Chapter 627

Diana is discussing Jeff’s attitude toward Tosha and Aiko

...”You’ve insulted them repeatedly. They’re in love with you. Everyone at the Retreat knows that, yet all you have done to them is a kiss now and then. Even then, most of the time I had to prompt you. You’ve made it clear that you aren’t going to marry any more women, so why should they hang around? Heck, I’m amazed they haven’t left the Retreat already. Tosha is in the General’s army, so she can put in for reassignment or termination – if she hasn’t already. I can’t believe the man I love so much has been so cruel to those women.”

Diana pulled away from her husband and hurried toward their bedroom.

Well, shit. I don’t understand her. Any other woman would be jealous if her husband even looked at another woman. Of course, his next thought was of his fellow Alphas, all of whom had more than one wife. But dammit, I have seventeen. You would think that even a Clan Queen would decide that was enough. Sometimes I spend half my day loving on my wives – well, maybe that’s a stretch, but how am I to be fair to them when she keeps adding more?

He knew they both were on edge, and he didn’t want to have even more of a fight with Diana, so he got a coke and walked around for a while, winding up on the third floor where he went out on one of the balconies. Seated high above the ground with his feet propped on the rail, he stared into space, not even noticing the beauty of the mountains spread about him as he worried.

Diana has no idea how much I wanted to talk to her, wanted to tell her what I’ve seen and done – well, some of it – but I could not. I had a knack for leading the team, and somehow I began to develop that sense that had tried its best to warn me when things were going to go wrong. The guys and gals on that team are the best, and they think I’m the best. A team I don’t have anymore since the General won’t let me lead it, because he’s worried that I’ll get my ass killed and Ship will leave and go searching for her race on her own – which she probably would.

Then one Healer turned out to be different. So different that she learned how to tap energy from another dimension and bootstrap herself into something far more than what she was. For some reason, she thinks I’m her Prime, just as Ship does. I now have seventeen wives, but I have a little alien spread out across my back that loves me, and I love her, and ... I feel the same way about Ship. I’m fucking screwed in the head. Little One is roughly the size of my two fists, and when spread out across my back in her semi-solid state, is hardly noticeable, but she knows my every thought, and I can feel her thoughts. I don’t have any secrets from her – hell, I can’t have any secrets from her, even if I wanted to.

She saved Arlene’s life – well, Little One and Ship did. I’ll never forget that. But I’m beginning to feel Ship’s emotions, too. Diana keeps wanting me to marry more women, but I wonder what she would think if she really knew about Ship and Little One?

Adrienné. Now there’s an alien that my Clan Queen says I should marry. She thinks Adrienné is in love with me. Is it love, or is she just grateful that she has more freedom now? I wonder if Diana has thought this through. I could never allow Adrienné to be seen on Earth. If we went somewhere, she couldn’t go – not after what the Miadax did to Earth, at least not without wearing a burka so no one could see the brow ridge. Not to mention wearing something that would conceal her three breasts from notice. That would be difficult in summer clothing.

She had absolutely nothing to do with any of it, but that wouldn’t keep her from being torn apart by Earth’s people after the death toll the Miadax warriors caused. Hell, Adrienné has never had a choice about anything in her life. She was nothing but a sex slave, and unless she’s lying to Diana, she has never even had an orgasm. And ... there’s not a thing I can do about how the other Miadax women are treated. Even if I could find the planet Miadax, I couldn’t have Ship destroy it because there are women and children on it who are totally innocent. The men make all the decisions and feed the women a drug that keeps their intellect down so they don’t even know to complain. The women know nothing – are told nothing. Besides, I have no idea where their planet is, and First says his Navigator scrambled the records so even they don’t know.

Diana and my other wives plan to educate the Miadax women after we get that damn chemical out of their bloodstreams. I will make certain they will be treated as equals or better. The men will have sex with them when the women fully understand that they have the final vote. If they say no, there won’t be any pussy – period. If I have to take a couple of the alien men out and spank them until they get the idea, then that’s what will happen. There is no use in raping women when all you have to do is be nice to them and treat them as equals.

“Baby,” Diana said, barely above a whisper as she stepped out onto the balcony, “are you okay?”

Jeff looked over at her. “I will be if you’ll come sit in my lap.”

