A Man of Honor

by Bethany Hauck

  Mairi moaned and arched her back, wanting him to take more, and to suck harder. Never had she thought she would want a man doing this to her, but with Alastair, she couldn’t get enough. She was a bit worried about when he’d stick his cock into her. It had always hurt before, and she was hoping with this husband it would be different.

  Alastair continued to suck her breast as his hand slid lower onto her cunny, making her jump slightly. “Are you sure, Mairi?” he asked again. “We don’t have to do this if you’re not ready.”

  “I’m sure,” she said to him. “Please, Alastair, I want this.”

  Alastair nodded and began using his lips and tongue everywhere on her body. Kissing her neck, sucking her earlobes and breasts, kissing her cheeks and chin, Mairi was so lost in sensation she didn’t even care when his fingers parted her cunny and began to play with her clit. Alastair brought his hand lower to her opening, finding it very wet already, he pushed one finger deep up inside her. He began pumping his finger in and out, slowly at first, before adding another and pushing both back in and continuing the rhythm.

  “That doesn’t hurt,” Mairi said, more to herself.

  “It’s not supposed to,” Alastair said to her. “It should never hurt, unless you want it to.”

  “Why would anyone want it to hurt?” she asked him.

  “Shhh,” he said, grinning at her. “I’ll show you another time. This time is only for pleasure.”

  Alastair again brought his lips down to hers, pulling his fingers out of her cunny he lined his cock up at her opening to take their place. He felt Mairi tighten. Instead of pushing in he put his fingers on top of her hardened clit and began to rub over it fast, not letting her think. Mairi again thrust her hips up towards him. To take her mind off what he was about to do next, Alastair took her clit between his finger and thumb and pinched it, hard enough to make her gasp. At that exact time, he slowly began to push his cock inside of her, watching her face to make sure he wasn’t hurting her in any way. Once he was fully inside, he held himself still, waiting for Mairi to notice.

  “It didn’t hurt,” she said, looking up at him with a smile.

  “I’d never hurt you,” Alastair said to her, pulling out a small ways and pushing back in. “I only want to make you feel good.”

  “Do it again,” Mairi said, then laid still as Alastair again pulled a small ways out and pushed back inside, making her moan slightly.

  “Feels good, doesn’t it?” Alastair asked, grinning down at her. Mairi nodded, smiling back. “Wrap your legs around me, and I’ll make it feel even better.”

  Mairi wrapped her legs around his waist, anxious to see what he was going to do next. Alastair again pulled out, this time almost all the way before pushing himself back fully inside of her. He started off slowly, letting Mairi get used to him until she began lifting her hips to meet his every thrust.

  He began going faster and thrusting harder. “I’m not going to last long, Mairi,” he said to her.

  Mairi nodded at him, “do it faster, Alastair,” she panted. “I need you to do it faster.”

  Alastair didn’t need to be asked twice. He lifted himself up higher and slid his arms underneath her shoulders, hanging onto her as he began thrusting into her faster and much more forcefully. Mairi was panting harder, and rising up to meet his every thrust. Alastair again reached his hand between them and began working her nub which was now as hard as a little pebble. He felt her begin to tighten around him as she screamed. She was squeezing his cock so tight he was only able to thrust into her a few more times before he too came, shooting cum far up inside of her.

  Alastair laid on top of her for just a few seconds before shifting his weight to the side and pulling her up against him. Mairi snuggled into his body, not saying anything and making Alastair nervous.

  “Are you alright?” he finally asked her.

  “I’m wonderful,” she said, her voice sounding funny.

  “Are you crying?” Alastair asked, concerned. “Did I hurt you?”

  “You didn’t hurt me,” Mairi replied. “I’m just so happy. I never thought I’d enjoy doing that.” She then giggled and added. “Now I can’t wait to do it again.”

  Alastair laughed and gave her a small swat on her arse. “You’re going to have to give me a few minutes wife; then I’ll be happy to fulfill your request.”

