His Sweet Karma

Chapter 7

                                                                                         MAHALIA

My forehead creased and my lips parted when I heard what he said. “What? A coin genie? You must be joking, right? There’s no such thing as a genie in a coin!” I skeptically shot back.

“Well, you have me now.” He straightened and placed his hands on his hips and he did look so sexy doing that. He was so manly.

My eyes roved up and down his body, knowing that there was nothing under that lone piece of towel on his body. I could still see the huge bulge in that frontal area, which was quite distracting. My lips clamped together, trying to force myself not to think of his massive erection that I just saw a little while ago. I couldn’t believe myself admiring it and it was the first time I saw such a huge thing in person! I wanted to erase the memory of those women that screamed with pleasure as he drove it in and out of their body.

Oh, God! This is really not happening to me, is it?

I swallowed hard and dragged my eyes up to his face. I found him looking at me with amusement in those salient lips and unique viridescent orbs with gold flecks. It made my heart skip a beat.

“So, my precious Earthmother Kar, here are the rules: One, no wishing of bestowing you of any kind of magic powers. You’re human, you’re supposed to be just human. Don’t ask me why because it’s one of that witch Helia’s rules.” His face distorted at the thought of that beautiful woman he was last with. “Although your being human is a bit conflicting to my seeing you as my personal Earthmother Kar—”

“I don’t want powers. I don’t want to be a freak, okay? What the hell’s Earthmother Kar anyway?” I cut him off irritably.

He looked at me with such mysterious and naughty smile. “That… I will tell you in the right moment. Now, rule number two, you can ask me anything you want. Anything at all, except for manipulating other people’s emotions. And… asking me is without limits. You can have a thousand or a million of wishes, it doesn’t matter.”

I raised an eyebrow. Seriously? Unlimited wishes? He was a unique genie then. “I don’t want to control people. Do I look like that type to you?” I retorted.

He stepped closer to me and bent forward, leveling our eyes. “No. But I’m making you aware of the rules. That’s what genies do, right?”

“Huh!” I could only snort. Maybe I was just going along with this s**t, although there were already enough proofs that he was indeed a “genie.” The things we hurled at him just floated in the air. And I guess they were still hovering there. Plus, he healed my wound, my bruise and unstuck the coin from my hand.

“Rule number three is as cringy as it may sound, you have to find me true love, a woman to love me. You must find her for me within six months. No extension! I think that’s enough for you to find me one, right?”

Eyes widening, my mouth gaped open. “What? How can I do that? In my twenty-one years on Earth, I haven’t even found my own true love!” Wait, did I just blurt it out?

I heard Sarah gurgle with laughter. I gave her a sharp look but she didn’t seem to mind it. When I transferred my gaze back to the genie, who was named Vasilios, I sucked in air as his face was so close to mine. I could say it was just an inch away and I almost kissed him! Or it was the other way around. But it doesn’t matter. We almost kissed! That particular pumping organ inside my rib cage beat wildly that I could become deaf at any moment.

Sarah stopped chortling and watched on as my breath was taken away from my lungs, heart could stop beating wildly like it was going to destroy my rib cage anytime soon. His breath smelled like mint and something else I couldn’t name, which I thought was uniquely his. It was good to scent it. As the seconds ticked by, I thought we were fighting each other for air. But it wasn’t so obvious for him. I guess he had control over his own breathing than I was. How unfair was that?

“A-and what if I-I can’t find you one?” I managed to query, stammering. Our eyes were still locked with each other. They were smoldering mine like no one did before that my knees buckled and I had to hold on to the sink.

He slowly sighed and straightened, eyes weren’t torn away from me. “You have to give me away to another person. I hope it’s a woman.”

I raised my eyebrow. “Why specifically a woman?”

He grinned and winked. “That’s the only way I can be out of my coin prison, my precious Earthmother Kar.”

My mind went to that dream. Hell no! “And then you’ll be back in your old ways?” My brows rose.

He chuckled sexily. “My old ways are, as you said, old. And they will never be back because the one that must love me is the one I’m going to fall for.”

I closed my mouth and swallowed. “Would it be possible to find that one to love you back? You were such a womanizer! I think there’s no cure for that!”

He sniggered upon hearing those words. I just let them out without even thinking!

“That’s the point why I’m imprisoned in that f*****g coin for many centuries! I never thought that when I was born in 335 BC in Knossos with a royal blood, I’d be cursed twenty-five years later! What you saw in your dream happened in 310 BC. I had a lot of fun with women until Helia ruined it all!”

I snorted. “She punished you because you were such a jerk! You played women like they were a plaything and you broke their hearts, Vasilios. And then, you played and broke hers, too!” His name got out of my mouth like it was just natural. And as though we knew each other for a long time. And that was weird.

