Chapter 91

We went back in front of the mirror and I began working with Cassidy’s hair again as she used her phone. Since I couldn’t actually see anything - it looked to me like she was scrolling Instagram this time - there was no point in me just sitting there. So as I carefully worked my way along her scalp, Cassidy narrated to me what she was doing.

“Alright, so that’s all the Perks I bought you turned back on,” she said.

“Just for my own sake, could you tell me exactly what the lucky one is?” I asked. “I just don’t want to get bitten on the ass by it at work or something.”

“Um, OK,” she said. “It’s called ‘Lucky In Love.’ It says that any time you are included in a randomized event, such as a game of chance, you’ll never be the big loser and if it could lead to a positive relationship encounter you are considered the House. And the House always wins.”

I blew out a breath and nodded. So it wasn’t just a ‘win all the games’ sort of thing. I wasn’t about to lose big on anything, at least not in the long term, but I wasn’t going to be some statistical anomaly that would get the attention of my bosses at the Casino either. That was the last thing I needed - someone back in Vegas deciding I was a cheat. I’d never work again.

“OK. I mean, it sounds great, and obviously it worked last night,” I said. “What about the last one?”

Cass hesitated for a moment. “Are you asking me to tell you what it is?”

I knew she’d been having a little bit of fun amongst all this by letting me ‘discover’ them as we went along, but I was starting to get a little tired of questioning what was going on. “Hon, last night was an eye-opener for me. Apparently, even without the App I still kiss really well. And everyone we’ve been ... intimate with in one way or another didn’t seem surprised like anything had changed. Terra was still flirting and kissing me. Same with Wanda. Cattie didn’t even seem to think there was a difference.”

“Tiger, that’s because I only picked things that made you more of who you are. I tried to tell you that,” Cassidy said. “Look, we’ve been together a long time, right? Well, that means that you and I have been practising our kissing, and sexual stuff, together for a long time. We’ve been completely comfortable with each other with that stuff for years and years. There are a lot of people, even in long-term relationships, who aren’t like that. Plus, not to bring up the elephant in the room, but I also had a lot of experience with learning how to kiss other girls. I definitely picked up and passed along some things to you, especially in that first year. I wasn’t trying to do that, but I can only assume I did. The Kissing perk just enhances that a little bit and makes them remember it more vividly. If someone sucked at kissing maybe it would do more work, but you don’t. Same with everything else you do.”

“So what you’re saying is that we’ve practised sex stuff together so much that I’m just that good?” I asked, a little deadpan.

“Tiger, you’re a fucking Stud,” Cassidy said, looking at me in the mirror.

I wiped at my face for a moment, trying not to let it go to my head. Cassidy had always said things like that to me, especially during and after sex. I’d always taken the compliments but assumed it was just couple talk. Maybe it turned out it wasn’t just couple talk.