Harem House Chapter 12

"Are we done?" Kat asked with a smirk. She and Selene were still nude and on their knees, both sitting back on their heels, having freshly wiped themselves clean from Arthur unloading all over them in alternate spurts.

Arthur looked down at them and took a deep breath. The sight of the two of them was enough to rejuvenate anyone. Selene: a punk ballerina with a build to match: pert b-cup breasts, a round bubble butt, narrow waist, flared hips, shaved pussy, strong legs, and flexible joints. Her long blonde hair was tied back in a waist-length single braid that fell along her back, though the top of her hair still had some sticky spots. She was dressed in a pair of nipple clamps, a chain between them, a pair of leather ankle cuffs, and a thin leather collar around her throat.

Kat was slightly shorter than Selene and thicker. Her c-cup breasts were full and round, her body not as toned as Selene's, but her stomach was still flat with soft lines on either side. Her ass was heart-shaped, and her hips wide. Her shortly-trimmed blonde landing strip matched her shoulder-length curls in color. She, too, had some sticky spots on the top of her head. She was dressed in a pink leather collar with a silver buckle and ring attached and a pair of pink panties that almost matched it except for the dark stain on the front.

"We should get a shower." Selene suggested with a giggle.

"You could." Arthur shrugged. "Or..."

"Or?" Kat looked up at him with a quirked eyebrow.

"What would you like us to do, Master?" Selene asked with a coy smile. "You only have to tell us, and we'll obey."

Arthur looked at Kat, who did not answer or agree but looked down and tried to appear submissive. It didn't come as naturally to her as it did Selene, but she tried because she enjoyed the results.

Arthur looked at the wall where Selene installed the eye hooks he bought. The ropes were still tied off, and the restraints dangled from where he'd restrained Selene for her punishment. Thirty-seven spanks later and her ass was burning red, but if the sting bothered her it was masked by the nearly constant smile she'd had ever since.

The empty restraints hung against the wall with their buckles loose and their leather arches open almost as if inviting someone to step into them again.

Arthur looked back to the two women kneeling in front of him and smiled. "I want Brat to stand spread-eagle with her back to the wall. Then I want you to fasten those leather cuffs around her wrists and ankles." Arthur gestured to the open spot on his living room wall.

"I want you to take off the restraints around your ankles and put them around Kat's wrists." Arthur stated. "Then I want Kat to stand against the wall, with her back to the wall."

"Yes, Master." Selene said immediately.

"Then I want you to take off those nipple clamps and put them on Kat." Arthur instructed.

"And then what, Sir?" Kat asked, curious to know where this was going to lead.

"Then I might play with you a bit." Arthur said with a shrug. "Or I might play with Selene here and let you watch. Or maybe I'll blindfold you... and just leave you there for a while." He chuckled, they all knew he did not intend to abandon either of them.

Selene seemed excited by at least one of those options. She was already moving to obey, though she had to push Kat a little to get her on her feet. "Come on, Brat, you heard our Master. On your feet. Back against the wall."

Kat followed, even though Selene’s push didn't physically motivate her. She rocked back onto her heels and stood, using Selene's proffered arm for balance. Then she dutifully took up her position against the wall and spread her arms and legs. As she was slightly shorter than Selene, who'd been tied here for her punishment just before, she had to stretch a little to let the cuffs reach her wrists and ankles.

Arthur brought a chair in from the kitchen and stuck it in the center of the empty half of the room so that he could face Kat when sitting it in. Then he moved into the bedroom and came out with a small purple vibrator that Selene recognized as the bluetooth controlled one he'd used on her before.

Selene fastened the ankle restraints as Arthur brought the vibrator to Kat's mouth. Kat hesitated for a moment and then slowly parted her lips. Arthur slid it into her mouth and pushed it in and out a few times before he withdrew it. Wet with her saliva, he used one hand to pull out the elastic band of her panties and the other to bring the vibrator low and push it slightly into her, resting the remainder against her lower lips.

Kat made a noise at the feeling and the gentle pressure, but it wasn't a noise of protest.

Arthur kissed her. Then, when Selene stood up from finishing her work, he turned and kissed Selene. Both kisses were on the lips. Both were full of passion. Selene wrapped her arms around him, pulling him in close. He wrapped his arms around her and lifted her up a little. She jumped to meet him and wrapped her legs over his hips, hooking them behind him and grinding herself into his flat, toned stomach as they made out.

He set Selene down after a minute, maybe two, and smiled. "Go get the ball gag." He told her.

Selene glanced at Kat, who had been watching them, and smirked. She skittered off with a few quick strides and returned in moments with a red ball gag. She dropped to her knees and offered it up to Arthur when she reached him. She held it up in both hands with her palms lifted toward the ceiling. He took it from her and flipped it around. Then he stepped toward Kat and lifted it up to her mouth. She opened for it and bit down once Arthur pushed it past her teeth. Her tongue was trapped under it, and she was suddenly conscious of the need to swallow her saliva or feared she would drool everywhere.

Arthur fastened the ball gag straps behind her head and stepped back to admire his work. "Hm..." He said after a moment. "Ah. The nipple clamps. Slut?"

Selene rose and stepped forward, presenting her breasts to her Master with her hands folded neatly behind her back. He reached down and plucked one of the clamps from her breasts, eliciting a strong gasp from Selene as he did so. His fingers caressed her newly freed tit, flooding her with sensation. He took the clamp farthest from Kat and brought it across Selene's body to Kat's nearest tit. He opened the clamp, but Kat's nipple was too soft to receive it.

Arthur closed his lips around it, and Kat gasped and flinched against the wall. She made an unintelligible noise into the ball gag as he continued teasing her with his lips, tongue, and teeth. In moments, her nipple was rigid in his mouth, and he moved to the underside of her breast. He bit down hard enough to leave a mark.

"O-w!" Kat yelled through the gag. "Math-er tha- -urths."

Arthur laughed. "I know it hurts." He said as he brought the clamp over her nipple and let it close, eliciting another gasp from her. "That's the point."

Kat grunted into the gag in response.

Selene stood as still as she could, tethered to Kat by the tit. One clamp was over Selene's left nipple, connected by a chain to the clamp over Kat's right. They felt it as Arthur hooked his finger over the chain and gently pushed it toward the floor, then let go.

Arthur then returned his attention to Selene. He played with her other, recently freed, breast. He groped it with his hand, brought his lips to it, sucked, and teased it to his heart's content. Selene's gasps, shudders, and goosebumps were enough to let him know she was enjoying his attention. Even if the hands she'd clasped over his scalp weren't.

Finally, Arthur reached up and unclamped her other breast before descending on it in a similar fashion. Selene's gasps turned to moans, and she couldn't help but clutch Arthur's head and try to hold it in place when she felt him start to move away.

"Please, Master. More?" Selene asked. "I want more."

"Patience, slut." Arthur reprimanded her and struck her breast with a downward slap as a reminder of his authority. She buckled at the slap but regained her posture instantly.

"Yes, Master. Sorry, Master." She said quickly. "But do you promise to mark me? I want your hickeys all over my body. My neck, breasts, and legs are yours to mark, Master. Just like you marked your Brat."

Arthur looked confused at first but then looked over to Kat. He could see the 'love bite' on the underside of her right breast and smiled gently at Selene. Marking her wasn't a bad idea. Though her ass was so red from spanking, he felt he'd more than marked her already.

"We'll see." Arthur said as he stood up straight. "Wait."

Selene looked confused for a moment and then took up the position. She stood with her feet apart, arms crossed behind her back so that each hand rested at her elbow. Her back was straight, and her eyes looked straight ahead, flicking to Kat against the wall when Arthur started teasing Kat's breast the way he had hers moments ago.

Arthur placed the second clamp over Kat's other nipple and let it close, eliciting a moan from Kat that he rather enjoyed. Listening to them moan was like listening to a pleasant chorus. It was only a shame they weren't doing it simultaneously. Harmonizing.

"Hm..." Arthur looked around for a moment. "Slut." Selene looked at him. "Fetch some more rope."

Selene practically ran into the bedroom. She returned with a length of rope in her hands. She slid a little when she dropped to her knees this time and didn't even wince at the rugburn she got on her knees for her enthusiasm.

Arthur took the rope from her uplifted hands and brought the ends of it to the chain that dangled between Kat's breasts. She eyed him for a moment, but Arthur didn't acknowledge her. He looped the rope around the chain and let it dangle and pool onto the floor. He brought the chair a little closer and gauged the distance by eye.

"Rabbit vibrator." He instructed Selene, who fetched it immediately and offered it to him in her uplifted hands just as she had everything else. "Display." Arthur instructed.

Selene jumped to her feet, put her hands behind her head, and spread her legs shoulder-width apart. Arthur probed her lower lips with the tip of the rabbit vibrator, but he needn't have worried. He pushed it into her wet pussy so that its fore-prong pressed against her clit and the main club of it filled her.

"Keep your hands where they are. Kneel in front of the chair." Arthur instructed. Selene obeyed.

He picked up the rope and got a few more lengths intermittently. By the time he was finished, he had her arms bound with binders made of lengths of rope just above her elbows and tying her wrists to her underarms. Then he had a length of rope tying her wrists together so that she couldn't move her hands from their place on her scalp behind her head. Then he tied the length of rope from the chain between Kat's breasts to the cord connecting Selene's wrists. She would tug on Kat's chain whenever her head moved forward.

Arthur picked up the clover clamps he'd had on Kat before and put them on Selene. Instead of letting the chain drop, he arranged it so the chain ran behind her neck, pulling her tits slightly upward, giving her relief only when she moved her head forward, which would tug on Kat's chain.

Arthur stepped back to admire his handiwork. The knotwork wasn't his prettiest, but it was good. The predicament was hot. The girls looked amazing.

"I'm going to take a picture of this. If it's alright with you two." Arthur said as he reached for his phone.

"Of course, Master." Selene nodded, which caused Kat to chirp a small cry mingled with a groan.

"Is that alright with you, Kat?" Arthur asked.

"Yeth -ath-er."

Arthur smiled, stepped back, and took a few pictures. "I think I'm going to make this my laptop wallpaper." He said nonchalantly. "Or at least my phone wallpaper."

"Yes, Master." Selene smiled slightly, though both she and Kat were blushing when he took the photo.

"Would you like that? The risk of other people seeing this? Of knowing that the two of you are my submissive sluts? My slaves?" Arthur asked.

Selene nodded, just barely. Kat shook her head violently.

Arthur laughed. "Don't worry." He assured them. "It's not like I'm posting these to Facebook or anything."

Kat gave him a look he couldn't quite distinguish. Selene didn't look at him but blushed prettily and looked down. He finished taking his shots and sat in the chair before Selene, pushing his rigid cock onto her face. She didn't complain but didn't move to take him in her mouth. She waited for permission.

"Are you ready?" Arthur asked.

Kat nodded. Selene looked up at Arthur from her place between his feet. Her vibrator pushed into her and butted against the floor. Kat's vibrator started to hum as Arthur started the app. He moved it to the metronome setting and turned the screen toward Selene. Then he reached down and turned on the vibrator between Selene's legs. It started with a low buzz, and Selene moaned and leaned forward, rubbing her cheek against Arthur's cock, and eliciting a chirp from Kat.

"You've almost got the idea." Arthur smirked. "You're going to suck my cock, slut." He informed her. "As close to the beat as possible if you want Brat to cum. You both have my permission to cum, but the one who can hold it back the longest gets a proper hard fucking from me right here on the floor or tied up against the wall, as the case may be. Understand?"

Selene gulped. "Yes, Master."

Kat did her best to say 'Yes, Master' through the gag but nodded enthusiastically to accompany it.

Arthur sat back, reached down to the side of Selene's face, gripped it, and brought the tip of his member to her lips. She opened them slowly over it and hesitated for only a moment. Selene glanced at the metronome in the app on his phone and started bobbing her head on his cock. She hardly went far enough for Arthur's preference, so he pulled her head down to the base of his cock and let her lift off it slowly until she deep-throated him with every dive of her head.

