Chapter 39 #2
Cassie’s eyes flew open.
“Wh-what?” she panted.
Severin’s gaze came back to her at once.
“If Ravik stimulates your clit while I move the wand, it should help your body accept the pressure and may increase the anti-viral concentration in the sample.”
Cassie gave a breathless little laugh.
“Of course. Very…very scientific.”
“It is,” he said, though his voice had gone rougher than ever. “But I also think you need the pleasure. I need you to come really hard for me, Cassandra—to get the best sample. Letting Ravik tease your clit while I fuck you should help you get where I need you to be.”
Her pussy clenched hard around the wand.
“All right…he can touch me.”
After all, it wasn’t like the big Beast Kindred hadn’t touched and teased her to orgasm before.
Ravik’s hand moved lower, over her belly, then stopped.
“Cassie says okay?”
“Yes,” she whispered. “Cassie says okay.”
Ravik’s big hand slid down between her spread thighs and the first brush of his fingers over her clit made her cry out and jerk in his arms. Severin paused instantly, but Cassie shook her head, panting.
“Don’t stop. Keep going.”
Both males obeyed.
Severin began to move the wand again, slow and steady, while Ravik petted her clit with careful, circling strokes.
The combination was almost too much—the deep fullness of the wand sliding inside her…
Ravik’s fingers working her slick, swollen clit…
Severin’s pale blue eyes fixed on her face as though every sound she made mattered…
Every sensation, every look pushed her higher and harder and closer to the edge.
“That’s it,” Severin murmured as he worked the wand inside her. “Good girl. Just relax and take it—just relax and let me fuck you.”
Cassie moaned and let her head fall back against Ravik’s shoulder.
“Severin…so deep,” she protested weakly as he thrust inside her.
“I know, sweetheart.” His voice was like velvet over steel. “You’re doing beautifully, though. Your little pussy is so open for me—so wet. The wand is collecting a strong sample already.”
“You really know…know how to talk dirty and scientific at the same time,” she panted.
His mouth curved, but his gaze remained intense.
“I’m discovering new talents.”
Ravik growled softly, his fingers never stopping as he circled her clit.
“Cassie likes Sev talking,” he observed. “Talking while he fucks her pussy.”
Cassie would have denied it if she hadn’t been completely unable to form a convincing lie.
“Yes,” she gasped as Severin angled the wand slightly and hit a spot that made sparks burst behind her eyes. “Oh God—yes! Yes, I like it.”
“Then listen to me,” Severin said, and there was that commanding note again, the one that made her body melt.
“I’m going to keep moving this inside you, and Ravik is going to keep touching your clit.
You’re going to open up and let me fuck you with it until you come and your body gives me all the honey I need. Do you understand?”
Cassie’s whole body shuddered as heat rushed through her. She had liked being in charge earlier when she was sucking the two of them but she found she liked it when Severin was in charge, too.
“Yes,” she moaned. “All right, yes, Severin.”
“Good girl,” he growled softly. “Such a good girl to open your soft little pussy and let me fuck you, Cassandra.”
The praise went through her like fire and she felt her pleasure gathering as her body got ready to obey him and come hard.
Severin’s hand tightened around the handle of the wand and he began to pump it even deeper, each slow thrust filling her so perfectly that Cassie could barely think.
At the same time, Ravik held her open with one arm across her chest and one hand between her thighs, petting her pussy exactly the way Severin had told him to.
She supposed since they were working to get a sample, it should have felt clinical, but it didn’t.
It felt like both males were working together to take care of a need so deep she hadn’t known how to name it.
Severin’s controlled thrusts filled her while Ravik’s fingers gave her pleasure.
Ravik’s heat surrounded her while Severin’s voice guided her.
And somewhere beneath all of it, the feverish pulse in her blood began to change. The bite wound glowed brighter, then softer—not red but gold.
“Severin,” she gasped. “My arm.”
“I see it.” His voice was tight with excitement and desire. “The inflammatory response is dropping. Your body is responding to the fullness and pleasure.”
“Great,” she panted. “Glad my…my pussy is cooperating with science.”
Ravik made a low sound that might have been a laugh.
“Sweet little pussy,” Severin murmured, his control clearly fraying now. “So responsive. Gods, Cassandra, you’re taking it so well.”
The words made her clench again, and this time the wand seemed to press exactly where she needed it most. Pleasure gathered low and deep, building from the inside out. Ravik’s fingers circled faster, slick and gentle, while his lips brushed her neck.
“Come, Cassie,” he rumbled in her ear. “Come for us. Come hard.”
His words made her pleasure spike so sharply she couldn’t hold back as the orgasm rose, huge and molten and impossible to fight.
“Ohhhh!” she moaned, writhing between them. “Oh God, coming…coming so hard!”
“That’s it,” Severin said hoarsely. “Let go. Let me feel your sweet pussy grip the wand. Give me the sample, sweetheart. Give your body what it needs.”
Cassie couldn’t answer with anything but a broken cry.
The orgasm rolled through her in deep, pulsing waves, different from the one Ravik had given her with his mouth.
This one was fuller, heavier as she felt her pussy clenching around the wand again and again while the Beast Kindred’s fingers kept stroking her clit and Severin thrust the wand deep inside her.
Her whole body shook between them, caught and held and utterly surrounded by pleasure and warmth.
The bite wound flared gold again and for a moment the light was bright enough to light the room, painting both Ravik and Severin in the same warm glow. Then, as her pleasure ebbed at last, it slowly faded, sinking back beneath her skin until only the faintest shimmer remained.
Cassie sagged boneless and panting against Ravik’s broad chest. She couldn’t ever remember being so tired.
