Ascendant Path of a Lustful Vampire Chapter 598: Nothing more important **

For the first time in weeks, Caius could be honest, so he filled the ladies in on the details of the mission he had been forced to keep from them by Athenodora’s order.

When he was done, a moment of silence prevailed as both Roxanne and Meline seemed to wait and take in his words.

"That was... a lot," Meline said.

Roxanne’s lips were pursed and her eyes were on Caius when she started to speak.

"An attack that renders one as powerful as that so weak and curses them with eventual death. A curse that apparently has no cure. A temporary fix that affords her a decade more of life at best. A possibility of you having to remain here to keep her living for another decade— existing for nothing more than being fed on..."

"As I said," Meline said with a sigh, "It’s a lot."

"Well, first things first," Roxane said and in a flash undid the fastenings that held her gown close, pulling the top of it down to expose a lot more of her cleavage, "You need perking up."

Caius laughed.

"Not that I’m complaining but I’m amazed how you’re so quickly shifting from serious topics to pleasure," he said as Roxanne drew closer to him and placed a knee on the bed.

"Who’s speaking of pleasure?" Roxanne said innocently, "You’ve just had your blood drained. You admitted to passing out because of it. Seems to me you’re due a top-up."

Calus looked over at Meline, expecting her to call Roxanne to the issue at hand, but he saw her undoing the top buttons of her shirt, pulling it down to expose her smooth shoulders with a slight shimmy.

When Meline raised her eyes and saw Caius raise his brow at her, she shrugged those perfect shoulders.

"She does make a good point," she said, "You do need to feed."

Caius was about to bring up the fact that it didn’t work that way— That they were vampires just like him so they couldn’t really sate his thirst or rejuvenate him but then, he felt Roxanne press her breasts against him while she nuzzled her face into his neck and he couldn’t think of why he would even resist this.

Caius was sure Roxanne and Meline hadn’t forgotten how feeding works and how ’useless’ vampire blood is to another vampire. It was all clearly just an opening for what they were actually after— For what they had come here together for without bringing the other Leopolds and he had to admit he wanted it to.

The truth was the mechanics of bloodsucking mattered very little here. The effects of Roxanne and Meline’s blood were inconsequential because Caius already drank one of the canisters of beast blood he had in his storage ring.

Really, this was about carnal pleasure which was truly the most important thing of all. Which was why Caius placed a hand on Roxanne’s back, his fingers trailing across the part of her smooth skin not covered by her gown and then moving down.

Roxanne mewled against his neck at the feeling and squirmed while rocking her body even closer to his. She placed a hand on his chest and worked her touch into his bathrobe so she could touch his skin directly.

Caius buried his face in the side of Roxanne’s face and her platinum blond hair falling over his head like a curtain but even then, he reached out, and without searching blindly, grabbed Meline’s wrist to pull her closer.

Meline let out a little gasp as she sat down on the bed by Caius’s other side. He released her wrist almost immediately and wound his arm around her waist pulling her even closer to his body.

And then, Caius took his face out of the curtain of Roxanne’s hair and turned his head to capture Meline’s lips in an ardent kiss that had her heart beating a steady excited rhythm in her chest. The pumping of blood through her veins became stronger and charged with the start of what promised to be a strong and body-shaking arousal.

There was a particularly notable spike in her arousal charge when Caius, with his arms wrapped around her midsection, reached for one of her breasts that were still encased in her shirt.

To feel Caius’s hand grab her breast and knead it through the material of her shirt made Meline very heady with desire. There was no other barrier between Caius’s touch and Meline’s breast besides the shirt she had on and with her arousal on the rise, her nipples began to poke through.

As Caius kneaded the delicious mammary, his palm pressed against Meline’s erect nipple and she felt her nethers grow warmer and wetter.

Roxanne was vaguely aware of what was happening between Caius and Meline—after all, it was happening while she was right there—but she couldn’t quite find it in herself to care.

For one thing, even though she and Meline might not have actually discussed it, there was an understanding between them about why they were heading to Caius’s room together.

There was a reason only the two came here and without the others and it sure as hell wasn’t about some meeting. The discussion that prefaced all this was essential and they were glad to have had it but it was ultimately an opener for what they were actually after.

For another thing, Caius was, as always, proving himself a capable multitasker. Whatever his hand and mouth were doing with Meline, his other hand never faltered in its exploration of Roxanne’s body.

There was no stumble, no pause, and no sluggishness as he went further down to her lower back and reached her ass. Or when he moved to her exposed thigh with his fingers trailing lightly and sensually across her smooth skin and teasing a much more intense exploration of her nethers only to pull away before he got too close and then start the tease again, working up her longing to the border of angst.

When Roxanne buried her face in Caius’s neck, she had been drawn in by his scent and the very taste of his skin. Besides his natural scent that surpassed even the most exotic and wonderfully scented perfumes, there was also the scent of bathwater on him. Roxanne knew to tell it apart because it was different from Caius’s actual smell in the sense that it was less than. Still, it didn’t hamper her enjoyment and when it wasn’t completely ignored by her, it added to the whole experience.

Roxanne opened her mouth and let out her tongue, licking Caius’s skin. It was completely clean and she found she didn’t like that. Where was the sweat? She wanted that salty taste. But no matter, they’ll get there. Only a matter of time and she was sure she’d get him to perspire. That was just one of the fluids she was planning to extract from him.

Roxanne had one hand stroking Caius’s chest and moved it down until she arrived at the fastening of the bathrobe he had on. With a deft move of her wrist, she found the knot he had tied and undid it, clearing the way for her to continue, trailing her finger across every indentation of his abs. All the while, she licked his neck. Yes, there was no perspiration for her to taste but his skin had a flavor that lit her up with amorous delights all the same.

Before long, Roxanne went past the abs to Caius’s groin where a tent had been pitched in the bathrobe by his hardening member. She and Meline had really caught Caius in the middle of a bath so other than the robe he had on, he was totally naked.

Moving aside the material of the bathrobe, Roxanne wrapped her hand around the rod. Urged by her arousal and her delight, she flexed her hand around the large, hard, and throbbing member, clenching so hard that Caius groaned into the kiss he was sharing with Meline.

Meline groaned right back. Caius opened his mouth just slightly and she took advantage by snaking her tongue in to engage his tongue in a dance while she rocked herself against him and pressed her breast even more into his kneading touch.

Caius groaned again and again as Roxanne clenched a bit harder around his cock and then gave it a few strokes. For a second, Meline thought he was making those sounds because of her and her kissing expertise but then she opened an eye and saw what Roxanne was busy with.

’Ah, so I’ve been falling behind,’ Meline thought and then dropped a hand down to Caius’s groin.

Compared to Caius’s member, Roxanne’s hand was small and dainty. There was so much of the rod left exposed even with her grip and there would still be quite a bit left exposed even if she used both hands. So when Meline joined her, she wasn’t irritated. On the contrary, she welcomed the help to tame the great rearing monster of a cock she had in her hold.