[Book Four] Chapter 50: Declaration of ownership

Chapter 50: Declaration of ownership

After offering the Gaea to EDI, Rick repurposed the super dreadnought for the war as the AI had not changed her mind about non-functionality. She did ask however to upload herself into it for the duration of the war. That was fine with him and they planned a trip to the secret location of the ship to put it in use should it be needed.
Now that he wasn’t emotionally tired, Rick was filled in with what happened with the family. Most notably the children discovering the true relationship between him and Jane. Some simply didn’t care, some found it weird but didn’t care too. A relief that they now didn’t have to live in a lie among the family. For Jane at least, since Sandra had made her opinion quite clear on her relationship with her father. He had been against it at first and told her bluntly that once Aezzia was an adult he would retire. The Ravenette didn’t care, quoting that she could commute from their home to work. She even went further by saying that she wanted a child. The knowledge that Rick would not raise it because he couldn’t do it anymore didn’t deter her one bit and said she didn’t care if she had to be a single mom. Knowing that he was fighting a losing battle, he just accepted his lot.

Sandra wasn’t the only one in a baby mood. With her father back and the war looking like it was going to last, Arianna and Sara went with artificial insemination. Rick was quite relieved to know that unlike her little sister, his eldest child didn’t want him as a sire and just a grandfather. The sperm donor turned out to be Scott Ryder, Sara’s twin brother. It was a way for the married couple to intermingle the Shepard and Ryder family. Sara did joke that she wouldn’t mind carrying one of Rick, something that he and Arianna greatly protested. The latter didn’t want to be the mother of her little sister and Rick agreed that it was weird and didn't understand how Sandra could go through with it.

Hannah shepard during one of her R&R on the Cassiopeia, tried to confess to him how awful of a mother she had been to him during his childhood, not wanting him to think she would hide it from him. His answer astonished her.

“Look. I understood that something happened between you and I, prompting me to leave. I gathered that much. Yet all I remember of you in my life is how good a mother you are. I appreciate you want to get straight with me, mom but I’d prefer bygones be bygones. It’s a new chance we have, let’s not waste it by remembering it.”

She thought it was too good to be true and that she was getting scott free in a way. That didn’t stop her from going along with it as she was not the kind to miss an opportunity.

Not having it in him to fight anymore, Rick stayed on the Cassiopeia. He took the position of Hackett’s XO without asking anyone permission and while the Admiral grumbled at first Rick’s work was simply outstanding. From information gathering to strategically putting the right people at the right places, the Hack had nothing to complain about and found in fact that he had less work to do, something he was grateful for. That allowed the war veteran to visit the park Jane had recommended to him and the man had to admit that he felt way better after each visit. Quickly it turned out to be a daily occurrence. Once in the morning and once in the evening.
In 2223, three years after the beginning of the war, the council had total control of eight clusters and were expanding to three more. The Ares cluster became even more of a cluster fuck as the Ketts increased their presence and activity. To not waste lives in futility, Rick decided that it was time for the Gaea to be put in service, resolute in the knowledge that perhaps his greatest work towards preserving life would be first used as a weapon of war. It proved to be the right decision as the Gaea completely decimated the Kett’s fleet in the warring cluster. More than that, taking control of Ares brought a lot of information about their enemy, most notably a map of the territories that have been conquered.
As expected the appearance of the Gaea didn’t make everyone happy and even among the people who did, a good portion were the greedy ones that wanted it for themselves or simply one. Most agreed that such a powerful vessel should not be a private property and the council tried to make a law restricting the size and power of private ships. In other words, Rick could either give the Gaea to the council or dismantle it. Since the Gaea was an exceptional weapon in the war they believed Rick would choose the former. Any one with half a brain either facepalmed or hit their head against a wall at such stupidity. The ones who knew Rick well were expecting a violent answer from him. They were not disappointed.

