Arlene and JeffChapter 230
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The Retreat
Midafternoon, Diana knocked on Selina's door. "My Queen," the little genius said, throwing the door open. "Please enter."
Selina, as an adult would, seated Diana and asked if she would like something to drink. When the woman declined, the child sat waiting in a seat directly across from the Queen, Selina's back straight, obviously expectant.
When Diana noticed the erect posture, she smiled and chuckled. "You look like you're waiting on a firing squad." Then after a second, "Oh, come here you precious baby." Diana was the only one who could get away with making a comment like that to Selina.
When Selina had seated herself beside Diana, the Queen put an arm around her and pulled the child close. Looking down, she smiled as she said, "I haven't come to scold, but rather to apologize."
Selina sat up straight again. "My Queen. You have certainly done nothing to warrant apologizing, and I suppose my, perhaps, overreaction to your surprise visit was due to the phone call I had just received from my parents. My Christmas call. As you are doubtlessly aware, they recently sent me several very expensive presents. The possibility exists that I might even use one of them," she said as she barely suppressed a giggle. "Their appeased consciences come to mind as I peruse the situation. I have again informed them that I am extremely pleased to be residing with the Matthews family, however, they persist..." Leaving the sentence hanging, she looked up at Diana.
The Queen smiled back at Selina. "Both Jeff and I talk to them regularly. Like you said, it's probably just guilty consciences, even though we have assured them that you are part of our family. Should they make an attempt to take you from us – if you still want to stay with us, of course – there will be a court battle that they will not win. You are never leaving us unless you want to go. But, for now, anyway, I think it's best to continue to assure them that you are fine with where you are."
"They actually do not want me," Selina said as her eyes sparkled with tears. "They think I am a freak. They behave as if they are frightened of me. I am almost certain that they know I am aware of their ... uh..."
"Sexual habits," Diana offered.
"What they can not seem to realize, or perhaps understand would be more appropriate, is that I do not care. I just want to be allowed to continue living here, to continue my education, to eventually reach my majority and..."
"Marry Jeff," Diana offered, hugging Selina to her. Diana turned so she could look Selina directly in the eye. "I realize how intelligent you truly are and how frustrating it must be to have people treat you like an average six-year-old, but remember, we do not." Even as Diana said that, the reason she was in Selina's living room vied with her logic.
"Well," Diana said as she came to her feet, "I just stopped by to check on you to make sure you are enjoying your Christmas. I'll be..."
"The purpose of your visit was to apologize for the remarks made in the living room about the planned use of the rug tonight," Selina stated, rather than asked. As Diana opened her mouth to respond, Selina went on, "But you have realized that you might hurt me by treating me as a child," she finished, a grin beginning to touch the corners of her mouth.
"And I stuck my foot firmly into my mouth, yet again," the Queen responded, "and from your research, you can probably tell me several properties of sperm that I've never even heard of."
Selina, giggling, bounced to her feet and put her arms around the Queen's midsection. "One day I shall be an adult and you and the other women will openly discuss sex in my presence. I just hope I will have something to contribute to the discussions then."
As Diana turned to leave, "My Queen, there is one thing..."
Diana turned back to the six-year-old. "You know that if it's possible, I'll gladly do it for you."
Selina took a breath, then her face took on a familiar look of determination. (Remember her shooting.) "Each time I have mentioned my desire, I have been given various reasons to delay, but ... it is time. I wish to attend Ship's academy, and I do not wish to be postponed again."
Eileen, sitting in the alcove just down from the living room, watched as Bill approached. The closer he got, the more intense her blush became. In the short time it took him to reach her, many things flashed through her mind. I'm a woman, not some virginal teenager. Stop blushing you idiot. What did they tell him? Does he know that Arlene went to the Ship to have it, uh, her ... prepare a suite for us? I don't even know what that means. How could it "prepare" a suite for us? They keep talking about this starship as if it is human – if there is even something out there. I'm a pilot. Naturally I want to see it – if it exists – but they put my visit off because of the need to get the kids' Christmas ready. Now, it seems as if there really is one out there and ... I'm getting cold feet, both about the starship and ... Bill.
