She said breathily, “You’re still looking at me in awe. You really accept me, Gary. I’m sorry I doubted, but I know there’s whole generations of the woman’s liberation movement rolling over in their graves right now. I really do want it, so badly, to be your plaything in all things.”

  I turned her over and spanked her sharpy, and she cried out in shock, then let out a breathy moan.

  I said sternly, “I asked, is that clear?”

  She hummed, then panted out, “Very clear, sir.”

  I kissed her sweetly, “Next time I ask a question, you’ll answer it. And yes, you awe me, angel. You all do. Maybe it’s a shock to you, but it’s a shock to me too, being able to express my need to own, dominate, possess, and cherish in full measure… without being called a sexist pervert or a Neanderthal is priceless.”

  Darkness billowed, returned our clothes, and pulled up her panties besides.

  Her eyes twinkled, “Lucky us.”

  I grinned, “All of us, angel. Now let’s go, I know Amelia needs a spanking too.”

  She giggled, “I just bet she does.”

  Chapter Twelve

  Natasha

  The warmth of his hand in mine didn’t get old, as I simmered in my own constant arousal. It wasn’t even really frustrating at all, not even a little bit, as I leaned back against him with his right arm around my body, and my right hand lifted to hold his while I caressed his leg. I shamelessly drowned in it, and I melted into his short and chaste kiss. It was hard to explain, the sexual tension was there but it was as I said before, my new base.

  It was the next day, just a few minutes before the meeting. The trouble we’d been half expecting hadn’t materialized, and I wasn’t sure if that was a good or bad sign.

  “Anything up?”

  He chuckled, “Besides putting Vicki on the payroll, not much.”

  I giggled, “Details?”

  He shrugged, “Well she still needs a household account and budget for her duties. But I’m taking care of her allowance, I set up a prepaid visa account I’m going to put a thousand a week onto, just spending cash. I mean, I assume you’ll still be spoiling her a bit with the clothes shopping. She didn’t tell you?”

  I smirked, “That she’s your woman now, not just in bed but her whole life belongs to you? She may have mentioned it with a dreamy smile on her face,” I giggled, “but I didn’t know the details on the… stipend account. Not a bad solution, but we should probably set up a trust in her name with a monthly spending limit attached, we’ll save even more on taxes that way.”

  He said, “That’s not a bad idea. How about you, any more dark secrets for me?”

  I winked, “You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

  He laughed, “I just want to give you what you all need, and I think I’ve got it all straight now that we’re opening up. But I thought I knew it all before this last development too. So, no secret desires to be ordered about outside of bed?”

  I grinned, “No, sorry.”

  He winked, “Don’t be, you’re amazing the way you are.”

  I felt a flush of warmth, but just enjoyed it, since we didn’t have time for me to extract his pleasure with my body right now. My mind was almost always lingering on sex these days, even more than in my past, but it was all the attendant emotions that made it not shallow. In my head, at least.

  “So are you, honey. I don’t think anyone else is submissive outside the bedroom, although Amelia is sweetly accommodating, she wants polite respect when asked to do something.”

  He nodded in agreement, “Almost like a normal person that way.”

  I giggled, “Saying we’re not normal?”

  He shook his head, “We’re pretty freaky actually, and amazing. I’m not making assumptions though, I’m guessing there’s a lot more layers to peel in all of you, if not in who you are now. If that makes sense.”

  “Total sense, I kind of think we have everyone’s needs down, in the bedroom and out.”

  He said, “As soon as this is dealt with, we need date nights. I miss the intensity of a night out alone with you, and I want that with the others too. Might as well take advantage until school starts back up, and I’ve already looked into some online courses for my master’s degree in business. You and Mandy will be off at school a lot, and Amelia will probably be working from here too.”

  I nodded, “I’ve already thought of that, I’ve got three more desks and computers coming, the home office is big enough to add a desk, and we can set up a second office.”

  “Three?”

