The realization gave him a warm feeling.Thecurvy little human had fallen asleep between him andRavik, which was another secret fantasy of his.
Feeling happier than he had since he andRavikhad come to this awful planet,Severinallowed himself to sleep as well.
Tomorrow he would begin to test his theories.Fornow, he just wanted to relax into the warmth and three-way intimacy he’d been craving for so long.
21
RAVIK
Ravik woke with a start, wondering why he felt sticky between his thighs.Hehad vague memories of something important happening last night, but he couldn’t bring whatever it was back to his mind.
Also, who was in bed with him?
He opened his eyes just a slit and saw two shapes in the vast bed.Onewas soft and short and curvy—his mate,Cassandra, he remembered.Andon the other side of her wasSeverin.
Ravik frowned, feeling confused.Wasit right for a friend to sleep with you when you were sleeping with your mate?Itseemed to him that somehow it might be wrong.
BeastKindreddon’t share mates!whispered a little voice in his head.
But why not?Whatwas the reason they couldn’t share mates?
Ravik frowned and tried to think—he felt like he could almost remember the reason—it was on the tip of his tongue.Butsomehow it wouldn’t come to him.
He decided not to worry about it.Itwas enough that his mate and his best friend were here and they were all three safe together.Also, except for his sticky trousers, it was nice to sleep in the big bed with the two of them.Itfelt good and it smelled good too—he liked the way their scents mingled.Hisown andSeverin’smasculine, spicy fragrances mixed withCassie’ssweet feminine scent to form a special kind of perfume that made every part of him feel happy to be alive.
For a while, he lay there breathing it in, thinking how lucky he was to have such a beautiful mate and such a good friend.Buteventually, he decided he needed to change his trousers.Also, he had to use the fresher.Andmaybe after that, he would makeFirstMealfor everyone.
He andSeverinused to take turns with the cooking when they were out on a mission, but lately it seemed to him that his friend had been taking every shift.Whichwas hardly fair.
It would be good, he decided, to help with the cooking duties again.Hecouldn’t remember why he’d ever stopped helping in the first place, but it wasn’t fair toSeverinto make him do it all.
Carefully, he climbed out of the big bed.Cassiesighed andSeverinmumbled something in his sleep, but neither of them woke up.
Satisfied that he hadn’t disturbed them,Ravikmade his way down the hallway to the fresher.Heshut himself inside and took off his trousers.Whenhe looked inside them, he understood why he was so sticky—he must have come during the night.Butwhy?Hehadn’t had a nighttime pleasure dream since he was an adolescent.Sowhat had happened to make him shoot in his pants?
Ravik squinted his eyes, trying to think.Butnow that he was away from the warm scents that permeated the sleeping chamber, his thoughts seemed to be getting cloudier.Hehad vague memories of the night before—of pleasuring his mate whileSeverinhelped…
Wait—had he really let his best friend suck his mate’s nipples while he fingered her soft little pussy?
Ravik frowned.Thatwas wrong, wasn’t it?BeastKindreddidn’t share mates.
But it didn’tfeelwrong, did it?whispered a little voice in his head.Itfelt right—feltgood.
Well, there was no denying that.Infact, it felt so good that he wanted to do something nice for his mate and his friend.Ravikfrowned—what was it he was going to do?
After thinking hard for over a minute, it finally came to him—he was going to makeFirstMeal.Thenhis mate and friend could eat together with him and all would be good.
Forgetting that he had intended to put on some new trousers,Ravikwandered from the fresher to theFoodPreparea.Oncehe got there, he stood—naked and staring—at the contents of the cupboards for a while.
Why was he here?Whywas he in the kitchen?
Again, he couldn’t remember.Hishead was feeling foggier and foggier and his eyes seemed to be getting foggy too.Buthe knew there was a reason he’d come in here and he wasn’t going to give up until he remembered what it was.
At last, after staring in the cupboard for almost ten minutes, he remembered.Food!Hewas going to make some!
But how?
Ravik couldn’t remember.Thenhe had a dim flash of someone stirring something in a pot.Oh, right—that was how to cook.
