, that she didn't care. A glow of sexuality seemed to radiate from her, maybe even warmer than what she'd felt after doing her other two boys. The men wanted her; the women envied her and had to wonder what black magic this plain girl was wielding. She stood outside on the street, waiting for her ride, as if she were a chara in the last, concluding page of a hentai. She licked her lips, tasting Damon again. Out loud, to no one, as if putting her chara's words into a speech bubble on that last page, she said, "Damon tasted good. I want more." It was a pledge to her audience— her future selves— that there would be more episodes. She even did her lips again with Dalia's red, out there in public, for no reason, and walked up and down the street a short distance while she waited, doing her best to prance the way she imagined a working girl would.
"You're smiling. You did it, didn't you?"
"No comment."
"Haha. Already professional, hard on the outside but giving a new definition of soft-
where,
soft where you want to be. Paul? No?"
Now Gracie felt embarrassed. Dahlia could read her like a book.
"Another
boy
from your male harem? That's fine, but you really should do Paul more. He lights up whenever he's around you. Whatever you two are doing together, he's obviously digging it as much as you do. The sex will just keep getting better with the right guy. Or guys in your case. Oh, you have to see these new scenes I made, they're incredible."
Dahlia had taken over the user interface responsibilities for their app, in many ways taking over the app itself, at least in directing how it would be applied. She'd added a feature to the interface in which they could save hyperparameter sets that controlled the subject's appearance and sexual appetite, which she labeled 'personas', and was in the process of building up a different set that she called 'scenes', which were series of situations for the personas to act in. "Look at this trailer!" she exclaimed, rotating her laptop on her desk to show Gracie. At her request, Gracie had added code to generate sample images based on a particular combination of scene and persona, so the app users— Dahlia and Gracie— could preview what the hyperparameter sets would do for them. And get them to do for their men.
"That's . . . that's . . ." was all Gracie could stutter as Dahlia scrolled through the images the app had generated per her parameters.
"I know. It's super hot, isn't it? Your gen AI model is the best!"
The figure on Dahlia's screen was recognizably Dahlia, but with red hair, pale skin, glowing violet eyes, and bigger breasts. And dressed in some kind of leather harness, black of course, that covered a lot of her body, though no intimate body part that clothing usually covered. That was not the aspect of the images that disturbed Gracie. She'd seen hundreds, maybe by now thousands, of images of every part of Dahlia's body when building the several models of different sex acts Dahlia wanted. Dahlia enjoyed a wide range of sex, that was clear, and apparently found time to photograph a lot of it.
Gracie's difficulty was that the harness had metal eyes and loops all over it. Ropes that threaded through those loops and eyes had Dahlia trussed up— that was the only way Gracie could think of to describe the positions— in a variety of contortions that had to be uncomfortable. Dahlia's face was contorted also, whether in pleasure or pain it was hard to tell, from the long cock, no doubt Kellen's, lodged deep in one or another of her orifices.
"Kellen's really getting into these dungeon scenarios. I'm a Viking warrior queen, and he's captured me. Or sometimes we had a duel and he defeated me, and now he's training me to be his sex slave. I always pretend to resist, but with your amazing tech I won't be pretending, though of course, thanks to your tech, I will eventually be overwhelmed and surrender. We're both going to love it. Oh, I almost forgot. The trailer. Grace, dear, you've really outdone yourself on that ask."
Gracie couldn't take her eyes off the sight of Kellen's rod pumping Dahlia's pussy. Dahlia calling the preview a trailer was not inaccurate. The images used for the actual video, because of the way the ventral/dorsal neural circuits worked, had to be stills, but Gracie, responding to another of Dahlia's suggestions, had added a generative AI animation engine that turned the trailer images into GIFs. Kellen's cock, shiny with Dahlia's juice, moved to Dahlia's mouth and slid in smoothly. Gracie could not help imagining . . .
"Earth to Ms. Bell. Ha! Really a turn-on, isn't it?"
"Um . . . ah . . . yes. But then the . . ." Gracie motioned over her body to indicate the harness, "It's virtual, so when you and Kellen, you know, do it, you have to pretend . . ."
"Oh no, no, look." Dahlia switched to a Web site, a store that seemed to specialize in a wide variety of gear like the harness. And much, much more. "A little dress up helps. I'll send you the link. I know you're into that anime stuff. You must do cosplay, don't you?"
# # #
When Paul texted her,
I have a special gift for you. Are you at home this afternoon?
Gracie panicked. She couldn't refuse whatever it was Paul was bringing. Paul was too nice. But what if it was something symbolic, jewelry, or tickets to some resort, something implying . . . a relationship? She couldn't imagine saying yes. But how could she tell him no? His puppy dog eyes would turn so sad! What would Dahlia do in this situation? She couldn't imagine that either.
But when he showed up at her door, it was with a hand truck heavy with boxes. He had a whole stack of server blades for her. "We're running out of room and the Neuro team's boxes are faster. But these servers aren't dog doo-doo and I thought they might make a nice addition to your stack. I mean, I noticed your server rack, you know, when I was here, before we . . . you know."
She hugged him. It was such a relief. Paul understood her. Silicon was way better than gold or silver. He spent the rest of the afternoon setting it up while she sat at her desk and worked on hooking up Dahlia's new front end to her engine.
"Whoa," she heard him say behind her. He was looking over her shoulder.