Free Web NovelChapter 211: CH : 203 I’m Not Cheating, Jess. I’m Winning.
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This terrifying level of emotional dominance—this ability to make global icons and guarded socialites melt into puddles of devotion over a phone line—was simply the result of an Incubus having a lovely conversation.
Marvin gently, warmly wrapped his arms around the fragile girl. He rested his chin on the top of her red hair, offering unshakeable protection.
The table slowly settled into the warm, glowing quality of a unified group of people eating food that tasted genuine, in the best company of people they genuinely loved.
The doorbell rang at ten-fifteen.
Marvin rose gracefully from the kitchen table.
The breakfast dishes had already been cleared and stacked in the sink. The second, lingering cups of French press coffee and freshly squeezed orange juice were currently happening in the living room, accompanied by the lazy, exhausted laughter of four teenage girls who had slept well the night before, their nervous systems reset by his presence.
He walked down the hall and pulled open the front door.
Gordon stood perfectly still on the sunlit doorstep. Gordon intimately understood that being truly good at executive protection meant being silently invisible... right up until the exact moment when visibility was required.
Currently, the giant man carried four heavy, opaque garment bags and two smaller, high-end shopping bags full of accessories. He carried the cumbersome load with ease.
"Morning, Marvin." Gordon’s voice sounded serious behind his dark sunglasses.
"Morning, Gordon." Marvin stepped aside. "Come in. Bring the arsenal."
Gordon stepped into the foyer and walked into the living room. He laid the four long garment bags over the back of the white sectional couch with care. He then produced the smaller accessory bags and arranged them neatly on the glass coffee table, silently communicating exactly which accessories belonged to which garments.
The four girls—Beyoncé, Jessica, Dorothy, and Lindsay—had curiously followed Marvin from the kitchen to the living room doorway. They stared at the black garment bags with the wide-eyed expression of people encountering unexpected presents on a random Sunday.
"Okay, Shakespeare... what exactly is this?" Beyoncé crossed her arms. Her brown eyes narrowed in suspicious delight.
"Gordon simply brought some necessary *things* for today’s itinerary." Marvin gestured to the couch.
"Some *things.*" Jessica stepped closer to inspect the high-end designer logos discreetly stamped on the zippers of the four shopping bags. "Marvin, these look like they cost more than my first car."
"There is exactly one for each of you," Marvin stated, ignoring the price tag comment entirely. "For today’s fun. The bags have your names on the tags." freewёbnoνel.com
Gordon had thoughtfully placed small, embossed white cards on each zipper—the four girls’ names.
The girls moved into the center of the room.
They carried the energy of teenagers approaching something exciting, attempting to maintain some degree of sophisticated, adult dignity.
Lindsay, being twelve and utterly starved for gifts, abandoned her dignity first.
She let out a high-pitched squeal, lunged across the carpet, found the bag with her name on it, and unzipped it.
The expensive dress resting inside the plastic stole her breath. It was the color and cut that a twelve-year-old with Lindsay’s pale coloring, freckles, and chaotic energy needed—a light, flowing, summery lavender sundress. It was the kind of designer piece that was fun and youthful, without trying to make her look inappropriately older or sexualized, which was a constant occurrence in her past timeline.
The accessories arranged alongside it on the coffee table were understated and perfectly age-appropriate—a delicate silver necklace—and the brand-new, white canvas sneakers were exactly the kind that could comfortably sustain a full, exhausting day of walking miles through a theme park.
Lindsay held the lavender dress up against her chest. She looked down at the hemline, and then looked slowly up at Marvin with wide, teary green eyes. She had never been given something this beautiful without having to perform for a camera for some role.
"Marvin... this is exactly my size," she whispered, stunned. "Down to the millimeter."
"Yes, it is." He sipped his coffee.
"How on earth do you know my exact dress and shoe size?" Lindsay blushed furiously. "I’ve never told you."
"My eyes, Lindsay, are very good at their jobs." Marvin offered her a slow, devastating, wicked wink that flushed her entire system with dopamine.
