Bedded by the Trillionaires (Menage for Mankind Book 4) (5 page)

Finn sat beside her and shook his head.  “We all ate after the auction while you were with the other men.  I never thought about when you’d eat.”

She smiled at him.  “I’m all right. 
Just hungry now.”  She didn’t say anything else as she quickly shoveled the food into her mouth.  When she was finished, she leaned back in her chair with a sigh.  “That was delicious.”

“I’m sorry about forgetting to feed you.”

Jayn smiled.  “I have a voice.  I can ask for food when I need it.”

There were sounds coming from the next room.  “That would be your massage therapist.  Do you need to eat more?  Or are you ready?’

Jayn looked at her bowl wistfully.  She’d like more, but she wanted the massage even more.  She’d read about them, but never had one.  Maybe it would take care of the last of her muscle soreness.  “I’m ready.”

Porter was leaning down
, talking in a quiet voice to the massage therapist when Jayn walked in.  She heard, “…kill you thirty-two ways with my bare hands,” and stifled a laugh.  He was going to be afraid to touch her too.  Porter looked at Finn.  “Where do you want him to set up?”

Finn thought about it for a moment.  “I have several empty bedrooms. 
This way.”

The man was tall and looked very strong to Jayn, but she didn’t doubt the fear she saw on his face after the way she’d heard Porter talking to him.  She followed along behind them.  The man opened the bag he carried, and set the thing inside it on the floor.  It instantly sprang up into a table with a hole at the top.  “What’s that for?” she asked.

The massage therapist told her she’d need to undress.  “You’ll lay face down, covered by the sheet with your face in the hole.  I’ll be back in a few minutes.”

Finn followed the man from the room, but Porter stayed with her.  She looked at him.  “I can undress by myself.”

Porter shook his head.  “You won’t be out of my sight as long as there is a man we don’t know well on this property.”

Jayn rolled her eyes but dropped her robe.  She got onto the bed, and pulled the sheet over her, her face going into the hole as she’d been told.  Porter walked over and carefully tucked the sheet more securely around her.  He called out, “She’s ready!”

The therapist immediately came back into the room and looked down at Jayn with the sheet tucked so securely around her.  “I cannot massage her through the sheet.” 

Porter frowned.
He obviously hadn’t considered that. “Just don’t touch her inappropriately.”

Jayn stifled a laugh as the therapist carefully put his hands on her back.  He seemed as if he were afraid to touch her at all.

The massage felt incredible to her.  He concentrated on her low back and her legs.  She ignored the threat Porter made when the man began on her thighs, but she was glad he didn’t stop.  That’s where she was the sorest.

She was extremely disappointed when it was all over.  She dressed and left the room, going back into the kitchen.  She didn’t know what the others were doing, but at that moment, she just needed a little more food to get through the day.  She glanced at the clock, surprised to see it was already two in the afternoon.  How long had that massage been?

“Bot, is there any stew left?”

Bot turned from the stove to nod at her.  He opened the refrigeration unit and put the bowl with the stew in it into the microwave.  Three seconds later, he placed it on the table for her.  She picked up the spoon and ate
quickly, glad to be alone with her thoughts for a few minutes.

Chapter Six

Just as Jayn finished, there was a knock at the door.  Knowing it must be one of the other two she hadn’t seen yet that day, she rushed to the door and opened it.  “Dimitri.  Come in.”

Dimitri shook his head.  “No, you come out.  I want to show you my
holodeck.”

She bit her lip.  She couldn’t just disappear with as paranoid as Porter was.  She didn’t know if he was still in the house, though.  “I’m going to Dimitri’s!” she called out.

Finn came into the entryway.  “Dimitri,” he said with a nod.  Why did he feel so much animosity toward the other man?  What was it about him that made him feel threatened?  Dimitri had as much right to her time as Finn did, and they both knew it.

“I want to show her my
holodeck.”  Dimitri took Jayn’s hand and led her toward the door. 

Finn nodded.  “Dinner will be ready at five.”

“I’ll be back.”  Jayn broke away from Dimitri and ran back to kiss Finn.  “I’m excited to see what a holodeck is.”

Finn smiled.  “You’ll love it.”

They walked down the stairs and through the tunnel.  Jayn thought the tunnels were too stark.  “We need to have a mural painted on the wall down here.”

Dimitri frowned. 
“A mural?  Porter would never agree to having someone come in here and paint.  Can’t you just hear him?  ‘I know thirty-two ways to kill a man with my bare hands.’”

Jayn covered her nervous laugh with her hand.  She wouldn’t want Porter to think she was laughing at him. 
“What if I did it?”  She had always enjoyed drawing and painting.  She didn’t feel like she was the best in the world at it, but she’d certainly enjoyed it.

“I guess that would be okay.  We’ll order you some paints.”

When they arrived at his house, he opened the door for her and waited for her to precede him.  He’d set the holodeck up before leaving, and was extremely excited to show it to her.  He opened the door to the room he used for the machine and pulled her inside.  He pushed the button to activate it, and a magic carpet flew across the room to them. 