“Alright. It seems, you people really don’t get it, so I’m going to explain to you and your tiny teeny little brain the reality of things in a way that even a toddler would understand. I own the Milky Way. I own a good part of Andromeda. I own your energy and in consequence I own your economy. I also own you militarily and finally… I. OWN. YOU. There is nothing that you can do about it. The only reason you’re still in power, the only reason you still have power at all is because I. ALLOW. IT. I could declare myself ruler of both galaxy and rule however I want and you couldn’t do anything about it. Luckily for you I’m not interested in ruling, neither is my successor. Ruling is not why I co-created this company. It was created to further advance cooperation between species and to do good for the people. How many people's lives have improved thanks to my company's products? The blue alone, with its low price, allowed the most modest of households to not live in shame and need and to have the possibility to strive instead. For forty years improving the lives of everyone has been my goal and in forty years I did more for everyone than any politician, parliament, government or council ever did. You have more wealth than most people in both galaxies so be content with what you have and stop being greedy little bastards because if we asked the people who they’d prefer to be in charge between me and you… Well, Spoiler alert: it won’t be you.”

Of course, politicians being politicians, they were outraged at such a public declaration. They talked and talked but no matter what they said they couldn’t fight the facts. Many councilors or politicians had tried to undermine Rick and his company over the years and all failed. In the end, the backlash from the masses had been outlandish and many wished for the dissolution of the council in favor of an empire led by Rick. Knowing that it was a slippery slope if he ever saw one, he quickly put a stop to it by stating again that ruling was not in the cards for him or his company and that the political game would actually greatly impair his company’s goal which in the long term would hurt the people themselves. It was better to let the company do its own things and let the people reap the benefits.

“Don’t you think it was too much?” Jane asked as she stood to his side in the Command Room of the Cassiopeia from where he just made his speech all across the galaxies.
“Too much would have been to use the Gaea on the Citadel.” he replied.
“I’m glad you didn’t.” Hackett said from the side. “Your declaration will have severe consequences.”
“I know. That puts my family in danger but can you honestly say that giving the Gaea away is a good idea?”
“No, I can not.”
“And it’s not like I’ll keep it. Once the war is over, the ship is supposed to depart to another galaxy and travel the universe. Technically it wouldn’t be my possession anymore and it would be out of anyone’s reach. All I can do now is pray that my family is safe and lives either on the Celeste or the Cass. I put insurances in place to make sure that any one becoming CEO has the right mindset to perpetuate my ideal and if any get interested in ruling, they will be disposed of quickly. It’s not full proof, nothing ever is but I honestly believe that everything will be alright. Now all we have to do is win this war and then live our lives.”

Having nothing else to say about the subject, Rick took Jane’s hand and left the Command Room to spend time together. Victory was only a matter of time after all.

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Arianna and Sara were preparing themselves to go to bed. It wasn’t that early in the night but the redhead had finished work a bit late and instead of going out to the theater decided to watch a movie in bed. Just as Sara lifted the sheet and looked at with lust her gorgeous wife dressed in a beautiful and very scandalous green nightgown, someone knocked on the door of their room. The two ladies looked at each other in question as to who in the family would bother them at this late hour. Putting down the sheet, Sara went to their bedroom door and opened. She wasn’t ready to witness the obscene sight that awaited her.

Sandra was there, looking as if she had pulled a train with half the male population of the Cassiopeia. She wore very little and what she had couldn’t really be called clothes. The ravenette was sporting a very delicate black garter belt made of lace with intricate pattern and no panties. The second article was a thin leather collar with the words ‘Daddy’s slut’ written on it and separated by a ring to which a small leather leash was hooked on and that was falling down the valley of her breasts until it reached her navel where it was held in both of her hands. The third and last article of clothing was a black blindfold covering her eyes.

Clothes-wise that was it and Sandra, who looks usually a twenty out of ten would have looked a hundred, just like that however clothes weren't the only thing that she was wearing. Every inch of her body from head to toe was smeared and caked in cum. Her breasts and face most of all with the latter being so white that Sara could barely distinguish the ruined makeup around her eyes and the smeared black lipstick around her mouth. Part of the cum was dry but the other part was not as drops of it slowly fell down her face to her tits and made their way slowly to the bottom of her body, joining the torrent that was falling directly on the ground from her pussy and from what Sara could imagine her asshole. Rick’s second daughter was dripping cum from every pore and making quite a mess on the ground.

Sara’s jaw dropped out of shock, making her look like a gobbing fish.

“Upon my request, Daddy ordered me to bring you the recording of our afternoon and evening escapade while dressed in my most sexy outfit.” were the words the raven haired woman spoke in a respectful and submissiver tone then handed a DCO to her sister in law.

