She said breathily, “I love you, Jon. But I think I may love your fuck-stick more.”

  I snickered, “Love you too, sexy sprite. My Lina.”

  We’d been wild before of course, I’d taken her hard and mercilessly many times, but in the past it’d been more… controlled and measured. I’d rocked her world, as I stayed in control, just as harsh of a pounding maybe, but different. That time on the bridge I’d lost control for perhaps the first time in bed ever. It hadn’t been a measured seduction or fuck, I’d just lost my mind and rutted into her.

  Truly used her for my pleasure, for the first time, rather than playing a hot and spicy role to feed her kink behind closed doors.

  Which… she’d really enjoyed, my loss of control had been the extra element, not how hard I’d been pounding her, or how many times she’d cum around me helplessly. I think she’d gotten off on the idea she’d broken me, made me reveal my animal instincts and deeply possessive nature.

  I had to admit, a part of me had enjoyed it too, just letting go and feeling as I plundered her heavenly pleasure with my pounding cock.

  She also sighed and kissed my chest, at the gentle way I was caressing her back lovingly in the moment. Holding her tight, because she was precious to me.

  She raised up slightly and looked up to claim my lips, and then let out a sweet sigh as the atmosphere turned to loving and sweet. Her hands on my chest caressed lightly, and her lips were a little teasing but so soft and lingering on mine. Like she’d yielded her body to my need, and now she was giving me her heart.

  It was a poignant moment, and not just one I felt.

  She whispered, “Jon.”

  “Yes, Lina?”

  She kissed me lovingly, then said softly, “I’m ready, Jon. I want to get married with the rest of you. I want you to be mine, my husband, and the father of my future children, when I’m ready to have them. I want to finish college first, and then get back to patrolling…” she trailed off as I covered her lips with a fingertip.

  She’d obviously been babbling, out of nerves. I could also scarcely believe my Lina had just proposed to me, instead of the other way around. I didn’t care that it was in bed right after some of the most amazing sex I’d had in my life either, even if I know I’d have been in trouble if I’d done the same.

  “I’d love to marry you. I can’t imagine my life without you in it, Lina.”

  I teleported the ring to my hand, and I shocked her by taking her left hand and sliding it on the ring finger. We’d already picked it out the style that day with the others, but I didn’t imagine I’d be seeing it on her finger for another few months at least.

  But still semi in the honeymoon phase or not, I knew I belonged to her, and I had no doubts. The love and sincerity, and her revealed heart that showed in her eyes, told me she was ready too. No deflecting joke, or self-deprecating humor, just her before me emotionally naked with nothing but loving trust on her face and in her heart.

  Perhaps that made me a fool, but we had spent a lot of time together over the last nine months, and we’d lived together for most of it. It wasn’t like I didn’t know her at all, and I sincerely doubted another three months, three years, or even three decades would change that opinion.

  Her smile was as blindingly bright as my own, as I rolled us over and ground down into her gently. Her eyes widened vulnerably, as she gently squeezed and ground up into me in return. My cock could hardly fail to respond, and I grew back inside her, stretching her out as I let her see everything I felt in that moment. My heart and soul in my eyes, as I gazed down in awe at my stunningly beautiful and warm goddess of storms.

  “So beautiful, Lina.”

  She bit her lip and we started to rock our bodies, slowly and gently, as emotions overwhelmed us both. We made love in perfect harmony, every tiny movement of our bodies an eternity of bliss in itself, as I lost myself in those gorgeous gray eyes, while she looked up at me as if she was the lucky one, like she’d gotten everything she’d ever wanted and more.

  Clearly, I was the lucky one.

  She trembled on the verge of orgasm, her sex quivering slightly around my cock. She’d certainly been worked up enough, after the first ten in our first two rounds, and primed. I ground her a little harder that time as our bodies came together, and I pinched her nipple lightly and twisted just a little.

  Her eyes widened and grew glassy, as she stared deeply into mine and came for me, her sex convulsing wildly and clenching around me and flushing me with her liquid ecstasy.

  I’d never get tired of seeing that, and I twitched hard inside of her, as I worked her through it and enhanced it will slow rocking movements while I got lost in her eyes.

  She said breathily as she came down, “Jon. I love when you look at me like that too.”

  We were just getting started, going so slowly, and on the third round. So I was looking forward to seeing her come undone around me countless times before she drew out my pleasure once more.

  It seemed so long ago, though it was only about an hour, since I thought that we were going to die. Now Alina was my fiancé as well, and I planned to love on and spoil her outrageously for the rest of the day.

  Work would come soon enough.

  The beach resort looked incredible from the air. Blue ocean, white sand, huge hotel and complex, and perhaps most surprising of all rolling green hills of woods, grass, golf courses. If it wasn’t for the one third gravity it could easily be a vacation resort back on Earth in the tropics. There were docks and water sports which I think had to be interesting in the lower gravity. Especially the parasailing.

  Mars was filling up with colonists, and there’d been some development in my territory, but nothing on this scale yet. That first billionaire to buy a territory had done all this, and I could only imagine he’d hired a super with a botany power to make a veritable forest so quickly. Regardless, the man had invited me and the others to the opening, and all four teams were there to eat in his restaurant.

