Chapter 796: Two Tigers To Two Kittens
Joy nearly pulled back in shock, looking around frantically.
Was Carmela here? Had she seen everything?
But to her surprise, no one appeared.
Joy looked at Cassius in confusion.
"Cassius, what are you talking about? Carmela should have gone to the festival with the others. How could she be here?"
Cassius just shook his head.
"She’s most definitely here. She’s just a little shy."
A smirk played on his lips as he said,
"But as long as we put out some bait, she’ll come out herself."
He raised his voice slightly.
"If you don’t come out right now, I’ll tell Joy what you said and did a couple of nights ago."
The air vibrated almost imperceptibly.
Cassius continued.
"I’ll tell her about how you told me that night that rather than drinking the blood from my neck, you prefer to drink the blood running through my co—"
A gust of wind.
Before Cassius could finish his sentence, a pair of beautiful, slender brown hands clamped over his mouth.
When Joy looked up, she was utterly baffled to see Carmela standing right behind them, her face flushed crimson with embarrassment.
She was covering Cassius’s mouth like her life depended on it.
"Carmela?!" Joy jumped up in surprise. "When did you get here?"
Carmela sputtered, her composure completely shattered. "I—um—well—"
Cassius pulled her hands down, grinning. "She’s been here from the very beginning."
Joy’s eyes went wide. Carmela’s face grew even redder.
"You see." Cassius continued, twining his fingers with Carmela’s. "Carmela has this little habit of sneaking around and observing others. She just loves spying on people."
"Some might even say she has voyeuristic tendencies."
"I DO NOT have such dirty intentions!" Carmela protested, her voice rising. "I just prefer to watch things from the shadows! The darkness makes me feel more safe!"
Cassius rolled his eyes dramatically. "Wow, a sixty-year-old adult saying cringey lines like that. Who would have expected?"
Carmela’s eye twitched. She started pinching his cheeks, just like Joy had done earlier.
"Ow, ow, stop!" Cassius laughed. "I’m sorry! I’m sorry for calling you a child who has delusions of being a dark warrior!"
That only made Carmela pinch harder.
Joy, however, had other concerns. She looked up at her closest companion with an intense gaze.
"Carmela." Joy said slowly. "Does that mean...you saw everything?"
Carmela froze mid-pinch.
Joy pressed on, her voice strained. "You saw everything me and Cassius were doing?"
Carmela slowly turned to face her, her expression a mixture of guilt and embarrassment. She opened her mouth, closed it, then opened it again.
Finally, she nodded weakly. "I’m sorry, Joy. I...I truly did see everything. From the very start."
Joy’s soul left her body.
"But I didn’t mean to!" Carmela added quickly. "I was half-asleep in that tree over there—"
She pointed to a large tree not too far away
"—and when I woke up, you were already talking. It would have been extremely awkward to just appear, so I stayed hidden!"
Cassius snorted.
"Don’t lie, Carmela. You wanted to go talk to Joy and bring her somewhere as a companion, but you were too shy to approach her. You were trying to figure out how to do it when you overheard us."
Carmela’s blush deepened impossibly further.
"I got it bang on the money, didn’t I?" Cassius said with a victorious grin.
That was the last straw.
With a cry of combined fury and embarrassment, Carmela pounced on him and latched onto his neck, biting playfully without drawing blood.
"Cassius, you little—" Carmela growled.
But Cassius didn’t mind at all.
Joy was already on his lap, and now Carmela was pressing herself against his side, licking his neck like an affectionate puppy.
He thought this was the true purpose of life—having a Saintess and a Vampire adore him in their own indirect ways.
Meanwhile, Joy rubbed her head in frustration and shame.
Carmela had seen everything—the kissing, the teasing, the way she’d basically begged him to fuck her.
It was mortifying!
But then she looked at Carmela, who was changing positions on Cassius’s neck and biting him elsewhere, and felt a strange sense of relief.
’At least it was Carmela.’ She thought. ’She won’t spread my secrets. And after everything we’ve done together...it’s not so bad that she saw.’
She could accept it.
Cassius, meanwhile, was overwhelmed with satisfaction.
Everything was falling into place. The answers he’d always sought, the people he’d always wanted by his side.
It was all coming together.
And overwhelmed with happiness, he wanted to commemorate it
So suddenly, to both their surprise, he grabbed both of them and pulled them closer.
Their breasts pressed against him, and they looked up at him nervously.
He looked at them with a loving gaze, a gaze so warm, so genuine, that it made their hearts race.
"I love you." He said simply. "Both of you. I love you so much."
