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to wash again, a bit
of steam coming from the red tile of the floor. Her pale behind was...
    Zack
smiled and left, before he got too interested. He really needed to get with his
girlfriend, if things like that were going to keep happening.
    'Or,
you know, bang those hot chicks that work for you? They're freaking succubi ,
and you're their boss. If you don't do them each half a dozen times a week,
they probably won't feel loved. I do agree, you should bang Kaitlyn there
first. Or Kyle, since I know how you love the cock.' Then, almost as if he
realized it was a mistake, MH, for about the tenth time in fifteen years,
actually shut up.
    That
was smart, since Kyle, who was Kait's male form, was more than willing
to oblige, and Zack, even though not into guys as a rule, could make himself interested, just to spite his alter ego, if he had to, now. Really,
he'd probably do that anyway, just to make sure he wasn't all hung up about
sex. It was hard to remember that being a Greater Demon meant he didn't have
the same rules to play by as other people. He didn't even have to be a guy, if
he didn't want to. Or at least that was a thing that he'd seen other Greater
Demons manage to pull off. One of them at least.
    His
father.
    He'd
gotten close by pretending to be an Alede, and actually pulled it off so well
that her own family hadn't known there was a difference. Judy Swan. Kaitlyn's
Grandmother, even though half the time she went by Fargo, which was, he knew
now, not an uncommon thing for Alede to do. They all had about a half dozen
different identities lined up, since they lived a lot longer than Humans, and
didn't age really. He'd noticed the name change at the time, but had met
Valerie and Kait as Fargo, then Swanson .
    It
was strange and weird, but Hiram was Jennifer's Uncle and had the same last
name, even though his sister was the girl's mom. That was a matrilineal thing,
Zack knew. Lisa had explained it to him, once upon a time.
    Thinking
of her was too hard, at the moment, so he didn't and just worked the store
again, running back to make certain his chef was taken care of and happy, which
she seemed to really be, and then selling things to people that he subtly
blackmailed into it, after they had sex. It was mainly older men, but some
younger ones and a few women. He kind of thought that they were stealing
customers from the plus sized women's clothing store across the way, in those
cases. Hopefully not in a territory invading way.
    The
Alede weren't violent, or even catty, as a rule, but the one time they'd go
after each other, other than normal personal squabbles like anyone else, was if
they felt their food was being poached. They were pretty good about holding
that to other Alede, but it was really why he couldn't just have sex with all
of them. Kaitlyn had, apparently, called "dibs" on him, and that
meant she'd at least scream at any of the others that did anything with him
that deprived her of energy.
    Functionally,
if he had it right, he could do her in the morning, and then all her friends,
for the rest of the day, as long as the next time he had real energy, he had
sex with her first. It was too complicated for him, and really, while as much
of a horn-dog as anyone else his age, he knew it was probably better to go
carefully with that kind of thing. Having the women, or eventually, men, bring
in business was probably more important to him than getting his rocks off
constantly. Or not. That remained to be seen. He wanted the book store to pull
its own weight, and really wasn't doing that well with the travel side of
things yet. The one thing he'd managed to do so far involved setting up a
meeting for a teenage girl that would probably spend the whole time stammering,
instead of presenting herself well.
    That
was his job though, wasn't it? Arranging for his friend to do well. How he was
supposed to pull that off, he didn't know, except that as he thought about it,
a lot of ideas actually came to him. From outside of