As a result, she came so hard when I started to fill her that she passed out. One of the sexiest things I’d ever witnessed, to be honest. Only one of, because with three goddesses, a naughty dirty girl witch, and a hot fae that bar was pretty damned high.

  She was a hell of a woman.

  Chapter Ten

  Holy shit, I was going to be a father.

  The news truly sunk in later that evening around the dinner table, while I was telling them all about it.

  Lily said, “That’s shocking. Just shooting your cum into pussies without a care can get someone pregnant? Who knew?”

  I laughed.

  June blushed, “So, we’re okay with this?”

  I nodded, “I think we have to be. Like Lily so delicately pointed out, I’m half responsible. Are you okay with it?”

  June tilted her head, “It’s kind of hot, and I think I’m actually jealous,” she titled her head, “No, not jealous. Envious. I want your baby more than I thought I did, even. Apparently.”

  I grinned, “We can discuss that if you want?”

  She blushed furiously.

  “I’m really tempted, sir. But we really should wait until our harem is settled, our three ideas are realized, and everyone knows their part as well as their personal ambitions.”

  I nodded in understanding, but I’d also knock her up tonight if she asked it of me, and I told her that with my eyes.

  “Anyway, I also have a solid weekly rendezvous with her now, for a long-term affair. Which works, being on good terms I mean when it’s time to meet my kid. So, anyone else jealous or want to talk about having my babies,” I winked at Amber.

  Amber snorted, “You wish,” then she blushed. Oh my, that was interesting. I thought about teasing her further, but since it was shockingly true I didn’t. She didn’t even like me, which… made it all a little kinky in my head. I mean, children weren’t a part of the whole mantel thing driving us, so it was her alone as a person that apparently wanted my kid. Which… gave me a headache to think about.

  Brenna asked, “You’re not angry she tricked you?”

  I shrugged, “She didn’t lie, or say she was on the pill, or that it was safe to cum in her. She even begged me to fill her womb, so in hindsight the clues were there. So not really, it’s my own damned fault for not thinking or asking. I even kind of get it, she wants an heir and child but is wary of men after her fortune, so she thought an entitled god taking her and knocking her up was a good solution. Of course, she misjudged me a little, but not on the fortune part. She just thought I’d blow her off and she’d never see me again, but she was also happy to find out that wasn’t the case.”

  Lily teased, “He means the pussy is just that good.”

  I chuckled, and then winked her way. She wasn’t completely wrong, that definitely entered into it. But that didn’t make the other part untrue.

  Amber asked, “You don’t care about the money?”

  I shook my head, “It’s all about the sex and company. Her body and personality, really. For now, anyway, the heart might come into it later. We have our own money, and we’re just getting started that way. We don’t need hers. Anyway, I think I’m excited. I’d rather my kid was here, but I can visit more than once a week if I want, I think. Just not for wild crazy sex, when her staff is around,” I looked at Brenna, “Will you teach magic, not just spell craft but responsibility.”

  She had an amazing track record of making responsible witches out of daughters and granddaughters, so it seemed like a no-brainer to make her my daughter’s magical tutor. All my sons and daughters, eventually, which was a startling thought.

  Brenna blushed, then said, “I’d be honored to, angel face.”

  We started to dig into the meals, both Lily and June giving me considering looks, Amber refused to look at me at all for the same reason, and both Brenna and Caitria were keeping their heads down.

  I noted in a neutral tone, “We are millionaires, with two servants. Our harem will be complete in just three months, that would give us six to iron things out, and I’m sure we could handle both anyway. If you want my opinion.”

  June bit her lip, and Lily tilted her head, but neither of them spoke.

  Amber snorted derisively, which probably meant her pussy had clenched at the thought of me knocking her up.

  We were about halfway through when I felt Nate and Brandon appear in the yard. Without calling again. At least they respected the sanctity of my house, but it didn’t feel like enough as I got up and headed out back, my ladies following in my wake. They usually let me deal with him alone, which meant that they were more worried about Nate’s intentions than they’d let on after my warnings.

