“Not a chance,” I said firmly, “But life is more than sex. Consider this your first task in regaining control of a balanced life since your virginity was taken. That’s my job as well as your guide, isn’t it? Even on the ship, we’ll have swimming, workouts, tennis, and meals to help you establish that control. You’re obsessed, and we need to come up for air, as tempting as keeping you in bed for thirty days straight is, it will ruin us, and harm you.

  “Plus, this is the last time you can leave my side, once we hit the ship I’m responsible for your life, and you won’t leave my side again until you’re safely back at the temple.”

  Her eyes melted, “You’re right. I was so caught up in it I didn’t even think, and mom warned me a million times that I’d be obsessed with sex and needed to fight for control. Alright, I’ll go talk to her, she’ll be amazed you let me out of the bed in the first twenty-four hours, for my sake. Thank you again, Damien.”

  I smiled, “Thank me after tomorrow.”

  She winked, “I won’t forget, applesauce, but something tells me that I’ll never utter that word, Damien Bane. It might be fun to beg you to stop though,” she winked.

  The she giggled as she saw how hard that had made me, and she rolled out of the bed and headed for the shower. I followed and nailed the cheeky blonde against the shower wall before we finished our shower. Of course, I’d realized long before I’d even reached the bathroom, that was her plan the whole time. I’d have to watch her, she was wickedly seductive, and already knew how to push my buttons. She might’ve been sweet and submissive, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t also quite capable of manipulating me. I’d have to stay on my toes, and not let her get away with it too much.

  Then she left me alone to do some research, and to spend a bit of time with family before our month-long vacation together. Tomorrow was domination, her domination had to be put on hold until we found a woman to join us, so in just two days we’d start on the kinkier stuff.

  Proving I wasn’t entirely unselfish, Anal was the first kink on the category list. With a little thought I came up with a progression of licking, fingering, anal plug with and without vibration, anal beads, and lastly anal sex. Her petite bubbled ass was sexy as hell, I was kind of hoping she’d like it. After a moment of thought I added DP to the end of the list, a toy could take care of one hole while I did the other, after all.

  Then minor fetishes, spanking was as already discussed, the first one on the masochism list, then I added lists for voyeurism, exhibitionism, which both had to wait till we reached the first station. I needed three more for just the first leg of the trip. Shaming or humiliation, which I kind of hoped failed at step one which was berating her and calling her filthy names. Because the bottom of the list was kind of gross. The thing was I couldn’t just stick to the stuff I knew I’d enjoy, I was supposed to be guiding her through trying it all out.

  The others I got to were role playing, bondage, stranger play which was just a specific type of roleplay. That last one could include me shape changing into various sized of men, including cock size. She’d always know it was me of course since our magic’s interactions were unmistakable.

  Just domination had so many subtle levels, it couldn’t really be tackled in a single day if you got into all the little things like orgasm denial. There were so many offshoots of the basic physical and verbal domination themes I may decide to break that up a bit more. A lot of things also overlapped, dominance had a shaming aspect to it in certain cases, as did bondage. In fact, I was sure of it, I could intro it in a single day, and then move on to other things, but keep going back to it over the month to try different things.

  That was probably good enough to start with, since we could mix and match all the ones she enjoyed and dig into each even further, branching out into the things she was really excited with. Lingerie and dress up to enhance roleplay, things like that. I was sure I’d come up with more ideas, but I suspected after my lists we’d have a good idea what else she liked or wouldn’t like just based on that.

  There was a really hot blonde nymph in my arms, the only problem was it wasn’t my hot blonde nymph. Deidra either didn’t notice, or far more likely just didn’t care that my cock was hard as a rock against her stomach as she hugged me tightly and caressed her magic against mine. She’d come in a few moments ago with Fiona and had squeal tackled me. I on the other hand was feeling a bit awkward about it.

  She said warmly right by my ear, which didn’t at all help the hard cock against the prelate’s wife thing, “Thank you so much, for making my daughter’s first night so wonderful. Oh, and the list idea is brilliant, I wish the one that had guided me had thought of that. Can I see it?”

