After a minute, the exercise started to make the strange pushing/pulling sensation stronger. I also felt like the little voice in my head that whispered incessantly about needing to get laid was quieted. Slightly, at any rate. Five minutes later, Elias seemed satisfied that I had done well enough.
"Excellent. You appear to have gotten the knack of it. I can already feel less Vitae spilling out of you. Practice this as often as you are able. Eventually, you will be able to center and maintain that connection almost subconsciously, improving your ability to preserve and control the Vitae as well as muting your Fae presence.
Opening my eyes, I felt different somehow. Tighter. More focused, or something. It was hard to put my finger on it.
"There is one last topic I would discuss with you before returning you to your friends. It regards how you use your power."
Uh oh, here it comes. I expected a moralizing sermon about the just use of the Vitae, or some such, but he surprised me with what he said next.
"As I said earlier, it is important for you to experiment with your abilities, but I will make a suggestion. You will likely find yourself accumulating many partners as you learn and grow into your new abilities, but understand two things as you do so:
"Firstly, you'll find that a bond will form with women on whom you use your power. They will connect with you and enjoy your presence, even long for it and desire to please you. Likely, you've already seen this, and if you're anything like I was, may have concerns about the morality of taking your partner's agency through incidental or even intended contact. I will not attempt to debate these topics, or even do you the disservice of sharing my views, as it is something each Incubus must come to terms with personally.
"What I will say is that the strength of this connection depends on how much exposure and intimacy you share with any particular partner. It will grow from an inexplicable enjoyment of your company to absolute devotion as the bond deepens. It's important to know this does
not
make them complete slaves to your will, but they will ultimately desire to please and agree with you, their core beliefs becoming aligned with yours. You may attempt to minimize the development of this bond, but its formation is inevitable if you choose to maintain a relationship. Keep this in mind.
"Secondly, and related to the previous point, is that it is in our nature to surround ourselves with a fixed group of readily available women to sate our needs and those of our Fae, as well as to procreate with. A harem, if you'll pardon the term. I do not know what qualms you may have regarding the acceptability of polygamy, but my suggestion is that you set them aside and embrace this desire, rather than fight it.
"Your harem will provide you with the Vitae you will require to sustain and, over time, enhance your Fae connection. This will allow you to live as normal a life as possible so as to avoid unwanted attention. It has benefits for your women as well, but I will not get into those today. Most importantly, with regard to the makeup of your harem, is the role of the Queen. This will be the member of your harem that leads, organizes, and manages your lesser partners, particularly in your absence. You will find your Queen to be indispensable, so choose this partner with great care."
Damn, this was a lot to think about. Still, I was giddy at the thought of shopping for harem members. Then I thought about who I could select as a Queen, and my excitement crashed hard at the thought that there was only one name that came to mind, and
that
person was almost certainly quietly stewing about how much I had disappointed her tonight, quite possibly questioning why she ever called me a friend.
I stood up, intuiting that he'd delivered what advice he intended for me and that our session was at an end, setting my scotch glass down on the end table. "Thank you, Elias. This is a lot to take in, but I appreciate your help."
He stood as well, moving to the door to let me out. "It is no trouble. The transition can be difficult. Self-discovery is an essential part of what you are experiencing, but a nudge here and there can help to make the process less troublesome."
He reached out and shook my hand once more.
"Maria will give you a way to contact me, should you have need."
As if on cue, I saw Maria rounding the corner at one end of the hall, approaching us. How could she have known?...
"If there is anything else you require this evening, please rely on her. She will see to your party's comfort. Please enjoy the entertainment. Good night."
With that, he withdrew into his office once more, heavy wooden doors announcing the conclusion of our meeting.
"Sir, if you'll follow me." She swept a hand across her by way of directing me.
Before returning me to the group, Maria handed me a business card with a hand-written phone number on the back. "Mr. Romack's private number." She explained. "I'm sure I don't need to caution you to keep it confidential."
"Of course. And, thank you."
The rest of the group sat around the table, clearly having enjoyed the free top-shelf drinks in my absence. I got a searching glance from Ella, but she quickly looked away, returning to pointedly ignoring me once again. I knew she was pissed about my getting up close and personal with Sandy and Amy earlier on the dance floor. The disgust I saw in her eyes when she caught me plumbing the depths of Sandy's mouth while Amy boldly humped my backside earlier was hard to miss.
Sandy was aimlessly molesting me through my pants under the table while she outwardly listened to Jack tell a joke. My thoughts were elsewhere for the moment, anxious about the rift that had most definitely formed between Ella and me. The waves of cold regard were almost palpable from across the table. It brought me some small satisfaction that Jack was taking collateral damage from the onslaught of icy vibes she was transmitting. I was determined not to feel bad about this, though. She said I didn't belong, and I was proving to her and all of them that I was just as good as they were. I relaxed into the plush seat to more thoroughly enjoy Sandy's assault on my cock as it slithered toward my left knee. I'd deal with Ella later. Right now, I was just going to enjoy this. My hand went to Sandy's toned thigh in response.
Forty minutes later we had all finished the champagne. Everyone but Ella apparently cultivating a nice pleasant buzz, including myself. Sandy and I had gotten increasingly handsy as time went on, Ella's frosty glares getting worse in relative proportion.
There was an Uber XL already on location, so it took only minutes to leave and be on our way back. When the Uber arrived at Sandy's, Ella virtually jumped out of the minivan and stormed off towards Jack's car. Realizing it was locked, she stomped back over to Jack, who was tipsy and distracted enough not to notice her departure, and thrust her hand out, saying, "Keys!"
He looked confused for a minute, then finally fished them out of his pocket, only to have them violently snatched out of his hand before Ella returned to his Lexus and sat in it, seething as she stared out the window at nothing.
I looked at her worriedly over my shoulder as Sandy pulled me by the hand toward the house, wondering if I'd ever seen her this upset. It was probably the first time I didn't envy Jack in the months he had been dating Ella. Both couples drove off, and Amy made her way inside, stumbling the entire way to the couch, where she looked to pass out immediately. She had succumbed to the lure of alcohol worse than any of us that night, and was feeling it now.
With all the distractions gone, I was able to focus completely on Sandy, who didn't seem to want to wait a moment longer to tear off my clothes. Without breaking our frenzied groping of one another, we shuffled up to her bedroom. She pushed me towards the bed, turning on and dimming the lamp on her dresser.
Sandy looked almost crazed with lust as she strutted towards me, kicking off her heels. I remembered to try to feed my thoughts and emotions to the mental construct Elias had taught me. As I did so, my sense of awareness of Sandy became much more acute. I couldn't exactly read her thoughts, but my intuition was telling me just what she wanted at that moment, and it was to free the thick python that bulged from my jeans. The thought brought my cock the last little bit to reach "raging hard-on" status.
She kneeled in her dress, hair unbound and wild from my groping, giving her a slutty mien as she crawled toward me. Fixated on my cock, she was on me a moment later, frantically working at my jeans button. I stood up to lower my pants, staring down into the cavernous cleavage framed by her black dress for the hundredth time that night. Her succulent breasts begged me to cup them.
Jerking my fitted jeans down, my cock sprang up and almost hit her in the chin. Standing tall and proud, it bobbed in time with my heart, and she sat enrapt, admiring it as someone had just given her the best birthday present ever. Thank God; she was so distracted by it that she didn't see the fattened maxi pad fall out of my jeans, ripe with copious amounts of pre-cum from the evening.
"Oh my Go-." She whispered, looking up into my eyes with a look of utter shock. I sat back on the bed, putting my weight on my hands behind me but never losing eye contact.
"Touch it," I ordered quietly. She nodded slowly.