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Chapter 11, Jewel
Lacey smiled approvingly as Master worked out with Nicole. He was doing pushups after an hour long work out session and was stripped to the waist. Lacey smiled as she looked over Master's sweaty, ripped body and felt her pussy tingle.
"Too bad I'm not the one for tonight. Just watching Master work out turns me on, but he has been doing so well with Dominika's schedule and treatment I don't want to chance it." Lacey thought to herself. He had suffered from very few episodes after the changes had been put in place and Lacey was hopeful that they had that problem under control and might not need another genie.
Master Rick was on his third week of his new regimen and Lacey and the other genies were all VERY happy with the results. Rick had been a stud before, but he seemed even more handsome now. His diet had improved greatly and Evie's magical garden had turned out some wonderful healing herbs and plants. Rick now had a family style breakfast and lunch every day with all the genies and everyone enjoyed the splendid dishes Bridget's kitchens were producing.
Rick also had his drinking under control. A cup of wine at most every day. Rick usually took it with Ali in the afternoon.
Lacey grinned at the thought of the "Grand Vizier". Lacey had wondered about his comment about not having alcohol in his old reality and if he might have a reaction like the Indians had when the original colonists had arrived in the US. She didn't need to wonder anymore. The answer was a resounding yes.
Ali had definitely developed a drinking problem. Lacey estimated he was drinking at least a full bottle of wine a day at least, and his slaves gleefully helped him along with a little secret encouragement from Lacey and some magical flowers. Ali now had six slaves as Lacey had been out with Rick on a shopping trip and had gone into Agent Provocateur and had immediately noted the two lovely little things working at the front desk. She had suggested to Rick that Ali deserved some more slaves for all of his help in getting Dominika and Rick had agreed after Lacey had "convinced" him with the help of her Lotus perfume.
The two girls had been easy to enchant, they had quit at the end of their shift and Lacey had given them to Ali when he was released the next morning.
Lacey had been very careful to slowly encourage his drinking while trying to appear as someone who was concerned for him. She made sure Rick knew about Ali's developing problem, and she made sure Ali thought she was trying to help keep it a secret from Master Rick.
Ali had slowly been giving up his monitoring of day to day activities in the household and had been delegating more power to Lacey. Lacey had carefully managed Rick and had convinced him to let Ali have some fun while she kept an eye on him for Master.
"He has never had fun before. I can watch everything, so let him enjoy his slaves and his wine for a while." Lacey had said. Rick had needed some convincing but she had gotten him to go along.
Now Rick and Ali would meet in the afternoon and Ali would show up buzzed and flushed with several of his slaves doting on him. Rick and he would joke and relax and play cards or chess (Ali had been unbeatable for a while, but now his skills were slipping), and Lacey could tell the strong Rick was simply humoring Ali while secretly being disappointed with him.
Rick had confided to Lotus (who of course told Lacey) that he was disappointed that Ali lacked any self-control and couldn't master himself after seeing Ali this way after a couple of days. Lotus had reminded him about his own issues and Rick had had an episode in which his head spun and he had flipped personalities for a few moments. He had then slipped back after Dominika had spoken to him, calmed him down, and with Lacey's help drawn out the strong Master. After that Lotus, Lacey, and Dominika made sure everyone understood that was not a topic to bring up in front of Master.
In the end, Rick would wake up Ali with the others in the morning, take the morning report, and then Ali would huddle with Lacey for a bit and have his first glass of wine. Lacey showed him how well things were going and every day, bit by bit, she carved a little more power from Ali and spent a bit more time with his slaves and wine. He would then join Master for the afternoon session, and then return for more drinking and sex until he passed out and Rick would walk in and return him to his lamp.
Rick knew about Lacey taking over Ali's duties and had thus far let it slide, and Lacey suspected strong Master was testing her. And she was determined to pass that test and hopefully one day convince Master that maybe Ali needed to stay in his lamp for a while.
But where she had success with her coup against Ali, she now had another potential issue and it came from the last genie she would have ever thought.
Evie was kind, gentle and simply the nicest genie out of all of them. She was always checking the garden and talking to her plants and making sure fresh blooms and flowers abounded. Lacey had to admit that the palace simply smelled like heaven and Evie had started to make some lovely perfumes for all the genies to wear. Some were simply wonderful scents, but others were magic.
They now had perfumes that could enchant people, put them to sleep, make them happy and light-headed, make them hungry, or even horny (Evie kept that one locked up on the orders of Dominika).
But all of that aside, Evie had been made differently and bound differently. When Master had bound her, he had done it in a different way and to Lacey's horror Rick hadn't added the part about her being a harem slave. In the end, for Rick it made no difference. Evie dressed as his genie and obeyed him without question and was always ready to hop into bed with her beloved Master.
But for Lacey, she found that while she could command the other genies to an extent, and use her magic to make them into giggling harem bimbos and sluts, none of that worked on Evie. Evie did like her wine, and it did affect her as it did all genies, but she controlled her drinking. Lacey had been working a couple of the genies not in her camp to get them to drink more, and was having a bit of success (not nearly as much as with Ali), but Evie was proving to be impervious and Lacey didn't want to push it and possibly tip her off.
Lacey had also found out that in terms of standing, Evie in reality had roughly equal standing to her and Ali. Lacey wasn't sure if Evie realized it, but she had. Even with Ali's power in her hands, Evie was the one genie who could tell her no.
