As sad as that thought might have been, watching the way Jalee got into it was a quick distraction. Three nude monster ladies in my bed was unbelievable, and for a few seconds I froze, staring and watching them, only vaguely aware of the way Kinara was working my cock. Milkshake bent over the bed to join her, each taking turns with tongue and mouth on my balls and mouth, while Jalee fingered Milkshake from behind. Jalee watched with fascination, and then I decided I needed to taste one of them.

  I went to my back, letting Kinara and Milkshake continue to pleasure me, and positioned my head at the edge of the bed. I motioned for Jalee to bring her goods my way. She grinned, stepping over, and put one leg up on the bed. Her pussy was there, open and ready for the taking. I lapped it up with pleasure, tasting her and loving it. She started squirming then, massaging my chest, even starting to moan as I focused on her clit.

  “Fuck me,” she said, and brushed the other two off as she climbed over me to straddle my cock. The way she had done it, she faced away so that I was watching her ass bounce as she slid up and down on me.

  “That’s so hot,” Kinara said, hand on my balls as she went in to take one of Jalee’s nipples in her mouth.

  Milkshake came over to let me eat her out next, and when Jalee couldn’t take it anymore, collapsing backward and nearly screaming with ecstasy, Milkshake pulled me to the side of the bed and bent over so I could take her from behind. I wasn’t sure what was with these ladies enjoying it from behind like this, but the view was amazing, so I wasn’t about to complain. Her ass was like a huge peach, and when I slapped it, you better believe it jiggled. I even touched the remnants of her wings, and that was the end of her. She collapsed onto the bed and for a moment I thought she might have fallen asleep—but then she let out a long moan, and shuddered.

  Kinara took me, pulling me on top of her so that we could kiss passionately. The other two continued to kiss each other. Kinara and I changed positions so that I had one leg off the bed, my other knee on it, massaging her breasts as I thrust. Jalee touched each of us with small shocks that felt more like tingles of pleasure, and I turned to see Milkshake kneeling behind me.

  “Wh—what are… you… doing?” I asked, thrusting and trying to catch my breath. At this point, I was starting to sweat and had gotten quite the workout.

  “Watching your balls sway to and fro,” she said, and laughed, making a motion with her hand to emphasize the movement. “And… this.”

  Suddenly she dove in, paws spreading my ass cheeks and long tongue flicking across my asshole. Her tongue moved along my taint and then back to my hole, entering I think. It was all I could take, causing me to orgasm with such force that I thought for sure my cum would cause Kinara to pop like a balloon. Luckily, that didn’t happen.

  “I thought… thought you wanted nothing to do with—”

  “Shut up and enjoy it,” Milkshake said, then dove back in.

  I collapsed onto Kinara, only then realizing she was moaning and squirming, apparently orgasming too, so I did my best to keep moving inside of her. When I couldn’t anymore, I kissed her, then turned as I slid out and kissed Jalee. When it came to kissing Milkshake, I hesitated. She’d had her tongue up my ass, after all. Then again, I had just showered, and since she was moving in, I went for it. To my relief, nothing off about that kiss.

  We all moved onto the bed, continuing to kiss and caress, simply loving the time together. Milkshake’s wings fluttered, the tattered remains moving sadly through the air. I reached out and touched the base, where they connected with the skin, and she grabbed my thigh, holding tight. Clearly, a sensitive spot.

  “What happened?” I asked.

  “My wings?” She pushed herself up, and I noted how much I loved the way breasts looked hanging like that—even more so when on my bed. “I used to have full wings, and could even fly with them. One day, minding my own business while scrounging up food, these two skimgar warlords show up and tried to say I was in their lands, as if anyone can own land in our world. Little did I know—”

  “Times are changing,” Jalee said, propped up on one elbow now, on the other side and up toward the pillows.

  “Exactly. The old ways are fading, fast, and they wanted to teach me a lesson, leave me as a warning to others who wouldn’t listen.”

