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Quaranteam – Book 1: Part 18

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Quaranteam – Book 1: Part 18
Andy tells the press his side of the story.

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As he told her the story, Katie Couric mostly let him talk,

asking the occasional question,  how had he known that Dr. Varma and Asha
were going to be there, what did plan to do if he lost, etc.,  before
letting him continue.

Andy zipped through the actual poker tournament very

quickly, although he did make a point not to name names of anyone else who was
there, other than Covington, despite Katie asking twice. The rush of winning
lasted very briefly, he told her, as almost right after, they met Piper.

When Andy described how they'd found her, in a near feral

state, he spared no detail, making sure that Katie understood just how cruel
Covington had been to the women he'd had under his household. He even paused to
asked Katie what she thought a man like that would want both a mother and
daughter for, and he watched the reporter visibly blanch at that.

"How did this game even get started?" she asked

him.

He shrugged a little. "I don't know," he said

honestly. "Niko manipulated the situation into me getting an invite, and
Emily herself contributed, trying to make sure that I would win, since she
wanted her and her partner Sarah to be assigned to me, since Sarah is such a huge
fan of my writing."

"How do you make that kind of decision? How do you

decide to gamble with a woman's life in your hands?"

"Very, very carefully, and not without long

consideration," he sighed, sitting back in his chair. "Like I was
telling you earlier, sometimes bad people do good things, and sometimes good
people have to do bad things for good reasons. Niko was very close friends with
Dr. Charlotte Varma, and she'd met Mister Covington more than a couple of
times. One of Covington's partners, Rachel, works at the base, and helps with
the scheduling and directing of where people are going, so she's probably how
Covington got the game started, when he realized he could manipulate the
system. I mean, I'm sure other people on the base have to be in on it, but who
that is, I certainly couldn't tell you."

"People like Phil Marcos?"

Andy scowled at her, pointing a finger her direction.

"You try and blame this on Phil and I will go to every single one of your
competitors and tell them how you made that shit up to get ratings," he
said angrily. "Phil's a damn good man, one of the best, and while I'm sure
he's aware of the game, I'm also fairly certain that he probably can't do
anything to interfere with it."

"I thought Mr. Marcos was the head of the

project."

"Doctor Marcos is high up on the team that's

developing and implementing the process, but he's certainly not in charge.
There's at least a handful of people above him, and besides, Phil's only
working on the process itself, not the pairing and matching of individuals. I'm
sure they must've mentioned there's two divisions on the base during your tour.
Phil's half works on the biology. The other team works on the sociology and
matchmaking, and while Phil can trade the occasional favor to get things done a
certain way on that team, he'd never have gone along with this poker thing, or
for people being used as chips. Shit, he damn near tore my head off after he
heard I'd gone and played in the tournament even the once. Made me promise I'd
never do it again. So yes, Ms. Couric, I can guarantee you that Phil has
nothing to do with the poker tournament."

"You mentioned one of Covington's partners, a woman you

called Rachel, was on the coordinating team. Would that be Rachel
DeMarco?"

"I don't know," he said. "I've never met her.

Niko would know. I could ask her. Why?"

"Well, Rachel DeMarco is the person who told me about

your involvement in the tournament. She actually made it sound like you were
running the event."

"Running it?" he laughed, almost

incredulous. "Fuck off. No, Ms. Couric, I was not running the
tournament, nor have I played in it more than once. I went the one time as a
favor to Niko, to try and keep her friends Dr. Varma and her daughter Asha
safe."

"So you won both Dr. Varma and her daughter Asha?"

"I did."

"How come Dr. Varma isn't here as well? Asha was at our

first group interview."

"Dr. Varma isn't attracted to white men, so she asked

if she could be paired up with Phil instead. I respected her wishes,
obviously."

"Wait, Dr. Varma is one of Dr. Marcos' partners?"

"When she arrived at the base, she was married, but her

husband died very early in the initial stages of research into the DuoHalo
Virus," Andy said. "In fact, Phil said quite a lot of men died on the
base due to whatever incident it was that happened in the early days. He
couldn't get into details, but he seemed pretty frustrated by it. But after her
husband died, she slowly started falling for Phil, a sort of second act if you
will, so when I rescued her and her daughter from Covington, she asked if I thought
she could be paired up with Phil. I called Phil up, and he agreed, so she's
paired with him, and her daughter Asha is paired up with me. We all agreed that
a mother and daughter being paired up with the same man just had an ick factor
that none of us were comfortable with."

"The woman who died. Where did you say you met

her?"

"I didn't, and I know you know that. But I met her at

Covington's home. She was originally scheduled to be the dealer for the poker
game that night, but I made a point about never trusting a house dealer, so she
was relieved of the job, and the participants all took turns acting as dealer,
so no one player could sway the game that much. I suspected Covington might
have been using the dealer being a member of his house to fix the game, and the
last thing I wanted was a cheat."

"Who else was playing?"

"Where are you going with this, Ms.

Couric?"

"Look, Mr. Rook, you seem like a good man, a decent

man, but this kind of thing, it can't be allowed to continue, a handful of men
trading women like cattle. We're better than that as a country, and I believe
you when you say that you were only doing it to help some people. But think
about all the women who don't have someone like you looking out for them."

"Right, but in giving you this list of names, I'm

painting a huge target on my back here in New Eden. Are you planning on running
a story just on what I tell you? Because that's a sure fire way to only make
things worse."

"Of course not, Mr. Rook," she said with a sigh.

"But I can talk with the White House, or the Senate, and expose some of
this, and get it shut down."

"Well, I'm glad you believe that, Ms. Couric, but I

can't say that I do. Still, I hope you succeed."

"So who else was there?"

"You had myself and Covington. The Mayor of New Eden,

James Haunton. Financial investor Gregor Vikovic. And Jake Jacobson, ower of
the AllStore group."

"That's it?"