Sara, still shocked, instinctively reached for the object, her eyes never leaving Sandra and her mouth never closing. It was only when the DCO was firmly in her hands that Sandra turned back to her usual behavior.

“Do you mind if I come in and take a shower? I don’t want to be caught like that by my brothers or sisters on my way to my room.” she asked sheepishly with a blush that Sara couldn’t see because of the quantity of cum on her face.

“.. I… Sure, come in.” replied Sara as she moved aside the entrance.
“Baby, who is it?” came Arianna’s voice from further into the bedroom.
“It’s me, Nana.”
“Sand… Oh my God! What happened?!” the redhead exclaimed as she saw her baby sister’s state.
“Dad, happened.” was said with a huge smile that was missed.
“Oh hell, no! I’m going to tear him…”
“Don’t!”
“Are you crazy? Have you looked at yourself?”
“Oh, yes! I look so hot!”
“What?!”
“Look, I just want to borrow your shower to clean up and I’ll tell you about the best experience of my life, later.” said Sandra as she made her way to the bathroom. “You can also watch the recording.” she added as she closed the bathroom door.

Arianna looked at Sara in confusion and in search of an explanation. Her wife had after all always understood her sister better when it came to her sex life.

“I think Sandra got what she’s been craving for the past three years and a half.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that Sandra…” she began as she plugged the DCO to their TV screen then took Arianna by the hand and dragged her back to bed. “Was finally able to let go of all the stress, anxiety and anguish that plagued her ever since your father disappeared.”
“Didn’t we…”
“No. We helped her with her loss, not with her needs. Neither you or I have the temperament and mindset to give her that. Do you see yourself, using and abusing her? Ordering her around and treating her like a thing whose only purposed is to be fucked? I know I don’t.”
“... No.”
“Only your dad can give her that. And after a very long dry spell, I supposed they played catching up.”
“... I really don’t understand that side of her, or their relationship.”
“You don’t have to. You just have to understand she’s happy with it. Did she look upset?”
“No… Quite the contrary. Still…”
“Ari, it’s been almost fifteen years they’ve been together, do you think she wouldn’t have put a stop to their relationship if she didn’t love every second of it? Do you think your dad wouldn’t have put a stop to it too if that was the case?”
“Before he disappeared maybe… Now…”
“Now, we’ll see but I doubt things will change between them.”
“Why is she here though?”
“She was ordered, on her request, to deliver the recording of their time together.” she quickly explained to remove any idea of Rick forcing her sister from her mind.
“That’s what on the DCO, you plugged in?”
“Hmhm. And I think that we won’t have to search for what to watch tonight, no?”

Arianna hesitated for a moment to agree but remembered how hot Sara and her had been when Sandra had shared a previous recording, just after she put her relationship with their father to rights years ago. The sex afterward had been incredible. That’s why after thinking a bit about it, she simply nodded and moved from her position from the bed to lay her back and the rest of her body on her wife.

[Sex scene between Sandra and Rick?]

Rick was unloading for the sixth time, this time on Sandra’s face, when the woman on screen exited the bathroom with nothing but a towel around herself. A towel stretched to the limit and which looked quite small thanks to the very generous womanly assets that she was fortunate to have. Recognizing the moment being displayed, she commented on it.

“My favorite moment! God, I really look good.”
“Your favorite moment?” asked Arianna who for the life of her couldn’t understand how could any one loved being hose down in cum and how demeaning it was, she did however begrudgingly admitted to herself that her baby sister looked very hot like that.
“I don’t know why, but I just love it when dad cum on my face. It’s like… he’s marking me; that I belong to him and him alone. If my engine was not taped out at that moment I would have come on the spot.”
“I really don’t get it.”
“It’s fine, Nana. You don't have to. To each their own kinks.”
“What bothers me is how the hell he’s cuming so much? He sure wasn’t coming as much that one time.” Sara commented.
“Nanobots. A few weeks before we lost contact I asked him if it was possible.”
“Why?” asked Arianna.
“Because I love it, because I’m a cum addict, it’s as simple as that. I’m still waiting for the entire bath I got him to promise me, though.”
“You’re crazy!” the redhead shaking her head and earning a shrug from her sister.
“What are you going to do now? Go back to your room or stay?” inquired Sara.
“I can stay?”
“Of course you can. You’re always welcome in our bed, Sandra, you know that.”
“Then I’ll stay then. I admit, dad really did a number on me and I’m ready to collapse.”

