Chapter 711: Tickling, the worst kind of torture

Cass was so grateful that there was a knock on the door. Before either of them could confirm that whoever was on the other side could enter, the door opened. A blonde head peeked in, followed by a handsome face set with blue gems for eyes.

Eddie grinned as he noticed that Cass was up and looking at him.

"Oh good. I was worried that you had been kidnapped, but you’re up and moving." Eddie said with a warm smile. "How are you feeling, baby?" Eddie asked and Cass gave a heavy sigh.

"Like death." Cass admitted and Eddie chuckled. He closed the door behind him before approaching the tub. Lucy kept adding smelly things to the water and after he added a particular bottle bubbles started to froth. Cass should remember what bottle that one came from.

"Unsurprising. You were truly a different kind of beast this last heat. Thank goodness you got through it in one piece. That we all got through it in one piece. If we didn’t have Lucy, I don’t think Giddy and I could have gotten through it." Eddie admitted, his cheeks warming. Cass understood what he meant.

Cass had thrown Lucy around and truly had used him like his own personal sex doll. Cass was still embarrassed about it.

"I’m sorry, Eddie. I didn’t, I mean I wasn’t fully-" Eddie’s long, dainty finger pressed against Cass’ lips, silencing him as Eddie grinned down at him, all warmth and light. He really should have been an angel, not a vampire.

"It’s okay, Cass. I’m not upset. I know I don’t have the same kind of stamina as the others. I seem to be the only one who has a normal body when it comes to sex, and that’s...unfortunate, but fine. I’m not upset. You guys don’t blame me for it either, and also, who am I to think I can hold a candle to a dragon who has lived for eons longer than I have and has stamina to match, and you, a fledgling sex demon who literally got their wings during their last heat. You were also starved until now. I couldn’t have kept up with you if I wanted to." Eddie said. "Do you understand? I’m not mad. I couldn’t be." Eddie was firm with his words. So much so that Cass found himself nodding.

Eddie, smiling, bent and replaced the finger that he had placed over his lips with his actual lips.

"Good. That’s my sweet, pretty baby. It is upsetting that your eyes aren’t heart-shaped anymore, but that’s okay. They’re still that pretty ruby hue." Cass was surprised that Eddie even said that. He had no idea that Eddie had liked his eye colour, or that he had even preferred his heart-shaped eyes.

"You liked them?" Cass asked. Eddie nodded.

"Who wouldn’t? You looked so sweet when you looked at me with those heart-shaped eyes. Like a fairy of love." Lucy snorted.

"He very well might be." Lucy joked. Cass wanted to throw a shoe at him.

"Shut up." Cass grumbled and Lucy turned, smirking.

"What? That might be the case. You’re the only fairy with demon blood, and that demon is a sex demon. That has to mean something." Lucy chuckled. "You might just get the title of fairy of love if you go forward with your plan. Everyone will know of your fairy blood and it’s a much nicer nickname compared to the demon of the hero party." Lucy added.

Cass’ heart ached hearing that nickname. No one had dared call him that to his face, and it was his first time hearing it. Cassian, however, had heard it before and that was the reason it had never been heard around Cass since he’d arrived.

Cassian may or may not have lost his damn mind and thrown a huge rager about people even suggesting such a thing. It had been pretty bad, and had also led to Sam being hired as his new personal aide.

So, small blessings.

Cass groaned, leaning his head back against the edge of the tub.

"Don’t. I don’t think either is a good thing. I’m not a fairy of love at all." Eddie chuckled, bending so that his ass was sticking out and his arms were supporting his chin against the tile. Cass couldn’t help but stare at the ass when it was put on display before him. Eddie chuckled, watching Cass and Lucy.

"I would argue that. You, after all, enabled my sister to run away with our wife, freeing both of them from this accursed marriage. You’re also planning to put an end to the resistance against homosexual marriage. That’s something only the fairy of love would do." Eddie suggested. Cass scowled, turning away from Eddie’s ass only to find Eddie smirking at him knowingly. Cass flushed.

"That’s just doing what is right, and besides that, if I do that they come back." Cass pointed out. "Plus, it’s a step towards my grandfather’s downfall. It only benefits me." Cass argued. Eddie shrugged.

"Mmhmm. That’s not how the public is going to see it, and certainly not how that little human you have working on your public image is going to spin it." Eddie pointed out. Lucy grunted in agreement.

"He’s right. How’s the water?" Lucy asked.