At the lowest, she gave herself relief from the taut chain of the nipple clamps looped over the back of her neck. Meanwhile, the rope attached to her wrists pulled at the chain between Kat's breasts and pulled it taut, eliciting a moan from Kat. At the height, just before she came off his cock, Selene pulled her breasts so hard they lifted a little at the pull, but she gave Kat some relief as the chain between her breasts hung limp.

Selene throat-fucked him that way while the vibrator inside her buzzed away, and the one inside Kat buzzed in alternating intensities.

Eventually, Selene succeeded in syncing with the metronome in the app. Every pull on Kat's breasts was accompanied by a more intense vibration between her legs and against her now protruding clit. Arthur watched as the pink panties grew ever darker between her legs. He watched as Kat's lovely round breasts jiggled with every moment. He loved how she twisted against her restraints and tried to move with the pull to give herself some relief but found she was held fast against the wall.

Selene, for her part, seemed to enjoy the challenge of getting her throat fucked almost as much as she enjoyed the pleasure between her legs and alternating pain in her breasts that only seemed to enhance that pleasure.

This was all she ever wanted. To please her Master with fantasies made true that only she could bring him. She'd made this happen. She'd brought Kat to him, and Kat had submitted to him. She'd coaxed him into playing Master to the two of them. Selene loved every minute since. She could feel the buzz between her legs, the heat of her ass pressing against her feet as she sat back. The tight bindings of the ropes that held her arms and hands in place felt like a constant hug.

She curled her tongue against the underside of his shaft as he pulled her face on and off his cock. Arthur was in control. Selene didn't have to work or think. She only had to surrender herself to him; this bliss could be hers whenever Arthur decided she was worthy of it.

Kat was having a similar experience. The teasing pull on her breasts synced with the pleasurable vibrations between her legs. She could feel her body straining against the restraints on her wrists and ankles, but she didn't want to break free. She wanted to give herself over to another mind-shattering orgasm. She wanted to pant, beg, and cum, and forget about all the responsibilities that the world brought with it. This whole thing was dangerously addictive.

Arthur, meanwhile, was simply enjoying himself and the view. He watched Kat, finally making eye contact with her as he fucked Selene’s face. He picked up the pace, grabbing Selene by the side of her head and setting his own rhythm for a moment. The result was noises of pleasure from both women, finally harmonizing the way he'd wanted them to. He smiled.

"Good girls." He praised them, and he watched the visible reactions they had to it manifest as they both shivered with pleasure from it. He cranked up the power on Kat's vibrator with the app on his phone and watched as she started bucking against the wall and trying to cry out from the gag.

"I think Brat is going to cum first." Arthur said casually as he started fucking Selene's face even harder. "Better turn up the intensity on that rabbit between your legs." He took a break from facefucking her and turned up the vibration by several notches.

Selene instantly curled forward, tugging harshly on Kat's breasts, causing her to cry out through the gag.

"Careful, Slut!" Arthur warned her. "I don't want those clamps to come loose, after all." He explained. "Now, back to work." He looked pointedly at his cock, and Selene practically dove forward to swallow it again. "Good girl."

Kat whined from her place on the wall, and Arthur laughed.

"You're a good girl too." He assured Kat. "I rather like you as a wall decoration, I think." He mused. "Maybe I'll leave you there for a while." He teased. "Oh, I'll release you so you can go to class if you want, but then it's straight back to your place as my decor, where you can watch me fuck Selene in the mouth, cunt, and eventually the ass. Isn't that right, Slut?"

Selene popped off his cock long enough to say: "Oh, yes, Master! Soon! I promise! I'll train my-"

Her promises were cut off as Arthur forced her face back onto his cock again.

"And once I take her ass, it's only a matter of time before I come for yours." He looked up at Kat, who stared at him wild-eyed. He could see sweat beading on her body, glistening, mixing with the drool that occasionally dripped from her ball gag onto her chest, which swung and jiggled with every tug of the chain, which was constant as Selene worked as fast as she could up and down his shaft.

"Hm..." Arthur seemed to think something over as he watched the two of them. "Maybe I should leave you two here, tied up together, with giant plugs shoved up your butts so that when I get back from my date with Mindy tonight, I can take turns fucking your asses."

Selene moaned and started rocking her hips back and forth against the vibrator and the floor beneath it. The moan vibrated against Arthur's cock in her throat, and he tilted his head back in a grunt of his own to match. Kat started to shake, her knees drew inward, and she pulled against the restraints harder than before.

"It sounds like you both like that idea." Arthur panted. "It's an attractive fantasy, I'll admit." He looked down at Selene. "Heh. We'll turn Brat into a full-time slut yet, I think. The two of you should just move in here. We'll get a bed for Kat when she doesn't want to wear her collar and a cage for you, slut, for when you've been naughty or when I decide you need your rest while I'm away at class or work."

Selene moaned again and seemed to redouble her efforts, picking up her pace even more, which caused Kat to cry out through the gag. And suddenly: both Kat and Selene were throwing their heads back, crying through their full mouths, rolling their eyes, and clamping their insides around their relentless vibrators as tears started to appear at the corners of their eyes.

Arthur relented and turned off their vibrators. "A tie?" He asked, almost disappointed.

"I think I came first, Master." Selene panted. "Kat should get the reward. Fuck her, Master. Fuck her hard, without mercy."

Kat shook her head back and forth and nodded toward Selene, making several noises through the gag as though she wanted to concede to Selene's benefit. Arthur undid the gag to help her communicative skills.

"Selene should get the reward, Sir." Kat said after working her jaw and taking a few deep breaths. "Fuck her, Sir. Fuck her hard, without mercy."

Arthur laughed and then untied them both. Kat was the most accessible. He simply removed the clamps and unfastened the restraints. She rubbed her wrists and then her tits in relief as he untied Selene.

"Does this mean no one gets the reward?" Selene asked, disappointed.

"It means you both do." Arthur assured her.

"Huh?" Kat asked, still coming down from her orgasm.

"Slut, I want you to lay face up on the coffee table with your head toward the window." Selene moved to obey as soon as she was untied.

"Brat?" Arthur asked.

"Yes, Sir?" Kat asked, stepping to his side and putting her hand on his forearm.

"I want you to lay face down over Selene, with your face toward me." In other words, opposite Selene. This would put them in a 69 position, though Kat would have the freedom to lift her head. So would Selene if she let her head hang off the edge.

Kat hesitated. "I..." She trailed off. Arthur could see her gaze fixed on the coffee table as she tried to tell him no without telling him no.

"Hm." Arthur cut her off. "Okay. Better idea. Brat, I want you to stand in front of the couch, left leg on the cushions and your right leg on the floor. Slut. You're going to stand right next to her, left leg on the floor, right leg on the cushions. Then I want you to bend over the couch, using the back to brace yourselves."

They moved to obey, and Arthur pulled the coffee table out from behind them. Arthur enjoyed the view and snapped another photo. With both of them bent and posed like that, it gave him a perfect view of their asses and backs. It also opened their folds to him between their legs, giving him the ideal angle to press into them from behind.

He stepped behind Kat first and poked her entrance with his tip. She looked over her shoulder at him, bit her bottom lip, and nodded. He pushed in, slow at first. She was tight, wonderfully tight, but slick and more than ready. He sawed slowly for a moment and then entirely withdrew.

He took a step to the right and did the same thing with Selene. She moaned as he entered her and clutched even tighter at the sofa cushions.

"Master..." Selene cooed. "Don't tease."

"Yeah." Kat chimed in. "We were promised a hard fucking. I demand we-"

Arthur spanked her ass from the top down, and her leg buckled slightly in surprise, but she regained her composure and position immediately.

"Hey!" Kat yelled. "I wasn't-"

Arthur spanked her again.

"Hey!" Kat yelled again. "I didn't-"

Arthur spanked her a third time. "What do you say when I spank you?" He asked.

Kat seemed confused. She looked at Selene.

"You're supposed to say thank you." Selene said quietly.

Arthur spanked Kat's other cheek, and she gave a sharp cry at the stinging slap from his hand.

"Thank you, Sir!" Kat called out.

"Good girl." Arthur said as he pulled out of Selene and stepped to the left. He lined himself up with Kat's entrance and shoved forward, plunging in all the way to the base of his cock in one decisive stroke that nearly knocked her forward.

"Oh, shi-" Kat tried to claw at the sofa and succeeded as Arthur kept going. He didn't stop or slow, but he grabbed onto Kat's wide hips, dug his nails in, and slammed into her as she pushed back against him with her arms against the back of the sofa. "Fuuuuuuck-"

Arthur spanked Selene, lighter than he had Kat, but she'd taken a heavier spanking from the paddle earlier.

"Thank you, Master!" Selene said immediately. "That's it, Master! Fuck her! Fuck the shit out of your bratty submissive bitch!"

Kat gasped, but Arthur felt her respond to the words. He kept going until he suddenly pulled out and positioned himself to enter Selene. Selene pushed back into him when she felt him at her entrance and sank onto him before he even pushed forward.

Kat caught her breath. "That's it, Sir!" Kat called out. "Fuck her hard! Fuck the shit out of your depraved slutty sex slave! She's nothing but your fucktoy! Fuck her like a fleshlight!"

Selene moaned and pushed harder against Arthur as he started fucking her harder than he had Kat. Finally, he pulled out from her, though she tried to move back and not let him. One swift strike to the ass was enough to push her forward and make her shout out a "Thank you, Master!"

He pushed back into Kat. "I'm going to fuck both of you like this until I cum." He announced.

"If only Mindy were here." Selene said huskily. "I'm sure she'd like to be part of this lineup."

"Or-Kelly." Kat said between bouncing thrusts.

"Mmmm." Selene licked her lips. "I can practically see Kelly bending over for you now, Master. Spreading her labia for your massive cock." She smirked. "Wouldn't that be fun? All four of us, lined up, bent over, one leg lifted, ready, and waiting for your cock so that you could fuck us all in a line?"

Kat moaned.

"Maybe we can get a few others in on this. Kelly has a roommate, right?" Selene asked, almost rhetorically. "I'll bet Mindy does too. Maybe she's even a virgin. Some eager prudish but curious Freshman for you to break, tame, and train. You can teach her how to do everything just how you like it. Mold her into the perfect slut."

Arthur moaned but kept thrusting in and out of Kat with growing force and speed.

"Who else can we get to join your harem, Master?" Selene asked as he stepped out from behind Kat and stepped up to Selene again. She sank onto him quickly and closed her eyes in bliss when he reached up and started playing with her clit.

"Yeah. Oh-" Kat said as Arthur's other hand reached up and started fingering her. "Is there anyone else you want to fuck on campus that Selene can coax into this cult of yours?"

Arthur scoffed but kept playing and fucking.

"Maria." Selene volunteered. "Yvonne..." She considered through a groan. "Cassie." She added. "Kiran." She punctuated each thrust with a name.

Arthur started fingering Kat while fucking Selene. Kat squirmed but pushed back against his hand as she began to get into the strokes.

"Sir... may I cum?" Kat asked quietly.

"Again?" Arthur asked, spreading his fingers inside her.

"Yes, Sir." Kat nodded, still pushing back against her hand.

"Not yet." Arthur said as he pulled out of Selene and swapped again. He started fucking Kat and fingering Selene.

Kat whined in protest, but it became a moan of pleasure as she sank onto his cock.

"You really think you can add all those women to my harem, slut?" Arthur asked.

"Mmm..." Selene hummed. "And more, Master." She pushed back against his hand. "I can get women you've never met to fuck you. I can bring them to you. I can even get them to wear blindfolds or hoods. You don't even have to know who they are if you don't want to. You can just use them as your fuck toys, and then I'll put them away after."

Arthur was confused but tried not to let up on fucking Kat. "What?" He asked. "How would that work?"

Selene smiled. "I would talk to them. I would tell them about what you bring to the table."

Kat moaned. "Please, Sir? May I cum?"

"Not yet." Arthur said between gritted teeth.

"You could fuck your way through a line of women waiting for the opportunity." Selene suggested.