And with that, the ravenette got on the bed and snuggled with her sister and sister in law, quickly falling asleep while they were still watching the recording.

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The Wald family quarters were quite big. It took the whole floor in truth. Since it was at the top of the middle sphere of the Cassiopeia it was smaller than most others but it was spacious enough for lodging everyone and still had plenty of space left. It was in the Kitchen area that Matthew, who just came back from a mission, found most of his family.
His aunt EDI was working everyone’s breakfast with his sister in law, while his sister was sitting facing their mother while reading a data pad and munching on a banana. His grandmother and mother were talking, surprisingly about music, something he never knew them to be interested in. Leeha was showing schematics to her mother and both were talking about it. From a quick glance it seemed to be a new type of ship propulsion engine. However the furtive glances that his favorite favorite sister was throwing to the side of the table drew his eyes in the same direction. It was with surprise that he saw Sandra, his last sister present, sitting sideways in their father’s lap and resting her head on his shoulder while he, much like Arianna, was reading something on a datapad. His instincts screamed at him that something was going on but kept quiet when the only one bothered by it was the heavily daddy complexed Leeha.

“Good morning!” He greeted, cheerfully.
“Matt!” exclaimed Jane, who stopped conversing with Hannah and rose from the table in a hurry to give him a mother bear hug.
“Mom, it’s only been three months.” he complained but returned the hug without any hesitation.
“Three months too long.”
“Come on, let me sit down and have some breakfast.” Matthew said and did so as he caught the eyes of his father who simply smiled and winked at him. A surge of relief washed over him, understanding that his dad was doing better.

Dorothea, not an early riser, came a few minutes later in her usual ‘don’t talk to me before I had my coffee or you’ll die’ manner. Once breakfast was over Matthew caught his mom for a private talk into an empty room.

“What is going on between Dad and Sandra?”
“What do you mean?” Jane questioned back, feigning badly her non-understanding.
“You know what I mean. Sandra was acting like she’s in love. Sandra! The ice queen of the family! Of all people! And with Dad at that! Then there was Leeha looking their way weirdly while everyone else acted like nothing was happening.”

Jane looked into her son’s eyes for a moment and sighed.

“You already know.” she finally answered.
“So they’re really… How could he…”
“I'll stop you right there. It’s not your father’s fault!”
“But…”
“Sandra took more of the Shepard’s side of the family than anyone else among your generation. And when I say more, it’s way more. Your father… had a choice to make at the time. A choice that he wasn’t comfortable with but had to make nonetheless because the alternative was worse.”
“...He seemed pretty comfortable to me back there.” Matthew commented, understanding the dynamic of the Shepard family. While he was not disgusted by it he wasn’t thrilled about it either. He had made peace long ago about being an incestuous baby but never really paid attention to it. Neither he nor Arianna got the thing and they’re more or less full Shepard so he thought that if the two of them didn’t have it, their half siblings wouldn’t have been either. Clearly from what his mother just told him he had been wrong. Regardless, what was bothering him was that it was his sister and even though they were not the closest of siblings, they were closer than usual. Sandra had been there for him while growing up. It was her he turned to for guidance and advice whenever he had a problem he couldn’t bring himself to speak about to the adults or to his elder siblings, Arianna having her head in books and discovering her own sexuality, Adam being too serious and JJ, TK and AJ being dickheads. Most notably everything and anything related to girls, romance and sex. Leah had been obviously a no go.