Andy considered for a moment, and decided that he should let

Nathaniel Watkins name slip his mind for a moment. "There was one other
person there, but I don't remember who it was. Nobody I immediately recognized,
and I was very focused on the game, and making sure that I didn't screw
up." Andy wasn't entirely sure why he decided to conceal Watkins identity,
but suspected it was because Nathaniel was the only person who'd treated him as
a human being, and the fact that he'd given Andy a few hundred mil didn't hurt
either. But for the most part, Watkins had seemed like a good enough person
that Andy felt like giving him a pass. In the short period of time he'd talked
to him, it had almost seemed like Watkins' presence at the poker game was for
the same reasons he was there,  to try and protect people caught up in the
mess.

"And you said it's Covington who's running the

event?"

"Yes," Andy said. "It's always at his house,

and they've apparently run it a few times before. I expect having the Mayor in
his pocket certainly helped him set the whole thing up and keep it quiet, but I
expect he's also got someone over at the base helping him, someone in the logistics
and organzational team, but who that is, I couldn't tell you. Niko said she's
been trying to find out, but that the scientists on that half of the team tend
to be a bit rude to women, including those working in the security
detail."

"Wait a moment. You said Veronica DeLaCruz, the women

who died a few days ago, she was originally supposed to be the dealer at the
poker tournament?"

"That's right."

Katie Couric paled a moment, before she looked at Andy.

"Do you think her death is at all connected to her not being able to fix
the poker tournament in Mr. Covington's favor?"

"Oh shit," Andy said, a little shook by the

suggestion. "I hadn't even thought about that, but it's certainly
possible. Believe me when I tell you that Arthur Covington strikes me as the
kind of man who's capable of just about anything. And I did mention that Emily
was attempting to convince Veronica to cheat on her behalf, to ensure that she
and Sarah could guarantee coming to our family and not anyone else's, so it's
also possible that he somehow found out about that."

"Who knew about that?"

"As far as I know, just Emily and myself, although I've

mentioned it to a couple of the girls here, all of whom I obviously trust with
my life," he said. "But it's not impossible that somehow Veronica
told someone else, or that she was so frustrated with Covington that she just
wanted a way out. As I said, I didn't really know her at all, so I can't say.
But if you're asking me if I think it's possible Covington had her murdered,
either for failing to rig the game in his favor or planning to rig the game
against him and failing in that, I think it absolutely something the man is
capable of."

"If I informed the President's office about all of

this, do you think you would manage to stay safe of repercussions, or would you
be at risk?"

"Don't worry about us, Ms. Couric," Andy said.

"If you think you can make sure these bastards aren't trading the lives of
women with no regard for their wants or desires, you absolutely should do
everything you can to put a stop to it. If that means Covington wants to take a
run at me because of it, well, I'll handle that when it comes up. He's
exceptionally rich, but he's not invincible."

"Not to remind you of things you already know, Mr.

Rook," she answered, "but you were just saying a few hours ago how
your health is now responsible for the well being of over a dozen women. Do you
think they would all be okay with you being so cavalier with their
safety?"

"If it meant that hundreds if not thousands of women

would get to fairly choose their partners instead of being saddled up with
people they can't stand, I'm sure they would." He sighed, leaning back in
his chair a little. "So how do you want to play all of this?"

"It won't be part of the main story, but I'll threaten

to run it if the President doesn't do something to ensure that a stop comes to
this kind of thing," she said. "I just got word this morning the
Presidential election's being delayed again this morning, and that'll be
another thing they're going to include in the announcements. The special
election will be in February, and the new President will be instated in office
in March, as well as Representatives and Senators to replace all those who've
been killed by the DuoHalo Virus. The Republican Party apparently wanted time
to have a mini primary for the new Presidential election, so they won't know
their candidate for a month, and plans to have the election in December have
been scrapped. So President Pelosi will remain in power until March, and that
should give her a little bit of time to try and get this mess sorted out.
Because if it's happening here, I imagine it's happening in other places, and
that kind of damage could scar our country for centuries."

"Forgive me for asking, but you know a lot more about

this than any of us do," he said. "How many centers like the base in
New Eden are out there?"

"They started mass production about a month or so ago,

and the goal is to have every man paired with at least a couple of women before
January 1st, because the casualty rates for men are so insanely
high. The hope is the news story will light a fire under those who have been
afraid to get vaccinated, when they hear just how many people have died because
the DuoHalo virus. But there are still enclaves of men who insist they aren't
going to pair up with women, because the treatment will install 5G microchips
in their penises, or some such nonsense."

"If we've got problems like this poker game here at the

source, I imagine there's this sort of thing starting up in a number of the
other pairing centers around the country, so I don't mind you showing this
conversation to the President, or the Joint Chiefs of Staff, if it means
ensuring that women get to decide who they get paired up with."

"It's very noble of you to say that, Mr. Rook, but you

know as well as I do that some men are unlikely to get paired up with women
they would like. I was a little leery of the Level system when I heard about
it, men being classified in terms of priority from level 1 to level 5, but I
suppose it's the least worst option out of all the ones we have," she
sighed. "And you assure me if I talk to any of the women here in your
house individually, without you around, they will all tell me they chose to be
here, in your company?"

"Well, no," he admitted, "but I think they

will all tell you they are happy here. But Piper, and to some extent Niko I
suppose, they weren't really in their right minds when they arrived."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Did they not cover this when they were talking about

the process with you at the base?"

"No, they most assuredly did not."

Andy let out another deep sigh. "Okay, so after women

are administered the treatment at the base, they're kept there for 24 hours
observation, to make sure there aren't any unusual reactions to the process,
which is normal. Then they're delivered to their male partners whom they're
going to be imprinted to."

"Yes, they told us all this."

