Total pages in book: 165
Estimated words: 159487 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 797(@200wpm)___ 638(@250wpm)___ 532(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 159487 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 797(@200wpm)___ 638(@250wpm)___ 532(@300wpm)
“Feeling better? I didn’t know I was sick,” Ravik protested.
“You were scratched by one of the Infected when we were fleeing the Dead Zone to get here,” Sev explained.
His best friend didn’t seem to be in the least upset that the three of them were in the same bed together, Ravik thought. It was like they slept with a woman between them every night. When of course, the only other time that had happened had been with that Tenebrian woman when Ravik had been really drunk on Goldsheill ale.
He’d woken up with a pounding headache and a secret sense of shame after that encounter—and a promise to himself never to do anything like that again. But this morning it was almost like he was coming out of a fog. His head didn’t ache at all. The only thing different that he could tell was that Sev’s scent was very strong in the room. It wasn’t a bad smell—just intense.
He shook his head.
“I vaguely remember the whole Infected thing. Are we really on a planet of lizard people then?” he asked.
Sev nodded.
“We’re on Visslick Prime. We came here to do research and got stuck when our shuttle was destroyed by the herds of Infected after the Hunger Virus broke out.”
“Fuck—it’s just like in my dream!” Ravik ran a hand through his hair. “Gods—how long have I been out of it?”
“You’ve been halfway infected for almost four solar months now,” Sev told him. “Listen, I need to go run some tests in the lab,” he added. “But I want you to stay close to Cassandra—all right? You need to be near her scent.”
“I do? Why?” He frowned in confusion.
“It helps keep you from slipping back into caveman territory,” Cassie, sitting up and facing him.
The sheets were pooled around her hips and she was naked. Ravik couldn’t help noticing that she was shaped just like he liked his women—full-figured and curvy with big breasts, wide hips, and thick thighs. Gods, had he really slept with her in his arms all night in that state? And he hadn’t tried anything?
Not that he would ever force a woman—that went against everything the Kindred stood for. But it was hard to believe that he and Sev had slept with her between them, all naked and tempting, and nobody had done anything at all.
He strained his memory to see if he could remember how they had gotten into this situation in the first place and if anything had happened, but he was still drawing a blank.
“Er…why are you looking at me like that?” she asked, frowning and he realized he’d been allowing his eyes to linger on every inch of her gorgeous, curvy body. Also, the sight had given him a raging hard-on.
“Fuck, sorry, baby,” he rumbled, forcing himself to look away. “You’re just so fucking gorgeous all naked like that.”
She frowned and put a hand on her hip, which caused her breasts to jiggle.
“You saw me like this last night, you know. In fact, you did more than just look at me. You—” She broke off abruptly, probably because he was frowning in confusion. “Wait—you don’t remember anything we did, do you?” she asked.
“No, but keep going.” Ravik made a hand gesture. “Don’t stop now—it was just getting good.”
But Cassie seemed to be miffed at him now.
“No, I don’t think I’d better. I think I need to get dressed.”
She went hunting around in the copper colored sheets of the massive bed until she came up with a tiny red scrap of fabric which she pulled over her head.
The silky little slip barely did a thing to hide her luscious body, though. It clung to her curves and Ravik could clearly see the tight points of her nipples pressing against the thin fabric.
Fuck—his cock was aching now! He needed to get out of here and go take care of himself!
“’Scuse me,” he muttered, climbing out of the bed.
But as he headed for the door, he saw that the beautiful Mature Elite was following him.
“Hey…” He frowned at her. “What are you doing?”
“Coming with you,” she said and there was grim determination on her pretty face.
“Coming with me? Why?” Ravik protested.
“Because last time you wandered off on your own you took off your pants and nearly burned the bunker down trying to cook fikka beetles on the stove,” she replied.
“What the fuck?” Ravik rubbed his head. “Why in the Seven Hells would I do that?”
She shrugged.
“Severin thinks it’s because you got too far from my scent—which somehow brings you back out of the Hunger Virus haze.”
Curious, Ravik leaned down and pressed his face to the side of her neck. He inhaled deeply and sure enough, she smelled amazing. But he didn’t know how her scent could have brought him back from the virus she and Sev were talking about. Especially when the main scent he still smelled was his best friend’s. Clearly he had been close to Cassie last night. And so had Ravik because he could smell his own scent on her too.