“It took him years to make peace with his choice.” explained Jane.
“Years? How long have they been…”
“Fifteen years.” his mother confessed.
“Fif… Nineteen?! She was nineteen! For fuck sake mom, she was just…”
“A young woman more mature than most of her contemporaries, who knew what she wanted and would have stopped at nothing to get it. You know this.” she chastised him putting a quick end to the rant that was beginning. “Look. Is it unfortunate she fixated herself on him? Yes. Did your father feel like shit because of agreeing with her demands? Yes! For years! Would she have been miserable her whole life had he not?”
“Yes.” came the voice of Arianna from the entrance of the room mother and son had secluded themselves.
“You knew?! For how long?!”
“Two years into her relationship.”
“And you said nothing?!”
“Oh, I said plenty. To her, to dad. I even had a falling out with him.”
“Wait! Is that why…”
“Yes. It took me some time to realize that Sandra was truly happy only when they spent their time together. To the point that dad’s disappearance nearly broke her, you know? Just like dad broke after losing Analysse. Except, Sandra already had her reputation as an ice queen, a better control of her emotions and she had Sara and me to support her. So no one ever saw anything.”
“...”
“I know what you’re thinking and I know what you’re feeling right now…” Arianna began and she got close to her brother. “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. The only advice I can give you is to accept it and let it go. Sandra is happy, Dad is… well, I guess happy too and that’s all that really matters and you’ll see, you’ll be happier too. I know I am.”
“Do Aunt Jen and…”
“They do.”
“And are fine with it.” Jane added.
“Who else knows? I gathered everyone at the table but Leeha did but who else?”
“All your aunts and your grandmother.”
“I think Adam suspects something.”

A fourth voice interjected; once again from the entrance of the room.

“Sandra! How could…”
“I didn’t choose, Matthew.” she interrupted him. “My heart settled on dad and never budged despite my best efforts. I tried dating all sorts of guys. My age, older, younger, from other species. And I never felt the way I feel for dad. So when the opportunity presented itself I took it and I wouldn’t change a thing for anything in the world.” explained the ravenette entering the room fully, closing and locking the door behind her.
“You said Adam was suspecting something?” inquired Jane.
“Yes but even if he finds out he wouldn’t say a thing. I think… I think he always knew somehow and just… didn’t bother looking into it.”
“Let’s hope so, I don’t want the family to implode.”
“Maybe you should all have thought of that before starting that shit storm.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of… Just like your mom knew about dad, just like Nanna knew about Sara, just like you know about Amelia, I knew about dad.” Sandra explained.
“Amelia, really?!”
“Ash will be over the moon!” exclaimed Jane.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” denied the man.
“Sure. Deny all you want, that’s your business. Just don’t stand there and say you don’t understand what I’m talking about, when you clearly do.”
“...What about Leeha?” asked Matthew. “We all know how she feels about dad. Do you know how she’d feel when she finds out?”
“Leeha has been her mother’s work in progress for even longer than Sandra and Rick have been together.” confessed Jane.
“OF. COURSE!” her son shouted, raising his hand up in the air. “What the fuck is wrong with the people in this family!”
“We’re degenerates. Blame Grandma, we got it from her.” Sandra joked.
“Last time I checked Tali and Leeha were not… not Shepard.” he corrected himself, nearly saying that they were not part of the family, which was anything but true.
“Birds of a feather… Ashley, Tali, Liara, Dorothea, me and your father. We all get along so well, because we all are degenerate. Blood related or not. Make no mistake though; we know how it looks and we’re glad most of you kids are normal.” Jane commented.
“Not most. Only the male of the family, well, beside dad.” refuted Sandra.
“What do you mean?” inquired Matthew, before Arianna and his mother could.
“Leeha, me, Arianna…”
“What?!” he exclaimed, turning to his redhead sister.
“I’m not sleeping with dad!” The woman quickly defended herself and casted a murderous glance at her sister, daring her to say anything about her one night tryst with their father all those years ago. Thankfully, Sandra got the message.
“With me along with Sara. It’s… fairly recent and only because dad was gone. I was not… I wasn’t doing well , Matt. Look… I’m just… the female version of dad. I found peace and comfort in sex and they were the only ones who could give me a glimpse of it.”

Jane said nothing but she wanted to ask why Sandra simply didn’t go to the older women of the family. After all, with the exception of herself she had slept with all of them.

