I dry heaved. “Fine. Fine! I’ll change in here. Just don’t look.”
“I would never.”
“Just like on our first date when I caught you looking?”
“If I recall correctly, I caughtyoulooking.”
“You’re impossible. Now, don’t look.” I pushed my hair aside and started to unbutton my blouse. But my fingers paused when I felt eyes on me. Tanner was focusing on the road. Which meant… I turned around to see Nigel staring right at me. “Hey, you don’t look either.”
“Would you rather I help?” He reached toward my buttons. And therefore my boobs.
I swatted his perverted little hand away. “No! I don’t need your help. Now turn around.”
Nigel looked out the window. For literally one second. And then he turned back and stared at me. He seemed surprised that I hadn’t already changed. “Are you sure you don’t need my assistance, Mistress Ash? It seems like you’re having a bit of trouble.”
No.I turned back to Tanner. “Seriously – do you have a bracelet that can change my clothes?”
“I do,” said Tanner. “Well, kind of. It’s a ring.” He pulled a ring out of his pocket and slid it onto his finger. And right before my eyes, his clothes changed from a suit to a fitted T-shirt and some swim trunks that cut off just above his knees.
I blinked.How the hell did that just happen?!His tech was seriously impressive. I couldn’t even imagine what must have gone into designing something like that.
“Wow,” I said. “That’s amazing. Do you have one for me?”
“I do.” He tossed me a ring.
I was about to put it on, but he reached out to stop me.
“Before you use it, I should probably warn you that it’s still just a prototype. Sometimes it…glitches.”
“Glitches? What does that mean?”
“Well…it is pretty good at making your current clothes disappear. But the part that replaces them doesn’t always work.”
“Really?”Damn it! Why hadn’t it glitched when he used it on himself?It would have been so great if he had accidentally lost all his clothes. Not because I wanted to see him naked or anything.Nope. Definitely not. Because I wasn’t interested in him. I just thought it would be funny if he messed up.
“Yeah. But it only glitches like 70% of the time. So the odds are…well, I guess they’re not really in your favor. You willing to risk it?” His eyes went to my breasts. And I started to think that it wasn’t really a glitch at all. That little pervert had just given me a ring that would leave me ass naked!
And I wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction.
“I think I’ll just change the old-fashioned way.”
He turned off onto a gravel road. “Okay, but you better hurry. You only have about 90 seconds before we arrive at the Emerald Oasis. And unfortunately for you, Elon didn’t bother to send me the model with tinted windows.”
This Is War - Chapter 18 – Hugging a Naked Woman
Friday – September 22, 2023
We pulled up to the Emerald Oasis just as I buttoned my jean shorts.Phew.That had been close.
“All done?” asked Tanner, as if he hadn’t been stealing glances at me the entire time I was changing.
“Yup.” I would have called him out for peeking, but I was too distracted by the massive castle that we’d just pulled up to. Or maybepalacewas a better word to describe it? Either way, it wasnotwhat I had pictured. I’d assumed the clubhouse would be a rustic little cabin type deal, which was kind of dumb given how much money the Society clearly had to throw around.
Tanner hopped out of the car and started to walk over to open my door, but someone else beat him to it.
“Welcome to the Emerald Oasis,” said a familiar voice. I looked up and saw Cole the liftman holding the door open for me. Instead of his usual uniform, he was now wearing swim trunks and a bright blue T-shirt withEmerald Oasiswritten across the chest.
“What are you doing here?” I asked. He wasn’t supposed to be here! Chastity hadn’t had time to devise a proper prank to get him back for embarrassing me at Club Onyx.