While Kane's excitement was palpable, Luna’s expression became a little strange at the mention of Alexa. On the one hand, her lips pursed into a jealous pout, while on the other, a glint of excitement passed through her eyes.

When Myst noticed her daughter's expression, she giggled a little and realized that perhaps it was finally time to have a specific little talk with her daughter.

But first, she grinned knowingly at Kane, "She should be here soon. Seemed quite excited, too."

"I would be surprise if she wasn't," Kane chuckled, a predatory glint in his eyes as he leaned on the cocktail table in front of him, his fingers rapping on its surface. "That girl is insatiable."

"I still find it surprising that you became friends with one of your captors, Mom," Luna grumbled, a little irritated by something.

"Oh, she's not so bad," Myst giggled while attempting to soothe her daughter. "She does what she can to improve our lives while keeping her bosses happy. You know I'm an excellent judge of character."

While the mother and daughter talked, Kane panned an expectant gaze towards a seemingly unremarkable section of the wall. Suddenly, the wall slid open to reveal a secret passageway. At least, secret to most of the customers. These passages were used by the Opal Circle staff.

Which is exactly what Alexa was. As a distant cousin of one of the ruling Opal Circle families, the Vox, she was required to take part in the family business. Which, in this case, meant serving as one of the Opal Oasis' managing staff.

Out of the passageway stormed an energetic, pretty woman with auburn hair, grey eyes, and an excited smile. She wore a scant teddy, looked to be in her early twenties, and was at least two heads shorter than Kane. She was also a Core Formation stage Mystic, one rank above him.

“Kane! You’re here!” she exclaimed happily, before jumping into his arms and rubbing her barely covered body against him.

Kane and Alexa met on the same day that he and Luna came to visit Myst for the first time. After Myst got over the surprise and was introduced to the man Luna had sworn herself to, the mother naturally wanted a little time alone with her daughter. Thus, she trusted Alexa with entertaining Kane for a little while.

Only, as it turned out, Alexa was a very lascivious, yet relatively inexperienced girl. At the time they met, she had only been working there for a few months, and was starting to get very pent-up from being around so much sex all the time without having her own release.

Thus, after Alexa took Kane to an empty room intending to simply make him a drink and perhaps talk a little, they actually ended up having a lot more fun, with Kane taking Alexa's virginity.

Chuckling, Kane wrapped his hands around her, greedily pressing her soft body against his, "Hey, Alexa. Couldn't wait to see me again, huh? You even dressed for the occasion!"

"Of course!" Alexa pouted indignantly and punched his chest lightly. "You come so rarely, and I get very pent-up in the interim! All this sex and debauchery around me all the time is very stimulating, but toys just don't do it for me, you know?"

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Truly, members of the Opal Circle were quite liberated in the way they talked about sex.

Still, Alexa always claimed to only use toys when he wasn't there. Unfortunately, the naturally suspicious Kane wasn't actually sure whether or not to believe her.

Fact was, he got the idea that this woman was horny all the time, and the idea she stayed away from other men during his absence seemed unlikely to him.

‘But I suppose it doesn't matter,’ Kane thought casually, considering Alexa to be no more than a friend-with-benefits. 'It's not like I'm pursuing a romantic relationship with her.'

He shrugged inwardly, 'I have far too many other things on my mind, even if we weren't from different syndicates. She's just a fun distraction while Luna and Lady Myst have their time alone.'

Shaking himself free from his thoughts, he decided to take care of the pent-up Alexa.

"Actually, I don't know," Kane smirked at Alexa, before picking the small woman up and tossing her over his shoulder. "But I'm more than happy to relieve your frustration," he continued, while Alexa yelped and giggled, letting him manhandle her, despite the difference in their strength.

To the side, Myst grinned knowingly, while Luna’s pout grew larger. Kane wasn’t enough of an idiot not to notice Luna’s jealousy, but he wilfully ignored it. Partly because the two of them had never talked about their relationship, but also because he could see the glint of excitement in her eyes.

‘She may be jealous, but I can see her excitement as well,’ he chuckled to himself. ‘Besides, Luna isn’t shy. If she really didn’t want me to go with Alexa, she’d speak up. Not to mention that we have some of the best sex after we come back from her mother.’

Thus, Kane carried the playfully struggling girl through the opening in the wall and left the mother daughter pair behind. "Let's go take care of you while Luna and Lady Myst catch up."

* * *

Silence reigned in Myst's room. The mother looked curiously at her daughter, who was staring at the door Kane had disappeared through with a strange mix of frustration, jealousy, and excitement.

Clearly, her mind was preoccupied with her own thoughts as she seemed to be ignoring Myst’s presence.

After observing her for a few moments, Myst finally decided to interrupt her thoughts. “Luna,” she said softly at first. Then, after getting no reaction, a little louder, “Luna!”

Still, Luna kept staring at that wall with a focused gaze, so Myst rolled her eyes and smacked Luna on the back of her head, “Don’t ignore your mother, child!”

“Ah!” Luna yelped, startled, while rubbing the back of her head. “S— Sorry, Mom,” she mumbled with an aggrieved pout. “What were you saying?”

“Nothing yet,” Myst smirked as she watched her daughter. “But how about you tell me what you were thinking, hmm?”

“W— What do you mean…?” she murmured while poking her fingers together and looking anywhere but at her mother. Myst, and occasionally Kane, were the only ones who could make her usual playful attitude take a back seat.

Myst sighed and walked up to the bar. “Just spill it, little Luna," she began while making them both some drinks. "I already figured out you started having sex with your master not long after your first visit with me."

She chuckled softly, "Ever since then I’ve been watching you have that same mixed expression on your face every time you come here and watch him walk away with Alexa.”

Having prepared two strong alcoholic drinks, she returned to an embarrassed and anxious Luna. “U— Uhm,” the younger catling stammered, not sure what to say.

Luckily for her, Myst was perfectly happy to continue talking as she pushed one of the drinks in her hands towards Luna, hoping the alcohol would help smooth things a long a little.

“I’ve been hoping you would talk to him yourself,” Myst continued in the tone of an indulgent mother, “but clearly that hasn’t happened, which means you need a little push from your mother. So let’s talk, mother to daughter."

She lounged back and looked at her daughter with playful curiosity, "First, let me tell you what I think: you are jealous of seeing other women with Lord Kane, but there’s also something about it you enjoy, right?”

Myst took a seat on one of the comfortable chairs and watched her daughter nervously shift her weight from one leg to the other as she tightly clutched the drink in her hand.

Silence fell for a moment, before Luna finally sighed and sagged down on the chair opposite of Luna. First, she gulped down the entire drink in her hand in one go. ‘Might as well get this over with,’ she lamented inwardly. ‘Maybe Mom can help me figure this out…’