“In any case there is also Siobhan and Analysse. They have a thing, I caught them experimenting with each other a couple years back. On the other hand our brothers, you included, are all finding love outside the family. Unless you…” she teased at the end.
“No! Hell no! You’re all gorgeous, true, but you are all as attractive as a lamp post for me, thank you very much." He quickly defended himself.
“Really? No special feelings for mommy, momma’s boy?” teased Sandra further.
“Ewwww!”
“Well, thanks son. Always good to hear I’m disgusting to someone. Reminds me of your father when we were chasing Saren.”
“That’s not what I meant, mom!”
“Sure.”
“Raaah! You’re all playing with me to distract me from the topic at hand!”
“““Yes.”””
“I hate you!”
“Even me?” Jane said with a very but fake hurtful voice.
“Oh, mom, you know that’s not… you’re doing it again!” he exclaimed, making the women's presents laugh.
“Guilty as charged.”
“Anyway… Leeha’s… situation aside. I gather that your relationship with dad is a secret, except back there you were pretty blatant about it.”
“I admit, I was lost in the moment… I just… Wanted to be close to dad. And if that pushed Leeha to make her move, all the better.”
“We didn’t expect you to show up out of the blue.”
“Though it was welcome.” Jane added hugging her son from the side.
“This family is full of secrets Matt. Mostly the sexual kind and…”
“Yeah, yeah, I won’t say a thing, I’m not stupid. You’re lucky I love you all so damn much.”
“Good. Now tell me about Amelia, I didn’t know it was that serious.” Jane began her interrogation making her son groan and the girls chuckle.

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Rick had to admit, spending intimate time with Sandra the previous evening did wonders for him. His pumpkin had an even greater gift than her mother and it allowed him to feel back in control. Where Dorothea was perfect for venting his frustration and anger as she was a masochist, she wasn’t really submissive and he could not order her around and would not even if that wasn’t the case. Ashley loved it rough with a bit of pain but wasn’t a masochist so he could only partially vent and again wasn’t submissive either. So was Liara. Tali had not an ounce of submissiveness in her so was out and Jane, while submissive, was fighting him for control. That was something which normally he prefered but it wasn’t normal times. Miranda would have helped of course but she was devoted to Jennifer, not to him and while he felt in control it wasn’t really. After all, the only reason he could have sex with Miranda was because Jen was agreeing with it.

Hence why Sandra was perfect for what he needed. And while she had a dominant side that her mother had not, her submissive side was more extreme. Submissive, sexually open minded and entirely devoted to him mixed together made the ultimate combo.

The past three years had been hard on him on a deeper level mentally than everyone thought. He couldn’t go back home because of the EVA’s computer being damaged as he fled the colony after his children and he couldn’t control his own death. He could have reprogramed the nanobots to not heal him anymore but he considered that working towards suicide and he had promised Jane that he would not try ever again. He had felt trapped many times in his situation and after many panic attacks (something no one knew about) just focused on fighting the Ketts.
All in all, a free spirit like him that has always been independent and did whatever he wanted and felt in control of his life hasn’t been in control anymore. Even when he got back to the Cassiopeia among his family he didn’t feel in control as he couldn’t tell everyone to go fuck themselve and to leave him alone instead of clinging to him or doing whatever tests they had. Presenting the three projects of doom to Jane was actually the only moment since his return when he felt free and in control. The projects themselves were born from a very dark place inside of him that had taken over. His rational decision mind that he prided himself in had been completely subdued by his unyielding rage and hatred against the Ketts. Emotions had supplanted reason and he hated that.

His healing retreat with Jane while necessary had been forced. Hunting, crafting, gardening had been a necessity too, not a choice. His return too had not been a rational choice. He had no illusions that Jane had blatantly manipulated him to come back. And while he didn’t begrudge her one bit for doing it both because he loved her too much for that and because she had been right to do so, he still wasn’t in control as she had appealed to his love for Sandra and the children to get what she wanted. Again an emotional response.

However, when he visited his second eldest daughter to catch up with what he missed while being away, she quickly did, before holding him back from leaving and played the submissive. Perfectly. His reactions had been immediate and he seized the opportunity with both hands. In insight, thinking about it now, Rick realized that she probably knew what he needed. If she did give herself to him, that would have defeated the purpose of him taking control, no instead she offered the opportunity. The way she talked and moved, the way she knelt in front of him in seiza, her head lowered. Waiting. Waiting for him to order her around, to use her any way he deemed fit, in any way he wished. And of course, obeying every single one of his orders without a single moment of hesitation. He had been so drunk in the feeling that he didn’t have sex with her at first. Not for the first hour at least. Instead he gave her simple and innocent commands like massaging his shoulders, letting his head rest in her lap, those kinds of things. They both loved every single second of it, perhaps more than the sex itself, though her begging and moaning came pretty close.

Looking at the time and realizing it was five past noon, he rose from his seat at his desk and left his lab. It didn’t take him long to reach Sandra’s office and enter it. To his surprise he didn’t find her behind her own desk working tirelessly with extreme focus on her terminal. He looked around and found laying down on a couch her attention fully caught by a datapad in her hands.

