Cover of The Come Up

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This is a story about a metamorphosis from a scrawny, nerdy 18 year old young black man to a confident 30 year old man with an insatiable sexual appetite and a harem of women.

Characters

  • Minnie — Minnie is a stripper at The Pink Valley who Rick mentioned as another woman for Marcus. Jade described her as too wild for the main floor and trying to get out of the place for years.
  • Deidre (Dee) — A voluptuous Cuban woman who runs a cleaning business that serves as a front. She is smart, calculating, and looking to escape a partner who thinks he owns her.
  • Hailey — A pretty Caucasian woman with a very strong build who owns a gym in the industrial district. She is severe, direct, and trained to read danger.

Chapter 7: The Dorm Room Claim

The air in Marcus’s penthouse was cool and silent, a vault holding the echoes of recent acquisitions. On the giant screen, silent financial news scrolled. On his phone, a photo from Samantha: a sunset over Miami, her gorgeous silhouette against the orange glow. The caption read: Bridge is rewritten. Producer is terrified. Thank you.

He swiped it away with a small smirk. Gratitude was a down payment; loyalty was the balance due.

A different alert chimed—a secure line. Nia’s ID flashed.

“The basketball player,” Nia said without preamble, her voice the digital equivalent of a scalpel. “Cameron Cole. Starting forward. Projected first-round WNBA draft pick this spring. Endorsement potential is high, but her social metrics are… quiet. Conservative image. The kind that bores sponsors.”

Marcus leaned back, the leather sighing. “And? Your point?”

“And her roommate, Sophia Vance, is a point guard with a bigger mouth and a smaller future. She’s the vector. They’re having a ‘celebratory’ post-game gathering in their dorm. It’s intimate. Just them.” A pause, the sound of a keyboard clicking. “Sophia has been bragging to a teammate about knowing ‘the guy who owns half the city.’ She’s fishing for an invite to the deep end. She doesn’t know how cold the water is.”

“Send the location.”

“Already done. Valerie’s initial background is on file. No red flags, just… blank spaces. Cameron’s a harder read. It'd be interesting to watch you work,” Nia said, and the line went dead.

The address led to the university’s athletic village, a series of sleek, modern dorms that housed the college’s monetized talent. Marcus parked in a visitor’s slot, a shadow merging with other shadows. The building hummed with the low-grade frenzy of a late Friday night—bass from a stereo, laughter from a cracked door.

Room 414.

He didn’t knock.

He opened the door to a wall of stale, heated air—sweat, cheap peach body spray, and the greasy ghost of pepperoni pizza. The room was a study in organized chaos. Two beds, two desks. One side was a riot of clothes, posters for punk bands, a litter of makeup. The other was stark, neat, a pair of spotless sneakers aligned perfectly by the bed.

Sophia was pacing, still in her team warm-up pants and a tight white tank top, her blonde ponytail swishing. “—and then he just looked at me, like, really looked, you know? I think he’s gonna call.”

Cameron sat at her pristine desk, one long leg crossed over the other, scrolling through game footage on a tablet. She was tall, even seated. Slender but corded with the kind of lean muscle that spoke of endless drills. Her grey eyes were cool, assessing pixels on a screen. She wore navy sweatpants and a simple grey hoodie. Her white-blonde hair was pulled into a severe, elegant bun. She didn’t respond to Sophia’s chatter.

“He’s not going to.” Marcus said, closing the door behind him.

Sophia spun, her hand flying to her chest. “Jesus Christ! How did you—”

Cameron’s head turned slowly. Her gaze wasn’t startled. It was analytical, moving from his face to his shoes, calculating threat, value, purpose. She placed the tablet down, screen-first.

“You’re Marcus, are you?” Cameron stated. Her voice was lower than expected, calm.

“Yes. And you’re the one with a future,” he replied, stepping further into the room. His presence seemed to shrink the space. The crack in the full-length mirror on the closet door split his reflection into disjointed pieces. “And YOU,” he looked at Sophia, who was now chewing her lip, a mix of excitement and nerves, “You’re the one who talks too much.”

Sophia flushed. “I just… my friend Kara said you knew how to get people connected. I want to be connected.”