  I nodded, and then ported it over to both of them through the implants.

  She bit her lip, and kept holding on while reading through it, then said, “This looks good, but you should add surprise sex under domination. Foreplay is awesome and should be savored daily, but I mean, we really don’t need it. We’re always ready around our lovers.”

  I cleared my throat, “Surprise sex?”

  She nodded and hugged tighter, “Yeah, you know, when she’s preparing dinner over the counter, or folding laundry, or reading, just bend her over, rip down her pants or pull up her skirt, and shove it in. Use her hard and fast, then just walk away and let her continue her task.”

  Great, now my cock was twitching against her stomach.

  She giggled, “Truthfully, I’ve never met one of my kind that didn’t love surprise sex. Otherwise, the list is pretty complete to get an overall idea in about a week. Thank you, enjoy your trip, and I so owe you for how wonderfully thoughtful and thorough you’re being to me and mine.”

  She kissed my cheek, winked, and then left the room.

  I looked at Fiona guiltily, but she was all smiles and excitement as she gave me a hug, giggled, then dropped to her knees and got to work. It was a little surreal actually, she didn’t seem to mind at all how hot I found her mother. I mean, I’d never do anything that way, and Deidra certainly wasn’t offering, but I couldn’t help how my body and libido reacted to her at all. It felt almost wrong.

  But Fiona’s eyes were telling me it wasn’t just okay, but totally normal given how hot and sensual her mother was, as she worked with wicked enjoyment in her eyes to drain the lust her mother had engendered. Fiona was even more that way to me, so sensual, beautiful, and wild, and her magic was even more seductive to mine.

  Another wrong part that just turned me on, was for Deidra to be that excited Fiona had clearly gone into all the nitty gritty details with her.

  I encouraged, “Damn, baby, you’re getting really good at that already.”

  She winked up at me, then begged me for my pleasure with lustful green eyes… and damn did I deliver it, along with draining away all that inappropriate lust.

  “I like the list too. If I know my mother, and I totally do, she’ll have everything needed for everything on that list delivered in a locked chest to the ship. From the eggs, to the ropes and nipple clamps, and everything else.”

  I nodded, “That’s good to know. We could’ve fabricated it?”

  Fiona smiled, “Yes, and we will with some things like clothes, even racy lingerie would be okay, but everything fabricated on ship or using Fellowship equipment will be reviewed by our budget people and become a matter of public record. My mom has a small personal fabricator for the fun stuff, mostly so they don’t realize just how depraved she’s made the prelate over the last nineteen years.”

  She giggled.

  I shook my head, “Got it, and it’s something to keep in mind. You’re in a really good mood, Fi.”

  She nodded, “Yes, thanks for sending me to mom and dad. You were right, the sooner I get started on controlling it, managing it really, the better. So, what shall we do with our last two hours before we head to the space port?”

  “How about we start with a late lunch, I wasn’t sure when you were getting back. Then we’ll see just how many times I can make you cum for me before we have to shower and leave?”

  Her eyes widened, and she moved into the kitchen like a woman on a mission.

  Damn, she was a total handful, and honestly, I was loving that fact. A woman had never challenged me before, so there was a thrill in this even for me. Not that she was hard to get in bed, or to get her to make me something to eat, but there was a sneaky and seductive exuberance about her, a natural level of manipulation disguised by her obvious and apparent submissiveness, and if I wasn’t careful, I’d be wrapped around her finger in short order.

  Hell, I was halfway there already.

  She was submissive in bed and in the kitchen, but strong and even fierce outside of it. As her partner I’d need to figure out how to pull her back when she went too far yet leave her free most of the time which was the right thing to do. Not an easy path to tread.

