[Steel]

Back to Sharath..

Sharath's eyes lit up as the website unlocked. A second later, he frowned. The website looked quite different than the one he had previewed earlier. Instead of a deep black background with neon highlights, this webpage had a background of soft purple. For a second, he thought he had been sent to the wrong site.

Then he saw the wolf logo at the top with a text. It still said "Premium Maal", but now there was a small addition on the bottom right of the words: "Beta Edition." Sharath rolled his eyes. Had Rakesh made a purple reskin of the website just to fuck with him? It felt sort of petty. Whatever, as long as all the content was still there.

But, as he scrolled down, searching for Laila, Sharath noticed that the background color wasn't the only change.

There was censorship on the page now, when Sharath could have sworn there wasn't before. All of the women had a black bar covering their eyes now, and the women posing with exotic dresses had wider black bars covering their breast and waist areas. Making them look like they were completely naked behind those black bars. Sharath felt a prickle of anger, no longer quite as dismissive of the games Rakesh was playing. The taunt felt a lot more pointed now. An implication that Sharath was a beta who didn't even deserve to see these women completely, while Rakesh got to fuck them as much as he wanted.

Sharath gritted his teeth. The joke was on Rakesh. Although this version of the site might not be as... satisfying to Sharath's curiosity, all of the written portions were intact, and, by clicking into a few videos as a test, Sharath found that he had access to all of those as well... although each and every one had been carefully edited to censor all female nudity. The wider black bars eventually narrowed down just to cover their nipples and pussies as they undressed. The worst part was that Sharath found the censorship a little erotic in a strange way. He had always liked it when Kusha (and other women before her) teased him in bed. And in some ways, this felt like the ultimate tease. Getting so close to seeing these gorgeous women, but being denied right at the last step.

Sharath shook his head, irritated with himself. He wasn't being "denied" by anyone. This was a mind game from Rakesh. If he wanted to see these women naked, all he would have to do is pay for a subscription. But he didn't need to. He needed to get to work. In theory, he could learn more about Rakesh's methods by clicking on any woman on the site, but Sharath wasn't kidding himself. Now that he had come this far, he wasn't going to hold himself back from what he really wanted to see.

He scrolled down the page until he saw the name "Laila" once again. There was her photo, smiling her familiar, teasing smile. Since she was wearing a full swimsuit covered under a sarong, there were no black bars on her body here, but the black line covering her eyes still gave the photo a taboo, naughty feeling, like Sharath was looking at something he shouldn't.

Which maybe he was.