And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"

Nick’s hands crested over Kim’s silky-smooth skin, soaked in sweat from the steam of the sauna. And she couldn’t keep her hands off him in turn. The two of them groped at each other as Kim straddled him, digging her tongue around in his mouth as she grabbed fistfuls of his hair.

“Hah… oh, yes, please,” she moaned into his mouth, leaning forward and pressing her chest into his.

Nick groaned, feeling her soft breasts push up against him, and his hips bucked as his dick hardened. He was ready to call the date here and now, and just get on to the action.

He could tell that Kim felt the same way.

And yet, in spite of the heat coming off her, and the burning desire in her eyes, she still managed to tear herself away from him.

A hot gaze traded between the two of them. Kim was panting, and seemed to practically be steaming herself. She swallowed, and stumbled off of his lap, holding her stomach.

“Please… I just… we can’t,” she said, shaking her head. “Not yet. Not… not until tonight. We’re just getting a little hot under the collar, that’s all…”

She swallowed again, looking ready to pounce for a second time. And as much as Nick agreed with her desire to wait, part of him wanted to just let her take him here and now.

But… she was right.

He shook his head. “Yeah, Kim. I guess… maybe they put aphrodisiacs in the steam here, too, maybe?” He was just joking, but he wouldn’t put it past Dakota to do something like that.

Kim clearly felt the same way, because she laughed and nodded along with him.

“I think we both need some time to cool off,” she said, wiping her sweaty forehead.

“Yeah,” Nick agreed, and they headed towards the door together, and out into the hall.

After a few seconds to calm down, and dry off with some towels conveniently hanging on the wall, Nick and Kim headed back to the changing room to go get dressed again.

Kim caught Nick by the wrist before he could enter, though.

“Just because I stopped it… that doesn’t mean that I didn’t want it to happen,” she said adamantly, staring into his eyes. From the gleam of determination in them, Nick could see that it took everything Kim had to pry herself out of his lap. Just like it took everything he had not to hold her there.

“I know,” Nick assured her. “And not just because your breasts would be growing right now if that wasn’t the case.”

Kim gave him a sour look, but it quickly morphed into a smile and a playful giggle. She shook her head and rolled her eyes.

“So much for relaxing, right?” She laughed. “All it took was us being alone together naked, and we were all over each other. Maybe you were right, and Dakota did put aphrodisiacs into that sauna too?”

Even though she was laughing, she couldn’t help but remember what had happened with Vivian in the sauna and how that had affected her. But she pushed those thoughts aside. This wasn’t about Vivian- she had already resolved any issues with Vivian, after all.

Or at least, she would later.

No, today was about her relationship with Nick. She put all those things out of her mind, and turned back to Nick, still naked, while he was getting dressed.

Nick paused in the middle of buttoning up his shirt and looked questioningly at Kim. “What’s up?” He asked curiously.

“Are you getting hungry yet?” Kim asked.

Odd question, considering how big of a lunch they had. Nick wasn’t hungry- not unless he wanted to be. They’d thoroughly proved that when it came to Dream Alley.

“I mean, I guess I could eat,” he acknowledged. “Why?”

“I was hoping we could have an early dinner together,” Kim said, holding her hand over her heart. “The two of us, you know? Get something fancy, and then… go and spend the rest of the night together?”

She was using unspecific language because she wanted to save things for a surprise. Nick sensed that, and decided to go along with it.

“Hey,” he said, shrugging and holding out his hands to the sides. “Today is your day, Kim. Whatever you want to do, that’s what we’ll do.”

Kim smiled, and nodded. “Well, good. Because I wanted to go relax in the hot springs first, and then… well, maybe we could get something nice to eat.”

That was why she hadn’t gotten dressed yet. And frankly, Nick was fine with her suggestion.

“Sure,” he said, taking his clothes back off. “That works for me.”

The best part about the fancy spa being located in Dream Alley was the convenience. In a normal spa, or hot spring, you’d have to go through the facility again perhaps to get to the springs. That was how it was back in the Shopping District, since the hot spring there was separated from the spa.

But here?

With just a wave of her hand Kim conjured a door leading from the changing room out to the hot springs, like it was the most natural thing in the world.

Again, convenient.

