Chapter 40: She’s the embodiment of your desires, so why...?

Chapter 40: She's the embodiment of your desires, so why...?

Cassie woke up to a massive pain threatening to split her head in half.

'Shit...'

She failed to utter even the short curse as she sluggishly dragged herself towards the edge of the bed. The girl gathered her strength for some time before finally attempting to climb down and reach for the glass of water standing by her bed.

This was, sadly, the only consideration that she gave to her future self while drinking herself unconscious the last night.

'My head...' Cassie thought while a long, whiny moan escaped from her lips. The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B11n.

Cassie reached out and managed to grab the glass, quickly pouring it down her parched throat. Yet, hydrating herself only reminded the poor girl of how her bladder still held all the liquids from the last night.

Having no other choice, Cassie dragged herself to the bathroom. There, after releasing the pressure from yesterday, she made sure to wash her face in the sink, letting the cold water calm some of her headaches down.

'Just why did I drink so fucking much?!'

Full of self-loathing, Cassie raised her eyes to the mirror above the sink, only to be presented with a really unbecoming look.

Her make-up that she meticulously prepared for the party last night was now all gone, turned into blurred areas that made her look even worse than she felt. Her eyes were hazy, surrounded by the violet bags indicating severe exhaustion. And to top it all off, the excessive drinking of the last night made her already thin body look even more frail, as if she was anemic.

'It's all because of those damn bitches...'

Cassie gritted her teeth, pulling her eyes away from the mirror before turning around and leaving the bath.

The girl had no problems recalling the events of the last evening and night. The gaps in her memory only started from when she decided to drown her sorrows back at home, long after returning from the cultured meet-up.

Ring, ring, ring!

The noise of a call coming through drilled into Cassie's already sensitive ears, causing another spear of pain to skewer her brain through. Yet, when she braced the pain of the hungover and looked at the phone nearby, Cassie's face only tensed up even further.

'And she even dares to call me now!'

Irene.

The name showing on the phone belonged to the same girl who was the loudest when claiming she would find Cassie a stud during the party, even going as far as to repeat herself right as they were about to enter the building. And in all honesty, after thinking things through, Cassie ended up growing fonder and fonder of the idea of paying Peter back for how he dared to break up with her!

At least, that's how Cassie felt before they actually entered the building. Because upon doing so, she was forced to swallow the obvious reality.

'There are several missed calls already,' Cassie thought, staring down at the phone for a few more moments, patiently waiting for Irene to give up and stop calling.

Right now, Cassie had no mental power to bicker with that questionable friend of hers.

Did I hold my desires back well enough? Or maybe it would be furious that I refused his child's charms?

I had no way of knowing what would happen on the other side in advance. And the only way to find out... was to cross the gate and let the situation play out.

"That should be all," I muttered, taking a step back once we finally settled on what we were going to bring to the other side and what would be left behind. "But I guess one more quick check won't hu..."

I cut my words short when I saw Fay suddenly tense up and raise her head, locking her eyes... on the wall.

Furrowing my brows, I looked in the same direction, thinking I was missing something...

But no. What Fay was staring at so intently... was just a wall!

"What's wrong?" I asked, breaking the unspoken path of silence that started when I escaped Fay's seduction.

"There's something..." Fay hesitated for a second... Only to turn her head and look me straight in the eyes. "There's something bad coming. We need to hurry up and leave."

Fay's voice... was weird. It was filled with a sense of intense urgency, while at the same time lacking any sort of pressure or vibe of the two of us being threatened by something.

Unable to curb my curiosity, I approached one of the few windows of my shed and looked outside...

And there she was.

The damn bitch I had no plans of seeing now, or, in fact, anytime in the future. One of Cassie's whore friends who I believed to be responsible for how she changed from a lovable girlfriend to a cheating hoe that was only good for the streets.

"I guess you are right. There's something bad coming, and I have no desire to meet it," I muttered in a cold voice, pulling away from the window before waving my hand and opening the gate in the area that wasn't visible from the window. "Let's hurry up and leave."

Under the pressure of this strange threat, we managed to grab all of the supplies and move through the gate in what had to be less than a minute. And while we completed the task insanely fast... this minute was enough to put a strain on my endurance. Both physically from all the bags I had to carry while moving through the gate and mentally, when the immense pressure of the celestial fox proper dawned on my mind the second I stepped out of the barrier and back into another world.

'There it is,' I thought, looking at the massive fox resting in the very same place and position I saw it when we left.

This time, however, this damn massive fox decided to take me off guard... and it stood up.

Before I could react, it was already standing mere inches away from me and Fay, pushing its massive mouth between us.

"Sniff, sniff..."

The fox pulled in some air before raising its mouth and taking a moment to think about something.

'This is the moment that will decide everything,' I thought, gulping saliva down while my body tensed all over.

The fox took some time to think before lowering its eyes and throwing its powerful gaze right at my face, only to alternate its eyes between my expression... and the intense blush on Fay's face as she averted her eyes in some sort of shame.

"I've sent you away with the literal embodiment of your desires. And even though she is obviously in heat..." the fox spoke, its voice reaching tones and vibes I couldn't quite read into due to how many emotions I could detect in it.

But one feeling stood above all the others. A feeling of just how baffled this huge fox was.

"So how come you two have yet to mate?"