  I grinned, “Vicki will need a computer to track the help, and monitor accounts. All that good stuff. The only reason I didn’t order one for Mandy as well is because she said her laptop and online backups were good enough, and she didn’t want an office. She prefers to lounge in the living room, outside, or on the bed while working.”

  He grunted, “Good point. You ready to do this, baby?”

  I grinned, “I’m always ready,” and winked saucily as I stood up. I let out a sigh as Gary patted my ass in a way that said he owned me, which sent a warm thrill as well as a small measure of delicious shame through me at the thought. Maybe I didn’t want to be dominated or ordered about out of bed, but I sure as hell wanted to be owned, cherished, and loved in all places.

  He winked, and said confidently, “I know you are, trouble.”

  My body warmed. I’d been sure he’d noticed I was always at least a little turned on, and that pretty much told me he did.

  Then the darkness billowed, and he took us to the Marriot.

  Tatiana and Bruce had the end seats this time, and we were on the left side closer to Bruce, with Freda toward the other end. Teresa was across from Freda, and Steven across from us. He’d barely made it on time.

  Tatiana said, “I’ve thought about it, and I’m willing to explore the idea of a joint government, if I get to oversee it all. Not rule it mind, but to monitor and ensure no one is crossing lines.”

  Bruce and Steven stared at each other, daring the other to go first and name their preference, which allowed Teresa to steal the moment.

  Teresa said, “I would be willing to go along with it, and even participate under Freda’s authority. I believe as the goddess of the harvest, and if I recruited the god of famine, we could help out a lot that way. It’s what I’d be doing anyway, really, just more effective and with the added benefit of making us indispensable to the humans. Along with the pestilence idea, I think we’d have two programs that would keep the humans out of our way and at least grudgingly accepting.”

  That was interesting, Freda must’ve talked to her after we left, because Teresa had made no sign of support and was standoffish at the idea of participating or choosing sides when we all left yesterday. That was a good thing, as far as I was concerned, and her teaming up with famine was a fantastic idea, to tell the humans where the best harvests and worst would be that year and help them plan to alleviate problems.

  Steven sighed, “Fine, I can see I’m already outvoted by five. I would be willing to take on the spy side of things. I can deal with the fae for ground agents, and I can use spirits and demons as untraceable and undetectable spies.”

  Bruce waved, “Which leaves me the job of enforcement, which is acceptable.”

  That was far too easy, or was I paranoid? Maybe despite Tatiana’s efforts and betrayals to take out Nate and attempt a coup, she really would prefer to have her fingers in everything with a modicum of power and absolutely no responsibility at all.

  “We’re in, obviously. Any ideas on hammering out the details?”

  Freda said, “Recruitment should be left up to the individual in question, if more than one of us tries to pick them up. Better to let the person we’re recruiting choose between us, than for us to argue about who gets the person. Plus, they’ll be more motivated to do the job they themselves have chosen.”

  Bruce said, “I can agree to that in principle, but I get first crack at the war gods with fighting ability. For example, pestilence and famine won’t really help in a physical fight, and that’s what I’m looking at for my section. In short, there aren’t that many to begin with, and Brandon is dead right now, not to mention Mandy works for the justice side. I’m going to need the rest, so I don’t need a fight.”

  Tatiana waved, “I have no intentions of drafting a war god as an administrative assistant or data entry person. But Freda has a point, for those we recruit with no specific or obvious purpose, we leave it up to them to decide what branch they’ll serve in, if two or more of us want him or her.”

  Steven said, “Fine, I’ll agree, just to move on.”

  We signaled agreement as well, as did Teresa.

  Tatiana said, “We should have one joint database, but only I can see everything. For instance, Gary and his team would need write access to the judgement section, and read access to the enforcement section to prepare for trials. But they wouldn’t have a need to see diplomatic efforts, or what tidbits our spies are turning up.”

