Chapter 66 - The Talk.

"This is your room, I need to work so I'm not going to be available, if you need something tell Andrea to get it for you..." Sasha eventually caught up with a visually more relaxed demeanour and introduced them to the room where Vera had been previously.

As she prepared to depart, however, Vera interjected.

"Wait, I'm going with you for a minute, Sasha." She took Sasha's hand and intended to leave the room together with her, she wanted to 'talk'.

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"What is going on with you? you're acting weird." Now outside of the room, Vera questioned Sasha with furrowed brows, the demoness is not usually this... insecure? ever since they found Valentine and Fayette she's acting weird.

"What? do I have to act the way you want all the time? I'm fed up with your suspicion, Vera!" Sasha slapped away Vera's hand that had tried to grab her shoulder and threw back a rant of her own.

"..." But this rant only made Vera furrow her brows further because something is definitely not right with Sasha.

"If you don't want to tell me, don't tell me... but I'm your friend and I'm worried about you, that's all." Having said her piece with a sigh, Vera intended to depart for the day when she heard Sasha's departing answer.

"What I'm facing is not something you can help me with, Vera... if you could I would have told you already, hurry up and go to sleep with your lovers, you deserve it, I'll pop up tomorrow." 

"..."

Vera entered back inside the room with a mind flooded with thoughts, there she found Valentine and Fayette stripping!

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"You two won't even wait!?"

"..."

"..."

The couple threw each other a smirking glance.

"Don't tell me you want to sleep with those bloodied clothes? we can have a bath tomorrow, for now, I just want to sleep." Fayette yawned, there is nothing she wants more than to lay on a comfy bed, and so she did, she plopped on the bed in a rather roguish manner with her legs opened and exposing her glorious garden.

"Yeah, me too... come, Vera, let's sleep you must be tired too."

"C-Can I?"

"...? why are you getting all flustered? this is not the first time we sleep nude." Valentine deadpanned and lay on the bed beside Fayette who just lay to the side, ready to be spooned.

She still hasn't regained complete control of her body, sleeping after so long might be the best way to do so.

'R-Really, why am I getting flustered? just looking at his naked skin, I have seen it countless times, what's happening with me?' Vera struggled to stop her raging heart and started to undress.

Maybe due to the circumstances... before they hadn't had clothes and 'sleeping together in the nude didn't instil any feeling of lewdness or arousal in a world where a rain of fire could fall on you at any minute.

But right now, Valentine's stripped body is something she can't stop paying attention to... especially his crotch.

Valentine sighed and lay down beside Fayette, Vera's vision on his crotch was so prominent, that he could literally feel her 'groping' it.

Eventually, she let go of her urges and the three of them lay down on the bed, releasing that Valentine wasn't going to spoon her, Fayette pouted and turned around, her gaze clashing against Vera's as the two lay against Valentine's chest.

The two of them felt an equally soothing feeling of his hand running along with their hair, and whatever they had been thinking moved to the second plane as they each entangled one of his legs and arms, then went to sleep.

After he started hearing the snores, Valentine sighed and looked at the pair of ravishing beauties within his arms.

'Christine, Francesca... will the story repeat again?' 

He didn't want that to happen, but he's running out of options and a lack of action is going to cause repercussions for the three of them, decisive action is imperious.

With the sacrifice Vera Sidorov made, her grit and determination... he could no longer ignore his feelings for her.

It's just a matter of time before the house of cards falls starting from the top.

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"I want to go and get better equipment, after that we can take a shower and think what we're going to do thoroughly." Valentine dressed up with his rags as the two beauties followed along, everything under the gaze of a slightly blushed Sasha whose gaze decisively locked onto Vera's body, and she planned to not move it.

"Then we will stay here, be careful." Fayette hugged her knees in place while giving Vera a sidelong glance, the latter was much the same... there is some tension in there that the four of them can feel.

"I'm going with you, there are some things I must fetch as well..." Sasha eventually stood up and proposed.

"... Fair enough, We can't go to the same shops we used to go to or we could be recognised, I'd use your help to find some weapons shops in this city." 

"O-Oh... Okay." 

*THUD!*

Valentine departed the room together with Sasha, leaving the two beauties on their own each on either side of the bed.

