Finding a solution

"So this Harem Effect means anything I say or do effects everyone who've eaten Caleb's cum?"

Sonia shook her head and said, "No Kat, it affects every woman around you, distance matters though. It's just stronger for the ones Caleb's been with. They don't have to eat his cum either. Eating his cum, and the amount they eat, just means it will effect them more than others. If he were to just stretch them, the strength of the effect is smaller but still stronger than the general public. Breeding them is nearly as strong as feeding them his cum, but that loops back around to what I was saying about June and your mom."

"Okay. Hold on. I think I feel a headache coming on. Let me get this straight. Women will be drawn to emulate me and the rest of the harem, but it's strongest with me because Caleb supposedly loves me the most. Or at least, because I'm his chosen queen. Women that have strong similarities to a specific person in the harem will also be drawn to them. So like people that love cooking will try to emulate Gabbie if they find out she loves cooking too, right?"

Sonia tilted her hand in a gesture meaning 'almost', "Sort of. Saying something or acting a certain way has the greatest effect. Think of it like being a movie star or other celebrity. People that like a certain celebrity want to be more like them, so they start to emulate their traits. Ones that dislike them will try to be less like them. Take your goth look for example. You are famous now, so your goth look will be in vogue. Your opinion holds more weight with people simply because you are famous."

Kathy nodded. Melissa had mentioned that to her already. Being on television, the weather girl knew of what she spoke.

Sonia continued to explain, "But you, as the newest Harem Queen, have a greater effect on the women around you. The way the Harem Effect works is more spiritual than emotional or mental. The things you desire will also affect other women, even if you never tell a soul what it is you like or want. If you suddenly decided you hate pizza, other women will like pizza a little bit less, even if you never tell anyone. You love flowers and gardening, so other women will also start to like those things, even if they didn't before."

Kathy took in Sonia's words and considered them carefully. "Okay, so we need to be really careful what we say, especially around large groups of people, and anywhere a camera or microphone could hear us. And we also need to wear a wider variety of clothes styles and colors because this harem effect makes women want to wear the types of clothes we wear. And the harem effect also means June and my mom could wind up suffering from a weird form of depression if they keep having regular sex with their husbands. I don't get that part."

Sonia explained, "It's simple but different for each woman. The harem effect causes a woman to feel as if she is betraying the Stretcher King AND her husband if she has regular sex with both of them. If Caleb breeds her, the depression goes away, her love for their child will cancel out the effect. Taking his seed into her womb and producing a child is an extremely intimate act. But for a Stretcher King, it means even more. He can't impregnate her unless they both want it. There is no greater symbol of love than creating life together."

Kathy felt her heart patter. She loved Caleb dearly, and wanted his child. Sonia's words only made her want it more.

"If June almost completely stops having sex with either of them, the depression goes away, but gradually. And finally, if she increases the number of men she has sex with, basically becoming a whore, the depression will not effect her. But that will cause her not to care anymore, about anyone, including herself."

"Well then what about my mom? How is she different?" Kathy asked.

"First, Caleb already bred her. And second she isn't truly family until Caleb marries you. But, you desire a sexual relationship between him and your mother. Even if you hadn't told her, as long as you desire it, the harem effect will play its role in her life as if he had never bred her, and he already owned her. It will cause the same form of depression for her that it will for June, because you want them together. The harem effect will basically punish her if she doesn't give herself to him."

"So why is the sisterhood offering to trap my sister into this?" Kathy was confused and hurt. She loved her dad very much. But Caleb was everything she ever dreamed of in a man. He called her his perfect girlfriend and his harem queen, but it was he who was perfect in her eyes. She wanted to share him with others. Women that were worthy of him. And who was more worthy than her own mother? Or her own sisters?

Sonia could see the grief on Kathy's face. She wrapped her in a hug and said, "I am so sorry. Please forgive me. We... The sisterhood and I, we only want to help you get what you desire. You are my queen, and I love you. You have to believe me. I would never do anything to hurt you. We just wanted to help you get your sister Cora for our king. If you say no, we will forget we ever offered."

Kathy knew deep in her heart that what Sonia said was true. This cursed 'Harem Effect' knew that deep in her heart Kathy didn't want to hurt anyone ever. Which, if she understood correctly, meant Sonia didn't want to either. All Kathy wanted was to love and be loved. But now that Kathy knew all the aspects of this 'Harem Effect', she had to chose who to hurt, her father and Harold, or her mother and June?

