Chapter 12
CHAPTER TWELVE
Link
When Nixie called me to come to their habitat, I was surprised. I hadn’t been invited down there before, but when she mentioned Lila being in danger, I dropped everything I was doing and hurried. I messaged Caspian and told him to meet me there, hoping that nothing bad had happened to his mate.
When we arrived at the platform near the door, I was prepared to strip down and swim across, but Nixie activated a floating path that came from the housing section to the platform we were standing on, allowing us to walk easily over to her house.
When we got inside, I was stunned to find Saxon unconscious on the floor of the main living area.
“What is wrong with him and why is he here?” I ask, bending down to run my hand over him to scan for abnormalities. Vilaxians don’t get sick because their cells regenerate and are constantly healing themselves as long as they get a constant source of blood.
“He was in a blood frenzy. I had to sing him to sleep. He wouldn’t leave.” I watch concern wash over Nixie’s face as she repeats what happened.
“A blood frenzy? What caused that?” Caspian questions, sounding surprised.
He pushes a hand through his purple hair, trying to understand what Nixie is telling us.
I don’t blame him for worrying, it’s not often that Vilaxians will go into a blood frenzy outside of battle. The only other time would be if…
“He found his blood rose,” Nixie finishes, voicing my thought out loud.
“He did? Well, good for him. Is it one of the Aquilians? That’s extremely unusual, isn’t it?
Aren’t they usually Vilaxians as well since they need to be able to sustain each other on their blood?
I don’t think I’ve heard of a non-Vilaxian blood rose.
It would surely be a death sentence for the other species if that were the case. ”
I stand up as Caspian finishes asking his questions.
I know that Saxon is fine. He is sleeping peacefully, which is probably for the best because he will suffer withdrawals and blood frenzy until he can get his blood rose to consummate their connection.
I have a funny feeling that Caspian is in for a rude shock when he discovers who Saxon’s blood rose is.
“I will have the hover stretcher come down here, and I will take him back to my clinic and keep him sedated until we can talk to his blood rose,” I tell the two of them.
Nixie nods, looking resigned, but Caspian still looks confused. “What is wrong? The two of you look like this is a bad thing. What aren’t you mentioning?”
“Because his blood rose is Lila, Cas,” I tell him gently. “Isn’t it?” I ask Nixie, and she nods.
“Yes, she was hiding from him in the bottom of the pool, but she’s in our grotto at the moment. Nikos is with her, but she needs someone to tell her about being his blood rose and what it entails.”
“Can she survive that?” Caspian asks me, sounding shaky.
“I’m not sure. Like you said, there has never been a non-Vilaxian blood rose, or not that I’ve heard of.
I will scan my data banks in search of more information as well as Vilaxian archives, which might have more,” I tell him, inputting the instructions into my screen so my computers back in my clinic can start the search.
“Come on, I’ve programmed the stretcher to make its way down here. Let’s go check on Lila while we wait.”
As we walk down the stairs, Nixie tells us about her brother telling Saxon the same things Caspian had told him, and we’re chuckling when we get to the bottom of the stairs.
We stop the minute we step out onto the platform and find Lila with a tentacle wrapped around Nikos’s erect cock, with what looks like iridescent cum all over her chest.
A look of pure dismay crosses her face as she meets my eyes. “This is not what it looks like.”
I look at Caspian, who is wearing the same grin of amusement that creeps across my face at the humorous sight.
“Looks like a good time to me,” Caspian says, and I can’t stop the burst of laughter from exploding from my mouth. Nixie groans as she slaps a hand over her eyes.
“Fucking hell, Nikos. What did you do?”
“Nothing, I did nothing. We were talking, and then Lila grabbed my cock. You said she had to initiate things, so who am I to say no if she wants to stroke my glorious manhood?”
Caspian and I laugh harder as Lila tries desperately to pull away from him, but it doesn’t have the effect she wants it to. Nikos groans again, the sound of pleasure making my own cock move inside my pants.
“Don’t just stand there, help me!” she screeches at us. Her eyes widen in frustration but then turn helpless when she realizes we haven’t moved to assist her.
“Oh, Lila, my little crustacean. If you want your men to join in, that is okay with me. I don’t mind rough male hands playing with my anal slit.”
