Three Square Meals Ch. 075

John blinked in surprise, and one glance at the doe-eyed looks the five engineers were giving him instantly confirmed his Matriarch's words. The Maliri sitting in front of him were all stunningly beautiful women, even though they were all several decades older than him. He couldn't deny the thought of all five of them pregnant with his babies was extremely arousing, but something held him back from springing into lusty action.

He gave them all a warm smile, and asked, "Just so there's no confusion, you're all asking me to be the father of your children?"

"That's right," Syndra murmured, her angular eyes wide with excitement as she stared at him.

He met each of their searching gazes in turn, then said earnestly, "I'm really flattered, but this has just come as a bit of a surprise. I don't have any children yet, so this is a big step for me, too. Would you give me a little while to think about it? I promise I won't keep you waiting long for an answer."

They each returned his smile, and chorused that they understood, and he could take as much time as he needed. John rose to his feet before helping them stand too, and shared a brief kiss with each girl. With coy waves goodbye, the five engineers left him on his own in the recruiting room, sporting a painfully hard erection in his trousers.

He closed the door after they left, and leaned back against it, trying to collect his scattered thoughts. As much as he lusted after these blue-skinned temptresses, something was holding him back from agreeing to their wonderful offer. However, after just stroking seventy-five freshly impregnated slender tummies, he had a one-track mind at the moment.

Alyssa only let him stew for thirty seconds before she said sympathetically, *Why don't you head up to our bedroom in the Invictus? Irillith's waiting for you there, she wants to talk to you.*

*Alright, on my way,* he replied, before flinging open the door, and strolling back towards the Invictus.

When he entered the drydock, he stepped aside to make room for a grav-truck, which was towing four anti-grav sleds of Maliri crystal support structure into place for the Invictus' hull. He weaved his way around Alyssa's neat stacks of re-shaped armoured plating, and she blew him a kiss as he strolled past, with the attending group of engineers giving him a friendly wave. Dana was working with an exclusive group of white-haired engineers to secure the second Progenitor Power Core to a lifting harness so that it could be lowered into the hull, and they all stopped what they were doing and waved at him as walked up the ramp into the ship.

It seemed everywhere he looked, there were dozens of beautiful Maliri girls watching him in fascination, and he knew he only had to ask, and they'd be overjoyed to join him for some fun. He was in quite a flustered state when he finally made it into the bedroom, and found Irillith sitting on the bed waiting for him.

She gave him a smouldering look as she rose to her feet, and slipped the dress off her shoulders, letting it fall to the floor. "Are my fellow Maliri driving you to distraction?" she purred, her violet orbs hiding behind her long lashes.

John nodded as he walked over to her, and he reached out to brazenly squeeze her big, round breasts, delighting in the contrast of his skin against her flawless azure flesh. "You drive me wild," he admitted, as he enjoyed the heavy weight of her taut orbs, as they filled his palm.

She kicked off her shoes, then climbed on the bed, as she said alluringly, "Come and use me to blow off some steam, then we can chat when you can think straight."

Scarcely believing his luck, he quickly stripped off his clothes, then joined her on the bed as she spread her thighs for him in invitation. He could see she was as turned on as he was, and when he positioned the head of his cock at her dark-blue pussy, she was wet and ready for him. Not wasting any time, he thrust forward, loving the delicious sound of her lusty groan as he pushed deep inside her.

He raised himself up on his arms so he could look down at her flushed face, and after admiring her luscious body for a moment, he said, "You're a truly beautiful girl, Irillith."

Shaking her head, she hissed at him, "No, I want it nastier than that. Use me hard, and work off those frustrations!"

Covering her body with his own, he pinned her wrists to the bed above her head, and asked, "Is this what you want, you horny little slut?"

Her violet eyes flashed dangerously, and she retorted, "Show me how you ride your Maliri Thralls, Progenitor. If you want to put a baby in my belly, you better be a good fuck!"

He leaned down and kissed her fiercely, forcing his tongue into her mouth as he pulled back with his hips, and then rammed forward, knocking the breath out of her with the impact. "Hold on tight... you aren't going to be able to walk straight after this," he promised her, his eyes sparkling with lust.