  “Influences from outsiders,” Kinara grumbled from behind me, where she had one leg draped over mine, hand on my chest. “Not you, of course, but… rumor has it the hunters got their tech from outsiders. Some group who wants to see monsters come to their aid in some big war.”

  “Fuck that,” Jalee grumbled.

  Milkshake nodded, then suddenly pushed herself up, kneeling with a hand out—her new sword appeared in her hand and she spun, jumping from the bed to swing at an invisible enemy. Her battle cry clearly would’ve alerted everyone on my floor, but my hope was that they would be at work.

  “If I ever get my hands on those shit-fucks who did this, I’ll cut them limb from limb,” Milkshake said, dismissing the sword and standing there in the middle of my room, chest heaving, eyes wild.

  “I’m so sorry.” What else could I say?

  “Me too,” she said, stepping aside and sheepishly pointing over her shoulder to where she had apparently cut off the top of my office-chair’s head rest. Damn.

  I stared in shock, then chuckled. “It’s okay. Get over here.” She came back over to cuddle with us, and I said, “When that day comes, we’ll all help you tear them apart. Trust me.”

  “You say the sweetest things.”

  Lying there with our limbs wrapped in each other’s, a claw ran along my inner thigh.

  I shot up in bed. “Oh! The picture.”

  Stumbling up, legs exhausted from the action, I went to my computer. I knelt at the desk, not even bothering with the chair. Opening the shared cloud folder, there it was—the picture I had taken of the writing when the hunter had tried to go through to the other side.

  I hit print, and my Wi-Fi printer whirred up, spitting out the image a few seconds later. Kinara darted over, grabbing it and holding it up.

  “That’s a neat trick,” she said. “How do we get it to her?”

  “A meetup spot, I guess?” I found the wrist devices on the bathroom counter, doing as she had instructed. Holding the coin, I conveyed the thought that I had the image and was ready to hand it over. A tingling ran up my thumb to my arm, then chest. Next came a thought as if she was on her way, which I took as a message from her. She hadn’t known if it would work both ways, but luckily, it seemed to be working. At least in this instance. “She’s on her way.”

  “Where to?”

  “Here.”

  The ladies didn’t seem bothered by that, but I figured it was time to get dressed again. While the lady had seen me nude in a weird way, that didn’t mean I needed to make a habit of it. As my old clothes were dirty, I dressed with a button-up shirt and jeans. I checked through the blurred image of the crashed window, wishing I had more windows. It would be nice to have a better view of what was going on out there.

  4

  We waited for Ahlaksiz to show, but clearly she wasn’t in a rush. The ladies didn’t bother to dress, but did start to inspect my room. They would ask all sorts of questions, like how to use this Bluetooth keyboard I had, or what the flashing lights on my router were. Most of them I tried to answer, though that often resulted in blank stares.

  “How about these?” Jalee asked, holding up a set of dumbbells. When I explained, she wanted to know if I used them every day.

  “Not much,” I answered, honestly—I’d used them one day, when I bought them and had sworn to make an effort. Now that I was going to be fucking all the time and maybe getting into fights I started to wonder if finally starting to train would be the smart way to go.

  “And this printing device?” Jalee asked. “The one you made the picture appear from. Can it print anything?”

  “Only pictures,” I replied. “But we have 3-D printers that can make other things. Still limited, but pretty cool.”

  She looked impressed, at least.

  “Here, check this out,” I said, and opened YouTube on my computer, showing them a bunch of silly animal videos. One had cats falling into swimming pools, another had monkeys stealing stuff from tourists. I was rolling with laughter, and they were too, but also looked confused.

  “How is this possible?” Kinara asked, touching the screen. Of course, it was touch-screen so she selected a video ad that sold hair-regrowth. I turned it off.

  “Like the movies I want to show you, these are all taken with cameras, like how I did with my phone, and… put onto the internet.”

  “He keeps using that word,” Jalee said with a sigh. “Eventually, we’ll have to actually start trying to understand.”

  Milkshake shrugged. “I’m more interested in seeing how many times in a day a human man can fuck. You know, for… research. Maybe when I go back, I’ll be the local storyteller, spreading stories to all the monster kids about the amazing human fuck-toy.”

