Chapter 35
Chapter Thirty-Five
They didn’t have inns in the other towns I’ve been to.
For that reason, and because we’re not made out of money, we always slept in our camp.
But Ismarus has plenty of inns, and getting in and out of the city is a real pain in the ass.
Even with the guards happy to let anyone in that asks politely, going through that mess again is the last thing we want.
So, we get two rooms: Miko, Joshua, and Sylvia in one room, Cait, Guy, and me in the other. I would be more excited about sharing a bed with my boyfriend and girlfriend tonight if Doug hadn’t somehow secured the room next to ours.
There isn’t much space in our room. There’s a full-size bed in the middle. In the far right corner, there’s a table big enough for the two chairs pushed into it. As far as a bathroom? This isn’t like some American hotel. No, there’s a shared bathroom downstairs, and it doesn’t smell all that great.
I let out a long, exasperated groan as I set my staff on top of the table and plop down face first onto the bed. Warm hands stroke my back.
“It’s going to be okay,” Guy whispers. “Tomorrow we may wind up with a lot of allies to get through all this.”
I unbury my nose from the mattress and turn to peek at him from the corner of my eye. “I’m not stressed about that,” I say. “It’s Doug.”
Cait laughs and sits down next to me. “His personality is so wrong for you. How did you two wind up together?”
“We played an MMO together in high school,” I answer, “and we never questioned whether we worked as a couple. Well, until we broke up.”
Guy lies on his back on the other side of me. “High school? Wow, that’s a long time.”
“Yeah, too long,” I say. “It took me eleven years to realize we were better as friends.”
Cait lies down beside me. This prompts me to flip over so that I don’t have to scrape my nose against the bed every time I want to look at one of them.
Guy and Cait reach for each other’s hands over my stomach. They share a knowing glance.
“You two seem awfully chummy lately,” I say.
“We’ve been spending time alone together talking,” Cait says. “Some things started to make sense.”
“Continue,” I say.
“Guy was right before. I was jealous,” she says.
“Of you, of him. I-I wanted to be with him before you arrived. I thought maybe he’d want to settle down some day and have something real with me.
He was the first person I’ve wanted to date.
And, well, I was tired of being a virgin.
I figured if I might be stuck here for the rest of my life…
Anyway, then you came along, and he was ready to be with you from the start. ”
“Oh,” I say, lowering my gaze. “That’s why you didn’t want us dating.”
“Not just because of that,” she continues.
“I understood why he wanted to be with you because when we all sat down to discuss you joining us, I felt something new looking at you that I’ve never felt with a real person before.
While I’ve been crushing on Guy from day one, I only have a little physical attraction to him.
But you were sitting there with only a bra to cover your upper half, and, well… I wanted you.”
“So, that was you!” I exclaim. “My first Aphrodite quest was to Inspire Lust, and before I could try, it was scratched off. All this time I thought it was Guy.”
Guy laughs. “As hot as you are and as much as I love touching you, I was more attracted to you as a person at that point. I was trying to be a gentleman and purposefully didn’t look at your breasts. After that, though? No comment.”
“I was definitely the person you were turning on,” Cait says.
“It scared me. My family told me some really horrible things about women who want women. I grew up believing they were right about everything. I felt guilty just playing video games. But Guy convinced me that love is love, and…” Cait’s fierce eyes grow soft as she drinks me in. “I love you, Lauren.”
The words reach into my heart and pull at something deep within, something that’s been hungry for love all this time.
Like it did with Guy, when Cait presses her lips to mine, a magical duet forms between us.
It’s different from the one I shared with Guy.
While the previous one was like a sweet sigh, this one is like a thrumming beat.
When our lips part, we gaze at each other in wonder. There’s no question that we love each other. Our magic together is palpable.
Before our duet can fade away, Guy kisses me on the neck. I gasp in bliss. His plaintive melody joins our duet, creating a perfect trio. The music sweeps me up into heaven, and I ache for more, but reality hits home hard when I hear Doug burping from his room.
Jesus, these walls are thin.
I sigh, knowing I’ll be sexually frustrated all night.
“What’s wrong?” Cait asks.
“I want us together, you know?” I point at the wall we share with Doug. “But…”
Guy smiles and gets up from bed to grab his staff. “Silence,” he says, and I can no longer hear our song. In fact, I can’t hear anything at all, apart from Cait and Guy, since the spell doesn’t silence party members.
“Silence,” he says again. He winks and nods toward Doug’s room. “I cast it on his room, too. He won’t be able to hear us, and we won’t be able to hear him.”
After leaving his staff leaning in the room’s corner, Guy takes off his robe. It’s the first time I’ve seen his torso. Because he’s always wearing loose clothing, I never knew what to expect. He could’ve been rail thin or had a six-pack. I’m pleasantly surprised to see he’s got a slight dad bod.
I know many people would love a partner with a movie star’s honed appearance, but I’ve always been a fan of real bodies. Guy’s body reminds me he’s human, that we’re not just part of a game. I want to touch him everywhere.
Cait sits up next to me and takes off her top.
I’ve seen her in the nude before, back when we went to the bathhouse together.
Her lean frame and toned arms amazed me then, but now that I’m closer, I can see every freckle and the way her nipples on her small, perky breasts are such a light pink that they’re barely darker than her pale skin.
“Are you sure?” I ask her. “I mean it’s your first time, and your par—”
Cait presses a finger to my mouth. “Like I said, Guy and I did a lot of talking, and I’ve realized so much of what I thought I should want isn’t right for me. We discussed what could happen when we all had time alone together. This is what I really want.”