  Steven said, “Unacceptable. The write access part works. Access limitations are important, and we don’t want other groups messing with our data, but we all need read for everything. You officially have the watchdog function, but I suspect we’ll all be watching you and each other as well.”

  He was kind of an ass, but I totally agreed with him, that’d be a good part of what Amelia would be doing every day. Without it, it wouldn’t even be close to a full-time job.

  I sighed, “I’m going to agree with Steven on this one.”

  Tatiana frowned, “If we’re all watching each other what the hell is the point in my position then?”

  I said, “That’s easy. Someone needs to make it all work. Organize the data entry, work with programmers to form the database we want. We also won’t have the insight into the system that you will as the oversight from day one. You’ll also be responsible for any investigations, even if one of us detects an irregularity first, we’ll report it to you, and it will be up to your team to nail it down and call a council meeting which you would be running.”

  Steven frowned, then sighed, “Acceptable, if we have full read access to everything. I’ll especially need that, given my whole thing is spying on all of you and the humans, shifters, witches, vampires, and fae.”

  Tatiana chuckled, “I see, I can live with that. Does anyone else object to Natasha’s compromise and explanation?”

  Bruce waved, “Next.”

  Both Freda and Teresa nodded in agreement.

  At that point we started to get into the bare bones of things, and to fill in the details of our new oligarchic government structure, though with the checks and balances we were putting in between us all, it wasn’t a true oligarchy. Only in relation to new laws and punishing one of us on the council, were we actually going to vote on anything once it was up and running.

  Every small thing was a small argument, like the last one.

  In the end, none of the three who wished to be dictators were truly happy with it, but the other four of us were. Which really, was fine by me. At the very least, they were happy about their duties and responsibilities, it was not having influence on the rest of us and our responsibilities that chafed them. They’d also picked the roles our goddess of wisdom had suggested for them, which was a little bit satisfying, even if we’d never tell…

  Mandy’s sweet exuberant kiss warmed me all the way down to my toes, and my heart as well. The others had disappeared after we got back from the meeting. We were officially taking up our duties immediately, but mostly working through e-mails and good faith. Tatiana had promised to have something to show us in a week, as well as test, and the final changes to the database would be made once she had our feedback.

  It was a start.

  Regardless, Gary had dragged away Amelia and Vicki, and I suspected he’d taken the latter along merely to get nasty and slut shame Amelia while he dominated her. He was right, our family was pretty extreme, freaky, and awesome. At least to us we were.

  Mandy’s sweet kisses were like candy, exuberant yet soft and teasing, and I gave a little moan as she started to play with the twins, and I returned the favor on her pert and firm B cups.

  The kiss broke, and I looked deeply into her warm light gray eyes. She looked so eager and excited to be with me, so very breathless for me, so very sexy with her body against mine, and so very in love. It was that last one, that made me melt and quiver inside, and I felt a warmth flush through my body and turn my pussy molten.

  “I love you, cuteness.”

  It was like watching the sun come up when she smiled, her light blonde hair framing her adorably beautiful face.

  “I love you too, Natasha. I… oh my god, I’m going to cry.”

  I kissed her instead, warmly and deeply.

  She pushed me firmly against the couch, and I sighed and just let it happen, as she ripped my dress open and my double Ds spilled out into her hands. No big deal, my beauty power could fix it, and it was kind of hot as she attacked my breasts with poignant tears and love in her eyes, and so much excitement she looked like she just may have a heart attack.

  I ran my fingers through her hair as I arched my back, drowning in the sensations of her touch, and her sweet lips, tongue, and teeth on my nipples. An involuntary gasp left my lips, as she rolled my nipple with her hand and firmly squeezed the breast she was sucking on with the other.

  “That feels amazing, cuteness,” I said warmly, then gasped and my body arched, as one of her hands slipped up the skirt of my dress. When she found me wet, she just started to pound me with her fingers which seemed to be literally vibrating using her super speed as a goddess of war to drive into me more times a second than I could realistically count. All while her tongue circled my nipple, and her other hand just short of mauled my other tit.