"So, the longer a woman goes without imprinting, the

more the chemicals start to affect her ability to think clearly. That's how
Piper got into the state she was in when Niko and I first met her. She couldn't
think, couldn't speak. She's thanked me, repeatedly, that we rescued her from
Covington, and she's told me again and again that she's happy with us, here in
our family, but the ability to make that decision was taken away from her by
Covington. There is a limited window after a woman receives the initial
treatment where her cognitive functions are full, and the longer she goes
before imprinting, the more compromised those functions are, albeit
temporarily, at least I hope."

"Have you heard of women being made to wait longer

before imprinting?"

"Hell, I haven't heard of anything like what happened

to Piper anywhere and if I had, I'd be kicking up a fucking storm,"
he said angrily. "I was so livid that I wanted to go and beat the shit out
of Covington myself right then and there, but I also needed to make sure I got
everyone out of their situations first. We were still at his home, and I'm sure
he has some sort of security. What he did to Piper wasn't just unforgivable, it
was criminal, or at least it should be, but we're in uncharted waters here, Ms.
Couric. There's going to be an entire new wing of legislature and legal
decisions spiraling out of this for decades. And nobody knows how any of it's
going to turn out, because all the signposts people used to use to predict
these sorts of things have been tossed in the woodchipper. I don't know how
many people in Congress died, but I imagine you do."

"Around 60% of the Representatives and about 70% of the

Senators, as well as five of the Supreme Court Justices, although Ruth Bader
Ginsberg died from cancer complications, not the DuoHalo Virus. It's an almost
incomprehensible strain of the system."

"I'm sure some of those people who will be elected to

Congress to fill those vacancies will be men, but the overwhelming majority of
them are going to be women. And that's going to change a lot about how the
country operates. Not as much as I'd like, I'm sure, but a lot."

"Why do you say not as much as you like?" she

asked him.

"I was very lucky to get level 5 status, but you know

who else got level 5 status, Katie? The billionaires of America. Jeff Bezos.
Bill Gates. Elon Musk. Warren Buffet. And you know the most fascinating thing
about it, that I hope you focus on in your story? You know how many of those
people refused treatment?"

"Very few?"

"Absolutely none," he said. "In fact, what I

have heard is that the ultrarich were bumped to the highest possible priority,
and were the very first in line to get paired up with people. Now, what level
of scrutiny did those people go through in their pairing process? Not a whole
lot, I imagine. In fact, I'm willing to bet that on the other side of this,
when we start to see what the new world looks like, you're going to see those
men with impossibly beautiful women, celebrities, athletes, women who probably
wouldn't have given these men the time of day even with all their money. They
did it because it ensured their survival. I know the fatality rate for women
with the DuoHalo Virus is only a fraction of what it is for men, but it's still
a risk. And I'm worried that those people who have insane amounts of money are
going to continue to do what they've always done,  spend that money to ensure
they keep making money at the expense of those without it. They will attempt to
buy their way into power once again, and will simply adapt so they don't get
knocked off their pedestals."

"Are you considering running for office, Mr.

Rook?"

Andy laughed a bit at that, shaking his head. "Fuck

no," he said. "But if one of the women of my household wanted to run
for office, I would absolutely encourage them to do so. Despite how political I
know I'm coming off right now, Ms. Couric, I would not consider myself a
political activist. But I want women and men to have equal rights under the
eyes of the law, the same for the rich and the poor. And this country is going
to see a shakeup the likes of which it has never seen before over the coming
few years, as it tries to decide and define what the new normal is, such as it
is. We're in danger of having our own little French Revolution here,
guillotines and all."

"So let's get back on track and get back to things I

can likely use when we air the special," she said with a laugh. "Has
it been complicated, navigating this many relationships with this many women at
all once?"

"I'm not going to lie to you and say no, Katie,"

he chuckled. "Of course it has. But some of the decisions I made early on
have helped that a lot, and thankfully, I have an amazing collection of women
who have chosen to spend their lives with me."

"What kinds of decisions did you make early on that you

would say helped?"

"Some of it is stuff that seems obvious in retrospect.

No kink shaming, for example. No body shaming. No shame in general, I suppose.
That was a big start. But there were also things like making sure nobody got
too possessive of anyone's time."

"You mean managing the amount time the women could

spend with you."

"Well, yes and no. I mean, obviously, yes, there's only

so much of me to go around, but I also made sure that everyone made time to get
to know one another in the family, even with all of our busy lives. And we do
our best to try and keep arguments from getting out of hand. It helps that
there's always someone else around to try and play neutral observer. Not going
to bed angry is a big deal around here, and that hasn't always been easy."

"How so?"

"Well, when Taylor showed up, Lauren was furious. They

weren't currently together before they both came here. In fact, Lauren
originally wanted me to turn Taylor away, to get her out of the house, because
the breakup had gone so badly. But I sat Lauren down and talked it over with
her, made sure she had time to think it all out and make a decision with a
clear head, rather than out of anger, which is what she would've done if I'd
taken her first opinion. At the end of the day, they've repaired that
relationship, but it wasn't easy going at first."

"Do you ever feel like you're going to upset one of the

girls by spending too much time with another, or that you have to do or say
something to keep the peace between some of them?"

"My relationship with each of these women is a unique

thing, and they're all very different from one another. Also, they all have
relationships with each other, so when I'm not around, they have their own
preferred cliques and groups."

"Anyone left out?"

"Not that I know of. I certainly hope not. I've tried

to make sure that everyone in the house has at least a few people other than me
that they feel they can go and hang out with, talk with, spend time with, so if
I'm busy, which happens from time to time, there's always someone else just as
important to them to talk out whatever's going on."

"Can you tell me a little bit about those groups?"

"Well, some are based on existing relationships. Lauren

and Taylor, obviously. The same for Emily and Sarah. Aisling and Niko have been
with me the longest, and have had the most time to get to know one another, so
there's another group there. But Emily and Sarah also connect with Sheridan and
Tala, because they all share a love of performing. Lauren and Piper connect on
their athletic backgrounds, but Sheridan's an acrobat, so she can fall into
that group as well. That's just the start, though. Everyone here, I think,
falls into multiple groups, so nobody's limited."

