After a moment the doors closed, by which time Cassandra had become aware of the uncomfortable feeling in her ass. She reached behind herself, and let her fingers slip between her cheeks. She found a sticky mess, and groaned at the sore feeling, but at least her poor hole had properly closed again. As she turned around towards her master, he welcomed her with a guilty grin. She snuggled up against him. "You were loving it...," he said softly.
"Yes," she reacted, "that's true."
"If it's any consolation, your master's balls are still a little sore too..."
"Good," she reacted with a chuckle, "because your prize's guest-hole is in need of a little rest."
The huge Warlord kissed her on her forehead. "I let Denora take Lily to the bathroom because I wanted to speak with you in private. I want you to know that I only needed to show Lily sex with an orc master can be good too, that I don't desire her like I desire you, and that you are more than enough for me..." Cassandra felt herself blush, and she reacted by moving her face to his, and kissing him on his lips. She had meant for it to just be a shallow kiss, but a large hand took hold of the back of her head, and he kissed her back. His canines felt strange against her mouth, and as the tip of his tongue caressed her lips she gave in to her master's unspoken demand.
Cassandra's lips parted, and then his tongue slipped in, and its tip met the tip of hers. They kissed, and she moaned softly as their tongues wrestled. His free hand moved up between them, cupped a breast, and as the large thumb rubbed the hardening nipple she felt a familiar tingle inside her pussy. She rubbed her pelvis against him, communicating her readiness, and her desire, and then his tongue withdrew, and his lips lifted from hers. "You might have two holes," he chuckled, "but I only have one set of balls, and as I just told you, they're sore already..."
Bashuk took her to the bathroom, where once she had relieved herself, they met up with Lily and Denora in the large tub. As master and prize bathed each other the latter thought about this new level of intimacy between them. The thorough ass-fucking she had gotten was just more sex, but the kiss was something else, and with hindsight, she wasn't comfortable with it. She had made a deal, with Brando, and it just wasn't part of that deal. The deal allowed her to have sex with the victorious orcs, and even enjoy it, but this went beyond that. This wasn't her surrendering her mouth, her pussy, her ass, her lust, this was surrendering her heart.
The girls had rather pragmatic ideas about it all. The way they saw it her lover was, for all intents and purposes, gone from her life. And Polly had been right, you could love more people at the same time, but there was a difference between 'loving someone' and 'being in love with someone', wasn't there? But was he really gone from her life? He probably was, and it was all about that 'probably' she realized, about that chance, no matter how infinitesimal small, that they would someday be together again. On that day Brando would expect her to still be in love with him, she was his betrothed after all.
She was on her knees, washing her master's huge cock. She could love this cock, she realized, and she could love him, but she could never allow herself to fall in love with him. He moaned in satisfaction as she washed his large balls, and one of his hands came down on her head, and ruffled her hair, making her swallow. She couldn't allow him to fall in love with her either, because that would be unfair to him. So she had to keep a distance, she had to make sure this stayed a purely sexual relationship, even if that meant he would lose his reluctance to share her.
It should make no difference anyway, his cock or those of other orcs.
He had granted her the right to decide when to get pregnant though, and that hadn't been based on a purely sexual relationship, that had been based on something more intimate than that. And if she took that away, by shutting him out of her heart, she should give up on that right too, because not doing so would be unfair to him.
If you deny him this, you should let him breed you, give him the cubs you owe him, and willingly.
Those cubs would be hers too though, and she had already realized earlier on that once she had cubs with him there would be no way back for her. It was a real dilemma, she decided, and one she had no solution for.
***
They had breakfast together with the rest of the pack, as usual, with Lily siting on Kurgan's lap again. Afterwards Bashuk and the males left the premises without stating their business, but not before Bashuk granted Denora permission to utilize the pleasure slaves for some domestic work within the private chambers, after initially ordering them to kneel down at the spot in the corner until his return. "How does it feel, to be able to order your former Kangess around, and make her clean?" Cassandra asked her former senior maiden once Bashuk and the males had left.
"Would you have preferred spending your day on your knees in the corner?" the girl replied with a smirk, after which her former Kangess gave her a big well-deserved hug.
Polly and Syldan 'manned' the reception desk while Lily and Cassandra helped Moiga and Leavy with cleaning, and Vala and Denora took care of everything requiring leaving the private chambers. "I never realized before," Cassandra said to Moiga, while they were changing the former maidens' beds, "but why did you girls never ask me to have this work relegated to the servants?"
Moiga smiled, "Because we didn't want any outsiders to interfere with our privacy, yours included..." Her former Kangess frowned. "Would you have been able to fool around with Brando in your bedchamber, without the entire keep knowing, if we hadn't, d'you think?" Moiga winked, "And what would the servants doing the laundry have thought of certain stains in your royal sheets? We pre-washed them in the bathroom before having them collected by the servants with the rest of the laundry..."
Cassandra blushed, "I..., I never thought about that..."
Her former maiden hugged her, "You didn't have to, because you had your maidens to take care of things like that." She returned the hug. "And never think you owe us," Moiga added, "because you changed all our lives for the better," the girl's voice trembled, "and you treated us common girls like equals, like friends even..., we'll never forget that."
"I also got you girls hooked up to a bunch of orcs," Cassandra reacted, sounding sorry.
"We played a big part in that ourselves too," Moiga replied, "so don't you dare take all the credit..." Cassandra blinked, and Moiga hugged her once more. "Everything turned out great Cassy, none of us regrets getting 'hooked up to a bunch of orcs', on the contrary." Moiga's voice dropped, "We were all free Cassy, our hearts weren't yet taken, like yours was..., and still is?" She melted into her former maiden, as tears welled up in the corners of her eyes. "We'll be there for you, whatever happens," Moiga's voice sounded softly.
They finished cleaning before tea time, and then they had tea with the entire pack as usual, after which Bashuk send both his prizes to bed to rest. By now Cassandra knew better than to protest, and took Lily with her to the bedchamber without resisting her master. She closed the heavy curtains, and got beneath the comforter with her fellow prize, and then hey talked about all that had happened since Nigawa lost the war. As it turned out Lily hadn't been involved with anyone at the time, and had still been a virgin, just like she herself had been. Lily had found solace with a male servant she trusted, a widower who had been almost old enough to be her father.
She had slept with him, let him deflower her, and he had proven to be the gentle caring lover she had hoped he would be. "The last thing I wanted was for my sex-life to start with some overly eager noble boy hurting me," Lily whispered. "Both my sisters got married off to someone at least ten years their senior, and thus more experienced, and I had always been hoping for that to be my fate too, to get introduced to sex by someone who actually knew what he was doing." It had brought home again to Cassandra, how lucky she had been with a father who had wanted her to marry for love, and not for gain, and how much she missed him.
This was also something he had wanted to change she only now realized; young noble women getting married off for gain instead of marrying for love. She hugged Lily close, and then she realized Bashuk would never use the girl for personal gain, that he would never choose a master for her in order to get something out of it, that he would only have Lily's best interests in mind. She didn't even know what she was basing that on, but she simply knew.
"I was still shitting my pants at the surrender ceremony," Lily said, "as most of the girls were, but after watching their leader deflower you, and witnessing you just taking it all, I knew I would be able to take it too, that I was going to be okay." She whimpered, "It was during the following evening and night, with the seven of them fucking me like some cheap whore, in every hole I had, for hours and hours, while denigrating me all the way, that I broke."
