Chapter 948: Just A Little Bit...

Once Dinner had concluded, I was given the glorious task of dealing with leftovers while the others made their way into the living room. Once I was done, with everything else I had eaten today, I was actually full. Properly stuffed.

Happy.

Entering the living room, I didn’t even acknowledge the others present for a moment. The movement had my stomach feeling uncomfortable so I removed my shirt.

Looking down at myself I chuckled, I had a bit of a gut protruding out for once. "Awesome. I beat out my digestion." I muttered to myself before seeing a solo chair in the corner of the room. Walking towards it, I planted myself down in the softest chair imaginable and sighed in relief. I then dragged the poof by the wall with my Telekinesis and put up my feet.

"Ahhh~ Good day, Good day." I said with my eyes closed as I patted my stomach.

Suddenly realising the room was dead silent, I opened my eyes, only to realise everyone present was staring at me.

"Uhhh~ Hi?" I said with a polite smile.

Everyone suddenly glanced between each other, smirking.

Something was amiss...

Millie then stood up and walked over to me, crouching down next to the chair I was sitting on before she stroked my hair. "How was clean-up duty? How much did you finish?"

"I got through everything. Why? Did someone want more? Sorry everyone, I thought you all said you were done."

"No no. Everyone is nice and full. The question is, are you full?"

I patted my stomach and chuckled. "That I am. I don’t think I could eat another bite. Thank you, Millie. Everything was just perfect."

Millie leaned over and kissed me on the cheek. "Well, aren’t you just so sweet for saying so? Thank you... Ok then, I’ll go fetch the pie for the rest of us then. Be right back."

"T-There’s pie?" I asked, but got no response until Millie left and re entered the room holding a pie that smelled divine.

"W-What type of pie is that?" I asked, unintentionally making some mouth noises afterwards.

Millie placed the pie down on a table alongside some plates as she replied. "Apple butter pie."

"That sounds amazing..." I muttered, then the smell hit me and I began practically drooling.

"It is a real shame that you can’t ’eat another bite’ though, Apollo. I bet you would have really enjoyed this nice delicious pie I made." Millie said as she began to cut the pie.

"Oh... Right." I said, downtrodden.

Millie must have seen my expression and suddenly stopped before walking over to me, pie in hand still. She knelt beside me once more before asking. "Apollo... Do you perhaps still want a small slice of pie?"

"Maybe just a little bit?" I said modestly, the pie was to share after all...

"Ok. So a slice this big?" Millie asked me, as she angled her slicer into the smallest sliver I had ever seen.

"Maybe a bit bigger?"

"Oh... So this big?" She asked once more, barely moving the slicer.

"Um... Sure... I guess... Thank you, Millie."

"Apollo?"

"Yes?"

"Do you perhaps want this whole pie to yourself? You don’t look happy with the generous slices I am offering to cut for you."

Looking down, confused, I just realised she was holding the slicer halfway around the cake from where she started.

Feeling guilty, I shook my head. "No, that is ok. I am sure everyone else wants a piece of pie too. Just give it to everyone else and-"

"-Just so you know, I made three other pies just like this one, so there will be plenty to share if you take this-"

"Gimme!"

The moment I took my first bite, the room suddenly burst out in laughter.

"Hahaha! I told you he wouldn’t be full!" Janine yelled, pumping her fist into the air as she won the friendly wager.

"H-How though? He might be taller than the rest of us, but that doesn’t explain where THAT much food goes. He should have been sick five times over at this point." Serena expressed in shock as Apollo continued to eat the pie.

"I think it’s sweet. He likes my food that much, it brought him out of his fullness." Millie commented, prompting me to moan.

"Nnhh! Still full, just so worth it!"

"Apollo, slow down, no one is stealing that pie from you. Millie, would you be a dear and go fetch the others? Watching him eat that so voraciously has perked my appetite a bit." Valerica asked and Millie did and proceeded to bring the other pies in.

...

As Orchid was handed a slice of pie, she just held the plate in her hand. Her gaze was occupied. Apollo was perfect...

She already knew this. She knew this from the moment she laid eyes upon him. But watching him eat. The hunger he shows for a single entity made her burn with passion.

The Hive knew Apollo could never become part of them, despite how intoxicatingly good consuming him and having him in their biomass pools for all eternity sounded. But even with that, it amused them just how similar, in very toned down ways, he was to them.

For example, his ravenous hunger. He just ate and ate and ate and Orchid found watching him so exciting. She wanted to go up to him right now and mate with him for the display of consumption, but she couldn’t... She would wait till later and tell him, whisper in his ear how horny she was.

For she was still a good wife, even after their long absence apart. She knew Apollo would appreciate her restraint and fill her up again... Leave her feeling full just like he is full now...

Full, satisfied, yet could still have more. And more and more and more and-

...

’Fuck me Orchid, stop looking at me like that, I can’t get hard in front of my Grandma!’

I thought as I locked eyes with her. She looked so beautiful sitting there. Even now, after all this time, I could tell she was out of her element. She was an apex predator surrounding herself with her food all for my convenience.

She didn’t fit in, but she didn’t care. All she cared about was me and looking at her always left me feeling so warm inside.

Wordlessly, I put down the empty pie tray before beckoning her forth with my hand.

Her eyes opened wide slightly, not expecting it, it seemed before putting down her slice of pie and walking over towards me.

As she stood over me, I said nothing, simply raised my arms out either side of me and like we were a hivemind or something, she smiled knowing exactly what I wanted from her.

Scooting her fine rear into place, she joined me on the chair, laying sideways on my lap as we began to cuddle.

"What brought cuddles on, Apollo?" She asked in a quiet voice as she nestled onto my chest.

"I wanted to hold my lovely Orchid. Is that so wrong? Though move that elbow of yours a bit to the right before you burst my stomach."

"Better?" Orchid asked, looking up at me for clarification as she moved.

"Infinitely, thanks." I said before kissing her on the forehead.

We stayed like that for a few minutes before I couldn’t help asking. "So after I leave here, are you going back to the college, back to Sophia’s or back home? Whatever you choose, I am ok with."

Orchid paused for a moment to think the question over. "Orchid will go back to the college." She declared.

"Really? I- I well. I was not expecting that answer from you, Orchid. I won’t lie."

Orchid nodded her head. "Yes. Orchid knew you would not. Orchid doesn’t really like it there, but Orchid has some responsibilities she has to take care of. Such as managing the gene enhancement place. The humans in that class are picking up on it fast. There is also enhancement formulas for Myu. The Sepiida is tedious, but from the filter that you instructed me to use some of her information can be seen as useful. Orchid can also understand, in your view, her usefulness.

There is also the fact that if Orchid goes home, Orchid has no purpose with Orchid being cut off from the rest of the family now... Orchid will be fine at the college until you are done with your task. She will just change her biology slightly to allow her to enter torpor once more instead of sleep. It should make the wait for her Apollo-love seem like a second." She whispered at the end.

"You really are just perfect, aren’t you? How am I so lucky to have you in my life?" I whispered into her ear, causing her to shudder.

She then proceeded to look up at me, her face becoming flirtatious, taking me off guard. "Isn’t that my line, my love~"

Without thinking, I caressed her cheek with my hand before pulling her into a soft kiss that I did not plan on stopping anytime soon.