“It will work out. We can split our time. Can’t you feel that it’s right?”
Chad still felt the warmth and smelled the scent his mother had left. “Yeah, I can. I feel better about it now. My mother visited me.” He gave Diego a sharp stare. Diego nodded, not looking surprised. “I couldn’t see her, but I heard her and felt her aura, smelled her...”
“Lilacs,” Diego put in with a smile. “Believe me, we’ve met and she’d kick my ass if I let you down. I suppose you want to meet her. She’s a fine lady.”
Chad nodded.
“Soon. The next time we go to Venus, it will be with Star. Well, the first time you go.”
Chad nodded again, pressing his lips together. “Yes, it’s right that Star meet her when I do.” After he spoke the words, knowing he owed Star more than he could say for opening him up to love and his true nature. “And it’s right that you come with us too.” He felt his old affection returning for his friend.
Diego broke into a grin.
Chad took a deep breath. This was real and he had to accept. In time, his gut told him, he’d come to like it more and more. He’d always felt so alone and now he had two soulmates who would be with him forever. “Where is Star?”
“Taking a nap. You want to walk around a bit to let her rest and to finish clearing your head?”
“Sure,” he said, grateful that Diego knew him so well. He wanted to be all calmed down when he went back to Star.
Diego thumped him on the back. “Let’s go, amigo. I need to clear my head too and we need to make some plans. You had a close call with Belle and if I’d timed it wrong…”
“You didn’t. I don’t want to talk about that. Let’s just walk along the shoreline and you can tell me more about my mother.”
“Sure,” Diego said and the two of them stepped into the sand, heading toward the lake. “She’s quite a character.”
Chapter Twenty-One
Norris Hart didn’t speak to any of the other sweaty cowboy hands as he mended the fence at the Austin ranch. He was on such a higher plain than them that he could hardly stand to be near them but he knew he couldn’t show his disdain for them yet. Diego had hired him on for the party and had told him he could work for a week to see how he did and Norris grinned when he thought about how he’d fooled him with his humble act. It had been a hurried employment and Norris had been in a disguise of shabby clothes he’d lifted off a clothesline and a battered hat. Nah, he had them all fooled and now he had to act.
Star. He had to snatch her while both Chad and Diego were gone. Human or not, they looked powerful, and his magic, being compromised, could only help him so much.
Norris seethed as he thought about how Star almost didn’t deserve him. The woman he knew to be his soulmate, Star Hart, had the low morals to sneak off with Chad and Diego last night. His hand tightened around the barbed wire as he thought about her having three way human sex while he hid in the trees, looking on, masturbating. How dare the fickle bitch spread her legs for the rotting humans, taking their cocks into her Venusian body! Luckily for him it didn’t count. There was no way the human mating counted and maybe it loosened her up for him. Either way he’d punish her for the act once he secured her powers as his own.
The strange lightning storm had reminded him of a bonding, but it couldn’t be. Everybody knew that humans and Venusians couldn’t bond so it must have been some strange glitch in earth weather. He would fuck her, bind her to him, and steal her away from the stupid cowboys. He knew, in his heart, that she wanted him. She just felt funny about it because he was her cousin; however a third cousin wasn’t really a cousin at all. Everything would be all right once the two of them had sex and he sealed the deal. Of course, at first she would probably not have him willingly, and that angered him. But he had insurance to make sure that she eventually submitted. His puny cock twitched.
As Norris gritted his teeth, doing human work, he cursed his damn relatives for making him sink to this level. The only thing that heartened him was the charm in his pocket, his insurance. Venusian women went wild when shown a love charm. They all wanted sex with whomever was there holding its mighty spell. If he had to use it to get Star’s easy consent, he would. The love charm was illegal to use on Venus, but this wasn’t Venus.
