She looked up thoughtfully, and then said, “Life is risk. You could invite her, and then let her decide if she’s ready. Of course, if she’s deluding herself with the friends with benefits thing it could blow up in your face. I don’t know what to tell you, but if you do decide to ask, just drop it as a possibility and that it’s no big deal. No pressure for her to say yes.”

  He shrugged, “That sounds good. How have you been doing love?”

  She beamed, “I’m great. I’m with the man I love, and he loves me which is more than I thought possible. Our extended family is wonderful as well. Things went great in Australia, and even a lot of my patients are a lot happier right now because of that, despite what’s going on with the laws. The buildings are finished on Mars, all that’s left is infrastructure and furnishing.”

  She sighed, “But me, I’ve never been happier, and I love that you’re mine for the next few hours. I also love how you look at me, it makes me feel sexy, beautiful, and powerful. I honestly wouldn’t change a thing.”

  He raised an eyebrow, “Nothing?”

  She shrugged, “I would wish you were never hurt. It does worry me, the thing with Jennifer, and I’m afraid she’ll break your heart, but life is risk. Nothing is perfect, but I still wouldn’t change a thing, I promise. You make me a very happy woman, and I’m yours. You couldn’t treat me better if you tried. Everything else will work itself out.”

  “I’m glad to hear that Mia, I don’t think you realize how precious you are to me. Anything else going on?”

  She really didn’t have any idea just how much he was hers. She was still his favorite, and first in his mind, but he buried that down deep and he wouldn’t tell anyone. Not even her. It wasn’t something he was actually proud of, he loved all of them, and losing any of them would hurt a great deal. Losing Mia would destroy him.

  A part of him knew that wasn’t right, his identity shouldn’t be so dependent on anyone, but she was everything to him. He wouldn’t curl up and die of course, but he’d probably withdraw from things for a long time.

  She tilted her head, “Not much else at home. Mars is coming along, and we should even all have furniture soon as the fabricators switched to furniture from buildings. The android ones are still working, and we have several thousand on the surface now. At this point the choke point isn’t labor at all, it’s simply how fast we can make things.

  “The law… I don’t even know what to say about that.”

  He sighed, “What about rescuing the androids that are down there, before they’re killed. I refuse to say reclamation, it’s a ridiculous euphemism for what they’re really doing. Even if they can come back later from a restore with a new body.”

  Mia smiled softly at the concern in his voice, “There’s nothing we can really do now.”

  He frowned, “What do you mean, there’s nothing you can do? I thought the possibility of using the large ship on asteroid duty was mentioned as a way to pull them away.”

  Mia shrugged, “The bill included some last minute addendums that weren’t shared with the public before it was passed. Androids have to stay with their employers until they report in for destruction. If they go out before that they’ll be taken in if caught for immediate termination.”

  He closed his eyes and counted to five for patience.

  “So you’re telling me, that they have to report to be destroyed because it’s a law?”

  Mia bit her lip, “Yes.”

  He sighed, and dropped it. There would be no point arguing about it, no matter how absurd that was. Not that he was going to allow that to happen, he just had no idea how he could fix it. Fucking bastards.

  Mia changed the subject, “While you walked back to the bedroom on the ship, I used that time to absorb Xaran history, psychology, and even physiology. They’re an interesting species, and they can play with DNA like we brush our hair. Their early history, pre-space travel, was a violent one, but by the time they reached space they’d managed to remove most of their violent instincts.

  “Some have to remain of course, or they’d completely lose their drive to live. Survival instincts are important. They get you out of bed in the morning. Still, they’re experts at DNA manipulation, and toned them down as much as possible, Xaran violence internally is all but in the past. When they change into another species, it’s almost a complete change. They need to be able to shift back of course, so they retain that ability, and of course they have all their memories of who they really are.