As she snuggled in with tears running down her cheeks, “I’m sorry. I pushed too much. I don’t know what’s wrong with me...”

He stopped her as his mouth gently took over hers. She melted into him and kissed him back, unconsciously rubbing her breasts against his tee-shirt-covered chest, her hard nipples producing their typical result.

“Baby, I’m sorry,” she said when he eventually pulled back. “I thought I was right, and I’ve been acting like a bitch.”

“I need to ask a couple of beautiful women if they’ll have me for their spouse,” he interrupted to say.

Di froze as she sat snuggled in his arms. “Jeff, I...”

“We have the money, and there’s more pouring in every day. The property here is secluded and there is a security team to guard it and us. We have Ship, and we will soon have a crew. She is enormous, is empty and will basically remain that way, no matter how many women I marry or how big the crew becomes. She has empty holds that she could fit several football stadiums inside and still have room – not to mention the pocket planets. She can configure herself at will, and for some reason, she thinks that I’m the best thing that has ever happened to her.

“She and Little One have given us extended lives. She’s even duplicated our living quarters from the Retreat, and Di...”

“Yes, Baby?”

“She tells me that she loves me, and Little One has done the same thing.”

“Yeah, I know, Hon.”

“You do? I mean...” he said, frustrated.

“They didn’t want to go behind my back.”

“Oh...”

Time dragged on for a minute or so. “So, what do I do?” he quietly asked.

“About what?” she returned with a grin.

“About Tosha and Aiko, of course.”

“Well, that’s obvious. Bend a knee and ask them if they’ll have you.”

“But...”

“Jeff, you don’t honestly think they will turn you down, do you?”

“But I’ve put them off for so long...”

“Yeah, you’ll have to think of a way to apologize for that,” she said, her grin getting bigger.

“But I don’t...”

“I have two boxes of long stem red roses – two dozen each, in a stasis chamber just waiting for you. You might want to put on a nice outfit – casual, but nice. I’ll tell each of them that you will come by their suite later today.

“Jeff, uh, they don’t need to be newlyweds when we leave on our trip,” she cautioned.

“So I need to go ahead with the weddings soon?”

“Yeah. That would be nice. We – Tosha, Aiko and I – would suggest two weeks between the weddings.”

“You’ve talked to them about this...”

“All your wives have talked to them about this. You really don’t want it any other way, do you? You want all your wives to want the wedding to happen, right?”

“Oh, I, uh, see what you mean, I suppose.”

“Aiko and Tosha know that each will have a couple of days with just the two of you, but they also know that they will have to get used to many women sharing you.”

Diana hesitated. “Baby, I’m sorry I pushed so much. I just didn’t know what would happen if we left on the trip without Tosha and Aiko. Oh, I thought they would go – they love you too much to be left behind, but I was beginning to worry that one or both would tire of waiting and decide that you were never going to love them ... and leave. Once pride gets into the situation, I don’t know if even you could talk them back.

“Hon, you’re an Alpha Prime. I sometimes doubt that there is another like you in the universe, let alone on Earth.”

“Di, that’s laying it on a bit thick,” he said with a grin.

“I don’t think so, Jeff. I couldn’t be any more serious. I know that you think I’m nuts for wanting you to marry so many women, but Baby, I’m looking ahead. Where will we be a hundred years from now – a thousand?”

“Di...”

“Shush, Baby, just listen a minute. Our trip will be only the very beginning of what is to come. You’ve seen some of those worlds. You also saw combat on most of the ones you visited, but you found Ship. Just imagine what else is out there waiting for you to find.

“One day, we’ll begin having babies. We’ve been enhanced, and they will start out with enhanced parents that have passed on their genes. What will they be a few thousand years in the future? Jeff, it would be a crime for you to have only a wife or two.”

Embarrassed, she snuggled her face into his neck. “I won’t say any more just now, but Jeff, that’s the reason I want you to have many wives. It would be a crime not to have many, many of them. I don’t want future civilizations to look back and think that I kept you from building the super race that your loins are capable of producing. You’re a Prime, and I want future civilizations to know that we planned this from the very beginning, and I do not want to be the shrew who held my wonderful husband and a new, super race of people back.”