  “Oh my god, oh god, yes, yes… oh my god!” I started to pant wildly, as she literally vibrated her thumb over my folds stimulating my clit with the perfect touch. My legs went wider into a split along the couch, as I my hands fisted her hair and I arched my back to push into her hand, as well as push my tits harder into her face and other hand.

  “Oh, cuteness, oh goddess yes, yes, yes, Yes!” the pleasure swept me away and I reached for her with my love, my mantel, and as the bond formed I flooded it with the pleasure I was feeling. She bit down on my nipple hard as she gasped and bucked, joining me in the avalanche of pleasure. I didn’t even know what side was up, and my pussy was clenching so hard around her sweet pounding fingers, and we were both writhing and quivering as we tumbled in the storm of pleasure.

  I sighed in contentment, two down, two to go. I now had the love of Gary and Mandy, and the bonds had been formed. I felt a smug joy in it, because they were mine, and I was theirs too.

  She looked in amazement at me, then at the ceiling, “I can feel him too. Oh, that’s going to be distracting.”

  I giggled naughtily, “You get used to it, it’s so exciting feeling his pleasure with the others, and he feels mine too, and now he’ll feel yours. Come kiss me, cuteness.”

  She lunged up my body, her breasts mashing into mine as our tongues and lips danced together. She sighed in pleasure as my hands freely explored all the places on her body I’d been denied while she was down on her knees before me.

  She gasped in a breath as it broke, then asked, “He loves me?”

  I replied, “The bond wouldn’t have set, if he didn’t.”

  I took her hand and raised it to my lips, only to moan at my sweet taste as I sucked the liquid essence of my orgasm off her fingertips.

  She bit her lip, “Gods, I really need to suck his dick right now.”

  I giggled, “Welcome to my world.”

  She laughed, “This is… wonderful, love.”

  “You’re a wonder but thank you. How about the playroom?”

  She nodded, “I could really do with a sixty-nine while you stick a fat vibrator in my ass.”

  I winked, “I like the way you think.”

  I focused very carefully, and then teleported us upstairs, our clothes however wound up folded in a neat pile on the table, and we were completely naked. Which worked out just about perfectly for what came next…

  Mandy and I were back in the living room, and I could tell through the bond that Gary was finishing up his little threesome upstairs.

  It started with a deep bone trembling rumble. The mansion’s windows started to vibrate violently, then a deep still silence as if a great danger had passed over us, but my instincts were screaming at me. That death’s deliverer was almost here.

  “Gary! Shield the house!”

  The wards were strong, making the house essentially bulletproof, and it might weather a grenade or two, explosive or incendiary, but not much more than that. I didn’t know why we were under attack, or who was responsible, but I didn’t feel power or witchcraft, or fae magic for that matter. So whoever was behind it they were involving the humans and their destructive technology. It seemed likely the roaring sound and the windows rattling had been a jet aircraft doing Mach speeds underneath ten thousand feet. Or maybe I just had an overactive imagination, but I couldn’t imagine what else it would be, and there had been a loud boom at its passing.

  It could’ve just been passing, or it could’ve been dropping a bomb on us. The fact was to maintain a level of vigilance to protect our lives, we had to err on the side of paranoia in all things that could be a threat.

  Mandy looked nervous as well, and she raised a powerful dome of power around us.

  A spell rolled off my lips to create a powerful cyclonic wind barrier in the form of a hemi-sphere dome over the house. I was sure Gary’s power could stop anything, but I didn’t feel it yet. The first explosion was horribly loud, and it shook the house as I finished the spell, wondering if we shouldn’t just teleport out.

  The second explosion was like the gates of hell opening, a powerful thump sound followed by a roaring explosion, and a concussion wave that shattered all the windows in the house and physically hurt my eardrums. The wash of heat through the house was more than a little uncomfortable, and I looked toward the window. All I saw was billowing flames, beyond the cyclonic shield.