Back to Work
As he had predicted, Ryan was already late again. He'd woken from the arms of the doctor, or Melinda now, only to find Eleftheria on her perch atop the drawer, staring at him. He was sure he'd had some books or photos or something on there.
"Let me guess, you don't sleep," he said.
"A pleasant morn to you, too. And no, why would I?"
"Well, I need to go to work, so... I'm already late, and I need to go take a shower. You want to watch that, too?"
"In case you missed it, you are already naked, and have been ever since I stripped you down more than twelve hours ago. I have already seen you in situations no one else ever has. And as you know by now, the reason I stand guard over you is nothing personal."
Clearly having lost this round, Ryan got up and went to take his shower.
He got out and got dressed, hearing Eleftheria in the kitchen. To his dismay, she had made him a sandwich. A good one, as well. He wasn't sure if she needed to eat, or if she was even human, but apparently she knew how to cook. They had a brief argument as Eleftheria insisted she come with him.
Obviously Ryan lost the argument, but he was able to at least convince her that she needed to blend in more. She could not walk around town in her flimsy toga gown, and she definitely could not wear the few pieces of armor that completed her look. And she absolutely could not bring her golden spear.
To Ryan's dismay, Eleftheria proceeded to strip it all off immediately, right there, in the middle of his kitchen, while he was eating a sandwich.
She was tall, strong but lean, and also, perfect in every way. What captured his attention the most, though, were her breasts -- large, full, and heavy, but oh so firm. Still, they blended perfectly and naturally into her athletic body. Ryan could feel the energy from his tattoo start flowing.
"Come at me, little piggy, and I will slice you up," Eleftheria said, and slowly reached for the knife she'd used to slice the ham. Her smile was scarier than the weapon. Ryan had had no intention of "going at her," anyway. She cackled, dropped the knife, and bounced into the bedroom.
She came back with one of Ryan's summer shirts and a belt she liked, and fashioned herself a dress out of them. It ended up being quite short and Ryan had just seen for a fact that she was wearing nothing under it.
There's no way this can go wrong,
he thought.
Eleftheria made a plan for the day. She wanted to gather Ryan's girls in the order he had touched them but Ryan insisted he had to go to work, first. She didn't really care, as long as they got to all of them before nightfall. Eleftheria made sure Ryan wore gloves.
Ryan still felt a bit dubious about this whole curse idea, and everything else that had happened, but he had seen enough sudden bursts of uncontrollable lust in the last 24 hours to make him go along with it. So off to work it was, even more late than yesterday, and accompanied by an unnecessarily jaw dropping bodyguard.
His reception when got to the office was quite unusual. Before Ryan even got to the front doors he could see Annie waiting outside. She was wearing another summer dress but this one was much more revealing than yesterday's. Her hair seemed purposefully done up, too.
As soon as Annie saw him she almost burst to tears and started running for him. She threw herself at him and surrendered into his arms. Carefully, she reached up to kiss him, and moaned into his mouth as their lips connected.
Ryan could feel the energy flow into her. He restrained it enough to not make the poor woman explode, but he didn't dare clamp it down completely. He'd learned his lesson from yesterday.
Annie pulled away with a shudder. "I can't believe what's happening to me," she said. "Please, Ryan, make love to me, right now. I haven't eaten, I haven't slept. For some reason I cannot understand, I've completely fallen in love with you, and there's nothing I can do about it. I..."
"Silence," Eleftheria commanded.
Annie took notice of the other woman for the first time. "What?" She looked at her. "Who's this?" she asked Ryan, with fear in her eyes.
"Relax, poor woman. I have no designs on your prize," Eleftheria said.
Annie looked perplexed, but relieved, and was about say something when Eleftheria grabbed her and started to drag her into the building.
Ryan was too stunned to react at first but then jumped after them. "Where are you taking her?" he said.
"She has fallen too deep under the power of your seduction. You must relieve her immediately. She cannot wait until evening. And, since we are already here, you might as well serve the other one, too. This will surely render them more docile, and easier to control."
Annie was ecstatic at the thought of getting herself
relieved
by Ryan, but equally bothered by the idea of there being a
the other one.
She'd done what Ryan had told her yesterday, she hadn't confronted their boss Ms. Chandler.
They got into the elevator and Eleftheria told Annie to select the floor.