“I love it.”
“Mmmmm.” He licks my nipple, sucks on it. His other hand still works the crop and slaps my clit. “Why?”
I gasp with the next slap. “Because I’m yours.”
He makes a deep sound of lust in the back of his throat.
“That’s right. Mine.”
In a lightning-fast move, he withdraws, both his mouth and the crop. He adjusts the ropes around my sex so that they’re even tighter, intensifying all sensations there.
He switches on the ring and puts it on his erection. He positions himself on his knees in front of me, and puts his erection at my hot, wet entrance. It nudges me, stretches me open. The vibration of the ring adds a new edge to my pleasure, and I almost faint as he invades me.
“Mine,” he growls.
The wonderful, head-spinning scent of his skin is in my nose. He withdraws and flexes his hips to thrust into me again. He moves slowly, deliberately, but his thrusts are hard. Possessive.
Needy.
Hungry.
I want to wrap my legs and arms around him, bury my face in his neck. I want to kiss him.
But I can’t.
I absorb my vulnerability, and expand, and melt under him. Somehow, my submission makes me stronger. We dissolve and merge together and his thrusts grow faster, harder.
He’s losing control because of me. He loves it as much as I do.
Convulsions begin in my core.
“You’re coming,” he whispers. “Oh, Lisa, you’re…”
And he’s right there with me. He’s the yang to my yin. I’m his love, his strength, and his weakness. And he’s mine.
As we fell apart together, my insides clenching and unclenching around him, milking him, he cries out my name like it’s a prayer, like I’m his religion.
And I scream for him, his name on my lips as I expand, unravel, and unwind.
Because with every breath we take together—with every kiss, with every time we make love—I grow stronger, and I know he does, too.
My inner muscles squeeze and burn, and I know that with Cole, I am becoming the person I was meant to be. And it can only get better from here.
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Lady Evangeline's Piratical Persuasion
by Emily Tilton
Chapter 1
Lady Evangeline Stratford, eldest daughter of the second Earl of Hobberly, decided in the spring of the Year of Our Lord 1745 to sail to America in order that she not be forced to marry against her wishes. Aged nineteen and possessed only of the clothes upon her back and the loyalty of her ladies' maid Mary Smith, Lady Evangeline fled Hobberly Hall by night, walking in the spring mud across the park to the Hobberly Arms in Rereton, where Mary took seats inside the mail coach while Lady Evangeline, well muffled in a thick cloak that hardly kept off the chill, waited in an unceasing state of near-panic at a corner-table, her burning face to the wall.
"You are sure of your cousin?" the heir apparent to one of Hampshire's richest fiefs asked her servant in a whisper, when Mary returned from her dialogue with the innkeeper. "He will be true?"
Mary Smith's cousin Philip Norris served as first mate aboard a merchantman bound for Virginia. The success of Lady Evangeline's flight depended upon his promise to pass her off as his bride.
"He will," Mary whispered back. "He would, I believe, even if you had not promised him a farthing, my lady."
All through the exhausting journey from Rereton to Portsmouth, Lady Evangeline tried to convince herself that she could have done nothing else but to fly from home, mad though the idea seemed to her upon the road, with the terrible jolting of the carriage wheels making each moment an agony of weariness and self-doubt. Her father had demanded she marry Mr. Worthington, the man who it seemed had bought a great deal of the earl's vast debt. It was entirely apparent that Mr. Worthington, aged sixty-two, had speculated not just in Hobberly debt but in the Hobberly heir herself when he had gone about acquiring the notes put out by Lady Evangeline's dissolute father in the course of his debaucheries in town. She had heard that the last few notes had gone for more than their face value, the owners having heard that Mr. Worthington had something on in the way of acquiring a pretty wife and a petty earldom in the debt market, and she supposed she should feel complimented in some measure. Hobberly Hall would require a massive investment of capital to reach anything like a state acceptable to receive visitors on the scale a man like Mr. Worthington must have in view, and so Lady Evangeline must seem to him an object worth having for her own sake.
Still, even with the honor thus done her by Mr. Worthington's golden guineas, Mr. Worthington's person offended her so greatly not only by reason of his age but also because of his reprehensible manners that Lady Evangeline could see, even in the jolting carriage with the uncertain prospect of a sea voyage in mufti as a commoner to contemplate, no alternative to the step she had taken. One of her two sisters could perhaps be married to Mr. Worthington, should they place a lesser price upon their honor than Evangeline did. She would take her chance in Virginia.
Safely In bed together in the Portsmouth inn Mary's cousin had told them to seek out, Lady Evangeline and Mary spoke of what they would do upon the morrow. Mary would go to the docks and find Philip's ship, then return when she knew exactly where it lay, to bring her mistress thither.
"Mary?" asked Lady Evangeline after they had settled the matter.
"Yes, my lady?" the servant replied in a sleepy voice.
"My… you know… is…" Evangeline felt her face get very hot, as it always did when she broached such matters to her faithful maid. Her cheeks, though, did not seem to burn anything like as warmly as the part of her Mary had taught her mistress to call her cunny.
"Your cunny, my lady?" Mary whispered, suddenly alert. "Is it warm from riding in the coach all that while?"
Evangeline nodded, biting her lower lip.
"Well, pull up your chemise, then, and let me feel it, to make certain you are as healthy as you should be."
