Choices
Copyright© 2025 by Don Lockwood
Chapter 3
Romantic Sex Story: Chapter 3 - Todd's an engineer, working for an outfit that sends him all over the galaxy. This new planet he's on seems very lovely. But what's the bonding law, and who's that princess?
Caution: This Romantic Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Consensual Fiction Science Fiction Aliens Extra Sensory Perception Space
We didn’t talk too much about bonding afterwards that day. We talked about other things. As she said, she was fascinated with humans, so she asked me a lot of questions about Earth. I love to cook, and made a version of Fettuccine Alfredo with Vidrunian ingredients. Yura loved it.
She slept in the spare room.
The next day, Tuesday, was more of the same. We talked more about everything but bonding. She was smart, vivacious, funny with a sarcastic streak, and one of the best listeners I’d ever met. And, yes, I liked her. If this weren’t about forcing me to bond, I might have tried a relationship with her. I’m stubborn, to a fault, and I know it.
But ... her skin. As we sat there chatting most of the day, her markings glowed silver. Silver, for a Vidrunian, means happy. Not deliriously happy—that’s gold—but, still, happy. I made this wonderful, gorgeous woman happy, just by existing. And that did affect me. And, yes, that 91 thing did, too. Not so much that I completely believed it yet, but I was wondering. Talking with a woman about such mundane things as Vidrunian adult beverages and old Earth rock-and-roll, while watching her literally glow with happiness, will cause you to question yourself.
She slept in the spare room again. When she woke up on Wednesday, I was up already. I had a pot of taspar ready, and was cooking up some Reya Vichom, which was the rough Vidrunian equivalent of bacon and eggs. Yura shuffled into the kitchen, bleary-eyed, and looked at the pan. “You cook Vidrunian food?”
“Some,” I smiled.
“Good!” she enthused. “I like Earth foods, but sometimes you want the home food. And I’m a horrible cook!”
We sat, eating, companionable. Then, she said it. “When do you think you want to bond?”
“I’m still not sure I’m going to.”
“But you would get severe consequences if we don’t!”
“I know,” I said ... but I’d heard something in her voice. Then I looked up.
She looked destroyed.
That’s when it occurred to me. A question that I’m not sure I wanted to know the answer to. But I asked it anyway.
“Yura, if we don’t bond, what happens to you?”
“Oh, I’ll be fine, I’m worried about you.”
I looked at her. “Yura, you know I can see your skin patterns, right? There is definitely some orange in there. That indicates a lie, does it not?”
She looked sheepish. “I didn’t realize you knew about that.”
“I do. Now, what happens to you if we don’t bond?
She looked horrible. “I really wish they had told me you were reluctant,” she muttered. Then she took a breath. “I made a mistake. I started the process.”
“Process?”
“It’s called pre-bonding. For a Vidrunian to bond, there are changes that we have to make. Mainly having to do with brain chemistry and the nervous system. It’s a series of things we do internally. And, since you’re not Vidrunian, I absolutely have to do it, because the initial formation of the bond is all on me. And I have to do it very carefully, so the bond doesn’t hurt your human brain.”
“And you started the process,” I said.
She nodded. “Saturday. Two days before we met.”
“Why?”
“Well, first, because we have a time limit.”
“It’s a whole month. You need that long?”
She shook her head. “It only takes a few days. But we don’t have a month. That’s the far outside. You know how they gave you two weeks off from work? If we’re not bonded at the end of that, they’ll be here. And they’ll be asking questions.”
“You still jumped the gun. If it only takes a few days, you could have waited.”
“I could have,” she said looking miserable. “I should have. And I’m supposed to know so much about humans,” she snorted. “What an idiot.”
“Why does me being human matter?”
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