"I'll keep that in mind." Arthur said as he pulled out of Kat and switched to fucking Selene while fingering Kat. "But I think I'm happy with the harem as-is."

"The brat." Kat said with a smile. "And the slut."

"And Mindy, his office slut." Selene added. Arthur's dick pulsed inside her at that, so she kept going on it. "His little under-desk secretary." His dick pulsed again.

"And Kelly." Kat added, joining in the teasing. "The perfect athlete. Just the four of us, laying on our backs, begging you to fuck us and let us cum."

Arthur moaned. "Floor, now, both of you. On your backs."

Kat moved first since she was freer to do so. Selene followed as soon as Arthur pulled out, but he was quickly on top of her. She put her wrists up above her head, and Kat followed suit. Arthur put his hands on either side of her and felt her press her clit into him as he pushed into her again. He moved slowly at first, feeling out the new angle, but soon he was back to fucking her hard and fast, even harder than he had while they were standing up. Selene's teasing gave way to panting and trying to keep her breathing as she bucked her hips against him.

"Harder, Master!" Selene begged. "Fuck your slut!"

Arthur gave her what she asked for and absolutely ravaged her. Selene shrieked in pleasure and raked her hands along his back as she flailed them out of pure reflex. She clung to him hard when he pushed up and away from her. She only let him when she realized who he was moving to.

"May I play with myself, Master?" Selene asked.

"Yes." Arthur answered as he plunged into Kat, who arched her back beneath him and moaned.

"Harder!" Kat called out, to which Arthur responded by fucking her harder. "Harder!" She cried again, slapping at his shoulders. He gave it to her again. "Harder!" She cried again.

Arthur fucked her hard as he ever had, slamming her into the floor with each thrust and feeling the impact in his bones. He was sure he was going to bruise something on one of them if he kept up the pace, but that didn't stop her from crying, "Harder!" One more time.

Arthur grit his teeth, and his vision started to blur.

"Do we-" Kat panted. "Have your-" She breathed. "Permission?" She gasped out.

"Yes." Arthur grunted, barely able to hold himself back.

"Thank you!" Kat yelled as she twitched and spasmed beneath him. Her insides clamped down on his cock, and momentum drove him forward in what would have nearly been impenetrable otherwise.

He and Kat came together just shortly before Selene gave a cry of bringing herself to orgasm by watching them and playing with herself. He exploded inside her, his dick throbbing with the ejaculation that filled her with seed. She cried out as her upper body curled and writhed, crunching, twisting, and arching before finally going still.

Arthur finally relaxed after she did and gently rolled off of Kat so that he was between the two of them on the floor.

"Thank you, Master." The girls said in unison again but giggled because this one had not been rehearsed.

Arthur sighed in contentment and laughed slightly. "I feel like I should be thanking you."

"Silly Master." Selene said as she used his arm to pull herself up to kiss his cheek. "We're your sluts. Bringing you pleasure is what we're for. You don't need to thank us. We thank you for the opportunity."

"That-" Kat hesitated but rolled to her side, facing Arthur. She kissed his cheek on her side. "Is one way to look at it. I guess... But not one I'm really comfortable with. So, you're welcome. Sir."

Arthur laughed. He looped his arm around Kat, who rested her head on his shoulder, pushing her naked breasts against his side. Selene was cuddling his arm on his other side, forcing it between her breasts and down her torso.

They remained like that for a few minutes, but sleep didn't come to any of them. It was more a moment of respite, with satisfaction giving way to blissful relaxation after such exertion. Arthur gave a contented sigh. It was the first time he felt he understood what a "good morning" really was.

The rest of Arthur's Sunday morning was less interesting. Despite the protests, he stood after a few minutes and helped the others up.

"Can we borrow your bathroom?" Kat asked as she took Arthur's hand to pull herself up from kneeling on the floor.

"The three of us should shower." Selene suggested with mischief in her voice.

Arthur laughed. "I'd love to, but-"

Selene whined.

"But I have to run back to my parent's house this morning. I... kind of broke their back door last night. It's a long story. But I have to go and fix it." Arthur explained.

"What happened?" Selene asked.

Kat started taking off her collar, but she stopped as Selene leaned forward and put her hand on Arthur's thigh. There was a note of concern in her voice, but they could both see that Arthur was fine. Whatever happened to the door, it hadn't hurt Arthur back.

"Yeah." Kat added. "What happened when you broke your parents' door at that dinner?"

"Well, I never actually got to have dinner last night." Arthur explained.

"Aw, are you hungry?" Selene asked.

"Selene, he just had breakfast." Kat chuckled at her post-orgasmic confusion, even if Arthur was touched by its concern.

Arthur held his hands out to them and helped them up from the floor.

"Right." Selene chuckled. "Sorry. But, Master!" She whined. "Tell us what happened."

Arthur laughed. "Alright. Let's get a shower." He nodded toward the bathroom door, and Selene jauntily made her way inside and turned on the light.

The bathroom in Arthur's two-bedroom apartment, identical but mirrored to Kat and Selene's own bathroom, was not overly large. The right wall had its linen closet and then a tub shower, which could fit two people as they knew. There was a gap filled by a hamper against the far wall next to the toilet. The left wall had the sink, the towel rack with its hand towel, and the mirror/medicine cabinet. Between it all, there was a narrow stretch of tile large enough for a bath mat.

Three people in this not-large bathroom was a tall order. Selene turned on the hot shower water and reached for Arthur's hand to pull him in with her. He let her take his hand, but he pulled back and shook his head.

"You and Kat get in the shower." Arthur said. "I'll wash you."

"You want us to shower together?" Kat asked, following him into the bathroom.

"You've showered together before, haven't you?" Arthur asked.

"All the time when we were little and on a few occasions since." Selene shrugged as though it were no big deal.

"Though, we should really wash our hair...." Selene stroked her long braid and brought it over her shoulder.

"I want to wash your hair." Arthur admitted. "I want to massage your scalp and relax you."

"We don't have any of our stuff here." Kat countered. "There's more to a girl's hair than shampoo, you know."

"I have conditioner, and a few other products, though admittedly not the brands you're probably used to." Arthur shrugged.

"Oh." Kat looked at him for a moment. "Okay. Well, shampoo goes in first. Then the conditioner."

"Kat." Selene sighed.

"What?" Kat asked.

"You're being extremely sexist right now. He knows how to bathe properly. Have you seen him? He has excellent hygiene. Heck, he has a better skincare routine than you do." Selene said.

"Well..." Kat looked at Arthur and let her eyes wander up and down Arthur's body for a moment, distracting herself from any rebuttal or apology she might have offered.

"Yeah, listen to my dumb pet slut. You're being super sexist right now." Arthur chimed in with a barely contained laugh that broke into a smile.

The three of them laughed, and Kat used Arthur's arm for balance as she bent over with the ridiculousness of his statement. The three of them, already naked except for a few items, were joking around as if they were all fully clothed, and it felt... nice. Arthur had missed this kind of friendship and interaction over the last few days.

"Here. The collars should come off." Arthur said.

"You said it was waterproof." Selene said, aghast as she put her hand to her throat to protect the thin leather collar.

"Yours is." Arthur agreed. "The leather is treated, but if you keep showering in it, I'm going to have to re-treat it pretty soon." He reached up for Kat's collar. "Kat's isn't waterproof, though, this one should definitely come off."

"Does that mean we're done playing?" Kat asked.

"We're done for now anyway. This is aftercare." Arthur explained. "Now, do you want to strip yourself, or should I strip you?" He asked.

Kat stuck out her tongue at him and took off her collar, dropping it into his hands. He put it on the sink counter.

Selene left hers on but gave him her hair tie and shook her head as she released her hair from its long braid. It fell across her back like a cascading waterfall, framing her face and naked body in waves of sandy gold. Arthur only realized he was staring when Kat began to chuckle. Kat kept her hair shorter and curled, so she couldn't mirror what Selene did, but she mimed pretending as though she had, which made Arthur smile.

Selene blushed and stepped under the shower spray, turning the water a little warmer as she did so. Kat followed her in and closed the curtain behind them. Arthur opened the curtain again, standing outside the shower. He threw down an extra bathmat from the linen closet to keep the floor from getting too slippery from the water spray.

He took the detachable shower head from its hook and pulled the hose a bit as he rinsed the two of them off with it, using his right hand to hold the shower head and his left to brush their skin, or hair, with the water, rinsing them and alternating between them. Not playing, teasing, or groping, just touching and washing in a comfortable rather than sexual way.

"So, what happened yesterday after you left?" Selene asked.

And Arthur told her the story. He hadn't practiced telling it or thought about it since he woke up, and it came across as more factual than narrative. The drive there, the conversation with his mom, and the hot tub were all fine. Then he got to the part about Lynn, and Selene immediately interrupted with questions.

"I don't understand." Selene admitted. "What happened between you and Lynn that you were, or are still, so mad at her? I've never seen you blow up like that."

"I hope we never do." Kat added. "That was extremely immature of you."

Arthur gave Kat a look and sighed. "I know." He admitted. "But..." He shook his head as he started to rub the shampoo into Selene's scalp. "Imagine if someone you loved, and consequently trusted, took everything you ever confided in them and weaponized it against you, to everyone, publicly, for the sheer purpose of making you miserable and hurting you. Imagine being forced to encounter them every single day, multiple times a day. Now, imagine finally getting away from that relentless hurt. Spending years of your life dealing with it, thinking about it, trying to figure it out or move past it, working on yourself, doing your best, becoming your best, and not listening to your memories of her voice when they try to whisper in your ear to ruin your brightest moments or keep you in your darkest ones."

His tone was dark by the time he finished. Then he went quiet for a moment, and Selene reached over and put her hand on his arm gently as he stroked her long, sudsy hair.

"Sorry." Arthur said softly. "I... I guess I'm still pretty upset about it."

"It's okay." Selene said, patting his arm and nodding for Kat to pat his other arm. Kat looked less confident than Selene, but she reached over and patted Arthur's other shoulder, squeezing it after letting her hand come to rest on it.

"I'm sorry." Kat said. "I shouldn't have been flippant like that."

There was silence.

"You can spank me for it later?" Kat said with her uncertainty turning the statement into a question by the end.

Arthur laughed. He rinsed his hand, wiped his face for a second, and then returned to the shampoo bottle to massage Kat's scalp. He didn't take her up on her offer or mention it, but he hoped she knew he appreciated it by the way he spent a lot of his time massaging her scalp with his fingers, even after it was long past time to switch back to Selene.

He continued his story then, letting them know about what he'd done after driving away, coming to the parking lot, and dancing.

"You... danced for a bachelorette party?" Selene asked incredulously. "Why didn't you call me?!?"

"Well, they wanted a guy to dance, or I would have!" Arthur laughed.

Selene blushed and slapped his chest with zero force as he started to wash her body with a soaped-up loofa. He caught her wrist and lifted it, scrubbing the side of her torso in a way that made her squirm and dance for him.

"I meant I would have watched!" Selene giggled. "I would have cheered you on!"

"So would half the school." Kat muttered.

"What?" Selene asked, not having heard Kat's comment, even if Arthur did. His soft smile showed gratitude for the compliment, even though he didn't believe it to be true. He knew he was attractive and in shape, but he didn't imagine that every girl at the University wanted to fuck him just for that.

"Maybe a quarter of the school, for humility's sake." Arthur quipped at Kat, and she laughed, slapping his chest with her hand as Selene had done. Arthur repaid her the same way, using the loofa to make her squirm when he spent some extra time washing her tummy.

He continued the story, telling them about his dance routines and how an awkward start had given way to a surprisingly fun time. Then he got to the strangest part of the story.

"Your boss?" Kat asked incredulously as Arthur picked the shower head off its hook again and started rinsing them off.

"The very same." Arthur nodded. "I had no idea she was at the party, and the next thing I know I'm looking down and she's looking up at me with her lips on my belly button trying to suck out some tequila." He laughed.

"Lucky bitch." Selene playfully crossed her arms in mock anger. "I want to lick tequila off you next time."

"You want to lick everything off him." Kat playfully shoved Selene's arm.

