River's Run(33)

Now, they sat quietly in a chair sipping a sweeten fruit juice of some type feeling very tired. The stress of arriving at the Houses to find the men they had been falling in love with surrounded by eager females, River’s getting shot, and donating more blood than they should have had left them weak.



Torak brushed off Javonna’s hand again as he paced back and forth. Unable to deal with her touch, he finally ordered her back to the North House. Javonna had been very unhappy about Torak’s refusal to return with her. Jo and Star just watched Torak with disgust.



“I don’t even know why you are here.” Jo said coldly to Torak. “Haven’t you done enough to River without causing her more pain and humiliation?”



Torak turned to stare at Jo. Taking a menacing step towards her, he gritted out through clinched teeth, “Watch what you say. Warrior woman or not, I am in no mood for your ridicule.”



Manota walked over to stand closer to Jo putting his hand on her shoulder. He flinched when she stood up moving further away from him. “Keep your filthy hands to yourself.”



“Why are you so angry?” Jazin asked softly. “What have we done that had caused all three of you to suddenly hate us?”



Star looked at Jazin, tears filling her eyes. “You really don’t know?”



Jazin just shook his head, his heart breaking at the look of utter devastation on Star’s small face.



“It’s all the women you have.” Jo replied harshly. “You may not mind having a harem of women pawing all over you but we do. We don’t share. Ever.” Jo couldn’t keep the tears from her own eyes any longer so she turned her back on Manota.



All three men stood frozen. They had had no idea this was what had upset River, Jo, and Star so much. It was an accepted practice on Kassis for a House to have many, many females in them. In fact, the more women there were, the more prominence the House was consider to have since it took at strong warrior to satisfy so many women. The male would not breed with any of the females in the House except for the one he claimed as a mate. Since the males were so sexually active it was accepted by the mate he would keep other females so as to not distress his mate with his overactive sexual desires. Now, these warrior women were telling them it was because of this practice they did not want anything to do with them.



“I do not understand.” Torak replied looking back and forth between Jo and Star. “Your males do not have more than one female in their House?”



Jo took a deep breath shaking her head before turning around and looking Torak in the eye. “No. Not if they want to live or at least not lose any body parts they are fond of.”



Jo walked back over and sat next to Star motioning for the three men to sit as well. Only after all three men were seated did Jo and Star begin explaining how relationships on Earth evolved.



“On Earth, it is the norm to have one male and one female. They usually love each other very much and are committed to building a life together. If it is a good relationship, they are monogamous, meaning they never touch another male or female in a sexual way again. There are names for the way you guys have relationships on our planet and none of them are very nice. River, Star, and I are into only having one man in our lives who is devoted only to the one of us he is with. If that man was to ever, and I mean ever, have a sexual encounter of any type with another female, or male, then the relationship would be over and we would be gone so fast he wouldn’t know what hit him.” Jo said looking at Manota.



“But, how is the male’s strength known if he does not have but one female?” Jazin asked looking at Star.



“Trust me when I say, one female is all he needs.” Star responded. “Let me ask you this. How would you have felt today if you had walked into my House, as you put it, and I had as many guys kissing and touching me as you had women?”



All three men paled at the idea of so many males touching and feeling on their woman. Flushing a dark red Jazin replied hotly, “I would kill them all!”



“Well, that is precisely how we felt.” Jo replied. “By the way, you know a woman can handle more than one guy at a time a lot better than one guy can handle more than one woman. Not to mention a woman is capable of having multiple orgasms where a guy is good for one shot; even if it only takes him a little while to recharge.” Jo said stiffly.



“How would you know?” Manota said standing up and glowering down at Jo.



“Books, movies, the Internet.” Jo added hastily. “Not from personal experience.”