Fourth Vector Ch. 20

"You have no idea how happy I am to see you," said Greg finally, squeezing her hand tenderly.

"As I am for you," she replied. "He worried me for a moment, when he said he didn't know how much longer you would be out for. Considering how abnormal it was for us to still be alive, he didn't know if we would recover. I didn't want to come to grips with what that could mean."

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting then," he said with a small smirk.

Vera grinned. "At least you're here now. That's what's important. I have a feeling we have a lot of catching up to do once we get back to the real world."

"Indeed we do," said Greg dryly. "I have to take my marines back from Dustin." Greg cleared his throat and then looked back to Vera. "There's also someone else I've been meaning to spend a lot more time with once I got out of here."

Vera smiled. "I'm sure he'll give them back to you if you ask nicely. And on that other matter, I'm sure she'd be delighted if you just asked."

"What makes you so sure, hmm?"

She squeezed his hand. "Just call it feminine intuition."

"Is that right?"

"Mhmm, it definitely is."

With every passing word, Vera's head drifted closer to his. His eyes flickered down to her lips, parted and seemingly ready for what was about to come. The distance between them closed, and for the first time, Greg felt the tenderness of her kiss.

It was something he never wanted to forget. His arms wrapped around her waist, pulling her into his lap while she gave a soft moan of approval. Her presence in his personal space was intoxicating to the point where even her sweet scent alone served to stoke his arousal. Vera's lips parted to introduce her tongue, and they took turns exploring and caressing each other's mouths for the next several minutes.

Almost too soon, she pulled away, giving him a coy look. "Can I admit something to you?"

Greg grinned. "What's that?"

"I've wanted to do that for a long time. I wasn't sure if I'd ever get the chance."

"Was it worth the wait?"

Vera smiled and then kissed him again. "It was even better."

His fingers drifted to her hair, wrapping one of the strands around his skin. "I think we've really been afforded a second chance. There are so many reasons why we shouldn't even be alive at this point, but we are. I want to take that second chance with you."

Vera nodded her head in quick agreement. "I'd love nothing better than that."

*****

Jack was on his way to meet with Aedan when he heard the wonderful news. He was walking through the wing of the palace that contained formal staterooms, which had been converted into personal chambers for the king and queen until the residence wing could be rebuilt, when Twitch caught up to him.

"Vera and Greg are both awake!" said Twitch with an excited grin. "Dr. Kendall just got word to me. Both of them look to be in a good shape and have normal temperatures again. Kendall is optimistic that they've beaten it!"

Jack stopped in his tracks. "That's fantastic news! How incredible. When can we see them?"

"Kendall wants to watch them for a couple days but then if all looks good, he can release them," said Twitch.

"That's the best news I've heard all day. Send word back to all three of them that I can't wait to see them," said Jack.

"There's other news as well," said Twitch, the smile dropping from his face.

Jack listened closely as his deputy detailed him on the failed Javan invasion of Occitania as well as the apparent betrayal by one of their admirals.

"Henrik? I'm surprised by that one," said Jack with a shocked expression. "I only knew of the man vaguely, but I thought he was one of the good ones."

"He's already been beheaded," said Twitch quietly. "There are rumors that the blockade around Aberdeen will be targeted next."

"I'd say that's long overdue. But how do they do that without any more ships?" Jack questioned.

"Your guess is as good as mine," replied Twitch before putting the dispatch back in his pocket. "But that's the main news as of today."

"Good, keep me informed about any further developments in Java," said Jack. "I'm going to meet with the king."

"Do you know where Abigail is? I also wanted to give her the update from home."

"You might want to leave that to me," said Jack with a chuckle. "Her and Kat went to see Queen Ciara. I doubt they'll be free anytime soon but I'll make sure she gets them the next time I see her."

After leaving Twitch, Jack continued on to Aedan's makeshift study, finding the king having some coffee at his desk.

"Ah, Jack, good morning," greeted Aedan. "Or should I say, Your Majesty?"

Jack shook his hands in front of him. "Let's not start that, please? You didn't do it to me when you thought I was just the King of Andalucia."

"Of course, but that was before I learned that you outranked me," added Aedan with a grin. "The King of Galicia has typically been the Western overlord. If we go by propriety, then I should address you with your proper title."

