NTR: The live-in-husband gets a perverted heart system

Tom kept walking, one loop after another around the edge of the yard. His lungs started burning by the third lap in a way they hadn’t in years.

He wasn’t in the kind of shape a five-kilometer walk should have taxed, but a month of scraps and stolen naps hadn’t exactly kept him in fighting form, and by the halfway mark his shirt clung damp to his back and his breath came heavier than he wanted to admit.

He didn’t care. He was grinning through most of it anyway.

He had checked his balance twice already since setting out, just to look at the number sitting there - four thousand dollars, all of it his, none of it borrowed against or clawed back by a loan he hadn’t chosen. It wasn’t a fortune. Compared to the five and ten-thousand-dollar drops from yesterday it barely registered. But it was his, earned with his own two feet on his own two legs, and something about that made it feel bigger than the number on the screen.

He never once noticed the bodyguard trailing a careful distance behind him the whole way, phone out, watching.

[5KM COMPLETE.]

Tom actually whooped out loud. He pressed a hand to his knee, catching his breath, grinning like an idiot at nobody in particular, and checked what was next on the list without needing to be told.

Two healthy meals left. He’d need to go inside for that.

He wiped the sweat off his brow with the hem of his shirt and made his way back toward the house.

As he walked back in, he noticed the cars - four of them, sleek and black, lined up along the drive with a small cluster of unfamiliar bodyguards posted near the entrance, standing the particular kind of still that only came with serious money.

Tom slowed, frowning. Sienna didn’t usually bring in security like that for a normal client meeting.

Then the system dinged with notification;

[A Recruitment Candidate Is Nearby.]

Tom’s stomach did a small, interested flip. Whoever was inside with Sienna right now, then. Some friend, some client, didn’t matter which - the system had already flagged her.

"I should eat and clean up first," he thought, glancing down at himself, sweat-soaked and smelling like a five-kilometer walk. "I can’t exactly meet anyone looking like this."

[You Have Twenty Minutes Before The Window To Access Her Closes.]

"Twenty minutes?" Tom’s eyes went wide and he broke into something close to a jog toward the back stairs, his mind already racing through the math - shower, food, dressed, downstairs, all inside a countdown that had already started ticking whether he liked it or not.

He took the back stairs two at a time and nearly collided with the housekeeper coming the other way with a tray of fruit and vegetables balanced carefully in both her hands - carrot sticks, sliced cucumber, a small bowl of apple wedges. Exactly what he needed, and exactly what he had no time to politely ask for.

[SIDE MISSION: Assert YourselF.]

[Take What She’s Holding Without Asking Permission. Then say something to fluster her.]

[TIME LIMIT: 20 seconds.]

[REWARD: $2,000. +1 Authority. +1 Lust]

"What do I say to fluster her?" Tom asked, sounding nervous.

[Host should figure that out.] The system replied smugly.

**00:00: 17**

"Please, please, give me an idea. Anything."

[Host lacks a suitable line.]

[Idea purchase available.]

[Cost: $500]

[Confirm purchase?]

Tom hesitated for a moment.

"500?" Then when he knew he was going to make money, he decided to go for it.

"Yes."

[$500 deducted from Reward.]

[Suggestion unlocked:]

[Wink at her, glance at her chest, and say: "Your breasts are showing. Not that I’m complaining."]

Tom’s eyes widened but he didn’t have time to weigh it.

"Hey," he said, already reaching, his voice easier than it had ever come out around any of the staff before.

The housekeeper froze mid-step, visibly caught off guard - nothing about this was how he had ever spoken to her, not once in a month of living in this house.

Tom held her gaze steady while he plucked a long carrot stick, an apple, and a cucumber straight off her tray without breaking stride, and instead of the quiet mumbled thanks he had always managed before whenever his eyes met anyone’s, he let his eyes drop deliberately to the loose top button of her blouse, where a clear flash of white bra and the soft upper curve of her breasts were visible, and threw her a slow wink.

"Erm... Your breasts are showing, not that I’m complaining by the way." he said, his voice coming out a little shaky but the words landed.

The housekeeper went completely still, too stunned to manage a single word. A deep flush rushed up her neck and into her cheeks but Tom was already dashing for his room, almost breaking into a run.

[MISSION COMPLETE.]

His phone buzzed with the deposit a second later. Tom didn’t even look at the number.

"Well, it’s worth it." He muttered then busied himself with grinning around a mouthful of carrot as he kicked the door shut behind him.

He ate standing up, fast, chewing through the apple and cucumber with something close to genuine delight, and had to laugh at himself halfway through - since when had vegetables tasted this good? Since when had *anything* in this house tasted good, when it had always been Sienna’s leftovers, cold and grudging?

The twenty-minute countdown blinked steady behind his eyes, and Tom swore under his breath and bolted for the bathroom mid-chew, apple still in hand.

The shower was fast and rough, more rinse than wash, water barely warm before he cut it off again and grabbed the nearest towel. He stepped out into the bedroom still damp, towel knotted low around his hips, dripping onto the floorboards, entirely unprepared for what came next.

[Host Is Advised To Step Out Now. The Window To Meet The Recruitment Candidate Is Closing.]

Tom froze, water still running down his back. "Now? I’m in a towel."

[WINDOW CLOSING.]

He swore again, louder this time, and yanked the bedroom door open without giving himself another second to think better of it, already halfway into the hallway before his brain caught up with what his body had just done.

What he saw on the other side of that door stopped him dead, mouth falling open in pure, stunned awe.

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