"And how do you determine how you distribute your

sexual time evenly?"

"Again, I don't know that evenly is the right

word, but I suppose fairly would be a better one, because some women
want more sexual time than others. Some of my partners are content just having
one sexual encounter every ten days or so, but others like to make sure they're
having intimate time every day or two," he said. "We actually have a
chart, in one of the hallways, where we make sure every woman updates each time
she's had an encounter with me that's resulted in dosing, so we don't let
anyone go too long without one, because we know what happens when they
do."

"The people at the base were a little vague about

that," she said.

"I'll bet they were," he said, rolling his eyes

slightly. "The longer someone goes without pairing with their imprinted
partner, the more intense the need to do so gets. After around ten or eleven
days, the craving can get so bad that rational thought becomes almost
impossible, and the woman becomes overly sexually aggressive, to the point of
basically just taking what she needs from her partner. It's something we take
great strides to avoid around here. You can ask Lauren about it; she's the one
who decided to test how long she could last."

"And did she become overly sexually aggressive at the

end of it?"

"Very much so," he said, trying to hide a slight

laugh of amusement. "She basically cornered me and had her way with me, not
that I was complaining all that much, but still. It's a thing all women should
be informed of, and I was given the impression they were telling women that
when they received their treatment."

"Sarah said you have four fiancees currently?"

"That's right,  Aisling, Niko, Emily and

Sarah."

"Are you going to have more wives than that?"

"I mean,” he said, trailing off. "Even that feels

greedy, but I also know we're being encouraged to do this kind of thing,
because of the huge amount of fatalities America's endured in the past eight
months. So we'll play it by ear. Most of the women here are very new to me
still, and that means there's lots to learn about each other in terms of how we
integrate. I wouldn't have leaped in so fast with Sarah and Emily but they seemed
so sure, and I clicked so well with them right from the start, so I decided to
trust my instinct on the matter."

"I have to ask you, Andy,  do you have a type? I

feel like other than a few minor exceptions, all the women in your family are
quite different from one another."

"Physically, yeah, they're pretty different, but

mentally? They're all smart, independent, capable, free spirited women. I mean,
I guess I've gotten pretty lucky in that I haven't run the risk of pairing up
with anyone who would be a bad fit for me. Except, I guess, my ex, but I wasn't
going to let that happen."

"How did that happen, anyway?"

Andy shrugged. "I'm guessing that she still fell into

my general type, and since she requested to be paired with me, they sent her to
me, assuming I could just refuse to pair with her and send her back to the base
if I had a real problem with her."

"You said you found another solution for her?"

"Well, she was chosen by someone else in the poker

game, but the man who took her, the guy who's name I can't remember, he seemed
like a good enough man, and my ex seemed happy enough to take the match, so I'm
assuming they worked it out between them."

"Why do I have the feeling you know the man's name but

are protecting him?"

"Even if I was, which I'm not saying that I am, it

would be for the right reasons and not the wrong ones. I got the impression
that the man was doing his best to try and get women away from men they didn't
want to be with. I can't prove that, obviously, but I've learned to trust my instinct
on these things, and I wouldn't want to get him in the soup for trying to do
the right thing."

"Well, we'll edit that part out for the show. Were

there any of your partners who initially gave you concern?"

"I won't lie,  I was a little nervous about both

Asha and Hannah, simply because of the age gap. I mean, I'm basically their age
put together, but as both women have insisted to me, they are of legal age,
capable of making their own decisions, and are happy with having me as their
partner. So if the age gap doesn't bother them, who am I to let it bother me?
It's just taking some getting used to."

"Are you ever overwhelmed with the amount of sex you're

having?"

He laughed at that, then started to say something, then

started laughing again before finally being able to speak. "It's almost
insane to say, but there are days where it can feel like a bit much, mostly
because I'm trying to make everyone happy, and I don't always remember who
likes what, at least not yet. I'm sure a few years down the line it'll all be
second nature, but right now, I still have to ask people what they do and don't
like, even when we've already had sex a dozen times, just because I want to
please them, and that goes a long way."

"You said you weren't kink shaming anyone. Were you

kink shamed before all of this?"

"Oh sure," he said. "I have a love of dirty

talk, and not everyone's into that kind of thing, and I get it. Different
strokes for different folks. But we do our best and try and lean into
everyone's kink at least a little bit. Some just take more getting used to than
others."

"Who would you say has been the hardest to adjust

to?"

"Nicolette, hands down," he laughed. "It's

not that I'm incapable of being a dominant person; it's just not something that
comes naturally to me. When we first met, and she insisted on calling me
Master, that just felt odd for a while, but the last time she and I had
a session together, she seemed incredibly satisfied that I'd gotten my groove
with what she wanted from me. And her friend Whitney, who we inducted into the
family yesterday, has similar tastes, so the two can work together to make sure
I'm satisfying both of them."

"Who would you say came most naturally?"

"Ash, easily. We clicked immediately, and she was that

perfect blend of aggressive and coy that hit all my triggers right away. All
four of my fiancees, though, I have incredibly strong rapports with, so don't
let me imply that I'm selling any of them short."

"I don't really have time to interview them all today,

so who do you think I should do one on ones with?"

"Well, you should definitely interview Sarah and Emily

together, as they want to make sure people understand they chose this, but also
that they were a couple before any of this even started, and I know Emily wants
to drive home the point that just because a woman is imprinted to a man doesn't
mean she's giving up her independence or her identity, and that she certainly
doesn't have to be submissive to a man if she doesn't want to."

"Yes, I'd planned to talk to both of them together. I

probably have time for two or three others before we do the final group
interview and before you get the footage of Tala being imprinted. Thank you
again for that. The base said we would obviously need to get someone's
permission to show that kind of thing."

