by David Burke
There was a brief pause before Amelia said, “Yes, I know. I actually like Huong, Meikiyo, and even Jessie quite a bit. Mia seems okay too. I understood when I started to fall for you that I was going to have to share you. Like we keep saying this isn’t Earth anymore. New rules apply.”
“I’m glad for that, more than you may know. This has torn me up inside.”
“That’s cause you’re such a boy scout. Oh and don’t you dare tell that slut, Huong, that I said anything nice about her.”
Jay shrugged and laughed. “Okay, okay, but just to be clear, you know that I am going to marry the others too.”
“Yep, but I will always be your first wife. I figure that there are going to be lots of the others who are jockeying for favor with you and trying to become wives too. Just make sure that you treat your wives better than the concubines. And yes, I know you are going to be fucking most every girl here. The rest of us already discussed it and came to peace with it. Not Earth after all. In fact, if you don’t recruit enough of the girls to your bed then we will think you don’t care about us enough.”
”Say, what?” Jay asked.
”Adding more women to your team only makes you stronger. The stronger you are, the better you can protect us. So yes, you have to sleep with other women to show us you love us.”
All he could do was shake his head before speaking. “How did I get so lucky to get you in my life?” Jay asked.
“I don’t know, but right now I wanna get lucky. I’ve been married for like two hours and you haven’t ravished me yet. Can we go to our cabin already?”
“In a minute. I am worried about what is out here and I don’t want to go to the cabin until everyone else is already inside. Okay?”
“Yeah sure, but if you don’t mind I think I will, as they say, go slip into something more comfortable. I’ve got a few purchases to make.”
Jay leaned down and kissed her gently on the lips. “I will be there in a few minutes.”
As she walked away, he shook himself from admiring the view and called out to everyone. Most of the people appeared to have been broken up into groups by now. “One other thing. Remember that all the water that we get from now on is going to have a much higher level of whatever the stimulant is in it. If it has the same effect that it did on us in the beginning that we need to assume everyone is going to become very horny. So please let's try to work together and be understanding with each other. Finish off any of the bottles of water that we already had tonight, because those shouldn’t have the new levels in them. Then tomorrow we are going to have to get busy leveling up.”
Jay heard some grumbling but chose not to focus on it. As he waited for all the groups to go into their cabins, he felt Mia approaching him. Her presence was always there in his mind, but he knew she was right next to him now. A second later she ran her hand across his arm.
“What was that for?” Jay asked.
“Can’t a girl touch her boyfriend?” she asked back.
“Oh is that what we are calling this now?”
“I thought you would prefer that to bonded soul-mate. Especially since you are soon off to spend the night with your new wife.” Jay could feel the jealousy coming through the bond. It wasn’t bitter, but it was there.
“You know that as much as I like you, Mia, there are others too.”
“Oh, I know. I don’t even begrudge that. The bond lets me feel your emotions far better after the whole fusion thing. During the race when you were fighting, I could actually feel some of the pain that you felt every time you got hurt.”
Jay got concerned. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah, it is weird. I could feel the pain. If I focused on it, it felt as real as any pain in my life. I had to dull the bond a bit so I wouldn’t be screaming in pain. Not really sure how you handled the blows you took. They made me whimper, and I wasn’t actually feeling it directly.”
“So do you feel everything I do?”
“You are bonded to me just like I am to you. Or fused. You should know the answer, but from what I can tell, I only feel powerful sensations that you feel. Even then I can close off the bond or narrow it so the feelings only trickle through or I can open myself to it and feel fully the same sensations you are feeling.”
“Well as Huong would say, we will have to do some experiments with that. For the sake of science and all,” Jay said with a grin.
Mia nodded eagerly. “Yes we shall. And as to why I touched you, I find it easier to borrow your abilities when I touch you.”
“Oh, so you borrowed my Enhanced Strength to deal with the gravity?” Jay asked.
“Nope, I’m strong enough and already have Enhanced Strength now, remember. It may not be as developed as yours but I’m doing fine here. I shared Metabolism with you and borrowed another one of your abilities for personal reasons. Amelia can thank me later for increasing your stamina.”
“I have plenty of stamina, thank you very much. But seriously, what power did you borrow?”
“Let’s just say that I think my cabin is going to be a very popular place to be after tonight. Oh, but I think they are calling me. I need to go. See you in the morning.” With that she ran off in the direction of the cabins.
Women. Jay was never going to understand them. He could spend time guessing about what she had borrowed or he could go join his wife. In the end the decision wasn’t a hard one to make.
Chapter 32- To Bond or Not to Bond
When Jay got to the cabin, he found that it truly was luxury housing. Inside the vaulted ceiling gave an open feel. The main area of the house was all one massive room. The kitchen with a table to one side, a set of couches and chairs to the other. Then off from there were four bedrooms. Each with its own huge bathroom with a tub for two and for the first time since he had been here, a shower.
