Leveling Up Wives In The Apocalypse

"Aaaah..." a groan escaped from Mathew's mouth.

He stared with his eyes emptied out at the ceiling of the room.

The sunlight coming into the room from the nearby window annoyed the young man's eyes... yet he couldn't close them.

Not after the entire night that he spent wide awake.

'That's it for some nap to refresh,' Mathew whined in his thoughts, allowing his eyelids down for but a second.

The day was starting. And just like many generations before him, Mathew had to make the most of it.

'This will be a tough day,' he thought, empty-mindedly attempting to raise from some rags his group used as beddings for the night.

Mathew attempted to move up... Only to fail to move at all.

"So this is what it means to be pinned by beauty," he muttered, giving up on his attempts.

Towards the left of his head, Daria cuddled up his raised arm with her entire self. She squashed his hand between her breasts while coiling around Mathew's arm with her legs, pressing her soft stomach against Mathew's cheek.

To his right, Nadia cuddled up to his side, trapping his arm between his own side and her naked torso. The forehead of her head rubbed against Mathew's head, while her breath gently caressed his ear.

And to top it all off, Leila's backside rested a bit down Mathew's hips. Just by looking down his chest, he could see her pussy dripping with the cum in its full display while the girl turned his feet into her pillow.

'Damn,' Mathew thought, squinting his eyes in self-reflection. 'I'm one lucky man, aren't I?' he thought, releasing a dry laugh.

He then closed his eyes, finally giving up on the early morning.

'There is no use going outside if it's going to kill us,' he thought, desperately looking for an excuse as he finally fell into the depths of slumber.

"Come on, wake up!" Leila's voice shook Mathew away as if he never get to fall asleep at all. "It's way past morning already!"

'God damn...' Mathew whined in his thoughts, heaving all the air from his lungs in a desperate sigh. 'This wasn't in the fine print of what I expected,' he thought, squeezing his eyelids before slowly opening them up.

Leila didn't lie. The sun was out so far Mathew could no longer see it from his point of view with the window's frame blocking his line of sight.

'It's so late already?' Mathew thought, sending a current of mana through his body. It was a small trick he learned overnight, back when he desperately fought to stay up to the task.

"Do we really need to hurry that much?" Nadia asked, jumping up a little when Mathew suddenly forced himself on his feet. "It's not like there is a lot for us to do today," she added, settling herself back on a small chair in the corner of the room.

"It's still better to do something over just laying around in the bed," Mathew replied, shaking his body to get off all his perceived exhaustion. "Yes, I'm aware of the irony here," he then added, rolling his eyes as he squatted down to grab his clothes from beside the bed.

"If that's what you say..." Nadia pursed her lips into a thin line. "Well then," she added after taking a breath only to stand up herself. "Daria, are you up?" she then asked, turning her head to the corner of the room.

"Yup," Daria replied, pushing away the strand of hair that fell on her face. "So, what's the plan?" she asked, pushing herself against the wall to stand up.

"We need to head back to the compound," Mathew answered without even a second of hesitation. "There are only two ways to play any given game. Either tall or wide," he mentioned, fixing his shirt over his head. "And we pushed for the tall build for long enough. Now it's time for some expansion."

"Urgh," Nadia shrugged, "it's kind of unnerving to have you describe it that way," she explained as her body involuntarily leaned away.

"It's just a simple truth," Mathew said on the exhale. "We can either accept the raising cost of growing our strength or we need to look to expand our numbers.

"Will you be able to keep up at it, though?" Daria threw Mathew a small smirk. She then approached and send a quick nudge to his side. "We all bear witness to how tired you are after the night," she added in a whisper while standing on her tiptoes and leaning over Mat's ear.

"Huh?" Mathew shrugged, taken aback by the girl's suggestion. "It was never my intention to do so?"

"Huh?" Daria shook on her tiptoes, slamming her heels to the floor to regain stability.

"Hah?" Nadia slightly jumped as well, turning her widened eyes to Mat's face.

"I mean..." Mathew looked from one girl to the other. It took him a moment to finally figure out what the situation was all about. "Ah, I get it," he admitted only to cover his face with his palm and then shake his head to the sides.

"Intimacy appears to be necessary to establish the connection," he stated, raising his eyes on Nadia's face. "But for what reason would I need to sleep with them later?"

The air in the room turned stale.

Nadia slowly turned her head to one side, casting a quick, probing glance at Daria. She then moved her eyes to Leila's face.

For but a moment, they all just stood in place and stared each other down.

"That makes sense... I guess..." Nadia finally spoke only to heave a deep sigh after that. "We were too stuck on the idea of the harem expanding to realize it didn't actually have to," she explained her perspective only to then shake her head and raise her eyes on Mathew.

"But that doesn't change what we need to do," she then added, only to look around the room and then toward the doors. "And at what cost it might need to happen."