“Connected?” Marcus smirked. He walked to Sophia’s cluttered desk, picked up a textbook on sports marketing, and dropped it back down with a thud. “You’re a back up shooting guard with a somewhat decent three-point shot. But... you have turnover problems. Your connection is sitting right there.” He nodded at Cameron. “She’s your lottery ticket, and you don’t even know it. You’re just noise around the signal.”

Sophia’s mouth opened, then closed. The truth was a bucket of ice water.

Marcus turned to Cameron. “Why do you room with the noise?”

Cameron’s pouty lips twitched, almost a smile. “She sets picks better than anyone on the team. And she’s not afraid of the big players. Just… naive.”

“I’m not naive!” Sophia protested, rallying. She put her hands on her hips, the movement stretching her tank top. “I hear things. I know you have a… a crew. Women. I want in.”

Marcus laughed, a short, blunt sound. “You don’t actually ‘get in.’ You get chosen.” He looked between them, the loud one and the silent one, the fire and the ice. “You need names. Call signs. You…” He pointed at Sophia. “You’re ‘White Gurl.’ All that desperate, obvious energy. And you…” His finger moved to Cameron, who stared back, unblinking. “You’re ‘The Statue.’ Perfect form. No expression. Let’s see what’s under the marble.”

He moved suddenly. In two steps, he was in front of Sophia. He grabbed the neckline of her tank top and yanked down. The cheap fabric tore like tissue, baring her small yet perky breasts, her hard nipples pebbling in the cool air from the open window.

“Hey!” she gasped, but it was half-hearted, undercut by the immediate arch of her back.

“You wanted a connection? You're getting one.” Marcus said, his voice dropping to a rough whisper. He shoved her backwards. She tumbled onto her unmade bed, a tangle of sheets and discarded jerseys. He followed her down, his knees pinning her thighs. He hooked his thumbs into the waistband of her warm-up pants and her cotton panties and peeled them down to her ankles in one brutal motion.

She was shaved bare, pink and already glistening. A beautiful sight for Marcus.

“Cameron…” Sophia whimpered, turning her head to look at her roommate.

“Watch,” Marcus commanded, not looking away from Sophia’s exposed cunt. “The Statue watches. That’s what she does.”

He didn’t use his fingers. He lowered his head and put his mouth on her treasure. His tongue was flat and broad, lashing a thick stripe from her perineum up to her clit. Sophia cried out, her hands flying to his head, not to push him away but to clutch at his hair.

He ate her out with a ruthless, focused intensity. This wasn’t pleasure-giving; it was a dissection of her sexually. His tongue speared inside her, fucking her with shallow, rapid thrusts, coating his chin with her wetness. Then he sucked her swollen clit between his thick lips, applying alternating pressure with his tongue and gentle scrapes of his teeth.

“Oh, fuck… oh my god, right there, please… please...” Sophia babbled, her hips pistoning off the bed. Her earlier bravado was gone, dissolved into pure, animalistic want and need.

Marcus glanced over. Cameron was still seated, but her posture was rigid, her knuckles white where they gripped the edge of her desk. Her grey eyes were fixed on the scene, wide, dark pools in the lamplight. Her breathing was shallow.

“You see how simple she is?” Marcus said, pulling his mouth away with a wet pop. Sophia whined at the loss. “A few licks and she forgets everything. Even her own name. What about you, Statue? You got a name when you’re like this?”

He stood up from the bed, his own erection straining against his zipper. Sophia lay trembling, a wreck of sensation. He walked to Cameron.

“Stand up.”

Cameron stood. She was nearly his height, her gaze level. He could see the pulse hammering in her slender neck.

“You’re a player. You hoop. Which means you study film. You study me. What’s the read?” he asked, stepping so close their bodies almost touched.

“You’re testing for weakness,” she said, her voice barely a whisper. “You break the loud ones first to show the quiet ones what’s possible.”

“Hmm. I like you. You're smart.” He brought his hand up, his fingers sticky with Sophia’s arousal. He smeared it across Cameron’s pouty lower lip. “Taste it. That’s the currency here.”

A tremor ran through her. Then, slowly, her tongue slid out, collecting the salty-sweet moisture from her lip. She swallowed.