Amelia had everything set up with candles burning and a meal on the table. As he tried to walk over to her, she said, “Nope, go take a shower first. I don’t want you getting this dirty and you might have some of those bug guts on you still.”
By this she meant the flimsy black nightie that she was wearing. It worked exactly as intended covering up just enough but yet hinting at everything. “You, know that isn’t gonna be on you for very long.”
“We’ll see. I want to eat a meal with you first,” she said with a tease in her voice.
“Arghh you know how to drive a man crazy. I sure have something I want to eat.”
“You know I love a double entendre as much as the next girl but like I told you after that first night, let it simmer a bit. You’ve slain the monster and won the girl. Be grown-up Jay, go have a shower, shave, and then come back here. They have some delicious-looking food. After that, grown-up Jay gets some grown-up sex. I’m gonna have to up my game after all, now that I’m a wife. I wouldn’t want you to think that I used all my tricks to bag you.”
That was enough for Jay, he smiled and rushed off to a shower. She was right. The water felt amazing. Just the right temperature. It was amazing to have the comforts of home. He could really get used to this. Then he shaved and brushed his teeth. As he drank some water to rinse his mouth out, he immediately felt the difference.
The notification wasn’t kidding at all. This stuff was calibrated for midway through the third threshold or about level 40. He had gotten used to being ahead of the stimulant in the water but this stuff hit hard and made him hard. He hadn’t felt this horny since he was a thirteen-year-old and saw his first pair of breasts in a magazine.
Iron Will was the only thing that kept him going and he braced himself, because he knew that Amelia was planning on dragging this out. She probably even had hoped that he would drink some of the water and start to lose control.
When he walked back out to the main room, dressed in nothing but a thin shirt and a pair of gym-type shorts that she had laid out for him in the bathroom, he found her waiting. “Well, are you ready for the wife experience?” she asked.
Jay had no idea what that meant
but vaguely remembered seeing an episode of a show called The Girlfriend Experience and thinking that it was hot. So he just decided to go with it. She escorted him over to the table.
He couldn’t help but kiss her and felt her melt into him as he did before she pulled back. “Oh not too much of that or dinner will get cold.”
Jay sat at the table. The spread was impressive. She had ordered gourmet meals that were a step up. It was man gourmet. A huge steak, potato, and a salad. It wasn’t that he hadn’t enjoyed the other kinds of gourmet meals, just that they had been a bit foo-foo for his tastes. This however was exactly what he wanted. Well glancing at her, it was at least part of what he wanted.
She sat next to him and poured him a beer into a large mug. He couldn’t help thinking, “God, I could get used to this.”
As they ate, she asked him questions about how he felt the race had gone. Then listened intently each time. She seemed enraptured in hearing what he had to say and strangely that was every bit as much of a turn on as the cleavage that her nightie revealed.
Dinner must have gone on for almost an hour as even with an erection in his pants, he was deeply enjoying the conversation. Lately he was on the run so much that he didn’t get enough of this kind of connection. Actually, who was he kidding? He had never gotten this kind of connection in his life prior to coming here.
As he was eating his dessert, a delicious white chocolate cheesecake with a crumb crust and a raspberry drizzle, she made a statement that caught his attention. “I want you to form a bond with me like you did with Mia.”
Jay understood. She wanted connection with him just as much as he wanted it. This evening was perfect, and he wanted it to go on forever. Still, he had to say, “You know I’m not the one that instigated that. I can probably form a bond but the notifications warned against the partial fusion thing.”
“Well is the bond just as close as the fusion.”
Not wanting to lie to her Jay said, “The bond is close. We can share emotions and almost know what each other are thinking, but the fusion transcends that. We shared one body in many ways. Our abilities merged and we have only one status sheet now, even though it is divided into a separate section for each of us.”
“I want to be one with you. And no, this isn’t just about the power. I admit that is a nice side effect, but I have been thinking about this all day. Jay, I love you. I am glad that we were sent here. I am glad for all the horrors we have had to face. It was worth it because it got the two of us together.”
Jay felt both thrilled and tense at the same moment. His understanding of the depth of feelings out there was growing by leaps and bounds. He felt things for Amelia he had never felt before. “I don’t regret it either. I’m glad you said it, because I felt kinda selfish for thinking that.”
“Then you will do it, or at least try it. I know you don’t have total control over it.”
“I will try to form a permanent bond with you. As far as the fusion… if it was just my safety on the line I would be willing to try. It's not like the trying isn’t fun. But this is about your safety too, and I won’t risk that, not like that at least. I grant you that I can’t and won’t make decisions for you but nor can you ask me to go out of my way to endanger you.”
“But I’m willing to risk it.”