"You should definitely take some time and talk with

Ash, since she's certainly got the most experience at watching all of this out
of anyone. She's been imprinted the longest of anyone you're likely to meet, so
she has a very unique perspective on it all. It might help if you had Niko in
that room as well, just because the two of them bounce off one another very
well, and would help fill in some gaps for each other. And that would probably
make a good link to your footage of Niko from the base."

"Excellent, excellent. And one more."

"I would say either take Hannah and Asha together as

the last interview, or maybe interview Tala, although she's likely to be a
little fidgety for the interview."

"Oh? Why's that?"

Andy smirked a little bit. "Well, we don't kink shame

in this house, so, Tala's personal kink is to feel that sort intense sexual
need someone gets from edging before getting their dosage. So she actually
started the priming process for imprinting yesterday, but hasn't been imprinted
yet. That's something it's not recommended you do, but it hasn't hit her too
hard. We had an accident with that before, where Nicolette gave Sheridan a bit
of my cum that she had stored, hoping it would take the edge off, and didn't
realize it started the priming process. It was on a very chaotic day, so we
found Sheridan in her room several hours later, her whole body burning up with
need, having masturbated unsuccessfully for at least a few hours. It wasn't a
smart thing to do, but Nicolette didn't know better and was just trying to help
Sheridan. She's fine now, obviously, but it was a scary day, where Sheridan
felt like her body was betraying her. Tala went into it knowing how it was
going to feel, and is managing it better than Sheridan was, but I think that's
because Tala wanted it to be."

"Do you mind if I show the footage I'm not going to air

to the President and the Joint Chiefs?"

"To the President, no, but I would prefer you not show

it to the Joint Chiefs, simply because that offers me at least a little anonymity.
While I want to help, I also don't want to needlessly risk the lives of my
family. Is that acceptable to you?"

"I can agree to that, I suppose," she said.

"Is there anything else I should know before we wrap up our
interview?"

"Did the base cover the changes that men encounter as a

result of the treatment?"

"Not extensively?"

He grinned. "Well, I do think it's important that

someone tell you that the longer men are exposed to the treatment, the more
short their refractory period becomes and the more semen their testicles
generate, so men shouldn't be worried about not being able to keep up. Their
bodies will adapt. Just be open and transparent about what does and doesn't
turn you on, and people should do fine. I mean, I have my suspicions that the
brain post treatment is generating more mood stabilizing hormones, but I can't
prove that for certain. I know I've certainly felt better than I have for
years, but that could also just be the result of all the exercise I'm getting
from all the sex I'm having, so, hard to say, but that's my theory
anyway."

"What's the biggest fight you've had with a partner

since this all started?"

He sighed, shrugging a little. "It all tends to blend

together. I was pretty angry when Niko volunteered me for the poker game, but
after I found out why, I understood, even if I still wasn't thrilled with the
whole thing. But at some point, you have to learn to accept there's going to be
little hiccups along the way. What's that maxim? Don't sweat the small stuff,
and it's almost all small stuff."

"I appreciate you being honest with me about the whole

poker game, Mr. Rook," she said to him. "If I'm honest, I was
expecting you to try and dodge the question."

"What Covington's doing is horrible, and the only

reason I went into that game at all was to try and save one of my partner's
friends. I'm just more surprised you knew about it, since I would've figured
Covington would have wanted to keep it quiet."

"Maybe Rachel was acting on her own accord?"

"Then why try and paint me as the person organizing

it?" He shook his head. "Not likely. Anyway, if you can do me the
favor and leave at least a little of me talking about the Druid Gunslinger
books in the segment, that'll make us even. My agent would kill me if I wasn't
trying to push for it, at least a little."

"Sure, I'm okay making that exchange. Why don't I take

ten to freshen up, then I'll meet Emily and Sarah in their office and start
their interview?"

"Sounds good," he said, shaking her hand.

"I'll see you again later this afternoon."

Andy took off the mic pack and then headed out of the room,

moving upstairs to the master bedroom, where he expected to find most of the
girls hanging out, which was where he found them.

"How did it go, love?" Emily said to him, as she

and Sarah walked over to him.

"They know about the poker game." The girls' faces

fell, and Emily looked panicked.

"What do you mean?"

For the next few minutes, Andy related to them what he'd

just told Katie Couric, and how Ms. Couric had agreed to keep it all private
between them, but was going to take it to the President, which put the two
actresses at ease especially.

"Is she going to ask us about it?" Sarah asked

him.

"I don't think so, but I can't be certain,"

he told her. "I think she's mostly going to focus on the relationship you
two had before you got here, and how you decided to both come and join me, so
however you want to spin that, I think she'll mostly go along with the
story."

"So other than that, how was the play Mrs.

Lincoln?" Niko joked. "How do you think it went?"

"Pretty well? I think?" He wasn't entirely sure.

As he expected for a reporter of her caliber, she had a remarkable poker face,
and he wasn't entirely certain how she was going to use what they'd talked
about. "She seemed to get the impression that I was the one holding the
poker game at first, but I dissuaded her of that notion quickly."

"Who the hell gave her such a stupid idea?" Em

asked.

"One of Covington's partners, Rachel."

"Oh that bitch," Niko fumed. "I knew I

shouldn't have trusted her."

"She was probably doing it on Covington's explicit

orders," Andy said. "One of the things that Ms. Couric suggested is
that maybe Veronica's death wasn't an accident, and that maybe Covington had a
hand in it. I hadn't even considered it before she said it, but it made total
sense after she did."

One of the producers knocked on the door and then peeked her

head into the bedroom. "Ms. Stevens? Ms. Washington? We're ready for you
down in your office."

"We will be down in just a moment," Emily said.

"Thank you."

The producer ducked back out, as Emily and Sarah moved to

share a hug with Andy.

"You're certain we will be alright, Andrew?"

"If you aren't, Katie Couric'll answer to me," he

laughed. "Now go get'em."