Guy climbs into the bed behind me, now fully undressed. He kisses along my shoulder until he gets to that glorious spot on my neck he knows stirs me up.
“Do you want this?”
“Oh God, yes,” I whisper.
“Do you, Cait?” he asks.
Cait bites her bottom lip. “Can I just kiss Lauren for a while first?”
Guy gives her a wicked grin. “Of course.”
The thought of making love to Guy while kissing Cait has me pooling with desire. I’m ready to shred apart my chiton if it starts things even a second sooner. I cup her cheek and kiss her. Then I kiss Guy. They also kiss, with as much love as they share with me.
Guy turns his lustful gaze to me. “Let’s get these clothes off you. Immediately.”
Holy fuck! This is actually happening!
I pull my clothes off as fast as possible and toss them across the room before lying down between them.
“Fuck,” Guy whispers as his eyes swallow me up.
Cait doesn’t chastise him for swearing, probably because she’s too busy kissing my jaw.
Guy strokes Cait’s back at the same time he weaves his fingers with mine. “We’ll take this slow. Only do what you feel comfortable with. If it’s too much at any point, tell us. There’s no judgment.”
“I’ll be fine,” Cait says.
“I’m talking to both of you,” Guy says. “I’m a Mage of Dionysus. Half my side quests involved group sex with other followers. I plan to use everything I know to make this a magical night for the two women I love.”
The two women I love.
I’d been so worried that I would break someone’s heart by loving them both. Instead, we know love threefold with each other.
Our first time is magical. As though we’ve always done this, our bodies work together to show our love with every touch and taste.
I’d thought that group sex might be too much for Cait’s first time, but with Guy’s directions, she seems like a natural.
It’s like she’s been saving herself for the two of us because nothing less would have been good enough for my Viking queen’s first time.
There’s nothing forced about it; it’s actually sweet.
Our kisses are promises; our caresses are worship.
When Guy puts his head between my legs, it’s after he’s made sure both Cait and I are comfortable with it, and then he pulls out every trick in the book.
His sole focus becomes giving me an orgasm while Cait explores my body with light touches and kisses.
I want to touch her back, but I’m so afraid of making this too much for her that I hold back. She’s never done anything before, and now suddenly she’s in a threesome. And then, she does something unexpected.
Just as Guy’s fingers hook inside me, making me moan as he brings me close to the crest, Cait whispers, “Good girl.” I’m not sure she meant for me to hear it, but that’s all it takes to rip a scream of pleasure from me as I have probably the best orgasm of my life.
That’s when everything changes. Her feather-light kisses deepen as I come down from my high and she asks, “I want to watch him move inside you.”
Well, fuck. How can I say no to that?
“What about you?” I ask.
“Touch me here.” She takes my hand and places it on her breast. “While I, um…”
That’s when I realize, she can’t say it.
She can’t say she wants to watch him fuck me and that she’d like me to play with her breast while she rubs her clit.
She can do these things but is too shy to say it out loud.
That makes this even more special. She’s braving a past riddled with guilt because she wants this that much.
“While you finger yourself?” I ask.
Cait nods.
“I’d love that,” I say as I tease the nipple on her small, perky breast. “I’ll touch wherever you want me to touch. Just name it, and my hands will be there. If it feels good, say ‘yes.’ If it doesn’t, say ‘no.’ If you want to stop at any time, just say ‘stop.’”
Relief loosens Cait’s features. I’ve taken away the burden of her demanding things of me. While I think she may turn out to be a natural Domme later, she’s still a virgin, and she feels self-conscious about it right now.
When Cait lowers her hand between her legs, Guy slowly pushes himself inside of me, and I almost come apart right then.
He hisses with pleasure and praises me for how good I feel.
I’m incredibly full, but there isn’t a hint of pain.
It’s hard to feel anything other than bliss with Cait’s breathy moans against my ear.
Guy picks up speed, pressing his thumb against my clit and bucking wildly into me. His smile should be next to the definition of “ecstasy” in the dictionary, and just knowing I’m doing this to him is bringing me to new heights of pleasure.
Cait moves her hands between her legs to the same rhythm as Guy’s hips, like she’s the one inside me and not him. Her eyes are focused on where Guy’s body joins mine. All shyness is gone from her expression. She’s that lost to the heat of the moment.
Cait grabs my hand and places it between her legs. “Please,” she begs.
While she furiously rubs her clit, I lower myself between her legs and hook my fingers inside her.
I’ve never done this with a girl before, but I at least know what I like.
She’s beautiful and smells incredible, and I know I need to taste her.
I lap the wetness now pouring out of her pussy and all over my hands.
The faster Guy moves within me, the greedier I am for Cait’s sweet tart flavor.
Apparently, I’m doing things right because Cait’s moans turn high-pitched and breathy as I move my fingers the way I do on myself. Her eyebrows pinch together over her now-closed eyes.
“Yes!” Cait calls out just as Guy shouts out the same.
Cait’s walls clench around my fingers as she orgasms, and I come again right before Guy releases inside me.
As the three of us reach our crescendo, this becomes so much more than sex.
We’re joining souls as much as we are bodies.
My head collapses onto Cait’s abdomen, and Guy spoons me.
We stay like that for a long moment, soaking in the afterglow.
“I love you,” I say after a minute of contented silence. “I love you both so much.”
Guy kisses my temple. “We love you, too.”
Cait strokes my hair. “So much.”