“I can accommodate a chat via the tablet you were provided,” the ceiling finally responded.
“That would be acceptable.”
“The request will be granted upon completion of your first instruction,” the electronic buzzing draped the room, forcing Gale’s neck to tilt, looking for its emitter.
“There’s a speaker in the ceiling. We are being watched. So…it’s nice to meet you, Gale,” I replied loud enough to hear my own voice buzzing in my ears.
My frown must have demanded a response from the faerie, who dipped his chin once. A short and sharp movement, good enough to be caught on camera.
“First instruction completed; I will direct myself towards the bedroom to continue our conversation.”
Without saying another word or even looking at the faerie…fae…Gale, I grabbed the tablet from where I had dropped it on the floor and headed to the bathroom, the only place where they could not record me. Where they could not hear me and waited for some sort of video call.
Exactly two minutes later, a chat bar opened on a white background.
“This is PDD.”
“Can this conversation take place via video?” I touched the keyboard to form the words, though I already knew the answer before it came.
“Unfortunately, not.”
“This is not okay. I am fairly sure this is illegal. You cannot force me to do this. And watch it? That is some sick shit you are up to, and I don’t want to be part of any of it.”
“Captain Harrow, I must admit my confusion as to what you are referring to.”
The fucker. Seriously? Was he going to make me say it? You know what, fine, I internally sighed and started typing again.
“You put a fae male in a room with a single woman, without instructions or prior knowledge, without giving me information about the asset. What am I supposed to think? As I said initially, I will not be trading sexual favour for information. What you are asking of me is illegal and I am in my right to report it.”
A sense of pride blanketed my back, caressing the spine I had just shown. I would not fuck my way through a promotion. I would not fuck my way to a home or better wages.
“Captain Harrow.”
A minute of pause made me suffer through a cloud of anxiety until the words started appearing on the screen again.
“Please let me assure you that you have absolutely nothing to worry yourself about. You were chosen for this trial due to your proximity to the fae male rather than what is in between your legs.”
“Right, so you expect me to believe that putting a fae male and a woman together was just a coincidence?”
“Captain Harrow, you were chosen for this assignment due to your place of birth, which corresponds to the subject’s. We hoped that your proximity in childhood might help force a connection. This is classified information, though I will make an exception this time for your comfort.”
Gale came from the Wind Realm. The place where I was born, the place where I grew up. The only one I had happy memories from. They chose me because I was an immigrant, I internally sighed, which I doubted it was better than being chosen due to my sex.
“How can I be protected from him? Be your reasons as they may, I am still left alone with a fae male, expecting to befriend and obtain information from it.” I deleted the last word and replaceditwithhimbefore I sent the message.
After all, Gale was a person.
Another minute or two of silence made me think of the next month, of how I would have to live with this freakishly hot guy and how I could become a friend while keeping him away. My hardening nipples moaned at the thought of his skin against mine, of those full lips and all the things they probably knew how to do. Better than anyone I had been with.
“We have a suggestion which we hope will bring you more comfort,” PDD finally wrote back.
“Please go ahead,” I immediately typed.
“We propose the control of cameras in the bedroom to be connected to the tablet and turned on and off at your will, leaving permanently on the ones in the living room and the kitchen. As well as adding a lockable door to the bedroom. We hope this would offer you more privacy should the need for it arise.”
“So Gale only stays in the kitchen and gym?”
“That is correct.”