The words hit Joy like a physical blow.
"Shut up!" She said, looking away to hide her burning face. "I don’t want to hear that from you!"
"Yes!" Carmela agreed, though her heart was racing just as fast. "Do you think I’m some kind of woman who would swoon from just one sentence?"
But despite their words, both their hearts were absolutely racing.
Cassius didn’t mind their protests.
He just looked at them with those intense, burning eyes and made another demand.
"Give me a kiss, you two."
They both froze.
"What?" Joy stammered. "No! Never! Why would I do something like that?"
"Absolutely not!" Carmela nodded vigorously.
"Why would we do something like—"
But Cassius was persistent. He turned to Carmela first, leaning closer and closer.
"Give me a kiss, Carmela." He urged. "I want to feel those beautiful pink lips of yours against mine. I want to taste your sweet saliva."
Carmela tried to pull away, her face crimson. "No! Stop it, Cassius! Please!"
But Cassius didn’t stop. He kept leaning in, his voice dropping to a seductive whisper.
"Give me a kiss, my darling vampire...Give your husband a kiss."
Those two words—darling vampire and husband—broke through Carmela’s resistance. She let out a huff, as if she was doing him a great favor.
"F-Fine." She said, her voice barely a whisper. "If you insist so much..."
She leaned in and gave Cassius a passionate kiss, which he eagerly reciprocated.
"Mmm!♡~ Mmm!♡~ Kiss!♡~ Mmm!♡~ Slurp!♡~"
Her body immediately melted against him, her resistance crumbling entirely.
Cassius pulled back, a satisfied smile on his face.
Then he turned to Joy.
"What about you, Joy? Don’t make me beg for it."
Joy wanted to refuse. She wanted to say there was no way she’d do that, especially in front of Carmela.
But after everything that had happened, after the close connection she’d forged with Cassius, she couldn’t resist.
"Fine." She said, her voice barely above a whisper. "B-But I’m only doing this because I don’t want Carmela to feel ashamed alone!"
And then she leaned in and kissed him.
The moment their lips met, she melted just as quickly as Carmela had.
"Kiss!♡~ Kiss!♡~ Mwah!♡~ Kiss!♡~ Nibble!♡~"
The kiss was passionate, consuming, and she found herself leaning into it, her arms wrapping around his neck.
When they broke apart, Cassius immediately turned to Carmela. She leaned in without being asked this time, giving him another kiss.
Then he turned to Joy, and she did the same.
Soon they were kissing in a rhythm—Cassius, Carmela, Cassius, Joy, over and over and over.
The women threw away their inhibitions, leaning into each kiss with increasing enthusiasm, even looking on with longing when the other was kissing him.
Finally, they were so close that all three of their lips touched.
"Smooch!♡~ Smooch!♡~ Kiss!♡~ Smooch!♡~ Sip!♡~"
They started kissing each other simultaneously, their lips and tongues mingling in a chaotic dance of passion.
Carmela could taste Joy’s tongue.
Joy could taste Carmela’s saliva.
Both of them felt overwhelming shame, but neither could pull away.
The Carmela and Joy of the past would have been horrified by this.
They would have thought it was insane, a nightmarish scenario they’d never imagined.
But right now, it just felt right.
So they melted into the moment, Cassius playing with both of their tongues as they kissed and kissed and kissed.
—
Meanwhile, high up in the Celestial Realm, Faeya was still watching the scene unfold below.
But her expression had shifted dramatically from the longing and melancholy of moments before.
Now, a distinct look of dissatisfaction marred her beautiful features.
Her lips curled into a pout, and she crossed her arms beneath her ample bosom, glaring at the projection with eyes that practically sparkled with irritation.
She watched as Joy and Carmela threw themselves at Cassius, their kisses growing more passionate by the second, their bodies pressing against him like he was the only man in existence.
Faeya let out an indignant huff.
"Even after so many chaos cycles, he’s still the same old Cassius."
She muttered, her voice dripping with exasperation
"The same insufferable, irresistible, infuriating womanizer, who can’t keep his hands to himself"
Finally, unable to bear watching the passionate scene any longer, she let out another huff and forcibly turned away, her long hair swishing behind her with the motion.
She crossed her arms even tighter, her pout deepening.
"Fine. Let him have his fun. I don’t care!"
Down in the mortal world, Cassius remained blissfully unaware that a jealous goddess was watching his every move with a mixture of fondness and frustration.
He simply continued holding his women close, lost in the warmth of their bodies and the satisfaction of another successful step in his ever-growing, ever-debauched family.