Logically, I barely even know him, but damn, he's handsome, and ... sexy. The man exudes sex appeal, even though he acts as if he isn't even aware of it. Jill and Kathy seem to think he can walk on water, and either they're the best liars in the world, or they are both really excited about me becoming a third wife to him. I've been with a very few men, and even then, I had to know a man for months before I went to bed with him. But Bill excited me more just sitting and talking to me in that airport than having sex with any of those men ever did. If Kathy hadn't intervened, I think I would have had an orgasm just sitting there. Now, supposedly, we're going to see a starship together, and he knows that Arlene is getting a suite prepared for us ... for us to make love.
"Ready to go see Jeff's invisible starship?" Bill asked as he walked up and reached out a hand to help her up.
As she came to her feet, she turned to hug him, then looked up into his face. "Please tell me this isn't some kind of elaborate joke. I've stared out the back windows repeatedly, and there isn't anything out there other than that building, and it certainly isn't big enough to house a ship the size you guys keep talking about. And other than a plowed-out path to the building, the snow is untouched all over the area where everyone says the starship is supposed to be. It simply can't be out there."
Bill lifted her chin slightly and softly touched his lips to hers. "I wouldn't do something like that to you. None of us would. Ship is there and I'll introduce you to her shortly."
Eileen looked at him for a minute, sighed and turned to walk arm in arm with him as they headed for the garage while Bill continued, "Jeff had Ship put the illusion of the building out there when the rock digging crew came in to work on our fortress, otherwise they would notice vehicles and people going out to that big open area, and the people disappearing as they walked up Ship's ramp. This way, we seem to go into a building that has the same architecture as the Retreat. The illusion must have worked, because we haven't heard any of the crew say anything about the situation."
"That building is an illusion? But ... I never even considered ... I mean how..."
"I have no idea. Ship's technology has eluded even the General's best scientists. The only things they have learned from her are things that she willingly gave them, and those at Jeff's discretion. Jeff has told me that she's a dimensional ship – whatever the hell that means. But she's ... bigger on the inside than the outside. She takes Jeff to a firing range inside her that seems to be a planet devoid of life, except for plant life."
Eileen turned to stare up at him as they stopped to don coats in the hallway near the garage door. "You mean like the holodeck on Star Trek? She can actually do that?"
But Bill was shaking his head. "No, this isn't some type of simulation. This is real. With Jeff's TK pushing one of his steel balls at a fair percentage of the speed of light, it would blow the walls out, or the concussion of the ball hitting the walls behind the illusion would kill everyone in the room. This is real. I don't know whether she transports him – us, somewhere, or does something else. I've been on her 'range' too. Maybe she does it by manipulating the dimensions somehow. I've racked my brain about it every time I've been on her ... firing range, but all I get is a headache. I have a fairly good technical education, but if her technology has stymied Earth's best scientists, I certainly don't have a chance of understanding it – not that that makes me feel any better. All I know is that there is a ... sort of tingle as you go through the last doorway onto her range."
Eileen stared at him for a second before he shrugged and opened the door to the garage. The bay doors to the outside were already open and an Escalade was sitting in the garage running. Bill took her hand as they started down the stairs. "Looks like we don't even have to go out in the cold."
When he opened the Escalade's door for her, she slid into the seat, thinking, Almost like a date, only he's not taking me out to eat at a nice restaurant. He's supposedly taking me to meet a starship. How do you meet a starship? Just before she giggled aloud with her nervousness, she clamped down on her emotions. This is surreal. What have I gotten myself into?
Just as Bill put the Escalade into reverse, he saw the look on Eileen's face. Leaning over, he kissed her hard for several seconds. "We're going to visit a friend who is as nice as anyone you have ever met. She just happens to be a starship. We'll tour the Ship, have a cup of coffee in her lounge and come back to the Retreat. If anything else happens other than that, it will be because both of us want it to happen. Okay? And yeah, I know what my wives have set up. They and I certainly want you to become one of us, but only when and if you want to. We go at your pace, not theirs or mine. Okay?" he asked again, squeezing her hand.
"Uh huh," Eileen managed, but she could feel her face warm again. Then thought, I must have blushed more in the last couple of days than I have in the last couple of years. Relax, idiot, you want him so badly you can hardly think of anything else.