“Pumpkin? Do you have a moment?” he asked as he slowly walked towards her.

Looking up from her reading, she displayed briefly surprise on her face before giving him a disarming smile.

“Hey, Dad! Of course I have a moment for you. I always do.” she replied as she rose from her position to sit properly, tapping the empty space by her side as an invitation for him to sit, which he did. “What can I do for you?”
“Nothing, I just came by to thank you for… yesterday. I just realized now that… It was all for me.”
“Not all for you, Dad. We both got what we needed the most, so there is no need to thank me for it.” Sandra corrected his assumption and shifted her body from the couch to his lap, plenty her ass firmly sideways on his crotch.
“But you did it for me first and foremost, didn’t you? You… Getting your needs met was just a bonus.”
“In a way, yes. While my intent was for you and you alone, I knew you’ll meet my needs because they are complementary to yours.” she replied with another disarming smile.
“ How did you know that I needed that? That I needed to be in control?”
“You don’t know?” she exclaimed in fake surprise that Rick didn’t miss.
“I wouldn’t be asking otherwise.”
“This is a day to be recorded in history. You don’t know something!” she joked.
“I’m not omniscient, Sandra. I have blindspots sometimes.”
“Alright, I’m stopping with the teasing. As for how I knew… Dad… I don’t think you ever realized how much I’m in love with you.”
“After fifteen…”
“You don’t, Dad.” she immediately cut him off in her serious business tone. “You would have noticed how I looked at you when I was a little girl or a teen otherwise. Dad… I’m borderline, if not outright obsessed with you. I’ve been hiding it well but it’s the truth.” she added at the end, seeing that Rick was about to protest. “I observed you thoroughly, from every angle. I needed to know what you liked, what you disliked, why you behaved a certain way, why you didn’t. What you wanted and needed and what you didn’t. That’s because I know that you’re a free spirit that needed space, needed freedom that I knew you were about to explode one way or another before you left. Sure, Aunties were giving you a wide breath but you were kept under close observation. 

Fortunately for everyone you were focused on the Ketts and thank god for Aunt Jane for noticing you were faking it and that you were on your way to do something stupid. But even while she understood that you needed to go, she didn’t understand your need for control. She didn’t realize that in a way she was perpetuating the problem even if it had a much less significant impact. But because I’m obsessed with you I was aware. I knew that, at your very core, you needed to be unshackled. And what better way to give someone’s control of their life than offering them a choice? Fortunately for you you have an infinitely devoted daughter who loves you so much that she would do absolutely anything for you. Well… when she’s not horny and wants to be in charge but it’s very rare.” she punctuated her explanation as she cupped his face in her hands and looked him in the eyes while shifting her body again and straddling him, pushing her well endowed chest against his. Her face a few millimeters from his, ready to kiss him.
“...I’m really fortunate, am I?” Rick replied in a whisper after a moment and reached around her to firmly grab her ass.
“Not as much as I am.” countered Sandra who pushed her lips against him for a few seconds. “My body is out of order though, sorry.” the ravenette added as she felt his cock harden right under her mound. “I can use my mouth though I’d rather not have Aunt Tali mad at me.”
“Tali?”
“It’s her turn tonight.”
“You already have a schedule?!” asked an incredulous Rick.
“Hmhm. I made it this morning just after you left.” she replied amusedly and he sighed at that. “That’s what you get for being such a handsome stud, Dad. Speaking of this morning… Matthew kinda found out about us.”
“Shit.”
“Not really. I mean he was pretty mad at you since… You know, you’re the older one and our father but Aunt Jane, Arianna and I dissuaded him of this notion he had that it was your fault. We put things in a new perspective for him and well… He’s accepting of it and will keep quiet. He’s very worried about the consequences should Leeha find out though.”
“He’s not wrong to.”
“I’m taking care of Leeha. In fact her turn is tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow? Are you really going with it?”
“Not me alone. She needs it, Dad. Either to move on like Nanna kind of did, though it’s not really the same situation, or to, well… go the distance like I chose.”

Rick simply nodded slowly and rose from the couch, picking up Sandra in the process. Putting her down he held her hand and brought her home to enjoy a home made lunch.