“Now get on your knees and unzip me.”

There was no hesitation. She sank to her knees on the tile floor, her movements fluid, athletic. Her long fingers worked his zipper, freed his cock. It sprang out, thick and heavy. She stared at it for a second, this new, daunting piece of game film. Then she leaned forward and, with a shocking lack of tentativeness, took the head into her mouth.

She was methodical. She used her tongue to probe the slit, then slid her lips down the shaft, taking him deep with a controlled, steady descent. Her eyes were open, looking up at him, learning his reactions.

“Fuck, Cam…” Sophia moaned from the bed, propped on her elbows, watching, one hand trailing between her own legs. "That's hot."

Marcus placed a hand on the back of Cameron’s bun, holding her, not forcing, just guiding. She began to move, establishing a rhythm that was devastating in its efficiency. Her mouth was hot, tight, and obscenely skilled. She hollowed her cheeks, applied suction on the upstroke, and swallowed around him on the downstroke, taking him to the back of her throat without gagging.

“You’ve done this before,” he grunted. "Haven't you?"

She released him with a slick sound. “I’m good at everything I practice,” she said, her voice husky, before diving back down, taking him even deeper.

"Mm-hmm." Her friend said, visibly turned on and with a smirk.

He let her work for a minute, the wet sounds of her blowing him mixing with Sophia’s frantic fingering. Then he pulled her off by her hair. “Up. On the bed. Next to your roommate.”

Cameron rose, her face flushed, her lips swollen and wet. She shed her hoodie and sweatpants in quick, economical movements. Underneath, she wore simple black lace. Her body was a masterpiece of athletic sculpture—long, taut muscles, small, perfect breasts, hip bones that sharpened above the lace waistband. She lay beside Sophia, who immediately turned to kiss her, sharing the taste of him.

Marcus shed his clothes. He looked at his two newest assets spread before him: White Gurl, needy and glistening, and The Statue, poised and ready, her grey eyes now blazing with a banked fire.

He mounted Cameron first. He ripped her lace panties aside. She was wet, but tight. He pushed into her with a single, deep, conquering thrust. Her breath shot out in a sharp “uhn!”, her back bowing, but she didn’t look away. She wrapped her long legs around his waist, her heels locking at the small of his back.

He fucked her with slow, profound strokes, each one a claim staked on her meticulous control. He could feel her trying to maintain her rhythm, to treat it like a drill, but her body was betraying her. Her internal muscles fluttered, then clenched.

“You gonna come, huh?” he growled, pounding into her now, the bedframe slamming against the wall. “You gonna break that perfect form?”

“Yesss…” she hissed, her composure shattering. Her head thrashed side to side. “Fuck, yes… I’m… I’m coming!”

She shattered silently, a wave of tension that seized her whole body before releasing in a series of tight, pulsing spasms around his cock. He fucked her through it, then pulled out, glistening with her release.

Sophia was mewling, “Me, please, me now…”

He smiled and turned to her, but Cameron moved faster. She pushed Sophia onto her hands and knees and, looking directly at Marcus, lowered her head between Sophia’s thighs from behind. She began to eat her roommate out with the same focused intensity she’d shown on his cock.

“Oh my GOD, Cam!” Sophia screamed, bucking wildly.

Marcus guided his cock to Sophia’s waiting entrance. As Cameron’s tongue worked on Sophia’s clit, he drove himself back into White Gurl’s soaking walls. The dual sensation was too much for Sophia. She came almost immediately, screaming into a pillow, her body convulsing.

He pulled out again, panting. He was close. He looked at Cameron. “On your back. Legs up. I want to see you. Let me see you.”

Cameron complied, pulling her knees to her chest, presenting herself completely, open and utterly ravaged. He positioned himself and thrust home one final time. The slap of skin was loud in the tiny room. He drove into her, his pace frantic, his balls slapping against her ass.

“Whose pussy is this?” he grunted, his vision tunneling.

“Yours!” Cameron cried, her statue-like reserve absolutely vaporized.

“Say it.”

“It's yours! Fuck, I’m coming again!”