John began to pick up the pace, pulling his wide-girthed cock out of her clutching pussy, before driving back in, the tip kissing her uterus with every thrust. He held her down, stretched out beneath him as he fucked her, and after a dozen strokes, he rammed in hard, penetrating all the way into her womb.

"Oh, fuck!" she grunted, as she took his entire length, her body forced wide open to accept the massive invader. After panting for a moment, and getting used to being so tightly stretched, she whispered in his ear, "That gets you going, doesn't it? The thought of blue Maliri bellies loaded up with your cum!"

He pulled back slowly, then gave her a long, pussy-stuffing thrust that made her grunt as she took him all, his quad resting against the soft cheeks of her ass. "You're all so fucking hot, and practically begging me for it!" he muttered, as he stared into her eyes. He grinned then, and added, "Except you! You really made me work to get balls-deep in your tight little body!"

"But that's what makes fucking me better, isn't it?" she asked, staring back at him, her angular eyes flashing with lust. "You had to work to break me in, not like those girls outside. You only have to snap your fingers, and they'd spread their legs for you."

Tightening his grip on her wrists, he began a steady, rhythmic pounding, her body moving with his as he rode her lithe frame. He nodded, as he said, "I had to collar you first, before you started sucking down my cum."

"Fuck!" Irillith hissed, her eyes rolling back as she came. Her athletic legs clung to him in a powerful grip as her pussy convulsed around his shaft, massaging him with undulating contractions.

"That's right, keep cumming for me, you smoking-hot, blue piece of ass," he grinned, fucking her harder now, and loving the sound of her ecstatic cries.

She arched her back, her warm, soft breasts pressing into his chest as she climaxed hard, her thighs trembling as she responded to his domination. "Don't stop! I love it!" she pleaded with him, as he really began to go to town, his hips a blur as he skewered her nubile body.

After ten minutes of pussy-punishing action, which left Irillith a sobbing, whimpering, orgasmic wreck around his burgeoning shaft, he stopped focusing on screwing her brains out, and focused on his own pleasure. He let go of her wrists, and she wrapped herself around him, a sudden flush of energy from Alyssa rousing her from her ecstasy-induced stupor.

"That's right, you've earned your prize now," she whispered in his ear, as she caressed him. She planted a loving kiss on his cheek and continued, "You proved what a stallion you are. Now, just use me to empty those big, full balls."

He cradled her head in his hands, and stared into her eyes as he drove into her soft, warm body, slowing his thrusts so he could see her reaction to each one.

"I'm going to breed you one day," he said firmly, no doubt in his mind.

Her pupils flared with arousal, and the heated look in her angular eyes turned gentle as she murmured, "Whenever you want, I'm yours."

They kissed again, but it was tender and passionate this time, and he could feel her heartfelt yearning as she responded to him. He came then, long and hard, his quad convulsing with powerful contractions as he spurted huge streams of cum into her womb. She joined him in his release when she felt that first splash of spunk, and her tightly-stretched pussy squeezed him as he flexed inside her. They stared into each other's eyes as he continued to fill her up, with John lifting his weight off her a little, to give her rapidly-expanding abdomen room to grow.

When every last drop had been wrung from his four balls, John groaned with relief, then gently eased out of her lust-swollen pussy, before flopping down on the bed beside her. He rolled to one side, and placed a possessive hand on her sperm-laden belly, and said in wonder, "You've no idea how much I needed that."

Irillith let out a low groan as she stretched her lithe limbs, and she laughed airily as she replied, "You weren't kidding about me not being able to walk straight after that. You were a beast!" He laughed along with her, and she turned her head to stare into his eyes, as she added softly, "Until the end, of course. That was just wonderful."

"It was," he agreed, as he caressed the rounded curve of her cum-stuffed abdomen.

They lay like that for several minutes, both enjoying the intimate, loving afterglow. Eventually, Irillith gave him a sparkling smile, and asked, "Now we've emptied your quad, do you want to talk about what got you in such a state in the first place?"

He returned her smile, and replied, "Alyssa must have told you?"

"She did, but I want to hear it from you," Irillith replied, studying him with those enchanting violet orbs.