"Knock it off, you two." Arthur said, eyeing the slippery shower floor with a bit of concern for their safety. "I'm not even finished with my story yet." He said as he finished rinsing them down and then grabbed the conditioner.

"Yes, Sir." Kat looked sorry but didn't apologize.

He poured the conditioner onto his hand and massaged Kat's scalp again. After that, he explained about Beth's freakout, how she cornered him in his changing room, and how they eventually agreed that it was fine. "Obviously, don't go retelling this part of the story. I'm only telling you two because..." He hesitated.

"You trust us?" Selene asked.

Arthur laughed but nodded. "I guess I do."

"You guess?" Kat asked, opening one eye at the risk of Arthur stopping the best scalp massage she'd ever had. "I had your balls in my mouth earlier. If you don't trust me, you must like to live dangerously."

Selene laughed.

"Can't it be both?" Arthur teased her.

Kat smirked, but the smirk gave way to her contented smile as her eyes reclosed and started to roll in her head at the massage. She couldn't say that it was better than sex, but it was definitely similar. A different kind of orgasm.

"And then I drove home." Arthur said as though that finished the story. "And then-" He started the story again and told them about his call with his dad.

"Wait." Selene said, watching him massaging Kat's scalp and trying to stamp down the feelings of envy going on in her head. She loved watching them and making Kat happy, but that scalp massage was good shit, and Kat was getting two when Selene had only gotten one. "After you stormed off earlier, your dad called to offer you a job? Did you take it? Are you moving?"

"I don't know yet." Arthur answered honestly. "I'm thinking about it, but it would depend on the actual offer. The paperwork. My dad's a man for details, and I want to know what details I'm agreeing to before I sign on."

"How big did you say your parent's house was?" Kat asked.

"Six bedrooms. A master suite, four bedrooms on the second floor, and a finished in-law suite apartment in the basement." Arthur answered. "So if I were to live there and be the landlord, that's five bedrooms left."

"But you won't be across the parking lot anymore." Selene pouted.

"That's true..." Arthur hesitated. "But that doesn't really matter, does it?"

"No, but it is nice." Selene admitted. "And your parent's house is... where?"

"It's about twenty minutes from campus, in the opposite direction of here, so... about forty minutes from here." Arthur hated to tell her, but someone had to. He'd fantasized, of course, about asking Selene to make the move with him, but... those were just fantasies. He knew he couldn't ask her to do that for real, even if they had decided they were more than friends but not quite girlfriend/boyfriend.

Selene pouted again. "But..."

Kat raised an eyebrow as Arthur finished the scalp massage with conditioner and reached for the shower head again to start rinsing her off.

"What are you acting like it's the end of the world for?" Kat asked. "You say your dad wants to rent these rooms out, right?"

Arthur nodded. "Yeah."

"How much are we talking?" Kat asked.

"I don't know yet." Arthur answered. "I'll find out when I look over the paperwork. I imagine it'd be affordable. I'd have to tell him if he tried to gouge people."

"Well yeah, it'd be pretty cheap if everything's getting split ten to twelve ways." Kat nodded as Arthur rinsed the conditioner out of her hair.

"But you'll be forty minutes away!" Selene reached out to grab his arm, but he moved it too much as he worked.

"Or-" Kat held up her hands. "Or, he'll be down the hall."

It took Selene a second to realize what Kat was suggesting, and then her eyes went wide. She was shocked, almost in disbelief, that she hadn't thought of it first. Instead, Kat was the one to suggest it, and she was the one who wanted to try and keep things casual.

Arthur was silent, thinking it over. On the one hand, moving in with Selene and Kat sounded like a dream. One he wanted to come true. They were, all three of them, currently standing naked as he intimately washed the two of them after a bought of quite possibly the best sex he'd ever had. On the other, he and Selene were moving fast. A week ago, they were just friends. Now they were Master and Slave. A week ago, Kat was just a face and a name. Now she was his submissive pupil, and... bath buddy?

Could it work with them as roommates? Housemates? Or would his life implode? Would the people he trusted suddenly decide he wasn't worth knowing? Or maybe all the talk of Lynn from earlier had put him in a bad mood, and he was letting his trauma of trusting others impact his life more than he consciously wanted it to.

Why did decisions that impacted happiness always seem so much bigger than others? Arthur didn't know. He didn't have all the answers and didn't know what the right decision was or even if there was one to make. Then he realized that if both choices had the potential for misery, he should pick whichever had the most potential for happiness.

He just needed to get out of his head and let himself be happy. He had to go for it.

"What do you think, Master?" Selene purred as she reached for the tub's edge and carefully got to her knees. "Could we live with you? Share your house... maybe even your bedroom?"

Arthur smirked at her. "Not fair." He groaned. "You're not letting me think with my brain."

Selene smiled. "You make it hard for me to think with mine. It's only fair."

"I can't make business decisions like that with my dick." Arthur countered.

"No one's suggesting you think with your dick." Kat admonished him as she took the shower head from him and hung it up. "What we need from you is to think about it." She turned off the water. "And some towels."

Arthur handed her and Selene their towels, and they stepped out of the shower and started to dry off. Arthur helped as he could, rubbing one down and then the other, which they seemed to enjoy. The girls were soft, and the towels were comfortable. Arthur enjoyed the intimacy of the act almost as much as he enjoyed the sexuality of it. The feeling was mutual to all three of them. Even Kat had to admit to feeling oddly connected to the other two.

"We'll take one of those extra rooms. That way, you can still have your own, and it won't be like letting us move in with you directly." Kat suggested. "And we won't be able to play throughout the whole house, obviously, since we'll be sharing it with a bunch of other people, and neither of us can really be your slaves all the time. But-" She took the towel off her face to look directly at Arthur when she said it. "I wouldn't mind staying close by. It's kind of nice having you around."

Arthur sighed but blushed a little at the compliment. It wasn't that Kat always said the sweetest things. Quite the opposite. She was usually so sour that it was savory when she said something sweet because you knew she meant it.

"Alright." He sighed. "I'll think about it. In the meantime, I need to get my shower."

"Wait!" Selene snapped. "Now, it's our turn to wash you."

Arthur sighed but nodded. He let them wash him, knelt in the tub so they could wash his hair, and then stood to let them wash his body. He only had to slap Selene's hand once when she got too interested in cleaning his cock.

"So then what happened? After the call from your dad, I mean." Kat asked as they washed him.

He glanced at Selene and then told the story of how she'd wanted a CNC scene, and being so riled up, he'd given her one. He knew she'd been awake since he saw her in the window before he came up, and as he guessed, she was more or less ready for him, so it was easy to get into the scene and let him vent some of his frustrations.

He didn't know why, but Kat's mouth grew into a smileless line by the time Arthur got to the point of talking about their brief attempt at anal, Selene's use of the safeword, and the immediate end of all sexy times in favor of aftercare, and how Arthur fell asleep.

Selene saw Kat's look and did her best to assure her. "It's okay! As soon as I gave the SOS signal, he was like a superhero swooping in and saving me. It was actually pretty hot. Pulling out of my ass like that really showed you cared."

She'd meant it as a joke, and Arthur smiled at her for it, but Kat didn't smile or laugh. She seemed bothered about something.

"What did you mean when you said 'frustrated'?" Kat asked.

"Huh?" Arthur had to ask for clarification since he didn't know what precisely she was trying to quote. He'd been storytelling for a while.

"When you came home last night. You said you were frustrated and took it out on Selene." Kat responded.

"Oh." Arthur realized what she meant now. "From all the women teasing me at the bar." He answered. "There was a lot of touching but no direct stimulation. It was... sexually frustrating."

"So you weren't still upset at seeing Lynn?" Kat asked. "It sounds like you got really aggressive with Selene, dragging her across the floor?"

Arthur fell silent as he thought about it, taking time to replay things in his head and examine his motivations.

"You said we couldn't play if we weren't in the right headspace, or however you phrased it." Kat said after a few quiet moments. "It's in the contract we signed."

Arthur nodded. "Yeah..."

"So you weren't in the right headspace when you fucked Selene!" Kat raised her voice a little. "You were so pissed off at Lynn you could have really hurt her!"

Arthur's first instinct was to defend himself, but Selene beat him to it.

"It wasn't like that!" Selene argued. "I told him to be rough with it. To vent through it. I wanted him to be angry when he fucked me. Memory recall is a valid acting technique, so who cares what he had to do to be in character for our scene!"

Kat looked to Arthur for confirmation, doubt evident in her expression but restrained for Selene’s sake.

"You've even complained that he's not assertive enough!" Selene complained. "He was plenty assertive last night!"

Arthur looked at Kat, surprised to hear he had disappointed her somehow. She looked away and glared at Selene for commenting on it.

Arthur looked at Kat, then at Selene, and sighed. "No, Selene. She's right."

"What?" Selene asked, turning.

"I was too upset last night. I shouldn't have done that. She's right." Arthur nodded.

"But I want you to take it out on me when you're upset. I didn't sign any contract!" Selene protested. "I don't care who you're mad at. I can make you feel better if you just come home and pound the shit out of me!"

Arthur almost laughed but realized that the timing was wrong. Or maybe he had a premonition of what Kat would do to him if he treated this lightly.

"And I appreciate that and your love for rough fucking. Believe me." Arthur put his hand over hers as she soaped his chest. "But I have to admit it. I screwed up last night. I'm sorry. I did something I told myself I shouldn't and wouldn't do. The only thing I can do now is to admit it, ask you to forgive me, and take steps to make sure it doesn't happen again." Arthur said solemnly.

"Like what?" Kat asked.

"Well...." Arthur had to think about it for a few moments. "I can do a mental checklist before play like that." Arthur finally decided. "And if I answer yes to any of those questions, then I know to turn it off until the situation approves."

Arthur looked at Selene. "I really am sorry." He said. "Do you forgive me?"

"Of course." Selene leaned forward a little, and they kissed. It was a soft, tender kiss, devoid of heat despite their nudity but full of compassion and tenderness.

Kat coughed gently after a minute.

"But I want you to tell me if you ever see this Lynn bitch again." Selene added when they broke the kiss.

"Okay." Arthur couldn't help but crack a smile. "I can do that."

"And I want to know where she lives and, if possible, where she sleeps. And if she has any particular fears that might be useful, like spiders or clowns." Selene's eyes narrowed as she spoke, and her words took on a harsh and protective edge.

Arthur laughed but nodded. "I think it's best if you two never meet. Besides, she's taller than you. I think she might be able to take you, even with spiders and clowns thrown into the mix.

Kat smirked. "But can she take both of us?"

Selene beamed.

"Do you forgive me too?" Arthur asked, looking over to Kat.

She seemed less enthusiastic about it than Selene was, but after watching him for a moment. "Send me that checklist when you think of it. I'll add it to the list of things to do before a session when we have our first one."

"Today still doesn't count?" Arthur asked with a laugh.

"No!" She slapped his arm. "I was serious about that! I want a lesson plan!"

Arthur and Selene laughed. "Okay." He agreed. "I'll get one to you as soon as possible. Does... Tuesday night work for you for your first official lesson?"

"Sure." Kat nodded.

Selene coughed and glared at Kat.

"I mean, yes, Sir." Kat corrected herself.

Arthur laughed. "Good girl." He said to Kat. "Not that you're playing right now, so you can ignore Selene's corrections if you want to."

Selene splashed him a little with the water.

"You're both good girls." Arthur corrected himself. "A little over-eager sometimes, but good."

Selene smiled approval at his amendment and stuck her tongue out at him for calling her over-eager.

Kat laughed, and the two finished soaping and washing Arthur, swapping out their cleaning, scrubbing him down, and rinsing him off with the shower head. The spray flickered in heat when he stood up, but he was grateful for their enthusiasm and effort. He took the shower head from Kat, hung it up, and turned off the water as he wiped some water from his eyes.

Selene pulled his towel from the back of the door and knelt in front of the tub. She lifted it up from kneeling, legs open, with both hands, offering it to him. He took it and patted her head in thanks. She nuzzled into his hand and smiled.