Dimitri climbed onto the carpet and offered her a hand so she could join him.  “Come with me.”

Jayn smiled her face lighting up with excitement.  She climbed onto the carpet beside him and he put his arm around her.  “Where are we going?”

“On a magic carpet ride.”
  Low music started to play and the carpet began soaring through the room, flying over scenes from parts of the world she’d only seen in pictures.  He began to sing softly, “I can show you the world…”

She leaned against him as he sang to her.  A female voice came out of nowhere and sang with him.  The whole experience was just amazing.  When the music stopped, they were still flying.  “This is amazing,” she whispered.  “Is this all it does?”

He laughed, ordering the carpet to land.  They both stepped off.  “Not at all.  That’s just a song I quoted to you last night, so I wanted to sing it.”  He walked to the controls and with a touch of his finger, everything disappeared.  “We can make it do almost anything we want.  Things aren’t really happening like they seem to be, but it feels as if they are.  We were sitting on the floor the whole time.”

She made a face.  “I almost wish I didn’t know that.” 

“Then we’ll pretend that you were really flying on a magic carpet.”  He quickly programmed in something else.  He held his hand out to her.  “Dance with me?”

A ballroom appeared around them, and she took his hand following his lead carefully.  Her community hadn’t allowed dancing, so she was inexperienced with it, but she’d always been fascinated by the concept.

By the time they stopped, she was laughing and holding her side.  “That was wonderful.  Did you invent this thing?”

He nodded.  “I did.  This is actually a more advanced version than is on the market now.  This will be out soon and make me a much richer man.”

She looked at him with surprise.  “Why do you need to be richer?”  Did all her husbands live to make more money?

He shrugged.  “It’s not about need.  It’s about enjoying life to the fullest.” 

“It’s truly amazing.  Can I use it again?”

“Whenever you want.
  The others each have the basic holodeck in their houses, but no one has this one except me.”

“Well, I’ll have to be certain I come here and use yours, won’t I?”

He smiled, stroking her cheek with the back of one finger.  “I was hoping you’d see it that way.”  He glanced at his watch.  “It’s time I got you back to Finn’s for dinner.  Would you like to play with me on the holodeck when you come to visit me this evening?”

She frowned.  “You mean like make love in there?”

He nodded.  “We can go anywhere we want.”

She smiled slowly.  “We could make love on the beach, beside the ocean!”

“Exactly.  Is that what you want?  On the beach?”

“Yes, please!”  She loved the idea of a romantic interlude on the beach with him.  Well, with any of them.

Dimitri and Jayn walked back to Finn’s house hand in hand.  She couldn’t get over just how smart he was.  What would it have been like to invent something so incredible?

Finn had told her to stop knocking at his door, so when she got back, she walked right in.  She rushed to Finn who was sitting on the couch using his pocket computer.  “The
holodeck is amazing!”

Finn smiled up at her.  “It is.  Dimitri is a very smart man.”

She sat beside him on the couch, feeling comfortable as she rested her head on his shoulder.  “This place really is amazing.  I can’t believe that you built it just for me.”

Finn slipped his arm around her shoulders.  “We’d do anything for you, baby.”  He slowly lowered his lips to hers, kissing her softly.  “We all feel like you’re the most important thing in our lives.”

Jayn was shocked that anyone would feel that way about her.  “Why?” she asked.

He sighed.  How could he explain it?  “Well, before we met you, it was just an idea.  You meant regular sex and the potential for children. 
Now?  I think you’re an amazing woman, and I want to be with you for you.”

“But you barely know me!” she protested.

“It’s easy to see you’re a good woman.  You’re doing your best to be a good wife to all of us.  We’ll get to know more about each other, and we’ll all be happy with you.  I’m sure of it.”

She looked down at her hands.  “I feel like I’m doing something wrong.  The guilt is eating at me.”

“Guilt?  What would you feel guilt for?”

She half-laughed.
  “I’m having sex with four men!”  She shook her head.  Why didn’t he know that was wrong?

“You’re having sex with the four men who have all sworn to keep you safe and to cherish you for the rest of their lives.”  He sighed.  “I know it’s an odd way to live.  I do understand that.  I can understand that with your upbringing it seems like it’s the wrong thing to do, but can you think of it as saving the world?  Mankind will die off if we don’t have more women born quickly.  By marrying four men, you’re doing your part to keep the human race alive.”

“You seriously believe that?”

He nodded.  “I do!”

“I’ll try.”  Jayn was skeptical.  The scriptures didn’t say a woman could have more than one husband for the good of mankind.  It was one husband and one wife.

Bot rolled into the room.  “Dinner is ready.”

Jayn jumped to her feet.  “I feel like a bottomless pit.  I’m starving.”  She’d never had the opportunity to eat as much as she wanted before, and she found it strangely intriguing.  She didn’t want to get fat, of course, but she would eat her fill.  “Am I allowed to take walks when I want?  Like outside and not in the tunnels?”  One of the only good things about being raised in the religious community was the constant access to nature.  She loved to walk through the woods and swim in the small stream.