"It’s fine. Not too hot, not too cold." Cass said and Lucy nodded seriously. Cass almost wanted to laugh at him, but felt that wasn’t the right thing to do. The man was taking care of him after Cass literally sucked the soul out of him. He shouldn’t make fun of him even if it was really cute.

"That human, Christopher, is going to lose his mind if he hears fairy of love. He’s going to snatch it with both hands and not let it go."

"Then don’t say it around him." Cass said pointedly. "We’re the only people who have heard of it thus far. Don’t spread it." Cass said and watched as Eddie’s eyes curled up at the corners as he smiled. It only spelled trouble for Cass as Eddie chuckled.

"Mm, you’re forgetting one person." Eddie sang. "He wouldn’t even say it intentionally. He’d say it by accident." Eddie pointed out.

"Giddy wouldn’t." Cass argued and Eddie bit his bottom lip.

"Cass, my love, sweet man, Giddy, I love him, but he’s the reason why his father found out he liked men. He couldn’t help himself but comment on a man’s body. He didn’t think anything was wrong with it, the same way he probably didn’t think there was anything wrong in telling Sage and Embers that he thought you were the fairy of love." Cass gasped. His gaze darted to Lucy to confirm what Eddie was saying but he wouldn’t meet Cass’ gaze.

"Eddie!" Cass shouted and Eddie laughed, pulling away from the edge of the tub as if he could tell Cass couldn’t move properly yet.

"I admit, I didn’t come up with the name. It was all Giddy. He was so reverent about it too. It was like the gods themselves came down and told him to call you that." Eddie teased. Cass’ face burned.

"You encouraged that, didn’t you?" Cass asked and damn the handsome man as he grinned cheekily.

"Who knows?" He sang, all smiles and giggles as Cass felt his face burn.

"You’re in trouble when I get my hands on you." Cass warned and Eddie stuck his tongue out.

"Oh, what are you going to do? Fuck me? Oh no, I’m so scared." Eddie fluttered his big blue eyes at Cass and Cass growled.

"No. I’m going to tickle you." Cass warned. "It’s about as bad as torture." Cass told him and Lucy let out a bark of laughter.

"And I’m not going to raise a finger to help either of you. Better yet, make sure you do it on the bed. Wouldn’t want either of you to hurt yourself." Lucy said. The water was almost at Cass’ nipples, lapping at the tender, swollen nubs as they argued. Lucy couldn’t take his eyes off of the water, and nor could Eddie.

"You’re just saying that because you want to watch." Cass said through a scowl and Lucy raised his hands in defense.

"Me? Watch? Oh no Cass, I’d never. Nor would I pull over one of the chairs nearby and drink some wine either." Lucy commented. "Maybe I’d be able to convince Giddy to come sit in my lap too. Read a book. We’d be very calm about everything." Lucy promised and neither Cass nor Eddie believed him for a damn second.

"I shouldn’t be doing anything like that for a while, anyways. I’ve eaten enough for a while." Cass said. That had both Eddie and Lucy giving him a rather disbelieving look. "What?" Cass asked and Eddie sighed.

"You fed your demonic side. Your other side, human and fairy, is very malnourished. We had the doctor come by while you were unconscious to check on you since we’ve never done that after a heat." Eddie explained. "You need to feed, Cass." Eddie told him. Cass scowled.

"What? I can’t get a damn break?" Cass demanded, annoyed and still tired from his last heat still. He’d barely woken up as it was, but hearing that was the icing on the cake.

Eddie and Lucy smiled at the scowling, handsome man. Lucy chuckled, moving closer to Cass to push the white hair back from his forehead before planting a kiss there.

"You know what could help?" Lucy asked and Cass scowled.

"What?"

"A bond mark with a dragon. I could potentially share some of my essence with you at a higher rate and you would recover faster." Lucy suggested mildly. Almost as if he wasn’t interested at all. Cass choked.

"Lucian Draken." Cass hissed, his face warm as Lucy pulled away, smiling.

"What? It was just an innocent suggestion." Lucy said, clearly remembering the conversation they had when Cass had gotten a little too full of himself and had tried to bite him because it was what Lucy wanted. Cass’ face burned as he glared at him.

"No." Cass told him and Lucy shrugged.

"Your loss." Lucy said easily, while Eddie watched with warm eyes.

"I feel like I missed something." Eddie drawled and Cass blushed.

"No. You didn’t miss a thing." Cass said, too quickly, and Eddie snickered.

"Oh, I’m so going to pester you about this later."