  “But their diluted instincts are no match for humanities instincts to breed, and as a race with very gentle emotions, the pleasure and high from sex is extremely addicting. I’m probably not telling you anything you didn’t already know, but they have no chance of fighting those human instincts to change back. I’m not sure what to suggest on how to fix it, not yet anyway.

  “The societal considerations aren’t much better. They have no taboos or inhibitions in their society that would deal with this. I think the earth is in big trouble if we can’t fix it. They’ll see humanity as an infection, and as their destruction.”

  He frowned, “That was cheery,” he said sarcastically.

  She shrugged helplessly, “On the good side, Trudy did the same as me on the technology side. Apparently they aren’t ahead of us at all as far as mathematical theory as it relates to multiple-dimensions, physics, and subspace. They just have a lot more practical applications than we do. She was already building an FTL ship, but the download will speed things up by quite a bit. I wouldn’t be surprised if the design was done tonight. It also means you won’t have to add to your study load to catch up.”

  She gave him an impudent grin, “Once you catch up you should understand how it works easily enough.”

  He nodded slowly, and honestly did feel a little relieved about that, “Weapons?”

  She shrugged, “Much like us, not specifically. The drive and shield systems however, are quite a weapon in and of itself. Much more destructive than even gravity is.”

  He changed the subject, he knew none of the A.I.s were comfortable talking about weapons.

  “How’s the steak?”

  She giggled, “Very good. Thanks. I don’t think I left anything out, a lot has happened the last three days though.”

  He nodded, “No doubt, so do you feel like dancing?”

  She shook her head, “No, I don’t. Relatively it took me about two weeks to go through that data. I need to get you home, soon. If there hadn’t been so much to talk about, and I hadn’t missed talking to you as much as the sex, we would never have left the bed.”

  He raised an eyebrow, but then smiled when he understood, she hadn’t had sex in two weeks. As far as she was concerned the sex they’d had in the ship just eight hours or so ago was over two weeks ago from her point of view. He was actually a little surprised that they’d made it out of the house to the restaurant. It also explained why she hadn’t teased him much tonight, as was their habit. She was probably on the edge as it was, he knew she was addicted to their sex life. Although, in a good way, not like Xia and her crew…

  Chapter Fourteen

  He’d barely gotten into the car from the restaurant, and his gorgeous Mia had already straddled his lap and started to kiss him with a desperate passion. He moaned into her mouth as she ground down onto him in hard little circles, and her hands seemed to be everywhere on his body at once.

  “Fuck Ted, I need you my love,” she said breathily, “Please,” she added in a sultry pleading voice that had him rock hard in moments.

  He decided as the car drove itself, that just this once it was more than safe to skip foreplay.

  He said firmly, “Take me out.”

  She shivered at his commanding tone and reached for the front of his pants, while he caressed her bare legs, and when he felt the hem of her tight red dress he pealed it up around her waist.

  His cock twitched, she had no more barriers to contend with, and when he checked her she was soaked and ready.

  She fished out his cock, and then let out a gasping sigh of mixed relief and pleasure as she impaled her slick tight tunnel on him, and he groaned at the feel of her stretching out and accommodating his hard thick length. Her core fluttered and massaged his length up and down and he squeezed and caressed her ass as she nuzzled into his neck and started to kiss, lick, and suck his skin.

  He moved his right hand away, and swatted her ass hard.

  She gasped, and he quickly followed as her core tightened and quivered around his cock, and he felt her get even wetter if possible.

  “You like that baby?”

  She moaned sultrily into his ear in a mix of pain and pleasure, “Even good girls need to be spanked my love.”

  His cock twitched inside of her, and he spanked her again hard with his right hand, and then with his left to get the other cheek.

  She tightened and gripped him hard again and her breathing got shallow as she gasped in pain, and then mewled in pleasure and ground down against him.

  He did it again, and again.

  “Harder, please Ted, I love when you spank me, I’m yours, body and mind. Spank that ass harder.” she begged in a breathy soft submissive voice that made him groan in pleasure as she started to kiss him again and grind her body into his. Her sex felt like heaven, she was so warm, tight, wet, and on the edge.

