Chapter 566

Jeff was sitting with Tosha on one side of him and Kei on the other while everyone ate. Kei leaned forward to see Tosha better past Jeff. “So, how are you enjoying your date while digging ditches?”

With a suppressed giggle, Tosha answered, “I know that you’re teasing, but the truth is I’m enjoying it immensely. I have never helped install wiring, let alone in a cave, and certainly never while on a date, not to mention that the cave we are installing it in is on another planet. But... I find it hard to believe that you aren’t ready to scratch my eyes out. You’re still a newlywed while your brand-new husband is on a date with me. That would be grounds for divorce for most women.”

“It’s not the same, and there are already seventeen of us...” Kei began, but stopped. An odd look passed over her face as she made up her mind. “Watch this,” she said before suddenly taking Jeff’s empty plate and putting it beside hers on the floor out of the way, then straddling his legs. Before he could say anything, she put her arms around his neck and whispered. “Kiss me. Really kiss me, right now,” she told him before locking her mouth to his while pressing her breasts hard against his chest. The kiss went on for a good half-minute before she finally pulled back, breathless.

“Look around you,” she gasped to Tosha, who seemed almost in a trance while watching from only a couple of feet away.

“What?” Tosha mumbled, her face red and her sex already beginning to moisten.

“Look at the expressions on my sister-wives faces.”

“They’re all ... blushing,” Tosha said after a moment. “Every one of them. But...”

“They’re blushing because they all felt, at least to some degree, what I felt.”

“I thought that only happened when you were all touching, and he was making love to one of you.”

“I ... suppose this is a weaker version of that. It... he’s getting stronger – or something, and they were all paying attention to what we were doing. Besides, you must have gotten him extremely excited last night. Guess who he took his excitement out on,” she finished with a sexy little giggle. “There was a lot of Diana’s cream used this morning.”

“Cream?” Tosha asked, puzzled.

Diana got up to begin cleanup but stopped to whisper in Tosha’s ear as she passed, “Pussy cream.” Then a little louder, “Thanks to you,” she said as she tried to act cross, “we were all walking funny this morning.”

“Oh,” Tosha said, then as full realization hit, a little louder, “Oh.”

As Diana moved on away, “So, why should we be upset with you when we receive the benefits?” Kei asked with a chuckle.

“Baby,” Jeff said as he lovingly touched Kei’s cheek, “I’m sitting right here while you discuss me, and you’re embarrassing Tosha even more.”

“Why?” Kei asked, perplexed. “We all know that she’s going to be one of us shortly.”

Tosha’s heart seemed to skip a beat, but Jeff didn’t deny it and only said, “We need to get back to work if we’re going to have even partial lighting in here tonight.”

Later, as Morales helped Jeff pull wire through a conduit, he quietly said, “Granted, there are a lot of those big batteries in the battery drawer, but you’ve mentioned an electric cook stove and electric heating. I know that Jasmine would really like that, but Jeff, is it even possible? Jasmine told me that you were an electrical engineer and an inventor, and I’ll readily agree that I don’t know much about electricity. Still, I’ve pulled wire for an electrician from time to time and paid attention when he wired buildings. Dammit, Jeff, batteries don’t put out that much power,” he quickly finished, his frustration showing.

The Prime stopped to look at Morales. “Actually, they do, but by using conventional means, it takes a lot of them, and ... they’re expensive. Use enough of them, and you can power a vehicle for several hundred miles, as you know. The rub comes when it’s time to recharge. People are accustomed to spending five minutes or so to fill their vehicle’s gas tank. If every vehicle on the road were powered by batteries, there would be very long lines at the charging stations. Use enough of those batteries and an inverter as you have over there,” he said, nodding toward the breaker box and inverter, “and you can easily power a home, but ... these batteries aren’t the same batteries that you will find in our present-day vehicles.

“These are far more powerful, and they charge much faster. The batteries I brought, coupled with the new, much advanced solar arrays we installed, will provide all the power that your family will need, and with a couple of hours of sunlight, they’ll fully recharge. Conventional batteries can’t withstand the amperage required to recharge them quickly, but these can. I suspect they are going to make Frank Wainwright into even more of a billionaire than he is now.”

By late afternoon, Jeff and Morales had wired the Porta Potty and had installed wall heaters and lighting in it and the outhouse. The women had done most of the digging in the first part of the cave after the men had dug the bigger ditch across the hard-packed floor, leaving Jeff to wire everything up in that section, with Morales’ help, of course. Additionally, the women shoveled up the dirt that came from trenching the walls and floor into a wheelbarrow and moved it to a corner for the time being, then followed up by sweeping the hard-packed floor clear of the remainder of the loose dirt.

“We are all exceedingly dirty,” Selina announced as they stood looking at each other.

“If we had the spring piped in and a water heater, we could shower tonight,” Jasmine said, wistfully.

