It took about four weeks to build the house. It was a really nice place! It was two story, with roof porches, so we could get out and watch the sunbeams move around the cave. The kitchen was well-equipped. There was a workout room, and the girls rigged a way to make part of the lake a solar-warmed swimming pool! It wasn't toasty, but it wasn't ice-cold, either. In the course of building the house, I showed the girls the modifications I'd done to the roof. The large holes were covered with high-tech, low-maintence skylights. This is why we weren't shivering from frosty drafts at night, or swatting off thousands of buzzing insects. There were also concealed antennas on the roof for making satellite connections once the hardware was installed in the home. The skylights were part solar panel, too. We had power; we had connection. (I put these skylights up years ago. This is why they didn't draw any suspicion now.)
In short, after four weeks of building, we had a self-contained fairy castle, not some elaborate hovel.
When we arrived at the cave, I changed the dress code. We all went shirtless while we were building inside, and, once the heating was installed, clothesless when we were lounging around off duty in the house. It saved some lot on laundry, which the girls didn't mind at all.
A week before we finished, we had a traditional meeting. The girls were tied up, and this time Shazeri was in my lap. She kept finding little spots below my ear that needed kissing.
"Ladies, the house will be finished in about a week. It's time to talk about the ransom again."
There were little shrugs of guilty motion among the girls, which indicated that most had not thought about ransom or going home for longer than they thought proper. I was happy with that.
"What is the plan now?" asked Suzanne.
"The plan is: in two weeks I'm sending you back. There is no need for ransom." I said.
The girls looked amazed.
"No ransom? Then why did you go to all this trouble?" said Cindy.
"Well... " I said, "Can you answer that?"
She thought for a while, then a light came on in her head and she said, "It's what you were saying at the first meeting. This was about us joining you. I... I... I guess I wasn't listening much back then." she smiled sheepishly.
"Many of us weren't." added Shazeri.
"That's right." I said, "This is about a new way of living. You've had a taste of it now, and now you get to decide if you want to have more.
"I'm not going to force you, or rush you, on this choice. You should make it calmly and in a familiar setting. So, in two weeks I'm going to take you all back to civilization, and you can go home."
The girls looked at each other, somewhat amazed.
"If you like what you have experienced here, and want to continue it on a long-term basis, we can do that. I will give you a way to contact me. We can rendezvous, and start this up again.
"If you don't like what's happened, this whole episode will be finished. I won't contact you again, and you should not worry that I will stalk you. I won't. I've shown you what I have to offer. It will be for you to decide if you want to take the offer up. This is what I call The Wait Test: will our relation survive a wait while we are apart? Some do... some don't."
"So... this is not about money?" asked Beth.
"Look around you. Does it look like I'm short of cash, or imagination?
"This has been about bonding, about laying the foundation for a very special community. You ladies are very attractive. I picked you because you are the best of the best. I want you to be my lifelong companions, and I want us to do our part in building a better world for all of mankind. If you decide to bond... if we decide to make a community... we will work long and hard on bettering humanity with our familial, intellectual and emotional efforts. That's what this is about."
"Are you crazy?" asked Soo-Min.
"By many definitions, yes." I said.
"Just checking. You sound crazy, but you also sound very good." she said. She stood up, walked over and said to Shazeri, "My turn." Shazeri gave me a full on-the-mouth parting kiss. They traded places, and Soo-Min found the little kissing spot just below my ear. umm....
"What you have done to us is illegal." said Suzanne, "Won't you go to jail?"
"I will, if I'm caught." I said, "Once you go back I will be hard to find for a while. After you are back a while, and the media circus packs up and goes on, then I will contact you. I estimate six months to a year."
"Will you be here?" said Melene, "I don't recommend it. We may not know where this is, but it shouldn't be hard to find. Not with the skylights, and all."
It was gratifying to hear her worry like that. Now I knew at least one bonding had been successful.
"I won't be. This place is beautiful, and I won't mind moving back here. But that won't happen until this situation is fully settled, and that will take many years. Several things must happen for this to become fully settled. The most important is that you must all decide I have not treated you criminally -- that you will not press charges. For weeks I have dominated you, I have seemed to have all the power. But I have also given you great power, too. I have given each and every one of you the power to send me to jail for a long time. It's the balance, the way of life."
I let the girls think on that.
"So, when we leave, I will leave for somewhere different. I will bide my time, while you reconcile with your families, and you experience your family life again. You all have another year of high school. Sometime near the end of summer vacation, this year, I will be in touch again. I will check on your thinking, and how you are doing. If you are excited about doing more with me, we will stay in touch, and arrange meetings. We can't do much more than talk until you reach eighteen, unless your parents are enthusiastic supporters, and that's highly unlikely -- I haven't tried to bond with them.
"When you are over eighteen," I eyed Melene and Suzanne, "then we can do more, and we will do more... much more. That's the harsh reality of the laws we live under."
"What about college?" asked Young-Gai.
Ohh... I liked hearing that! She was asking my opinion, like it mattered. Another bonding success, "I'm all for it. If you're going to help the world, you'd best be smart about it. And, I think we can set up a community where college and family-raising mix well."
"So... we will have children?" asked Beth.
"Many." I smiled as I said it, and the girls smiled, too.
After that, the meeting broke up. For the next week the girls worked diligently at finishing the home. They worked diligently, and in a more relaxed way. They now knew their future. We played in a more relaxed way, too. We played as a trio more often -- one girl would get my attention while the other would touch and massage both of us.
There was one other big change: up until now I'd become steadily more intimate with the ladies, but I'd changed the virginal state of none. At the new home we had started to pet heavily, but that's as far as I went with any. After this meeting, Melene and Suzanne wanted to go further -- I guess they liked what they heard, liked it a lot. The rest of the girls fell into that truly delightful virginal state where if you ask them they say, "No.", but in reality they will do what their man wants. They say something like, "You can get closer. I'm not ready yet, but I won't mind if there's an accident." and whether the man gets closer, or not, they do.
With Melene and Suzanne, I consummated -- they were older and they were teachers, not students. The other girls watched with open fascination. That was good, what was not so good was that headstrong Shazeri decided she was ready, too. For a couple of days I had to hold her off, literally, until it sank in that my "doing" her would undo our ability go get together again, ever. She relented, but I had to be wary when she heated up.