“And I’m not. You are precious to me.”
“How about this? Tomorrow we can discuss it as a team. We will take a vote and if they decide with me, then you have to try it during the reset. If not, then I will respect the decision and just enjoy the bond we will have,” Amelia said.
Jay teetered in his head. He wanted to make a clear-headed decision but knew that his lust for her was probably impacting his decision making. “Okay, I will agree to that. We are a team after all.”
Then he reached out his hand and grabbed hers. “My Empathetic Bonding skill is only at level 1 - 0%. Mia’s was at level 13 the last time I looked. So I may not be able to make the bond permanent, yet, but I promise you this. If it is at all possible, then we shall be bonded.”
She smiled at him and he opened himself up to the skill. It was very different from his other skills. He couldn’t seem to force it to do what he wanted but more had to relax and give in to it. He had to be open with himself and with Amelia. Then it was there. At first it was just a small thread between them. Nothing like the connection between him and Mia.
The thing was though that this felt more genuine. He liked Mia, but she wasn’t the one he loved. Not yet at least, not like Amelia. The connection surged and thickened. Carrying more and more emotional input back and forth.
He knew how she felt about him. Oh he had believed it before. She had made it clear often enough. Now though there couldn’t be doubt. They were linked emotionally and as much as he felt her love and trust in him, he also felt a deep sigh within her person as she could feel his love for her. He knew that she was feeling more emotion and not just the desire that his Sensual Projection skill could manifest.
Jay was so entangled in their shared emotions that he didn’t even realize that he had actually carried her to the bed. Their kissing took on a deep passionate tone, and he mindlessly allowed his hands to wander over her body. It wasn’t long though before she was angrily trying to pull his shirt off of him. “I don’t want that in the way,” she murmured.
It was too tightly on him so he had to pull back and lift the shirt off. She gleamed at him while her eyes ran over his chest and shoulders. Then he pushed back into her and started kissing his way down her. Taking time at her neck as she moaned with delight. Then working down further to tease the cleavage her flimsy nightie revealed.
As he went down another inch he began to play with her nipples through the lacy material. She moaned as it must have produced an exquisite feeling in her. He could feel her desire building to uncontrollable levels. Normally, he liked to tease her, to drag it out. That certainly had a place in a good bedroom relationship, but tonight he wanted her to feel his love.
He didn’t want to deny her anything. So knowing what she wanted, he worked his way down her toned tummy, enjoying the way it felt through the thin wisp of material that separated it from his lips. When he got below the nightie, he slid his hands up under it and hooked his thumbs in the lacy red thong that matched the nightie. He pulled it down, and she shivered in an anticipation which he could now quite literally feel.
Moving in closer he tossed the panties to the side of the bed and began working his mouth up her thigh. She shuddered before he ever got to her labia and when he finally did, she started to moan in earnest. He liked to think that he had gotten to be a good lover in the past few weeks. He certainly had enough opportunities to practice, but knowing what she felt even if it wasn’t truly physical sensations and simply her emotions was a better guide than he could have imagined.
His tongue made love to her womanhood. Teeth tantalized her labia while his tongue worked away at her clit. Her resistance was short lived and as soon as he knew her first orgasm was upon her he slid two fingers into her. She was so wet that there was very little resistance.
Her body began to spasm around him and he kept at it guiding her through that first orgasm and into another before she finally collapsed backwards. He took that moment to pull his pants down and then moved to part her legs.
“No, not yet, just a minute,” she said weakly.
At first he thought that she was just totally drained from the orgasms and needed to catch her breath but then he sensed a bit of delight and mischievousness mixed up in her emotions along with another feeling. He wasn’t sure what it was at first but it was intertwined with the others.
She stood up off the bed and he watched as she started to play with the spaghetti straps of her nightie. “I want to unwrap myself in front of you. I’m a gift for you and I need you to know I meant everything I said earlier at the pledging. I was worried that it would freak you out, but I meant it all.”
Then he understood what he was feeling from her. It w
as fear, anxiety, a sense of not being good enough. They were wrapped around her hopes and delights like choking weeds in a garden. It made sense. Her statement had been bold. She basically gave him ownership of her body and even went so far as to say she wanted his children.
This might not be the time and place for children, but feeling the bond with her, there was no doubt in his mind that he would want children with her. She would be as wonderful of a mother as his vague memories said his had been.
“I accepted your pledge today. I accept it now. And I feel exactly the same,” Jay said, but by that time the words were superfluous. She had already felt his emotions. She knew that he genuinely wanted her even to that most intimate of ways that a man could want a woman.
“Not yet. I took precautions for your new level, but someday, sooner rather than later, I want to make you a father. I know what you have told me about yours. You will be a better father than he ever was.” With that she dropped her nightie to the ground and revealed her body, his property.