Chapter 25 #2
Ravik groaned, a deep, broken sound that seemed to vibrate through the floor beneath her knees.
“Feels so good! Suck me. Suck my cock, Cassie,” he begged.
“Gods,” Severin whispered.
Cassie told herself she shouldn’t like that—shouldn’t like the way the Blood Kindred sounded when his control cracked.
But she did.
She liked he was watching her with such fierce hunger…liked that Ravik’s big hand tightened in her hair but didn’t try to force her…liked the sensation of power that came from kneeling between Ravik’s thighs and knowing both males were nearly undone by the sight of her mouth on him.
She had never felt powerful during sex before—not with Mitch, who had acted like her body was something he was entitled to use. And certainly not with Sskarth, who had treated her as a strange exotic sex toy until the novelty wore off.
But this was different. This time she was choosing to perform and she was doing a damn good job of it. She was making Ravik groan and Severin curse under his breath and she found that she loved it.
Loved setting the rhythm, deciding how deep to take him, when to pull back, when to lick over the sensitive head, and when to use her hands on the thick shaft she couldn’t possibly fit entirely in her mouth.
It felt good. Not just physically either—though her body was definitely reacting. Her nipples were so tight they hurt and her pussy was wet enough that she could feel slickness gathering between her thighs.
But it felt emotionally too. It felt good to be wanted and deliciously naughty to be watched. It felt good to know that she could make a male as huge and powerful as Ravik tremble with need and a cold, scientific male like Severin lose his cool.
Speaking of which, the Blood Kindred began speaking again.
“Goddess, Cassandra,” he murmured. “That’s it. Just like that. Keep your mouth soft around him. Let him feel your tongue. Yes—lick him there.”
Cassie glanced up at him through her lashes and saw his fangs flashing white against his lower lip. His eyes were fixed on her mouth and she realized, with a little thrill, that he was directing her but also barely holding himself back.
“You like telling me what to do?” she asked after sliding off Ravik’s shaft for a breath.
Severin’s gaze snapped to hers.
The silence that followed was short but intense.
“Gods, yes,” he said at last, his voice low. “Especially when you look like so fucking beautiful while you’re doing it.”
Cassie’s breath caught in her throat and she felt her heart pounding.
Ravik gave a possessive growl, his big hand stroking her hair.
“Sev tells good,” he rumbled. Then he frowned, as though searching for better words. “Severin helps Cassie make Ravik feel good.”
Something flared in Severin’s eyes at the sound of his full name and the clearer sentence from his best friend’s mouth. Cassie saw a mixture of emotions pas over his face—hope…desire…pain but strangely not jealousy.
“Yes,” he said softly. “I’m helping—trying to help, anyway.”
Cassie swallowed, suddenly aware of how strange and intimate this was.
Ravik’s cock was still in her hand, hard and hot and slick with her saliva and the cooling ointment.
Severin was standing close enough that she could smell him—clean and sharp like icy wind over dark water—and his presence seemed to wrap around the scene as surely as Ravik’s hand wrapped around her hair.
“Keep going, sweetheart,” Severin said, his voice rough again. “He eyes are almost fully clear—I can see it.”
Sweetheart.
The word slid under her skin like a warm hand.
Cassie told herself she was continuing for Ravik…for the cure…for science.
But she knew that wasn’t the whole truth.
She continued because Ravik’s groans made her feel powerful. Because Severin’s eyes on her made her feel beautiful. Because her sex drive had woken up after years of disappointment and neglect and seemed determined to make up for lost time.
She took Ravik into her mouth again, deeper this time, using her hand around the base of him.
He was fully hard now—huge and heavy and pulsing against her tongue.
There was no way she could take all of him, but she did what she could, hollowing her cheeks and stroking the rest of the thick shaft with slow, firm pulls of her hand.
Ravik’s thighs tensed under her palms.
“Cassie,” he groaned. “Fuck, Cassie…so good…feels so good.”
His voice sounded almost back to normal.
Severin sucked in a breath.
“Again,” he said. “Make him say your name again.”
Cassie pulled back just enough to lick the underside of the broad head.
“Say my name, big guy,” she whispered.
Ravik’s golden eyes locked on hers.
“Cassie,” he said, his voice deep and certain. “My beautiful Cassie.”
Her heart fisted unexpectedly in her chest. Behind the desire and the heat of what she was doing, tenderness rose up and caught her by surprise.
Because he sounded like himself—like a man, not a beast. He sounded like a Kindred warrior fighting his way back to her one word at a time.
