47. Chapter Forty-Seven
Chapter Forty-Seven
Cody
Cody returned the library books to Lexi, earning him his fourth Friendship Level. Only one more to go for the librarian.
As he walked down Main Street, back to the Food Mart, he could see the pink monstrosity that was Goddess Gifts and Souvenirs.
A group of young women stepped out of the shop, all carrying white shopping bags with tufts of pink tissue paper, laughing and talking.
He frowned. It didn’t seem fair that Temica could enjoy her little shop, business as usual, as he scrambled to finish Friendship Quests, his life and many others hanging in the balance.
He did his best to shake it off. Morgan had the right idea, that they should continue to live their lives and not dwell on this possibly being their last week on Earth.
Cody could feel his heart beating faster and his breath becoming more labored. It was that all-too-familiar feeling of being trapped in his recurring nightmare. It was panic. Anxiety. Despair. All rolled into one and coursing through him. And feeding Temica, no doubt.
He closed his eyes, leaned up against the nearest shop, and started to take a few slow and steady deep breaths.
This is the kind of shit Knife used to help Cody with.
Knife being absent from his mind was bringing up a whole new mix of emotions, ripe for Temica’s feeding.
He really fucking missed Knife, but at least he could still talk to him if he held the weapon.
Plus, Knife was attached to Nyrah, and Nyrah was officially part of Cody’s life now.
If she wasn’t going anywhere, then neither was Knife.
That’s right… Cody told himself. Think about Nyrah.
He thought about how amazing it felt as they made love for the first time and the Heartbond coursed through them.
He thought about how when she looked at him, it was like she was looking at the most important person in the world.
That had been creepy, at first, but he had grown more accustomed to it.
And he liked it. He also had Morgan, his rock.
His love. His fiancée. And Yana. Just as gorgeous as the other two women in his life.
She was the cool-headed, sensible one of the group.
It was nice to have someone on his wavelength while trying to decipher Temica.
He couldn’t let Temica win. He couldn’t feed her. After a few more deep, steady breaths he was feeling a bit more like himself again, combined with the satisfaction of cutting off Temica’s meal ticket because he was able to rein in his panic attack.
It was late enough in the afternoon that Morgan would be done with her shift, so he met up with her back at Food Mart.
They drove home in silence, enjoying each other’s company.
As soon as they got back, Morgan excused herself to go take a shower.
Nyrah and Yana were on the couch watching another one of Yana’s crime dramas.
Yana looked enthralled, but Nyrah was staring up at the ceiling, twirling a piece of her hair around her finger.
As soon as she saw Cody she grinned and jumped up, running over to him to give him a hug.
Yana looked over and waved, but immediately turned back to her show.
“I missed you!” Nyrah squeezed Cody tightly, demonstrating that she really was stronger than she looked. “And your knife friend has been asking to talk to you.” Knife appeared in her hand and she passed the weapon over to Cody.
Yes? Cody asked.
Look, I hate to bother you during your pussyfest, but if we only have one week to live, I really need to visit my puffball girl. Help a guy out and help Nyrah find a nice big puffy mush-girl for me?
Cody sighed. Yeah. We can do that. But we do not have ‘one week to live’. I’m going to finish this game. He turned to Nyrah, “Want to go for a walk in the forest?”
“We’ll make love later?” Nyrah asked.
“Yep. Later.”
“Okay, then! We can go for a walk!”
Cody looked over to Yana. “Yana? Do you want to come?”
She briefly looked away from the screen to mutter, “No, thank you,” and then turned back to her program.
He was getting very mixed signals from her.
Prior to establishing the harem, she tried to kiss him.
Now that everyone was (seemingly) on board with the idea, she was withdrawing, speaking to him less, and opting not to spend time with him.
That did not bode well for their timeline and the amount of orgasms he needed to give her.
“Just us then!” Nyrah said, ramming into his dire thoughts.
“Yeah, just us.” Cody passed Knife back to Nyrah.
Nyrah put on her necklace so she’d look like a human and Cody changed out of his work clothes into some more comfortable shorts and a T-shirt. As soon as they started walking down the forest path, Nyrah grasped his hand in hers and tightly clutched it.
“How was your new job?” Nyrah asked. “Did you like it? Was Doug nice to you? Did you earn any more Friendship Levels with him?”