Emily and Sarah released him, took each others' hand, then

headed out of the bedroom towards the stairs to take them to their office on
the floor below.

Ash moved over to give him a long hug, snuggling her face

into his shoulder for a moment before looking up at him. "Should we be
worried about Covington?"

"Not any more now than usually, so yes?" he

grumbled. "Tala, how are you feeling? Regretting taking that early lick
yesterday?"

"Not regretting it at all, babe," she said with a

laugh, "although if I said I wasn't feeling it, I'd definitely be lying. I
feel like I've had too much sugar or caffeine, this sort of jittery buzz that
makes it hard to sit still."

"An itch?" Sheridan said with a laugh.

"Exactly, babe, and you know just where," Tala

replied, winking. "Not too much longer before you're imprinting me, yeah?"

"Couple of hours, give or take."

"Fab," she said, "I should be just about

fully marinaded by then."

For the next hour or so, Andy kept himself busy and tried to

ignore the crews, although they mostly kept within Emily and Sarah's office. As
tempted as he was to go and peep on their interview, he respected the two women
far too much for that, and decided to just let them be.

About an hour later, Sarah came to find him in his office,

where he'd been doing some initial edits on the most recent draft of 'The Fatal
Solstice,' and took his laptop from his lap, setting it aside. After that,
before she'd even said a word to him, she slid down into his lap, wrapped her
arms around him and kissed him tenderly. "You totally don't need to worry,
Andy," she said to him. "It went very smoothly, and I'm sure we made
you look like a champ."

He leaned his head against hers a bit, letting out a

relieved sigh. "Who're they talking to next?"

"Ash and Niko. Katie thought it would be best to get a

woman's perspective who's been imprinted since the first week the program was
rolled out."

"Holy shit," he said, "I didn't realize she

was that early in the queue."

"Seems like. We agreed to let them use our little

studio for that interview as well, but they said to make sure and get everyone
together again for the pick up group interview. They said they only have a
couple of questions, but want to get everyone together for it." She took
her hand and smoothed it over his shaved head affectionately. "You
square?"

"Just a little taken aback by the poker game getting

talked about. It isn't exactly something I was expecting to be brought up, but
I guess it's okay that it's out to a few people if it means that can put a stop
to them."

She leaned down and kissed him again, wrapping her arms

around his head before she slid off his lap and pulled him to his feet.
"Let's just hope Covington doesn't do something stupid."

"Yeah, well, hope in one hand, shit in the other, see

which fills up first."

"I thought you weren't into coprophilia," she teased.

"I'm not even going to ask why you know what the name

of that philia is," he laughed. "But no, I'm most definitely not into
that kind of thing."

The two spent most of the hour talking through her feedback

on the new book, her offering minor suggestions in a way that not only was
helpful, but felt insightful. No major changes, but tiny tweaks here and there
that would really tighten everything up.

Before they knew it, Ash had come to find them to bring them

down to the big room again, for their second group interview, which felt more
like a formality, really, a chance for them to do some pick up shots, and
follow up on the fact that Andy was officially engaged to four women, and that
this was not only going to be legal, but encouraged under the new laws. He had
expected a more indepth series of second round questions, but mostly it was
simple fill ins, and a few clarifying questions.

Within half an hour or so, they were done, and Katie Couric

was thanking them all, Niko especially, for helping establish a single
narrative thread they could follow through the entire process, as well as
reiterating how brave she was, volunteering what her experiences had been like
in the process of getting imprinted.

Andy found himself wondering a little bit what exactly Ash

and Niko had said during their private interview with the journalist, but
trusted they knew what they were doing.

"So all that's left is the footage of the imprinting

actually happening," Katie said, as the producers were starting to pack up
all the camera gear. "I understand Skip walked you through the camera set
up, Ms. Stevens?"

"I think we're past 'Ms. Stevens' at this point, don't

you think, Katie?" Emily said to her with a soft laugh. "And yes,
Skip was very helpful in answering my questions about a few key differences,
but it's not all that different than the camera we have in our office, except
of course for the audio set up. He did walk me through it quite well,
though."

"Great," she said. "I'll have them set it up

in your bedroom, and you will have total control over framing, lighting, so on.
I understand you've got your own editing bay here on site?"

"We have been getting prepared for auditions and the

like in our little studio, so yes, if there's anything we need to cut out or
prune off, we will do so before we pass the footage off to you in the morning.
When should we expect someone to come by?"

"I was actually going to ask if we could pick up the

footage and the camera later this evening," she said. "I know it's
not what we originally agreed upon, but I want us to be heading back to the
studio and starting to put all this together on the last flight out tonight, if
at all possible."

"That's really up to Andy, I think," Em said.

"No, it's mostly up to Tala, let's be real," Andy

said with a smirk.

"I'm ready now now," Tala said, a nervous

titter of laughter rolling from her lips. "I know I was all Billy Badass
about being able to wait, but it's getting pretty real, dude, and, like, the
faster we get up to the bedroom, I think the better off I'm gonna be,
obv."

"Then why don't I head upstairs with a Tala and Em and

a couple of the others, and you can circle back in an hour or two for the
footage," Andy told Katie. "Sound good?"

"Excellent Mr. Rook, thank you once again for being so

charitable, and for being so transparent about the less savory aspects of the
new world you've endured."

Sarah bounded over with a stack of Andy's books, one of

every book in the series, all of which he'd autographed earlier in the day, and
handed them to Katie Couric. "It might not be your speed, but hey, give
them a read and maybe you'll fall in love with the story as much as I
have," she said to the reporter.

"Just the story, though," Katie said with a

grin. "I already have a husband."

"I wouldn't share him with you anyway, girl,"

Sarah chuckled, leaning down to kiss Katie on the cheek. "I think you'll
really like them though."

