“My lady!?” Artus questioned from her back.

The young mage immediately knew something was wrong the moment he stepped in. Other men would have stared at her naked back with only one thing in their mind.

They would have pounced on her with no guards around to stop them. Those men would insist that she had wanted them to do whatever they liked to her.

Jake was right, he is not like any others. The Blue-flamed Sorceress had seen it, Jake had noticed, and now herself only began to see it. She had only hoped that she had known his connection to the famous lady before she met him.

Before she demanded him to be collared.

Elaine signed inside. The revealing dress made her attention too obvious, but this was the only way. Arranging this meeting without Julee or Thalia interfering was difficult without raising suspicion. It was tonight or nothing.

She turned around and her spine tingled when his eyes traced her chest. No man would be immune as it was designed to entrance them. Herself had hesitated to wear it for the first time, as the thin cloth barely hid the nipples.

The dress both exposes her cleavage and the side of her breast in equal measure. She looked like a slut wearing them, but now she was glad she got used to them.

Artus was still mesmerized when she stood up and walked towards him. He back peddled but the door was already gone from the wall. She stopped just before her chest would poke his lovely man frame while his eyes couldn’t decide where to look.

“Do you hate me that much?” She accused him.

“No, I don’t-”

“Then why do you keep avoiding me!?” she yelled a little. “I just wanted to talk,” she pouted.

Elaine turned around after she couldn’t hold the smile inside anymore. He didn’t hate her anymore. That simple declaration had warmed up her whole being.

“My lady, you know what would happen to me if rumors got out.”

She frowned and turned towards him, “nothing inside this room will ever get out, not without my permission.”

“But words would still spread if I spend too much time in here,” he countered.

“Then we’ll just have to be quick, no?” she got closer to him again, her hand touching his finely-toned abs.

Elaine took his wrist and sank his hand into her breast. Artus moaned and she followed after him as his fingers prodded.

But he is still resisting. His other hand was clenching hard.

“We could always keep it a secret-” She halted when Artus gently pushed her away after he heard her words.

“I don’t share my woman, my lady,” he said as if she had offended him.

Jake had told her that this would happen. Artus is a very possessive man. The truth is, Jake had met someone like him before. If he was right, the young man would have a very little compromise to the point that others would call him insane.

This was the trait he had. The man of legend who Jake looked up to, the very same man who he believed could be an emperor if he had wanted too. He who had chosen to be on the sideline rather than the limelight only to be stabbed in the back.

Of course, no two men are the same. Artus didn’t display some of the other man’s greatest qualities to Jake’s disappointment. Jake could tell that Artus would not survive long if no one wiser stays on his side as he grows.

Her birth father had only agreed to her request if she promised to keep the young man safe from such betrayal. Jake put his hope in Artus just because his guts told him too.

It was ridiculous.

Elaine scoffed, “Men, they are all the same.” Jake and the one claimed to be her father. “You despise your woman for having another man, but it is fine for you to have many women yourself.”

“I… I really have no answer for that,” he chuckled softly.

“That’s it, you gave up?” She harrumphed and pushed him away lightly. “I’ve met lesser men with better answers.”

“I’m sorry, but what you see is what you get, my lady.”

Her attempt to fire him up failed. He is too afraid to say what was in his heart.

“But you are right, Artus,” she took his hand. “I do have a choice, and I’m making a hard choice now,” she pulled him to the bed.

He didn’t resist at all, a very bad sign to her. Artus was confident to withstand her. She could tell that his heart was slowly closing off itself for her. If she pushed the matter, the outcome would have no meaning already.

She let him sit and leaned on his shoulder for a while without saying anything. Elaine knew that she only needed to be patient.

The sad state of Jake was clear evidence of her mother’s failure. Juliane had made the wrong choice. Her birth father, Jake, could have been a great man with her at his back. She kissed his shoulder and didn’t push herself into him before a small sigh escaped his mouth.

Already, she could feel his heart reopened a little. She limited the [Linked Sense] to one way because he wasn’t ready for it yet.

“I’m tired, Artus,” she said with a sigh. “All this wealth, these… privileges meant nothing without the freedom to make my own choice. I envied Julee and Thalia these few days the most because you accepted them as equals.”

“My lady-”

“I am just a girl who wants to be accepted as an equal, Artus, is that so bad?”

“Eliane,” he called her by name and her heart fluttered. “I just wanted to keep my head intact to my neck, if there is a way, I might-” he stopped himself.

“What if there is a way?” she asked desperately while looking into his eyes. “But you have to choose me over the others. Thalia, Julee and even Jake.”

“Running away is not an op-”

“I’m not talking about running away from everything, Artus,” she grabbed his hand and placed it on the thing he loved the most. His hand sunk into her again and she moaned.

“I want you to have this, to have all of me,’ she cooed.

“I can’t be, betray them,” he stuttered as his hand played with her breast. “We, we have plans.”

“I think you should know something,” she said.

Elaine activated the [Spying Sight]. The view of Jake and other men having sex with the two ladies showed up, and Artus gasped.

He looked at her in disbelief and it was understandable. They were enjoying it as they had always had, and she didn’t even have to make this up.

