Chapter 59

“Can I be honest?” I asked Cassidy.

It had been almost an hour since the girls and JC had returned from their hike. And since I’d finished my massage/oral rendezvous with Becca. As far as I could tell none of the girls had been suspicious of the three of us, or more importantly of Becca and Cassidy lazily swimming on the far side of the houseboats from the shore.

Most of the girls had immediately stripped off their boots, and most of their clothes, to jump into the water themselves. Shirts, shorts, socks and boots had been scattered across the lower deck porches, not to mention several bras. Even JC had joined in, hopping into the water in just his little black briefs.

I’d decided to be the responsible one and hauled out a full flat of cold water bottles along with chopping up a dozen oranges. Once I’d finished playing Soccer Mom with the drinks and snacks, Wanda and Terra had teamed up to pull me into the water and I’d spent a half hour splashing around with everyone.

That was about when the booze had started flowing again in earnest, and I was now lounging on the upper deck again with Cassidy in my lap on one of the Adirondacks. It was starting to be ‘our spot’ at that point.

“Of course you can, Tiger,” Cassidy answered my question. She’d been tracing the cold bottom lip of the beer bottle she was holding across my chest. Most of the girls had taken a trip to their rooms to shower and change into proper swimsuits by this point, and a party atmosphere had kicked off with music blasting from the singles boat again. “Anything, always.”

I nodded, still trying to format my thoughts properly. “So I have a concern,” I started.

“Is there something you want me to do? Or stop doing?” Cassidy asked. She’d sat up at my words, more alert in her own concern.

“I just- Cass, I’m worried. Not about the sexual stuff specifically, but how it’s happening. The App ... it makes me nervous,” I said.

“Nervous how?” she asked.

“Nervous as in I don’t know if what I’ve done with Wanda or Becca so far is because they’re interested, or because the App is bending reality and I’m being magically rapey.”

Cassidy opened her mouth to respond but hesitated and clicked it shut again. She frowned, her brows coming together as she looked over my face, then shifted on my lap so that she was straddling and hugging me, resting her chin on my shoulder.

“If I wanted to use the App to try and ... force it, I could,” she said. “Some of the stuff in there is really wild. It can change the perception of the world. It can normalize things just for me, or give people kinks they didn’t have before. Hell, I could give either of us super sex pheromones or make the world think it’s normal for us to be nudists anywhere we want. With enough points, I could make someone completely free use for the world, and it would just be seen as normal. I’ve never done that. Even when I was deep in the- the addiction to it, I never used it like that.

“I can’t figure out how to prove it since I can’t show you the App, but I promise you that without delving deep into the weird corners of the App, it doesn’t make people do something they don’t want to. For me, it makes people naturally take the good things I do to heart. It’s the Multiplier, not the Adder. And I promise you, Tiger. I promise you with everything I have, the quirks and perks I bought for you aren’t going to mess with people’s minds and make them do things they wouldn’t have been inclined to do anyways.”