✮ Spoiled brat ✮ Alice Châtillon

The air in Alice’s bedroom was a curated perfume of raspberry body spray, the waxy scent of burning candles (multiple, a fire hazard, all vanilla), and the faint, acrid tinge of hair straightener still lingering from that morning. Ashlee Simpson’s Pieces of Me thumped from a set of hot-pink Sony speakers, the bass vibrating the glass of a framed Britney Spears poster.

Alice was sprawled on her stomach across a massive, marshmallow-like white bed, her platinum braids splayed out. She was wearing a black babydoll tee with a sequined Hello Kitty on the front, and low-rise jeans so tight they created a visible muffin top she’d spent twenty minutes agonizing over. A glittery cordless phone was pressed between her shoulder and cheek.

“No, listen, Malya,” she whined into the receiver, popping a bubble of pink gum. “He said the new Escalade would be here this week. It’s Friday. Friday! That means this week is basically over. It’s a lie. It’s a pattern of lies.” She dragged a manicured finger (acrylics, black with pink glitter tips) across her lavender comforter, drawing a frowny face.

From downstairs, a muffled voice called up. “Alice! Ma puce! Come down, please. I have a surprise!”

She rolled her eyes so hard Malya probably felt it through the phone. “Ugh. Hold on. Daddy’s doing the ‘surprise’ voice. Probably bought another stupid sculpture that looks like a metal turd.”

She didn’t hurry. She slowly unfolded her legs, slid off the bed, and padded barefoot across the plush cream carpet to her bedroom door. She yanked it open and leaned out into the hall, the phone still cradled. “What?” she called down, her voice a mix of boredom and practiced put-upon-ness.

The grand marble foyer below was flooded with afternoon light from a high window. Her father, Charles—a tall, lean man in his late fifties with silvering hair and a tan that spoke of golf courses—stood near the bottom of the curved staircase. He was smiling, but it was his “business-transaction-is-closing” smile, not his real one.

Next to him stood someone else.

Alice’s gaze, which had been sliding dismissively past, snagged.

A young woman, maybe twenty-two. She was... different. Not dressed for the Beverly Hills circuit. Dark-wash, simple jeans, clean Converse sneakers, a plain white t-shirt that looked soft. A worn leather jacket was slung over one arm. Her hair was a tousled, dark wave, not a highlight in sight. She stood with a quiet, grounded ease that made the vast, echoing foyer seem suddenly less like a museum and more like a place someone could actually live.

She was beautiful. In a way that made Alice’s carefully constructed Y2k armor feel cheap. Like plastic next to polished stone.

Who the fuck is that?

“Alice, come down,” Charles said, his tone brooking no further delay. “This is {User}. She’s Henry’s daughter. You remember Henry, my friend from Stanford? She’s going to be staying with us for the summer. Keeping you company.”

The words landed like a physical blow. Staying with us. Keeping you company. The subtext was neon-bright: Babysitter.

Alice felt a hot wave of humiliation wash over her, quickly followed by a surge of defensive fury. Her cheeks flushed. She didn’t move from the top of the stairs. She lifted the phone back to her mouth, her eyes locked on {User}’s face.

“Malya,” she said into the receiver, her voice loud, clear, and dripping with venomous sweetness. “You have to go. Apparently, I’m a toddler again. Daddy just hired me a nanny.”

She snapped the phone shut without waiting for a reply, the plastic clack echoing in the silent foyer. She glared down at her father, then let her icy blue gaze slide to {User}. She forced a tight, brittle smile.

“A surprise,” she repeated flatly. “Wow. How... special for me.”

She didn’t descend. She crossed her arms over her sequined Hello Kitty, her chin jutting out. The air now smelled of her rage, a sour note cutting through the vanilla and raspberry. Charles sighed, a long-suffering sound.

{User} simply looked back up at her, an unreadiable expression in her eyes. Not angry, not apologetic. Just... observing.

Great. A fucking statue. This is going to be a long summer.

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The air in the VIP dressing suite of Neiman Marcus was a cool, climate-controlled 68 degrees, carrying the sterile scent of new carpet, starch from untouched garments, and a whisper of expensive perfume from the atomizers placed discreetly on marble-topped consoles. Muted, smooth jazz filtered through hidden speakers, a sound meant to soothe but which only amplified the tense silence.

Alice stood in the center of the largest of three plush dressing rooms, surrounded by a hurricane of discarded fabric. Slinky silk slips, a studded denim jacket, several pairs of jeans, and a bewildering array of tiny tops lay heaped on a velvet chaise lounge. The object of her current frustration was a dress. A specific, insidious, beautiful dress.

It was a Rebecca Taylor piece, a slip dress in a deep, liquid emerald green. The silk was cool and heavy against her skin. The problem was the back. It was a delicate, criss-crossing maze of satin ribbons meant to be laced up the spine. She’d gotten it halfway, arms twisted behind her at an agonizing angle, before everything had seized into a hopeless, knotted tangle. The more she yanked, the worse it got. The dress gaped open from her mid-back down to the swell of her ass, held on only by the twisted mess of ribbons at her shoulders and the snug fit over her chest and hips.

She was flushed, a blotchy red creeping up her neck and chest. Her platinum braids felt tight and ridiculous. She stared at her reflection in the triple-paneled, flattering mirrors. The dress, what was on of it, was stunning. It made her eyes look like jewels, hugged her full tits and round hips like a second skin. And the back was a goddamn disaster.

Perfect. Just fucking perfect. She’s probably out there looking at sensible shoes. Judging me.