Jack chuckled. "And when have we ever gone by propriety?"

"Good point," said Aedan with a laugh. "By the way, I hope you didn't take personally all those things I said about Galicia before I knew."

Jack shrugged. "Why should I? I've haven't been to my own homeland since I was about six months old. I can count on my fingers how many actual Galicians I know, and if I ever stepped foot in the country without an army, I'd be put to death by Kat's cousin. Hardly many reasons to love the place."

"Still, it is the land of your people. You must feel a certain amount of affinity for them?"

"I'm still trying to figure that out," said Jack with total honesty. "It might help if I knew more of them. The ones I do know I'm quite fond of, but meeting more of them might help to foster that connection."

"That connection might be a little overrated," said Aedan. "I'm sure my connection to my own people has suffered greatly in the last few months. I'd be hesitant to step outside the palace without my own guard."

"You know that's not true, Aedan. You alone were able to stop your own men from fighting mine at the palace. They respect you more than you know."

Aedan pursed his lips. "I hope so. It seems I've been given a second chance to make things right here. I intend to take it. With the city starting to rebuild and the plague numbers nearly dropping off entirely, perhaps we're on the cusp of a new beginning?"

"Amazing what happens to those plague numbers once we take care of the parasite," said Jack with a laugh. "May those tainted goods forever rest on the bottom of the Bay of Daban."

Aedan tapped his coffee cup on the desk twice. "Hear, hear!"

"In other news, I'm told that Reina will be here the day after tomorrow," said Jack. "That should make for quite the meeting."

"I've arranged to have a suite prepared for her arrival already," said Aedan. "Then with you and Kat, I'd like to sit down with her and discuss the future of our alliance together."

"I'm sure she'd like nothing better than to do so," said Jack.

"Even though we've removed the Swabians from Daban, the lower half of my country is still swarming with them. I've been having my own forces start the move toward the southern coast to liberate Zarah, as well as sending them east to Burwick. The Picard Navy has now been fully mobilized as well to stop any Swabian ships from bringing more regiments to the island, but I'm afraid there's already quite a few of them there."

"Then we'll simply have to kick them off," said Jack confidently. "They won't be around for very long once we bring more force to bear against them, and they'll have nowhere to go once their backs hit the beaches. We may have an opportunity to deal them a significant defeat instead of just picking off their regiments here and there."

"My worry is what happens whenever this pseudo-war with them begins to turn hot," said Aedan. "What happens when they declare war for real and the entire weight of the country is brought to bear against us? Picardy can't stand up alone to Swabia. Not even with Carinthia or the forces currently under your command, Jack."

"One step at time," Jack cautioned. "Let's focus first on getting your entire country back under control. Things are looking up, I promise you that."

After speaking with the king for close to an hour, Jack finally left the study when Aedan was called out for a dinner. As he walked back to his own quarters, Jack loosened a button on his uniform, looking forward to some time alone. For once, there was nothing else he needed to do for the rest of the day and some downtime seemed promising.

However, something was off as he neared his quarters. It almost seemed too quiet once he was right outside the door, and the hair on the back of his neck was starting to stand up. It was the same feeling he had back in Carinthia, and Jack's hand instantly went for his sidearm as he looked to both sides of the hall.

It was deserted as far as he could see, but that didn't mean there wasn't something or someone waiting for him on the other side of the door. Jack gripped the handle and slowly opened the door.

The room wasn't how he left it. The curtains were drawn tight across the windows, making the room seem much darker than it normally was in the late afternoon. Several candles had been lit and occupied strategic places around the bedroom. There was some kind of incense burning, something that appeared delightfully fragrant to his nose.

The only thing he couldn't see was anyone else.

"Hello?" he called out from the entrance, shutting the door firmly behind him.

"Hello, Commodore," came a throaty reply from just behind the main wall of the bedroom. Jack recognized the voice instantly as belonging to his favorite brunette commander, and sure enough, Abigail stepped out from behind the wall a moment later.

Jack's eyes nearly popped out of the sockets. The dark-haired woman was wearing very little of anything at all, and nothing close to her traditional uniform. Instead, she wore lace lingerie that raised the temperature of the room instantly. The bra was all black lace, with sheer cups and thin straps that wrapped around her delicate shoulders.