All four girls in the room blushed a deep shade of crimson as they understood the dark meaning behind that statement. Marvin missed nothing.
Jessica eagerly unzipped hers next.
The sundress was a brilliant, stark, flowing white—a color that sat beautifully against her warm, golden California skin tone. It was a stylish, fitted halter dress that accentuated her narrow waist without being overly revealing for a daytime excursion. She held the soft fabric against herself, turned to look in the hallway mirror, and something soft and vulnerable moved through her expression.
"Marvin." Jessica didn’t look away from her reflection.
"Yes, Jessica?"
"This is... this is exactly, precisely what I would have chosen for myself if I had the money," she admitted. Her voice grew thick, deeply moved by the precision of his attention. "It’s perfect."
"Good." He smiled. "That was the entire point of the exercise."
Dorothy unzipped hers with the focused efficiency of an athlete simultaneously evaluating both the aesthetic beauty and the practical physics of the garment.
She held up a sleek, sporty, dark navy-blue romper paired with stylish, high-end denim shorts. She stretched the fabric slightly, testing whether it would allow the freedom of movement and comfort that a twelve-hour day at Disneyland required. It was the kind of functional, beautiful thing she would *actually* want to wear, rather than the frilly, restrictive kind of dress some stylist thought she *should* wear.
"It works," Dorothy declared firmly. She nodded her head in deep satisfaction. Coming from the stoic, practical Dorothy, "it works" was the equivalent of an effusive, screaming compliment.
Beyoncé opened her heavy bag last. She stood perfectly still with the fabric held up. She looked at the dress with the quiet intensity of someone staring at a piece of their own soul.
The flowing maxi dress was a deep, warm shade of sunset gold. It was the combination of silhouette and color that flawlessly acknowledged exactly what she was becoming—the way of a queen being dressed by someone who intimately understood that she didn’t need any cheap help to shine. She simply needed the right, expensive frame to contain her fire. It wasn’t a costume designed by Mathew to sell records; it was a garment designed solely for her comfort and beauty.
She looked up and met Marvin’s eyes across the living room.
"I obviously could have bought you all sprawling, sweeping evening gowns, B," Marvin smirked, reading her thoughts. "But they would be too much of a hassle for today’s chaotic fun. Now, go upstairs and get changed, all of you. We have a very full day ahead of us." He paused, his eyes dancing. "And Lindsay? Try not to spill syrup on the lavender before we even leave the house."
"Hey!" Lindsay squawked indignantly. She threw a plush at him as the girls erupted into laughter and sprinted up the stairs to change.
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They arrived at the sprawling, neon-lit arcade complex at exactly eleven-thirty in the morning.
The day began in earnest.
The arcade Marvin had chosen was not the nearest one to the Hollywood Hills—it was definitively, objectively the *best* one in Southern California. Selecting it required knowing the difference, and possessing the arrogance to care. Marvin was constitutionally incapable of selecting the "nearest" or "easiest" option when the "best" option was available, and the gap in quality between them gaped wide.
Dark sunglasses, low-pulled baseball hats, and black masks concealed their faces from rabid, predatory paparazzi. The five of them moved silently through the glass entrance doors.
They stepped directly into the deafening chaos of a Sunday arcade operating at peak capacity.
Flashing neon lights, screaming 8-bit sound effects, and the ambient, manic energy of a sprawling, dark room packed with teenagers collided into an overwhelming wave.
The four girls’ collective, psychological energy shifted the second they crossed the threshold.
For Jessica and Dorothy, the arcade was simply a playground. But for Beyoncé and Lindsay, the overwhelming sensory input served a therapeutic purpose.
The deafening noise drowned out the
anxious voices in their heads.
They had rigidly, exhaustingly conducted themselves with a degree of professional Hollywood composure just to survive their respective industries. Encountering an environment rendering adult composure temporarily irrelevant allowed them to drop their armor. For a few hours, they were just kids again.
Jessica went directly to the sit-down Sega racing games, surprising nobody who actually knew her.
