Page 87 of Origins of Eternity

“Let me be your number one, Cassia,” Gigi said as Cassia turned around and met Gigi’s eyes. “When I fuck you hard later, I want you to really feel it. I want you to know that it’s me, not Iro. It’s me.Iwant you. I will do anything to be at your side. God, I’ll give anything to be the one you trust most, Cassia. I want to be that person for you. It’s not Zara. She’s not only too new; shestill has a life outside of you. I don’t. I only have you. I only want you and this life.”

Cassia squinted at her and said, “Come with me today. I could use your help with something. I was going to do it all myself, but it’ll work better with you there.”

“Anything,” Gigi said. “Anything you want is yours.”

“Maybe later, I’ll have you how I want, darling: naked and on my bed. Right now, we have business to attend to, but I promise you, it’ll still be pleasurable.” Cassia held out her wrist. “Would you like some before we go?”

Gigi didn’t answer. She took a bite and sucked on Cassia’s wrist until she finally let go and took a deep breath.

“Better?”

“Yes,” Gigi replied.

“Then, let’s go.”

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The plan had been a simple one. All Zara had to do was get Arwen away from Iro. The coffee shop had been Zara’s idea, but it hadn’t mattered to Cassia. She could accomplish her goal no matter where the meeting would have been. When she arrived, she and Gigi stayed in the car for several minutes, watching Zara talk to Arwen, likely telling her the lie about the cancer results being negative. Arwen looked appropriately empathetic and even sad there for a minute before they had probably transitioned topics, and Zara was laughing then.

“She looks happy,” Gigi noted.

“Yes, she does. Well, she does love her, so I suppose that makes sense.”

“Is that why we’re doing this? For Zara to have the human she loves?”

“No, but it could be a nice side effect if Zara continues to play her part.” Cassia took Gigi’s hand that had wandered up her thigh and put it back in Gigi’s lap. “Darling, not right now. We need to pay attention.”

“We’ve done this in the car before when we were supposed to be paying attention to something,” Gigi replied.

“Thisis important.”

“More important than the time you turned that politician so that you could get him to vote how you wanted?”

“Yes,” she answered quickly.

“Okay,” Gigi replied.

“I promise, sweetheart, you’ll have your fun. In a few minutes, most likely. Then, we can havemorefun later.”

“I don’t want Miranda tonight, Cassia. I want you; only you tonight.”

“You understand that I’m doing this right now to help Iro realize that I’m the only one for her, right?”

“I know my place,” Gigi said.

“But you love me, don’t you?”

“Yes,” Gigi replied.

“And you know I love her?”

“Yes.”

“That doesn’t bother you?”

“No.”

“What do you want out of this, Gigi? You’ve never been like this before.”