Severin stopped moving the wand at once and Ravik’s hand stilled, just cupping her pussy now. For a few seconds, none of them spoke.
Cassie couldn’t have said anything if her life depended on it.
Her body felt wrung out and full and strangely peaceful.
The empty ache was gone. The frantic need was gone.
Even the low murmur of the Hunger had quieted to almost nothing.
This time she knew she was finished—it wasn’t going to bother her again tonight.
Severin’s breathing was ragged and Ravik’s was too.
Both of them were hard again, or still hard—Cassie could feel Ravik’s rigid shaft against her backside and see the thick outline of Severin’s in his trousers.
But neither of them moved to take anything from her, they just held her there between them as everyone caught their breath.
At last Severin looked down at the handle of the collection wand and nodded.
“What?” Cassie asked weakly.
He didn’t answer at first. Carefully, slowly, he withdrew the wand from her body.
Cassie whimpered at the loss of fullness, but Ravik tightened his arms around her and murmured something soothing against her hair.
“Cassie is all right,” he assured her. “Everything is fine.”
Severin held the wand up to the amber light.
Inside the clear shaft, the collection chamber was filled with her honey…only it didn’t look like any ordinary fluid sample.
It shimmered.
Oh my God—what he hell? Cassie wondered. The sample was pearly and pale gold, threaded with faint sparks of light that seemed to swirl slowly through it, almost as though it was alive. She stared at it, her exhausted brain trying and failing to make sense of what she was seeing.
“That’s…from me?” she asked at last.
“Yes.” Severin’s voice was very quiet.
“Is it supposed to glow?”
“No.”
Cassie closed her eyes for a moment.
“Of course not. Why did I ask?”
Ravik leaned forward, looking over her shoulder at the wand.
“Cassie’s honey is pretty,” he observed.
Cassie gave a weak laugh.
“That is maybe the weirdest compliment I have ever gotten.”
“It is more than pretty,” Severin said. His eyes were fixed on the shimmering sample, and his face had gone pale with wonder.
“It’s changed. The anti-viral activity must be extremely high.
I’ll need to test it, but Cassandra…” He looked up at her at last. “This may be the first stable form of the cure for the Hunger Virus.”
At first Cassie didn’t understand. She looked from the glowing wand to Severin’s face and then down at her own arm. The bite wound was calm now, barely shimmering. Her body was calm too, still humming faintly with pleasure but no longer screaming at her.
She should have felt relieved—she did feel relieved.
But underneath that relief was something else—something bigger and stranger.
Because if Severin was right, then the cure wasn’t just in her blood.
It wasn’t just in Ravik’s seed or Severin’s science or the weird, humiliating virus pathway that had made her crave sex instead of flesh.
It was in what happened after the three of them came together—because this sample had been taken after she drank the two Kindreds’ cream.
Cassie swallowed hard, tying to take it all in.
“So…my body is making glowing anti-zombie honey now?” she asked, trying for a light tone.
Severin frowned.
“That’s not exactly what I would call it but in the simplest terms, yes. As I said, I’ll have to test it to be sure.”
Ravik nodded solemnly.
“Cassie is miracle.”
Cassie almost laughed.
“I wouldn’t say that exactly.”
“Truth,” he rumbled.
Severin set the wand carefully into its sterile case and sealed it, though his hands were not quite steady.
“I need to get this to the lab.”
“Of course you do,” Cassie said, but her voice was soft now…tired. In fact, she didn’t know when she’d felt this tired. All the science sex the three of them had done together that night and the way her body had been fighting the Hunger Virus all day had worn her completely out.
Severin looked at her longingly.
“I don’t want to leave you.”
The admission was so simple and so unlike his usual careful explanations that for a second she didn’t know what to say.
“I’m okay,” she said at last. “Really. For now, I feel…quiet.”
“Quiet is good,” Ravik said, his arms still around her.
“Yes,” she whispered. “Quiet is very good.”
Severin leaned forward and brushed his lips over her forehead. The kiss was brief and gentle and made her heart ache.
“I’ll be close,” he murmured. “If the need returns, call me.”
Cassie managed a tired little smile.
“If the need returns, I have a feeling both of you will smell it before I can say a word.”
Ravik buried his face in her hair and inhaled deeply.
“Ravik smells Cassie,” he informed them. “Will let Sev know if she’s needing again.”
“Well thank you, but if you smell anything before I can get some sleep I might just shoot myself,” Cassie said dryly. “This stupid virus makes you tired.”
Severin’s mouth twitched, but his eyes were still serious.
“Rest if you can,” he said. “I’ll test the sample and come back as soon as I know more.”
Cassie nodded, too exhausted to argue.
As he climbed carefully off the bed with the sealed wand case in hand, she felt Ravik shift behind her, settling them both back against the pillows. He tucked her close, his body warm and massive and protective around hers, and Cassie settled against him with a sigh of relief.
She watched Severin pause at the doorway and look back at them.
For a moment, no one spoke, then Ravik’s hand lifted from her hip and reached toward him—not quite touching, because Severin was too far away, but the gesture was there. It was an invitation…a question…a silent pull that Cassie felt in her own chest.
Severin’s expression flickered from determination to regret and then back again.
“I’m sorry, Ravik,” he said to his friend. “I want to hold her between us too—especially after the sharing we had. But I need to work.”
Then he turned away and disappeared into the corridor, carrying the glowing sample that might save them all.
Cassie closed her eyes and leaned back into Ravik’s arms. Her body was finally quiet and she was at peace.
But somewhere deep inside, she had a feeling everything had just gotten much more complicated.