Home by Ben Winston

Author:Ben Winston [Winston, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: bio enhancement, return home, biological enchancement, soldier, alien contact
Amazon: B00Y24BPZY
Goodreads: 25585166
Publisher: Blue Space Publications, LLC.
Published: 2015-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 06

While the wait staff set the table for dinner, John went to his room to change while the girls used the other bedroom to get ready.

Not surprisingly, John was the first one to return to the dining room. He was dressed in a suit that had been tailored to fit his size. It was a retirement gift from Major Chlodine Diamond; one of the Temporal Guardians that had been his closest friend and usual lover.

He had felt a moment of loss when he put it on. The closest thing to love he had felt while serving was for Chloe. He knew she’d felt the same way because they spent the entire night before he was to be decommissioned making love in Guardian Park. When he almost died on the table, she would have come through the wall if it hadn’t been made of battlesteel.

He knew she would be in orbit to support him in a few days. He hoped she would be happy for him in his present relationship. However, it was hard to forget the love they’d shared. The definitions of words like ‘love’ are radically modified in the reality of hundreds of centuries spent together. The simple fact that she hadn’t decided to join him, however, made him question those feelings. It never once occurred to him that she might have been waiting for him to ask her.

Thoughts of Chloe remained with him all the way back to the dining room. When he noticed the Hostess watching him, he smiled back and nodded to her. She waved for him to join her, and he walked off the barge to her station in the restaurant.

She pulled out a pile of flowers from her podium. “Geoff asked me to make sure you got these before the ladies came down.” She put a small beautiful flower in his lapel, and handed him the two other corsages for the women. All three flowers were different, but matched perfectly.

“Nice suit. Turn around please?” She asked, and he obliged. “Really nice, it fits you perfectly. Was it tailored?”

“Kind of,” John said blushing. “My father bought it for me when I graduated primary school, but my sister had to alter it to fit. She’s pretty good, and has a nice side business going.”

“I’d say! It’s too bad she’s on another planet, she’d have more work than she could do if she were here. Best get back over there, your ladies will be down soon,” the woman said, and brushed an imaginary speck of lint off his shoulder.

John nodded and looked back at the barge. “Thank you. This whole day has been like a dream coming true. I just hope it never ends.” Smiling at the Hostess, he returned to the barge and sat at the table to sip on his drink.

The table had been set for a formal dinner complete with candles made of Beetle Bee Wax. The naturally fragrant wax was native only to the second and forth moons of a remote planet named Chelsea in the Galacian cluster, on the other side of the Realm.

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