The two of them headed out, and found exactly what Kim expected to be there. A small spring, just the right size for the two of them. Not like the grandiose and fancy hot spring Sylvia had conjured to show off back on the island, designed for an entire harem to use at their leisure if they wanted. No, this one was a couples’ spring, for two.

And it seemed just perfect, nestled in the cluster of a bamboo grove, with no walls or barriers to separate them from the outside world. There didn’t need to be any, after all- nobody else was here.

They could have this space all to themselves.

The excited couple headed to the spring, and entered the water. It was the perfect temperature, because of course it was.

“Wow! It’s deeper than I thought,” Nick said, sitting down and feeling the water come up to his chest. With how narrow the spring was, he anticipated it to be shallow, like a kiddie pool, but no, it was perfectly sized to fit them both.

“I’m surprised too,” Kim said as she sat down beside him, snuggling close. “Look! For the first time ever, my boobs are floating in the water!”

Well, she’d said he could look. It would be rude not to, right?

“I don’t suppose you’d be interested in me keeping this as a long-term transformation?” Kim asked sarcastically, noticing how he couldn’t help but admire her breasts.

Nick sighed.

Apparently, this was something he would need to address.

“Kim… you’ve been asking that a lot,” he said. “Are you really that insecure about your body that you would feel that way?”

Kim winced. She pulled back her hand, and curled up, pressing her knees against her expanded boobs.

“…I am a little,” she admitted, looking down at the smoky water. “I mean… I’m not blind you know. You’ve got girls like Carly and Marley, with their breasts… and last night, you were with Gina, and she’s got a huge chest, too! And then there’s Mary… do you even remember how she was when she first got here? Her breasts were way smaller than mine, and now-!”

“I know,” Nick said, placing his hand over hers in the water. “I knew her back when she looks like that all the time, remember?”

Kim bit her lip. That didn’t make her feel better. “But now you’re married,” she mumbled. “And she’s so curvy now. And me… I worked so hard to get in shape, but…”

“And you look amazing now!” Nick said. “Do you think you don’t?”

“No, I know I do,” Kim said, shaking her head. “I feel very proud of myself for losing that weight and getting more toned! But at the same time… you keep staring at my boobs now. And yeah, you say you like my chest regardless of how big it is, but when you keep looking at me in ways you didn’t before, back when I was so slender… that… that makes me wonder, you know?”

She knew it wasn’t Nick’s fault for having preferences. And she knew that he wasn’t lying when he said he liked her regardless of how large her breasts were- after all, he’d proven that before, plenty of times. He was with Dawn, too, wasn’t he?

And yet, she couldn’t ignore how he looked at her, either.

Nick winced. His cheeks were reddening, and it had nothing to do with the heat of the water around them or the steam.

“Kim… it’s not what you think,” he said.

“In what way?” Kim sat up in the water and looked at him with a suspicious eye. “What exactly do I ‘think’ Nick?”

That was the question boring a hole in him.

Nick swallowed.

“Clearly… you’re thinking that I keep getting drawn to your big boobs.”

“Because you are.”

“Well… yes. But it’s not because I think big boobs look better on you, Kim. That’s not why I think that way.”

Kim felt an anxious pressure in her heart. She wanted to know the truth, but also, with everything he was saying…

“Then… why?” She asked in barely a whisper.

Nick swallowed. He felt himself burning with shame answering this question, but honesty was essential here. He couldn’t just hide his preferences from a woman who was seriously considering spending the rest of her life with him (and who might not have a choice in that matter in the first place).

“Because… I think, it’s because I have a fetish.”

Kim stared blankly at him.

“…For breast expansion?” She bluntly asked.

“Yes! …Well, no,” Nick stammered, scratching his head sheepishly. “I just, um… look, it’s not what you’re thinking…”

“You said that already.” Kim crossed her arms over her expanded chest and narrowed her eyes. Nick was being pretty squirrely and she wanted to know why. “What’s up, Nick? What’s the story here? You keep dodging the question.”

She’d gone from worried and anxious to confrontational pretty fast.

“Last night, with Gina…”

Kim tensed. Nick tensed too. He knew that was probably the worst way to start this conversation, especially on a date that was meant to be between the two of them.

But if Kim could talk about Vivian, couldn’t he talk about… his issues?

