Chapter 5

The blue light of his phone blinked back up at him. As if to advertise the choice that was made, one that **** his eyebrows to furrow unconsciously. A small quiver of rage began to boil deep within his chest.

Congratulations! Isabella will now look to you for guidance, tough love, and discipline!

We hope you are enjoying the Idle Harem App! Would you like to leave a review?

Annoyed, he clicked away the review question and simply stared at his screen. That wasn’t what he had wanted to pick. It wasn't what Isabella deserved, the bitch deserved to be punished, to be bent over his knee and reshaped into his personal **** toy. For being such a tease for so long, leading on so many of her viewers, and being a bitch. He wanted to tear down her life, ruin it…and now he was locked into being some kind of father figure? What a joke.

Derek wanted to scream, to throw his phone at a wall and watch it explode. To get rid of the app, and let it all burn. But he held back, steeling his nerves, and peeking out his peephole to watch Xrn standing under the flickering light as she flared her wings slowly with each breath. She had **** him into this choice, or he had by just running into her. It took everything he had to not look at the app right then and there, to take control of her schedule just to bring her under his thumb like the other girls.

Sighing deeply, Derek let go of his rage as best he could. Exhaling from his nose and slumping against his door. Holding his head in his hands as he tried to look at the bright side. At least his first event was over, and it was so much fun. His cock was rock hard just thinking about it. The feeling of such a pristine ass in his hands was enough to make him nearly begin to salivate. It was different from Xrn’s, tighter and more toned as if Isabella had spent years shaping her body to the exacting elven standards. While Xrn’s ass was more full and fit perfectly into the palms of his hands.

Already comparing the two women in his mind, Derek returned to the app. Swiping away the notification of his decision, and scrolling through the three women within his grasp. Isabella, Xrn, and the Lady Andilet, he was shocked that he had managed to acquire the ancient vampiress. Derek had to be careful around her, that ritual, and the other vampires made his skin crawl. What a terrifying group of people, but now he had power. Power over her at least, he noted as the ancient vampiress’ profile unfolded before his eyes. New tasks whispering the secrets of control and power over one of the city's most influential women.

Harem Member 003: Elizibeta Andilet

Race: Ancient Vampire (Bloodreaver)

Corruption: 0

Love: -200

Obedience: 0

Stress: 78

Perks: None

Tasks: None (New Tasks Available!)

The lowest love score possible, a downside in some ways, a boon in others. It would give him the maximum amount of love events possible while being the hardest to raise. What fun. Derek pressed on the tasks menu, eyes lighting up as he beheld the variety of options. Then tilted his head to the side as he realized what he was looking at.

Masturbate while thinking of User: +1 Corruption, +20 Stress

Wear suggestive clothing to an event: +2 Corruption, +4 Stress

Write an erotic book: +1 Corruption, -2 Stress

Drink the Blood of a Hedonist: +3 corruption, -6 Stress

Tease Husband: +2 Corruption, +1 Stress

Dream about User: +1 Corruption , +3 Stress

Pose for Erotic Art: +1 Corruption, +1 Obedience, -1 Stress

Daydream about User while feeding: +1 Corruption, +4 Stress

Stalk the User: +1 Corruption, +1 Obedience, +25 Stress

Drink at a Vampire Dive Bar: +1 Corruption, -3 Stress

Mediate on the Nature of Vampirism with Family: +1 Obedience, +3 Stress

Bring Paeth Officials Under House Andilet Control: +1 Obedience, +7 Stress

Quite a few of the options were recycled from Isabella, but the ones that were unique…well they scared him a bit quite frankly. On top of that there were no ways at all for him to earn any Love Points, it was all corruption and obedience. Derek would take what he could get but it was still frustrating.

“Is this seriously the best you can do? Not even a single love point task?”

He asked his phone that seemed to grow slightly brighter at his exasperation. As if amused at something that he hadn’t quite figured out yet. And then he checked the schedule. Even less time slots available than Isabella! What the fuck? Derek got up off the floor and began to pace back and forth, only two options per day. It was going to take forever to get anything done with Eilizibeta, to reach any kind of milestone. Especially in Love Points, whenever he got a task for that. With a scowl stretched across his face, he set the schedule and put his phone down for a moment. Contemplating his next move while he sat down in his gaming chair to put on some DracoFight 4.

After several hard fought campaigns, and several hours later, Derek’s nation stood victorious above all others in his DracoFight 4 game. It had been particularly grueling, but a few key troop placements, and an early trade negotiation had tipped the scales in his favor. As well as finding some hidden resources in his starting territory. Today he had all the luck in his game, and that was finally translating to his life as well. Elizibeta would have an event in two weeks, Isabella would have her first Corruption Event. Whatever that would be, Derek told himself that he would be ready for it.

As the day dragged on, a few more games of Dracofight 4 helped pass the time. Then his phone began to buzz, not with a notification from his app, but a call from the Ice Queen. With a deep sigh of exhaustion he picked up. Knowing that the punishment for failing to do so would far outweigh the joy of leaving her to speak with his voicemail.

“Yes? Can I help you?”

He managed to get in before his boss began to speak.