He thought it over for a moment, then said simply, "Five of the engineers from the last refit have asked to have children with me."

"I know which ones you mean. You spent more time with Filaurel and her friends than any of the others," she replied, looking thoughtful. She brushed her fingers along his cheek, and smiled as she added, "I think we just established that you're quite the fan of Maliri women, so what's the problem? They'd be overjoyed to have you as the baby's father."

John looked conflicted as he confessed, "There's a big part of me that would love that - to knock them up, and see them get big bellies with my babies growing inside them." He stroked her enormously swollen stomach pointedly, and they shared a lusty grin.

"But?" she prompted him, seeing he was holding something back.

He let out a regretful sigh, as he replied, "Fantasy isn't the same as reality. I've made commitments to so many girls already, and when we do settle down to raise a family, I'm not going to have enough time in the day to devote to them all." He rested his head on the pillow, and smiled at her as he continued, "To start with, obviously, there's all you girls on the ship, so that's seven."

"Mmmhmm," Irillith agreed, a look of contentment on her face as he stroked her tautly-curved belly.

"Then there's Luna, Ilyana, and Almari. I promised them the same when I restored their fertility," he explained, watching her lovely features. He gently caressed her, as he added, "That brings the total to ten expectant mothers."

She arched an eyebrow, and continued wryly, "Speaking of which, I'm sure you plan to have Edraele give me another sibling or two."

He blushed then, and apologised, "I'm so sorry for the position that puts you in. I can't even imagine how weird that must be."

Irillith studied his tense expression for a moment, then gave him a reassuring smile, as she replied, "I'm sure such a thing would be scandalous in the Terran Federation, but I'm actually perfectly alright with it. With men in such short supply in the Regency, it's really not much of a culture-shock for me. We Maliri are so long-lived, it's far from uncommon that an unrelated male might father children with one or more sisters, or yes, even a mother and a sister."

Nodding his understanding, and letting out a sigh of relief that made her giggle, he then said, "Finally there's the four Matriarchs that Edraele has made an alliance with. They raised the same prospect with me a couple of days ago, and I've been meeting with them regularly for their daily meetings, and getting to know them quite well. I'm already quite fond of all four girls."

"Fathering children with the Matriarchs of all the highest-ranked Noble Houses would help secure an incredibly powerful alliance," she noted, nodding enthusiastically. "You should definitely give them each a baby as soon as you can, they all need to rebuild their Houses."

John raised his eyebrow at the thought of his girlfriend eagerly encouraging him to impregnate several more girls. It seemed Irillith wasn't alone in that opinion.

*I so want to be there when you knock them up, lover!* Alyssa agreed, her lusty voice echoing through his mind.

*I'll protect them and keep them safe while you're away, my Lord,* Edraele agreed, equally as enthusiastic. *There's also no reason to wait with them, they won't be in any danger, not safely protected here in Genthalas.*

*Edraele should definitely be there when you breed them!* Alyssa exclaimed, growing more excited by the moment. *It'll be a wonderful bonding moment for her and her girls, when you pack their wombs full of cum. Are you going to do them two at a time, or-*

*Alright, calm down!* he said to them both, shaking his head in amusement. *We can discuss all that later!*

Trying to remember where he was in his conversation with Irillith, he said, "The Matriarchs bring the total to fourteen."

"So, the engineers would make nineteen," Irillith noted, then winked at him as she added, "You're going to be a very busy boy."

"Fourteen is already crazy! I want to be there to support each of you through your pregnancies, and adding another five women I barely know seems ridiculously selfish," he explained, trying to make her understand his predicament.

"You could just give them what they want, but not be so involved with their children's upbringing. It might seem callous to you, but that's how Maliri society works." Irillith explained, her tone patient and non-judgemental. "With so many women to men, it's the exception, not the rule, when a father is heavily involved with bringing up children."

"I'm trying to change that, though," he said emphatically. "I'd be a ridiculous hypocrite if I went along that route. Besides, I know what it's like not growing up with parents, and I've always sworn that I'd be there for my kids."

She leaned in to give him a tender kiss, and said softly, "I think you have your answer, then."

He nodded, and frowned as he replied, "I'm not looking forward to telling them. It's going to sound like a rejection, when I'm really just trying to do the right thing."