  “I love you, Alastair McCabe,” Mairi said to him. “I’m so glad you found me that day. I don’t think I’ve ever been this happy.”

  “I love you too, Mairi McCabe,” he answered. “I’m glad I found you too. I’ll always try to make you happy.”

  “I hope Flora and Nessa aren’t in too much trouble,” Mairi said to him. “Do you think they’re spankings are over with already?”

  “I’d be surprised if Eadan spanked Nessa,” Alastair said to her, “but Flora is another story. Hers is probably still going on.”

  “Why do you think that?” Mairi asked.

  “I’ve known Flora since she was a little girl. She’ll not give in without a fight,” he said chuckling. “Rest now. Soon we’ll need to get our son and tomorrow we start your training.”

  “What training?” she asked confused.

  “I’m going to teach you to use a bow and a dirk,” Alastair said to her. “I won’t have you be defenseless again.”

  “You don’t mind if I learn?” she asked.

  “I insist you learn,” he told her. “If it was spring I’d take you to Jacqueline, and have her train you on the bow. She’s better than most men I know, I hate to admit it, but she’s better than me.”

  “You’ve talked about her so much I can’t wait for spring so I can meet her!” Mairi exclaimed.

  “Just don’t let her talk you into any of her schemes, she ends up over Connor’s knee often enough,” Alastair said, laughing.

  **********

  Ham McCabe led Flora into the room they shared. He was not happy with his wife and intended to make sure she understood how unhappy he was with her. Not only had she endangered herself, but also their bairn.

  “You’re making a big deal out of nothing, Ham,” Flora said to him. “We’re all fine. No one was hurt.”

  “Do you realize what could have happened to you?” Ham said, trying to stay calm. “Or to our babe?”

  “If you would have taken me to the village like you promised none of this would have happened,” she sassed at him. She had said the same thing to him many times on their way back to the keep and each time it just made him angrier.

  “You’re blaming me?” he asked, shaking his head in disbelief. “I suggest you don’t say another word. In fact, you can strip and then put yourself right in that corner over there to think about what could have happened if my brothers and myself wouldn’t have shown up when we did.”

  “I don’t think you’re being fair,” Flora said, stamping her foot at him. “I won’t do it.”

  Ham moved quickly, sitting down on the edge of their bed, pulling a pillow onto his lap and pulling her down on top of it, she didn’t even realize it was happening until it was too late. “Let me know when you’re done arguing with me,” he calmly said to her, grabbing her hairbrush off the table next to the bed and pulling her gown and shift up, leaving her arse bare.

  He began bringing the brush down, alternating sides, making her scream each time it connected with her bare skin. Splat, splat, splat, splat, splat, splat, splat, splat, splat, splat.

  “Are you wishing you were standing in the corner yet?” he asked her after the first ten.

  “Stop it, Ham,” she said to him. “I mean it, damn it, stop.”

  “Language, Flora,” he said, “we’ve talked about your language before. Maybe ten more will help you remember.”

  “You’re a real arse sometimes, Ham McCabe,” she said to him right before the brush began to land again. Splat, splat, splat, splat, splat, splat, splat, splat, splat, splat. By the tenth time the brush landed she was ready to do whatever he asked. “I’ll do it,” s
he said to him. “Please, stop. I’ll stand in the corner.”

  “I don’t want to hear one word out of you,” he said to her as he put her back on her feet. Flora glared at him, wanting to say something to him, but knowing what would happen if she did. “Take off your clothes. I want you in the corner with your nose touching the wall.”

  Flora stomped her foot but took off her dress and shift before walking towards the corner and standing as she’d been directed to do. She was already sore and didn’t know how much more she could take. Ham left her standing there for at least a quarter of an hour before he began to speak.

  “Are you calmed down enough to listen?” he asked.

  Flora nodded and said, “I am.”

