The class held their first coven study group Wednesday night. Soo Young spoke first, "Ladies, we're going to be doing things together for a lot longer than a school semester. It's time we start organizing for that."
"So we really are going to be a coven?" asked Anne.
"We really are."
"And we're really going to have children... with Mr. Thorne?" asked Dahlia.
"So it seems... when we are ready. We get to decide that. What the coven is really about is us getting organized -- organized so that we can all be the best we can be... at work and at raising our children."
Candy asked, "What kind of work will we do?"
"Being part of the coven doesn't put a limit on that. Well... it does if you want to live here. But you can be what you want to be... well, also depending on what fortune will open up for you. Coven or not, the working world is full of surprises."
"Can we go to college?"
"Most assuredly."
"Can we... leave the coven?" this was Dahlia, she squirmed a bit as she asked. Soo Young looked at her a while before answering.
"Yes. This is an opportunity, not some kind of slavery. If this program doesn't suit you, or you think you can do better. You can move on."
"Can we have other boyfriends?" it was Bella asking this time, "I mean... Mr. Thorne is going to be really, really busy, right?"
Soo Young paused for this one, too, then smiled, "Covering all the important questions, are we?
"I don't have any personal experience on this one. According to the binder, that's fine, as long as your first child is by Mr. Thorne. Your boyfriend can be a guest, but he can't be a live-in. If you decide you want to live with him, you get to move out and set up some kind of regular family relation."
"Will we still be part of the coven?"
"You can be, but your relation becomes a different one. You're not an in-house member who's sharing child raising time. You can be sharing career time, and the kids can come for visits and over-nights, of course. But if you decide to go the nuclear family route, another lady will take your place in the house," and she added, "Raven Lee can probably give us more detail on this topic."
"You said Mr. Thorne will help us?" asked Dahlia, she asked this seeming more interested and less nervous, "In our careers, that is?"
"He's a very successful businessman, with a lot of contacts. Yes, he will be mentoring us. I've seen him doing that when I visited Raven Lee's coven. Also, the other covens will be helping, too. We're all on the same team. And from what Ms. Mills has been saying to me, some are already getting well known for what they have accomplished. If she's right, this is a new style of social group that seems to be working. ...It's kind of neat, really."
Soo Young looked at the clock, "It's getting late. You have studies; I have class. Any last questions?"
At first blank stares; Soo Young was about to adjourn; then Anne then looked serious as she thought of a really important question, "What should we wear tomorrow?"
That started a lot of chatter. "Hmm... This night might get a bit longer than anyone is planning on." thought Soo Young happily.
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On Thursday Bella and Candy went with Mr. Thorne after class. Soo Young taught her next class, then hurried back to the door that lead to Mr. Thorne's suite. As she was walking up to it she saw them leave; they were both looking dreamy. She walked up the stairs. At the door at the top was a sign with an arrow: Mr. Thorne is "In", "Out", "Busy" with the arrow pointed at "In". She knocked.
Mr. Thorne was naked when he came to the door and looking a little tired, this is no doubt why Bella and Candy were smiling so. He nodded and motioned Soo Young in. She walked by him, continued three steps into the room, then waited, facing straight ahead, not looking back at him. The door closed, and seconds later she felt his hand slide around the back of her neck, thumb on one side fingers on the other. A thrill surged through her at that touch, and it told her she was ready to do his bidding. His other hand tapped her elbow and her arms when behind her, he pulled them into a double arm lock and walked her to the wall. She pressed against it, kicked off her shoes, and assumed "the position" with her legs spread wide and away from the wall. She was helpless.
Mr. Thorne wasted no time. He helped her get her arms from behind her to reaching high up the wall, and once they were there he slipped her blouse up over her head, she wasn't wearing a bra. He moved her arms back into the arm lock and moments later she felt rope fasten them there -- loops around her upper arms holding them behind her, loops around her lower arms holding them high, a loop around her neck to keep her from squirming out of the the others. She was helpless.
