The hivemind is conquering for me?

After having their drink, Some of the tension between the two women dissapeared, leaving Elaine bold enough to ask the question. "So, Your boyfriend is quite the looker isn't he? How did you meet?"

Hailey stammered as a rosy hue took over her face. "A-Apollo is not my boyfriend yet. He Is Aunty Kats date tonight, we are just friends for now." She said causing Elaine to smirk. "Not your boyfriend yet? Interesting. Though that kiss you gave him earlier could have told me otherwise." Elaine teased, trying to build a better rapport with her step daughter.

Hailey looked away as she said. "It was the carcer, a kiss is part of the dance, everyone knows that..." While true, her face was not convincing as her other motive came forward to the limelight.

Elaine smiled not wanting to push her look too far and returned to her original question. "So how did the two of you meet? Was it through Lady Hyllus?" Hailey eyed Elaine up and down a moment, curious as to why she was so interested in Apollo.

"I actually met him before Kathrine. I stopped a ship coming past my checkpoint because I felt a serious Psionic signature and it was him and his sister aboard. I did not think it was him at first because of how young he is, but his strength is phenomenal. Though he hides it quite well as I can only gauge he is strong, not how strong he actually is. It is a Psionics thing, I won't go into too much detail." Hailey waved her hand to forgo the explanation, not realising Her step mom was also Psionically inclined as she kept it a secret, even from her husband.

'Oh good, It is not just me then. I could tell he was stronger than me, but could not get a gauge on his strength.' Elaine thought. 'I wonder how he masks it so well? Sigismund walks around like a walking nuclear battery, very obvious and makes everyone uncomfortable.'

"So you met him at your checkpoint? Did he say where he was from?" Elaine asked innocently. However, Hailey narrowed her eyes and replied. "Why has everyone I have spoken to tonight trying to coerce information out of me about Apollo? He has done nothing wrong. Just because I am interested in him does not mean he needs to be vetted by everyone and everything. If your motive was to just get information out of me, you can go back to your ugly husband."

Hailey turned around after saying this and began to walk away, but Elain moved quickly and blocked her path. "I am so sorry Hailey, I promise you that was not my motive, I just wanted to learn more about you so he could bond a little bit. You are my daughter now, I just want you-"

"I am not your daughter." Hailey said in a cold, threatening tone. "I am only a daughter to one woman and she is now dead. You are the queen now, I am no longer a princess. I promised myself that getting here tonight would be my last use of power my previous station gave me. In fact here." Hailey said as she reached into her bra and pulled out her encrypted crystal communicator.

"Take this, I don't even want the temptation anymore, that man is truly dead to me and I don't need his pity or charity anymore." Elaine frowned as Hailey placed the crystal into her hand. She had, had enough. Her marriage with Dickon, although arranged at first, had bloomed into love and she could not tolerate the slander anymore.

"What is your problem with my husband? He has only ever been nice to me and all he talks about is you and how he would do anything to write the wrongs he has done to you. So what has he done that could possibly make you hate him for so long huh? Tell me, I am all ears."

It was good for the both of them that not only were they in an isolated area of the room, but also the fact they were whisper shouting at one another because a bombshell was about to be dropped.

Hailey's rage died down a moment as she contemplated. She had been silent for years as she knew it would change nothing, but she said fuck it and decided Elaine would be just the person who would take the secret the worst.

"It was not that he emotionally abused me all my childhood. Trying to make me into a son that could run for king after him. Nor was it the fact that after I grew tits he began trying to sell me off like some prized sow. No, If it was only that I would probably still be calling him daddy during the day while I suck some old mans balls I was forced on to by night."

Hailey's rage that she just quashed rose up again like an inferno as she gritted her teeth to let the next words out. "No, it was none of that. What really drew the line for me was that despite loving my mom, he was the one that put out the hit that killed her!"

Elaine was taken aback by the sudden revelation. She looked around the room to make sure no one heard what was just spoken before she whisper yelled. "Hailey, what in Spartari are you talking about? Such baseless accusations could get you killed, even if you are a princess. Everyone knows your mother was killed by an Altax terrorist cell."

Hailey sighed, she knew it was impossible to explain with just words, which is why she has never told anyone. "Come with me, I will prove how I know it was him." Hailey said as she began walking out of the hall.

Elaine took a glance at her husband who smiled at her as he had been watching the two from a distance, unaware of the conversation. She smiled back politely. The man she knew could never do something so outrageous... But what if he could? Elaine decided taking a look at Hailey's 'Evidence' could not hurt her and would settle her mind from the thoughts that began to sprout.

Just as Elaine exited the room after Hailey, I entered the room and looked around. "Huh, I can't see anyone I recognise." I then turned to the buffet and smiled seductively at my new partner. "So its just going to be the two of us huh? I am sure I can fit plenty of you inside of me."

Just as I took a step towards the food that was destined to be inside of my body, A strong arm grabbed me and began pulling me outside and onto the balcony. It was not long until I was pulled onto the lap of the now sitting woman.

As she began stroking my head with one hand and holding my waist with all her force with the other to prevent my escape, she slurred. "Sho my baby, how are you faring? I am totally fine and think I will win our bet no *Hic* no problem."

Before I had a chance to respond, Valerica used her stroking hand to pull my head down to her chest as she began monologing. "I never planned on having anymore kids. I only had Kathrine because my husband wanted a child. Don't get me wrong I love my baby more than anything and my grandbabies are the cutest, well one of them is... Anyway with you as my new baby, I feel so young again. When can I adopt you for real? I don't care about the paperwork really, but I officially want you all to myself."

She then began squeezing my head into her breasts, totally oblivious to the nearby onlookers. After a while, she realised I was not reacting in the way she wanted me to and pulled me out from her pillow trap. "Why are you not trying to squirm away? Mommies need to embarrass their children and you are not being embarrassed!"

I chuckled at Valerica's drunken rambling before I replied as I began to unconsciously stroke her hair. "Well, I have been around strong, powerful and clingy women my whole life. So I am used to female affection. Also, I am not embarrassed because I could care less about what all these nobles think about me and its making you happy to do what you are doing so why would I stop you?"

Valerica felt a tingle in her stomach at Apollo's confidence. It was quite the attractive trait to her. Her mind suddenly thought about his comment about her ass earlier and her mind began to race with lewd suggestions.

Valerica quickly shook the thoughts out however, she was an old woman at this point and does not let her emotions and feeling control her desires. Besides, she has taken upon herself to raise this boy as her own, it would be like consuming a forbidden fruit if she partook of Apollo.

'A sweet, delicious forbidden fruit. With a thick sausage and a body more in shape than my own...' Valerica bit her lip as she looked Apollo in the eyes. She caught onto herself quickly and let go of Apollo and made him sit by her side instead.

"Actually my baby, I think I will forfeit from the drinking game as well, Your mommy is having some indecent thoughts about you and If I attempted to follow up on them, Kathrine would hate me." She confessed

I looked at Valerica surprised, I was not expecting her to say she was having indecent thoughts about me, but from a woman as beautiful as her I was of course flattered. "Oh don't worry about it, I think you are attractive as well, it is just natural instincts at play. Just nature taking its course in my book."

I then smirked at her playfully as she looked at thankfully. "With that being said, with you forfeiting from our game, I now have a wish I can make you fulfil don't I? Oh, I wonder what I should ask of you?"