  “Hey,” I protested, but saw that she was smiling, only razzing me.

  A knock came from the door and I grabbed the print-out for Ahlaksiz, then went to the door.

  “It took you long enough,” I muttered, throwing it open. Only, instead of the woman I expected, there stood a female cop. While I couldn’t be sure, it seemed to be the same one I’d seen before, only from this angle I couldn’t check for a tail.

  “Took me as long as it took you to return,” she said, apparently having heard me.

  “I…” I turned to see that the women behind me were all turned to face her, and of course… still naked. “Can you all get dressed? We have company.”

  “Nothing I’m not used to,” the cop said, stepping in, making the whole place rather crowded. As she went, she made no attempt to hide the movement of what had to be a tail. She turned to each of the ladies, eyes roaming up and down their bodies, then turned back to me with an impressed grin. “It seems you have quite the appetite.”

  “You’re one of them?”

  “One of the little treats with the purpose of trying to satiate your appetite?”

  I blushed, eyes going to the floor. “That’s not what I meant.”

  “I know. Am I a monster?” She nodded. “Yes, but you’re not about to see what type anytime soon. You’re in grave danger, all of you.”

  She turned to Kinara, then Jalee. “A hunter is after you.”

  “Was,” Kinara corrected her.

  “Not anymore?”

  Jalee shook her head.

  The cop turned back to me, brow furrowed. “I’m going to assume you had nothing to do with this? Violence from human to monster could mean much trouble in terms of human-monster relations.”

  “Is there such a thing?”

  Jalee cleared her throat, then shook her head. “I don’t know what she’s talking about. Doubtful.”

  “Ladies at your… level…” The cop shook her head. “You wouldn’t be aware.”

  “And you’re part of this?” I asked.

  “I’m a plant, of sorts. It’s like this—most of humanity isn’t aware of us. All but one group, a secret order I won’t tell you about. Not yet, at least. We have strong monsters undercover in high levels of humanity’s circles. I am in my position without the order’s knowledge, in order to monitor all of this.”

  “And if there’s an evil monster here?” Kinara asked. “If Ferris were to be involved in a fight in the future against such a monster… what then?”

  The cop eyed me, and I stared back. She had long, blonde eyelashes to match the hair pulled up tight under her hat. I wondered why she hadn’t removed that hat yet. She was tall and slender, though her uniform showed off nice hips. Her eyes were light brown, like the polished wood of a piano my grandma had loved, the center item of her living room that I’d loved to visit many years ago.

  “Well?” I asked.

  She cursed, turning back to the ladies. “What I’ve explained is true, but there’s only one problem here. What I’m seeing here, it doesn’t happen. This,” she gestured at the ladies, “and you?” She turned back to me. “You’re the first human male to summon our kind in over a thousand years.”

  “But you’re here,” I protested.

  “There are other ways for monsters to get here. As I see you’re aware.”

  I wasn’t sure what she could have meant by that, but I followed her line of sight to the paper in my hands, and got it.

  “The hunter had a way of getting through,” I said.

  “One very few have access to, which means he was connected. You’re going to have new enemies, going forward.”

  “And you?” I asked. “Where you do fall on that line of friend versus foe?”

  Her pretty brown eyes narrowed, hand on her pistol. She eyed me, then the room, then took a sniff. “Gods, you all were fucking in here before I arrived. Imagine if I’d arrived in the middle of that…” She shook her head, walking around the room, narrowly between the ladies, sniffing each of them in turn. Finally, at the other end of the room and near the blown-out window, she turned back to me. “Friend or foe… that’s what I’m here to find out.”

  “She’s weird,” Kinara said.

  “I don’t much like her,” Milkshake added.

  “Oh, I don’t know.” Jalee was the closest, and reached up, running a finger across the cop’s lips before moving to the bed and crawling away from her in a way that gave the cop a nice view of her ass. “Maybe she wishes she had arrived earlier. Maybe… she’s just lonely.”

  “Enough of that,” the cop said.

  I looked at her name tag. “Kazenburg?”