Her second climax triggered his. With a final, deep roar, he buried himself to the hilt and erupted inside her, jet after hot jet filling her, claiming the deepest part of the athlete nobody could read. He collapsed on her, their sweat-slick bodies sticking together.

Silence, save for their ragged breathing. The stale dorm air was now thick with sex. Sophia lay in a boneless heap beside them. Cameron’s long legs slowly unlocked from around him, falling to the bed with a soft thud.

Marcus rolled off, standing on shaky legs. He dressed methodically. He looked at the two girls on the ruined bed. Sophia was already half-asleep, a blissed-out smile on her face. Cameron was staring at the ceiling, one arm thrown over her eyes, her chest still heaving.

He tossed a clean towel from Cameron’s stack onto the bed.

“The draft combine is in two weeks,” he said, his voice back to its normal, dispassionate tone. “Nia will send you a nutritionist and a media trainer. You’ll follow their programs exactly. Sophia, you keep setting picks for her. On and off the court. You’re her shield now. Her first line of defense.”

Cameron removed her arm from her eyes. The grey orbs were clear, focused, but something in them had permanently shifted. A new understanding. A cold kind of belonging.

“Understood,” she said, the word a vow.

He left without another word. In the sterile hallway, his phone buzzed. A message from an unknown number. A photo, taken from a distance with a long lens: Eric, the neutralized problem, loading a suitcase into a bus, his face pale and drawn.

The text beneath read: Relocated. Condition: Persuaded.

It was unsigned. He knew it was Valerie.

Another piece secured. The board was filling. As he walked out into the night, a different thought surfaced, persistent: the twins, Donna and Demi. They had been the foundation, the first bricks. They deserved a progress report. They needed to see how their sacrifice was building something monumental.

He started the car. The engine purred. He knew where he was going. It was time to inspect his first investments, to see how they were growing in the garden he had planted them in.

The metallic taste of Cameron’s sweet love tunnel still lingered on his tongue as the car cut through the city’s neon veins. The dorm’s feverish energy was sealed behind him, another transaction logged. He felt the familiar, hollow expansion in his chest that followed a conquest—a vacuum demanding new material to fill it. The twins. Their absence from his bed tonight was a subtle itch beneath his skin. They were the cornerstone. They needed to feel the weight of the structure rising above them.

He hit a speed-dial button on the car’s console. The ring was swallowed by the audio system, surrounding him.

It was answered on the second ring, a synchronized inhale. “Hello?”

It was Donna. Demi would be listening, her ear pressed close to the receiver.

“It’s me. Put me on speaker.” Marcus said, his eyes on the road.

A faint click. “We’re here,” Demi’s voice, softer, filtered through.

“I’m fifteen minutes out. Are y'all decent?” he asked, though the question was a formality. His definition of decent mattered more than theirs.

“We’re… we have clothes on,” Donna replied, a nervous flutter in her words.

“Take them off. Both of you. I want you naked, ready, and on your knees by the door when I walk in. I want to see the foundation first thing.”

A beat of silence. He could hear the unspoken question, the faint rustle of fabric.

“Yes, Marcus,” they said in near unison, and the line went dead.

The new apartment was in a sleek, anonymous building downtown, a world away from the dingy walk-up where Valerie had pacified Eric. Security knew his car. The private elevator swallowed him whole, delivering him to a silent, carpeted hallway. He palmed the keyless entry.

The door hissed open.

The air inside was cool, clean, smelling of the lemony disinfectant Demi favored and the vanilla lotion they both used. The foyer was dark. As his eyes adjusted, the shapes resolved.

Donna and Demi knelt side-by-side on the polished hardwood, their bodies pale and tremulous in the low light filtering from the city beyond the windows. They were utterly bare, hands resting on their thighs, heads bowed, chins nearly touching their chests. The sight was a silent chord that vibrated deep in his gut. This was what he always wanted. This was what he needed. This was obedience. This was home.

He stepped inside, letting the door close with a definitive thud. He walked a slow circle around them. Their breathing hitched as he passed behind them. He noted the subtle differences the weeks had etched. Their bodies were leaner and tighter—which was Sasha’s training. But the softness he prized remained: the full curve of Demi’s ass, the generous swell of Donna’s breasts.

“Look at me,” he commanded.

