Wives

The women followed me up the fourth floor with the messenger behind them. I got the feeling that they wanted to talk to me but they were afraid with the messenger around. I knew what he would do if I asked him to stay out of the room but at least the women wouldn't know and maybe that would make them feel better, for a while, until they figured it out. It was hard not to sigh, I couldn't really think of our lord as a peeper but I didn't think he trusted anyone out of his sight truly.

I showed the women where the door to my room was and made sure they knew, not to wake me unless it was urgent but otherwise they can stay in my room if they wished. I then showed them the room right across from mine. I told them they could stay here if they wanted. They said they would like to stay together because the room was much too big. They were used to sharing a dirt floor to sleep on.

I told them I understood and started to leave, "Wait." I turned back around to see Bella wringing her hands. She looked past me at the messenger who was standing in the doorway of the room he had taken for his own. "Can you close the door?" It seemed like she wanted to say more but she did not.

I turned and closed the door. I knew the messenger was still watching from the doorway of his room, but maybe the women would think he would get bored looking at a door and find something else to do for a while. I knew he wouldn't.

Bella took a breath and then looked around again, taking note of all the furniture. She pointed to a chair that was facing into the sleeping room. "Please, sit, I am not sure…"

I moved and took the chair she pointed to, "Relax, I am not easy to offend, wife. Ask what you want to ask, even if it is just to change your mind and ask me to leave after all." I could see her shaking just a bit, and she jumped when I said wife. She didn't interrupt me as I spoke though.

The woman walked over to one of the other chairs, her sister stayed next to her like a shadow. So, Bella was the braver of the two, she also seemed to be a bit taller. It was hard to tell while they moved. Bella stopped before one of the chairs then looked at me. She seemed to make up her mind that she would have to take me at my word for now. There wasn't really anything she could do if I turned out to be more controlling anyway. She sat and her sister stood behind her. They were both very tense. I just waited, I still had plenty of time.

Bella looked at the floor then took a breath, "Neither, well," She stopped and she didn't look up. She bit her lip, "How would you-," She paused and frowned, "Would you-" She seemed to growl at her inability to form a question that asked what she wanted to ask.

I decided I would have to chance it and help her out, "You want to tell me you have not had sex before." She jumped slightly at the term and bit her lip again. She nodded and so did her sister. "You want to know if I have a preference for how you proceed?" They both nodded again. "You two will have to work that out. If you haven't done so within 30 days I will have to be more forceful about setting you two down to figure it out. Until then it is better for you two to make up your own mind. You know what is expected of you. If you have any questions, please don't be afraid to ask."

Bella looked up a bit as I talked but she still wasn't going to meet my eyes. "Is it true it hurts?"

"For women, the first time, but that is only what I know from talking to Mother and Father. It gets better and Father told me some things to try to make it not as bad."

They both looked at me in surprise but their eyes didn't really see my face. "Are you? Have you not?"

"I was raised similar to you, Unless I was ordered to, I wasn't going to touch any of my sisters. I managed to make a big enough impact that it never managed to come to that. As for the other law, I assume we had enough more willing males because no one ever wasted the time to even ask me. I want to know my children and I don't want extra running around if I can help it. Before being captured, it was just, me, Mother and Father. So I only know what I have been told, or fantasize about." I felt my lips twitch but not really smile.

"My brothers aren't understanding." She took a breath like she was going underwater. Bella stood and moved over to me leaning down apparently to kiss me.

"You don't have to do this yet." I was reacting to her already but I wasn't going to let it be incontrol. I lost track of where my thoughts had been going as she got close.

I had learned forward the last few inches and we were kissing before she could respond. I was holding her but it wasn't to trap her. I felt emotions that I hadn't felt coming from a woman who was around me. She pulled back and I let her go.

She stood again and turned to look at her sister. Something seemed to pass between the two women as I watched. "If you want me to leave so you two can talk, I will go." Bella frowned and turned back to me.

"No, but where would you prefer?"

"Except for the messenger this whole floor is private. Anyone who wants up here has to get by my brother's rooms first and if you haven't noticed, sound is blocked to each floor. And some rooms even have more soundproofing. So you have your pick of anything on this floor."

"You are still talking like you have almost no say in the matter."

"I have too much say, but trust is important to me. I cannot order you around and expect you to do as I wish when I cannot order it."

She smiled behind her hand as she listened. "How strange." Isa was relaxing. "Well, there are things that need to be organized, in here." Isa turned and started for the door.

Bella smiled at her from where she stood next to me. "I was hoping you would think that. You don't mind if I get acquainted first?"

"You are older." Isa said with a shrug.

Isa got to the door before I spoke again. "For now it is not safe for you to go below the third floor without me or one of my brothers. You can tell a man is not my brother by the state of his clothes and the fact he is wearing a collar. You may do as you wish otherwise. Tomorrow night if you wish to know I will tell you what you need to know to have some control over the slaves." Isa and Bella both tilted their head just a bit as they listened.