  “Good,” Ham said to her. “I want you to listen and not say anything until I’m done. Then we can finish this punishment and put it behind us. I’m sorry that I couldn’t take you to the village today, but you knew better than to go on your own. I know you’ve done it many times before, but I don’t trust this Lord Thompson that’s after Mairi one bit. I shouldn’t have to explain that to you, since I’ve told you already before. We found animal carcasses and a camp that’s been being used for some time less than ten minutes ride from the keep. We hurried back because we had a feeling that the people making camp there, are probably with this man that’s after Mairi. You not only put yourself in danger today, but you put our babe in danger also.”

  Flora hadn’t thought of the danger she had put their child in until Ham pointed it out to her. Tears began to fall down her cheeks. “Can I speak now?” she asked.

  “You can,” Ham answered.

  “I’m sorry,” Flora said. “I wasn’t even thinking about what could have happened to our bairn. I just wanted to get the herbs I needed. Many of the villagers are beginning to cough. I was thinking about them and what I’d need if disease runs through the village.”

  “I understand that, Flora,” Ham said to her. “I know how important your work as a healer is to you. When we rode up and seen that man trying to take Mairi, and the other strike you, all I could think of was how much I love you, and I couldn’t stand the thought of something happening to you.”

  “I love you too,” Flora said to him, hoping he’d forget the rest of her punishment now that he was calm again.

  “Let’s get this strapping over with then,” Ham said to her.

  “A strapping?” Flora asked. “But you’ve already spanked me. I’m already sore Ham.”

  Ham walked up behind her and placed one hand on the wall next to her head as the other began to rub her already red arse. “If you ever put yourself in danger like that again Flora, you won’t be able to sit down for a week,” he said to her, raising his hand and bringing it down firmly one time on each cheek.

  “I won’t,” she said. “I promise.”

  Ham continued to rub her arse, going down her leg and then moving his hand to the inside of her thigh as he brought his hand back up towards her cunny. Flora moaned, wishing he would touch her there.

  “Are you enjoying that, wife?” he asked her, a grin now on his face.

  “I want you to touch me, husband,” Flora said to him.

  “Touch you here?” he asked as he brought his hand up higher and cupped her cunny.

  “Aye,” she said to him.

  Ham pushed his fingers between her folds, finding her already wet and ready for him. He picked her up and carried her to the bed where he put her down facing it and pushed her forward. “Spread your legs, Flora,” he whispered to her.

  “Are you still going to strap me?” she asked him.

  “Nay,” he said to her. “I should, but I’d rather love you instead.”

  Flora spread her legs apart as Ham pulled off his trews, letting his already hard cock spring free. He again brought his hand up to her cunny, finding her already hardening clit and rubbing it just enough to make his wife moan again.

  “I need you, Ham,” Flora said to him. “Don’t make me wait.”

  Ham didn’t need to be told twice. He lined his cock up with her opening and with one thrust fully seated himself inside her. He grabbed her by the hips and began pumping in and out. She was so wet already; his cock glided easily into her. Flora again moaned and began pushing back against his every thrust, trying to make him go even deeper inside her.

  “Harder, Ham,” Flora said. “I need you to do it harder.”

  “I don’t want to hurt the bairn,” he said to her.

  “You won’t,” she said to him. “The babe is safe.”

  “You’re sure?” he asked. Flora nodded, and Ham grabbed onto her hips as he began thrusting into her much more forcefully than he had just moments earlier. Flora met him each time as she pushed herself back against him. It wasn’t long until Ham felt her cunny tighten around his cock as she screamed out her pleasure. He pumped into her quickly as his own orgasm began.

  Ham pulled himself out of her and collapsed on the bed next to her. “No strapping this time, Flora,” he said to her, “but if you ever put yourself in danger like that again, I promise you, a strapping will be the least of the punishment you’ll be getting.”

  “I won’t do it again,” Flora said. Then she added, “at least I’ll try not too.”

  Ham couldn’t help it; he laughed as he pulled his wife into his arms, holding her close. He sure loved his little hellcat.

  “I promise you this,” he said to her, becoming more serious. “When I find that man that struck you, he’s as good as dead.”

  “You’d kill him for that?”

