All characters in sexual situations are 18 or older. Thanks for reading!
Days passed and Gail returned again and again to the Errand. She left her husband in the mess with the other Mormons every time. Sometimes he would protest. Sometimes he would not. But he would always let her go, no matter how flimsy her excuse was.
Now that she was hooked, Gail would do whatever it took to spend more time with Jacob. They stopped going to the holopark, and she didn't care. He unloaded in her constantly, and she encouraged him. One day he told her that he would take her ass. She put up some resistance, but of course she eventually acquiesced. That night, she wondered that her husband didn't notice her discomfort anytime she sat down.
Over the next couple weeks, two big events happened that affected the Errand's mission. One, was that Penny became the next of Jacob's wives to bear him a daughter. She screamed and cried in the delivery room with her mother and sister holding her hands, then laughed and sobbed for joy when the baby arrived. The other event happened a couple days later when Gail had her Twofold Baptism, via Mary's breast and Jacob's cock.
Maureen and Judy were thrilled for Penny and eager to bear the Messiah more daughters in the near future. Humility, Mary, and Pricilla held forth on how wonderful it was to already be showing with their second child for Jacob.
Meanwhile, Tabitha continued to snoop, burnishing her suspicions. But other than the strange affair between Gail and Jacob, she had yet to uncover anything useful.
"I'm not sure we should visit the Errand's mess hall today, dear." Ezra watched his wife prepare for their day in the kitchen. She made them coffee, pouring a little of Errand's precious milk into each of their mugs. Their apartment seemed cramped to him, and there was an air of foreboding.
"What's the matter?" Tabitha took a sip of her coffee and immediately relaxed. She brought Ezra his mug and put it in front of him. She settled down in the chair opposite him at their small table.
"I don't know. Maybe we should keep our distance from the Fourth Wave. You still have your suspicions about them, don't you?" He watched her incline her head slightly in an affirmative and give him a lazy smile. He sipped at his coffee. It was delicious. What a transformation his caffeine uptake had undergone. He took several big gulps and found himself with an empty mug. A lazy smile spread across his face.
"What were you saying, dear?" Tabitha blinked and looked over at Ezra as if seeing him for the first time. She had been debating with herself day after day whether to tell him about what she'd seen in the Errand's holopark. If he was having misgivings, maybe now was a good time to tell him about Gail Estes and Jacob Winthrop. "I wanted to tell --"
"I don't know. I was being foolish. Shall we meet in the Errand's mess on my break?" Ezra let out an audible sigh of satisfaction. "Did you say something?"
"It's nothing." Tabitha got up, kissed her husband on the cheek, and walked toward the front door. "Break time sounds good. I'll see you then." Try as she might, she couldn't get the image of Gail's ecstatic face out of her mind. Was Jacob really that good at sex?
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"Wait up, Gail." James trailed behind his wife. They were in the outer concourse, making their way to Slip Seven. She always seemed to accelerate the closer to the Errand they got. "You're walking too fast." As he watched his wife's behind, he couldn't help but notice that the dress his mother had sewn for her was a little tight.
"Why don't you walk faster, James?" Gail stopped and turned to face him, tapping her foot on the carpeted floor.
"Is that any way for a wife to talk to her husband?" He also couldn't help but notice that the dress was stretched around her bust, too. Maybe he would ask his mother to let the dress out a little. "The plasma disk from Sagittarius A shows us that..." He stopped a few feet away from her. "Did you just roll your eyes at me?"
"No, I did not." Gail let out an exasperated sigh. Her stupid husband was going to make her late for her time with Jacob.
"There it is again." James pointed an accusing finger at her eyes. "I don't know what's gotten into you lately. You are always so eager to come to that ship even though we've had no success with our mission there. Your attitude is often flippant, bordering on rude. And you disappear all the time, leaving me in the mess. I don't even know where you go."
"You never stop me, James. You let me run off with... um... by myself on that massive... ship. And you never stop me." Gail's face darkened. It wasn't fair to James, since he didn't know what she was doing aboard the Errand, but she still felt like a proper husband would have seen the danger to his marriage and nipped the whole thing in the bud. She stared at his familiar face as it twisted in frustration, and he said nothing. "Well?"
"I... um... I... just don't like it," James stammered. Who was this woman? She was not behaving like a good Sagittarius Mormon wife.
"If you're so stressed, have some more milk in the mess while you wait for me and calm yourself down." She turned and stormed off toward Slip Seven. "I'll catch up with you later." She didn't look back.
A thrill went through Gail as the docked ship came into view. Then she saw the Inspector General walking in the same direction. The other woman changed course and made to intercept Gail. "Hello Inspector." Gail nodded primly at Tabitha.
"Good day, Mrs. Estes." Tabitha noticed that the woman's husband was far behind her. That was odd, with Mormons the husbands usually walked ahead of their wives. "I have something to talk to you about."
"Can it wait, Inspector? I'm late for a meeting." Gail tried to walk faster, but Tabitha grabbed her arm and slowed her down.
"I've been meaning to talk to you for some time. It cannot wait." Tabitha leaned her mouth close to Gail's ear. "I know that you and Jacob Winthrop are having an affair."
Gail stopped suddenly like she'd hit a wall. She turned slowly to face Tabitha. "You're wrong. Whoever told you that is lying." She pulled her arm away from the inspector and rubbed it absently as she spoke. "I would never do such a thing to my husband." She blanched when the last word hit her, looking over her shoulder. But James was still a long way off. "You should investigate whichever liar is spreading such terrible rumors." Her head swam. Gail wiped sweat from her forehead.
"I saw you with my own eyes," Tabitha whispered.
The blood drained completely from Gail's face. "Don't tell James. Please, don't tell him. I don't know what came over me. Please..."
"It's not my job to inform your husband." Tabitha glanced at James. He was getting closer. "But I wonder if you've seen anything unusual while you've been... traveling the ship. Did anything strike you as odd? Would you say the Winthrops are aboveboard?"
Gail exhaled. She hadn't even realized she'd been holding her breath. Her marriage wasn't over, it seemed. Some of the color came back to her face. "I haven't seen anything. The Winthrops have been perfectly kind, genteel hosts."
"Have they?" Tabitha watched Gail's eyebrow twitch. "You've spent your time with Jacob. Is there anything unusual about him? Anything I should know?"
"I am not going to spy for you, Inspector Kensington." Gail folded her arms over her chest. "I like them."
"Why would you, a good Mormon, risk your marriage for Fourth Wavers?" Tabitha checked on James. He had almost caught up with them.
"Fourth Wave is a rude term. They prefer the Ardent Congregational Establishment." Gail stepped away from Tabitha. "There you are James, I've missed you." She slipped her arm into her husband's and kissed him on the cheek, all the while carefully watching Tabitha to make sure she wasn't about to spill her secret.