Suddenly Norris saw Diego come out of the ranch and stalking away from it. His heart sped up. Star was alone and vulnerable. Excellent! Chad had already left and if Diego went any distance at all, he was ready to make his move toward Star and tricking her into being his love slave. Norris kept working, albeit clumsily, until he saw Diego disappeared in the thick trees he’d been hiding in the night before. Great, he was heading toward the lake. That’s where Chad had gone too. Good. Maybe they had to chat about ranch business or wanted another skinny dip he thought with a sneer as he recalled them calling it that. Such stupid fools, humans.
Norris stood, and the hand beside him looked up and asked, “Where ya goin’, Carson?”
“Cigarette break,” Norris said, trying to sound friendly.
The hand nodded then went back to work on the fence. Norris took long strides out of the corral. When he glanced back, as he neared the ranch, he was relieved to see nobody even glancing in his direction. Good, he was a non entity as usual, but this time he welcomed it. Without glancing behind him again, he sauntered to the ranch house’s side entrance. Disabling Chad’s security system was a snap for a Venusian who had an electronics background that far exceeded anything a human being could imagine. After that, he quickly jimmied the lock with a bobby pin and stepped inside, finding himself in a kitchen.
Although Norris had compromised powers, he could feel Star’s aura surrounding him and felt a little ribbon of her power come to him, probably due to the love charm. As he took it in, his heart pounded faster as his small dick hardened. He hadn’t expected to gain power even before he fucked her. Things were finally going his way. Happy that, at least at such a close distance he could still track her, he found himself walking through the kitchen to a trendy, bachelor living room and then climbing the stairs, following her scent. In the hallway were two bedrooms, one with the door shut. Star’s aura called to him from behind the closed door. She was in there, waiting for him, even though she didn’t know it yet. He took out his lucky charm and held it tightly in his fist, determined to get her this time. Then he opened the door and slammed it shut behind him, his gaze raking over Star in the bed asleep. As if he’d disturbed her aura, she opened her eyes and sat up with a gasp, her pretty eyes large as two dark saucers.
“Yes,” he said, waving the lucky charm at her. “It’s me. Did you miss me, lover? No, I guess you didn’t, seeing as how you’re opening your legs for dirty cowboys. I’m going to have to cure you of that, but first I’m going to bond with my soulmate. And we’ll live happily ever after, like they say in all those dumb earth fairy tales you liked to read.”
He saw Star’s gaze on the charm. “No,” she said, in a weak voice, covering her eyes. “I’ll never bond with you. Besides you can’t rape me, fool. I’m bonded!”
“Oh, please,” he sneered. “As for rape, you’ll be screaming for me and you know it.” He held up the charm and watched her wince. “What do you take me for, an idiot?”
“It’s true, damn it! Even the charm can’t help you, moron! And you know what will happen to you if you try anything funny,” she said her worried eyes flicking to the charm again. “Get away from me while you still can!” She dropped her hand and blinked at him like she was trying to blink him away and he laughed when nothing happened. The shocked look on her pretty face made him gloat. She hadn’t expected that.
“This charm overpowers Venusian women, even powerful ones. You know this, my pretty girl.”
Star lifted her chin, and it trembled a little, but she managed to look strong. Damn, she turned him on! “Norris, a bonding even supersedes a love charm. It supersedes everything because it’s a blessing from the Gods. Don’t do this or you’ll regret it!”
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sp; “Bonding bullshit.” He grinned at her helplessness. Then he flipped the charm in the air and caught it with a thought. Stalking up to her bed, his confidence growing along with his hard on, he blinked his clothes away. Only it didn’t work. “Damn!” he muttered, as she laughed at him. So the charm had power, but not him. Well, that would change as soon as she fucked him. “Shut up!” he yelled at her, “and look at this!” He unzipped his jeans and pulled out his dick.
Star gave him attitude, even now, even knowing she was toast. “Where is it?” She tossed her head and smirked.
“Shut up!” He seethed. So it wasn’t as big as the cowboy’s dicks. He would drive her wild with his magnificent foreplay. “You’ll love what I can do!” he snapped.