Traveling a little lower, she wore a black garter belt with straps that connected to another pair of sheer stockings. The panties she wore were so thin that Jack could see completely through them, held up by two straps on either side that wrapped around her slender hips.

Her hair had been done with extra attention, the curls cascading down past her shoulders as she gave him a look of pure arousal. Jack could barely shut his mouth, and he instantly found his trousers were way too tight.

"I was hoping you'd show up soon," purred Abigail. "I didn't want you to keep us waiting."

Jack arched an eyebrow. "Us?"

As if on cue, Kat popped out from the other wall, matching the same movements as her co-conspirator. If he thought that Abigail looked incredible, Kat was determined to give her a run for her money. The blonde Galician woman wore her own style of lingerie, this one as white newly fallen snow. Instead of a three-piece set, Kat's was only one, and her lace chemise reached just to the top of her thighs. The cups were sheer lace as well, allowing Jack to catch a glimpse of her pink nipples before his eyes traveled further down her long legs.

All that bare skin ached to be touched, and as he looked back up to her face, he noticed her hair had been done up in the same style as Abigail's.

Both women were a vision out of his wildest dreams. There was nothing more arousing than seeing the two of them before him, both different in their own way, but both with obviously one thing on the mind.

"Do you like what you see, my king?" asked Kat as her hand crept down her side, ending right at her thigh where the chemise did.

"How in the . . . what is this . . . why?" Jack asked finally, finding it hard to choose his words.

Kat and Abigail looked at each other and shared a giggle. "With all that's been going on lately, we haven't had much personal time just for us," said Abigail with a lewd smile.

"And especially with the battle over, and Vera and Greg recovering, we thought it was time to celebrate a little," added Kat. "Plus I wanted to do something extra special for saving my life for athird time."

Jack eyed both of their bodies again. "I can definitely be in the mood for celebration."

Abigail walked toward him and grabbed his hardness through his trousers. "I'd say so. You're absolutely throbbing for us."

"I've never seen two sexier women in my entire life," whispered Jack.

Kat walked closer and pressed a heated kiss against his neck. "We're all yours. You can do whatever you want to us.''

He looked back down at their lingerie. "This is so sexy. Where did you get this?"

Kat grinned. "Ciara gave it to us. Apparently, she had quite the collection although a majority of it was lost in the explosion. These are what she had in storage that wouldn't fit her with the pregnancy. Seeing as her size isn't that different from mine and Abigail's, she gave us a few outfits that she hadn't tried out yet."

"Remind me to tell Ciara that she's my favorite queen ever," said Jack with a choke.

Kat giggled. "I'll be sure not to let Reina know you said that. She'll be heartbroken."

"All of this talking and not enough fucking," growled Abigail as she gave Jack a lusty stare. "What's wrong with this picture?"

"You two just need to give me a moment to get back to myself," said Jack. "You could've given me a heart attack."

"And yet here you stand," replied Abigail as she stroked him through his trousers.

"I'm much better now," he said with a grin.

"About time. Now kiss me," she ordered.

Jack wasted little time placing a passionate kiss on Abigail's lips. As his tongue dueled with hers, Kat's hands picked up the slack, carefully working the buttons on his uniform. She gave his cock several squeezes as she worked on his trousers, letting them slide to the floor as he turned his attention back to her.

As he tasted Kat's mouth, Abigail slipped behind the blonde woman, placing several kisses of her own on Kat's neck. She began to moan at such attention as Jack's hands slipped to her lace chemise and began to raise the hem.

"Unwrapping your gift?" moaned Kat with a smile as he slipped it over her hips. Jack bit his lip when he saw she was bottomless, and he ran his fingers through her blonde pubic hair.

As he continued to raise the chemise, Kat lifted her arms to help get it off her body. As it went flying through the air, Jack noticed two things. For one, Kat's nearly perfect breasts came into view, her nipples already hard at the attention and begging for his hands. The other thing was Kat's wound, the reminder of what happened back in Carinthia.

Jack stooped low enough to look at it, which by now had mostly healed, leaving only the faintest of scars. He kissed it tenderly as Kat moaned loudly.

"You're healed," he whispered against her skin.

"Thanks to you for saving me," she whispered back.

