Ral’s eyes jerked from Ariel’s and glared at the woman. “Damn it, Ahhu. We need to be able to understand each other at all times. It has caused us problems.”

“I can copy the program so it can be run in your home in a room to communicate. It is tricky to try to implement a foreign program into our implant translators. It won’t read it. The only reason it works on the conis is because it can run most any program.”

“Conis?” Ariel said softly.

Ahhu pointed to the computer device. Ariel nodded.

“Got it.” She eyed Ral. “Do you have a conis at home? I don’t remember seeing one.”

“I can get one.” He eyed Ahhu. “Leave us please. Get me a copy of that program.

Tell Abroo I need a conis immediately to take home with us.”

Ahhu hesitated. “While you are here I need to run more tests.”

“No,” Ral snarled.

“Your father has ordered them, Ral. He is concerned greatly.”

Ral snarled again. There was no translation but it came across as “I’m really pissed off” to Ariel. “He needs not concern himself.”

“He is very concerned. Let me run the tests. It will set his mind at ease. He’s ordered the other-world species from our planet, Argis Ral. He will order her gone as well. Let me run the tests to prove to him that she is no danger to your health and well-being.”

Rage hit Ral’s face. “He’s ordered our men to give up their off-world bound women?”

Ahhu hesitated. “None of them bound to those women, Ral. Only you bound one to you. They just shared sex. The other males were easily willing to give up those women.

They are working to find their planets to return them to their worlds.”

“I will not give her up. If he orders her off our world then I will go live on her planet. Leave us.” He paused. “What tests do you need to do now? I won’t allow her to be pained in any way.”

Ahhu walked to cabinets along one wall. She removed a few things before walking to a table. She eyed Ral. “Your father has demanded I make sure she doesn’t have sexual control over you. I need her sex fluids to test to make sure they aren’t working as a drug into your system. I will also need sex fluids from you to test to see if her fluids cause a reaction in your own body.”

Ral growled. “Fine.”

“You can’t mix the fluids. Will this be a problem?” Ahhu eyed Ariel. “Does she have fluids?”

“Yes. Get out. I’ll take care of the testing. Lock the door on your way out.”

Ahhu nodded and left the room. It locked with a loud click from the other side. Ral sighed as he turned around, his full attention was on Ariel.

“Why did you try to leave my home? What have I done to anger you?”

Ariel crossed her arms over her chest as she eyed him back. “I don’t share. I thought bound meant loyalty. As in you wouldn’t fuck other women. I will leave, Ral. If you touch that woman I’m so gone.”

He cocked his head. “I see.”

“You see? That’s all you have to say? Let me tell you something, Ral. I’m human.

You’re Zorn. I know there are some differences, but I won’t be with a man who has sex with other women. It won’t happen. If you want to fuck that bitch…that woman…you go right ahead but you won’t be touching me anymore.”

“This wasn’t an issue while we were prisoners. Women were rare. On my world it is acceptable for a male to have sex with different women. I did not invite her to our home. My father gave her to me. He wants me bound with her instead. I told her I wasn’t interested. I did not wish to have her, Ariel.”

“You let her back in after you kicked her out. She took off her damn dress and you didn’t make her put it back on.”

“Some of my kind goes naked in home. It is not an uncommon or unheard of thing.”

“She goes or I do, Ral. It’s that damn simple. I’m really hurt that you’d even consider it.” She moved away from him to stare out the window. “You really have hurt me inside. How would you feel if I had sex with another man?”

Ral snarled. In seconds he was touching her as he gripped her arms to spin her around to face him. “I would kill.”

“That’s how I feel, damn you. Do you know the rage that you’re feeling right now when you think about another man touching me? I feel the same rage when I think about you with other women.”

“Our culture is different but I understand.” His eyes softened. “I promise you no other women. I didn’t mean to harm you, Ariel. I meant no hurt to you. I don’t want her. I told her no. You are the one I want in my bed. I just didn’t think you would find it offensive that she was naked. Now I know. No more unclothed females in our home.”

Ariel stared up at him. “Did you want to have sex with her?”

He didn’t look away. His eyes were locked with Ariel’s eyes. “I did not. I told her no. I meant no. You are who makes me hard, Ariel. You are different from women of my world and I am addicted to those differences. To touch another woman but you would be…” He hesitated. “Not worth my time or an interest of mine. Was that clear for you to understand? You are the only female I want to touch.”

“She goes.”

He hesitated. “She was given to me. If I kick her out she will be without a home.

She will starve or be harmed without protection. It would be cruel.”

“Then give her to someone else. I don’t want her with us.”

He caressed her cheek. “I will give her to someone else. Good plan. We do need house help but I will find a very old female to live in another room from us to do the home work. Then there will be no doubt that I do not want to have sex with her and older females do not walk around naked. They get too cold.”

“You didn’t have help before.”

His smile died. “I did. I got rid of my home help before I took you home.”

Ariel eyed him. He looked away and then let his eyes drop to her again. He looked slightly embarrassed. “I had two females that shared my bed. I do not want to make you angry or hurt but I was unbound before you. I have a strong sex drive. I knew there would be trouble if I didn’t give them to one of my brothers. They wouldn’t have been happy when I kicked them out of my bed to share it with you. I had no intention of having sex with others once I bound to you, Ariel. You have ruined me for other women.”

She smiled. “Good.”

He laughed. “House help will be good. You don’t know how to serve our food. I would not send you out to shop. I would worry and the females do the shopping. We would have great sex but we would starve.”

“We can’t have that.”

“Are you all right with me having two women before you?”

“I’m not overly thrilled. I’m glad you got rid of them.” She moved closer to him so they were chest to chest. Her hands opened on his shirt to rub him. “I mean it though. If you touch another woman I’ll leave you, Ral. I will be loyal to you but I expect it back.”

“That is a promise I can easily make to you.”

She grinned. “It’s a deal then.” She hesitated. “What exactly makes us bound? Is it like a ceremony?”

“I do not pull out of you.”

“I don’t understand.”

“I give you my seed. I plant it inside you.”

“Oh.” She frowned. “Don’t you do that with other women? I mean, haven’t you?”

“No. We pull out to spill our seed. I do not do that with you. I empty my seed deep within your body. It makes us bound.” His hand rubbed her belly. “You drank my seed as well. Our women do not drink our seed. They move away before seed is spilled. I told you they do not take me inside their mouth but you do.” He grinned widely. “It is amazing.”

“So that makes us bound.”

He nodded. “You are bound to me. You are offered my offspring with my seed.”

“If I am able to have offspring with you.”

He nodded. “If you can. Time will tell us if you are able to have my seed plant inside you.”

The thought of getting pregnant with Ral’s baby didn’t terrify her. It should have.