*Don't tell them just yet, handsome,* Alyssa said thoughtfully. *I've just been discussing it with Edraele, and we think we might have come up with an interesting solution.*

*Really? What's that?* he asked, equally curious and relieved.

Her melodic teasing laughter filled up his mind as she replied, *You'll just to wait and see. It involves another one of Edraele's surprises.*

He groaned inwardly at the thought, to the amusement of both his Matriarchs. Turning his attention to Irillith, he stroked her cheek, and said, "Thank you for this. Talking to you really helped."

"It was quite literally my pleasure," she replied, smiling at him as she stroked her swollen belly. Her expression turned more serious then, as she added, "It felt wonderful being able to help you for a change. I'm always here for you, if you ever have anything else you need to get off your chest."

"Likewise, honey," he agreed, and they shared a loving kiss as they cuddled together.

***

John spent the rest of the afternoon working on the refit, shaping Crystal Alyssium into a sturdy, reinforced cage around the vulnerable areas of the ship. He decided to quad-shape the alloy to make it as robust as was reasonable, considering the amount of material involved, but he had to call on Edraele to supply him with Eldritch power, to avoid becoming exhausted. She seemed to have no problem supplying him with a steady surge of psychic energy, more than enough in fact, for him to finish all the rooms, without unduly taxing his own reserves.

*You must be tapped out after all that,* he marvelled, as he finished shaping the armour for the last of the new magazines, moulding it neatly into place. He winked at the engineer back in the corridor and gave her a thumbs up, before backing out of the maintenance ducts at the rear of Singularity Driver ammunition room. Voicing his concerns, he added, *Don't drain yourself excessively, I don't want to leave you worn out. I can always use more of my own energy next time.*

*I'm fine, John, honestly!* Edraele said, sounding positively delighted. *You've more than quadrupled all the energy reserves I have at my disposal, from both myself and my network of wards! It's not just because of all the Maliri you've been adding, either. After all the effort you've made to get to know them all, their connections to me are all so much stronger than they were under the old bond. It's amazing, how much enforcing the compulsion to obey, inhibited the psychic energy they could contribute.*

John clambered out into the corridor and closed his eyes for a moment, so that he could examine the rows of Maliri under Edraele's care. Sure enough, the hundreds of lines linking them all to each other were much stronger than the faint, fairly noticeable trails that were in place beforehand. While they weren't in the same league as the blazing conflagration of light from Alyssa and the Invictus' crew, it was still a startling improvement.

*We noticed the exact same thing when we renewed the bond,* Alyssa said, agreeing with the Maliri Matriarch. She hesitated, then added with a tinge of regret, *My girls also had a bunch of epiphanies, with lots of breakthroughs on everything they were working on. It's a shame we hadn't been able to build up stronger connections with the assassins and the first group of engineers, before you two changed the nature of your bond.*

*Not to worry, they've all been working incredibly hard on the refit,* John said, smiling gratefully at one of the engineers as she handed him a towel and a flask of water. "Just what I needed, thanks, Caelitia!" he added, before downing the flask, and upending the last over his face, so he would wipe away the sweat and grease. She smiled and took the items back when he was done with them.

*You better get ready,* Alyssa prompted him. *We're going out for dinner tonight, remember?*

*I'm looking forward to it,* he agreed, genuinely looking forward to a break from the hectic refit schedule over the last week-and-a-half.

He nodded in greeting to the white-haired Maliri he passed as he walked along the partially-completed decking on this corridor. There were still huge holes in the midsection of the ship, with the work crews focusing on building up the support framework, and then constructing the most important areas first. They were planning to fill in the rest over the next week, before moving on to the final stages of the refit.

The busy corridor led into Deck Five on the aft section of the Invictus, and he stepped through the door into the grav-tube, before rising in the blue glow. There were no Maliri on Deck Two, so the corridor was silent and deserted as he strolled towards his bedroom. His sharp ears caught the sound of a running shower, and when he walked into the bathroom, it was warm in there and filled with clouds of steam. A pair of luscious sirens appeared through the swirling clouds, their brown and red hair slicked back as they glistened wetly.