Kaiden sat on a chunk of blackened stone. His breath was steady now, though the ache in his limbs remained. The monsters were slain. The party was safe. But more importantly...
Bastet was already padding toward him, her hips swaying in that lazy, sun-soaked way only she could pull off. She straddled his lap without hesitation, her gorgeous, feminine body warm and soft in all the right places.
Their chests pressed together, her heavy breasts flattening against his armored vest. She looked at him with sultry, amber eyes. But for once, she was a little shy.
"Master... Be tender with your felinid lover, okay?"
Kaiden tilted his head, surprised. Bastet? Shy?
He reached up to tuck a loose strand of her lush black hair behind her ear. "Since when do you ask for tenderness? You’re the woman who tends to shamelessly scream things that’d make even seasoned whores blush."
Her cheeks turned a soft pink. "Shut up, dumb Master! It’s different this time!"
"Is that so? Then why did you rush right into my lap? You could’ve let any of my Valkyries go first."
Kaiden said, and the strong glint in Aria’s narrowed eyes supported his statement wholeheartedly.
"... I wanted to be first. Now stop asking stupid questions..."
With trembling fingers, she brought her wrist to her lips and bit down gently, just enough to pierce skin. A thin rivulet of blood welled up. She extended the offering toward him. Their eyes locked.
"Drink, Master."
Kaiden leaned in.
He did not use [Ravenous Bite], so there would be no mana and health-draining effects.
He used just his mouth. His tongue. His lips.
The Paragon of Sin took his beloved tanned kitten’s wrist in his hand and brought it slowly to his mouth. His tongue dragged over the blood, which was both warm and sweet with a sunlit undertone unique to her. Then he wrapped his lips around the wound and sucked gently.
"Ahn!"
Not expecting such a strong sensation, Bastet moaned. It was not at all a sexual act. It shouldn’t induce any strong feelings in her. Yet, somehow, the simple act of Kaiden drinking her blood somehow felt beyond amazing. She didn’t understand how. After all, no magic was used to enhance it beyond what should be normal.
Her back arched instinctively, and her hips began shifting over his lap with a needy grind right against his member. Without even being aware of it, the felinid was doing her utmost to awaken the slumbering dragon.
She bit her lip to muffle the second moan, but failed completely.
"H-how?!... Master... I don’t understand!"
He refused to answer and instead kept going. His tongue moved over her skin between pulses, tasting every drop, every pulse of that solar magic woven into her veins.
Her blood felt... divine.
Bastet’s fingers and long nails dug into his shoulders, just as her thighs quivered around his hips.
Her breath grew heavier, wetter, more broken by the second. Kaiden had seen her wild before, but this was something else. There was something deeply intimate about it. Her offering wasn’t sexual. Instead, it was sacred. Something that made her immensely vulnerable.
"I’m gonna melt..." she whimpered, her voice outright delirious with pleasure.
After a few minutes and a few not-so-subtle orgasms, Kaiden finally pulled back. His lips were stained red.
Bastet immediately slumped against him, purring mightily. Her body shook with aftershocks.
As for Kaiden, he could feel it. The gnawing hunger inside him had dulled.
Only a little. But it was enough to confirm it.
Her blood worked. The mixed blood was the key.
Now he just had to test it again.
And again.
And again.
"So uh... It feels that good, huh?" Nyx giggled amusedly, seeing Bastet’s entirely ruined form.
She grabbed the twitching feline under the armpits and lifted her out of Kaiden’s lap, replacing the woman.
Her two hands moved to rest on his shoulders, letting their faces get dangerously close.
"How do you reckon this happened?" she asked.
"I can only guess the mixture of my blood, as well as the many monster bloods I consumed, created a unique concoction that allowed you four to gain some sort of resistance against the hunger curse," Kaiden replied, letting their breaths mingle.
"Hmm..." Nyx nodded in understanding. "And then that blood mixed with ours, which in turn allowed you to combat the curse... How strange. I’m not even sure it makes sense."
"Not many things make sense in the world of awakened. It’s best to just accept things as they are."
"You’re right... So, boyfriend, are you still hungry?"
Nyx’s question didn’t need to be answered verbally. The ravenous expression in his eyes was all the girl needed to see to understand his desires completely.
"Then I offer myself to you."
Nyx leaned in with that coy smile only she could pull off. It was both mischievous and challenging at the same time.
Her lips brushed his in a teasing graze before she claimed him fully, kissing him deep and slow, with the sensual confidence of a woman offering far more than affection. At the same time, her fingers moved subtly, and a nearby dagger floated to her hand, guided by an invisible current of will.
Without breaking the kiss, she raised the blade and slit her wrist.
The rest didn’t need to be shown.
The world spun, time blurred, and when it all stilled again, the aftermath painted its own story.
Four women now sat on nearby rocks, their bodies limp with satisfaction and their faces painted with satisfied flushes. Clothes were ruffled. Hair was a mess. Their cheeks glowed with heat, and none of them dared meet Kaiden’s eyes directly for fear of setting off another round.
No one spoke for a few long seconds.
Then Luna, voice hoarse, managed a quiet, "Okay, so... that was... interesting."
Aria gave a dry laugh and muttered, "Did we become vampires? We’re perverted bloodsuckers!"
"Don’t even joke about that." Bastet didn’t like what she heard.
Nyx had a playful expression as she spoke up. "Then explain why you came so much from having your blood drunk."
"... Let’s change the topic."
Vaelira happily assisted the Ra-Blessed Felinid with that.
"Let us drink too."
The blissful atmosphere shared by the four women changed instantly. Tender smiles were replaced with hostile glares.
"What are you talking about?" Luna growled in a low, threatening tone.
"We’re your teammates. It only makes sense."