“Oh, Ravik,” she whispered.
Then she took him into her mouth again.
This time, Severin came closer and crouched beside them. He still didn’t touch her, but his presence was right there, his voice low and intimate beside her ear.
“His cognition is stronger,” he murmured. “Breathing steadier. Eyes clear. You’re doing beautifully, Cassandra. Don’t stop—suck him deep in that beautiful mouth of yours.”
A shiver ran through her.
The praise shouldn’t have affected her so much, but it did. She made a soft sound around Ravik’s cock and the vibration made him jerk in her hand.
“Fuck!” Ravik groaned.
“That’s good,” Severin said, his own voice tightening. “The vibration stimulated him. Do it again if you can.”
Cassie shot him a look.
“Scientific reason?” she asked after pulling back.
“The pleasure response,” he said, but there was a glint in his eyes now that told her he knew exactly how thin that excuse sounded. “Also because he liked it…and I liked watching you do it,” he added.
Despite herself, Cassie laughed. The sound came out breathless and a little wicked, and she barely recognized it as her own.
“Well, we wouldn’t want to deprive him of medically necessary vibrations,” she said.
“No,” Severin agreed solemnly. “That would be irresponsible.”
Ravik looked between them, his brow furrowed.
“Cassie laughs,” he said. “Sev jokes. This is good. But sucking is better.”
For a moment, the three of them simply looked at each other—Cassie kneeling between Ravik’s thighs, Severin crouched beside her, Ravik almost fully back to where he’d been last night again.
“So…” she said, looking at Severin because apparently he had become the director of this entirely inappropriate medical procedure. “How long do I need to keep this up?”
Severin’s gaze dropped to Ravik’s shaft and then rose again to her face.
“I think…” He swallowed. “I think we may need to let him finish.”
Cassie’s stomach flipped.
“Finish?” she repeated.
“Yes.”
“You mean come. You want me to let him come in my mouth.”
Ravik groaned and she wondered if he was understanding this exchange.
“Yes,” Severin said. “If you’re willing.”
Cassie’s mouth went dry—which was inconvenient considering what she had been doing with it.
“And what is the scientific reason for that?”
Severin’s expression shifted, the arousal still there but threaded now with real thought…real concern and scientific calculation.
“Ravik’s seminal fluid may contain active Beast Kindred immune factors,” he said.
“If the pleasure response is pushing the virus out of his neural pathways, those factors may be especially concentrated at climax. His body could be producing a surge of anti-viral proteins, pheromonal markers, and mating hormones all at once.”
Cassie stared at him.
“And you think I should…ingest them?”
“I think oral exposure may allow your body to sample those proteins through the mucosal tissues in your mouth and throat,” he said carefully.
“Your own blood is already resisting the Hunger Virus in a way I don’t understand.
If you drink Ravik’s seed while his system is actively fighting the infection, it may strengthen whatever response your body is producing. ”
“May,” she said.
“Yes. May.” He shrugged. “I won’t lie to you, Cassandra—I don’t know anhy of this for certain. But it’s possible.”
Cassie looked back at Ravik.
His eyes were clear now, gold and bright and fixed on her face. There was desire there, yes—so much desire it made her thighs press together—but also hope. Maybe he did understand what they were talking about.
“Do you want that?” she asked him softly. “Do you want me to suck you until you come, big guy?”
Ravik’s golden eyes went half-lidded.
“I want to come in your mouth,” he said, the words rough but unmistakably clear.
She looked at Severin.
“And you? You want me to do this, just for science?”
His eyes flared.
“No just for science—I want to watch,” he admitted. “I want to see you take Ravik in your mouth and suck him to completion until he spurts and you swallow it all. I want to watch you drink his cum.”
His words made her feel weak with desire. Cassie felt her nipples tighten even more and her pussy was so wet she was sure her thighs were coated with her juices.
“Well,” she said, trying to sound brisk and not at all like she was throbbing between her legs, “I suppose if this might help the cure…”
“It might,” Severin said.
“And Ravik needs healing.”
“He does.”
“And apparently I’m already kneeling here anyway.”
“You are,” Severin murmured.
She narrowed her eyes at him.
“You’re enjoying this way too much.”
“Yes,” he said seriously. “I shouldn’t want to see this in a more than scientific way…but I do.”
That startled a laugh out of her—at least he was honest.
She took a deep breath.
“All right then.”
She leaned down again and took Ravik back into her mouth.