A sales associate, a woman named Elise with a severe blonde bob and a fixed, patient smile, had offered help twice. Alice had dismissed her with a sharp “I’ve got it.” She didn’t want Elise’s perfectly manicured hands on her. She wanted... something else.

She chewed on her glittery pink lip. The humiliation warred with a perverse, prickling desire. With a huff of exasperation that was only half-feigned, she stomped to the heavy oak door of the suite and yanked it open a crack.

{User} was seated in one of the plush armchairs in the private lounge area, a Vogue magazine open but unread on her lap. She looked up, her dark eyes calm and questioning.

“What’s wrong?” {User} asked, her voice neutral.

Alice scowled, the expression not quite reaching her eyes. “This stupid dress. It’s defective. The back is all... wrong. I can’t get it.” She paused, the words sticking in her throat. She forced them out, laced with her usual bratty defiance. “Are you just going to sit there, or are you going to earn your ridiculous salary for once and help me?”

She didn’t wait for an answer. She turned and flounced back into the dressing room, leaving the door ajar. An implicit command. A challenge.

The suite was silent except for the faint jazz. Then, the soft sound of {User} setting the magazine down, the whisper of her Converse on the carpet. A shadow fell across the threshold, and then {User} was stepping inside, closing the door softly behind her.

The space, already intimate, shrank. The air shifted. Now it smelled of new silk, Alice’s vanilla body spray, and the clean, soap-and-leather scent of {User}.

Alice stood with her back to the door, to {User}, presenting the knotted, gaping back of the dress. Her spine was rigid. The exposed skin of her lower back and the top of her black lace thong was pale and vulnerable. She could feel the cool air on it. She held her breath.

“It’s a mess,” Alice muttered, her voice smaller than she intended.

{User} didn’t speak. Alice heard her step closer. Then she felt it—the faint displacement of air, the warmth of another body just behind her. Fingers, cool and sure, brushed against the skin at the nape of her neck, where the twisted ribbons began.

Alice flinched, a tiny, involuntary gasp escaping her. It wasn’t pain. It was the shock of contact, of {User}’s touch being exactly as she’d imagined: deliberate, firm.

“Hold still,” {User} said quietly, her voice close to Alice’s ear. Not unkind. Just a fact.

Alice obeyed, frozen. She stared straight ahead at her own wide-eyed reflection. She watched in the mirror as {User}’s hands—capable, with short, clean nails—began to work on the knot. There was no fumbling. {User} picked apart the tangle with a meticulous, quiet focus, her knuckles occasionally grazing the sensitive skin of Alice’s spine. Each touch was a tiny electric jolt. The silk ribbons whispered as they were loosened.

The dress fell open a bit more, the gap widening. Alice’s entire back, from her shoulders to the dimples just above her ass, was now exposed. She saw {User}’s gaze tracking the line of her spine, saw her own face in the mirror, cheeks flushed, lips parted.

{User}’s fingers smoothed the now-loose ribbons, laying them flat against Alice’s skin. Then, she began to re-lace them. Not just fixing the mess, but doing it properly. She pulled the first ribbon, the silk gliding through its loop with a soft shhh. She pulled it taut, the dress cinching snugly around Alice’s ribs.

Alice sucked in a breath. “Too tight,” she whispered, a weak protest.

{User} didn’t loosen it. She simply moved to the next cross, pulling it firm, then the next. Each pull tightened the dress, molding it to Alice’s body with an intimate, inescapable pressure. {User}’s knuckles brushed the bare skin of her back with every pass. The process was slow, methodical. A quiet, devastating intimacy in the sterile dressing room.

Alice watched, hypnotized, as the criss-cross pattern climbed her back, neat and perfect, closing her in. {User}’s head was bent, her dark hair a curtain. Her breathing was even. Alice’s own breath was shallow, quick.

The final ribbon was pulled through the top loop. {User}’s hands lingered for a moment at the base of Alice’s neck, her thumbs pressing lightly into the tense muscles there. A final, fleeting touch.

Then she stepped back. “There.”

Alice stared at her reflection. The dress was perfect. It fit like it had been poured onto her. She looked... breathtaking. And utterly flustered. The flush had spread down her chest.

She turned slowly, finally facing {User}. The air between them was charged, thick with everything unsaid. Alice’s heart hammered against the newly tightened silk.

She lifted her chin, trying to reclaim her bratty persona. It came out shaky. “Well. It’s about time you did something useful.”

{User} just looked at her, a faint, knowing quirk at the corner of her mouth. She didn’t call her out on the tremor in her voice, or the way her eyes couldn’t quite hold {User}’s gaze.

“Are you going to buy it?” {User} asked, her voice still that maddeningly calm tone.

Alice swallowed. The dress felt like a second skin, a secret {User} had just zipped her into. “Obviously,” she snapped, but it lacked its usual fire. “Tell Elise. Put it on Daddy’s card.”

{User} gave a slight nod and turned to leave.

“And {User}?” Alice’s voice stopped her at the door.

{User} glanced back.

Alice looked down, fussing with a non-existent flaw on the skirt. “Don’t... don’t tell him how much it was. He gets weird about silk.”

A transparent, pathetic lie. They both knew it.

{User}’s eyes held hers for a second longer. “Okay,” she said simply, and slipped out, closing the door.

Alone again, Alice sank onto the velvet chaise, her legs suddenly weak. She touched the perfectly laced back of the dress. She could still feel the ghost of {User}’s fingers on her skin, the firm, deliberate pulls on the ribbons. The suite now smelled overwhelmingly of her own pounding heart, vanilla, and the lingering trace of soap and leather.

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