The girls just couldn’t help themselves. They had enjoyed themselves all this time well before Artus even came. He was just an improvement, a better partner with a brighter future, and he should learn about their addiction.

The girls weren’t really at fault, but Jake knew Artus could never accept this. He hadn’t suspected this because he was way too naive about how this world worked. Jake only had to make sure the timing was right.

“Is this a video-recording? Is this live?” he asked as if he had figured out something, but she had never heard the word used in that way.

“I’m sorry, I don’t know what you mean. But, had they said that they wouldn’t embrace another man? Had you told them not to?”

“But I thought-” Artus stopped for quite a while as he began to realize. “No, they hadn’t said anything about that, but they should know, I-”

“They just didn’t want to lose you, Artus, but why so adamant about this?” She demanded.

“Because it degrades the woman. They might be having a lot of fun, but look at those men’s eyes, Elaine. Look at them. The men look down at the girls while laughing inside. They looked at them as only tools to satisfy their lust and nothing more. I don’t want my woman to sink herself in that place. I-”

She pulled his head into her chest away from the view. There was nothing more worse than being treated like a tool to be used. Now she knows that he understands. She could feel how it pained him to watch.

That was more than enough for her.

“I know that,” she cajoled. “I’ll be yours alone.”

Elaine hated her life, and she knew it would only get worse if she became that man’s concubine. She had almost given up to look for a way out, and she had even considered taking her own life if things got any worse.

Her gift could literally feel the men’s disgusting thoughts. Even the husband of her mother had lusty thoughts of his own daughter, but only now she knows why. That man will use her if she ever returns in failure.

“But Jake?”

“Jealous already?” She chuckled. “My father is a fool and a coward, Artus. My kind of man should take what is his.”

Artus ravaged her chest and she moaned in joy. He pushed aside the cloth covering them and they burst out to his delighted shock. Elaine almost lost herself in pleasure when he suckled on one as he played with the other.

Unlike them, one man is more than enough for her. The man she gave in really knows how to make her go crazy. She was on her back before she knew it and every touch seemed to make her even more on fire.

But she had to stop him when he raised her legs up.

“We can’t,” she gasped for breath, “not now,” she added in a hurry, “it would ruin the plan. They’ll know if anything entered me.”

Artus was a bit relieved to hear that. His face had changed a few colors when she had stopped him before.

“I’m yours, Artus, now and forever, just be patient a little, okay?” she cooed.

He chuckled, “I’ll live,” he said while hiding his hurt feeling.

He was torn as he really had wanted her. Elaine hugged him the best she could, she didn’t want to let this man go if she could.

-

“Would you have sex with them again?” the girl asked as if she was jealous. “You can if you want too, because I, we can’t yet,” she added, blushing all red.

“No, I don’t think I can, if this is in real-time,” he said.

“What do you mean real time?” She made that cute question mark face without any effort.

He guessed there was no video recording in this world, or she simply hadn’t heard anything close to it before. Artus dreaded confirming it himself, but he knew he had to.

They didn’t look like stopping any time soon in the viewer or whatever. The reveal had shocked him to the core. He had no idea. They were very normal looking and fine ladies, and not those raunchy sluts he had just seen.

But he had to say, there was nothing compared to being buried in her deep valley. The girl’s ripe, white breast had melted in his hands. He had lost himself while his face was covered with the softly rebellious breasts.

The cute moans, oh god, those cute sultry moans. The girl is viciously tempting.

Elaine gave him a quick kiss before she let him out. He knew her feeling was real if she had a hard time letting him go. At least, to the best of his experience.

But did Julee have interfered in order to keep him in the dark? Or had Elaine done this only for her own selfish desire? Are the girls sabotaging each other?

Honestly, he really didn’t know what to make of the current development, but he knew what he had to do. The night was pretty dark when he got outside. His heart ached for some reason even if he knew he shouldn’t have felt that way.

The [Arcane Shell] appeared around him, and it made it possible to make no noise from walking or his own voice.

Artus had to force himself to take the first step. His second and the rest was easier, but every step felt like he was yanking a hook in his heart.

He heard their lewd moans before he saw them. The women who had enjoyed their time with him were enjoying the attention of several men at one time. They were really into it too and hadn’t noticed him at all.

Julee had her eyeball rolling backward as the men sprayed on her. Thalia wasn’t lying when she said the men were brutes. She only hadn’t mentioned that she loved it rough.

He walked away when he couldn’t look anymore. No wonder the men were looking at him mockingly, it was because they knew what he didn’t.

‘I’m just being really naive in this world’s ways,’ he lamented.

He might not have cared if they told him they enjoyed this kind of thing, but to be fair, which girl wouldn’t have admitted it to someone they had just met. It would be like stabbing themselves at the foot.

He also had no right to be angry at them because Elaine was right to a certain extent. Men had no right to stop women from having multiple partners if they had a few hanging around.

But the sight he was looking at just degenerated. Those men were laughing at the foolish girls and they didn’t even realize it.

They wouldn’t believe him if he told them and surely he would be blamed for even mentioning this.

He would rather avoid the unpleasant exchange altogether.