  “Aye.”

  **********

  “What were you thinking?” Eadan asked Nessa as they reached her solar.

  “I couldn’t let that man take Mairi,” Nessa replied. “I didn’t know what else to do to stop him.”

  “I ought to spank you,” Eadan said to her.

  “I’m sorry, Eadan,” she said to him. “Today was the first day in a long time I’ve had fun.”

  “I know you’re not happy, Nessa,” Eadan said to her. “I wish you’d tell me what to do to make things right with you again.”

  “I’ve told you before, it’s not you that’s making me unhappy,” Nessa said to him. “I wish I knew how to make things better myself.”

  “I’ve tried everything I can think of to be a good husband,” Eadan told her. “I’ve given you time to heal after Eadan Hamish’s birth. It’s been months Nessa, and you won’t talk to me or even let me touch you. I just don’t know what I’ve done wrong.”

  “You’ve done nothing wrong,” Nessa replied. “It’s me.”

  “Maybe if we shared a bed again we could work things out,” Eadan suggested.

  “Nay,” Nessa said. “I won’t have another child. The thought of going through that again makes me feel ill.”

  “I’ve talked to Flora, she said there’s a tonic,” he began.

  “Nay,” Nessa cut him off. “She said it doesn’t always work. I won’t take the chance.”

  “So what do we do about this marriage?” he asked her. “I don’t even feel like I have a wife anymore. You spend most of your time alone up in your chambers. How can we work on making our marriage good again if I never see you.”

  “I don’t think we can, Eadan,” she told him. “I was thinking it might be better for both of us if I return to my Da’s keep.”

  “What about our son?” Eadan asked. “I won’t let you take him from me.”

  “That’s why I haven’t left yet,” she answered truthfully. “I’m sorry, Eadan, I wish I knew a way to fix everything.”

  “Then I don’t know what else to do,” Eadan said, walking out the door and shutting it loudly behind him.

  Chapter 9 Fever at Gleann

  “Scott?” Hamish asked at their evening meal after Alastair explained what the man named Donovan had called Mairi. “I’ve heard that name before. I believe they’re a lowland clan.”

  “I thought so too, Da,” Alastair said to him. “I’d like to send a messenger a
nd see if any of the people there have any knowledge of Mairi.”

  “Can’t we go?” Mairi asked Alastair. “Maybe seeing the area will make my memory return.”

  “What about our son?” Alastair asked her. “Do you want to travel that far with him? It’s winter, Mairi, what if we get a storm and we’re caught out in it with Cam?”

  “You’re right,” Mairi said, disappointed.

  “It’s a long journey,” Owen said. “I’ve traveled that way guarding the king more than once. I know the area where the Scott keep lies, although I’ve never been there. I wish we would have been able to catch up to Lord Thompson and his men, but they all got away.”

  “We could have gotten some answers out of them at least. How long would it take to travel from here?” Alastair asked his brother.

  “At least a sennight,” Owen answered. “But if the weather turns bad, it could be closer to a fortnight.”

  “Maybe we should wait until spring,” Alastair said. “I’d hate to put any of our men at risk traveling that far this time of year.” He looked at Mairi, who nodded, disappointment apparent on her face.

  “I’ll go,” Owen said to them. “I’ll stop at Edinburgh and get permission to be gone for a while. I think the fact that an Englishman tried to take Mairi will be enough for them to let me go, and see if there’s a connection between her and the Scott clan.”

  “I’ll go with you,” Owen’s friend John replied. “I know right where the Scott keep lies. I’ve never been there myself, but I’ve traveled near it many time. Once I get you to the area I can take time to go visit my father.”

  “Thank you, John,” Alastair said to the man. “My wife and I appreciate your help.” Alastair turned back to Owen and asked, “when do you think you’ll leave?”

  “Tomorrow morning,” Owen said. “I should be back within a month if all goes well.”

  “I want you to take some extra guards with you,” Hamish said to his son. “We’ve had trouble on the roads around here lately.”