The material was too thick for her to feel her finger rub her clit through them. She was turned-on as she watched him masturbate. Everything about the damn man turned her on, but watching him come minutes later, hearing him growl as he shot out his release into the shower stall, was the worst.

Lowering his head, he turned away from her to let the water wash away the evidence from his body. He waved his hand upward so the water stopped falling. Reaching over to turn on the hot air that dried him, he slowly turned, lifting his arms to make sure it dried all of him.

When his eyes opened he met her resentful glare. He blinked a few times before walking toward her totally naked, heading for more clothing.

"Feel better?"

He paused, turning his head, and fastened his gaze on her. "Yes."

"Could you at least take these damn pants off me? I'm hot and you have them too tight."

Thick lips twitched with amusement. "You can't pleasure yourself."

Gritting her teeth, she glared at him. "I hate you. You're so damn mean."

"You think I've been mean to you? Have you agreed to be my bound? Have you agreed to come to Zorn with me? No. You have not. The few times I have asked, you have demanded I return you to Earth. We are no longer in orbit, Casey, we have left your planet far behind. My Zorn warriors have found their females and we are on our way to Zorn so you can stop resisting and accept me. We would both be happier." His gaze roamed down her body, a hungry look burned in them. "Wouldn't you like to be naked in bed with me? I would touch you in so many ways while I buried myself in your warm softness over and over. We are both suffering because you are being willful."

"You aren't suffering. You're in that shower so much your skin should be pruned."

"I take no real pleasure from self release. I am Zorn. It is just not a matter of having a vigorous sex drive. My balls would swell and I would get sick if I did not release often. Pleasure is your body, beautiful. If you stop being willful and accept all that I offer, we will both be happy."

Defeat made her shoulders droop. "We're really not in orbit over Earth anymore?"

"I told you that already. I did not lie. We are traveling to Zorn. All of my warriors returned from the planet after they had found women to bound with them."

"So fast? I thought it would take weeks at least."

He was aroused again when he stalked closer to her. She hated noticing every bare inch of him and there were inches of hardened flesh pointing at her from below his waist level. He looked down at her.

"You don't want to know what happens if you do not accept me by the time we reach Zorn."

"Oh, give it to me straight. I'm sure it's something horrible. What happens to me?"

He frowned. "You will be offered to other men until you find one you accept or you will be taken by one if you do not find one quickly. He may not offer to bound you. He could make you a house helper."

"Like a housekeeper? I'd clean his home?"

He nodded. "And warm his bed. You and his other house helpers would sleep in his bed if he were not bound. If he is bound then you would sleep on the bed if his bound allowed it or only when he mounted you. If not, you would be lucky to end up in a household where you got your own room. If you ended up in a poorer household you would sleep on the floor in the bedroom with the man and his bound. He could and would offer your body to his guests who came to stay in his home or he could tire of you and trade you for new house help. In really poor homes all the younger males in it share one woman. The parents can't afford more than one house helper for their sons."

She gasped up at him. "That's...horrible. That's how you treat your women? Of all the--"

Argernon growled at her to cut her off. "We're a male dominant race. Women are weaker physically and smaller than our males. They cannot protect themselves in battle against a male.

You have been told how sexual a Zorn warrior is and you don't know our history. Once we nearly destroyed our entire race because our males were ruled by their sex drives. Women were..."He looked uncomfortable. "Harmed and killed until their numbers dropped radically until we were in danger of becoming extinct. That is when we realized we needed a system to protect the women. A house helper is protected by the male in the house she lives in. He feeds her, clothes her and keeps her from harm by our wilder males because an unprotected female wouldn't survive long. Much of Zorn is civilized but some is not, Casey. They aren't given women because they abuse them until death. Any male found abusing or killing a woman is stripped of the right to ever have one under his roof. A man must prove his worthiness to have females and must have a safe house for them to live in."

Frowning, Casey stared up at him. "Those women are people. Don't they have a say in their lives?"

He hesitated. "Most are raised by their family and their family will let the woman choose which male she wishes to be protected by if he is worthy to care for her. Some of them end up as house helpers in nicer homes. Most males will ask house helper woman's permission or her preference if he wishes to get a new one. Many women pick the men they are given to, but most house helpers stay in the same home all of their lives with the same male."

"What about the ones who don't fall under most?"

His eyes narrowed. "If they are willful, or cannot produce offspring after being bound, they are usually not desirable so they have fewer options. Most men won't tolerate them for long and send them to someone else to be their problem."

"I thought this bounding was solid, uh...permanent."

"There are only a few ways to unbound once bound. A woman is barren, she has sex with another man, he abuses her or she tries to kill her bound. Men will share house helpers sometimes with other men but never their bound women."