As Bill turned farther and looked over his shoulder to back up, Eileen touched his arm. "I'll stop acting like a baby. There's a starship out there. You told me there is. And I came out here to this beautiful mountain and this fabulous ... home, because of the attraction I felt for you back in St. Louis. So, introduce me to this ... to her."
A couple of minutes later, Bill stopped the SUV just outside the building next to another Escalade. Eileen could see that there was a glass door on the front of the building with a couple of pieces of furniture visible and maybe a hint of a hallway, but that was all she could make out. Quickly opening her door before Bill could get out and come open it, she met him in front of the vehicle. "The building still looks real to me," she commented as he took her hand.
Inside the vestibule of the building, everything changed as soon as the door closed behind them, and they were suddenly standing at the bottom of a ramp that went up a short distance and ... stopped.
Before she could comment, Bill hurried her up the ramp and through ... something. She felt a faint sensation and stepped into another environment entirely. She had thought she had been ready. She had tried to believe, but even the ramp to nothing hadn't totally convinced her there was something like this at the top of it. Maybe if her education had been less, she would not have been as shocked, but she knew what was generally possible scientifically, and what was not. It was ingrained in her by her education and her training. Those foundations were being shaken by everything she had seen since she stepped into that illusion of a vestibule of a building. Now this.
On what passed for a wall on her left was a huge screen, she supposed, that showed the Retreat and grounds as if through an open window. The only reason she didn't think it was just an opening in the wall was because she didn't feel the cold from outside. The floor and walls seemed to somehow blend into each other without any definite transition from one to the other. Before her mind took in anything else, Bill spoke up, "Ship, I would like to introduce you to Eileen. She's very special to me and has come to live with us."
Just then, Eileen realized that neither she nor Bill were wearing their coats any longer, but before she could dwell on that, "Welcome, Eileen," a melodious alto voice that made Eileen think of Diana's, spoke from what seemed all around her. "And of course, welcome to you too, Bill." Then back to Eileen, "Eileen, I assume that you would enjoy a short tour before refreshments?"
Eileen hesitated, wanting to look around for the source of the voice, but restrained herself at the last second. "Uh, I ... I would love that, if you have time..." her voice faltered and she felt foolish.
Ship's voice chuckled. "Time is something I have in abundance. This way, please," she finished as a pulsing strip on the floor appeared ahead of them.
It was farther to the bridge than Eileen would have imagined, reminding her of what Bill said about the Ship being larger inside than out. As they stepped into the ... room, Eileen came to a sudden halt as she stared around. Oh, shit. This thing is for real. It looks like a bridge, I suppose, but it ... feels alien.
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... Jeff had also heard the door close, and shoved Helen into Diana's arms, causing Diana to stagger, Laura grabbing Helen to help. He pulled his .45 from his waistband and started down the hall, but even as he did so, he saw Arlene at the intersection of the hallways and knew he was too late. Jeff figured one of the mercenaries had to be in the hallway, and was probably doing the same thing Arlene was. (Slicing the pie at the intersection.) He also knew he would never make the...
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When they parked in the back, the door of the Retreat opened and all Jeff's younger wives, who had stayed home, came hurrying out accompanied by Selina. As Hope and Arlene exited the SUV with the puppies snuggled under their coats, Arlene pointed to an area just past the pavement near the side of the Retreat. "Mrs. Kimbrel said we should walk them as soon as we got home," Arlene told the others as she and Hope opened their coats enough to give everyone a peek at the baby...
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... Arlene motioned to their forward screen and the rippling, wavering, blurry image there. “I can’t see worth a shit because of the burning atmosphere, and the sensors have packed up from the heat. But I think I’ll go to full shields right about...” A geyser shot hundreds of feet into the air as the craft hit the water with a sound that could be heard many, many miles away. Even at full shields, some of the shock bled through and, had it not been for the gravity field of their seats,...
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Laura woke him the usual way, and she almost went too far. When Jeff grunted and his cock started to swell, she jerked her mouth off. It was a near thing for a few seconds. "I guess I almost went off while I was still asleep," he groaned. "Wow, I'm really horny." "Sorry, Jeff. You usually go forever. I wouldn't mess it up for Diana for the world." "It wasn't your fault," he said, finally regaining control. "It's just the stress of the day. Of course, I've had two of those damn...
