Arlene and JeffChapter 230
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A little after one in the morning, Jeff was relaxing on the couch in the sitting room of Madison's suite. Smiling, he looked around him, thinking, I wasn't for the renovations when Diana first mentioned them. Every suite here that I've seen is beautiful — at least to me. But I guess they were a little generic. I wonder what my women will decide if Bill and Kathy get married? Do we have to redo another suite for the married couple? Hah. That's a foolish thought. At least the women would think it was.
The door opened and Bill Madison walked into his new suite with a smile on his face. Almost freezing for a second when he saw Jeff sitting on the couch, he tried to think of something to say.
Jeff stood, realizing that Madison was a heartbeat away from being irritated. "Please forgive me for intruding on you like this, but I have a problem."
Bill's irritation washed away as he saw the look on Jeff's face. "Sure, Jeff. Anything I can do to help, you know I will. Uh, would you like something to drink?"
Wanting to ease into the conversation, with both of them being a little more relaxed, he responded, "Yeah. I guess a Coke would be nice."
"Ice?" Madison asked as he opened the small refrigerator.
"No thanks," Jeff said.
Madison took out two drinks, handed one to Jeff, then sat across from him in one of the seats. They looked at each other a moment.
Jeff cleared his throat, a little hesitant, then stalling more, he said, "As you know, Frank and Margaret have said that they're going to be visiting on a regular basis, probably about every weekend. We've decided that we're family. Diana — well all my wives and I — have discussed doing what we could to make things easier on Frank and Margaret since they will be traveling so much. And, well, that involves you and Kathy just as much. That's the main reason, or one of the main reasons, we updated your suite..."
"Jeff, I... well both of us really appreciate what you have done. But it wasn't necessary. The other suite was beyond nice."
"Yeah, well, we wanted to do something special for you two, to let you know that we appreciate the both of you, and to welcome you to our home. How, if you don't mind my asking, is this coming down to Boulder every weekend going to affect your personal life? I know that normally you would be home on the weekends, and obviously you could still be. You could just drop Frank and Margaret off, then go back to Saint Louis, but somehow, we've begun to think that you would be here on the weekends — well, with all that's going on." Frustrated, Jeff said, "Ah shit. I'm stumbling around like an idiot."
Grinning, Madison held his hand up slightly, signaling Jeff to wait. "You don't sound like an idiot. You sound like someone who is trying to help me, but doesn't want to say the things that have to be said. I haven't had a chance to sit down and talk with Mr. Wainwright and Margaret, yet."
Jeff interrupted. "We, of course, know some of the things that have happened with your personal life — some you have told us, and some Frank has updated us with a little. But, I wasn't trying to pry into your personal life."
"Heck, Jeff, I really don't have that many close friends to share my personal life with. With the job I have, it's hard to schedule anything, and actually show up. Sometimes I sit around the office or home for the better part of a week, then I have an avalanche of flights. Friends get tired of my calling at the last minute to say that I can't make it. We used to have a cookout with the next-door neighbors, occasionally, but when Jill started acting like the witch from Hell, even that went by the wayside."
Crossing his legs and looking away for a second, he continued, "I still can't believe this is happening to me. I got married for life." Clearing his throat, obviously having a hard time, he took a sip of his drink and continued, "We have a meeting scheduled for Tuesday. My lawyers' investigators have discovered interesting things about Jill's doctor friend. We'll hit her with a proposal that will only last the length of the meeting. Full custody of Linda for me, sell the house and split the proceeds, split our savings, me pay off all the bills — which isn't much since I canceled our credit cards and went through the process of making myself non-responsible for anything she charged. Also, she gets our new car, with me paying it off. A cash incentive, and a few other things.
"The lawyers have already filed a complaint to the medical board on her doctor buddy. If he leaves the state, and as I understand it, he's limited to where he can go to practice when he does, they're not going to push it further. Anyway, if they accept and sign the papers during the meeting, then she gets what I've mentioned, if not, we carry it to court and fight for everything, bringing her abandonment of her daughter into the mix."
"So you're not going to have a place to live, wind up with some bills you have to pay off immediately, but do come out with full custody of your daughter?"
"Yeah, that's about it. I owe something over fifteen thousand on her car, and a few thousand that she managed to put on the credit cards before I had them canceled. We usually only have whatever we charged throughout the month, mostly just gas for the cars, and whatever's more convenient to charge than to write a check for, or that you can't use a debit card for. I'll do better than you think because I saved a lot more than Jill knew about, so she couldn't grab that before Linda warned me what Jill planned. I'll be okay even with the settlement."