  Still, I wasn’t about to give him yet another reason to be pissed at me by harping on the same complaint I gave him last time.

  “Nate, good to see you’re well.”

  Nate frowned, “Nix is dead. It was necessary to clear all of her compulsions, so the war is over. The problem is your handling of the U.N. I told you to handle it, not turn them over to the authorities.”

  I shook my head, of course he’d do this, the fucking bastard.

  “You know that’s not right, Nate. It couldn’t have ended any other way. There was no way to intercept them ahead of time, and if I’d tried to keep them, you would’ve been accused of harboring terrorists against humanity. They were going to slaughter over four hundred people, important dignitaries from over two hundred world governments. They don’t get a pass for that, even you can’t afford to give them one for that.

  “But that’s why you gave the task to me, right? So you’d have someone else to blame for the resulting crap storm? Both to humanity and to the gods who will whine at you because of it.”

  Nate scowled, “You could have compelled them, instead of attacking eight people in the U.N. assembly room.”

  I shook my head, “They were protected by Nix’s compulsions, and Nix wasn’t dead yet. The government was the best way to contain them. You have the others in custody?”

  Nate said, “It’s not your concern.”

  I sighed, “Nancy stirred mischief my way, that makes it my concern for at least her. I’d appreciate if you put my mind to rest on that one matter,” I tried for respectful, and mostly made it.

  Nate waved, “She won’t be a problem for you again. Not for a long time. Now, what I need from you to fix this is to borrow one of your goddesses.”

  I frowned, “Excuse me?” suppressing the immediate and total rage I felt in his direction.

  Nate shrugged, “I’ll need to influence several humans to fix your mistakes. Not politicians, but the long-term movers and shakers in the background. They won’t let me near them, but I can get a disguised goddess close enough to distract and compromise them with influence. That’s what they’re for, to inspire and seduce.”

  I snorted, “For the arts. To inspire and seduce for their specific art. Not as a political band aid to secure your political rule.”

  Nate said, “Don’t push me, you’re responsible for this clusterfuck, and I will have one of your goddesses to fix it, even if she has to fuck half of Washington. I’d suggest you get used to the idea, that’s what they’re for, not your own private love nest.”

  “You’re wrong. They’d do it to please me and they’d like doing it because I asked them to, but they wouldn’t enjoy it by preference. They are seductive to enhance their inspiration, sex sells as they say, that doesn’t mean they’re my whores, and they’re sure as fuck not yours. I’m here to guide them and protect them, not abuse and take advantage of them, and I’ll be fucking damned before…”

  Amber yelled, “Stop! I’ll do it.”

  My head spun around in shock, and I glared at her, “What?”

  Amber sighed, “I’ll do it. Who’s going to protect June, Lily and the other six when they arrive if you’re not here. If you refuse Nate, he will kill you and take one of us anyway, even against our will if he needs to. Then what will happen? Not only will those two be grieving for your dumb dead ass, they’ll also turn into true sluts, desperate for cock and to seduce anyone. They’ll be abused by other gods.

  “You can’t fight Nate, and you have to be here for them. They love you, and you love them. I hate you Nate, and I know you don’t like me. So I’ll be the one to go for the sake of all of us.”

  She scowled at Nate, “I’ll also be the one to decide who I spread my legs for, if I can influence them without fucking them, that’s what I’ll be doing. I trust the god of justice is not a rapist by proxy.”

  Nate looked at her furiously, then looked back at me, “She’s not wrong. Bend on this or I will take all of them until you’re reborn and grow into your power. One now, or your death and all of them, pick and watch your tone with me.”

  I chuckled, and said calmly, “You wanted this. You want me to lose my temper and attack you. This was your plan, not to blame me, but to set me up to die by pushing my buttons. A way to pay off your petty grudge with me. I can hear your sad words now. Well council of the gods, he refused my orders and attacked me like a madman. I had no choice but to end him. Justice? Twisted and corrupt, more like. Go ahead, take Amber, but there will eventually be a reckoning. You’re what, a god for less than two fucking weeks, and you’re already a corrupt one? All gods have influence, but you have to have mine. Go ahead, take her.”