It was a tough decision. But there was one thing separating the two situations. From everything Kathy had seen, Harold was the ideal father and husband. He loved his wife and children very much, and they loved him in return. Harold, whom she'd only met a few days previously, treated Kathy like she were his own child, but also with the respect of her position in his son's harem.

Her own father seemed different from the man she knew growing up. Ever since her mother healed him, he had changed. His hugs weren't the same as she was used to. With his sight regained, the way he looked at her was different from what she remembered. It was an unsettling look that made her feel confused and uncomfortable.

Kathy hadn't mentioned it to anyone, not knowing what it meant. But it didn't change her mind either. She loved her mother more than a daughter should. She still wanted to be with her, and also share the man she loved with her mother, and now her sisters as well. Her boyfriend had raised an obstacle to her goal by gifting her mother the ability to heal her father. It made her love Caleb and his giving nature even more, giving her father back his health, but it also frustrated her.

Her father was in the way, and she had no one she could tell, not even priestess Sonia.

The door to the den burst open and Caleb came stomping into the room. He saw them embracing and the tears in Kathy's eyes and said, "I guess you've already seen it then."

The den was getting crowded. All of the women from before were again in attendance. In addition Harold was home from work, bringing Cindy with him. And finally Mary, Brandy, and Mark had come over so that Sonia could explain what the 'Harem Effect' was and what exactly it did.

Caleb was alone with his thoughts. He hadn't said a word through Sonia's explanation, or the many questions and answers that flowed around the room. He'd already figured out that the watch made changes to reality without him intending it to, on top of the sometimes screwy way it changed things when he wasn't specific with his normalities.

This Harem Effect was the consequences of his own desire to make Kathy happy. She'd been unpopular and bullied all through middle school and high school, and he wanted to change that. And he had. She wasn't afraid to walk down the halls of the school alone anymore. Her biggest fear was another groping by the football players, or being teased, pushed around, and insulted by the cheerleaders. No one would dare touch her now, thanks to him. But his fucking with reality seemed to have created a mountain of problems as well.

"-and you can't turn it off? Like, you can't stop wanting mom and me to fuck Caleb?" Brandy angrily asked.

"No she can't. Weren't you listening? Sonia said deep seated desires can't be turned off, no matter how hard someone tries. They are part of her personality. The Harem Effect changes her too. She loves Caleb and wants to share him with others, like a good harem queen should. Even if she didn't want to share him when he claimed her, the harem effect makes her want to now. She wants you to fuck him because she love you, you idiot. And for fuck sake, stop trying to pretend like you don't want to fuck him. You can't even look at him without your nipples getting hard and your eyes lighting up."

That voice got Caleb's attention. He looked up. Of all the people to defend Kathy, to see Heather doing it was bizarre. She had her arms around Kathy like a mother would a child. Heather of all people. The once proud queen bitch of the school. The cat lingerie and whisker makeup made it look comical.

Brandy got to her feet and hollered, "Listen here, you little bitch! You are the one that bullied my baby sister all these damn years! So don't act like you care now!"

Finally Harold stood and shouted, "That's enough! I need a damn drink. Mark, would you step out with me."

"Uh, sure Harold," Mark said. He still wasn't able to move around very fast since he regained the ability to walk. But thanks to Mary's miracle milk, which she'd fed him with every meal, he was rapidly improving.

Harold waved to his son, "Caleb, you come too. We need to talk."

Caleb followed the men out of the room. Harold walked straight to the bar near the entertainment room. He looked over the drinks Zuri had stocked the bar with, and said over his shoulder, "What'll you have Mark?"

"Got any whiskey? How bout a Jack and Coke? Heavy on the Jack."

Harold poured three glasses and passed them out saying, "Drink it son. I figure it's your liquor, you might as well enjoy it. You might need it with what I gotta say."

Harold drank his whole glass in one pull and poured himself another.

Caleb tried to emulate his father but as soon as the burn hit his throat he coughed and sputtered half his drink all over his shirt. The two older men laughed. Grinning at him, Mark chuckled, "Drink it slow, till you're used to it."

Harold took a deep breath, "Son, I love your mother very much. She means the world to me. And that's why what I'm about to say is the hardest thing I ever have. This damn harem curse is going to break her unless I give her up. So I am. I'm giving her to you. I know you'll love her as much as I do."

Caleb quickly said, "But you don't have to do that. I can stop being with her and the problem should solve itself."