Katie scooped up the stack of books and smiled. "Thanks

again, to all of you. My producer will be back in two hours to pick up the
footage, the camera and the mic. I truly appreciate you being willing to share
that moment with the world, Tala. It should put a lot of people's minds at
ease."

"Hey, Imma have a more famous sex face than Linda

Lovelace," Tala said with a wink. "I can learn to live with that."

"You should call your next band Sex Face, Tala,"

Niko said, nudging her.

"OMG, I should totally call my next band Sex

Face!" Tala cackled. "Anyhoo, shoo. I've got a man to get bonded
to." She grabbed Andy with one hand, Emily with the other, and started
leading them out of the room, heading towards the stairwell.

"So who do you want around for this, Tala?" Andy

said, as they started up the stairs.

"Well, you and Emily, totes obvs, but my Sherbear's

gonna be around as well," Tala said.

"I never even asked you if you were into women as well

as men," he said, a little embarrassed that he hadn't thought to bring it
up before now.

"Mostly dudes, well, dude singular now I s'pose, but

having a bit of playtime with the girls now and again can be fun, so I'll experiment
from time to time, see what feels right."

"Don't forget, you're also going to imprint Jade after

you're finished with Tala," Em told him.

"Oh, sure sure," Tala said, "she can come up

to the room as well, and she can bring Lauren with her, since I know that'll
make her feel more comfortable. Honestly, whoever wants to come and hang around
for it can. I totes don't care that much."

"Well, too many people and it becomes harder to catch

the audio of it," Em said.

"Most of the audio's gonna be unairable," Tala

giggled, "but I'll clean up my mouth right before he and I pop." As
they reached the top of the stairs, she stopped, turned and pulled Andy down
for a soft kiss, looking up at him with eyes that showed the only sign of
nervousness he'd seen from the brazen Persian woman so far. "In case it
hasn't sunk through your thick skull, doll, I am very grateful that you
took me in and are willing to take a chance on me. I know I'm a bit more thicc
than the other girls in the house, but variety is the spice of life, and Imma
love you like no other."

He smiled at her, his hand stroking her face a little.

"As long as we make each other happy most of the time, Tala, that's all
anyone can ask for."

"Imma be more happy once I get my Vitamin D, if you

know what I'm sayin'," she giggled, turning to walk towards the bedroom
again.

"She's a vixen that one," Emily whispered into his

ear, nibbling on it a little. "Spicy. I like it."

They headed into the bedroom, and Emily moved over to the

camera, which had already been set up by the newsteam before they'd left. Em
made to sure test the lighting and the sound, however, while other people
slowly filtered into the room, Lauren and Jade, as well as Sheridan and Ash.

"It's your first time, Tala," he said, "and I

always want to make sure everyone's first time is exactly how they want it. So
how do you want to do this?"

"Mmm, I mostly just want you to lay there," she

said, kicking off her shoes. "Let me set the pace, let me control the
tempo, let me have a ride." She pulled her shirt off, tossing it aside,
leaving her in a sports bra and her jeans. "I'm both a top and a bottom,
babe, but this time, we need to make sure my face is in shot for it, and as
happy as I am for that to happen, I don't really feel like giving the world a peekaboo
of my tits. That's just for fam." She unbuttoned her jeans and slowly
unzipped them, shimmying them down over her hips.

Tala certainly was curvier than almost anyone else in the

household, with a slightly paunchy belly, but she somehow made it look cute.
The sports bra was certainly doing hard work, as the extra pounds had certainly
enhanced both her bust and her ass.

"So that means doggie is out, and on my back gets a bit

dicey as well," she said with a smirk. "But if I'm atop you, then Em
can frame my face just right."

"We may need to have a couple of people hold you up at

the very end," Emily said, "so when you pass out, the camera can
still have a few seconds of your face while you're beginning the imprinting
process."

"Good looking out," Tala said as she pointed at

Emily. "Sher, I know you got me on this, right?"

"You know it."

"Jade? You want in for the other side?"

The blonde licked her lips a little bit, then nodded, saying

nothing.

"A'ight then, c'mon girl." Tala glanced over at

Andy then cocked her head to one side quizzically. "You gonna make me beg
for it, or are you gonna get undressed so we can get to this?"

He laughed a little, waving a hand as he sat down on the

edge of the bed and unzipped his shoes, then slid them off. He had these tactical
boots he loved to wear, and the fact that they had zippers on them meant they
were always snug. After shucking those, he unbuttoned the shirt and tossed it
over towards the incredibly large dirty clothes hamper the room had, standing
up again to unbutton his jeans, unzipping them.

"Umm hmm hmm,” Tala said. "I know I've seen it a

couple of times already, but damn if you aren't a mighty fine lookin'
man." She pulled her sports bra up and over her head, as her mammoth tits
slipped free of it, giant mounds of soft flesh capped with almost chocolate
colored nipples. "These puppies are gonna do some bouncing today,"
she said, feeling one up, whether for her own gratification or to get Andy's
engine revved up, it was hard to tell.

He slipped out of his boxers and then moved up to lay down

on the bed. It seemed like all of his sexual activity today was apparently
going to be done on his back, he thought to himself, between Fiona and Moira
riding him earlier and Tala riding him now. He wondered if Jade would just want
to keep him on his back for her turn afterwards, although he assumed he was
going to take a shower in between. "Let me just get a couple of pillows
lined up here," he said, adjusting so that he was where he thought he
needed to be for Tala to hit her mark.

"Excellent, love," Emily said. "Now whenever

our star is ready,”

Tala slipped off her thong, and Andy saw her completely

naked for the first time, her cunt shaven clean except for a small rectangle of
black pubes high above it, her hips sashaying as she strode over to the bed
with as much confidence as he had expected.

"How's your head?" he asked her. "Still clear

or is it getting harder t  "

She cut him off by leaning down and kissing him hard, her

hand on his chest practically pinning him down on the bed, as she slowly
brought one knee up, then the other, moving to crawl atop of him, her tongue
not giving him a chance to finish that sentence for at least a minute, her
calloused fingertips dragging down his chest with firm intent.