Kat shook her head, drying it with a towel and scrunching her hair to keep the curls. She didn't bring any after-care hair products, but she borrowed spray from his medicine cabinet after holding it up and receiving permission.

After a few minutes of grooming, three people trying and failing to share a single mirror; the three of them walked out of the bathroom after hanging their towels up to dry. All three of them were naked but unashamed. It was comfortable, non-erotic nudity as if nudity were a pair of comfy pajamas.

Arthur headed into his bedroom. Kat hung her collar up by the door. Selene grabbed the duffel and brought it into Arthur's bedroom as Kat moved to her backpack by the couch. Arthur fished through his drawers for a while and pulled out an old t-shirt, a pair of jeans, boxer briefs, and some socks. Selene dumped her bag over the bed and looked up at Arthur as he looked down at the pile of clothes and sighed.

He set his clothes on top of the dresser and started fishing through Selene's pile.

He laid out an outfit for her one piece at a time. A multi-colored, mostly purple calf-length gypsy skirt, a small pair of black panties, a black and white polka-dot bra, and a black thinly strapped cami tank top. He set out her usual flip-flops for shoes and trusted that would be sufficient for her study session with Kat.

He also pulled out a second outfit, which caused Selene to quirk an eyebrow at him. "For Monday." He explained as he pulled out a pair of black leggings with a hole on the left thigh, cut-off jean shorts, a red thong, a white bra, a black t-shirt, socks, and sneakers.

"I don't get to see you until tomorrow?" Selene asked.

"Well, I have to go to my parent's house and fix the door. You have to study with Kat, right? And then I've got my date. If it goes well..." He hesitated. "You might not hear about it until tomorrow. Can we get dinner together?"

"DINNER?!" Selene's shouted question surprised Arthur. She seemed genuinely upset, and his immediate instinct was to try and apologize for upsetting her, but he wasn't sure what he'd said that was so upsetting. Mondays were always busy between work, class, and Theater Club in the evening, which is when they usually hung out on Mondays.

Kat cleared her throat from the doorway where she'd just appeared. "We agreed to leave him alone for his date with Mindy, remember? Slut?" She wore a pair of tight blue jeans that hugged every curve of her hips and showed off her butt as the material brightened there. She rubbed her butt with one hand, feeling sensitive from the spanking earlier, and holding a pink off-the-shoulder sweater over her other shoulder.

Selene nodded.

"So if it goes well..." Kat prompted as she stepped into the bedroom and picked up the bra she'd dropped earlier.

"Then I sleep in our apartment tonight." Selene agreed.

Arthur smiled softly. "It's not the end of the world." He assured her. "If things with Mindy don't go well, I can always call you."

Selene smiled.

"Or you could join me at the gym in the morning." Arthur suggested.

"Pass." Kat said. Then, seeing Selene's glare, she added: "For me, anyway." She said as she put her bra on.

"I could meet you in the parking lot before you go?" Selene asked.

Arthur nodded. "Or in the back stairwell after." He suggested. "If only I could find a way to sneak you into the men's locker room." He laughed.

Selene looked like she was thinking of ways it might happen. Kat shook her head and went into the bedroom to get her bra and clothes for after her shower.

"Selene..." Arthur warned.

Selene frowned. "Yes, Master." She said resignedly. "And if all else fails, dinner tomorrow?" She asked, just to make sure.

"Dinner tomorrow. We can meet in the cafeteria before going to the Theater Club meeting." Arthur agreed.

"Oh! Right, I forgot about that!" Selene said as she stood up.

"Every Monday." Arthur laughed. "Is that why you're always late?"

Selene laughed, shaking her head as she stood up. "No. I'm late because I spend too much time braiding my hair and changing my clothes, so I look nice when I see you."

Arthur gave her a surprised look, and Selene blushed a little and shrugged. She offered no further apology or comment.

"Come on, sis. Get dressed, and let's go study. We can leave our Master to his work." Kat nodded toward the bedroom door. "Did you at least pick her out some decent clothes? She has to go to class tomorrow and can't go bottomless or topless."

Arthur scoffed. "Judge for yourself." He gestured to the outfits he'd laid out.

Kat looked them over and gave them a suitable nod. "Good, Master." She said with a smile as she reached up, climbed onto the bed to reach the top of his head, and gave it a pat.

"Ha ha." Arthur said as he started putting his own clothes on. "You two have fun studying."

Selene frowned. "Or..." She started. She hadn't even pretended to reach for the clothes Arthur had set out for her.

"No Ors." Kat glared at her.

"Hear me out!" Selene protested.

"Nope!" Kat shook her head. "Study or flunk. I'm not gonna help you write any of your papers."

"I'm not asking you to." Selene snapped. "I'm not going to flunk the class. I'm not dumb."

"You are if you want to spend your Study-time sucking cock instead of studying." Kat countered.

"It's not my fault one is much more fun than the other." Selene said.

Arthur watched them go back and forth as he finished pulling on his pants. He was about to interject and tell Selene to go and study when she made a valid point.

"I think we should go with him, help him fix the door if we can, but see the house. Especially if we want to take one of the rooms." Selene suggested. "We could meet our future landlords and see if it's as nice as Arthur says it is."

"That..." Kat hesitated.

"Isn't a bad idea." Arthur admitted.

Selene beamed a smile at them both, put her hands behind her back, and twisted her shoulders back and forth in a happy little wiggle. Arthur's attention was immediately arrested. Selene knew it and looked at him with a sly lust that broke when Kat tossed the small pair of black panties at her.

"You're gonna have to put on some clothes if we're meeting our Master's parents." Kat informed her.

Selene pulled the panties from her face and stuck her tongue out at Kat, but she put them on. She wiggled into them for Arthur's sake, letting the pull of them up over her red and sore ass cheeks move slowly. Then she breathed. The soap and shower had felt nice, especially under warm water and Arthur's massaging hands. The soft cotton feel was also nice, but in a different way that reminded her of the sting with the constant contact. She blushed at the feeling and breathed a little more heavily.

"Yeah." Kat agreed, rubbing her butt from outside her jeans. "I regret the tight jeans, and I only took a few." She laughed. "You're gonna hate that forty-minute drive."

Selene looked up at Arthur and shook her head. "I'm sure I'll find something to distract me."

Arthur rolled his eyes and moved the second outfit he'd picked out for her from the bed to the dresser in a folded pile. "Come on." He said. "Get dressed. I want to make the bed and get things cleaned up."

"You make your bed?" Kat asked.

"Only when the maid is on vacation." Arthur quipped.

"You did buy me that French Maid outfit, would you like me to make the bed, Master?" Selene asked.

"No." He said. "I want you to get dressed so we can go. I want to make the bed and...." He noticed a few things on the bed that hadn't been there before and shook his head. "I'll have to do laundry tonight. Or tomorrow. At some point. I should change these."

He pulled the blanket and the sheets off the bed instead of making it, and the girls stepped aside as he bundled it and shoved it into the hamper in the corner. He went into the closet and pulled out another set of sheets. Kat helped him with the fitted sheet, then he changed the pillowcases and made the bed with the new sheet and a blanket from the closet that wasn't as thick as his usual comforter but was still warm and soft.

By the time he finished, Selene was dressed and spun for him to show off the outfit.

"Very pretty." He smiled, noticing how her hair spread out behind her as she spun.

She reached behind her when she noticed him looking at it and started to braid it.

"Leave it down." Arthur stopped her with his voice. "I like it this way." He reached over and ran his fingers through it at her shoulder, pulling it after him as it flowed through his fingers like silk. Selene looked up at him and smiled. "You look beautiful."

She stood on her tiptoes and leaned forward. When Arthur didn't take his cue, she cleared her throat and said: "Kiss me, please."

Kat laughed.

Arthur satisfied her request with a kiss and offered her his hand as he left the bedroom. She took it. Kat followed after them, gathering a few things as they went.

There was still a bit of general cleanup to do. Arthur moved about the apartment in quick steps as he worked. Selene followed and helped where she could or preemptively took something and did it for him. Kat waited on the sofa until she saw they were getting close to finishing. They cleaned off the restraints, bundled and tied the ropes, and the paddle got washed off. Kat hung it by the door next to her collar, just for fun.

Arthur texted his parents, too, just to make sure they were okay if some prospective renters came out with him to see the place.

"Ready to go?" Kat asked.

"Almost." Arthur said as he came out of the bedroom, putting everything away in the trunk and taking something else out. He held out the small Bluetooth vibrator to Selene, who snatched it immediately and knelt at his feet, lifting her skirt out of the way.

Kat rolled her eyes. "Is that-"

Arthur nodded. "I control it with a phone app. I thought it might be fun for the car ride over."

Kat smirked. "It might be fun to crank it up mid-conversation with your parents and see if she can hold it together." The wicked laugh that followed the idea was positively witchy, but it made Arthur laugh too. Selene didn't laugh but didn't protest the idea at all.

"Put that in your underwear until you're ready to put it in you, Slut." Arthur addressed Selene.

"Yes, Master." She said immediately as she hiked up the skirt to her waist, giving Arthur a show as she pulled open the waistband of her panties and nestled the vibrator inside against the lips of her pussy."

"Now we can go." Arthur said with a smile, offering Selene his hand to help her stand. She took it, and her skirt fell back into place as she stood and took a careful step, smiling at Arthur as he held the door open for the two of them and locked it behind them as the trio left the apartment behind and headed to his car.

"I call shotgun." Kat smirked.

"No fair!" Selene protested.

"I called it." Kat shrugged.

"But you're not going to do anything with it!" Selene whined. "You left your collar upstairs."

"So?" Kat asked. "I can still want to sit up front."

"Yeah, but..." Selene glanced at Arthur, who wasn't intervening as they descended the stairs. "I wanted to..." She started and then glanced at a door as it opened, and Arthur's downstairs neighbor stepped out onto the landing.

He gave the three of them a look but let them go first before following them out into the parking lot before they split and went their own way.

Arthur stopped at his car's passenger-side door. "Sorry." He said to Selene with a soft smile. "Kat called it fair and square."

Kat giggled as she took the front passenger seat.

Arthur closed the door once she was set and opened the back door for Selene since she stood there with her arms crossed defiantly and a pout on her face.

"Get in." Arthur instructed.

"I want to sit up front!" Selene whined like a child and stamped her foot.

Arthur looked over to Kat with a 'are you seeing this too?' expression. She was, and she was laughing, waving at Selene with one hand's fingers curling and straightening from the other side of the passenger side window.

"Get in." Arthur repeated and looked around to ensure no one else was in earshot.

"I want to sit up front! Make her sit in the back!" Selene protested.

Arthur stepped toward Selene and leaned down to whisper in her ear. "Get in the back seat right now, or you're riding in the trunk."

Selene's eyes gleamed for a moment, and Arthur sighed. As soon as he said it, he knew she would intentionally choose whichever option bore the steepest punishment. Riding in the backseat offered no penalty. Riding in the trunk provided the potential for playing she hadn't thought of before.

"Tied up and in the trunk?" She asked quietly.

Arthur glanced at his trunk. He had some rope in there, but it was a rough hemp rope and not the kind he would use on a person. There also wasn't much room for a person in there, but Selene was small. Curled up, she would probably fit just fine. Then again, he couldn't open the trunk at his parent's house and help Selene out.

"Stuffed into the trunk with the vibrator turned all the way up, without permission to cum. And then, every time you cum without permission, that's one day of forced chastity." Arthur thought of something Selene might actually consider a punishment.

He was right. Her eyes went wide. "You wouldn't." She whispered.

"I would." Arthur assured her. "Forty-minute drive... you could rack up a good four or five days of zero orgasms. No fingers, no fucking. I'd give all of your orgasms to Kat instead."

Selene looked shocked. She glanced at the car before looking at Arthur again as her look of shock turned to one of careful calculation. "Fine." She said at last. "I'll sit in the back seat." She huffed. "But you better turn that vibrator on high and give me permission to cum, or I'm reaching over the seat and jacking you off myself."