  He slid his left hand between their bodies, and then spanked her even harder, at the same time that he thumbed her clit and ground up into her with his hard fat cock.

  “Fuck! Ted!,” she cried out in pain and pleasure, and then she gripped, milked, and flooded his pole in her liquid bliss as she bucked, grinded, and gasped her way through an incredibly powerful orgasm.

  It was too much for him, the spanking, the pleasure her body had on his, her surrender to him, and despite the roughness, love was also a factor as he grunted, arched his back and pushed up hard into her as he exploded into her in bliss. He was thankful for self-driving cars as he held her body tightly against him, and caressed her heated and red ass the best he could while lost in the endlessly short bliss of completion.

  She sucked his earlobe and made sexy feminine sounds as she started to come down from her own bliss, and she started to rock her body, and grind her hips.

  His cock was incredibly sensitive, but he leaned his head forward, buried his face in her generous cleavage, and used his hands to steady her body’s rhythm as he started to thrust up from below. It didn’t take long to get through the overstimulation, and then he started to caress and knead her ass softly.

  She whispered breathily as she rode him faster, “That feels so good, your soft touch on my stinging flesh. I love you Ted, but right now I’m going to fuck your brains out.”

  She reached up and pulled her dress straps off of her shoulders and freed her perfect creamy D cups. The dress had built in support, so she’d no bra on. She wrapped her arms back around his neck, and pulled his head into her violently bouncing breasts as she’d started to ride him hard and fast.

  His own hands roamed from her thin waist, hips, and ass as he helped her with balance and thrusted up from beneath to meet her hard down stroke as she bounced and impaled herself on his pleasure hard and fast. His cock strained inside of her as his face was pummeled with the soft supple flesh of her bouncing breasts. He did his best to kiss, suck, and tease them, but mainly just enjoyed them bouncing right in his face as she took him hard and fast.

  “Ted, you make me such a slut for you, I’ve been wanting this so badly all night. Fuck, you’re so big, and I love you so much, fuck!” she gasped the last and rolled into another orgasm.

  She lost her balance as she exploded around him, and he grabbed her ass firmly to hold her still, and started to pump up into her fast and hard to extend and intensify her orgasm.

  He wished he could see her face, but her breasts were practically smothering him, in a good way, and she had her arms around his neck, while her body trembled and bucked against him intensely. He didn’t stop fucking her hard and fast from below, and as she slowly came down she rejoined their rhythm as they pleasured each other hard and fast.

  He pulled her off of him and she cried out at the loss, and then he twisted her to the side and pushed her down. It was a little awkward with the car ceiling, but he managed to get up on his knees and bend over her a bit as he slid into her from behind.

  She gasped in pleasure, put her hands against the window for leverage, and started to buck back into him like a woman possessed.

  He gave a brief thought that he was happy they were in virtual world, because he imagined anyone looking in the window would get an eyeful of her bouncing breasts. He could make out a dim reflection of her face, which was filled with pleasure and wanton surrender as they slapped their bodies together.

  He groaned, “Fuck Mia, you’re a goddess,” as she started to grind, arch her hack, and increase the depth of penetration.

  She gasped out, “Your slut goddess, you feel so big… and I’m going to cum again…” she trailed off with a hitch in her breath and a keening sound as she tightened around him once again, and milked him hard.

  He spanked her hard, and pulled back on her gorgeous silken blue-black hair, and then felt his balls start to tighten, and his legs grow numb for the second time.

  She yelped in pain and pleasure, and started to tremble and shake even harder. She couldn’t speak, but he heard her mewl and gasp in approval as he stretched her out further as his cock expanded deep inside of her nubile body.