“It’s not her specifically,” he assured her. “But I may have… accidentally… cum inside of her.”

“…Accidentally,” Kim said, her blunt tone turning even harsher somehow as she strained to understand the possibility he presented. “You accidentally came inside her?”

“I-I couldn’t pull out in- look, that’s not the issue here!”

“Then why did you bring it up!?” She demanded, leaning intensely forward, pressing her breasts up against his shoulder and sending him blushing.

“I-I think… I think I have a pregnancy fetish, that’s why!” Nick finally relented, closing his eyes and bracing himself for the inevitable fallout of admitting the secret he’d been trying so hard to escape from all this time.

When all he received in return was silence, he slowly cracked an eye open.

Kim was giving him a blank stare.

“…That’s it? I thought that was obvious,” she replied.

“Wh-what?!” Nick straightened up and looked at her in shock. “What do you mean you thought it was obvious?!”

“Well, was it supposed to be some big secret?” Kim rolled her eyes. “We had this conversation before, remember? When you were cumming inside of girls left, right, and center?”

“I-I didn’t tell you I had a-! I didn’t even know at the time-!”

“Yeah, but it was obvious,” Kim said. “I bet Dawn probably figured it out, too. And I doubt she’s the only one, either.”

Ugh. That was just what Nick needed, judgment from the smallest know-it-all in the world.

“Oh god… this… this is a nightmare…” Nick rubbed his temples and sighed. “Kim, look, I-”

“So that explains it then…” Kim stroked her chin thoughtfully. She moved her hands down to her breasts and began to caress them, almost like she was feeling up their size. They were more sensitive than before thanks to the transformation, and they felt softer, too. She felt herself heating up again like she did in the sauna.

“I… listen, Kim, you’ve gotta believe me, I didn’t want to get Gina pregnant. And I’m not going to go around on some kind of breeding quest or anything, I swear!” Nick was **** to get her to see his side of things, but he was so confused and flustered he wasn’t even sure how to properly articulate his side.

He was only just now starting to come to terms with this fetish, after all.

Kim was more focused on her own thoughts, anyhow. She turned and looked at him. “Well, obviously, you don’t really need to do that,” she said. “You’ve got Mary for that, after all. And I doubt she’s the only girl in your harem obsessed with making little Nick babies.”

Vivian’s face flashed into her mind. Regardless of how composed and dignified (and obnoxious) the heiress came off, Kim remembered that Vivian had a transformation of her own, one that encouraged her to want to make children.

Would that happen this round?

No wonder she was anxious about her upcoming date with Nick.

But Kim was more focused on the other issues he’d presented.

“So if I’m getting this right, the reason you find my breasts growing so sexy, that’s because of this breeding kink of yours?” Kim asked, studying Nick carefully.

“Please… please don’t call it that,” Nick begged.

“What should I call it then?” She asked.

“…A pregnancy fetish?” Nick’s voice was pleading, but Kim felt that was a distinction without a difference.

Still, no sense in being belligerent about it.

“Fine, your… pregnancy fetish then. Do I have it about right?”

Nick nodded, biting his lip. “It’s the only explanation I can come up with,” he said. “Because I mean it, I don’t care about breast size, and I never have. But seeing your breasts slowly growing, I don’t know, it’s like…”

“It’s like when boobs fill up with breast milk,” Kim interjected. “Because the woman is pregnant.”

Nick nodded. “Exactly. I think… I think that’s what my mind keeps coming back to.”

“What about Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin, then?” Kim asked curiously. She’d spent a lot of time with the mute girl recently, so she was very aware of how her breasts were growing day by day.

Nick nodded. “Yeah, um, with her, too.”

“And Mary, obviously?”

“…Obviously.”

“Well… that’s really something, Nick,” Kim mused, stroking her chin. “It gives me a lot to think about, yes it does…”

Nick felt like he wanted to crawl into a hole and die. But he needed to be honest with her. That was how he felt, and that was how his fetish was manifesting himself. That wasn’t his fault! It was only human to feel that way!

…Right?

“So does that mean… you want to get me pregnant?” Kim asked. It was the logical next question in their conversation.

Nick sure was blindsided by it, though.

“What?!” He exclaimed. “NO!”

“Oh… so you don’t…” She made a disappointed face that caused Nick to wince.

