Fire and papers.

I received a very important call that next Friday. Extremely important, really. After school, I parted ways with the girls and got in a car with none other than Luke Allen. He called me earlier that day to tell me it was finally time to do what finally needed to be done.

We were going to meet with the current owner of the property I wanted to buy and sign all the paperwork.

Something strange, however, was that Luke seemed… eager. Not exactly in a hurry but he was a bit impatient, tapping his finger on the wheel of his car while we were stuck in traffic.

“Um… Is the owner of the lot waiting for us already?” I asked him.

“Hm? Oh, no, no. Don’t worry we’re not late,” he assured me with a smile. A very… happy smile. A bright smile.

…

Oh, right.

“Sorry, I guess I am a little antsy today,” he admitted, his smile still in place. “But I really need to make sure you receive your part of the deal, Oliver.”

I smiled, too, happy for him. “So… You tested the potion?”

His cheeks took a light, pink tint. Somewhat fitting on a man who looked as young as he did, not so much on a man who was actually much older than that.

“There are some few hiccups I’d like to fix before we sell it as a completed product, but the Lust Elixir works just as we had hoped. Danglars assures me the euphoria I’ve been feeling since last night is entirely natural and not from any kind of magical ailment. Side effects so far include a mild yet uncomfortable and lasting bout of drowsiness when waking up and unnatural hunger. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten so many waffles at breakfast. In fact, I think I was craving sweets in particular, but I don’t know if that’s just me.”

“And the expected… effects?”

Luke took a deep breath. “Three hours of uninterrupted enhancement. I felt my body grow hotter, my libido rise and not come down. For the first time, I was able to have a foursome and outlast my partners. And not just that.” He grinned excitedly. “I realize it is what we’re doing, but I bet you can understand when I say it felt magical.”

I chuckled. “Oh yeah.”

“The mind-numbing pleasure, like everything I felt was as usual, only 3 times stronger and better. And it wasn’t just me feeling it. Through me as the conduit, the girls felt it too. Oliver, I need to give you what I promised I would. I need to thank you for the best night of my life and making my wish of 5 long years finally a reality.”

That was what made me notice it. Luke was glowing, yes, and it was easy to notice it was from a great night of amazing sex. But that wasn’t all, and the fact that he was so elated from it helped me notice. Luke was possessed by a Spirit of Greed. His spirit fed on the ecstasy of acquiring his heart’s deepest desires. So, to put it in lewd terms, Luke finally had his release after 5 years of blue balls and edging.

Sheesh. No wonder the guy was beaming.

“I’d like to ask you a question, Oliver, but if it’s too uncomfortable to answer, feel free to say so.”

I nodded. “Go ahead.”

“What I felt last night… I guess you don’t exactly know what I felt, but… Is it always like that for you?”

I smiled bashfully and rubbed the back of my neck. “Well… You want me to be honest, right?”

“Of course!”

“Then… Yes, I suppose it would be something like that. Though if I’m not pressed for time, three hours is not enough.” Luke seemed a bit surprised by it, but I continued after a deep breath. “There’s hunger, a fire in me that just won’t go away. Even if I do it from dusk to dawn, there’s always a small, lingering sensation that I want more. Even doing it with five girls at the same time…” I clicked my tongue. “It worries me sometimes.”

Luke’s expression grew somber, serious. He nodded once. “You’re strong, Oliver.”

“What? No, far from it.”

Luke shook his head. “You may think we’ve been blessed with power, but the truth is we’ve been cursed. That hunger, that fire… I know well what you mean. The desire to take more despite having enough, the need to reach for a new goal, a new item or a new sensation. It never goes away, and it threatens to ruin you. A strong mind will allow you to hold it back, but that urge rears its head regardless.”

“...”

I knew what he meant. Times when the fire was too strong to put out, times when I felt like I lost myself in the pleasure and thought of nothing but sex. The girls said I became wilder, more intense, sometimes rougher. They said they liked it, but…

“Still, I’d rather not think of Frey as a curse.”

Luke smiled fondly. “So you have a good relationship with your spirit? I’m jealous. Took about a year for Danglars and I to see eye to eye.” He shook his head in resignation. “He kept pushing me to get more and more. To lie, to steal, to take advantage of every fool with money. It was tempting every time.”

“What stopped you?”

“Logic. It was the only thing that silenced him for a while. I would need to convince myself, and in turn him, that those moves would only hinder us. That immediate profits would be minimal compared to future profits. Like I said, it took a year for him to see that.” Luke then grinned all of a sudden. A big, casual and smug grin. “And after five years, we finally got this rare thing we wanted. Not only that, but a steady supply of it from our partnership with you. Feels good to keep proving him wrong.”

That got a laugh out of me. Didn’t imagine Luke having a side like that.

We arrived at the meeting place a few minutes after, but I won’t bore you with the details. It was nothing more than business talk and a lot of paperwork that Luke handled while giving me easy to understand explanations of what everything was. By the end of it, the money had changed hands and so had the ownership of that large and expensive plot of land.

I held the documents with my name and my signature in them, stating me as that new owner, and felt for the very first time how damn heavy a piece of paper could be.

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