“Well, by tomorrow night, you’ll have power for an electric cook stove,” Jeff pointed out.

“If I had a stove,” Jasmine returned just as wistfully.

Where Jasmine couldn’t see, Diana winked at Jeff because everything Jasmine and Morales had picked out weeks ago was aboard Ship.

“I apologize for not having anything prepared for supper. Could you stand to have steak sandwiches again?”

“Oh, they were certainly delicious, but we don’t expect you to cook after you have worked all day digging. We came prepared with a dozen hot pizzas in a stasis box like the one we left with you. We also have ice cream for dessert, if that’s agreeable?” Diana asked with a wink.

“As far as tomorrow morning is concerned, Ship has invited us to have breakfast with her. You name it, and it’s probably on her menu.”

The stress leaving Jasmine’s face was clearly evident.

Later, Jeff and Diana stood to the side talking. “Jas and Morales picked out the appliances before the girls came on the scene. I hope they like everything and don’t get their feelings hurt because they didn’t have any input,” Diana worried.

“Well,” Jeff reasoned, “it is all top of the line, and we’ll do something just for them.”

“Like what?”

“Oh, you’ll think of something,” he said as he leaned to kiss her neck. Pulling back, he acted as if he were sniffing the air. “Someone needs a bath,” he teased.

“And if you keep on with that, someone I know isn’t likely to get any pussy tonight,” she shot back, leaving him to wonder if she were kidding or not.

“Even if you didn’t take a bath, I would still be a lucky guy,” he returned, pleased with his save.

“If you keep on, I might just make you prove that. What if I wash everything but that?”

Looking her straight in the eyes, he continued, “I would still consider it a privilege to lick that beautiful pussy.”

Stunned that he would say that, “You really mean it, don’t you?”

“Damned straight, Babe.”

Diana glanced around her before returning her gaze to her husband. She had been speaking quietly but lowered her voice even more now. “From the looks of every woman here, I doubt if any of us have the energy tonight, but the reason I insisted that everyone take that break was because of Selina. I was beginning to worry that she was going to work herself sick. You need to brag on her and maybe do something special for her.”

“Special?”

“Yeah. Put her on your lap and feed her some ice cream or something. You know she loves to sit on your lap.”

“Crap, Baby. I didn’t start this so that my women or Morales would work themselves to death, let alone Selina. I was concentrating on what I was doing, and I guess I wasn’t paying attention to anyone else, but ... Morales and I got the Porta Potty wired. When I turn the power on, we’ll have lighting and heat in both the Porta Potty and the outhouse.”

“I saw the wall heater and the light fixture in the outhouse. Your women are going to appreciate that, and I imagine that Jasmine and the girls will love you forever.”

“Okay, here goes for the kitchen area,” Jeff called out.

There was a “click, click, click” as his hand went down the row of circuit breakers, and the area seemed to come to life.

“Oh, that’s bright,” Kei complained.

Jeff walked over and hit a few switches, which reduced some of the lighting. “We still have the wire to run for the remainder of the living area, but I’m done for today, and I’m sure that all of you are bushed, too.”

“Wash up, everyone. There is pizza and soft drinks for supper,” Diana called out. Turning to Jasmine, who had started for the big stasis container the Matthews had brought, “Sit. You’ve done enough work for four women today.”

Jasmine tried to argue, but Diana could see that her heart wasn’t in it.

Nat, Nicki, Whitney and Diana put the pizzas and paper plates on one of the long benches that Morales had made, then placed the ice chest containing the soft drinks beside the bench.

“Jeff, would you say grace for us?”

Some sat on benches, others on stools made from sections of a log while others simply sat on the cave floor with their backs against the wall. When the time for ice cream came, Jeff got two big bowls of strawberry, sat and called Selina. When she saw him sitting on the floor with the ice cream, her face broke into a smile.

“Come sit in my lap while we chat,” he offered.

“I’m dirty,” she responded, but it was evident that she was pleased to be invited to his lap.

“Who cares? We’re all dirty, except where we washed our hands,” he said as he handed her a spoon. “Besides, you’re my girl.”

That lit her face up. When she sat, he leaned back against the wall to get comfortable. “You did a lot of work today, Sweetie.”

“Not as much as you,” she shot back before taking a bite.

“I think that would be debatable, and the things I did weren’t nearly as strenuous. Besides, I spent much of my time just hooking things up. Morales did most of the heavy work for me, but you were shoveling or sweeping up loose dirt from the entire floor, then putting it into a wheelbarrow before moving it to that pile over there.”

“I swept and shoveled it into the wheelbarrow, but I am neither tall enough nor strong enough to actually transfer it. Arlene and the others accomplished the transfer.”

“Baby, I know you have the mind of an adult, but your body is still that of a seven-year-old young lady. We don’t expect you to do a woman’s work,” he finished as he kissed her on her cheek.