Chapter 561

The Retreat

“Yeah, as I said, my Clan Queen engineered this, so let’s go check on her. Want to ride back the way you came down?” he asked as he teasingly grabbed for her.

“No. I certainly do not,” Tosha said while fighting a giggle as she danced out of reach.

After you, “M’Lady.”

There wasn’t anyone in the living room so Jeff and Tosha went on to the game room. Their timing perfect, he opened the door to a blast of sound as Selina edged Arlene out to win. Jeff’s first thought was that Arlene had allowed the child to triumph, but one glance at the stunned look on his daughter’s face, and he realized the win was legitimate.

Proving that she had class, “She beat me, Daddy. She beat me,” Arlene enthused as she came over to the two. “She is going to be one heck of an interceptor pilot when she’s old enough.”

“Or Gunner,” Ann broke in to say.

“Two in this family is enough for either position,” Diana argued even as she hugged a smiling Selina to her. “Congratulations, Darling. We’re all sooo proud of you.”

“Arlene has become a little old and is losing her edge,” Selina tried to say straight-faced as she came over.

Arlene faked walking with a cane before hugging Selina again.

After a few minutes of rehashing the last of the game, they all adjourned to the kitchen for a late-night snack. Tosha tried to leave, supposing that the family would want to be alone this close to bedtime, but a laughing Arlene grabbed one arm and Joyce the other. Leaving just now was not going to happen. Tosha wound up laughing more than she could remember as they all had ice cream.

Forty-five minutes later, Jeff walked Tosha to the back but stopped before they went on through the mudroom. “May I kiss you good night before we go outside where the security cameras can see us?”

Her blush gave him the answer he wanted, and he took her into his arms for a prolonged kiss.

After the kiss, Jeff walked a stunned Tosha on out to her car where she opened her door long enough to put the box containing the Kimber on the seat. As she closed the door and turned to him to stand while leaning back against her car, “You all love each other – I mean really love each other, don’t you?”

“Yeah,” Jeff instantly returned. “I love them equally, and I don’t even have to think about it. Oh, each one has her own special story, but I can’t imagine losing anyone. I try hard to be a husband to each of them. I make certain to set aside some alone time for every wife, and they, somehow, seem to work together to see that everyone has some special time with me – time to do something together other than making love, but we do that too. I mean, not as part of a group. But ... I think they conspire to make sure that Diana and I have time to plan and have a little bonus time together – time for the Clan Queen to do whatever she wants with me. Sometimes, it’s only a few minutes extra to make love or maybe just to sit and snuggle. But I do that with all of them, too. I know they must plan the rotation, but I’ve never really tried to figure out the pattern – if there is one. When I’m working in my lab, Diana, somehow, seems to know the perfect time to send someone with a soft drink – and a few minutes of loving.

“Oh, they all treat her special, like the Clan Queen she is. Many times, I think, they engineer it so that it seems natural. We accidentally meet somewhere, or the shower is suddenly clear of everyone except us, things like that. But, they all love her to death. They treat a suggestion from her almost as law. It frustrates her no end, but I keep telling her it’s because they love her and she’s their Clan Queen. If my other wives had their way, she would never do any work at all, but she thinks she should do more than anyone else.

“I suppose that you’ve noticed how they sometimes hug one another, and that’s multiplied when it comes to their hugging her. They know that most of them wouldn’t be here if it were not for her insistence. In the beginning, I was worried about adding another wife to the...”

“ ... harem,” Tosha suggested with a grin.

She could see the beginnings of a blush as he went on, “I was going to say group, but they don’t feel all that much like a harem – well, however a harem is supposed to feel. To my understanding, a harem is just a group of women to have sex with. With us, that’s as far from the truth as it could be. Oh, the sex is superb, but sometimes we only hold hands while lying in bed and enjoy being with each other. I do love them, and I mean truly love each of them individually. And yeah, I know that I’m blessed.

“Somehow, they never seem to argue – well, not seriously. Oh, don’t get me wrong, there are some strong personalities involved, but somehow they seem to come up with the same general idea about how things should go, then stand aside, ‘cause it’s gonna happen,” he finished with a chuckle.

A moment later, Jeff took Tosha’s hands as she continued to lean against her vehicle. He had almost aborted the move when he realized that Security was watching, but thought, What the hell.

Tosha’s face reddened when she realized what they must look like, but there were no rules in the unit to prevent what they were doing. It was the Colonel’s unit, anyway – and he certainly wasn’t doing this without her consent. “Colonel, I’ve enjoyed myself sooo very much tonight, and I feel privileged to have been involved with the rejoicing about Selina’s win. That’s something that we generally don’t get to see the way I did tonight.”

“So, didn’t you say that you were off tomorrow?” he asked.

“Yes, Sir. My regular two days off.”

“So what do you do on your off days, if you don’t mind my asking?”

“Well,” she said with a chuckle, “I don’t mind other than I might bore you to tears. “I catch up on my reading – updates about your security mostly – then some personal reading when I finish. I like science fiction. I usually try to put in an extra PT or two. Do some practicing with various weapons, and now that I don’t have a boyfriend any longer, I’ll probably go into Winter Park, take in a movie and maybe eat somewhere. Just killing time, other than keeping myself in shape, that is. Oh, you can bet that I’ll shoot my Kimber sometime in there. And, thank you again for being so generous.”

Jeff stood smiling down at her for a moment. “Tomorrow, uh, would you consider spending the day with us? I mean, if you had rather...”