“Look, um, I didn’t mean… it’s not that I don’t want to, it’s just-”

“Relax, Nick, I’m messing with you,” Kim replied, cracking a twisted smile.

Nick sighed in relief. He thought he was about to have a heart attack!

This girl!

“Clearly, we shouldn’t be thinking about this stuff right now, anyway,” Kim said firmly. “I mean, you and I… we haven’t even done it yet. So talking about breeding and stuff-”

“Please, please don’t call it breeding.”

“Fine,” Kim replied, smiling. “I won’t.”

Her breasts grew a little, and Nick turned red.

She didn’t even care that he knew she was lying!

But then her smile slid off her face, and her expression turned serious again.

“I’m not ready for a child,” she said firmly.

“Yeah, I- I know,” Nick said.

“I don’t think many women in your harem are.”

“Yeah, I- huh?”

Nick’s eyes were drawn to Kim’s breasts, which had started growing again. They were almost D-cups now.

And she clearly didn’t like that fact.

“Okay, what was it, huh?” She demanded, looking up at the sky. “Is this a semantic debate about what constitutes ‘many’ or something?!”

She needed to use less subjective language, that much was clear.

Nick could help but be amused by that, though.

Still, they had other issues to discuss. Kim wasn’t letting him off the hook that easily, after all.

She looked firmly at him.

“Nick… I need to tell you about my… ugh… ‘that guy’,” she said, unable to keep the contempt out of her voice. She didn’t even bother concealing the look of disgust on her face, either, which was quite something for Kim.

Nick had a pretty good idea what she was talking about.

“Kim, if this is about your last challenge-”

“That piece of human garbage abandoned my mom for another woman and child,” Kim said, leaning into every last venomous feeling she felt for the man who had sired her and ran. “And I know you’re not the same kind of guy. Especially now, after what happened, after I… learned the truth.”

She shivered and shook her head.

“But that isn’t the point. You and Mary, you’re going to be parents. And this fetish of yours, if you indulge it too much, that’s gonna be… yeah.”

“Kim, you know me,” Nick said, taking her hands. “Do you really think I’m the kind of guy who would knock up a bunch of women and then abandon them?”

“No, of course not,” Kim said. They didn’t even bother to look at her breasts to know she was being honest, her face conveyed that and then some. “But the thing is, that guy, raising me and my siblings, it was too much for him. And he just bolted. I… I don’t… I don’t want you to put so much pressure on yourself… that you might end up running away from us. From… me.”

She couldn’t believe she’d actually managed to say it. The deepest fear she had about her relationship with Nick, and the one thing she’d been holding back.

“Kim… do you really feel that way?” Nick thought that he should have been hurt by her statement, but he wasn’t. If anything, he respected Kim even more for thinking so critically about the matter.

“You have, what is it now, 12 women who are all focused on your love?” Kim asked. “Or even more, if we count some of the others? That… that’s a lot of pressure. And right now, you’re handling it. But Mary is pregnant. And the rest of us… that… you have a lot on your plate, and you’re only piling on more. If you can’t handle it? If it’s too much for you? Please, let me know, okay? I’m good at handling difficult and stressful jobs, after all, I can take some of the burden off you.”

The lopsided grin on her lips was supposed to be comforting, but Nick found it adorable more than anything.

“So what, are you volunteering to be my fluffer or something? Or my stand-in?” Nick asked, trying to lighten the mood. But Kim wouldn’t let him get away with something like that.

“I just want you to know you can rely on other people, Nick,” she said firmly. “You know that, right?”

“Yeah,” Nick said, nodding. “I know. And I promise, if I’m ever overwhelmed, then I’ll come rely on you, okay?”

“Not just me,” Kim said, shaking her head. “All of us. We can all help you, Nick.”

Knowing that, it really helped put things in perspective. Nick had been so worried about what was going to happen with Gina and her possible pregnancy. But Kim was right. He could rely on her. And on Mary. And on everyone else in his harem, too.

“It’s hard to believe you’re so mature, and only 20,” Nick said, shaking his head.

She laughed.

“Well, someone has to be!”

But still, right now, she’d had enough of that. Being mature and responsible, that was important. But relaxing and enjoying her evening with the guy she loved?

That was pretty important, too.