  There were surely political considerations in there. He was making a statement to the world, that all would be welcome in his territory and resorts super or not. What better way to do that than to invite team titan North America and all of their teams as well, including me. Obviously, he wasn’t a signee of the Geneva Convention, and like me he planned to have teleport stations around the world to accommodate travel without violating anyone else’s borders.

  It was truly impressive, of course my territory wasn’t focused on resorts and pure tourist trade. Besides the three teams I’d already had thousands of supers and their families relocating to my territory, or country. It was hard to think of it that way, but it really was my own country. I don’t know how she did it, but Thea had managed to get us recognized officially in the U.N.

  There were twenty-one of us that moved in for a landing outside the restaurant, which had outdoor seating. Even those among us without the power of flight could fly, Daniel having made enchantments for it for Tina, Carol, and Janice. As for Kaya, the meta-energy powered nanite swarm I’d given her was capable of it, just like mine.

  Choosing to fly instead of simply teleporting there was all part of the show, the place was already packed on day one and there were a lot of people pointing us out.

  The maître D was in a tux and led us to the back of the restaurant which oversaw the ocean to some outside seating for us all. We all took seats at the twenty-person table, which was two ten person tables pulled together. It was all on a wooden deck, and the tables had glass candle holders that’d be used at night, as well as torches that weren’t lit during the day.

  As usual, all the ladies looked incredible, none more so than mine but I was obviously biased that way. It looked like a large gathering of models for a photoshoot, but most supers tended to be on the attractive side. The quickening removing the small flaws in our skin or any asymmetrical flaws in features.

  Rose got my attention with a tilted head and smile, and I turned toward her.

  She said, “We were wondering if you could make new suits for Allyssa, Tina, and Carol. Daniel and I conjure new ones every time, so we’re covered that way.”

  “I can do that.”

  Thea quipped, “And by that he means I’d be happy to.”

  I chuckled, and then just shrugged. She wasn’t wrong. The technology was mine and my invention, but I’d turned over the work on that stuff a long time ago. Thea had been more than capable of it and the creativity required with her ascension from a class three to a class four being.

  I could also see the need besides wanting the best suit protection and comfort, not to mention self-healing durability. Alyssa had been wearing the same super suit since she was sixteen, and at twenty-two I imagined she wanted to change it up and perhaps add a little more sex appeal. Carol as a titan was even more invulnerable of body, so perhaps she wanted to dump the full body suit for something else. I wasn’t even going to guess what Tina wanted, her and Oracle’s ladies hadn’t opened up to me much yet.

  “Do you have designs, or do you want me to work up a few options?”

  Rose said, “I’ll send Thea the designs we came up with, but a few options wouldn’t hurt before we all make a final decision.”

  “Works for me.”

  We settled into lunch. The restaurant we were in was primarily surf and turf, but I wound up getting a spaghetti dish though it did have mussels and clams. We were all a bit more reserved than when we were at a BBQ, but that was normal being in public. It was a good time.

  It was late afternoon, I’d already kicked off for the day after studying some of the new quantum phase resonances that the Lovian’s knew, though I had quite a while before I’d catch up fully. I’d also finished making my weak discrete power supplies so they couldn’t be reverse engineered or studied without destroying them. Someone with meta-energy technology could do it, but I was the only one capable of it at the moment.

  Weak was also relative, and in relation to the other energy a hundred times more powerful than fusion. Even the weak energy could drive a truck or tractor trailer, even a plane engine if one was used for each engine on the wing. I also knew Thea was in talks with multiple companies and manufacturers for it, including planes, cars, electronics, lights, televisions, cable companies, cell phone towers, and a number of other things. Emergency power supplies as well, which I imagined would sell extremely well during the transition.

  Point being, I was done with that, and my next practical application was going to be looking into the entropic record. Perhaps I’d be able to answer a lot of questions about history, and how things had really happened.

  At the moment the four of us were sitting in the living room. Alina was in a casual pair of shorts and a gray halter top. Faith was in a casual red sundress, and my Thea was in skintight jeans and a thin sweater shirt.

  “Family meeting?”

  It’d been Alina that called it for some reason, and I was curious what she had to tell us.

  Alina smiled, “Yes. Being out of the superhero game for a time and taking online college classes has left me a lot of free time during the day while you’re all working and saving lives. Not a complaint, I couldn’t be happier with our relationships. But I’ve been spending a lot of time with Kaya, who’s my age, a friend of the family, and also taking college courses.

  “Our backgrounds are nothing alike, my past and family were pretty amazing actually compared to most supers, but we have a ton in common. I think… she’d be a good candidate for extending our circle.”

  I raised an eyebrow. This was family meeting worthy, the only way to extend our circle was if we were all in agreement, and with everything out in the open. Kaya was an incredibly lovely woman, attractive and exotic in her flawless and delicate eastern beauty, tight and petite killer body, as well as a good person inside who wouldn’t harm anyone anymore. But I didn’t see this coming, especially after the way she reacted to me telling her about our lifestyle. Despite the fact I had picked up attraction from her, I’d dismissed it because of that. Perhaps I’d been wrong to do so. Perhaps she’d wanted me to take the lead, I could see she wasn’t one to put herself forward and make demands on others, which extended to pursuing a love interest even to the point of sending signals. Perhaps I’d mistaken that for disinterest and even disapproval of my lifestyle.