“You know damn well you can help me! I told you that you were the Sales Liaison and you haven't done SHIT all week! I need you in the office NOW! They’re about to close on a deal with Greensprings to supply their heating and cooling runes in their new wellness center! I want you in the office in 15 minutes to crunch the numbers on their pitch!”

Then she hung up with a final huff, not even letting him get a word in edgewise. Even to say that he technically wasn’t on call. But Derek knew he was on thin ice, especially if this deal didn’t go through because of him. They’d fire him with cause and he’d get nothing. Might even have to sell blood to the Blood Banks. The thought of it filled him with dread. They might offer free housing and all kinds of goodies to people that “donated”, but it never sat right with him that 70% of people that took the maximum payments never stopped donating. Shaking his head to dispel those thoughts, Derek sniffed his shirt and decided to change quickly before running out the door like his pants were on fire. Xrn fluttered nervously as he sped past her.

“Where are you headed to quickly, and can I come with you?”

She called out, following behind him as he shot through the hallway. Huffing and puffing, he really should workout more often.

“Ah, headed to work! And sure!”

He shouted behind him, having no idea why he agreed. In moments Xrn was right by his side, her tits swaying back and forth beneath her light tanktop in the twilight of Paeth. Ah yes, that was two good reasons right there. She noticed him staring and crossed her top pair of arms over her chest with a light harumph. But her eyes told him that she wasn’t actually upset. That and her soft smile that flashed across her face. Derek nearly tripped, and righted himself at the last moment to stop himself from sprawling face first into the cobblestones.

Xrns lower arms reached out to steady him as they made their first turn. Sweat began to bead at his forehead as his arms pumped harder. Xrn was making it look so easy, every couple of strides she would flare her wings and hop. Gliding through the air for a dozen feet or so. It looked like so much fun, and he could hardly keep up. She wasn’t even breathing very hard, it wasn’t fair!

The office building loomed large, the sales floor, eight stories up, was lit with bright lights even though it was quite late at night. Walking into the building with Xrn following close behind, felt like somewhat of a dream. She pointed at his desk as they walked past, eyes alight with mischief.

“I’m just glad I didn’t see a photo of another girl at your desk Derek.”

She purred in his ear as they rode the elevator, arm entwined with his as she pressed her body up against his. All while he flexed his legs as hard as he could so as to not walk into this meeting with a raging hardon.

“Stay behind me, and don’t say anything to the sales guys, okay? They’re a bunch of animals.”

He managed to get out as she kissed him atop his head.

“I don’t know, I wouldn’t mind you protecting me for once…”

The doors opened and the merciful light of the sales floor welcomed Derek to his first in person meeting with the team. It was so loud he could barely hear himself think, at least for the first few seconds. Then every single person in the room turned to look at him, including the Ice Queen and the director of the sales team. He swore that his bosses eyebrow raised when Xrn stepped out of the elevator behind him, and more than one of the guys hit a wolf whistle.

“Alright, the data has already been emailed to you. Let's get those numbers and we can hit a bar afterwards. Now for the rest of you no good salesmen, get back on the goddamn phones!”

The director yelled at everyone besides Derek and gestured to a seat beside him. Meanwhile Xrn was just smiling behind him, watching her boyfriend sit down and begin to work. Bathing in the honestly much brighter lights of the office, her big eyes caught every single ray and seemed to drink it in with gusto. Derek felt better after seeing that, and opened the files one by one. Pouring over the data, and beginning to break it all down. Risk analysis, efficiency testing of their runic enchantments, cost projections on maintenance, and even possible upgrades to the base offering. It was a lot, but luckily he had a few dashboard templates prebuilt for this kind of thing. As the office chattered around him, Derek found himself in a flow state.

Data swirled in his mind, restructuring itself over and over as he found mistake after mistake. Making more than a few of his own along the way. In just an hour he was nearly done putting the finishing touches on the projections as the Ice Queen herself laid a hand on his shoulder. The chill of her touch sent shivers up his spine, but her breath against his ear was far worse.

“I knew you weren’t sick.”

She whispered, just close enough that only he could hear it. He shook her hand off and glared up at her for a moment before returning to his work. Finishing it in another ten minutes and handing it off to the Director before standing and grabbing Xrn’s hand. Pulling the mothgirl with him as he tried to storm out. Xrn pulled him back and wrapped him up in a hug in front of his coworkers.

“Don’t you want to take me out to drink? I promise we’ll have a good time.”

Her lips brushed against his ear, holding him possessively like that. Suddenly he couldn’t get the thought out of his head. Especially the idea of possibly going further tonight than just making out with his extremely hot girlfriend. As the sale closed in the background to a massive surge of cheering, Derek nodded and grinned. Following the sales team out of the building, they watched as the Director herded the team towards a bar to buy a round or two of drinks for the team. As the pair followed along, they missed one very important person. The Ice Queen, watching them both very intently while she followed along from the rear. Her footsteps leaving a small trail of frost behind her as the dragoness stalked her prey.

Authors Note: So sorry it took so long for me to write another chapter. Please enjoy this one, another will be joining it soonish. Action is going to start ramping up from here. There may be an exposition dump chapter as well just in case anyones interested in the setting and lore of the world and just wants to get to all that juicy stuff early before its revealed in the story.