In their bedroom, dressed in pajamas, the girls flopped into bed. Terry grabbed the remote and dialed the lights down, then turned to her sister. "Arlene said that we wouldn't have any more periods until Little One turns them on for us again. Boy, I can sure live with that." Alice got a look on her face and responded, "Well, as you know, I've only had one, but it sure was icky – not to say anything about worrying if I were bleeding to death. If that's what it takes to be a woman, I...
Jeff and his women had showered and were in bed only moments when Ship announced that Arlene's scout was minutes away. Since the family was still using their suite on the Ship, they were quickly dressed – well partially anyway – and waiting for Arlene as she maneuvered her scout through the outer bay door and onto the flight deck. She didn't go all the way to the scout's bay though, but stopped in front of her family. An instant after the scout came to a halt, its belly hatch opened and...
The Waterfall Campsite ... Dessie straightened up and stared at Ann. “I have eaten pheasant, fish and rabbit until they’re practically coming out my ears. I’ve had MREs while backpacking and wasn’t in love with them all that much, but I think I would love some now, no matter what the meal consists of.” “We have an assortment. I noticed a Brisket Entreé, Chicken something or other, and a Beef Stew, with whatever goes with them, and several more besides. We just grabbed some at random in...
JUST OUTSIDE A SMALL NORTHWESTERN TOWN Once again Nichols sat worrying in front of his boss' elegant desk. Rich, wealthy, words don't describe the extreme category the older man fit into. Nor can you describe how evil this man is either, Nichols thought, his face devoid of expression as he waited for Mr. Moreau to end his phone call. Nichols dreaded that. When the call ended, Moreau would ask questions that Nichols didn't have acceptable answers to. The town council members think Moreau...
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...
...”See that tree that has the broken limb hanging down?” “Yes,” Aiko gasped out. “We’ll jog to it, then we will walk for a hundred steps.” “I don’t know...” “Yes, you do. You know you can. I’ll bet it’s even less than a hundred steps. Let’s count them,” she finished as she began counting their steps aloud while they slow-jogged. Soon Aiko added her voice. “Ninety-two. Told you it was less than a hundred. Now we’ll walk for a hundred steps, and rested or not, we will jog starting at...
The Retreat As Charlotte and Diana sat at the bar in the kitchen watching the other women, Selina stopped by. "Want to help?" the little genius asked the young woman. Worried, Charlotte answered, "Everything is happening so fast that I barely know what's going on." "Oh, you will get used to that," Selina said as she reached for Charlotte's hand. "Well, I'll be glad to help if I can." Charlotte glanced at Diana, who nodded with a smile. "No better way than to just dive...
They were high up and soon over the ocean, having left the continent behind. They passed the terminator and continued into night, still headed west, the myriad lights of the cities twinkling as the Earth seemed to slowly spin below. But before the view could become boring – if it ever could -- the horizon seemed to shift downward on the big screen as the Ship gradually pointed her nose away from the planet, the full moon drifting down toward the center of the viewscreen. There was a...
Jeff met with Kei, Edi and Alesha on the updated design that they were working on for the new ski lodge, then stopped off in the living room to watch the late news before eventually winding up in his suite. After a shower where he "played" with Jennie and Melissa, he walked into a strangely quiet bedroom. Looking around, he began to wonder. "What?" he asked, then suddenly it hit him, "Where's Ann?" Arlene caught his eye. "We've looked for her, and she's not anywhere in the Retreat....
The Castle ...”Certainly,” Arlene responded, “but please don’t either of you touch it. The AI can become quite persnickety, and he has the means to back up his displeasure.” “You have a functioning artificial intelligence?” Karl asked. “Please don’t mention it around him. I think he is trying to find a way to become a citizen,” Arlene returned with a chuckle. “Uh, I won’t,” Karl responded, not quite sure if Arlene were kidding or not. Both Karl and Fischer thanked Arlene and hurried off...
Jeff had stopped by his office to pick up a few pieces of printer paper. Alone in the living room a couple of minutes later, he wadded up a sheet of the paper into a loose ball. If I screw up with this paper ball, air resistance, if nothing else, should keep its flight slow enough to prevent me from tearing up things. With Arlene's encouragement while on the Ship's range, he had gained a small measure of expertise as he mentally moved a steel ball around and caused it to spin, but he still...
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,...