“I’ll ask Porter.  I think he’s going to say that one of us has to be with you, though.”

“I was afraid you’d say that.”  She shook her head.  “Why don’t you guys just hire a bodyguard to watch me all the time?  I could even take him to the bathroom with me.”  She knew she was being overly sarcastic, but she hated being watched so closely.

Bot had dinner on the table when they sat down.  He’d made steak, which she’d had very rarely in her life, and shrimp, which she’d never had.  There were baked potatoes with butter, bacon, cheese and sour cream.  She rubbed her hands together excitedly.  “This looks delicious.  I don’t know where to start!”

“Always start by picking up your fork!”  Finn held his up with a grin.  “I promise you’ll like it all.”

She took her first bite of the shrimp and sighed.  “I’m going to need to be able to do some kind of exercise or I’m going to get huge.”

He laughed.  “I have a gym in one of the spare rooms.”  He looked at her with surprise.  “I haven’t even shown you around the house yet, have I?”

She shook her head.  “I’ve only seen a few rooms.”

“I’ll show you around after dinner and before I take you to bed.”

She swallowed hard.  “Will I have all of you every night?”

“Yes, unless someone is sick or out of town, and I don’t think any of us ever plan to leave here again.”  He winked at her.  “Now that you’re here, we have no desire to be anywhere else.”

She blushed as she looked down at her plate, remembering how she’d been with him when she’d come home from Porter’s the night before.  Should she tell him what had happened?  Or just pretend all was normal with the world?

She ate the rest of her meal quietly, listening to him as he talked about a new bill he’d been asked to support.  There was some lobbying for a woman being able to marry several men at once and have them all be her legal husbands.  “Do you like the idea?” 

She nodded.  “I think I’d feel less dirty if it were law that it was okay.  I feel like you should be the only one I…have relations with.”

He smiled, covering her hand with his.  “I like the thought of that, but I signed contracts, so at least right now it can’t happen.”

“What about children?” she asked.  “Who will raise them?”

“We all will.  We’ve decided never to do a DNA test to see who any of the children were fathered by.  We’re not going to let it matter.  Any boys will be watched for skills and trained by whichever of us can help him the most.  Girls will be trained by you to be good wives.”

She made a face.  “Will you sell the girls?”

“Of course not!  We would never sell our daughters.”  He was surprised she’d even asked.  Did she consider them all monsters?

“I just wanted to make certain.  Some of the men from my community had no problem selling their daughters.”

“How did your father feel about selling you?” He set his fork down and leaned back in his chair while she continued eating. 

She shrugged.  “When I said I wouldn’t do what he wanted, and he should sell me, he cut me off entirely.  Never even spoke to me again.”

Finn was surprised she’d disobeyed her father.  “What did he want you to do?”

Jayn sighed.  “A girl around my age was caught in the woods with twin brothers.  They were in a compromising situation, which is all I know.  The girl was sold, and the boys were both beaten with a whip, given physical jobs, and each were assigned to marry someone he really didn’t want.  I was to marry one of the boys as his punishment.”  She shrugged.  “I couldn’t understand why I would be expected to be someone’s punishment.  If I’d loved him it would be different.  I didn’t.  I didn’t even like him.  To me, he was Amber’s man.”

“So why were you chosen to be his punishment?  That makes no sense.  You’re a beautiful woman!”

“My father is the community leader.  He…tended to volunteer me for things whether I wanted to do them or not.”  She shrugged.  “One time I baked thirty dozen cookies for random people in the community that my father thought should get cookies.  Everything was my job.”

“What about your mother?  She didn’t help?”

Jayn shook her head sadly.  “She died when I was young.  I’ve kept house for my father ever since.”
  Her mother had been a great deal less strict than her father, and when she’d died, most of the fun had gone out of Jayn’s life.

Finn sighed.  “It shouldn’t have all fallen on you.”  He helped her to her feet.  “Let me show you the house.”  His arm was wrapped around her as he led her from room to room, showing her everything.  The rooms tended to be decorated very seriously and elegantly.  His office was the most telling about him.  There were portraits of many of the great presidents lining the walls. 

When he showed her the gym she sighed.  “I’m going to have to use a treadmill instead of walking and running outside.  Right?”

He stroked her back. 
“At least for now.  I’ll talk to Porter.  Maybe eventually we can make something work outside. We’re building a pool!”

Her eyes lit up. 
“A pool?  Really?  It’s not underground, is it?”

He laughed.  “It’s indoor, with cement walls, but it’s not underground.”

Jayn shook her head.  “I guess something is better than nothing.”  She loved to swim, but had very little opportunity back home.  The boys used the stream to swim in all summer, and the girls were generally home helping their mothers.  Without a mother, her work had been a lot heavier than most of the girls.