Was this system trying to turn her into a slut of some kind? Why did she need skin to skin contact?
Evangeline felt anger rising within her.
"Oh stop being a prude, you need to come out of your comfort zone," Hadley urged as she touched up her lipstick and smacked her lips together. "Come out of that shell you have been hiding all your life, this is a new chance to live a different life darling." Hadley continued.
"If I don't see any differences in you, your tasks will become more and more demanding until you become my perfect specimen," Hadley said with a deceptively cute smile.
Evangeline realized in that moment that Hadley was an actual psychopath and she hated the fact that she would have to spend the rest of her life with her.
"Oh come on, he's just a man who is so fucking attracted to you," Hadley urged. "You just have to touch him and tell him to do whatever you want him to."
Evangeline took a deep breath as she thought about how to go about it, she felt as though she was strategizing battle formations for an upcoming war.
Eventually, though, she settled on the most feasible formation.
Orion approached her and Evangeline turned off every last atom of shame and nervousness from her mind completely as she firmly pushed him to the golden throne.
"Woah, easy there," he said with a boyish chuckle. His eyes raked her body as she slowly approached him.
"Well, this isn't what I had in mind coming here," he bit his bottom lip as Evangeline straddled him on the throne.
She looked up at him with the most innocent gaze she could muster and she hoped she did not look like someone having a seizure.
"You're so fucking beautiful," he stated almost instinctively as she wrapped her legs around him and got to a more comfortable position on his lap.
Her treacherous heart flipped at his words and she felt butterflies fluttering in her belly.
She could feel every bit of his hard muscles against her soft skin and she could also feel the heat that emanated from his body.
With a deep breath, she snapped herself back into focus and got down to business.
She leaned into him and her soft chest pressed against the hard wall of his chest as she placed a soft kiss on his neck.
He made a sound that was almost like a low growl and in a fit of near madness, Evangeline suddenly wanted to hear more of it… she wanted to see what other sounds she could hear him make.
"Less than a minute left darling," Hadley said and snapped Evangeline back to reality.
She leaned even further until her lips brushed the shell of his ear.
"Orion," she said and he hummed an answer, his voice was now deeper than ever and it was so damn attractive… her body heated up even more.
Focus Eva!
"I'm going to take this gemstone," she said to him and he just hummed as he tilted his head to place a kiss on her jawline.
Yeah, he was definitely on cloud nine now.
"And you are going to forget that you ever entered this basement with me." Evangeline's hand reached up to grab the gemstone while Orion was… distracted.
It felt warm in her fingers and before she could even observe it properly, it vanished from her fingers.
The system screen popped up:
Blue Scepter Genstone added to inventory.
Huh? She had an inventory too?
She would ask Hadley more questions about the system later but for now, she needed to get as far away from here as possible before they found out the stone was missing.
"We need to see your mom now, she doesn't have to know what we did in here," Evangeline whispered.
"I will do whatever you want me to." Evangeline looked into Orion's eyes which were now hooded with undiluted lust.
She rose to her feet sharply before things could escalate between them to a point where she would completely lose all her self control.
No, she did not want that at all… or maybe she did.
Together, they left the basement and emerged in the brightly lit hallway.
Orion resumed his conversation from before he mentioned the gemstone and it was almost as though every single memory of the past few minutes had been completely erased from his mind.
Evangeline was utterly awed at the new power she had but she played along as best as she could.
Orion led her to the classy dinner room where his mother sat waiting while she flipped through pages of a fashion magazine.
"Are you kids back from your little escapade? You both kept me waiting." She said sternly as she folded the magazine and kept it beside her teacup.
"Oh it was nothing, Evangeline just wanted to see the—"
A scene briefly played out in Evangeline's mind.
"— just wanted to see the house, we even went to the basement!" Orion could say.
"The basement?" His mother would ask with suspicion before calling some officers to lock Evangeline up for good.
"— I got lost, so he had to show me around. You did such a great job with the interior of your house," Evangeline interrupted him with a smile, and slowly Orion's mother smiled too.