He looked at me with disbelief. “Did you really think so? You clearly saw the women were happy to be with me, my precious little Kar. They knew it was a game for me. It was only Helia who thought I was serious about her.”

“Don’t you make such excuses because you’re still a philandering jerk! And my name’s not Kar. It’s Mahalia!”

“Oh, I know.” He nodded with a striking smile. “I’ve been watching you since you were born.”

Now that surprised me and almost made me cringe. “What?” My heart flipped inside my chest once again. “Now don’t tell me you watched and you mean it literally?” I was breathless just to think that he saw all of me, all my body parts! Heat crawled on my face.

“Even though I’m imprisoned in the coin, I have the power to look at women’s bodies even though they are wearing clothes, as I please. That’s one of my punishments.”

I audibly gasped at that.

“But to put your mind at ease, I didn’t peek at your mother’s or Juana’s.”

My frown went deeper. “Y-you…!”

“Dorinne was a good woman and I respected her. Although we never met face to face. She never kissed the coin I was—or am I still trapped in it and just temporarily out?” he wondered, perfect brows furrowed.

“How would I know?”

“To tell you the truth, you’re the first one to kiss the coin. So you can just imagine how lucky I am that I’m able to face a woman in person at last, after such a long time of being trapped in there!”

And I refused to play in my head that massive erection of his. Was it why he was aroused when he got out of the coin? “How did you end up in my mother’s hands anyway?” I asked, trying to figure out how the coin was in my parents’ hands.

He lightly scratched his smooth chin. There was no stubble on his face, I noticed.

“That’s a long story. But to make it short, Helia gave it to her. That witch must have planned something for me!” he revealed. “But I guess it is thwarted because your mother gave it to your father, and now, here I am with you! Oh, you just don’t know how I excited I was when I was finally in your hand, my precious little Kar!” He smiled triumphantly, making my brows knit. He was really odd! “After being passed on to one hand to another, I waited and waited. But every single time, six months just passed by, those women or even men didn’t even kiss the coin so that I could be summoned out. You can just imagine how desperate I was then. I thought I’d be imprisoned there forever!” His eyes probed mine. I could feel his need to be out. Well, that was understandable. “But you… Only you! Only you.” He whispered those words in his sexy low-pitched voice that I found so manly and seductive.

My abdomen’s moth residents flittered crazily that it took my breath away.

His hand reached out to gently caress my cheek and his fingers followed the line of my jaw. I could see the obvious adulation in his green eyes as they swept my every facial feature.

“What if you’re the one for me, my precious little Kar?” he wondered aloud, sighing with obvious delight.

I stepped back and swallowed while my vulnerable organ pumped against my chest. There was something in those words and eyes that melted me and even forgot how a plain jackass he was in the past.

But no, this can’t be! I must be watchful from now on. If this was really not a dream!

He gave me that panty-dropping smile of his with those sultry eyes. I felt that he could melt a girl with just one look of those sizzling orbs of his. And I hated myself for being affected like this even though I knew who and what he was in the past. Indeed, Vasilios was something.

Sarah cleared her throat, raising a hand. “Excuse me, I have a question.”

We both looked at her.

“Since I can see you, other people can see you, too, right?” she asked.

“Of course, my precious little Kar’s friend.”

“Sarah’s my name,” she said, pointing at herself. “My precious little Kar’s friend is quite a mouthful, don’t you think?”

“I know. I also saw you before while I was in my prison.”

Now that made me look at him with a sullen face. “You saw her?”

He just smiled as a reply, making me wonder whether or not he saw my friend naked if he so wanted it. I didn’t like what I feel right now.

“Get out. Or better yet, get back to your coin prison!” I ordered him.

“Even if I want to, you can’t let me get back in there even if you wished, my precious little Kar. I can only go back in there when the six months is over.”

“What?”

“Remember that I’m a unique genie. I don’t go back to where I am trapped every time there’s a wish fulfilled or just because you want me to. I’m here to stay with you for six months tops.”

Sarah’s mouth formed into an “O” while still ogling at him. The pregnant woman even ran her tongue over her lips. The slut! I gave her a warning look and she just shrugged and giggled flirtatiously.

“You can’t stay with me every time! I need my privacy!” I pointed out.

He snickered softly when he heard it. “I already saw you naked numerous times!”

My face heated up as I looked at him with eyes merely slits. “How could you, you p*****t?”

He simply shrugged without remorse. The ass! “I can’t help it! You’re too beautiful to resist!”

Sarah giggled again, which I didn’t find funny at all. “Well, I guess we have to tell the landlady that we have another roommate.” Then she left me and Vasilios alone inside the bathroom.

“What are you waiting for, you p*****t? Shoo!” I said, gesturing my hands to the door.