"Are you going to build or buy another house in Saint Louis? You know that you can use this as your home. Frank is going to be here a lot anyway, and we darn sure have enough room," Jeff grinned.
"That's nice to know, Jeff. And I'm really flattered, but I promised Linda that she could pick out the house she wanted — within reason — if it was close enough to the airport. But the rub is, of course, that I don't have anyone to stay with her. Eventually, I'll be able to find someone, I'm sure, but we're already into the school year. Well, you were there when I told Mr. Wainwright what was going on. So some of this you have already heard. But there are other complications."
Madison sighed, and said, "You sure that you want to hear all this? You have troubles of your own..."
"Nonsense," Jeff said. "You know damn well I do."
"Well, we got redistricted as far as schools are concerned. Her school was within walking distance and we live in a good neighborhood. Now, she is bussed quite a distance, and even worse, she's scared to death in the school. With all that's going on, I haven't talked to the principal yet, not that I expect it to do any good, anyway. But Linda is scared that she's going to be raped. She said that the classrooms are war zones, and the teachers are scared to do anything. She said that some of the boys feel her up when she walks down the halls. My daughter has flatly refused to go back there. She's almost hysterical about it. She's said that two of the guys there have told her that the next time they catch her on the way to the cafeteria, they are going to fuck her."
Madison's face was red as he continued. "If I walk into that school, I'll probably go to jail. So I just haven't gone to see the idiot that's running the place. But my daughter isn't going back there. I've gotten permission to keep her out of school next week until something is done about custody. After that, I don't know where I'm going with this. I don't have time to home-school her. I guess I'll wind up with something on the internet, but I don't know what that involves. I could ring my wife's neck for abandoning us," he finished, the frustration showing in his voice.
"So she's left?" Jeff asked.
"She's in and out. If I come in, she's immediately gone. She's moved most of her stuff out. I don't know why she bothers coming back. If she sees me, it's World War III. And she hardly speaks to Linda. This is tearing my child up. She keeps trying to blame herself."
Realizing that his drink was still almost untouched, Bill took a swallow. "We've been, uh Linda, Kathy and I, have been with the Henson's for the last several hours — singing," he laughed. "Well they were. I was doing my usual imitation of a bullfrog. But seriously, Linda had a ball. And Dave gave her a guitar — an expensive guitar — and is teaching her to play. My daughter was acting like her old self, and well, she seems taken with both Dave and Evie. And, I guess, them with her."
Sighing a little, he said, "Obviously, she's developing a crush on Dave, and when I mentioned to Evie that Linda was vulnerable because of her emotions, I guess the implication was that Dave would take advantage of her. Well, let's just say that I'm not going to step into that alligator pit again," he chuckled.
"Linda asked if she could go with them to the music festival. And I said yes, but even though I know that she will have a ball, I'm still leery about her being around Dave so much. I know. I know," Madison said as Jeff started to say something. "He won't take advantage of her, but you should see the look in her eyes when she looks at him. She's going to get hurt in this. I just know she is. And she's been hurt enough with this shit with her mother."
Bill took another sip of his drink, and Jeff saw the slight tremble as he brought the bottle to his mouth.
"There's an alternative," Jeff said quietly. "Oh, I don't mean about Dave. I mean about the school."
Madison chuckled as he shook his head. "I've had little on my mind for the last couple of weeks other than the divorce, the way my wife is acting, and what in the world I'm going to do about Linda. If you can come up with something, I'd be forever grateful. But I can't imagine what it could be. The alternatives are slim, even if the meeting goes the way the lawyers hope it will."
"I'll obviously have to clear it with my wives and their teacher, who falls into the wife category as well," Jeff said, grinning. "But I seriously doubt that any of them will have anything to say against the idea, and probably it will be the exact opposite. They'll be all for it."
At Madison's look, Jeff continued, "We have a school here with a teacher who is eminently qualified."
"Well, I..."
"And Linda would be living in a household where the owner has seven wives," Jeff said, knowing that was basically what had crossed Madison's mind. "And she might be influenced by the association. She's too young to be thinking about sex, certainly far too young to be around someone with such low morals..."
Madison looked shocked, remembering Evie's vehemence when she almost literally attacked him verbally. Before he could say anything in denial, Jeff went on.
"She would have the run of the retreat, because it is our home, and it would be hers as well. So she might walk in when I was kissing one of my wives, or they might be sitting on my lap as I sit in my favorite recliner. They might even have a breast stuck in my mouth."
"Look, Jeff. I didn't..."
"Sure you did. Those things, or a variation, crossed your mind when you thought about bringing her up here. Now living with us would give even more chance of something like that happening. And what if it did? What has she seen and heard at school, or at home when you weren't able to be there, or when she was forced to spend the night with friends? At least here, it is absolutely guaranteed that she won't be raped."