Nixie screams in disgust and dives into the water, changing. Her tail sends up a splash of water as she dives deep in an attempt to get away from her brother’s sexcapades. The dress she was wearing floats on the surface of the water.
“I can’t get my tentacle to unwrap no matter what I do.” Her desperate pleas stop our laughter in its tracks. “I was just trying to stop his advances by putting my tentacle against his chest, but the damn thing had other ideas.”
We get a hold of our laughter, but I can see it’s as much of a struggle for Caspian as it is for me. She said she was trying to stop his advances, though, so we shouldn’t let this continue.
“I think maybe you may have an inner beast after all. Although you can’t make a full shift, it seems to have taken a liking to the Aquilian and is showing it in the only way it can.
Whereas my beast and I can communicate within our mind, it seems you have yet to accomplish that, so it is taking over as much as it can,” Caspian explains as he moves over and uses his hand to unwrap Lila’s tentacle from Nikos’s boner.
“No matter how I tried to move forward to use my own hands, it was like I was stuck in one place. I had control of my upper half, but my lower half was not responding at all, and I couldn’t get close enough to remove my tentacle,” she says as he succeeds.
Without another word, she drags her body away using just her arms and allows herself to fall into the water, disappearing just like Nixie did.
“Are you going to finish what she started?” Nikos’s question has me looking away from Lila and back to him and Caspian, whose hand is still wrapped around his erect dick. He releases it and pats him on the shoulder.
“Not this time.”
Nikos’s lip juts out in a pout before he shrugs his shoulders.
“Never mind. Lila was enough, but I can’t wait to have those pretty lips wrapped around my member,” he comments as he turns and points to Lila’s mating mark, which has appeared on his shoulder.
“She is not as indifferent to me as she appears.”
“I guess that takes her to five,” I tell Caspian, who nods but frowns at Nikos.
A small hint of worry prickles the back of my mind.
Is there going to be enough room in Lila’s heart for me?
I quickly shake it off. Lila has shown a huge capacity for love just by accepting what happened between her and Caspian, so I’m sure everything will be fine.
“You just make sure if you do anything with her, you tell her everything she needs to know about having sex with you in either form. She has had enough surprises within the last week, and she needs to know everything so she doesn’t get hurt.
” Caspian’s lighthearted tone becomes sterner at the end, his protectiveness over his mate overruling any niceties.
“I promise I will tell her everything. She is pregnant with your young, yes? She will need lots of dick to keep her hormones happy, and I’m ready and willing to help out.
” I half expect Nikos to fall to his knees and beg Caspian to let him participate in keeping Lila sated.
Thankfully, he maintains a shred of decency and keeps it together.
“Settle down. Link is courting her tonight, and we need to sort out the deal with Saxon. If Lila desires to pursue a sexual relationship, you will get your chance, I will make sure of it.”
Nikos flashes his sharp teeth at us in a threatening manner. “Make sure you do.” My eyebrow quirks at his response, because I doubt Lila would take kindly to Nikos threatening her mate or demanding a turn with her body.
“How about you deal with the vampire, and I will take Lila back to our place and put her in a bath, then she can have a nap before her date with you tonight?” Caspian suggests.
“Are you sure you are still okay with us having a date?” I check again.
He’s been so good about all this, and there hasn’t been any jealousy or resentment or anything.
I’ve got to say I’m a little surprised, since shifters are usually possessive as fuck.
I expected more of a reaction when he learned about two more suitors.
I know I’m a little worried, but he seems to be taking this all in stride.
It’s a little unnerving, and I hope it’s authentic.
“Yeah, man. I’m just thrilled that I was first and that she even wanted me to begin with.
There will be occasions when I am selfish and want my time with my mate, but my beast is pretty stoked that she’s carrying our young even though it might be a while before we meet them.
Our place is solid, but we also understand those fuck me vibes and her Skarrian nature are going to attract other suitors.
I’m okay with that as long as she is happy. ”
I nod, feeling more relaxed by his admission, knowing that I won’t be overstepping any boundaries. “Okay, go and look after our woman. She seems pretty cut up about what happened,” I tell him, but Nikos grumbles next to me.
“I do not know why. It was a beautiful thing to see her lovely chest mounds covered in my seed.”