The question caught him mid-cut.

Damon paused with the knife hovering, and hummed low in his throat, suddenly finding his plate fascinating.

Riveting, even, the roasted vegetables had never deserved this much scholarly attention in their lives.

Because what exactly was he supposed to say? "Funny you should ask, Aunt Lilim, I am into much women like you and MILFs like you make me so hard, and your sisters too and I have been playing with myself on your imaginations.

"And guess what? As of roughly two hours ago I have a cosmic seduction system for pleasuring myself better than any man alive, it rebuilt cock with settings, and a five-times point multiplier that specifically rewards me for conquering the kind of women sitting at this table. Oh, by the can you pass the salt"

Mara, his young sister shook her head with a helpless little smile: "Unfortunately for all of y’all, the only man in this household has zero interest in dating. Every single time we bring it up, he does exactly that." She pointed her fork at him. "He looks away."

Agrat set her glass down and fixed him with a look that was half stern, half genuinely puzzled. "By the way, what’s wrong with you, Damon? It’s not like you’re gay or anything, so why aren’t you dating anyone yet? And it’s not like you’re unattractive. You’re good-looking."

Damon lifted his gaze just enough to meet hers, a slow, crooked smile pulling at his mouth. "Careful, Aunt. You just complimented me. You’re going to give me the wrong ideas."

The table broke into laughter again.

Eisheth clapped once, delighted. "So this week’s humor has increased the quota, huh?" He was known to making only one joke a week after all.

Vespera leaned forward slightly, her voice calm but helpful.

"Aunt Agrat is right though. Do any of you actually know how many girls had a crush on him in high school? It wasn’t just the money, he was known to be cool, handsome and had that dark charm of his... and he still never dated a single one of them."

Mara snorted: "Forget regular crushes. Do you know how many girls made fake friendships with me or Vespera just so they could ’come over to study’ and "conveniently" run into Damon? The number is embarrassing."

Eisheth’s eyes lit up with pure mischief as she turned fully toward him. "Why, Damon?"

Every pair of eyes at the table shifted to him at once.

Even Camilla had stopped cutting her food.

Damon cleared his throat before he set his utensils down, and looked around at them, one by one.

His gaze lingered a second longer on Camilla — and in that second his brain, unhelpful as ever, served him the complete file of the the window scene of her bend, the blue lace digging into all that soft flesh, the exact way her hands had smoothed the skirt down over her ass.

She was sitting eight feet from him with that same skirt on, that same thong under it probably (he wasnt sure maybe she’d changed it, who knew but her) she was eating dinner like a woman with no idea she’d been the main feature of his night.

His dick gave one slow and heavy pull of agreement against his thigh.

He blinked the file closed and finally spoke:

"Girls my age, ah, they’re exhausting for my taste and most of the ones I’ve met... are just rich brats and their stupid entitlement is a massive turn-off. No offense, Mara, Vespera — you two are different."

Agrat’s brow arched slowly. "So you don’t like girls your age?"

Everyone’s attention sharpened and no one was even pretending to eat anymore.

"Not even a little!" He confessed without a second thought.

"So what kind of women are you into, then?" Lilim asked.

The question, served to him on the family china.

Damon leaned back in his chair his one arm rested along the table’s edge, and didn’t rush to answer holding them in suspense they didn’t know existed.

Some distant responsible part of his brain suggested a safe, boring answer but the rest of him; the part that had been handed a class called Lust Spawn— decided that if the universe was going to lob one directly over the plate, he was going to swing.

"I like women who already know who they are," he said. His eyes drifted, unhurried, and settled for half a breath on Lilim; that quiet and unbothered mature elegance of her with her proud chin still resting on her hand. "They don’t need to perform and have been themselves long enough that they’re comfortable in it in their own skins. There’s nothing more attractive than a woman who walks into a room and she’s just herself with no desperate need for the room to notice."

Lilim’s expression didn’t change but he could see hr fingers resting against her cheek, going very still.

"I like a sharp woman with a distinctive and arresting personality," he went on but his gaze this time slid to Agrat — to the controlled sternness of her, the stern mouth and her beautiful eyes that missed nothing. "A woman who doesn’t collapse the second something doesn’t go her way and can cut you down with one sentence and make it feel like a gift. Strength like that isn’t cold and doesn’t beg."

Agrat held his eyes for exactly one second longer then reached for her wine.

What he said: strength like that isn’t cold. What ran underneath it, silent and shameless: the same strength bent over her own desk, stern voice gone ragged moaning his name, ordering him not to stop in the exact tone she used for reprimands.

The gap between his mouth and his mind was a canyon, and he was the only one at this table who knew it existed.

"I like dangerous women too," he admitted, and let the corner of his mouth curve as he looked at Eisheth. "The teasing that plays with everything and everyone and makes it look careless — but who’d be the safest place in the room for the one person she actually chose. That contradiction? That’s something classic danger many girls have lost lately."

Eisheth, for the first time in living memory, did not have a comeback ready. Her fork hovered over her plate, forgotten.

"And I like a steady woman," he finished, voice dropping just slightly, and this time his eyes went to Camilla and stayed there. "who’s comfortable in her own body and doesn’t treat every conversation like a competition or a transaction. Do you know women who know exactly what they want and they’re confident enough not to play stupid games to get it? That kind makes the air in a room feel warmer just by being in it."

Camilla’s hand had gone still around her glass. The stem, thin and delicate, looked suddenly at risk.

Comfortable in her own body.

He’d seen exactly how comfortable, through a lit window, one strip of blue lace at a time and he took genuine pride in how steady his voice had stayed while it happened.

Damon picked up his water, took a slow sip, and set it back down.

"Basically," he said lightly, "the opposite of most girls walking around right now."

The silence last two seconds, maybe three.

But at a table of seven people who had been laughing thirty seconds ago, three seconds of total silence was an eternity — and in it, Damon watched four grown women perform an entire orchestra of small, involuntary movements.

Lilim finally lowered her hand from her chin and sat back, slow and thoughtful.

Agrat crossed her legs under the table; a moment later, she crossed them the other way while Eisheth remembered her fork existed, Camilla on the other had had let go of her glass, smoothed the front of her blouse for no reason at all, and picked up her knife with the focused precision of a woman giving her hands a job.

"Gross," Mara announced into the silence, wrinkling her nose. "He doesn’t want a girlfriend, he wants a wife. A whole vintage wife."

The table detonated as laughter crashed over the strange, charged by the pause and washed it away, and just like that, dinner resumed — Eisheth loudly demanding to know who raised him, Vespera pointing out that technically everyone at this table did, Agrat muttering something into her wine that made Lilim smirk.

Damon laughed along and went back to his steak, quietly pleased with his own honesty — and with the heavy, half-hard situation going on under the table that had been listening to the entire speech and agreeing enthusiastically. He was going to need a minute before standing up. Possibly several, a cold shower and a stern talk later.

’Worth it.’

What he did not know — what he had absolutely no way of knowing — was what his honesty had been riding on.

Because it hadn’t just been words that traveled down that table. Every syllable had gone out wrapped in Mature Affinity, carried on a warm current of Manly Scent, delivered with a presence that hadn’t existed in this house yesterday.

He’d meant it as an answer.

The abilities had delivered it like a touch to the four mature women had just heard the only man in the household describe each of them, precisely, out loud no matter how crude he made his answer.

Somewhere, unseen, four numbers floating above the four head had just moved.

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