Jack let his lips linger on her nipples for a short period of time before he traveled lower. His tongue dipped into her belly button which caused her to shudder while Abigail cupped Kat's tits from behind. Jack's tongue moved lower still, teasing against her clit until Kat was practically thrusting her hips with need.

"It's not your tongue I want down there tonight, Jack," she moaned.

Abigail grinned wickedly. "Our little virgin has come a long way."

"Our little virgin is also the only one that's fully undressed," growled Jack as his eyes focused back on the brunette. "We need to change that."

As the roles were reversed, Abigail became the center of attention as Jack quickly rid her of her black lace lingerie. Once her tits were completely free of the material, both Jack and Kat found a nipple to latch onto, and Abigail threw her head back at the lavish attention. While he was occupied with her tits, Jack slid his hand lower on her body, coming between her shaven mound and lace panties and finding her clit.

"Oh, fuck that feels so nice," moaned Abigail as she watched the two of them work.

Jack soon repeated the same treatment to her as he did with Kat, taking a few moment to taste her wetness as he lowered her panties. He chose to allow her to keep the garter belt on, liking the sexiness it added to the moment. While his tongue was busy between her legs, Kat was busy helping him out of the rest of his uniform, being careful over the bandaged spot over his arm where he was wounded in battle. As he kissed his way back up the brunette's body, they were fully nude for the first time.

"What do you think, Abigail?" asked Kat with a coy smile as her hand wrapped around Jack's cock. "He's been so thoughtful to pay attention to us already. Why don't we show him some love too." She squeezed his cock, leaving no doubt behind her intended meaning.

Abigail grinned in response. "I love that idea."

Both women grabbed a hand and moved him to the bed, pushing him down onto his back. They soon joined him and slipped between his legs, one on either side as his cock towered up high. Jack had never seen something that looked so sexy before. Both women stared at his cock, looking at it with a mixture of adoration and lust. Abigail was the first to grab it, stroking him fully several times before she pointed it to Kat.

To his surprise, Kat allowed her to feed it into her mouth. While she sucked on the tip, Abigail concentrated on stroking him. It was a mesmerizing feeling, even when Abigail moved her hand out of the way to allow Kat to take more of him inside her mouth.

"Wow, look at her go," said Abigail with a grin as Kat took down almost three quarters of his cock. "I wonder if I can take more of you."

"It never hurts to try," he replied with a breathless grin.

As she listened to them talk, Kat let the tip come out of her mouth with an audible pop. She pointed it toward Abigail. "Let's see if you can do it!"

Abigail must have taken it as the challenge it was because she wasted no time in trying to take as much as she could down her throat. Her technique was flawless, working a little bit further down every time before coming up for air. After a few minutes, she managed to get all the way to the bottom, to the point where her nose touched his pubic bone.

"Fuck, that's so hot," whispered Kat as she teased his thigh. "She can take your whole cock, babe."

Jack had a hard time containing his pleasure. It was to the point where he'd begun thrusting his hips against Abigail's mouth, driving himself all the way inside. He needed to fuck them.

Abigail let his cock slip out of her mouth and grinned up at him. "What's my prize?"

Jack chuckled. "You get to be fucked first."

Her grin couldn't have gotten any wider, to the point that it made Kat start to giggle. Abigail flopped to the side beside him while Jack got up on his knees. As Abigail spread her legs and trapped him between them, she crooked her finger at him.

"I need you inside me, Jack." She slipped her fingers between her legs and spread open her hole. There was a clear line of fluid dripping from her wet opening down her thighs. She couldn't be more ready for him.

As he placed the tip of his cock at her entrance, Abigail reached out to grab his hips and pull him into her. She gasped as he penetrated her in one strong push that went all the way down to his balls.

"Fuck, you're so wet for me," he said with a groan as his cock filled her completely.

"I couldn't wait to see your face with this surprise," she moaned as her hands cupped her tits.

Jack began to thrust his hips, starting a smooth rhythm with Abigail while Kat adjusted her position on the bed, leaning over Abigail's torso. The blonde woman soon captured the other's nipple into her mouth, sucking on her breast while Jack focused on fucking her. Abigail began to squirm under their dual treatment, and her moans became more frequent and louder.