Ted on Mars: A Ted Stedman Novel 02

by D. R. Rosier

  He laughed, nice. Deflected missile from a jet, and it was giving him cover. A few seconds later he couldn’t see the helicopters at all, though he believed it was probable that they could still see his heat signature. He shrugged, the groceries were loaded, and he sent another command to the ship, and then fell straight up at four gravities of acceleration, which was wickedly fast.

  There was no way the helicopters would catch him.

  At twenty thousand feet he met the ship, and the canopy opened up just long enough for him to slide inside. Seconds later, they were in space. Silvia was still asleep, all that movement hadn’t been apparent within the gravity field of the ship, and she hadn’t noticed a thing. She looked so peaceful he didn’t have the heart to wake her. She could eat after she’d rested…

  She must have been exhausted, because she didn’t wake up as he carried her from the ship’s airlock, through the halls, and into the bedroom.

  He crawled in with her and cradled her body against his as she slept.

  He figured she would be out for hours, so instead of hovering, he went ahead and logged into virtual world after Mia crawled into bed and spooned him from behind, and they had their scheduled date as they normally did.

  As usual, Mia had dressed very provocatively for him, and they teased each other over a meal, and then he ravaged her in bed, only to make sweet love to her once they got it out of their system. It was a little weird but comfortable at the same time when he logged out for offline sleep, and there were four women in his bed instead of the usual three.

  He was almost positive he’d adjust, and enjoy it very much as he did so…

  The next morning, after Silvia had that sandwich for breakfast, they got on one of the ships and headed down to the surface. There was a small tunnel airlock for the ship to get into the dome, and then they flew to the top of their building. He could barely believe his eyes, the city had been going up so fast, though he knew only the one building was completely done, the buildings themselves were three quarters done.

  Silvia asked, “Aren’t you curious where I was all morning?”

  He frowned, “What do you mean?”

  Silvia grinned, and took his hand, “That morning, you came to my apartment at eight right, and I wasn’t taken until just after ten. Did you not wonder what I was doing that it had taken me so long to shop? I actually left the house at six-thirty that morning.”

  He nodded slowly, “I was a little curious, but it didn’t seem that important, why?”

  She kissed him, and said, “I was having an outpatient procedure done that morning… dad.”

  His mind blanked for a moment, until he figured out what she said.

  He grinned and kissed her hard, “Really? That’s incredible.”

  Holy shit, he was going to be a father in nine months.

  Things were looking very good, and Ted was really happy about life at the moment.

  There was a lot left to do though before he could settle into a new life, raise a family, and be a design engineer.

  They still needed to finish the building for Silvia’s pods, and for the humans that would be coming. They’d have to come up with a way to smuggle them out peacefully, and also how to advertise it, since it was against Earth law he doubted a television spot would do. He also thought they should fight and protest A.I.s being completely outlawed, although he had no clue how to do that.

  He also had more studying to do to be competent enough to help Trudy in the lab, though he’d only missed his goal because their building was ready so much earlier. He was looking forward to the day he could contribute there.

  He grew closer to Trudy, Mia, Helen, Silvia, and even Amber all the time, but his changing relationships to Nicci, Kara, and Jennifer were rather complicated. He wasn’t so sure what to do about that, except maybe to just see where it went.

  Last of all, they had the mystery of an alien artifact, and if there would be a visit coming soon. He imagined if there was it would come when it did, in the fullness of time. It’d only been a month now since they landed on Mars, and he imagined that type of visit, friendly or not, would take time to put together.

  Then his eyes widened and he chuckled with delight when they landed on the roof, and he saw what awaited him by the access door. She had long raven black hair that shone in the sun, chocolate brown eyes, and a smile that was impossibly wide as she looked at him. She was stunningly beautiful in a light blue sundress, and he felt his heart soften at her huge smile, and the deep love and adoration in her eyes.

  When he got out of the ship, she jumped on him impulsively, and kissed him passionately.

  She grinned again, as she dropped to her feet, and said, “I told you I had a surprise for you next time you saw me.”

  Turned out he would need to adjust to five in his bed, instead of three. He smiled in return, he couldn’t help it.

  Amber giggled at the look on his face, and then went and hugged Trudy, Mia, Helen, and a bemused Silvia that to his relief didn’t look jealous at all at the display.

  Amber turned and headed down the stairs, and led them all over to the door to their top floor condo and opened it for them.

  Then she turned back and said happily, “Welcome home Ted.”

  Afterword:

  I hope you enjoyed the story. One more book will be coming to finish Ted’s story.

  If you can, please take the time to leave a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads.

  About the Author: If you have any comments or suggestions you can send me an email at magicwrtr@gmail.com. I started out posting short stories online and at readers’ requests started to publish them. If you like my work, or even if you don’t, please consider leaving a review of this book.

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  Book Description

  Ted Stedman was dead.

  Still, that wasn’t going to stop him. He’d been digitized, saved by Mia and the others, and now found himself living on board ship at Mars. There were a lot of challenges ahead as they get the colony started and they run into a few surprises along the way.

  Things were going pretty well for Ted, but he had debts to pay, and people he cared about to check up on. Between Mars, Earth, The Endless War game, and virtual world, his life was about to get extremely complicated…

  WARNING: This book is an erotic science fiction novel. If you are offended by explicit sex, do not buy this book. There are MF, FF, and MFF scenes of a sexually explicit nature.

  NOTE: This novel is told in the third person from Ted’s point of view.