Chapter 18
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
NAV
Arena jerked at the sound of the infected hitting the window and turned her head, breaking our kiss. Breathing heavily, I set my forehead on hers.
“You’re safe. It can’t get in,” I said, gently teasing that special place inside of her.
She clenched around my finger and made a sweet sound. However, she did not welcome another kiss. I pulled back enough to look at her flushed face.
“It’s watching us,” she said.
I glanced at it, but it did not have the clear eyes of an older infected.
Moving my finger inside of her, I said, “It’s not smart enough to watch. It only followed the sound of your pleasure. I will make sure you are quieter this time.”
Her lips parted when I pressed that place again. But her hold in my hair tightened, and she pulled firmly.
“Sex isn’t a spectator sport for the living or the dead. I’m no longer willing.”
I sighed, glad she had not noticed the infected sooner, and withdrew my slick finger.
“Stay here. I will be back quickly.” I stood and savored her taste on my way out the front door.
The infected turned toward me as I stepped outside. Its cloudy gaze shifted from me to the opening behind me. Intelligence or a coincidence? Grabbing its head, I dragged it away from the window before cutting off its warning call.
I looked down at myself, checking for any blood. It was a clean removal.
Ready to watch Arena find her pleasure again, I went back inside. However, she was standing next to the bed. Fully dressed.
“I don’t feel safe anymore,” she said quickly.
Annoyed with the infected and myself, I nodded.
“Would you feel safer if I placed a fence around the house? I saw one by the school. It would be easy to move.”
“You want to leave? Now? I’d rather you didn’t. I feel safer when you’re with me.”
An ache of contentment filled my chest. She felt safe? With me?
“I will stay,” I said, moving closer to her.
She glanced at my throbbing cock, and doubt flickered in her gaze.
“Are you hungry? We should make dinner before we lose light,” she said quickly.
I was hungry, but not for food. However, I already knew that females often asked a male if they were hungry to indicate that they wanted to be fed.
“Yes. We should make dinner.”
I followed her into the kitchen and watched her sort through the cans I had brought back from across the street.
“What do you like to eat?” she asked.
“Any meat is fine. I like the cans that have the animals on them.”
She glanced at me. “Animals?”
“Yes. Dogs and cats. But the cans don’t contain dog and cat meat,” I said quickly. “I know those are pets and do not eat them. The cans mostly have fish and chicken and beef.”
She held my gaze for several long seconds.
“Oh.” She looked down at the cans again. “We don’t have any of those, but this one has meat in it.”
She held up a can that I knew had red sauce too.
“You can pick whatever kind of food you want. I will get more for us tomorrow.”
She searched through the drawers, found the can opener, and then heated the contents on the stove.
“If you like fish, I know several great fishing spots,” she said. “And how to dry fish, if you’re interested.”
“Do you like fish?”
A rueful smile tugged at her mouth.
“When you live this close to the water, it’s a typical food source. While I’m glad I’m not going hungry like some people are, I wouldn’t mind some variety. Eating fish for every meal every day gets old after a while. If I could eat something else, I’d rather do that.”
“You know people who are going hungry?”
She shrugged and faced the stove again.
“What about you? Do you know a lot of people?” she asked.
“Yes. There are many people living in the community I came from.”
“Really? I haven’t heard of any big communities.”
“There are almost one thousand of us now, split into three different communities.”
She stopped stirring and turned slowly, her expression showing her disbelief as she studied me for a long moment.
“One thousand fey, or does that include human survivors too?” she asked finally.
“Human survivors, too,” I said.
Mya, the first human female to mate with a fey, had warned us not to tell humans how many of my brothers there were. Humans feared us. If they knew our numbers, they might be tempted to start a war, and she did not wish to see more humans die when so few remained.
Arena was quiet for a very long time. “Am I really the first human you’ve been with?”
“Yes,” I said adamantly. “I promise I have not been with any other females.”
Was she jealous? My chest ached with hope.
“Not even a fey female?” she asked.
“There are no fey females.”
“So you’ve never done anything before me? No blow jobs? No sex?”
I don’t want to share you…I want you to myself.
My heart thumped at the memory of her words, and I tried to find a way to reassure her that I would never want another female now that I had found her.
“You are the first female to look at me…to want to taste me.” My cock twitched in emphasis. “And yours is the first pussy I have ever seen. It is so pretty. I never want to see another one. Just yours.”
Her cheeks flushed. Worried it was in anger because females did not think their pussy’s were pretty, I hurried to add a different compliment. “It tastes good too. Can I lick it while you eat dinner?”
She stared at me, staying quiet for a very long time again, and the color in her face grew brighter.
“I’m not ready for that yet.”
Disappointed, but understanding, I nodded. “Will you tell me when you are ready?”
“Yeah. Sure.” She continued to study me.
Behind her, the food started to boil. I reached around her to stir it and turn off the flame. She retreated, moving to the table, where she stared at the chair for a very long time. Was she thinking about letting me lick her while she ate?
I hoped so.
“You came here to look for more females because there are no fey females,” she said after a moment, sharing her thoughts. “And the human females back in those three communities you mentioned are either afraid of you, or they’re already with someone else.”
“Yes.”
“What’s the plan now that you found me? Will you take me back to one of those communities?”
“No. We can stay here and use a fence to surround these homes so you and your family will be safe to walk around without fearing the infected.”
Looking very tired, she sat on the chair. I hurried to get her a bowl of food. She picked up the spoon and ate a bite slowly.
“You won’t give up trying to find them, will you?”
“No. I promise. Females are too precious to leave unprotected.”
“Is that what I am? Protected?”
I gently stroked my hand over the top of her head.
“Yes. I will protect you with everything I am. Even after you’re immune, I promise not to leave you unguarded.”
She flashed me a confused look.
“Immune? How do you mean?”
I removed my hand, unsure how to explain. Some females in the communities had reacted badly when they learned how immunity was possible. They thought it was a trick. A lie.
“You’re hesitating. Why?”
“Many females in the communities did not believe what the scientists told them and got angry at us. I—” I rubbed the back of my neck.
“Just say it. The more you hold back, the more I think it’s really bad.”
“It is not bad,” I said quickly. “Not if you like touching me.”
The worry in her eyes vanished behind suspicion. I fumbled for the right words to explain.
“I am not trying to trick you, and it is not a lie. The scientists tried to use our blood to make a cure, but it didn’t work.
The humans they injected became infected.
But a female who was having frequent sex with one of my brothers became immune.
The scientist experimented with our seed and found that if it was absorbed through the pussy or ingested, the females became immune. ”
Arena continued to stare at me, her expression filled with doubt.
“Let me guess, it would take sex or blow jobs for weeks.”
“Yes,” I said, relieved she understood. “The more frequent, the faster the immunity. The females who alternated between sex and drinking our seed avoided making their pussies sore and gained immunity the quickest.”
“Oh? And how many times a day are we talking? Four? Five?”
“It depends on the female and how quickly the male releases. Eden and Ghua have the highest record—twelve times in one day. But her pussy was very sore, and she did not let Ghua see or touch it for three days afterward. It would be better to limit sex to no more than eight times with as much seed as you can swallow before you get too full to continue.”
She let out a long, slow breath. “I see. And you’re still going to wait until I’m willing, right?”
“Yes. I will never force you, Arena. I want you to want to be with me.” I shifted uncomfortably. “I just…I hope you don’t choose me only to gain immunity. If that’s all you want, I’ll understand. But I want you to want me for more than what I can give you.”
Her brown eyes softened as she considered me, and it fed my hope that she would not only want to taste my cock for immunity.