His words seemed to frighten her, like she finally realized he was serious or maybe she could feel the sexual effect from the love charm. She started to slide off the bed but it was too late, and he pounced on top of her, letting his weight confine her for his pleasure while he rubbed the love charm over her cheek. And she rubbed against his dick, as if against her will, she glared at him with tears in her eyes.
“I hate you!” she shouted trying to bite his cheek.
He laughed and rubbed the lucky charm all over her face making her rub against it like a cat in heat. Sexual catnip, he thought with a chuckle, at his own wit. He was really quite a catch and soon she would see it.
“No!” she cried out, but it was weaker and she had stopped fighting him.
I am winning! He smiled, triumphant, and tried to blink their clothes off, and started cussing when his magic failed again. He needed to fuck her to get all her powers. But first he’d have to undress himself like a lowly human. At least he wouldn’t have to go to the trouble of stripping her because she’d been slumbering nude. Probably after fucking the cowboys, he thought with a scowl, but decided not to punish her for that just yet when he saw the glazed look in her eyes. She was under the charms, no his, power. He almost crowed with delight.
“Excuse me babe,’ he said rolling off her. He felt safe standing up and taking his own clothing off now and found he had calculated correctly when she didn’t move. Star was in a trance now…He licked his chops as he leisurely took his time since he was sure of her, gazing down at her beautiful brown silk body. She was his for the taking and take her he would.
And if perchance something went wrong, if those cowboys got in the way, well, then he’d kill her and still hopefully keep some of her powers. Strangling was the best way to kill a Venusian and he had very strong hands…he’d killed before.
Chad felt a strange stab of fear freeze him in his tracks as he and Diego walked along the beach. Star! He gasped picturing her struggling under a rogue man and Diego growled beside him telling him he felt it too.
“Star’s in danger,” they both said at the same time.
“Come on,” Diego said blinking his eyes and vanishing.
Chad stood there for a half second, befuddled, then closed his eyes thinking of Star. He had no idea how he had learned the skill, but he blinked himself from the sandy beach to his bedroom, Diego time traveling with him. Their feet hit the floor just as the man on top of Star was about to stick his little cock into Star’s pussy, Star acting as if she were unable to stop him.
Chad jumped on top of the man and pulled him off of her and Diego grabbed some sort of charm from his hand, which seemed to jolt Star back to reality. She blinked up at them in loving relief and then glared down at the man. “Norris. This is Norris!?”
“Hey!” Norris roared rounding on them, his hands balled in fists. “You stupid human cowboys can’t take my soulmate! Fuck, let me go!” He had a stiff little hard on bobbing in front of him.
“Fool!” Diego shouted as he helped Chad hold the man back. “She belongs to us! She’s our soulmate.”
“You must think I’m an idiot,” Norris snarled.
“Pretty damned,” Diego agreed ignoring the sputtering man to look at Star. “This is the dumb ass that sent you running to us?”
“How dare you talk about me that way? You’re human, damn it, and you can’t be her soulmate!” Norris cried out, still trying to get loose.
“We’re Venusian,” Chad said, between gritted teeth, surprised at how easily the words came out. “Surely you can feel that.”
“Actually his powers and senses have always been limited,” Star said. “And I sense they have been compromised further.”
Norris glared at her. “Are not.”
“Both of us are Venusians,” Diego said, “and you know how dangerous it is to try to fuck somebody else’s soulmate, dumbass!”
“I call for Droit de Signore and demand that you let me try,” Norris said quoting some ancient law.
“What the fuck is he talking about?” Chad asked getting a funny feeling as Star and Diego gasped and looked at each other.
“It’s from the old centuries when Venutian men had to compete for mates and only the truly worthy could fuck her.”
“You’re kidding,” Chad’s mind boggled at that.
“Let him try,” Star said, calmly.
“What the hell are you saying?” Chad asked, enraged and a little hurt.
Norris smiled. “I think both of you are lying and you can see how much she wants me. You dirty cowboys never had a chance. If you are Venusian at all, you are only part. I am the real deal. Plus you can’t bond on earth. I am sure that all this talk is pure bullshit!” His voice was heavy with his inner hatred. “I will show you inferiors that I will triumph!”