Jeff slipped his shoes off and propped his feet on the coffee table between them. "I won't say that my wives, particularly my younger wives who are only a little older than Linda, won't talk to her about sex. I suspect that Linda will ask. Oh, they're not going to go out of their way to tell her about their sex lives, but they're all smart — and that's an understatement — and they're teenagers. A few months from now, Linda will know a whole lot more about sex than she does now, but she will know the truth, not some kid's version of what is supposed to happen."
"Shit, Jeff, I don't think about you and your wives like that. I..."
"Sure you do," Jeff said again, a little grin on his face. "Oh, I might have been a little blunt, but you know damn well that you were worried about bringing her around four young teenage wives, and trust me, just because the others are grown women, it doesn't mean that they're docile, or prudes. If Linda asked any one of them, they'll tell her — sit her down and explain until she understands, and give examples. Hell, Helen would probably make a school project out of it and have us at the Rocky Mountain National Park. They would have to write an essay with gestation periods for all the animals we saw there and compare them to the human female, or something," he laughed. "And I'm only about half joking."
Jeff's voice changed, becoming more serious as he looked over at the pilot. "If you do get custody, and this thing is over Tuesday, you could just change your home address to the retreat. This could be your home. Frank and Margaret are calling it their home, and I think you should seriously consider what I've just said. My wives were just as taken with Linda as were Dave and Evie. I've only been around Linda for a short period of time, but I like her. She seems far more adult than her age would indicate, just like my daughter, who is only a couple of months older than Linda is, if I understand correctly.
"She could go at a much faster pace than she's used to in a public school system. Soon, we'll have the best classrooms and everything else that money can buy for a school. And, obviously, it will cost you nothing. And I don't mean to insult you there. I know that you make a good salary, and can afford whatever it takes for your daughter. But money isn't the issue. Quality is.
"I suspect that my wives are already ahead of me on this, but let me stumble along and come up with it for myself. Probably when I mention it to them, it will be totally anticlimactic."
Madison set his drink on the table, leaned forward and put his elbows on his knees with his head in his hands. "Shit, Jeff. I don't know. I feel like an ass after you brought up some of the things that I've been thinking. I apologize. Your lifestyle is just so... different. I obviously was trying to protect my daughter."
"If you do decide to let her go to school with my girls, I promise you that she will be taken care off just like any other member of my family. When we go somewhere, she'll be with us. And Evie and Dave are good people. They don't come any better. She'll be protected here, and be a part of us. When you're flying, you will never have to worry about her..."
There was a knock on the door. When Madison got up and opened it, Jeff's wives filed in. Each kissed their husband, then found seats, Diana and Arlene flanking Jeff on the couch, with Laura sitting beside Diana, the others taking seats close by. Diana and Arlene were wearing a slight smirk on their faces that the others mirrored, or had bigger grins to replace the expression.
"As I said," Jeff chuckled, "I suspect that my wives are already ahead of me. And it seems that they were just waiting for me to bring it up."
"But..."
"No. I didn't tell them that I was going to have this conversation with you. My primary mission was something else, entirely. They just... knew," Jeff mysteriously said.
Bill, stunned, managed to ask if the women would like something to drink. A look passed between the wives, and Diana shook her head, then asked something totally different from what Madison was expecting. "Bill, do you see anything wrong with my daughter?" she asked, nodding toward Arlene who sat smiling, leaning her head against Jeff's shoulder.
"Look, Mrs. Matthews..."
"Oh, so I'm suddenly 'Mrs. Matthews' again."
"Uh, Diana, I..."
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Jeff, Diana, Dave and Evie sat in the living room, waiting. When the phone rang, Diana checked the caller ID and answered. "Glad you guys are back." "Diana, I..." The voice chopped off, then Carla cleared her throat and tried again. "Diana, our dreams..." Carla's voice stopped again, to be replaced by quiet sobs of joy. "I can't..." "You just did," Diana said softly. "You're on speaker, so all of us can hear you. Jeff, Dave and Evie are here with me and listening. And, you're...
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The Mission ... Both were tempted to use their suits’ drive units, but they knew that would alert the Throme if anything would. Scrambling down, they were soon in the water. A hundred meters out, they saw a glint of movement coming toward them just under the surface. “Let’s go home,” Arlene said to her partner. As soon as the hatch closed and even before they were out of the airlock, the AI had them moving away from land. “Oh, I so want to get out of this suit,” Arlene grumped a few...