Arthur wasn't sure how that was supposed to be a threat, but he didn't mind so long as he got her into the car and they got on the road. And they did. He set the vibrator on a low setting as he pulled out of the parking lot. He occasionally turned it up every few blocks until it reached high, and Selene was curled in half, her hair splayed out everywhere as she whimpered, crunched, stretched, cried out, and spasmed in seemingly random intervals.

"Do I have permission to cum?" Selene asked from the back.

"You want to listen to some music?" Arthur asked Kat nonchalantly as he drove.

Kat shrugged and reached for the radio buttons. She turned on a country music station.

"Is this okay?" Kat asked.

Arthur shrugged. "Sure."

He adjusted the settings on the app as he drove until it synced with the music coming from the radio, making Selene writhe a little in the backseat when he turned the music up.

"You get along with your parents, right?" Kat asked.

Arthur seemed surprised by the question. "Yeah." He said. "My dad can be a little detached, and my mom can be a little...." He hesitated in trying to figure out how to explain it. "Well-intentioned, but overstepping."

Kat muttered something.

"Master?" Selene chimed in from the backseat. "Do I have permission to cum?"

"Yes, slut, you have permission," Arthur said as he glanced at the rearview mirror and saw Selene squirming with her legs parted and her head back. "What were you saying, Kat?"

"Oh, nothing." Kat shrugged. "I was just wondering. I figured you probably got along well with them if you were thinking about working for them."

"Well, yeah." Arthur agreed. "They're fair, and while they're not the warmest, they've always looked out for me in their way, I guess."

"Cool." Kat nodded. "Must be nice to have some parents you get along with."

Selene groaned. "Kat, it's like you don't want me to orgasm or something. Can you stop talking about parents? Some of us are trying to cum here!"

Arthur laughed. "Close your ears if you want to, slut."

Selene clamped her hands over her ears, and Arthur was kind enough to turn the vibrator up a notch.

"I take it you and your mom don't get along?" Arthur asked.

"We get along for a few minutes at a time." Kat shrugged. "She and Selene fight more than she and I do."

Arthur nodded. "Selene was always more of the rebellious one?"

Kat chuckled slightly. "She rebelled when she came to college and was a safe distance from our mother."

Arthur nodded.

"I rebelled more at home." Kat said. "I was always the stronger personality. The brat."

Arthur laughed. "That tracks."

"I like that we've reappropriated the word." Kat smiled. "I bristled a little when Selene called me that, but... I've grown to like it when you say it in that tone of yours."

"Tone?" Arthur asked.

"The tone you get when you're all... in Master mode. It's deeper, with a little bit of an edge to it... It's hot." Kat admitted. "I like it when you get firm and commanding like that."

Arthur nodded. "That tracks." He paused for a moment. "I'm sorry if I haven't been dominant enough with you. I'll work on it. The next time we play, you can expect that tone a lot."

Kat smiled and looked down. "Good."

The rest of the drive went quickly, with Kat and Arthur chatting over the radio, ignoring the occasional moans, chirps, and cries coming from the backseat. When they arrived at the gate to Arthur's parents' house, Kat let out a low whistle.

"There's a gate?" She asked.

"Yeah." Arthur nodded. "My mom likes to present as though it's a wealthy place. And my parents both liked the privacy the place had to offer. There's a six-foot-high stone wall around the property, which is something like seven acres. Mostly trees, a bit of a lawn closer to the house."

Kat whistled again. Arthur turned down the vibrator but didn't turn it off.

"Master?" Selene panted. "Are you... are you going to turn it off?"

"Hm..." Arthur thought about it. "Should I? It might be fun to leave it on low as you tour the house."

"With your mom and dad around?" Selene asked.

Arthur shrugged. "Makes it kind of hot..." Arthur thought about it. "Knowing that you'd have to hide it and how bad you are at being quiet when you cum." He flicked the vibrator up to high to prove his point, and Selene yelped and clenched her legs together. He dropped it back down, and she gasped for breath. "Thoughts, slut?" Arthur asked.

"I don't want to embarrass you in front of your parents, Master." Selene answered. "Or myself." She added as an afterthought. "I want to make a good impression." She shuddered as he flicked the control back and forth to alternate the intensity.

"Arthur..." Kat said in a tone of warning. "You don't want her to cum in front of your parents, do you? I know I was joking about it earlier, but...."

"I guess not." Arthur chuckled. "But keep it in. I might decide to play with you if I get bored." Arthur glanced at Selene's face in the rearview. She blushed a deep red but made no protest.

"Yes, Master." Selene nodded. "Thank you, Master."

"Good girl." Arthur smirked and then turned it off.

Selene sat up from the backseat, out of breath, and fixed her hair, trying to smooth down her shirt and fix her top so that her bra cups weren't showing.

Arthur drove slowly down the drive, giving her time until the car came to the front of the house, and Kat gave out yet another whistle. "This place is humongous."

Arthur nodded. "It's certainly bigger than the place I grew up in. That house was nice too; my parents do pretty well."

Kat nodded. "We grew up in a two-bedroom rancher." She explained. "I didn't realize you were rich."

Arthur laughed. "I'm not."

Kat rolled her eyes and looked at him.

"My parents do okay, but they're upper-middle-class at best. It's not like there's a bowling alley or anything in there. Just a nice house with a bunch of rooms decorated with things that probably cost a little too much because my mom likes to show off."

"I bet there's a home theater, though." Kat smirked.

"Well, yeah. We're not peasants." Arthur teased her for once, and she giggled a little bit. "Ready to meet the parents?" He asked Kat. Selene had already met them.

"Did you tell them about us?" Kat asked.

"I was planning to yesterday but didn't really get the chance." Arthur answered. The three of them had worked out what to tell people about their relationship and its unusual dynamic yesterday, so he had something to say when his parents asked. He parked the car and turned it off.

"I meant that we were coming today, but I should have asked about that too." Kat said with a smirk.

"Yeah. I texted them while we were cleaning up. I think they took it as a sign that I'm going to say yes, and the house is always clean, so they weren't worried. I told them we already ate breakfast, too, though I expect my mom will still offer some food. The initial invite was to review the contract over brunch. My parents always offer food to get me to come over." Arthur explained. He opened his car door and stepped out.

"They literally bait you." Selene giggled softly as she stepped out of the car.

"Ha." Arthur shook his head. "Never thought of it like that." He shrugged.

The girls closed the car doors and followed Arthur as he headed up the stone steps toward the front door and knocked. Selene gave her clothes one final adjustment, and Kat stood with one hand on her hip on the other side of Arthur when the front door opened to reveal Arthur's mother in a plain blue dress and a bright smile on her face.

"Arty!" His mother said as if she hadn't known he was coming. "You're late. Your father is in the kitchen." She gestured for the pair of them to go in.

"Mom." Arthur nodded. "This is Selene." He gestured to Selene, who dipped in something between a nod and a curtsey. "And Kat." He gestured to Kat, who nodded hello like a normal person. Selene brushed at the front of her skirt again out of nervous habit. "They're interested in renting from you guys."

"It's nice to meet you both. Please, come in, and call me Debrah." She said with a smile.

"Debrah." Kat repeated as she crossed the threshold, following Arthur into the entrance foyer with its tiled floor, large staircase, and open hallway that went straight back toward the back of the house.

"Only Arthur calls me Mom, after all." Debrah laughed. "Selene...." She said, looking at Selene appraisingly. "I've met you before, no? A year or two ago, on parent's day? You're Lori's friend."

Selene glanced at Arthur at the mention of Lori's name. They hadn't talked about Arthur's ex since they'd gotten started in what they were doing, and she was partially to thank for it. She'd been the one to encourage Selene to speak up about her desires to Arthur, after all.

"Yes Ma'am." Selene answered.

"Oh no." Debrah shook her head. "Nope. I'm not getting ma'amed this early in the morning. You can call me Debrah."

"Okay." Selene nodded but still felt weird calling Arthur's mom by her first name.

"Arthur said you guys are looking to rent out the house?" Kat asked, getting straight to business.

Arthur gestured toward the hallway. "I have to get to work fixing up the back door. Are you okay with showing them around, Mom? Or do you want me to?"

"You go and fix the door." His mom shooed him toward the kitchen. "I can walk the girls around."

Arthur nodded and gave Selene a reassuring smile. The vibrator was off, so he didn't know why she seemed so... frightened? Intimidated? But it looked like she was trying to shrink behind Kat. Still, she didn't beg him to stay or reach for him, so he headed into the kitchen and got to work.

His father had been thoughtful enough to pull out the tools and supplies he thought he might need. He was mostly right, though a few resources went unused. He wasn't sure how long it'd taken precisely, but he knew the girls should have been done touring the house a while ago, and he hadn't seen or heard from them or his parents after dropping them off in the foyer for their tour.

"So, what has Arthur told you about the place?" Debrah asked, looking between the two girls.

"Six bedrooms, an in-law suite in the basement, a pool, a master suite... and it has a home theater." Kat answered while Selene nodded in agreement.

"All accurate." Debrah laughed. "Well, kind of. The home theater is just a family room with a big tv and good seating. This is the foyer, a place for shoes by the door and up the stairs. Let's start up there." Debrah said as she started climbing the stairs, leaving the two girls to follow.

Selene and Kat followed as she showed them the house. Each of the bedrooms upstairs was spacious compared to their apartment, and there were two full baths upstairs beyond the master suite bath, which was a notch above. The downstairs had a home office, living room, dining room, kitchen, foyer, hallway, half-bath, and a family room repurposed into a home theater since it had no windows and walls on three of its four sides. The living room was more of a formal sitting room, complete with an upright piano. The dining room's cherrywood table was stunning, and Selene couldn't help but run her hand along it.

"We hardly use this room, so I apologize for any dust." Debrah laughed a little nervously. "We usually eat in the kitchen."

"Us too." Selene nodded. "Well, our kitchen." She corrected herself. "Not your kitchen." She shook her head. "I mean-"

Debrah interrupted her. "Well, if you two take one of the rooms, it'll practically be your kitchen." She laughed. "Or you could eat in here! Or have some really amazing board game nights."

"Board games?" Kat asked.

"We have a whole closet full of them." She gestured to a door in the hallway, prompting Kat to open it.

It was a full walk-in closet under the stairs that barely had room for Selene's slender frame to step into. Three walls of shelves, stocked with board game after board game.

"Arty loves his board games." Debrah smirked.

"He does?" Selene asked, the surprise evident in her voice by the sheer force of it breaking through her nervousness.

"He hasn't made you play any?" Debrah sounded confused.

"He has not." Kat answered back with a slight smile on her face. "Didn't know he was into them, to be honest. I figured he was into video games and sports and stuff."

"He had a few of those." Debrah answered. "But he never played any sports in high school. He was always into the theater, for some reason." Debrah shrugged. "And the arts. My little actor."

"Selene's in theater club with him." Kat nodded. "You appreciate his scene work, right, sis?"

Selene looked nervously at Kat for a moment and then smiled at Debrah. "Yeah. He's an excellent actor."

"And not afraid to get his hands dirty backstage." Kat added. "Is that how he learned all the handyman stuff? I didn't know he could fix a door."

"Oh, probably." Debrah said with a laugh. "I know he didn't learn it from me!"

They laughed as Debrah shut the closet and ushered them out from the hallway through the front door to the property around the house. They looped as she talked about how nice it was to have the trees for privacy and a bit of paradise in the rural area just before suburbia started toward the city. Kat asked about the rent, and Debrah answered. Kat and Selene were happy to hear it was less than they were currently paying, though it depended on the number of roommates.

Finally, they came around to the backyard and the pool there. Arthur was wiping his hands off and gathering the spread-out tools from the floor when he spotted them outside, walking alongside the pool and following his mother as she walked toward the house.

"All fixed?" His mom asked as she slid open the sliding glass door and stepped through it, Selene and Kat following behind. His mom slid it back and forth several times after they'd all passed through just to check it.

The kitchen was large, with marble countertops on three of its four walls and an island counter. The entrance to the dining room was on the left wall, and the open archway to the main hallway was in the front. A rectangular kitchen table to the left of the main entrance was cleared of everything but the salt and pepper shakers. A pathway from the main entrance to the sliding back door to the patio split the kitchen.