“Come and get me if you want to put it to the test and risk your manhood,” Star said, and she tossed her braids in a fetching way. “But know this. I’ve been speaking the truth. I’m giving you a chance to back out and go home as a whole person.”
Chad and Diego looked at one another at the same time and grinned. The minx knew what she was doing. And so did Chad, although he wasn’t sure how he had that knowledge. Both men let go of Norris, the stupid bastard who was trying to jerk out of their hands. He stumbled toward the bed in the blink of an eye and tried to stick it in Star with no foreplay at all. Then he let out a yelp as a sizzling lightning bolt blazed through the window, hitting the would-be attacker in his tiny cock, smoking coming off of his now blackened manhood.
“Wow,” Chad said, in awe.
Norris’s second yell could have awakened the dead as the lightening grabbed onto his shaft and sucked him out the window. Chad looked on as he cuddled Star, marveling at how the man’s hollering grew softer and softer until it couldn’t be heard anymore. Nor could he be seen. He had disappeared into some other atmosphere and Chad’s head was dizzy with amazement.
Chad sat down on the bed, Diego joining him and Star.
“What the hell?” he asked, as he stroked Star’s hair. “What was that all about?”
Diego held up the love charm. “The magic in these things work only once so it’s void of any power now,” he explained, as if that told Chad anything. He must have seen Chad’s confused expression—the one he knew he wore—because Diego added, “These love charms are illegal on Venus. Men use them to try to rape women because they make Venusian females horny. If you use one on Venus, you could get the death penalty. But—” he grinned then went on. “Since he used it on earth, he got maybe a worse punishment. Word has it that the Venusian Love Goddesses send these scumbags to the lowest planets that exist; planets that are quite unpleasant. So wherever he spends eternity won’t be much fun for him.”
“Good,” Chad said, holding Star so close that he felt as if they were merging together. Maybe they were. Maybe that was part of the bonding. His crest started burning where her skin touched it. Then he felt a strange, unfamiliar yet very familiar aura and smelled lilacs. “My mother had something to do with where he went,” he said in wonder, knowing it was true.
“And mine,” Diego said. “I smell roses.”
“And mine,” Star added, shutting her eyes. “I smell hyacinths. So you know he didn’t catch a bre
ak.”
“Thank god.” Chad shut his eyes now, rocking Star back and forth, feeling his complete love of her, happy to be her soulmate and, yes, even glad that Diego would be a part of their family. “Are you safe now?” he asked her, aware that his body trembled. “Nobody else is going to try to hurt you? If anyone does…”
“I’m safe now, Chad. I’m in your arms and Diego is beside us. I’m safe…and I’m happy.”
Chad felt tears stinging his eyes and was glad that they were shut as Diego put a friendly arm around him to signify their bond. Chad knew this wasn’t exactly the time for sex, but he wanted to show Star and Diego how much he appreciated being in this triad marriage.
“Yes,” Star mumbled, reading his thoughts, he knew. “Yes, Chad. Diego. I feel your need for us to be together and I have that same desire. We don’t have to wait for a better time because any time we’re together is the best time.”
Chad felt his dick stirring. He opened his eyes, turned to Diego and grinned as his friend winked at him, nodding.
“Star, you’re right,” he said, and he laid her down on the mattress. “We’re both ready to pleasure you until you scream for mercy but there will be none.”
Chapter Twenty-Two
Norris landed on his ass with a huge thud. Crying in pain, he looked around at the strange little men in dirty white robes who were stirring big pots of either hot food or a potion. The planet was dark and cold and he shuddered at the lack of color. Everything seemed dull, grayish. Even the trees were bare of leaves and the ground below him reminded him of concrete.
One of the men at a pot looked up and smiled at him, his grin toothless. “So where did you come from?” he asked.
The way he asked scared Norris, but he tried to lift his chin, even as tears slid down his face because of his stinging cock. “I’m Venusian.”
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