The Retreat Shortly after lunch, Arlene went out to the Ship expecting to sit in one of the command couches and be swept away by the simulator to another very realistic space battle, but she froze as soon as she passed through the hatch. Jeff had called Kayla and Art to his office, intending to ask them to begin training in the Ship's simulator. Before he could begin, the AI turned the TV on to show Arlene jogging back from the Ship. The AI didn't say anything, but apparently thought...
The Retreat After breakfast, Arlene, Ann and Selina gathered enough food to last them the rest of the day. “Should this not be the correct castle and we continue the search, we will need something to drink with our lunch,” Selina said as she opened a refrigerator. “There is water available at each station on the interceptor. As for soft drinks, please bring only what you are sure you will drink. Storage space is at a premium,” Arlene told the seven-year-old. “Bathroom?” Selina asked as...
Jeff had just dialed his next door neighbor who lived a mile down the road. "Steve Sperman here." "Hi Mr. Sperman. This is Jeff. How's it going?" "Hmmm. Didn't we have a discussion about that Mr. thing?" Jeff chuckled. "Yeah, I guess we did, Steve. How's Marcie doing?" There was a hesitation. "You know, that's a funny thing, like I mentioned before. Seems like after the night we spent at your place, ol' Uncle Arthur (arthritis) suddenly got much better. Odd that both of us...
The Prison Planet Ship had received permission from her Prime to go back to Earth long enough to pick up Arlene, Ann and the other aviators, then take the Wing to orbit for its launch. The trip to Earth and back would only take a few minutes. Giving the interceptors a ride to orbit and their launch would take only a few minutes more. The interceptors normally remained in their bays on Ship’s flight deck, so she would have to go back anyway. Also, she would have to return to Earth again when...
Deep Space "Question is, are they going to notice us?" Ann asked as she watched as one of the alien vessels came from behind a large chunk of moon and headed straight for them. Ann knew she could not warp out without her drive trying to take some of the debris field with them, which would probably result in the destruction of her warp drive, and/or her ship. In addition, she strongly suspected that the aliens would pick up her inertialess drive's signature, should she use that with them...
“Despite our AIs actually doing the flying, I want every pilot to have his or her hands on the controls at all times when we do this for real, and when we practice as well. Ann and I have put together a rough outline. Everything seems to work in the simulation, but we haven’t done it for real yet. There could very well be glaring errors that only show up when actually flying the patterns. Bottom line: be careful and think about what the next step is. Does the current process make sense with...
When they left the suite a few minutes later, they saw Melissa at the far end of the hall. She seemed to do a double-take, then turned and rushed around the corner, probably heading for the kitchen. A little later, when they walked through the door, she was already setting out two more plates. Jeff pulled Ann tighter against him, and they stopped just inside the kitchen. I know Ann is blushing. Damn, I thought I was too old to blush, but my face feels like it’s on fire. Everyone was seated...
EARLIER IN THE MORNING AT QUINTON TATE'S HOME After his morning shower, Quinton, dressed in his uniform and still buckling on his gun belt, walked into the kitchen. Before he could sit down, the phone rang. "Quinton," he said, putting the instrument to his ear as he finished securing the belt with the keepers. "Well, good morning. Are you planning to go somewhere on your little impromptu vacation?" his Captain asked, cheerily – a little too cheerily. "What vacation?" Quinton joked...
"We still have a problem," Diana said. "I doubt if Billy has ever used a litter box. So how are we going to train him to use it and not pee on the carpet? Since there aren't any pet stores in Winter Park, I guess we can order a kennel on the Internet and have it overnighted, but as late as it is, it will still be day after tomorrow before it gets here..." "Yeah, we were lucky the grocery store even had litter boxes. But we're ahead of you about the kennel," Jeff said. "Arlene had an...
The Retreat ... Charlotte and Ada sat for a moment as Diana's words sank in. Both mother and daughter were clearly skeptical as they furtively glanced at the other three women. Diana let out a chuckle. "You can say it; we won't get mad." Ada hesitated. "This is no joke? You're actually telling us that Susan is your mother and Arlene is your daughter?" "Got it in one," Diana said with a grin. "But..." Ada began. Then, after studying Susan's and Arlene's faces some more, she...
Jeff sat in his usual place at the head of the table. Frank Wainwright sat to Jeff's right as the family (minus four who were eating with Margaret and Tina in their suite) ate lunch. All the Alphas ate a lot, and Jeff usually ate more than most of them, but today, he was hungrier than usual. He had gone through his first plate and was already started on his second one. "Looks like you're a bit hungry today," Frank tactfully said. "I didn't see you after breakfast. What did you do to...
