The latter

“The last one” she said without hesitation looking sly.

“You just like the prerequisites don’t you...” he said looking a bit worried.

“Nooo… I would neeever!” She said making theatrical hurt expression. Only to be met by a deadpan face looking back up at her in utter silence.

“Ok... Maybe a little. That is not the only thing though! Both are good but first one doesn’t really speed up the pregnancy more than it makes more, so unless I wait 9 months I will never get to experience how that is, and assuming that I do use the effect and have more than one, that would be like carrying twins or triplets, or whoever how many I release. So I get the mass earlier but maybe super morning sickness or something. I don’t know. The other one seem to do more of what I asked for. Not so sure what the fertility part means exactly, but the latter is progression rate, that is clear.” She said, exposing her thoughts verbally while staring out blankly.

Fredric realized there was no arguing here and promptly clicked on the app to confirm the trait. He then threw the phone back to the pile of clothes nearby

“Alright, my turn now.” he said tapping her on one of the thighs that surrounded him prompting her to leave. She didn’t, she just bit her lip and looked down at him.

“Remember last time you did that” she cooed, Fredric was certain she was getting turned on again, her nethers had already wet him from the sex they had so that was hard to tell, but it was heating up again.

“Seriously Madeline! We just had sex, just chill for a moment.” he said with a sigh, resting his head on the back of the sofa.

“Fine, I’ll be nice. But please lets talk like this, you feel good” She said hugging him tightly.

Fredric was just too exhausted to continue resisting, at least she gave him peace, but he knew the app would just escalate her mood when touching. But at least now she was in the mind to listen.

“You know the purchases I made into surrounding suppliers of Agro-Tech Limited, well one of them has skyrocketed in value. Extremely so, so much so that I’m technically a millionaire...” He said, but not with a happy and excited tone a new found millionaire would normally would have.

“What! That’s great news!” She said, releasing her hug looking down at him with joy, but saw his dour look and started to hesitate. “That is great news right?”

“Well, you know the spectacle surrounding that company earlier in the news, think I mentioned it a while back. Thing is, I thought this one was genuinely harmless, or I would not have kept it. But the value spike it has suggests some severe market manipulations, something that I had to be careful to sell off to not be caught doing anything illegal. It would take time to get any large sum out of it. But to top it all off, I had a chat with a man representing some criminals that is trying to extort me of its value, making demands that I need to pay them in two weeks or they will start my life “difficult”, what ever that means.” Fredric said monotone, with his tired eyes trying to see what response he would get from her.

“Talk about mood killer.” She said relaxing back down against him but giving him room. “What are you going to do? You know the stock stuff better than me.” She tried, giving him the comfort of a hand on the shoulder.

“I tried my best this week, as I had a window that I could actually manage until Thursday, but now the delay fee that they demand I pay with the transfer of the stocks has become too much for me to manage, so right now I’m looking at ways to run and maybe live off the stocks somehow, once I figure out a way to sell it off.” Fredric tried to feel a bit hopeful for her, but could not help but sound resigned.

“Hope you weren’t planning on running away without me, I just got you were I want you, getting to know you better and better and then this shit comes.” She said with a slight anger in her voice. “But we have another week until we learn what their threat means right? Can’t be something too serious or they wouldn’t say ‘difficult’.” Fredric thought he could see the cogs turning in her head at the end, she was looking at him and not at him at the same time.

“I don’t wish to drag you down with my mistakes Madeline. This is serious stuff” Fredric tried

“I don’t fucking care, you are not getting away from me that easy, if we are going to live in some freaking slum hiding from who knows that’s fine, as long as I got you!” She said tensing up.

Fredric could not do anything but wonder what he had done to deserve her and gave her a kiss, something that relaxed her back down looking for more. But he broke it before she could get ahead of herself again.

“What did you wish to surprise me with, could really use some good news” he said with a smile.

“Oh that, uhm. It doesn’t seem like such a great surprise now.” She said a bit hesitant.

“I don’t imagine it can be worse than anything that I’d heard this week.” Fredric urged.

“I… Am moving in with you, I canceled my rental apartment contract, sold a lot of my furniture and moved the rest to storage for now. All my clothes that still kinda fit is in that suitcase there.” She said expecting an outrage but Fredric said nothing. “Surprise? Woooo...” she tried jokingly. “I had this master plan you know, of getting you onboard with the idea first, but your surprise kinda beat mine.”

Fredric just sighed and closed his eyes.

“Doesn’t really matter now, but did I not say that we should take it slower after you left last time? How is moving in taking it slower?” he said a bit drained.

“See, I had time to think of that before and why that is a bad idea. It’s the app, we are not going to escape the fact that it brought us together. Better get used to it, you better get used to me and I wish to get used to you. Anything else is just delaying the inevitable.” she said, as if it was the most obvious thing anyone could think of.

“Or we do not know how the app works, but we do know that it influences you and in order to figure out what feelings are true and not app given, we need to take time to figure it out.” Fredric argued but could not help but sound a bit demeaning “For all I know it might be urging you along to be with me and you would not actually want that.”

“No, I want to be with you, that is that! I am happy with you, with you I feel something that I have been missing, that has been painfully obvious for me this week.” She said, clamping down on him in another hug before releasing again, reaching for a blanket that was folded up on the couch armrest.

She wrapped the blanket around them like a cocoon and rested her head on his.

“Lets just enjoy the moment.” She said quietly.