  The first indication of trouble was when we went outside to the shuttle landing pad. It was still early, only five in the afternoon, but the sky was darkened and full of stars. I should’ve checked when sundown was but hadn’t thought of it. It was warm, so I’d assumed the temple was in the milder months with longer days, but apparently this was winter on Patience. The summers must’ve been brutally hot on this world. I’d always been a less than diligent student of worlds geography, and I hadn’t bothered looking it up which was a mistake.

  No reason to panic maybe, night fell all the time without people dying after all, but most people didn’t have vampire assassins after them. If I’d known, I’d have pushed up the move to the spaceport and the launch so we wouldn’t be exposed at night outside the temple cordon. It also annoyed me the temple guards hadn’t taken care of such an obvious detail given the threat. Fiona had already been attacked by vampires twice planet side, and it tickled my paranoia and made me wonder if maybe some of them were involved.

  I could perhaps be forgiven such an oversight once, even though I was feeling vigilant after the fact I wasn’t cutting myself slack, but the fact the guards that lived on this planet had missed it worried me. We’re they just incompetent, not used to vampire threats, or part of the problem?

  So I was extremely alert as we moved to the shuttle pad and boarded the shuttle, and I only slightly relaxed when the shuttle buttoned up and powered up.

  Fiona said, “You’re tense, what’s wrong?”

  I nodded, and explained the problem, save my paranoid worry about the guards.

  Fiona didn’t look worried at all, and I heard a snort from the cockpit that told me the guard pilot heard me and thought I was being foolish. Well, incompetence and inexperience then, and possibly negligence because they were butt hurt. That wasn’t the snort of a co-conspirator, it was the snort of someone dismissing a man they hated out of jealousy without thinking first. I’d be happy if the pilot turned out to be right, and as for Fiona she got all the slack in the world because it wasn’t her job. Security was the pilot’s and mine, her job was ruling.

  The shuttle slowly rose to thirty feet then took off at speed toward the east.

  I didn’t feel any vindication at all, when the pilot screamed in shocked surprise, “Missile!” right before the world exploded around me. The shuttle shook violently, and flames whooshed into the main compartment from the flight cabin which I was fairly sure was scrap. If not for the shuttle being heavily shielded due to its normal passengers, the missile probably would’ve completely destroyed it.

  The wind blasted in next, as we fell out of the sky like a rock while spinning. I lunged forward and grabbed Fiona, then dove for the cockpit. I wasn’t sure if the door had power, it’d take too long to open anyway, and there was a large handy hole where the front of the shuttle used to be.

  I jumped without looking, it was our only chance if we were still high enough and pausing to look would’ve just taken precious moments away from that chance. The wind whistled in my ears and Fiona screamed with wide-eyed fear. The ground was coming up fast, but I thought I had enough time.

  I shifted, which hurt like hell and took three seconds, and we were perilously close to the ground as I resecured Fiona and my wings snapped out. It felt like they’d be ripped off as I tried to counter the downward momentum, and we couldn’t have been higher than fifty feet from the ground when I finally managed it.

  My heart was pounding, and I felt both energized and overwhelmed as we flew back up into the sky.

  Fiona said shakily, “Oh my god, you are so hot.”

  I laughed, which came out a garbled shriek given I was a huge bird at the moment. With a wingspan of thirty feet, but slightly modified with an extra set of limbs so I could hold onto Fiona. The natural bird on Dione was a bit smaller, but not by much, and the largest one in the nineteen worlds. I’d had opportunity to meet one of sorts, at the zoo.

  I circled while searching the ground, then swooped in for a landing. I quickly shifted, and then started to put my armor and clothes back on. If I’d been a werekind bird we’d be dead, the armor would’ve killed me trying to shift into such a large bird while wearing it. But when I fully shifted my whole body I became a middle form first that was shapeless, and I’d been able to leave the clothes. Of course, that’s also why I’d had to grab Fiona again, I’d lost my hold on her too.

  “We’re not safe yet, vampires move fast, and they’ll have seen where the shuttle went down and that we escaped it.”