Mr. Thorne's hands then moved down her body and slipped off her skirt and socks, but he left her panties on. At this stage in their relation having those stay on relaxed her -- with those on she knew they weren't going to go too far. She could fully enjoy feeling ready-to-respond to his every command. His hands explored her legs and backside.
His hand returned to her neck. He turned her around. His other hand covered her face and explored it. She closed her eyes, she was so in his power! His hand slipped down to her neck, and as it did so his lips covered hers. Her eyes never opened, and now she was breathing in quiet gasps. Anything he wanted! Anything! One hand stayed on her neck while the other explored her frontside -- breasts, belly, crotch. His lips still had her lips as his hand rubbed her vagina. It felt so delicious. A finger slipped in and explored... now he was breathing quickly as well. He pulled it out and quick marched her to the bed. For the next few minutes he was all over her and she was his for the taking.
He climaxed. As he was relaxing he untied her, and she cuddled into his side -- her breasts, tummy and legs drawing mystical male power from him while her head lay on his chest listening to his heart beat. In a few minutes he was reviving. His hand started exploring around her back, and he pulled her face up for a kiss. It was pillow talk time.
"This will be your last coven?" she asked.
"Last for a while. You ladies keep me busy!" he kissed her.
"For a while? What will change?"
"You will. You ladies will get older, and as you do your thinking will change. You'll become more independent, more take charge, more... feminist."
"Ouch! Why will we do that? I'm getting to like being with you. ...Letting you be a man to me."
He smiled, "You do now. And that's why you're here and why I'm here."
"But part of human thinking is that your thinking will continue to grow. You're a bride age thinker now. But as you approach your thirties you'll become a matron age thinker... more of a take-charge mother.
"This is good. It's good for you! You'll get a lot done in your career and you'll raise your children more smoothly and effectively.
"But... that will lead our having to 'work on' our relation, day after day. Our relation will become an old people's relation," he brought her face up from his chest to face his, "Frankly, I don't want that. When I have to work at pleasing you, and you have to work at pleasing me... It's not romantic anymore, and it's time to move on. I've learned. I really like romance.
"When that 'have to work on it' phase comes to my relation with a coven's women, I will move on. If I'm still up for it, I'll start another coven."
Soo Young thought hard as she lay her head down again and listened to his heart. This sounded so strange! But she guessed this was the 'love is fleeting' she read so much about, but didn't believe. She finally said, "It sounds so sad. Why does it change?"
"It's evolution. It's a way of thinking that has paid off handsomely for thousands of human generations. When people are growing up in the Neolithic Village environment, it pays for young women to get a lot of help from others in the community. They get that help by being beautiful and cooperative in a child-like way, which is a whole lot like being submissive. Men just love that! It fires them to go all out for their women.
"As the woman matures and learns, she doesn't need as much help. She can 'grow up' and demand her rights instead. Her thinking changes to 'I've got my rights and you better respect them!'-style matron thinking. Now that she's older and more experienced, it works well for her.
"Good for her... hard on her man," he sighed.
Soo Young heard his heart beat change. She looked at him again, there was pain in his eyes, he looked hard at her, "And, yes, I've been through that, and I wasn't happy with how that transition turned out. Our modern community concepts of what a man ought to do with a matron-thinking wife are not compatible with my concepts. The breakup was... surprisingly painful."
Then he brightened a bit, "But with the passing of time the experience inspired me. And this new style social complex, and the coven idea at its heart, evolved out of that pain. I see this as a modern solution that is much better at adapting our modern possibilities to our Stone Age style thinking."
He kissed her again, "That's why you're here, and that's why I'm here," he rolled her on her back, "And that's why we're going to have at it one more time before you have to leave."
And they did, more passionate sensuality with Soo Young's body pressed into the bed and her legs held firmly together by Mr. Thorne's powerful thighs. And then Soo Young rushed out for her next class even more impressed with Mr. Thorne. She was convinced: He was her man... even if he was "her man" to dozens of other women, too.
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