“Yes,” she said before he could continue. “I would love to.”

“We aren’t doing anything special, or if we are, my Clan Queen hasn’t informed me yet,” Jeff finished as both of them chuckled.

“You do really love her, don’t you?”

Jeff let out a contented sigh. “I wanted her the first time I saw her. She was drop-dead gorgeous – even at fourteen, and... there were other boys just as interested in her as I was. Some of them came from wealthy families. I had a part-time job, which limited my time to be with her, and they had plenty of time to pursue her. I was sorely afraid that if things continued in the same vein, I wouldn’t have a chance, so I stacked the cards...”

“And got her pregnant,” Tosha said with a giggle.

“Yep, but there were ... complications, to put it mildly. More than once, I thought that death would come visiting from either her parents or mine, but throughout all the screaming, yelling and threats, I kept suggesting that we get married. The law was a bit different at that time, but it still took an attorney and a sympathetic judge to get us married with me sixteen and her fourteen. Not that her parents ever really forgave me back then. To top it off, our bedroom walls were so thin that you could hear a cat fart through them, not to mention that her parents were not interested in allowing me to disgrace their daughter further by my making love to my new wife. Hell, Susan still hated me even after we moved out here. She burned the tread off the rental car’s tires trying to come up the driveway with a few inches of snow on it. Of course, if she had bothered to call...”

“But now she’s one of your wives, and there’s no doubt that she loves you beyond measure.”

“As I do her – now,” he finished with a chuckle.

He glanced at his watch. “Oops. I’m keeping you up way past what’s proper etiquette for a first date.” After a slight hesitation, he went on, “I want to kiss you again, but not out here where your buddies can see. Uh, look, if I’m pushing...”

Tosha’s heart gave a thump when he mentioned the word “date.” “No. No. When shall I be here?” she barely got out without stammering.

He looked embarrassed in the outside lighting, “Uh, would breakfast be asking too much?”

She almost kissed him, but stopped herself from moving at the last instant. “Breakfast would be perfect.”

“Wear casual. No telling what we’ll do. And ... if you can, please plan on staying the whole day.”

“We don’t have to do anything, Sir. I would be pleased just to be around everyone. We don’t have to do anything special, maybe play some games with your wives, or even shoot my Kimber some more. And thank you and your family for the very nice gift.”

“Do bring the Kimber,” he said as he opened the door for her and stood watching until she was out of sight. With a smile, he saluted the nearest camera and went back inside.

At Security Headquarters, Tosha stepped into the main operating room with its abundance of screens and other equipment. “Okay,” she said with a chuckle, “I stopped by so you could get it out of your systems.”

One of the female operators teased her with, “Oh, Mrs. Matthews, you’re out late tonight.” Then in a rush, “Has he asked you to marry him yet?”

When the laughter was mostly over, the other female said, “We thought for sure he was going to kiss you just before you got into your car.”

“He asked me to have breakfast with the family tomorrow and also spend the rest of the day with them.”

“When I’m off duty, we’re ... going to talk,” Emily said.

“No, we are not,” Tosha returned with a smile to cover her quick response. “That’s the reason I stopped by so you guys could get your razzing over with, but I will not discuss anything about the family that isn’t our general knowledge of them. I will not violate their privacy. See you guys later,” she said as she finger-waved before leaving to go to her quarters.

As soon as the door closed behind her, she stripped off, threw her clothes on the bed, and almost ran to the shower. As she stood under the water, she couldn’t keep her hands away from herself. He must be making love to all his wives right this minute. Her mind brought an imagined image of Jeff with Diana bent over the bed while he slammed that big cock of his into her. I could see the bulge in his jeans, and I know it must be huge. Besides that, the way his wives look at him, if nothing else, tells me they love him dearly.

She had barely begun to touch herself when an orgasm hit that was so intense she had to prop against the shower wall to keep her weakened legs from collapsing. Oh, my. I still don’t know how he does it; although he tried to explain it to me. But, by the way they treat him, he has to be taking very good care of them all. After a moment, she asked herself the question that had been dancing around in her mind all evening. Do I actually have a chance to be part of what Diana calls the Matthews Clan?

Still unsteady from the most awesome orgasm she could remember, she finished bathing, quickly dried off, set her clock and flopped down on the bed, barely having the energy to pull the sheet over herself before she slept.

Deep Space – The Alien Ship

The First Officer had deliberately refrained from rushing to the engine room when the ship suddenly dropped out of warp. The Captain had, as usual, gone into a tirade while demanding to know what had happened, as well as when the ship would resume its progress. Of course, he continued with his usual rant about an incompetent engineering department, despite the Chief having warned him over and over that the warp coils were operating with parts basically manufactured by hand. After giving the engineers time to assess the situation, the First Officer had the galley prepare enough food to last the engineers for a multi-cycle – which he oversaw to be certain there was no chance that the food was poisoned. With a cart following him, he stopped at the sealed hatch to ask for admittance, even though the hatch would have opened for him because of his rank – and his friendship with the Chief.

After a moment, one of the engineers opened the hatch, weapon in hand.

“Sir, I could see who was outside, but the Chief would have my ass if I opened this hatch without a weapon ready,” he said in apology.

“And, you would have caught hell from me, also,” the First assured him.

Nodding to the trailing food cart, “You brought food,” the sub said, his voice brightening. “The Chief is setting up the replicator to begin building the first part of the many we will need. You know where the replicator is, right?”