Doubt.
Vesper was feasting on her nonstop, the ravenous beast Cedar had restrained coming back to repay her in kind.
It allowed me to take Cedar in for the first time with her walls completely down. She had no chance to resurrect them, not with Vesper’s tongue on her cunt and me gently caressing her face.
“Do you doubt my feelings for you?”
Something else showed through the bond. Panic. Fear.
“I…Fuck. Vesper…”
She tried to push me away, but I was there, pushing her into the bed, caging her there.
“Can you not feel it?” I asked, running my finger down her chest where we all felt the pull of the bond. “You’re in here too. The object of my devotion, running through my mind and heart every moment of my existence. I should hate you for how important you’ve made yourself to me.”
She arched into me. I kissed down her neck, my tongue licking her pulse.
“But I can’t bring myself to. Don’t you see it, witch?”
The sour feeling lingered, but it was being overpowered.
“Slow down,” I ordered Vesper. Her growl ripped through the room. “Try me again, hunter, and I won’t let you come for weeks.”
It would be fun too.
Her growl lowered but didn’t stop.
“Gods damn it, just stop. We’ll make her come. Just…” I teased her neck with my fangs, pulling a sharp gasp from her. “Tell me to stop if you don’t want it.”
I wasted a moment, licking her pulse. My fangs ached with the need to bite into her.
She groaned, never telling me she wanted me to stop.
“Good witch.”
My fangs sliced through her skin with ease. Sweet, fragrant blood exploded across my taste buds. In my haze, I almost forgot to linger so the venom would enter her system.
“This can’t be real,” she moaned as the venom worked its way inside her.
The shot of pleasure through the bond had Vesper and me both moaning.
“Aurelia… Please, I can’t stop myself…”
I pulled myself away from her neck so I could look into Cedar’s eyes as she came.
“Go on, Vesper.”
Seeing the witch come for us was a vision. Her magic flared around us, the heat brushing across my skin.
“Feel this. Feel us. Don’t brush it off.” I grabbed her chin and forced her to look at me. “You belong here with us, my love.”
When her orgasm finally subsided, Vesper joined us on the bed, all of us a panting mess. No one spoke for the longest time, just enjoying the fact that we were finally all together again.
Then Vesper sat up.
“Hey, why didn’t I get a cute pet name like that?”
For the first time in what felt like a millennium, true laughter spilled from my chest.
