[Spirit of Lust] Chapter 87: Back home. (Patreon)

Ishtar watched from William’s mind with a measure of disappointment as Reina and Ruth got in his bed and immediately fell asleep. She was hoping for a delightful, tearful reunion where the girls would embrace Will and thank him for the recue with copious amounts of sex. But maybe she was asking for a bit too much.

The girls were exhausted beyond their limits, and it was no wonder why. They had suddenly been thrown into a strange and stressful situation with beings of myth and fiction on top of a naturally draining environment. She’d be understanding this time, but the experience had been strenuous on her as well. Not nearly as bad, but it had left Ishtar with a craving for sexy times. And speaking of which…

‘How are you doing, Will?’

‘Tired, but okay. Thanks for everything today, Ishtar. I don’t know what I would’ve done if you weren’t here with me. I mean it.’

‘Yeah, I’m pretty awesome, but I only took over to make sure we had no issues with the portal. You could’ve done it, but I didn’t think it was the time to take risks.’

‘I don’t mean just that, and you know it. If you hadn’t been there… I dread to think what I could’ve done.’

‘…Sex is all about emotions. Anger is an emotion too. You’ve heard of hatefucking, haven’t you? It’s no wonder you got a surge of power from it, but it made me realize it doesn’t suit you at all.’

“…”

‘I don’t think you should feel ashamed of getting angry though. Anyone would’ve thought the same if they walked in on that scene. The only reason I stopped you was because I felt something was odd. I meant it when I said I’d help you if it turned out to be a gangbang.’

‘Please don’t put it into words…’

‘Sorry.’

‘Look, you might have been the one to start this whole thing of me… getting it on with lots of women, but I’m the one who said yes to it. I thought I’d be fine with it. I don’t need to be a wholly upstanding guy or a paragon of moral righteousness. You said it yourself once. Why do people lie and cheat and still get away with it? I… I wanted it too. I wanted to take things for myself too. But it isn’t that simple, is it? I started to care too much about the people I was playing with, and now I fear they might leave me for it. Pathetic, isn’t it?’

‘I’d suggest we try enthralling them, but…’

‘…There’d be no point to it. You know sex is not all I want.’

‘I know that very well. Rest for now, Will. We’re going to keep our promise tomorrow, aren’t we?’

‘Yeah.’

‘Then I need you in good condition. Forget about what happened today and sleep. I’ll keep watch and wake you up if anything happens.’

Will nodded, got a blanket and went to sleep on the couch. Idiot still felt too ashamed to even share a bed with his girlfriends. Ishtar would need to do something about that, but she didn’t know what.

…

When Ishtar was in dire need to find herself a new host, she had little choice. She was weak and needed someone, anyone. It just so happened she found a heartbroken young man ripe for the taking. It was extremely easy to get in. Reading his dreams she understood his pain and took advantage of it, but… did she really understand? How fearful, how terrified Will was of betrayal?

…

Ishtar had an idea, though Will wasn’t gonna like it. It was something she’d done only once to him, something she would’ve done more if Will had been even harder to control back then. She waited until he was finally asleep before she made her move. She went in deep into his unconscious mind, dug into his memories and conjured a dream.

She needed to see it with her own eyes, be there for the events that shaped Will into the fearful moron he was. And as she was doing that, another idea popped into her mind, but this one was more dangerous.

…

Oh well. She was already doing something without anyone’s consent anyway. If she was gonna get Will mad at her might as well go all the way. She focused and extended her sexual energy outside of Will’s body. Normally this would’ve been impossible, but three things that helped her manage it. For one, Ishtar felt different after coming out of the Aether Realm. Just like a person will feel lighter after taking off weights they’d been wearing to train, she felt her control was even sharper now that there was no strange energy in the way. Maybe it was only temporary, but she’d take advantage of it. Second, discovering that her sexual energy had left a mark on Reina and Ruth gave her a target, like having left a waypoint for her sexual energy to travel to without her having full control of the body. Finally, Will now trusted her. His defenses against her were better, but that was when he wanted to. Will now had very little reason to be on alert against her. As such, Ishtar created a delicate, ethereal connection between Will, Reina and Ruth. It would probably be broken if anyone so much as shook any of them. Her objective? Let the girls see what she was about to investigate.

Ishtar dove in, steering Will’s vulnerable thoughts in the right direction for him to bring up the memories himself. That didn’t take much effort. He must have been trying to suppress them, but her meddling brought them to light, just like if you tell someone not to think about an elephant and they’ll immediately think of an elephant.

Then Ishtar felt her non-existent heart being violently torn in two, and she knew she was in the right place.