Cody gave her a rundown of his day and she listened intently, as if everything he was saying was the most amazing thing anyone had ever said.
It was endearing, if not a tiny bit unsettling.
But mostly he was leaning towards endearing because she was so damn pretty.
She was wearing a white crop top with little denim shorts and looked like a perfectly normal twenty-one-year-old Earth woman hanging out at a lakeside cottage.
Cody had to admit he actually liked her natural form better.
There was something mesmerizing about her wings and she just looked ten times cuter when she had her cat ears, while also being equally gorgeous and sexy.
She walked with a bounce in her step, which did wonderful things to her boobs, especially since she didn’t seem to be keen on wearing bras.
“There.” Cody stopped and pointed through the trees, to where a big white puffball mushroom was growing. “That’s what we’re looking for.”
“What do we do with it?” Nyrah asked, and Knife appeared in her hand. She passed him over to Cody.
Cody walked over to the puffball mushroom and threw Knife into the fungi. Cody hit his mark first try, with Knife sinking into the hilt. “We do that. And now we walk away.”
“And he…?”
“Does his thing.”
“And that’s his wife?”
“Don’t try to make sense out of it, Nyrah. Just let it happen.”
“I am trying to make sense of it…but he’s blocking me.”
“Yeah, just leave him be and let him block you. We don’t want him inside your head for a bit.”
“Oh…so, what are we doing now?” Nyrah clasped her hands in front of her, which pushed her boobs together. Things were pretty dire, but at least there were still boobs. And a beautiful woman he needed to level up.
Cody looked around the forest. They were a good distance from Knife and his wife.
It was part of the forest that surrounded his cottage and it was technically his private property.
He didn’t mind if people came through on the trail, but it didn’t happen that often.
The coast was clear. And there was a thick branch right behind Nyrah, at the perfect height…
And there was something he wanted to do that he didn’t get to the night before.
He could remember the way she tasted on his tongue, sweet like strawberries.
“Take off your necklace.”
“W-what?” she asked.
“And your clothes.”
She inhaled sharply and blinked up at him, but she was already pushing her shorts and underwear down her slender legs.
She kicked off her sandals and stepped out of her clothes, leaving her completely bare from the waist down.
She was about to remove her shirt, but froze as Cody stepped closer.
He removed her necklace, and quickly tucked it into his pocket.
Her wings burst into existence, ripping her shirt off in the process.
He’d be lying to himself if said he hadn’t done that on purpose.
He knew exactly what was going to happen, and it was a fun way to get her naked. She didn’t seem to mind.
“Oh my!” Nyrah gasped. She smiled playfully and let the ruined top fall to the ground, revealing her bare breasts and perfectly peaked nipples. Her fluffy cat ears popped up on her head, followed by her tail, swishing behind her.
Cody gave her a quick, deep kiss, before lifting her up under her arms. She felt incredibly light.
“Grab onto the branch.” She reached her arms up, gripping the branch above her.
Thick black claws grew from her fingertips and dug into the bark and her wings fluttered, holding her up.
Cody stepped closer so he could loop her legs over his shoulders and inhaled her sweet scent.
“What are we…?” she asked.
“You asked me to stop last night so we could move on to the next part.” He licked up her already soaked slit and she shivered. “But do you want to find out what I was trying to do?”
“I want you to…to f-fuck me with your m-manhood,” she said, trying out the f-word for the first time.
“Oh, I am going to fuck you.” He gave her another lick, tasting her unique nekofae sweetness.
“But with my fingers and my tongue. And by the way, we can call this your pussy.” He licked up her slit again, landing on her clit and giving it his attention.
She moaned, her thighs tightening around his head.
“And that little pleasure nub is your clit.” Just to make sure she understood the lesson, he nibbled on her again and a gasp escaped her.
“And from now on, you say dick or cock instead of ‘manhood’. Okay?”
“O-okay.”
He kept his tongue exploring her clit, one hand on the small of her back to help keep her in place, and used his other to sink a single finger into her pussy.
She pushed her hips into his face, grinding into him and clearly wanting more, so he added another finger.
He did that flippy-do-dah thing girls like, finding her sweet spot.
Nyrah let out a surprised gasp and her thighs squeezed his head even tighter, just as he got the notification about Pussy Petting.