  I turned to Amber, “I’m sorry, and thank you.”

  The rage in me was explosive, and it was only the need to protect the others that held my hand and my power. If not for Amber’s timely interruption, I would’ve attacked him for his petty and evil words, which was all a manipulation to make me do exactly that.

  Nate looked deadly, “What makes you think I won’t kill you for what you just said?”

  I said, “Because you made a mistake, Nate. Your will and petty desire twists your power to rule so you’d know what to say and do to destroy me. But you forgot your only king of the hill for another nine days. What will Hera, Demeter, or Hestia think about you killing me so you could whore out goddesses? Keeping my charges as your personal political fuck toys? I’m sure the goddesses of family, hearth and home, and the harvest would love that. Not. What about your two brothers?

  “Also, what about my power? Did you forget that? You seem to remember you needed my service for this war. Did you think it was all tied up now? That there’d be no more challenges for you to face? Did you forget that only two fifths of the gods are here so far?

  “You need to come to terms with those other five gods on your level, and perhaps others we don’t even know about. There’s at least three more waves, and two tier one gods came out this last time. So what’s the chances the last three waves will have two each as well? That’s six, not five.

  “Do you think maybe killing me might be a poor idea in that light, to lose the insight of the seer and my superior information gathering, for twenty-two years. Your so blinded by your petty anger, arrogance, and power you’d kill one of your greatest assets, for a mistake anyone would’ve made. I haven’t betrayed you, I have been loyal, my only fault is not being perfect. So, leave my property, or take Amber and go, or fucking kill me.

  “Your choice, Nate.”

  I started to wonder if I’d overplayed my hand. It looked like Nate was considering blasting all of us and then burying the story. Fortunately, a new player showed herself in a flash of light.

  She had dark hair similar to June’s, but instead of ringlets, hers was like a waterfall of liquid night. She was five foot five, with an athletic body save her generous C cups which just looked a little too big for her frame, in a good way. Her eyes were warm brown. She walked up to me with a smile, leaned in with sparkling eyes, and kissed me.

  It was a nice kiss, but I really couldn’t enjoy it in the tension and danger of imminent destruction. Not fully at least, but she gave me a warm smile and a wink, before turning to Nate.

  “Those weren’t your only mistakes, foolish one. He will never seek to unseat you from your throne, Nate. I swear this on my power, you have no true reason to fear him. Give up your petty grudge, for he is destined to save your life again. Or let Amber’s service sate your grudge if you must, but if you kill him, I swear you will not rule long.”

  Nate scowled, “Who are you to make such pronouncements?”

  She smirked, “Sara, the rebirth of Clotho. I’m still waiting for my sisters. Your additional mistake by the way, was to forget my lover back here is allied to the fates and fate. Don’t fuck with us, I really wouldn’t advise it. He’s right, you’re turning into a petty thug, trying to set him up to die because he made a simple error in service to you? Not even Zeus was that arrogant that he forgot a king must treat his dukes with respect, lest he lose theirs.”

  “Lovers?” I asked curiously.

  She turned around and winked, “Can’t wait for our first time, it was amazing.”

  I snickered.

  She said to Nate, “You can have your petty grudge and save face while backing down, if you take Amber. Take the win, but if you take her there will be consequences. You will not be betrayed, or unseated, but you will lose his willing help, though he will still assist you grudgingly at times. Or give in to your petty hate and unreasoned anger and destroy him and your rule both.”

  I wanted to argue that grudging help part, but then I was still fuming with rage under the surface of my placid front. I had to keep both the mental picture of June and Lily forefront in my mind to stop from exploding. Literally. Point being, I wasn’t about to question the decree of one of the fates, there must be a driving reason behind me working with him again in the future. Because if he took Amber, I would hate him for as long as I drew breath.