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No one said a word for a while but Vera clenched her hands tightly and decided to give the last step as it's usual.

"Can we talk?"

"A-About what?" Fayette stuttered, she knows what conversation is coming and she doesn't want to have it.

"About Valentine, you... and me." She needs to touch this subject, otherwise, they won't ever step forward.

"Vera..." 

"You're not the only one holding back you know?"

"What do you mean?" The blonde furrowed her brows, not understanding the comment, what exactly is she holding back?

"You have dreams, don't you? dreams where you kill me..." Vera tested the grounds, she's almost certain of this.

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"I... do." How can she say that it is indeed the truth?! Not only that, they're quite recurrent!

But she knows those are not her true feelings, sure, she's jealous sometimes and she often desires it was just Valentine and her, but that thought has been subsiding as they live together and roam this netherworld, sadly... the nightmares don't stop, sometimes she wonders if Valentine has those dreams too? who does he kill in them?

"I have them too... dreams where I kill you, strangle you... cut your big breasts into tiny pieces." Vera giggled trying to take some of the tension out of the atmosphere, obviously, the last one is a lie.

"... I didn't need to know the last one." Sure enough, Fayette shivered and held her the chest she's proud of with a small fright, how can someone be so merciless?

"I know... I hold them back because I know that's not what I want to do, and you're the same, then why are we still in this situation, Faye?"

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"I don't want to share... he's... mine... I never shared before." Fayette confessed, yes, she's selfish but so what, she found him first, they met each other in that cave back then and killed their way through that forest together, he's her soulmate and together they make the best of loves and engage in a frenzy of passion each time, why must she share that wonderful feeling with someone else!?

"Can we at least try?" Vera didn't want to be forceful, this is a deadlock, a situation she knows Fayette doesn't want to be in.

Vera doesn't want to be let into the relationship out of pity...

"You won't back off this matter won't you?"

"No... at least tell me, why not?" Vera grit her teeth, wanting to know why is she so adamant? is she being hated here?

"I don't know... I like you, Vera... don't misunderstand me, even when I was alive, I haven't trusted anyone the way I trust you... but a part of me doesn't feel it's fair, I don't know... maybe I love him too much, you won't understand." 

"No, you're wrong... after losing the two of you, my heart realised that I don't want to regret anything... this time there was luck by my side. I met Sasha and she assisted me into getting away from the alleyways, gave shelter... I was chosen by Volna too... if those series of lucky encounters hadn't taken place, I wouldn't have reached you... and who knows how everything would have ended, regardless of whether I lived or died, I wouldn't have been happy, now I can and I don't want to give that away." 

"... I understand, please, let me think." Fayette held her elbow awkwardly and decided to back off since Vera wasn't intending to.

"No."

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"Eh?! Y-You won't let me think!?"

"I won't give you time to think or to reject, I WANT to be in there, Faye... It's not only him that I love, I like you too." It was time for Vera to drop her bomb, and as expected it got totally misunderstood by Fayette who gaped at the revelation!

"Fuck! don't talk nonsense! I'm not interested in that!" She immediately tried to leave the room and get some fresh air but she got fiercely pinned to the bed!

"Vera!" When did she become this strong?!

"I don't mean in a romantic way!"

"..." Her words immediately made Fayette stop struggling and listen to what the crazy lass had to say.

"What I mean is that I don't want to be separated by either of you two! and if it comes to the point where we share a bed... then, I won't feel disgusted by your presence either, I know it's the same for you!"

"How can you know?! That demoness corrupted you!"

"Sorry, I have been corrupted way before that..."

"Y-You! you won't let me think no matter what?! damned girl... you changed too much and it wasn't all good"

"I could let you think if it was going to change anything, but you have been 'thinking' for more than a year now! I don't want to wait another year..."

"You're stubborn, have you considered what Valentine thinks about all this, having two girlfriends?"

"He loves me, right?"

"..."

"You know he does, just say it."

"He does..."

"There you go~"

"You're truly stubborn, I liked the shy Vera more..."

"But I like the current me more, and I like the two of you more than I like myself."

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"Sweet words won't get you anywhere, I'm past that point and we're in hell..." 

"Why are you blushing then?"

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"Damn it all!"