Page 122 of The Mentor
“Pearl still needs to find the last three men for the project,” I said.
“Yeah, it’s going to be hard for her.” He chuckled. “But that’s what she gets for picking me first. I told her she’ll have to lower her expectations and that she won’t find anyone as charming and amazing as me.”
“And what’s the plan when you get to the Motherlands?” I asked.
“I’m not sure,” he said and was back to being serious; he rubbed his forehead. “I think that if I hadn’t already been to the Motherlands I would’ve said that my plan was to find as many women I could and to plant my seed and have some fun.”
“But?”
“But my plan has changed.” I couldn’t remember ever seeing Finn so serious, except the time when he treated William’s burn wound. “Remember I told you how Athena cursed me?”
“Yeah.”
Finn squirmed a little and picked up some grass that he broke into small pieces. “I know it’s hard to believe, but she was so angry with me, and the way she sneered when she cursed me…” He shuddered. “I swear her eyes were on fire and she was chanting in a different language and all.”
“What language would that be?”
“I don’t know, some kind of dead language, I suppose. It was creepy.”
“But if you didn’t understand what she was saying, then how do you know that she was cursing you for sure?”
“Because I felt it, man, it was like she was inside my head.”
I narrowed my eyes. “What are you saying? You knew what she was saying in that foreign language because she was inside your mind?”
Finn frowned at me. “No, of course not, that’s just crazy talk. I knew because I asked her what the fuck she was saying.”
“Ahh, and she translated?”
“Uh-huh.” He nodded slowly.
Leaning my head closer, I asked curiously: “Tell me what she cursed you with.”
“She damned me to never find satisfaction with a woman.”
I thought about it. “What does that even mean?”
“It means that I can’t fucking come,” he muttered and looked down.
Both my eyebrows lowered in disbelief. “You can’t orgasm?”
“No, I can’t. I slept with five women in the Motherlands and I couldn’t come with any of them.”
“Fuck, that sucks,” I said with sympathy before I really understood his words. “Wait, you slept withfivewomen?”
A slow grin grew on his face. “I’m good at seducing women.”
“Five women,” I repeated in awe. “I’ve never known a man who has slept withfivewomen.”
Squaring his shoulders, Finn smiled smugly. “That number is going to grow significantly once I go back there.”
“I can’t even imagine,” I muttered, still taken aback by the unfairness of one man sleeping with five women when we had hundreds of thousands of men who had never slept with a single one.
“But first, I’m going to find Athena and make her lift the curse,” he announced determinedly.
“And how do you plan to do that? I thought you were going to have a mediator attached to you.” Shaking my head, I continued. “I doubt they’re letting you get anywhere near Athena, and who can blame them? The poor woman is probably traumatized from her time being kidnapped and held hostage here in the Northlands.
Finn snorted loudly. “You clearly haven’t met Athena. I doubt anything or anyone could truly traumatize her. That woman was something else.”