  She had been a patient in the past, but that had been over a year and a half ago, now she was just a good friend. So I didn’t think I was being inappropriate by considering it, or violating any standards of behavior. She was a serious young woman as well, empathetic but also reserved, which is probably why I’d missed it. Or rather, misread it.

  Thea asked, “You think she’s interested?”

  Alina nodded, “I know she is. We’ve discussed it. I didn’t invite her or anything, but we’ve talked about the lifestyle. I know she’s enamored of our Jonathan, and she’s attracted to the rest of us as well. I think she’s jump at the chance to move to mars, and to give it a try if our first dates go well.”

  Faith asked, “Enamored?”

  Alina shrugged, “It’s a little shallow right now, but that’s how most of these things start. It was Jon’s looks and the way he treated me that drew me in at first.”

  Faith grinned, “For me, I just threw myself at him because he didn’t make a move on me, which drove me insane.”

  I chuckled, and my wanton angel stuck her tongue out at me.

  Alina said, “Anyway, yes. He saved her from her own mind, looked at her like she was a woman and not a monster. Then a year later he saved her again, from hard times, and gave her an opportunity to do what she wanted to do all along to earn it. She’s also attracted to him. That shallow response to her savior is probably further cemented by the fact most people judge her for her past, even though she was ultimately the victim.

  “So yes, shallow start, but she’s pretty amazing and I think it would grow from there, as it did for the rest of us as we got to truly know each other.”

  I said, “She didn’t seem all that interested in the polyamory lifestyle when I told her about us.”

  Alina nodded, “Society’s expectations and her upbringing. I wasn’t sure what to think of it at first either, except that I was intrigued. I believe she’s in that place now. You also told her bluntly that it wasn’t an invitation, which I think is why she hasn’t shown any obvious interest. At least, not in front of you.”

  Faith said, “Interested or not, she probably saw that as a rejection.”

  Alina replied, “Exactly. I think we’ve got a little off point too. The point of the meeting is if we’re interested in her, not her exact motivations or intentions, which we won’t know for sure about until we give it a try. Suffice it to say there is interest on her side, and I have no doubt she’d say yes if Jonathan asked her on a date. She already knows the rules of our circle, so you won’t even have to have that conversation.”

  Faith asked, “What are those rules? I mean, regarding intimacy. Do we all get a hall pass during the dating process before she decides to join the circle, since our intentions are to enrich and enlarge the circle it wouldn’t be an empty or selfish thing.”

  I nodded, “I think that makes sense, and to answer Alina’s question, I am interested. There’s a lot to admire about her, her past just made her kind. Once her mind was healed, anyway.”

  She was also a lady in comportment and style. Soft spoken, serious, empathetic, and kind without an ounce of condescension. Perhaps an old-fashioned concept in this day and age, but her reserve and circumspection were attractive to me too. She wasn’t into drama, and her deep empathy for others and wanting to help wasn’t something she wore on her sleeve or made a big deal over.

  She was far more mature than her years would indicate, but I suspected a lot of that was being raised in a traditional Japanese household. Her father had been an abusive asshole, but maybe he hadn’t gotten it all wrong. Or maybe she’d learned that from her mother.

  Faith said, “Me too, I think she’d be a good addition and enrich us. Or at least, the potential is there, and I want to find out.”

  Thea interjected, “Let’s make it anonymous then. I’m faster than all of you on this kind of stuff, being an A.I. I’d like to get to know her better too.”

  “At the risk of sounding crass, you have first dibs?” I asked Alina.

  Alina giggled, “I’m already sure I want her in the family, from all the time we spent together recently. I think I’d rather go last, so I don’t add physical intimacy to our connection, which will only make me more disappointed if it doesn’t work out with one of you. At least, the first part of it, her joining us and being ours until she moves on or we all commit.”

  I already knew both Faith and Thea would rather follow my lead, as my submissive loves. Alina was submissive in the bedroom too, if in a different way, but not outside of it like the others were. With her waving me ahead it wasn’t a leap to take the lead without consulting the others. In fact, I knew they’d prefer it that way.

  “I’ll ask her out for this weekend then.”

  I could admit I was excited by the idea, hopefully I wouldn’t fuck it up. I knew her well enough that I thought I’d have a good idea what she was consciously thinking, and what I was reading below the surface that she wasn’t even aware of herself. That should help prevent any major social gaffes on my part. Honesty, it really helped that I was sure she was aware of that attraction for me, and that I already knew she wanted to pursue it.

  Alina grinned, “Good.”

  Thea let out a soft sigh, and she nuzzled my neck in contentment. We were alone in the lab, and at the moment I was just enjoying holding her in my arms, while she loved being in them. It was a moment of emotional intimacy between us, we weren’t always about the sex, though I had to admit it usually ended up that way with her pheromones and her body’s jumped-up libido. That didn’t invalidate the rest though, I was crazy about my light brown-haired beauty.