Damon stood there a full minute after the doors clicked shut buried head to the shoulders in her lingerie, breathing her in like an idiot with a rope around his neck who’d decided the view was worth it — and grinning like a lunatic.

He was standing in a woman’s closet at half past five in the morning with damp fabric brushing his bare arms and a dick that had not stood down once since the stairs, and his face had settled into the dumbest, most triumphant grin of his entire life and refused to be talked out of it.

Then his brain came back online and delivered its assessment.

’This is pathetic.’

Because sure — standing here running highlight reels of everything he could have done, could’ve stepped in, could’ve grabbed those wet hips, could’ve turned her around against the tile — that was the exact disease he’d been dying of for two years.

Could’ve. Should’ve. Would’ve:

The vocabulary of weak men, the private language of every guy who’d ever locked a bedroom door at midnight and fucked a woman raw in his own skull, in every position his imagination could build, only to wipe up afterward and go to sleep hungrier than he woke up.

’Five hundred and thirty days of that.’

A world record in a sport nobody wanted to win, and he’d been the reigning champion.

Except this time he hadn’t imagined a damn thing.

This time it had actually happened: To him. In a real bathroom, on a real morning, with a real woman who’d left a real door open. His imagination had been sitting on the bench the whole time with nothing to do, unemployed for the first time in two years, and honestly it deserved the break.

So yes. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic to be hiding in a closet grinning like a lunatic at five thirty in the morning.

He’d take pathetic for now. Pathetic had gotten him further in ten minutes than dignity had managed in eighteen years, rather than rushing in like a fool and ruin it all.

But no more of that other shit — the could’ve, should’ve, would’ve of it.

He wasn’t going to be a fantasy pervert anymore... he was going to be the other kind that shows up.

He slipped out of the closet, crossed her bedroom on the same careful heel-to-toe steps, and left the way he came in.

The hallway was empty, four closed doors, four sleeping women, and one eighteen-year-old walking past them at half past five in the morning with a steel bar in his pants and his mother’s assistant still burning behind his eyes.

Nobody saw him and the house had no idea what had just happened inside it.

By the time he hit the stairs the smirk had taken over his whole face and refused to leave, and his brain; freed from the immediate danger of being caught — took off running in every direction at once like a dog let off a leash in a park full of squirrels.

How was he supposed to eat breakfast.

That was a genuine, practical, unsolved problem.

In roughly two hours she’d be downstairs in that black jumpsuit doing her job, and he’d be sitting at a table with two aunts, two sisters, and a plate of eggs, trying to make eye contact with a woman whose voice he’d heard say his name in a way that was now permanently installed in his head.

Would she say good morning? Would she say it normally? Was there even a normal version of good morning after that?

’No. There is not.’

And what if she said it in that same voice.

Or what if she said it in that same voice while handing him orange juice and he had to just — take the orange juice. Like a person... with hands.

And the whole time the whole time she’d be standing there being the perfect composed assistant, and he’d be the only other person on the planet who knew what she’d been doing at 5:20 in the morning.

Two people in that entire house carrying the same secret and pretending at the toast rack.

It was the best thing that had ever happened to him. It was possibly also a medical emergency.

Camilla knew.

She’d sighed in pleasure and satisfaction instead of a scream, the door left resting unlatched in its frame, the voice she’d used when moaning his name while she touched herself, calm and clear and aimed, knowing exactly which pervert was standing in her doorway.

She hadn’t been caught; she’d been hosting.

Six years of good evening/morning, Damon in that soft even tone, and this morning she’d run a private show at five a.m. for an audience of one and then walked out of her own bathroom like a woman who’d remembered something pleasant.

He was, without question, the single biggest winner in this entire mansion.

’Possibly the borough.’

He’d have said the state, but somewhere out there was a guy waking up next to a woman like that instead of tiptoeing out of her closet with damp pants, so he’d keep it modest.

Twenty-four hours. What do you even do with a twenty-four hours like that?

’Grin in a stairwell like an idiot, that’s what.’

Somebody up there had reviewed his file, seen five hundred and thirty days of dedicated service, and decided to promote him. He made a mental note to be extremely grateful to whatever depraved cosmic entity had signed off on this, and an additional note to never, ever ask it any follow-up questions.

Because that hadn’t been his phone screen, and that was what his brain kept snagging on all the way down the stairs.

Two years of paying for porn actress in Nevada to call him handsome off a script.

How much of that had ever been real?

’None of it. Not one second.’

A woman he shared a roof with, a woman who’d sat across a dinner table from him twelve hours ago and passed him the salt.

And in a few days — hell no, today he was going to have her!

Then the other thought arrived, and this one stopped being about him.

A woman that quiet, reserved and six years in this house being consulted, managed, thanked — and never once wanted out loud by anyone; she’d been carrying a whole filthy inner life around behind that composure with nobody to hand it to.

Whoever she’d been with before, (if there was any) they’d almost certainly given her the standard issue and gone to sleep, leaving every actual thing she craved sitting untouched in the dark, and she’d learned to feed herself with an open door and a hope.

’Not anymore, Camilla.’

Which raised the actual question his brain had been circling since the closet and was now attacking from four angles simultaneously: what the hell was next time supposed to look like?

He couldn’t exactly schedule it: "Hey Camilla, same time tomorrow, bring the stool."

He couldn’t say anything about it out loud either — one word in the wrong hallway and six years of her career and his family’s entire reputation went into a wood chipper.

But she’d done her part; she’d left a door open, and he’d walked through it, and that meant the next move was probably his, and he had no idea what a next move even was.

Was there a next move? Did people just... do this? Was there some protocol he’d missed by spending his entire adolescence studying women through a screen instead of, you know, women?

’Absolutely there is. And I skipped every class.’

So he was going to have to figure it out by improvising, which historically was how he handled everything, and which historically worked about sixty percent of the time.

Sixty percent was fine and practically a guarantee.

He’d take those odds into any room in this house.

’Don’t worry, Camilla,’ he thought, pushing his bedroom door open with his shoulder. ’Next time I’m not just watching.’

He went straight into his bathroom, locked it out of pure habit, and leaned both hands on the cold counter, breathing like he’d run up the stairs instead of down them.

The mirror gave him back a wreck; eyes too bright, hair wrecked, mouth pulled into a grin so shameless it looked like evidence, and the obscene outline of himself still tenting the fabric with zero intention of standing down.

He looked at that reflection for a second and barely recognized the guy from yesterday.

Yesterday’s Damon had sat on a rooftop asking the sky what he was for and getting no answer.

Today’s Damon had just watched his mother’s assistant put on a show with the door open.

"Yeah," he said to the mirror. "We’re doing great for barely 24hrs work."

He pulled up the system.

The panel appeared instantly, clean and glowing in the dim bathroom light.

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[Mission 2: Oh~ Camilla

Description: Find out and fulfill any of Camilla’s (Morwenna’s) kinks or fetishes.

Rewards: 3 minutes of Exchange Shop access · 500 DP

Status: COMPLETE]

[CLAIM: Y/N]

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Damon’s grin stretched so wide it hurt.

Complete; the system had watched the whole thing along with him, tallied it, and stamped it done and the funniest part, the part that made him want to laugh out loud in a locked bathroom at five forty in the morning, was that he’d technically completed it by standing steel.

’Standing still.’

Best homework he’d ever turned in. He hadn’t even had to do anything except not run away.

One down. One to go — and the one still open had an aunt’s name on it and about forty hours left on the clock.

He didn’t hesitate for even a second.

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