  He stroked in and out of her two more times, and then buried it hard right as his body and mind were overtaken with rapturous bliss. He grunted as he shot into her, and all that existed in that moment was mind blowing pleasure, the scent of his lover, her feminine sounds of delight, and the feel of her body and his joined together in mutual ecstasy…

  She kissed him in a way that could only be called worshipful as they cuddled in the front seat. The car had stopped a few minutes ago, and they’d been worshiping each other ever since, with soft loving touches, and sweet kisses. She was always a kitten after rough sex, and he knew tender and intimate actions after that kind of hard core rutting was important.

  After all, he could feel it too.

  “I love you Ted.”

  He smiled, and nibbled her neck, “I love you too gorgeous.”

  She sighed and melted against him further, “We should go inside.”

  He asked, “Is there a rush? I’m up for making love to you right in the car. Inside seems like a lot of effort.”

  She giggled, “Yeah, I want to feel you make love to me too, but there’s a snag.”

  He frowned, “A snag?”

  She kissed him softly and then made a humming noise of contentment, “A small snag. I told Helen and Trudy they could crash the second half of our date.”

  His eyes narrowed in confusion for a moment, and then widened in understanding. He didn’t know why he didn’t think of it before, probably because he’d been completely focused on Mia, but he realized Trudy must have spent weeks of time subjectively on their technology, and Helen an equal amount of time, if not longer in the minute it took her to figure out the DNA data storage on the Xaran ship.

  He hugged her tighter, “So they’re both in bed waiting for us, feeling sex starved?”

  She giggled, “Probably not in general, I’m sure they got started without us, but starved for your cock, most certainly.”

  He sighed falsely, as if put upon, “I suppose I have a duty.”

  She snickered, and caressed his cock, which was obviously harder than when they’d started that conversation.

  “You’re a very bad man Ted.”

  He grinned, “Yes, but I’m all yours. Okay, let’s go inside. But we need to take a stolen moment to make love in the next day or so, I don’t want to wait for our next date.”

  She kissed him, and then sighed into his mouth, “Anytime my love.”

  Not that he was truly disappointed he was about to have a wild mind blowing threesome with Trudy, Mia, and Helen, only that he wouldn’t be making love to Mia. He really wanted to do both. He opened the door without further discussion, and then picked her up in his arms. She wrapped her legs around him and curled her body, burying her face into his neck for more nuzzling and kissing, and they went inside to his other two loves. It was going to be a fun night…

  Chapter Fifteen

  Thursday morning was fairly quiet, and he got a lot of studying done. Outside of cooking breakfast for Silvia, and servicing her under the table on a whim, that’s pretty much all he worked on.

  He also looked over some of the technologies possible from what he was learning. He already had a small grasp on FTL, it was the shielding that still eluded him when in subspace. It was less blocking the energy in subspace, then routing the energy inside a field. Much like using drainage ditches to stop flooding, the energy, much like the water, wasn’t truly blocked, just redirected.

  Which is where the weapon part came in. If a field could be created to redirect that deadly energy around a ship, it could also be used to concentrate it, in order to direct or fire it at another ship, even in normal space, in concentrations not even found in subspace. Kind of like several small tributaries feeds a large river. He knew the water simile wasn’t the best, but it was the simplest way to picture it.

  At that point, the question would be what was stronger, the fields concentrating and firing that energy, or the defending ships field that would redirect and disperse the energy harmlessly back into the void. If the shields failed, there would be nothing less than total annihilation of all matter that the energy came in contact with.

  That didn’t guarantee the destruction of a ship though, the energy would dissipate quickly. It would just mean the ship was holed, unless of course it hit a critical system and caused secondary explosions.

  While the Xaran’s power technologies didn’t exceed the knowledge of the A.I.s, he noted that there were a number of other disciplines where they did. Namely data storage, DNA manipulation, and things like the liquid metal. He thought Trudy had handed some of that stuff off to other A.I.s, he wasn’t fussed about it, he couldn’t expect himself to be a master of many disciplines. Although he had the time now to do so, he’d rather focus on making advancements in his own chosen field.