Joyce, Caitlin, Jennie, Melissa and Ann came in with the latter two pushing serving carts. Soon, the table was set and food arrayed in front of Arlene, Diana, Susan and Jeff. The wives' efficiency was not lost on Susan, but she refused to acknowledge it due to her sour mood. Each time she had talked to her daughter or granddaughter on the phone lately, her suspicions that something was going on had increased. Then the introductions in the living room were almost more than she could...
Everyone except Matt and Courtney was waiting in the living room. The new SAC and his wife had borrowed an Escalade and driven down to Winter Park. "HELICOPTER APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH. SECURITY HAS CLEARED IT TO LAND ON OUR PAD." Margaret had called earlier to say that everything had gone without a hitch and they were on the way home, but Angel had been beaten and was in need of medical attention. "Let's go," Jeff said as he started out the door of the living room with Little One...
Aboard Ship, Arlene, Ann and Selina are teaching the Morales family how to field strip, clean and reassemble a pulse rifle. ...”Very good, Mr. Morales. That’s a whole lot better than I did the first time,” Arlene blatantly lied. “Okay, Jasmine, do you know what’s next?” “Well, I did until you scrambled the parts,” Jasmine said with a chuckle, “but I think it’s that thing over there — a modulator, I believe you called it.” And the process went on. The next time they field stripped the...
The Prison Planet As the group neared the second area that was obstructed by boulders, Jeff said with a sigh, “Sorry, Ladies, but I still have a headache from moving the last bunch. No way am I going to play bulldozer just now.” “It’s getting colder in here,” Tosha said as she zipped her jacket, took her gloves out of a pocket and pulled them on. “Is it just me, or is the path sloping downward more?” Kei asked as she and the others followed suit – other than Jeff, who only zipped his light...
Kayla very briefly told everyone what had happened. Just as she was finishing up, Sheriff Tate, who had been eating with the team, walked into the hallway to chat with the others. "I helped the guys move the bodies out. We found a roll of black plastic in the basement and covered the pile of them." "That piece of plastic over there on the floor," Jill said, motioning down the hallway near the theater door, "is that where one of them..." "Yeah," Kayla said. "General Whitworth has a...
As everyone walked down the hall toward the theater, Selina hung back. When Diana turned and caught her eye, Selina, with purpose, walked on past, turned the corner and went on to her suite. If I do not ask, then the answer cannot be no, she thought. Waiting four minutes by her internal clock, she walked back out of her suite, down the hall and peeked around the corner in the direction of the theater. There was no one in the hallway. Shortly, she slowly opened the theater door the tiniest...
With the Alphas at Security headquarters studying the pulse rifle and the women apparently all in the basement, Jeff wandered through the Retreat at a loss as to what he should be doing. Deciding he would work in his lab to pass the time, he returned to the basement. Poking his head in one of the rooms, he got a smile from Kayla who was leading an exercise class – push-ups for the moment. His position allowed him a view of erect nipples on several of his wives, and a couple of the other...
Characters that appear in this chapter. Matt – Alpha. New Denver SAC for the FBI. Courtney – Matt's wife who thinks the Matthews may be aliens. Jeff – The Prime. Diana – Jeff's wife and Clan Queen. Arlene – Queen, wife. Diana and Jeff's daughter. Helen – Genius wife and teacher. Susan – Wife and Diana's mother, who is also a Queen. Kayla – Jeff's wife who first worked for the FBI, but then went to work for the General, and now she is Jeff's last line of defense. Art – Alpha....
Arlene grabbed Jeff's hand. "Come on, Daddy. Let's go back to our suite. Mom and Selina will be back ... uh sometime." Jeff frowned as he turned back to the others, "Yeah, that's what I'm worried about – the sometime. It's not like Diana to run off like that." Laura put her arm around his waist to get him started toward their suite. "Well, you were the one who kept pushing Diana to go through the academy. I have been through only the first six months there, but all that discipline...
Bobby put her hands on her face and took a breath trying to stifle a giggle. "We're acting like whores," she said, while desperately trying not to reach for Art's cock. Sandra hissed in a breath. "Art, I don't know what's happened to us. Honest, we don't act like this. We've each had one guy — once, and that was just to get rid of our cherries. But it's like we've been given an aphrodisiac. I want you so bad that it's hard to breathe," she finished, not knowing that Art was...
The Colonel’s Office Aboard Ship ...”And Worthington. Hear this! If something happens to my wife, I’ll kill you without a second thought. Now get out of my face before I change my mind and do what I know should be done.” Without saluting, Worthington spun on his heel and stomped out. Jeff sat thinking. Should I tell his Commander why I’m sending him back? After a moment, he shrugged. On second thought, I asked for his best aviators to give them a chance in my unit. No one, other than us,...