Chapter Seven

*Lemon alert*

Thankfully, Venus took the bag before we walked out onto the street, letting it swing like a pendulum in her hand. "So what now?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "You tell me, you're the local. What do you want to do?"

"I want to find a nice private spot and see if you're as big as you claim you are."

I smiled and put my arm around her. Venus was my kind of girl.

"I take it that's a yes?"

I nodded and she clapped her hands again. "Just let me call Mars and let her know I'm not to be bothered for the next fifteen minutes."

"Fifteen minutes? You really do have a limited imagination."

She grinned up at me "No one's lasted longer."

"When I'm done with you, you'll need at least fifteen minutes to screw your head on straight."

"Ha. You're pretty arrogant. I like that about you. An hour then?"

"Try three."

Venus raised a wrist pendent to her face and tapped it. "Mars," she said. A portrait of Mars appeared on the surface. "Hey, Mars. How's it going?"

To my surprise, the portrait answered. "Not bad. Jupiter is setting up the hot pot for Mercury and I in her room. We're gonna stay up all night and gossip about you."

"Sounds good," Venus said. "Did you ever hear back from the princess?"

"Um, yeah," Mars made a face. "Lil' Miss Moonpie and her earthman are going iceskating. Then she wants to get some street food and walk him through the flower market on their way to the petting zoo."

"The Petting Zoo," Venus said. "That sounds pretty hot. Is that the new high rise luxury love hotel they just built in the capital?"

"No, stupid. She's taking him to an actual petting zoo!"

"For real? With cute little fuzzy animals and carnival rides?"

Mars nodded in disgust. "For real!"

"And he agreed to it?"

"He was positively giddy. I think Miss Purity has finally met her soulmate. Speaking of which, what happened with Mr. Tall, Dark and Sexy? Has he bailed out on you already? I thought you were going to ride him hard and put him away wet?"

Venus smiled. "He's standing right her listening to every word." She swung her wrist toward me and I waved at Mars.

Mars grimaced, loosened her collar, and turned beet red. "Ah, sorry. That was awkward."

"Not at all," Venus said. "He already knows I'm going to nail him. Anyway, I'm turning my phone off for the rest of the night, so don't call me for any reason. If there is a crisis, I'm appointing you leader in my absence. Tootles." She touched a button and Mars' face vanished.

"I take it that thing on your wrist is a phone?"

"They don't have these on Earth?"

"No."

She screamed as if scalded. "You need a phone! It's impossible to survive without one!" She grabbed me by the collar and dragged me into a shop where a bunch of watches, slates, and large square screens filled the room with images.

"I don't want one," I said.

"Of course you do. These things are great. If you have one of these people can talk to you whenever they want to, no matter how far away you are."

"And that is exactly the reason I don't want one."

Venus grabbed one off the display and strapped it to my wrist. "We'll take this one."

I humored her for the moment, intending to misplace it as quickly as I could.

"You tap it, think of my face, and say my name and then my phone will beep to tell me I have a call. Like this: Venus." Her wrist made an annoying chirping sound until she tapped it off. "See, when you aren't calling someone it even tells you the time, so you never miss anything important."

"How interesting," I lied, looking at the slave bell thing manacled to my wrist. "So what are we going to do now?

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It was a miracle we made it to the bed. No sooner had I closed the door than Venus threw me up against a wall, pulling my head down and kissing me with brutal intensity while she forced off my clothes. I responded by stripping her down to her underwear and then lifting her off the floor so that she had to straddle my hips with her legs to keep from falling. She did this without missing a beat, curtaining my face with her hair, and biting my lips with her teeth.

I'd never met a women so sexual aggressive. She bit my neck and I heard a clunk behind her as one of her shoes fell off. She kicked the other away and pushed against the wall with her foot so that I was propelled toward the bed. She hadn't let me get a good look at the layout of the room, and her hair was in my face so I had to stagger blindly, bumping into things and knocking them to the floor in the process. I tried to set her down, but she clamped her arms and legs around me like a vise of steel.

We made it just the same, tumbling onto the mattress and Venus came up for air only long enough for us to strip off the remainder of our clothing. She pushed me onto the bedsheets and draped her body over mine.

"You're pretty strong for a woman," I said, rolling over so that she was flat on her back with me on top of her.

"You're pretty strong for a man," she said and rolled us over again and knelt over me so that we were tangled up in the bed sheet. "Ready for it?"

"I'm as ready as you are."

"So let's see how you stand up against all the hype." I pulled the sheet away and she took a peek.

She shrugged. "I've had bigger."

"Really?" I said and sat up so that we were both resting on our folded legs. She mounted me and I filled her by pressing down on her upper legs with slow and steady pressure until her eyes rolled and she caught her breath.

"Ok, maybe not."

Then she moved, staring into my eyes and biting her lip as she rode me with the same furiously intensity that we used to wreck the room. Between her movements and mine, I figured we'd wreck the bed as well. I discovered she was every bit as strong as I was, and I was tremendously strong by earth standards. I found I liked it. Still, despite her assurances I wouldn't need a condom, I didn't entirely trust myself without one, and it made the whole experience a little unsettling. At last she came, howling like a coyote and I found myself climaxing as well, before I had a chance to pull out.

She rolled away from me and draped herself with the covers. "Wow. That was intense. You were right, you are amazing. I don't think I've ever been this sexually satisfied before in my entire life."

"No less amazing than you," I said while smoothing her long flaxen hair away from her face with my hand.

She winked at me. "So what do we do with the rest of the three hours?"

"Is there anything to do around here besides shop?"

"Like what?"

"Like something dangerous?"

Her eyes sparkled. "How dangerous?"

"The more dangerous the better."

"Oh, you want to go to the dark side. Finally, someone brave enough to come with me." She clapped her hands together. " Want to see the deadliest place on the face of the moon? We call it the House of No Return."

"Sounds interesting."

"Great. I'll have to get my mask. Let's shower and then we have to go back to my apartment."

I looked around at the wreckage we'd left in our wake. "This isn't your apartment?"

"No this is a love hotel, silly." She tossed me my clothes from the floor and laughed. "You didn't actually expect to sleep in my apartment on the first date, did you?"