  The shuttle wreck was two blocks away, and I got the dart in my hand and a throwing dagger in my left hand as I led her that way. I’d feel a whole lot better with my short sword than this tiny throwing dagger, and it was likely the main compartment of the shuttle had survived the landing, it was just us that would’ve died as we smashed into the ground. Plus, the shuttle was where the temple guard would go first when they launched a rescue operation, but I doubted they’d be here in time to matter, the fight would be long over one way or another.

  We were only halfway there when I stopped and turned to the right. I’d have to manage without the short sword, because two vampires were blurring our way and there was no longer even time to think. I whipped the dart at the vampire on the right, who smoothly moved out of the way. As the dart went taut at twenty feet away, I spun around and whipped the dagger at the one on the left. At point blank range there wasn’t time enough for him to dodge, and the dagger slammed into its throat. A mere annoyance for a vampire even if I’d hit the jugular, but it would buy me a second or two.

  The spin had also pulled the dart back at an angle, and I gripped the rope with both hands as the right side vampire lunged at me, and sent cleansing fire through it as I used it to block his throat slash. The fire consumed its hand almost immediately, and the golden cleansing flames started to eat up its arm. It was already dead, but it had several seconds left to kill the two of us.

  Fiona screamed, musically in a chord of notes all at the same time, which was disharmonious. I turned back to see the vampire on the left lose his head as the dagger made of metal exploded along the plane of the blade and fully decapitated it. Earth nymph and badass, Fiona. They were so sexy and sensual as a subspecies of fairy that it was hard to remember that they were also capable of fierce violence sometimes. They wielded deadly magics, and they weren’t just good in the bedroom and kitchen.

  By then I had the rope looping and swinging around behind me, and with a flick of the wrist I pulled it at my back. The dying and pissed off vampire lunged for me at the same time, and when I ducked the dart met vampire chest. I lunged up from my squat and tossed him using his own momentum, and as he flipped over, I saw his eyes disappear in golden flame. He was dead before he hit the ground.

  “Wow.”

  She frowned, “Wow?”

  I nodded, “I didn’t even get a scratch from all that. Crazy.”

  She giggled.

  “Of course, I had your help, that would’ve been much messier if I had to handle both of them. Let’s get to the shuttle.”

  If only to get our gear and wait for rescue.

  Chapter Six

  The Impulsive at a hundred yards was just twice the length of my scout ship, and half the length of a light cruiser with the same armaments packed in, which was admittedly impressive. It was… pretty, a bright silvery white. It was also much wider than my ship, no doubt to fit all the amenities and to make it spacious and luxurious in appearance.

  The crew, bridge, engineering, and all of their small quarters only took up about half the space inside the ship. The other half was clearly for the passengers and owners of the Royal class yacht. She gave me a small tour of our private domain, which included the media room, swimming pool, racquet and tennis courts, and the large workout room which included a sparring section.

  “You know martial arts?”

  She grinned, “There’s only one way to find out.”

  I laughed, “Good, we’ll make that part of our morning workout.”

  She winked, and I got the idea she was thinking it’d be foreplay. Given how gorgeous, in shape, and our magical and natural chemistry, she probably wasn’t wrong either.

  Besides what she already told me about, the living suite included a large living room, a second bedroom which would obviously go unused, the master bedroom, and a bathroom that was bigger than the quarters on the Clarity. It had a shower, bath, and a full-sized Jacuzzi that could easily accommodate eight. There was also a dining room. The kitchen was part of the crew side of the ship, so our meals would be made and delivered on a schedule, but I wouldn’t put it past Fiona to want to invade the kitchen on occasion.

  The bed in the master bedroom put a king sized to shame, and I was guessing it was custom to fit the prelate, his wife, and their harem. More than enough space to get crazy and both of us having a dry spot to sleep in.

  There were also other room she hadn’t mentioned, so I was guessing it wasn’t her cup of tea. Virtual gaming and training room, an actual bar, an additional bathroom near the two smaller guest rooms away from the suite, along with a small armory and a panic room in case of boarders.