The back wall was then occupied by the cabinets above and below the counter, sink, and dishwasher. The hardwood floors were quality and almost matched the mahogany cabinets. The fridge on the far wall was opposite a curtained window, where the oval pinewood kitchen table sat with four chairs. His mom moved to stand against the chair between the table and the island, watching him as Kat and Selene passed by him and took seats at the table.

"All fixed." Arthur nodded as he brushed his hands together and started putting away his tools. His toolbox was open on the kitchen floor, with various tools and materials scattered around it. "I splintered some of it when I shut it too hard last night. Sorry again. It's all fixed now." He assured her.

"Good." His mom nodded. "I really don't know what got into him last night." She explained. "He's usually not clumsy, but at least he's handy!"

Selene smiled politely, but Arthur ruined his mother's attempt to cover for him.

"It's okay, Mom. I told them what happened last night and why." Arthur assured her. "They're okay."

"You told them?" His mom asked, startled. Arthur nodded. Then, turning to Selene and Kat, she assured them. "He's not the temper-losing type. Honestly. I've never heard him so much as raise his voice before last night!"

"Mom..." Arthur started. "I don't want to start."

"You can't even talk to me about it?" His mom asked. "But you talked to them? You used to talk to me about everything."

"I know, Mom." Arthur sighed. "I said I was sorry. I promise I will not break anything else. Just don't ambush me with my old high school bully."

"Lynn?" His mom asked, seeming genuinely confused despite everything Arthur had told her last night. "You loved Lynn! You and she were so adorable!" She turned her attention back to Selene and Kat. "They were inseparable. Attached at the hip. Always getting into trouble, going on adventures, we used to joke that they were partners in crime, but it wasn't so funny when those ice cream sandwiches went missing!"

"We were five, Mom. Things changed. You know that." Arthur focused on putting his tools away and cleaning up.

"You never said." His mom protested.

"Yes, I did." Arthur sighed.

Kat and Selene glanced at each other, torn between wanting to leave to avoid making things awkward and wanting to stay and support Arthur however he needed.

"You probably didn't realize I was talking about the same person." Arthur continued. "She changed."

"So did you." His mom assured him as she came over and put a hand on his shoulder.

"No." Arthur shook his head. "I mean, she changed. Somewhere between childhood and high school."

"High school is childhood." His mom laughed.

Arthur sighed but nodded. As a wise senior in college, he could now look back on high school and realize that those weren't the be-all-end-all days he thought they were. He'd probably feel the same about college five years from now, but college life was pretty good. Five years from now might find itself hard-pressed to beat it.

"Junior high then." Arthur corrected himself. "She was a friend. Then puberty hit. She was... pretty cruel, mom. I don't like talking about it."

Kat and Selene both knew that he'd already talked about it once today. He'd shared the whole story with them earlier, and they were in his corner.

"I know you were a bit of a late bloomer." His mom said with a bit of a laugh. "But you've always been handsome."

"Thanks, Mom." Arthur said with a dry laugh. "But we both know that's not true."

"Isn't he handsome?" Debrah asked, looking to Selene and Kat for support.

They glanced at each other and then at Arthur but nodded. "He's very handsome. Hot, some might say." Kat said first. "Selene thinks so too, don't you?"

Selene nodded. Kat elbowed her. Selene mumbled something.

"See? I'm not just saying it because I'm your mother." Debrah defended herself. "Objectively, he's handsome, right?" She asked Selene and Kat for support.

"Ow-" Selene winced as Kat's elbow bounced off her rib. "He's handsome." Selene agreed.

Kat shrugged but winked when Arthur looked at her. "I think we'd need to see what he looked like before this glow-up I keep hearing about."

"No, you don't." Arthur countered immediately and glared at his mother.

Kat giggled, and his mom smiled knowingly. "Don't worry." Debrah raised her hands in surrender. "I won't push." She smiled.

"Is there a bathroom nearby?" Selene interrupted.

"Oh sure." Debrah answered and pointed toward the exit. "In the hallway there. There's a half bath. Take a right, and then pass through the family room to the door on the left wall there."

"Thanks." Selene said. She stood up and pushed her chair back in.

"I'll come with you." Kat offered and immediately went with Selene, practically sweeping out of the kitchen.

"So... I know I ask you this every time, but... is there anyone at school?" His mom asked after the two left the room. "Have you been dating since Lori? Any nice girls catching your eye?" She nodded toward where Kat and Selene had gone. "The one in pink is pretty cute. The quiet one's not bad either."

Arthur thought about it. What had he, Kat, and Selene workshopped to say in this situation? He tried to remember it but knew he got it slightly wrong.

"I'm dating around." Arthur nodded. "I'm not exclusive with anyone, but I have a few girls I'm seeing, who are aware of each other, and they're all cool with our situation."

His Mom paused for a moment as she put her hand on her hip. "You're sleeping around?"

"Not behind anyone's back." Arthur defended. "But..." He paused. "How much do you wanna know?"

His mom laughed. "I feel like I already know too much." She shook her head. "Whatever makes you happy. Just be safe, and don't get anyone pregnant. But keep an eye on the future. Eventually, you'll have to settle down and pick somebody to share the rest of your life with."

Arthur thought about it. Selene was absolutely devoted to him. She literally worshiped him and would do anything for him. Kat was still something of an enigma. She definitely enjoyed the sex more than she was willing to verbally admit. She probably wasn't interested in a romantic relationship, though.

Kelly was probably his most traditional relationship, even if she was a little kinky, and they'd agreed to keep dating while seeing other people. Win-win. Mindy was something of an unknown. Probably more traditional, but after being given the details of her talk with Kat and Selene, it sounded like she was open-minded. He'd have to see how the date went later today.

"Any forerunners? Anyone you're bringing for Thanksgiving?" His mom asked.

Arthur laughed. "Maybe I'll bring all of them. If there's enough room at the table."

"Ooh, I love me some Holiday drama." His mom joked. "But maybe don't try and take all your dates to the same place."

"I told you they know about each other." Arthur assured her. "They're cool with it."

"A regular Hugh Hephner you are." His mom chuckled.

"Who?" Arthur tried to play innocent.

"Nice try." His mom shook her head. "Just be careful. Okay?" His mom stepped forward and put her hand on his shoulder. "I don't want to see my boy get his heart broken because he couldn't decide between two..." She looked at him for confirmation. "Three...?" She counted, still looking for a signal. "Four...?" She started to sound incredulous. "Five...?" Arthur smirked, unable to hold back the smile from teasing her, and she smacked his shoulder.

"Don't worry." He told her as he gave her a hug. "I will be careful, and if I get my heart broken, I will let you know."

She hugged him back. "Seriously, though. Do I ever get to meet any of these girls? Can I give you my opinion?"

Arthur laughed. "You've met two of them already. You think one of them is pretty cute, and the other one's not bad."

"Those two?" His mother asked. "You're dating both of them? And they know about it?"

Arthur nodded.

"I will never understand young people." His mom muttered.

"Didn't they have Free-love and all that stuff in the sixties?" Arthur asked as a joke.

"I'm not that old!" His mom smacked him gently and rolled her eyes. "And you want to live in the same house with two women you're dating? You don't think that's a recipe for a nuclear blowup?"

"I dunno." Arthur shrugged. "You're being something like an old prude at the moment."

She smacked his shoulder again. "Alright, alright." She shook her head and started to make her exit. "Just make sure you clean everything up, or I'll have to listen to your father complain."

"Yes, Ma'am." Arthur nodded. "Where is dad, anyway?"

"In his office. He's finalizing that paperwork for the lease agreements, your job, all of that." His mom explained.

Arthur nodded. His dad had talked to him about this briefly last night. His mom and dad wanted to move back to the city. This house was in the middle of nowhere, more or less, and while the grounds around the middle-class six-bedroom McMansion gave it some excellent privacy, it was also twenty minutes from town and even farther from the city. Twenty minutes from campus wasn't too bad, so his father's idea was that he live there and make a small salary as the landlord/handyman. This sounded okay for the most part. The only part of the initial conversation he was hesitant about was leaving his current job.

He worked in the University's marketing department, mostly doing data entry and overseeing the other student workers. It was tedious work, sure, but it was a decent payday, and he liked his coworkers. Even if things might be a little awkward with Beth, his boss, on Monday since she'd licked some tequila off his abs last night and seemed pretty upset about it at the time.

"For what it's worth." His mother chimed in as he closed up his toolbox. "I think it's a great idea. I'd really like to keep the house in the family. I love it here. And you wouldn't have to do much. Unless you break something-" She gestured to the door. "There's not much to fix maintenance-wise. And you're handy enough to cover the usual upkeep. The cleaning service will handle all the deep cleaning stuff. The landscapers will handle the gardens and lawn. All your old and new friends can live under one roof!"

"Old-" Arthur started to ask but was interrupted by his father's arrival. He came in and set a stack of papers on the table.

"There you are." His dad said, as though he'd been looking all over for Arthur.

"Here I are." Arthur agreed, using intentionally lousy grammar, which his father failed to notice or comment on. Arthur picked up his toolbox but set it down when his dad offered him the stack of papers from the table.

"Look these over. It's the contract and proposed lease agreements. It lays out the rules for the common areas, utility splitting, and everything else. Since we expect to rent the bedrooms to students, we figure we'll do the leases by semester. This means the house will be empty for a few months this year, over the holidays."

"You're moving that soon?" Arthur asked, looking to his mom for answers.

"Already started packing." His dad answered. "The real estate market moves fast. We closed on a nice apartment in the city already."

"Oh." Arthur said, realizing he already should have known that. "Well, I know my lease is month to month. I think a few others might too. If they can move in, maybe we can offer people a prorated lease in the next couple of weeks?" He asked. "Give them the rest of October for free, so they don't have to pay double and can move in without an issue?"

"Free?" His dad barked.

"It's an incentive." His mother suggested, putting her hand on his dad's shoulder, who thought about it for a second and then nodded.

"Fair enough." His dad nodded. "When can you move in? I want you in here before we let any other tenants in."

"Well..." Arthur scratched his neck a little. "My lease is up at the end of the month since I'm on a month-to-month. I'd have to give them notice by the end of the week, but I could probably move in as soon as you move out. Maybe before, depending on what room I'm taking."

"You have your pick." His mom shrugged. "The Master Suite is nice. The finished basement is a full in-law suite. It has a small kitchen, dining area, bedroom, and living room."

Selene and Kat returned to the kitchen, standing by the end of the table.

"Ah, there you are." Debrah greeted them. "George, these two are girlfriends of Arthur's, potential renters. Selene and Kat."

"Oh?" His dad looked over to see them and nodded hello from where he stood. If he caught the term 'girlfriends' being applied to them both, he assumed it was just an odd way of specifying they were female friends without stating their pronouns. "Nice to meet you. Now, if you can convince my son to sign these papers, you can move in by the end of the month. Is your lease on a month-to-month basis too?" He asked.

"Yes, sir." Kat nodded. If George cared about not being considered old as much as Debrah did, he didn't show it by correcting anyone. He was used to being called sir at work, so it didn't bother him when someone called him by the honorific.

"Good!" He barked. "We'll be locking the rents for the school year." He explained. "So you won't get price-gouged by market fluctuations." He looked satisfied with himself, as though they'd already praised him for having such a good idea. "At least not until summer." He laughed at his own joke. "Can you move in next month?"

"We can probably swing that, depending on when Arthur moves in." Selene looked at him for an answer, but he didn't have one yet. "We'll follow his lead."

Arthur coughed. "I could start moving things over as soon as you guys are out of the house." He said to his parents. "And be moved in by the end of the month." Arthur shrugged.

"When can Lynn move in?" His dad asked, looking at Arthur's mother, who was looking guiltily back at Arthur.

"What?" Arthur asked. His mouth instantly clamped shut.

"I haven't had a chance to talk to him about that yet, Sweetheart." Arthur's mom answered and shook her head. "Arty, look-"

"Nope." Arthur shook his head.