She possessed the burning, instinctive competitiveness of a Latina girl raised in an unforgiving industry environment that exclusively valued peak performance. However, because Jessica’s native family provided remarkable stability and love, she successfully channeled all of that stress into a reflexive, healthy need to win at everything she touched.
Her self-worth didn’t hinge on victory; she just genuinely loved the adrenaline of the fight.
She dropped into the plastic driving seat of the arcade cabinet. She gripped the plastic steering wheel, wearing the focused expression of a Formula 1 driver fully intending to take this plastic game deadly seriously.
"Marvin!" Jessica’s voice pierced the noise of the arcade. She slapped the empty leather seat of the cabinet next to her. "Get in here. Race me."
"You’ll lose, Jess." Marvin walked over, hands resting in his pockets.
"Then the loss should be fast, shouldn’t it?" A sweet smile curved her lips, her dark eyes flashing a challenge.
Marvin exhaled a dramatic sigh, removed his sunglasses, and sat in the adjacent racing cabinet. He dropped a handful of tokens into the slot. The screen flashed, and the digital race began.
Jessica was good. She raced better than most normal teenagers who occupied these plastic seats. She took the digital corners with screaming tires.
But Marvin... Marvin was better.
He wasn’t better in a flashy way. He didn’t drift around corners to mount a cheap demonstration of power. He raced with consistent precision. He won entirely by the margin born from applying supreme intelligence to a digital physics problem. Humans found it challenging, but the Incubus found it painfully, boringly straightforward. He drove the perfect racing line.
She lost the first race by exactly six seconds.
"Again." Jessica slammed her fist on the plastic dashboard. Because she carried no trauma, failure didn’t crush her spirit; it only fueled her ambition.
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"*Again,* Marvin."
He sighed and dropped more tokens. He won the second race again. By exactly four seconds this time.
"You are cheating somehow." Jessica glared at his screen. "There’s no way you took that hairpin turn without braking."
"I’m not cheating, Jess. I’m winning." Marvin kept his eyes locked on the flashing screen.
"There is a legal difference."
"What exactly is the difference, Shakespeare?" Annoyance dripped from her voice, echoing the tone of someone who had heard this arrogant distinction before and refused to accept it.
"The difference is that I could explain exactly how I’m doing it if you wanted to learn physics." He turned to face her. "Cheating doesn’t come with an instruction manual. Winning does."
She stared at him for a long second, her chest heaving. "Fine. Explain it to me, Mr. Genius."
Marvin spent the next ten minutes leaning over the plastic consoles, patiently unpacking the underlying code and mechanics of the 1990s arcade racing game. He detailed the digital weight distribution of the car during a sharp turn, the exact millisecond to pump the brakes, and the repetitive visual cues in the pixels predicting the track’s next hidden section.
He wasn’t talking down to her. He handed her the architectural blueprints of his own success.
Jessica soaked in his deep voice with the focused, burning attention of someone ready to deploy this complex information, rather than just politely humor it.
They raced a third time.
Jessica lost by exactly one second.
"There we go." Marvin leaned back in his seat, a smile crossing his face.
Jessica looked at the flashing "GAME OVER" screen. She shifted her gaze directly to him, then back to the screen, her eyes wide.
"I almost beat you." Stunned breathlessness colored her voice as she processed her drastic improvement.
"You almost beat me." Genuine pride warmed his tone.
A brilliant, radiant smile crossed her face—the joyous look of someone handed a prize better than a cheap, hollow win. He provided the knowledge that victory sat within her own reach. He proved his power wasn’t a weapon to suppress her, but a tool to elevate her. That alone acted as its own romantic gift.
Meanwhile, across the flashing arcade floor, Beyoncé and Dorothy commanded the dual *Dance Dance Revolution* platform.
This expensive version required actual, exhausting movement and rhythm. The two girls already drew a silent, staring audience of teenagers hovering near the edges of the room.
The routine unfolding on those glowing plastic pads defied the ordinary, clumsy Sunday arcade experience.
For Beyoncé, stepping onto a dance pad usually brought stress. Mathew trained her to view choreography as a grueling, punishing metric of her worth. If she missed a step in rehearsal, verbal evisceration followed.
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