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Cassidy dictated notes on the computer she worked from home on. She lived and breathed her career, when Degorsk wasn’t on her case to relax.
She worked in her office, which was part of a three-room suite used by her alone. Each member of the clan enjoyed his or her own space to indulge in individual interests. Cassidy had a sitting room, where she viewed the latest science vid journals by experts in a variety of fields. She had a small lab for studies not related to her actual job. The office was the smallest of the three, furnished with a desk, two computers, and shelves displaying awards, mementos, and certificates she’d earned.
It was to her suite she’d gone after dinner. Tranis had asked her to excuse them for a discussion on the Darks which had no need of her scientific expertise. She wasn’t hurt to be banished; after all, she’d been lucky to have learned what she had about the potentially extradimensional and dangerous aliens. She would have loved to be privy to the entire story, however. The concept of such creatures fascinated her. The vid Tranis showed her boggled the mind.
What she’d been offered was enough to occupy her rapacious brain. While she snuck in a few observations on her official lab tasks since Degorsk wasn’t around to complain, she researched organisms who could survive extended periods in space.
Searing cold, a lack of pressure, a star’s ultraviolet rays, absence of oxygen and water…could there be a more hostile environment? Yet bacteria, lichen, tardigrades, and similar organisms had the ability to do so, some for years. It was the multicellular creatures who showed the least ability to do so.
“It divides itself, as a cell does,” she mused to herself as she rewatched the footage of the huge entity disgorge a number of smaller aliens, which did the same in turn. Not exactly as a cell divided…but it was the closest explanation for what she’d observed in any living being. “A monstrous, intelligent single-celled creature? Is it possible?”
The sound of her clanmates talking in the hall warned her they’d finished their private conversation. Cassidy ordered her computer to save everything and shut down. She’d had enough of Mother Hen Degorsk pecking at her for the day.
She reached the door of her suite just as the men arrived. “Have you solved the galaxy’s problems?” she asked brightly, pretending to jab at Degorsk’s eyes as he suspiciously looked over her office for signs she’d been working.
“I’m settling for worrying them to death,” Tranis chuckled. The shadows under his eyes were pronounced despite his joking.
“As long as you don’t follow suit.” Cassidy sighed. He fretted enough for the four of them, this stunning man who took on far too much blame when things went wrong.
She glanced at Lidon, who apparently was as informed of the Darks as Tranis. A deeply spiritual man, he managed all the serenity a fierce Nobek was capable of. He was forever ready to fight for his clan, empire, and honor, but he was capable of accepting what he couldn’t change.
It was his welcome home Cassidy felt was due, but he wasn’t the clanmate who needed an escape, temporary as it might be. Degorsk, who appeared to be a bundle of nerves despite Cassidy’s pregnancy only being in its early second trimester, also had his equilibrium intact. If he was blustering or telling bad jokes, Degorsk was fine. The rest only worried over their Imdiko when he turned quiet or withdrew.
Cassidy briefly grasped Lidon’s fingers and squeezed. He’d understand why she concentrated on Tranis. He returned the pressure and released her hand.
She cupped Tranis’ bearded jaw. “You’ll do whatever’s in your power to safeguard the empire, as you always have. For now, our clan is together, and we should enjoy it. I doubt the end will come tonight.”
“If it does, we’ll go out on the best ronka ribs ever.” Degorsk patted his stomach, beaming and ready to be silly for his clanmate’s benefit. “They were the tastiest, tenderest ribs you’ve had in your life, right? Right?”
Tranis laughed, the corners of his purple eyes crinkling as he let them lure him from the darker part of his personality. “They were amazing, my Imdiko. If you get sick of curing the emotionally unstable, you could become a chef.”
“Sick of curing…ha-ha, and you say my jokes are bad.”
“They are,” Lidon smirked. He chuckled at Degorsk’s fake outraged expression and dodged a half-hearted swing.
Tranis was still laughing as they sparred for his enjoyment. Cassidy joined in when Lidon allowed Degorsk to get the upper hand. The Imdiko took the opportunity to heft the bigger man on his shoulder and spin around. It was Degorsk who staggered drunkenly from dizziness afterward. Lidon slipped from his grip and steadied him.
“It’s good to have you home, even if you’re a jerk,” Degorsk grinned.
“I’d like to extend a proper welcome, if you three could escort me to the boudoir?” Cassidy shoved at the muscled bodies in her path. They yielded to let her lead them, delight erupting on their equally handsome but dissimilar features.
They had separate personal suites, but there was only one sleeping room and one bed they shared. Cassidy reached the luxurious chamber. “Lights on, twenty-five percent.”
It was impossible to tell the room was part of a cliff complex. The portions of the walls not covered by lighting panels, which emitted a soft golden glow, were draped in maroon floor-to-ceiling curtains. Cassidy’s bare feet sank into lush black carpeting as she approached the massive bed for four, covered by linens matching the curtains. The head and footboard were hand-carved wood, the posts elaborate depictions of twining bodies, between which thick railings gleamed as if daily polished. The bed screamed decadence, and Cassidy loved they’d heeded its message often over the years.
She turned to witness her clanmates follow her in. She burst out in laughter to discover the trio had shed their clothes on the way to the room, no doubt leaving the uniforms of their positions puddled on the hallway floor.
“You can’t say we make you wait.” Degorsk’s smile was bright, his twin cocks leading him toward her like divining rods.
“Turn around and let me unbraid your hair.” She sat on the edge of the bed and waved him over. He obliged by turning his back to her, which gave her an uninhibited view of what she believed was the nicest ass in the universe. There was a plaster cast of it hanging on the wall of her sitting room, which a youthful Degorsk had made on a dare. It was lovely to contemplate when Cassidy needed a break from her studies.
She set his flood of blue-black hair free from its waist-length plait. Her own platinum blond tresses, as long as his, were loose. She loved it when one of them hovered over the other, their curtains of hair hanging, offering the illusion of privacy.
He turned and grinned at her, any angst over his clanmates erased. Maybe it was because his cocks were level with her face. Cassidy quelled an urge to check on Tranis, to see if lust had eased his constant worries. Watching her pleasure their clanmate would help him set aside concerns for a little while.
Her gaze locked on Degorsk’s, Cassidy leaned forward and delivered a slow lick to the tip of his smaller secondary. He growled softly, his cat-slit pupils widening. He lifted his upper cock toward his abdomen to give her better access. Obeying the unspoken command, Cassidy filled her mouth with his heat. His flavor, sweet and spicy like cinnamon, exploded on her tongue.
The others undressed her as she sucked the tapered length, her head bobbing to meet Degorsk’s slight rocking. His palm cupped the top of her head, and a thrill shot between her legs. Continued thrills darted through her as Tranis and Lidon fondled the skin they exposed.