  She grinned. “Obviously not my real name.”

  “Sure, sure. You’re not here for this,” I gestured to the bed and Jalee, “but you say you’re here to decide whether you like us or not, basically. So, what is it? What’s the deciding factor?”

  “That depends on what your goal is. You’re amassing a team, maybe one that will keep growing.”

  Kinara scoffed. “You aren’t showing commitment, if being part of the team is your goal.”

  Kazenburg waved off the comment. “No. I want to know what this new power in town is up to. What you have planned for your next move.”

  I frowned, not about to trust this woman. “Maybe another round of milkshakes. Or I was thinking of hitting up the theater. I hear the old theater in Glendale is showing The Princess Bride. Nothing says welcome to our world like Andre the Giant and some butter-smothered popcorn.”

  Kazenburg took a step closer to me, ignoring the way Jalee’s foot moved toward her, starting to slide up her leg. “You’re summoning monster girls here to what? Fuck and take to movies?”

  “Sounds pretty fucking amazing,” I replied. “Something wrong with that?”

  She scoffed. “I don’t believe it’s as simple as that… for one clear reason.”

  “Yeah? Which is?”

  She pointed at the paper still in my hands.

  Still, I’d decided this wasn’t the time to tell her anything, so I shrugged. “Thought it looked cool. Nothing more.”

  “Boy—”

  “I’m a man.”

  Licking her lips, she said, “Man, I’m going to keep my eye on you.”

  Kinara stepped up next to me, hand on my shoulder. “Maybe you’ll see something you like.”

  At that, Kazenburg went to the door again, brushing past us. She paused in the doorway, eyeing me, then Jalee again. “When any of you are ready to talk, here’s my card.” She handed the card over, but when I didn’t reach for it, she slipped it into my pocket. “In the meantime, enjoy the show.”

  “Show?”

  She frowned. “Keep up the cover story, or I might get suspicious.”

  It came back to me, about the movie, so I blurted out, “You can join us, if you’d like.”

  “Huh?” Milkshake shook her head. “Why?”

  I glanced her way, shrugged, then turned back to the cop. She was smiling.

  “It’s a date,” she said, then leaned against the wall. “Should they get dressed, or are we going to make a statement?”

  “Dressed,” I replied, nodding to the ladies. “I’ve been meaning to get them more clothes, and I think there’re some stores over that way.”

  Kazenburg grunted, eyes on me as if I might float away if she didn’t stare hard enough. “You have no idea what you’re getting into. You think you’ve read about monsters… This is different.”

  “And from what I’ve seen so far, so much better.”

  I had her there, but really my focus had shifted to the fact that we were apparently really going to the movies. And for some reason, this cop was coming, too. Calling my bluff, I guess? Soon, though, we were all dressed, and I touched the Ahlaksiz coin, giving her a mental “Where are you?” along with letting her know our new destination.

  In response, I felt a ping of warning. One that seemed to say, “Danger.”

  Was she aware of the cop, and that’s what the warning was about? Or was this something else? Either way, the ladies were soon dressed and on the road, the cop car leading the way to the old theater in Glendale. Before, when traveling to Big Bear, most of what they had seen were cars and glimpses of cities from the freeway, but as they entered the downtown part of Glendale and went past the Galleria, all three ladies were practically plastered to the windows. They kept asking what everything was, but I had to keep my eyes on the road. Plus, I got kind of bored of saying, “Fast food joint, cake place, fast food joint, fancy Italian restaurant, clothing store way out of my budget,” and then having to explain what all of that meant.

  Finally, I said, “Listen, we’ll stop by Forever 21, grab some relatively inexpensive clothes, then head straight for the theater. Just… enjoy the view for a bit?”

  They crouched, but my head was aching.

  The cop led us to the top floor of the Galleria parking garage, so that we could take the glass elevator down and have the view of the fountain doing its water show the whole time. Kinara was especially impressed with it, though Jalee looked a bit terrified. It wasn’t until we were emerging from the elevator and I saw the spray of water that I remembered how much Jalee hated the stuff.