"We promised her parents." Arthur's mom tried to explain. "We were hoping you two would hit off last night, now obviously-"

"Nope." Arthur repeated.

"Arty." His mom sounded frustrated. "You're both adults now. I don't know all the details about what happened between you, and I don't need to. It was years ago! It was high school! She's grown up, you've grown up, and you can get along like adults and be housemates."

"Let Lynn be the landlord then." Arthur crossed his arms over his chest and shook his head. "I'm not living here if she does."

"You're acting like a child in front of your friends." Debrah said sharply.

"Give her the in-law suite downstairs." His dad piped up, causing them both to look at him. "Then you'll never even have to see the poor girl."

"I know you know what no means. As I recall, you used the word a lot when I was growing up." Arthur mused.

"We never said no to you." Arthur's mom countered.

Arthur scoffed and looked at his dad, who had to admit he'd said no to most things Arthur requested growing up since he believed firm limits could produce a better, hard-working young man. The last thing he wanted was for Arthur to turn out like a spoiled child or a man who acted like everything came to him without working.

"Well, if Lynn can't live here, then maybe it shouldn't be a coed house." His father tried to strike where it might hurt, but Arthur was unphased.

"I was hoping to convince Arthur to make it an all-girls house." Selene piped up, and everyone looked at her in surprise to see her face was one of surprise. "It would be safer." She said. "Arthur's safe, and it'd be good to have one guy here for... safeness. And fixing things." She finished a little awkwardly. "But otherwise, it should probably be all girls."

Arthur turned the attention away from Selene by addressing his father. "If you don't want the house to be coed, that's fine, but that's another reason for me not to take the job. I thought you said you wanted me to live here with my friends? Well, most of my friends are girls." College had just worked out that way. First because he was taken with Lori, and therefore the "safe" guy friend. And second because he was still the "safe" guy friend even after Lori left.

"Well, who knows what a coed house might try to get up to!" His father retorted, seeming to get worked up until Arthur's mother put her hand on his chest and stood next to him.

"You're all adults. We trust you." His mom assured them. "And if Arthur's the only guy, maybe he should take the in-law suite and leave the girls in the house?" She suggested.

Arthur looked doubtful. Selene put her hand on his arm subconsciously to reassure him, seeing how upset he looked at the prospect of Lynn living here. Of having to see her. Kat hesitated but eventually did the same.

"Why don't you meet with Lynn beforehand. Talk to her. She wants to apologize." Arthur's mom suggested.

"No." Arthur shook his head. "Look. I appreciate the offer, and living rent-free would be great, but I would pay double my current rent if it meant I never had to see Lynn again."

"Don't forget you'd be getting paid. You'd be getting a cut of the rents and not have to pay the rent yourself in exchange for your work around the property." His dad reminded him. "That's a hell of a deal."

"Does that deal let me pick the tenants like you said? Or does that deal come with Lynn attached?" Arthur asked.

"You can help pick the other tenants." His mom assured him.

"So it comes with Lynn attached?" Arthur asked.

"We promised her parents." His dad said resignedly. "We work with them. We can't go back on it now. She's transferring to that school of yours next semester, and her parents want her out of the house. She needs to gain some independence."

Arthur scoffed, but his lips grew into a thin hard line when he thought about Lynn on his campus after the holidays. It meant that no matter what he chose, he would eventually cross paths with Lynn again. He'd thought he was free of her. Yet, here she was, darkening his mood again. He shouldn't have been able to care about anything after all the sex he'd been having.

"Please?" His mom asked. "For me?"

Arthur looked at her. Then sighed and looked at the contract. On the one hand, he hated Lynn and did not want to have to see her ever again. On the other hand, the basement had its own entrance on the side of the house. If she lived in the in-law suite, there really was a good chance he'd never have to see her. He'd never have to see her if he lived in the in-law suite. Until he saw her on campus anyway.

Could he transfer schools? Could he make her transfer schools? Hell, if she lived in his parent's house, he could even give her some grief. Maybe he'd take up tap dancing and practice whenever she was trying to sleep. Keeping Selene from killing her in her sleep might be a genuine concern, though.

Arthur looked at Selene, who looked back at him and didn't know what to say or do. She wanted to tell him it would be okay. She and Kat would fix that bitch and make her move out pronto. She wanted to tell him she supported him no matter his choice, even if she'd fallen in love with the house after a tour.

"Well?" His dad asked.

"I'll need more money than that." Arthur said after a moment. "Twenty percent more."

"Ten." His dad countered.

"Twenty." Arthur held firm and looked up at his parents. "Otherwise, I'm losing money, and I'll have to dip into my savings to live. I still have to buy groceries and pay my cut of utilities, and this cuts down my monthly budget, not including rent. And it doesn't come with health insurance or PTO, etcetera. I can show you the numbers if you want."

"Let's see them." His dad crossed his arms as if calling a bluff.

It wasn't a bluff or a business tactic to Arthur's credit. He pulled out his phone, opened his google drive, and pulled up the spreadsheet that was his monthly budget. All the numbers were there and subtotaled at the bottom. He was absolutely right. Between streaming services, utilities, groceries, other labeled expenditures, school fees, gasoline, and upkeep on his car, the money wasn't there in what they were proposing.

"Hm." Arthur's dad grunted. "Fifteen percent more would make it even."

"Let's call the other five percent a Lynn tax." Arthur scoffed. "Even then." He clenched his fist unconsciously, which flexed the muscles in his arm. "I'm not sure I'll be able to put up with her."

His mom sighed. "Will you at least let the girl apologize? Meet with her?"

Arthur sighed and glanced at Selene, who squeezed his arm, which she was still holding. When he passed his dad his phone, Kat had let go of his other arm.

"Twenty percent more then." His dad finally gave in. "We're agreed?"

"I want it in Lynn's lease that she has access to the in-law suite downstairs, not the rest of the house." Arthur added grimly.

"I thought-" His mother started.

"Done." His father said quickly, cutting his mother off in her appeal before she started.

Arthur hesitated as if trying to think of another reason to say no, or another stipulation to lay on Lynn. His mom coughed quietly.

"Then we're agreed." Arthur nodded and offered his dad his hand for a shake. His father shook it and nodded.

"Good man." His dad said with a nod as he clapped Arthur on the free arm.

"Thank you." His mom said with a sigh of relief. "I'll let Lynn's parents know."

"She probably won't want to be up here much anyway. Especially if they're all your friends." Arthur's dad laughed, imagining Lynn probably wouldn't be comfortable sharing the common areas of a rented house with people she didn't know. "You gonna get your theater friends to rent the rest of the rooms?"

Arthur seemed to think about it for a moment. "Maybe." He smiled slightly. "I can think of a few people who'd want to share a house with me. I don't know if it's enough to fill the three remaining bedrooms, though."

"Three?" His father asked.

Arthur gestured to Selene and Kat. "Do you two want one of the rooms?" He asked, looking at Kat and Selene in turn.

"Does it come furnished?" Kat asked.

"Of course!" Arthur's father bellowed. "I'm not moving all this shit."

Selene laughed.

"So you want the room?" His father asked.

"Yes, Sir." Kat said with a surprisingly straight face and tone.

"Can't wait." Selene chimed in.

"Well, they're big enough for two each, but they don't need to run at capacity. However, the more people, the more the utilities get split, and the bigger your payday since you get a percentage of the rent. So, you should get at least five people besides yourself. If you want the numbers to match your budget. More if you want more money." His dad instructed.

"I'll ask around." Arthur said with a smile.

"Good." Arthur's father passed him a pen. "Now sign it, and let's be done."

Arthur sighed and shook his head. "I'm going to read over this in detail first. I'll email it back to you when I'm done."

His father sighed but agreed. "Fine." He shook his head. "Come on, Debrah, or we're gonna be late to the club."

Debrah smiled. "Lock up on your way out?" She asked Arthur.

"We were on our way out ourselves, actually. I have to get back, and these two have a study session to get to." Arthur said with a smile.

"Ooo, a study session." His mom teased. "Have fun, you crazy kids."

"There's actual studying." Selene assured her. "It's not like we're inviting Arthur over to study or anything." She said so quickly she barely understood herself.

Debrah laughed and patted Selene on the shoulder. "Oh, you're adorable. I never thought you meant anything else. Honest." She winked at Arthur, and then she and George headed out. "But the three of us should talk soon, brunch?"

"Oh, uh...." Selene looked like she was caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

"We'd love to." Kat assured his mom. "We want to learn as much as we can about Arty here." She nodded toward Arthur, who frowned for some reason she hoped he would explain later.

Debrah nodded and followed her husband out of the kitchen and into the garage. Arthur, Kat, and a blushing Selene followed them out and headed to their car parked in the drive.

This time, Kat let Selene take the front seat, and she took the back bench for herself. The drive back was quiet until Selene started the conversation.

"I'm sorry, Master." Selene said. "I didn't mean to embarrass you."

Arthur raised an eyebrow at her. "You didn't embarrass me."

"I feel like I did. I was just... nervous. For some reason." Selene admitted.

"Because you were meeting your boyfriend's parents." Kat suggested. "It's normal."

"Except Arthur's not my boyfriend." Selene corrected her.

Kat sighed. "Fine. Because you were meeting your Master's parents. I'm sure it's perfectly normal to be even more nervous in that case."

Arthur chuckled softly. "They liked you." He assured her. "And I like you." He reminded Selene. "You were a very good girl."

"But-" Selene started.

"Ah-" Kat interrupted. "Say thank you, Master, and accept his praise like a good slave."

Selene was quiet for a moment. "Thank you, Master."

Arthur looked at Kat with a look of gratitude. She nodded to him silently, and silence reigned once more.

"Why did you frown at me when I accepted brunch with your mom?" Kat asked Arthur from the backseat.

"Oh-" Arthur started. "Sorry. It wasn't about the brunch thing. I just really don't like being called Arty. I let my mom get away with it because she refuses to call me anything else, but I would really appreciate it if you never called me that again."

"Oh. Okay." Kat shrugged. "I'm sorry, I mean: yes, Sir."

Arthur laughed. "You know, you don't have to call me Sir when we're not playing."

Kat laughed and shook her head. "Sorry, I'm just so used to automatically correcting myself already, and I've only worn the collar like twice."

Arthur laughed with her, and the ride went silent again for a while.

"But we're gonna fuck up that Lynn bitch, right?" Selene punctured the silence so suddenly that it nearly startled Arthur, who'd been paying attention to the road.

"What?" Arthur asked.

"Oh yeah." Kat nodded. "We're gonna fuck with her until she moves out. Easy peasy."

Arthur felt that the responsible adult thing to do was to tell them not to do that. This was, naturally, the case. Yet, he found that unilateral unwavering support was the only thought he could have toward that idea.

"And if she says one mean thing to or about you, I will slap her in fucking face." Selene huffed. "I am tiny but fierce!"

"And you can kick like a horse." Kat said with all the wisdom of experience from someone kicked more than once in childish violence.

"Yeah." Selene agreed. "And if we get Kelly to rent with us, she'd fuckin' destroy any bitch."

"Kelly?" Arthur asked.

"Yeah. She's built like an MMA fighter. Hourglass figure, sure, and great body, but she's got muscles. Like a lot of them." Selene explained.

"I know." Arthur laughed. "I'm the one who's seen her naked."

"I have too!" Selene laughed. "If you count locker room showers."

Arthur nodded his assent to the validity of her argument.

"So there's me, Kat, Kelly, Mindy, and a few other potential prospects." Selene explained.

"I don't know if we can count Kelly in or not." Arthur shrugged.

"You wouldn't want to rent one of those rooms to Kelly?" Kat asked.

"I mean, I would, but I don't know if she'd want to or if she can break her lease or any of those details." Arthur admitted. "I haven't thought about who else to suggest for housemates."

Kat laughed. "Just leave it to Selene. She's got a list. She wants to turn that house into a stable full of women for you to fuck."

Arthur looked at Kat by way of the rearview mirror, and she was smiling back at him. "Well, there's an idea."