PROLOGUE
Jendri lay quietly in her restraints, listening to her lord, Queen K`Endarra of Asperia,
with her youngest and favorite wife, the Lady Sharue. Just a few more days, Jendri told
herself, and we will be away from here for a while.
The sound of the Queen`s rapid breathing signaled her imminent orgasm, and Jendri spared
a thought for V`Anekka, the Queen`s second wife, shackled like Jendri, just a few feet
away. By now the numbness will have worn off, Jendri thought, but she is in spreaders.
Her orgasms will be weak and brief.
We knew it would be like this; well, perhaps not exactly like this, but this is close
enough to what we expected, Jendri reminded herself. As K`Endarra`s senior wife, and a
submissive, she did not expect to lie with the Queen every night. She had a right to be
present for the Queen`s relations with other women, and to witness her orgasms with them,
but there was no requirement that any individual wife stimulate the Queen on any given
day. There was no requirement whatsoever that the Queen satisfy her wives. Their
satisfaction was supposed to derive from hers. She didn`t have to touch them at all if
she preferred not to.
Jendri`s thoughts drifted back to their return to the great Castle Golgathex, following
the honeymoon in the south islands. The Queen had been in excellent spirits, because all
three of her wives had offered to be pierced in various ways to celebrate her third
marriage. In addition, she planned several royal progresses throughout her realm, to see
her people, to be seen by them, and to examine the stewardship of her nobility.
As it turned out, Queen K`Endarra had something else to look forward to: the remodeling
of the Imperial bedroom according to her specifications, which had been accomplished in
their absence. Jendri was lying on her back, arms over her head and legs held apart in
one of the new alterations right now. Built into the interior wall of the enormous
bedroom, across from the French doors, were two alcoves. They looked like bench seating
but by night, they could be made into two narrow beds complete with various restraints.
K`Endarra wanted all of her wives present for her relations with whomever she took to the
Imperial bed, at least until she was satisfied for the night. After that, they could
release themselves and go to their own apartments if they wished. By custom, if she came
with any wife on a given day, she had to come with all of them. By having all of them in
the room with her, she fulfilled her marital obligations.
Jendri remembered what K`Endarra had told her and V`Anekka in private, away from Sharue,
who had been told earlier. As the Queen`s favorite, she had the right to sleep with
K`Endarra and come in her bed. The more senior wives, each of whom had been the favorite
at one time, no longer shared those privileges. They might lie with the Queen in her bed,
but only to serve her. If the Queen wished to give them pleasure, she would visit them in
their own bedrooms elsewhere in the grand Imperial apartments.
Of course all of the women knew this before the third wedding or the honeymoon or their
return home. Now K`Endarra had wanted to discuss the distribution of her favors with her
first two wives, especially Jendri, who, as Queen Consort and first wife, had the job of
making sure the Queen took her wives and concubines appropriately.
"Before the honeymoon," she told them as they knelt before her in her library,
"I had intended to lie with Sharue every night of the week but one, which I reserved
for my harem, and with you at different times throughout the week, afternoons, early
mornings, or evenings."
She paused to sip her wine. "However, we all discovered that Sharue`s tongue is too
harsh for that frequency, and if I lie with her, I will not be able to resist it. Soon I
would be celibate! That would not do at all. Therefore, I will lie with Sharue every
other night, or four nights a week. I will lie with each of you one night, and spend one
night in the harem, along with any daytime diversions I care to take. I expect the two of
you to keep me on schedule. It is not something for which I can depend on Sharue."
Jendri and V`Anekka both forbore to mention that there was virtually nothing for which
the Queen could depend upon Sharue, except to lick her to ecstasy. They merely nodded
their acquiescence and were summarily dismissed by their wife, who was catching up with
the administration of her realm, taking back the reins from her sister, Her Royal Highness
Princess S`Eranda, who had been Regent in her absence.
Retreating to Jendri`s apartment, the two senior wives closed the doors and locked them.
"Who is minding Sharue?" V`Anekka asked.
"Sharue is a grown woman. Let her mind herself for a change," Jendri snarled.
"Did you have any clue K`Endarra meant to deny us her bed after serving her
needs?"
"No! I thought one night a week was rather harsh until I realized she had intended
to lie with Sharue exclusively," V`Anekka said sadly.
"Well, we must come up with some counter-proposal, but let us take our time,"
Jendri had counseled.
Since that afternoon, they had yet to make such a proposal. Part of the reason was the
fulfillment Jendri derived from the humiliating nights in the Imperial bedroom. She
writhed with fire night after night as K`Endarra took her favorite wife or, once a week,
V`Anekka. Another part of the reason was that K`Endarra had rendered herself rather
inaccessible to her first two wives both through her work schedule and her attachment to
her new wife. Finally, both senior wives loved their lord, saw how much she was enjoying
the new arrangement, and neither wanted to interfere with it or incur her wrath. So they
silently suffered for her sake as well as their own.
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