  Nate said, “I would come back and rule again.”

  Sara sighed and shook her head, “Why are you assuming the one that will seek to unseat you, and will succeed unless diverted by Mark, will kill you? Maybe they’ll just imprison you for eternity.”

  Nate scowled. He was acting like a brat that couldn’t get his way, not a king.

  He said, “Our grudge is at an end, when Amber has set right your mistakes. I will not go back on my word.”

  He gestured, and he, Brandon, and Amber disappeared in a bright flash of golden spherical light.

  Sara shook her head, and then turned, “We’ll meet again in a few months, for that first time. Don’t deny it, I know you already want me. Perv,” she said that last fondly, “I’d stay now, but if I do it will screw everything up. So until then, I’ll have to settle for my rabbit.”

  I snorted, “I wouldn’t presume to question the fates.”

  Sara giggled, “You always did have a good sense of humor, even when lost in anger.”

  She waved, and then teleported away.

  My whole body started to shake with adrenaline and fury. Without a target for it present anymore, and the specter of violence and death past, it had nowhere to go.

  That bastard had taken Amber, and worse, it was an impotent anger. Sara was right, Nate was safe from my revenge, for the sake of protecting the others from the fate that Amber had so painfully spelled out earlier.

  June wrapped her arms around me, “We’ll get her back. I’m sorry, we don’t blame you, Nate is responsible.”

  Lily hugged me too, “Agreed, we’d have only blamed you if you’d thrown your life away.”

  I took a deep breath, “What did you two think of Sara?”

  June kissed my neck, “She was nice, fierce and protective of you, and she pushed Nate off his feed hard. I liked her.”

  I said, “I’m thinking no more lovers.”

  Lily giggled, “Why’s that?”

  “Math. I mean, besides our eleven-member harem. I have affairs with the twins, Katerina, Allison is a maybe you two are going to set up, then the three fates and fate herself. That’s a different affair every morning after breakfast seven days a week, plus keeping two sets of four and one set of three in our harem happy and sated over every three-day period. I think that’s about all I can handle.”

  It sounded kind of insane, but I only slept two hours a day, I could handle that and stay productive too, I was fairly sure.

  Lily giggled, “We’ll see.”

  “Huh?”

  Lily shrugged, “There are a few assumptions in there we can’t be sure of. I know Allison wants you, and your affairs with the fates are likely to last a lifetime, but the others could fizzle out and open up a day for you to add another.

  “Then there’s torrid short-term affairs you could be having with other acquaintances, just to get it out of your system. Like Stephanie. You’d so do her, Lassiter’s seconds or not, she’s hot and you’ve grown fond of her.

  “Lastly, it’s possible the fates are a single package, Sara didn’t say her first time with you was alone. So that opens up two more morning slots for two more long-term affairs.”

  Damn, her logic was full of as many assumptions as mine, but she wasn’t wrong about any of it. Not even Stephanie honestly, as my anger at Lassiter had been cooling, almost in direct proportion to my attraction for Stephanie, if I was going to be honest with myself.

  June pointed out, “Plus, one more advisor would make it four, four, and four. But that should be the limit, at least for our internal harem. I can’t go longer than two days without your cock in me. No way.”

  I snickered, “Thanks, I know you guys are just trying to distract me right now from worrying about Amber, even if it’s all kind of true, too. No matter which scenario plays out, the limiting criteria are the same based on numbers if not exact individuals, and that’s what I’m sticking too. But you’re right, that doesn’t preclude a short torrid affair from time to time.”

  June asked, “Wait, you do want to sleep with Stephanie a few times?”

  She sighed, pulled out a dollar, and then handed it to Lily, “I thought for sure you wouldn’t.”

  Lily snickered, “He doesn’t hold grudges. He might have anger issues, but he’s not a petty person.”

  June nodded, “I know.”

  “Did you two bet a dollar on this?”