It was quiet for a moment then Bella smiled. "We will do as you say, husband, but let's move the conversation between me and you back to your room. Sister you might as well get started here." Isa smiled at Bella, they must have a good connection because she moved away from the door and back into the sitting room like it wasn't a problem.

Bella reached down and pulled my hand to get me up out of the chair. Something had made her more sure of herself as she pulled me to the hallway door. I felt the messenger move into his room and close the door as I stood up. Well at least he seems willing to let the women believe they have privacy with me around. Bella led me to the door and opened it. She paused to look up and down the hall but I knew it was empty. She then opened the door to my apartment. She pulled me through then closed my door behind her. She was getting nervus again without her sister around. I reached out what I understood as emotions and gently pushed on what I understood as nervousness. Bella seemed to relax just a bit and her arua changed. Hum, that could be a dangerous power.

She moved closer to me and seemed to make up her mind. I let her push me onto the couch. We were still in the sitting room, there were two couches and a few chairs and a desk in the room. Three doors lead out of the room, one to the hallway, one to the bedroom I had woken up in and the other to a tiled bathroom. The bathroom was certainly something left over from the age of man. It had been re-rigged, so that it worked without public water and sewer but it seemed crazy to me, and I wasn't focusing.

She wasn't stronger then me, and she wasn't trying to over power me. I felt my back hit the couch as she climbed up so she could sit on my lap. I noticed her earthy smell, from long hours working outside. It reminded me of home, as I leaned forward to meet her leaning head. The kiss was longer this time, it wasn't urgent or rushed, we had time. Her hands started to unbutton the top of my shirt. I grabbed them both in one hand. She was bigger then me, most people were but she wasn't much bigger. She felt very light, even with all the hard labor she had to have been doing. She didn't fight me, she did look a little surprised as she pulled back.

"I do have some rules, if you really want to continue." She seemed hurt and I made sure I wasn't holding her tighter then I intended. She sat back on my knees, she was light enough that it didn't bother me.

She pulled on her wrists and her heart sped up a little as they didn't move. She looked at me, "release me, please."

I didn't let her see my smile as I released her hands. She wouldn't have taken it the right way. She rubbed her wrists for a moment and looked back at me. "What are your rules?"

"Do you know what a climax is?" She paused thinking about the question before she nodded and I continued, "And that women can have them too?" Even for people like my family life wasn't sheltered here, she had brothers and sisters, probably a few older than her. There had also been a few animals on the farm. So while she only knew of men, she probably knew a lot. Bella shook her head in answer to my question. Yet, she seemed curious about where this might be leading. "Yes, you can learn quite a bit about women in the barracks, even when you don't want to. Until you have gone two months without bleeding, I think you know what I mean, I won't do what you want, until you have climaxed twice."

"Monthly bleed or something else?" She had turned her head as she sat and watched me. Clearly that was something the sisters did when they were listening.

"Monthly bleed. Once you have had your first child, sex shouldn't make you bleed unless I am much too rough. Really you should only bleed a few times, at most."

She frowned and then shrugged, "Unless I choose to find death, I won't really have a choice in the end anyway. You at least really seem to care, even though you have no good reason to, at least as far as the houses normally think. Is that it for your rules?"

"Beyond that you are in control. When we are alone, anyway, if your sister is around you will have to work it out with her first. If my brothers are around, you will have to wait, or ask them to leave."

Bella smiled at me again. "That is good to know." She lifted her hands to the top button of my shirt again. She seemed to be waiting to see if I would stop her again as she undid each one. Her hands moved over my chest as she examined what she had found under the unbuttoned shirt. "So, husband," She looked up into my eyes but kept her head tilted down ever so slightly. "What are you going to do to keep your rules?"

I did smile this time, "If you want, dear, I will show you." She nodded and I reached to start removing her dress with one hand as I held her against me and stood up. She was light, and I could carry her one handed as we headed toward the bed. We made it to the bed but her dress did not. She didn't stop me as she learned what I had planned.

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She shook a little as she moved up on the bed. I took it as a good sign, she hadn't been very loud and if it wasn't for my other sense I might have thought she faked the second one. I felt a bit bad that I hadn't lasted longer, but I don't think she was disappointed. She had just laid there breathing for a few minutes and I had worried I might have been too rough at the end. Her aura showed pain, but it was muted still.

I moved to lay down on the bed and that was when she had moved to stay close to me. She put her head on my arm and I wrapped the other around her. It was a few moments when I noticed she seemed to be crying. "I am sorry, I should of-" I cut off as she elbowed me pretty hard in the gut. She was use to physical work after all, but it didn't knock the wind out of me.

"Don't you dare. You just stay there, these aren't from pain. I am happy," That didn't make any sense to me but her emotions did seem to be happy.

I kissed the back of her head and let myself relax. "As you say, dear." I think she laughed after that but I wasn't sure.