Yes

I need to face facts. I'm losing! And if I lose. He's going to turn me into a lesbian. Wedding. Me wearing a wedding dress. My shoulders slumped and I just felt so good. I always did want to get married but not to a girl. I wanted to be a wife and maybe have a kid. I never decided on that to be honest. I was always a bit tom-boyish so I never really dreamed of a wedding before.

I just... didn't feel angry anymore. "So, then how would you help me in this game?"

He just smiled. "Ironically enough I don't think you need my help exactly. Just think about it. What you have done in this game. What mistakes did you make?" he asked.

I looked up and began wondering. "I was always so angry. Acting impulsively. I never thought about long term strategies. I was just swinging wildly and hoping it worked."

He clapped. "Now that is the smart student I picked for my game."

Looking around I noticed something. "You talk about it pretty casually in a public place. Is this, let me guess. Another winner?"

"Right again! She put in the aquarium for me," he said. "This is my special booth, it actually surprisingly sound proofed and it doesn't even seem like it."

Now that he mentioned it. I realized I couldn't hear anyone in the crowds around us. It was like we were alone, nothing to distract from the little space we shared. It was so easy to think. I felt like even before this game, I was angry so often and it blinded me from thinking for too long. I had met winners and if we assume he didn't lie. How did they do things differently-

"That's it," I said. "Your inability to lie. People use that to corner your choices indirectly. But how do people get you to make deals that are disadvantageous?"

"It's all about the bet," he said. "And juggling. Right now you're already juggling a lot of punishments. You understood right from the start you could make deals to remove punishments but you never thought about using them to make the game easier. Rewards!"

"And I have to offer something of value," I said. "The bet is if I can still manage?"

"Now your getting it! God I been waiting for this!" he said visibly excited.

"A reward could be you writing something in the book that can help me or a promise?" I asked.

He nodded. "But remember, if you even attempt to harm me or get me in legal trouble, all promises are voided. So Tessa, the most tenacious player I have ever had. Are you willing to make a big bet? Or is that calmness suppressing the other part I loved about you?"

More than anything right now I wanted to get married and the man of my dreams was out there. And Samuel was threatening to take our marriage away from both of us. I wasn't angry. I didn't care about hurting him. I wanted to win, for my own sake. And for that. I would beat Lisa. I would beat Samuel. I would use all of this to win. I felt calm. I felt relieved. But I felt determined!

"3 days in which you are not allowed to manipulate me of my picking in a future date of my picking and in return. I will give my virginity to anyone you tell me to," I said.

"2 days," he countered. "Or, agree that you will also not have an orgasm until you lose your virginity. Then I will give you 4 days. And to be clear. Because I get to pick, you are breaking your promise if you have sex of any kind with anyone, and that includes masturbating, without my approval. Deal?"

4 days? over half the time and all I had to do is no sex until he made me? "Sure but once you pick and I have sex those restrictions are lifted."

He offered his hand over the table. "Deal! Remember once you shake, your locked in. You get a penalty game if you break the rules."

I shook his hand. "Deal!" It finally felt like I was in the game. It may have been the bottom of the 7th inning. But I wasn't giving up yet. Not just for me. But for Kat too.

Food arrived and I was excited. I hadn't eaten anything today and after my intense workout, calories were something I desperately needed.

Tessa Brooks Rule you will get increasingly horny the longer you are awake, it being unable to go down by any metric until you fall asleep, and in addition to that, your lips, ears and fingertips will become very sensitive and cause you large amounts of sexual pleasure but never enough to orgasm from them alone.