They lifted their heads. Their eyes, wide and dark, sought his. He saw the fear, the devotion, the raw need. It was a purer currency than anything Samantha or Cameron could offer.

“Have you been good?” he asked, stopping in front of them.

“Yes,” Demi whispered.

“We do the workouts. We eat what’s delivered. We don’t go out unless Nia or Sasha says,” Donna added, her voice stronger, yearning for approval.

“Good.” He unzipped his pants. His cock, half-hard from the anticipation and the view, sprang free. “Donna. Taste me. Clean off where I’ve been.”

Donna leaned forward without hesitation, her mouth opening. She took him in, her tongue swirling around the head, licking away the residual slickness from Cameron’s pussy and his own dried release. She moaned as she tasted the foreign musk, her submission deepened by consuming the evidence of his other conquests.

“Deeper. Get it all,” he grunted, fisting a hand in her brown hair.

She took him to the back of her throat, gagging gently, her nose pressing into his pubic bone. He held her there, making her breathe through it. When he finally pulled her off, a long string of saliva connected her lips to his glistening shaft.

“Now you, Demi. Kiss her. Taste your sister and taste where I’ve been.”

Demi turned to Donna, their lips meeting in a wet, messy kiss. They shared the flavor of him and the other women—Samantha’s dressing room, Cameron’s dorm. It was a sacrament of their shared belonging.

“On the couch. Demi on her back. Donna, on top of her, facing me. I want to see your beautiful faces.”

They moved quickly, a practiced, fluid ballet of intertwined limbs. They arranged themselves on the large sectional, Demi lying back, Donna straddling her thighs, their bodies slotting together. Their eyes were locked on him as he approached, a bottle of oil from their nightstand in his hand.

He poured a slick, warm stream onto his fingers. He didn’t touch Donna’s treasure first. He reached between the sisters, his slick fingers finding Demi’s tight asshole where she lay beneath Donna. Demi gasped, her back arching.

“Relax, baby girl.” he murmured, working a single finger inside her, feeling her clench and then yield. He stretched her slowly, adding a second finger, scissoring her open. Her whimpers were muffled against Donna’s shoulder.

He withdrew his glistening fingers and guided his cock to Demi’s forbidden entrance. He pressed the broad head against her. “This is mine, too. Every part of you, you know that?”

He pushed. Demi cried out, a sharp, ragged sound, as he breached her, sinking into the incredible, clenching heat of her ass. She was impossibly tight, a velvet fist. Donna watched, rapt, her own body shaking with sympathetic tension.

He began to move, slow and deep. The strokes made Demi sob. He reached around, his slick hand finding her sister Donna’s soaked pussy. He plunged two fingers into her, fucking her in time with his thrusts into her sister’s ass. The synchronization of it, the dual penetration, the twins’ mirrored cries—it was possession in its most absolute form.

“You feel that?” he panted, driving harder into Demi. “You feel me, baby? Building an empire on top of you? You’re the foundation. This… this is your purpose.”

Donna came first, his fingers sawing inside her, her walls spasming around his digits as she screamed. The convulsion of her body against Demi’s triggered Demi’s own climax, a silent, shattering wave that clamped her ass around his cock like a vice, milking him.

It pulled his orgasm from him. He slammed home one last time, burying himself to the hilt in Demi’s ass, and roared as he came, his release hot and violent inside her. He pulsed again and again, claiming this deepest, most private channel.

He collapsed between them, spent, their sweat and scent and oil mingling. For long minutes, there was only the sound of their ragged breathing. He finally pulled out, and Demi flinched at the emptiness. He stood, looking down at them—a beautiful, ruined tangle of his own creation.

“You have done well,” he said, his voice flat once more. “The basketball player, Cameron. She is new. She will need guidance from those who understand the rules. You will provide it. And the singer, Samantha. Her confidence is growing. She may need… perspective. You will be that perspective.”

He walked to the window, looking out at the city he was methodically gathering into his hand. “Nia will send you details. You are no longer just my girls. You are my loving lieutenants. Now get your sexy asses in the shower.”

From the floor, clinging to each other, they watched him. The fear in their eyes had been refined into something sharper, harder. It was pride.

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