Harold shook his head and said, "It's a nice thought. But it won't work. Kathy loves your mom too. Mark and Mary did too good a job raising their little girl. She loves just a bit too easy and just a bit too much. Just like with her mom and sisters, she'll want your mom with you too. You already own her, and like Sonia said, anyone you own will suffer from the curse if they get with any other man."

Mark put his hand on Caleb's shoulder, "No one ever talks about the bad part of being a Stretcher King. Every guy wants to be one, cuz they have no idea what it will do to them. I'm sorry."

The three men silently sipped their drinks, each one alone with his thoughts.

"There you boys are. We didn't know there was a bar in here. We went out to the one by the pool."

Caleb turned and saw June, Mary, and Cindy, each carrying some sort of cocktail, walking their way.

June put her arms around Caleb as Cindy hugged Harold and Mary hugged Mark. "We have come up with a solution that will solve the problem. We think."

June looked up at Harold and said, "I want a divorce."

Then Mary said, "Me too."

Then Cindy said to Harold, "And I can never marry you."

The silence that followed would let you hear a pin drop.

June smirked, "Wow. Total silence. Okay, I owe you a dollar Mary."

Looking at her husband she said, "All joking aside, I already know what you came out here to say. We followed the same logic. You want Caleb to keep me."

Harold looked away, but June continued, "I'm not going to stop having sex with you Harold. I didn't let you be with Cindy so you could replace me. And Cindy wants to be with both of us, not just you. She's my girlfriend too now. I'm not even sure this Harem Effect is even actually working on me. I don't feel any different aside from how I feel about Caleb and Amelia, and the rest of the girls. I was never going to be in charge at this house, so Kathy's worry that I am being compelled to give up the position, or that I somehow feel like I'm betraying my son, is crap. Our son loves you, and wants us to be together. And you love when I tell you about what he does to me in bed. How many times did you and Cindy roleplay as me and Caleb this weekend while I watched?"

Harold couldn't meet his wife's eyes, until she bent down and put her face right in front of his. "If, and I mean If, I start to be effected by this curse, or whatever we're calling it, I can have my son's baby," she said. "But I am not giving you up, Harold. Not now, not ever."

Once again her words were met with total silence.

Mary kissed Mark on the cheek, "The same won't work for us. But like June said, if I start to change, we can address it then. To prevent the curse from effecting me, I will be joining Caleb in bed occasionally, but I am not giving you up either. Tell him your theory June."

June put her hand on Mark's arm and said, "I think the reason I'm not being effected is because of Cindy. I think she's sort of acting like a buffer between us. I don't feel like I'm betraying either my husband or my son because they both have someone else to enjoy without me. Caleb has his harem and Harold has Cindy."

Mary squeezed Mark in another hug and said, "I would rather share our bed with another woman than leave you. That would break our daughter, she'll blame herself. And you know she will, if we don't do something to protect her. So I am going to be wildly enthusiastic about the idea. I will probably join in too. Hell, I joined a womens club for a while after you got sick, so it's not like it would be my first time with a woman."

Once again Mary said nothing about the evening Caleb bred her. The same evening she spent with Caleb, her youngest daughter, and two of his harem members. It was a secret she wasn't willing to divulge to her husband. He had no need to know that she'd cum on their daughter's tongue.

Mark sighed and said, "What if it doesn't work? What then? And it's not like we have someone like Cindy to go to."

June spoke. "Well, I have an idea. There are dozens of lesbians clubs in the area. Mary could look there for someone willing to have a threesome with the two of you. And there are all kinds of dating apps for people looking for a threesome. Mary is gorgeous, and you're pretty good looking too, so finding a woman, even if she isn't long term, should be pretty easy."

Cindy said, "I think I can help out too. Yesterday Harold mentioned the night he and Caleb fucked Harold's mom together and how much he really enjoyed it. Now, I can't ever have sex with Caleb obviously, but the two of you could do that to me. I've always wanted to be with two guys at once."

June asked, "Harold, are you ok with sharing Cindy? At least until Mark and Mary have found someone?"

Harold smiled and said, "I don't have a problem with that. Hell, as long as we're sharing, why not all five of us get together? I don't see why not as long as we only play with our own wives. Watching you girls during our refractory periods might be kinda fun. We could have our own little orgies. What do you say Mark?"

Mark hesitated until Mary nodded her head, "Ok, we can try that. Just, you know, to keep our wives from feeling this curse, you understand."

Mary rubbed her hand along her husband's crotch and said, "Sure babe. Riiiiight."

June smiled and said, "Oh good. I was tired of packing today anyway. Let's go tell Kathy we have a solution. Is it six o'clock yet? I'm hungry."

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