Tala pulled her lips back from his, as she smirked down at

him. "Regretting this yet?"

"Not even a little," he shot back.

"You?"

"Nuh uh," she replied. "I kinda wish I

could've held out longer, but my cunt feels like I'm smuggling a space heater
in it right now, and I think if I tried to hold out much longer, I wouldn't be
able to say much." Her hips were grinding against his, his cock not lined
up yet, not inside of her, like she was trying to tease them both just a little
bit longer.

"You don't have to say much if you don't want to,

Tala."

"Oh but I so very much want to, Andy," she purred

at him. "I talked a bit with Sher about what gets you off, and she told me
you love a dirty mouth, so I am gonna be one sweary slut for you." She
kissed his nose, almost like the look on his face amused her. "I'm gonna
shove your cock so deep in my snatch that you're gonna wonder if you're tapping
my lungs. Gonna smack my ass down on your thighs and bounce on this glorious
cock so hard, we're gonna test if this bed's strong enough. And if I break it?
Well, then I'll just have to build a new one for the room, one done properly,
one built to handle the sort of good hard fuckings this family is always gonna
be up to."

He could feel her hand reaching down to grab his shaft,

stroking it just a little, but mostly guiding it to get into position.

"Normally I tell someone it's their last chance to back

out right before they do this, but you started the priming yesterday, which
means you couldn't back out now if you wanted to," he said to her.

"Does This" she said, slamming her hips

down onto his cock, impaling herself until he was hilt deep inside of her cunt,
"feel like I want to back out? Fuck no. You feel so fucking good inside of
me, I don't even want to fucking move." She giggled a little bit, her eyes
looking defocused for a second. "Oh that feels so fucking dope,”

Sheridan and Jade made their way over to the bed, but kept

their distance just far enough that they weren't in eyeline most of the time,
but were still close enough that they could spring into action when needed.

"I hope nobody ever told you that you had a little

cock, Andy, because if they did, tell me who they were so I can beat the shit
out of them for lying to you, because oooooh fuck, I never want this cock to be
anywhere but inside of me ever again."

Because she'd gotten some of his precum earlier, she hadn't

had the orgasm that typically accompanied the priming process, but it seemed
like she was almost on the verge of one anyway, her head drifting from one side
to the other, her dark hair a mess around her face, even while mostly still
contained in the ponytail she'd put it into earlier.

"You like how that feels, don't you, you big cocked

bastard?" she hissed at him. "That's good prime Persian pussy you're
wrapped up in now. Nothin' like it anywhere else in the world." She was
trying to hold still it seemed, but suddenly she lifted her hips about half way
up then slammed them down hard, eliciting a deep moan from her throat, her head
leaning back. "Fuck that's too fucking good to be real!"

She seemed like she was trying to keep herself from going

too quickly, but it seemed like that struggle was lost seconds later, as she
started bucking her hips up and down on his shaft. Each time she thrust down,
getting his cock balls deep inside of her, she was trying to hold still, trying
to remain there for as long as she could, but always seemed to lose the
struggle within just a second or so, repeating the motion again, each bounce
making her tits jiggle above him, as she smoothed her hands against the sides
of her head and back, her face contorted with delicious pleasure.

"I wanted it slow, I wanted it long and hard, but I

just can't fucking stop," she whimpered, "and I fucking need it right
fucking now!"

Andy was mostly letting Tala set the tempo, but found

himself having to hold onto her hips to keep her in place, as the slam hold
slam rhythm was quickly replaced by fast and frenzied snaps of her hips,
pulling herself up and nearly off his cock before grinding down again, pumping
him like she was frantic and desperate.

"Fuck, Andy," she groaned. "I was convinced I

could take this, I could manage this, I could control this, but I'm outta my
fuckin' mind here, boo, and I need it, I want it, I crave it, I gotta have that
cum, gotta have that hot cream, gotta get my fix. We can cuddle and snuggle and
canoodle and all that shit later, but right now, I think I'm gonna fuckin' lose
it if you don't gimme that jizz. Do it. Do it to me, you hunk!"

He wanted to make the moment last, but Tala's tempo wasn't

giving him space for that, so one of his hands lifted from Tala's hips,
gesturing with flapping fingers that the girls should come and hold her up, as
Emily zoomed the camera in.

Sheridan slipped in quickly, placing her hands on Tala's

right shoulder, and Jade did the same on the other side, as Andy felt his body
racing towards that release.

"Umm, muh nuh nuh gawf nuh," Tala groaned and

moaned, trying to keep herself from using any words, even in her sex crazed
state doing her best to make sure the family was shown in a good light.

When Tala thrust down hard the next time, the show started.

He felt her clamp onto his cock, and his balls immediately

threw open the floodgates, as he started blasting ropes of hot spunk inside of
her, and her head began to thrash about a little, a deranged smile on her face,
as her ponytail whipped behind her head like an angry cat's tail until suddenly
she went completely limp, the girls moving to angle her so her head leaned
backward, her face completely exposed, while Emily continued to zoom in, and
everyone in the room tried to fall as quiet as they could, leaving on the
telltale word on repeat, Tala's voice murmuring with great delight,
"imprinting," over and over and over again.

"Got it!" Emily said, turning the camera off.

"As soon as we're done here, I'll give it a quick edit pass then will let
Ms. Couric's people know it's ready."

Sheridan and Jade moved to slowly lower Tala to one side,

sliding her off of Andy's cock with a wet pop, as they laid her down on the
bed, her head on the pillow. Andy leaned over and gave her a soft kiss, making
sure she was beneath the covers.

"Now, maybe I should get a shower first, Jade, before

we get to you."

"Oh, I've got something else in mind, Andy," Jade

said, a strange smile on her face.

To be continued in part 19, by CorruptingPower for Literotica.

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