Feeling both grateful and ashamed, Evangeline obeyed her servant. Since the noble girl's eighteenth birthday, her ladies' maid, a little older than her mistress, had often inspected the tender cleft, with its sparse nest of curls. She usually carried out these examinations with her hand, but sometimes, as Evangeline blushed furiously, Mary laid her mistress upon her back with the bedclothes thrown off, and held a candle so as to see the progress of the womanly changes time had wrought in that sensitive spot.
Now, as Mary touched the place gently, Evangeline asked her maid in the thick dreamy voice that always seemed to come upon her at these moments, "Tell me again about fucking, Mary, if you please."
"Oh, my lady," Mary said, "you know how shameful it is."
"Please?" Evangeline pleaded. "You know it helps… make me healthy."
Somehow hearing about what had befallen Mary with John the footman seemed to make her maid's inspections both more urgent and, finally, more soothing.
"I shall touch you, too, as I must, mustn't I?" she asked. "So I can feel how John opened your cunny with his hard thing?"
"Very well, my lady," Mary said reluctantly, "but you know I am not sure I did right, to tell you about it."
Mary rolled her shift up a little, so t
hat Evangeline's trembling hand could "inspect" her maid's cunny. It felt so strange and complicated, between Mary's thighs, and the folds seemed to grow so warm to her touch, that Evangeline could not help sighing even more deeply than she would at Mary's touch alone.
Evangeline, her heart beating fast, pressed her middle finger where she had explored only once before, when Mary had confessed that she had been fucked by John's hard thing.
"Prick," Evangeline whispered now, feeling terribly wicked but not knowing how to stop herself. "Prick. Cunny. Naughty Mary had a prick in her cunny. Naughty Mary had a prick in her bottom."
"Oh, my lady," Mary said. "Oh, please. I know it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. Please don't make me tell you about it again."
Evangeline's fingers had grown very slick, now, and she could push two of them in, where little Mary now moved her hips in a rhythm that made her mistress feel faint. Evangeline tried to imitate that movement with her own hips, against Mary's fingers, and found it came so naturally that it made her feel very wicked.
"You must tell me," she whispered, her voice sounding strange and dreamlike to her own ears, "or I shall have to whip you, Mary. Tell me what John did with his big prick."
"He…," Mary breathed, riding her mistress' hand. "He told me to lie down on the bed, and to raise my shift, and I did, even though it made me blush. He took his breeches down, and he raised his shirt, and he stood over me… and he… he showed me… oh, my lady."
"What did he make you do, then?" Evangeline asked hoarsely, her breath coming in harsh pants as she moved her bottom in little jerks under the maid's touch. She did not know why, but even though Mary always said that she had wanted to do the things she had done with the footman. it made the fire between her thighs grow hotter to think that John had required them of her.
"He told me I must get him ready to fuck my cunny, and he put his hand upon it, and…"
"What did you do, you naughty girl?" She was naughty, too, so very naughty, to touch the cunny John the footman had fucked, to put her fingers inside it and feel how the prick had made its way through little Mary's maidenhead.
"I could not help it, my lady!" Mary protested. "It felt so good, and I knew somehow that if I… if I sucked it, John would feel the same sort of feeling. I opened my mouth, and he put his thing inside. It was so big and hard that I did not think I could bear it."
Evangeline's cheeks burned as she saw the lewd scene in her mind's eye. "What did it taste like?" she whispered.
"It tasted… dark, somehow… wicked… oh, my lady, just there… rub harder… oh… I am spending… I am…"
But Evangeline, sensing the power she had over her little maid, pulled her hand back.
"What did he do then, Mary?" she asked coyly. "No, do not take your own hand away, naughty girl. I am the mistress. Tell me your story well and you shall spend."
The same thing in her heart, or, truly, down between her thighs, that had made Evangeline wish to deny Mary the acme of her pleasure, stirred the thought in the noble girl now that someone—not Mary, but someone—should do the same to Evangeline herself, because she had made bold to play the cruel mistress. Someone—John the footman? surely not!—should teach the haughty girl a lesson… should lay her upon a bed as Mary had been lain… should make her take his prick into her mouth…
Mary's fingers rubbed, and her voice said, while Evangeline closed her eyes so that she could see in her imagination what had happened upon the maid's bed when the footman had decided to fuck her, "John got over me, and pushed my knees back ever so far, and looked down at my cunny. It made me blush so hot, to think that he could see that part of me, and that he liked to see it."
Evangeline heard a whimper come from her own throat, and she put her hand back between Mary's thighs, to reward her for telling such a shameful story.
"Then he took his prick in his hand, and he rubbed it up and down, almost as if he were polishing it, and it seemed to get bigger and harder while he played with my cunny."
"Then he fucked you?" Evangeline breathed in a moaning voice, extending the shameful word to great length, as she put two fingers inside Mary. "Where I have my fingers? Oh, Mary, put your fingers in me, please. I want to know what it feels like."
"Hush, my lady," Mary said, suddenly seeming to take the power back to herself. "You must be a maid upon your wedding night, when your husband fucks you for the first time. I would take your maidenhead, if I put my fingers in too far—and it hurt a great deal, at first, when John put his prick inside and began to move it in and out."
"Did he do it for a long time?" Evangeline asked, trying to move her cunny against Mary's hand more firmly, seeking the promised pleasure.
"Not very long in my cunny, my lady, I suppose," Mary gasped, for Evangeline's fingers moved very rapidly now, "but he made me turn over, after he pulled his prick out, and he told me I must have it in my bottom, too."
Mary had told her this part before, but everytime the maid narrated this most shameful element of her first fucking it made the need between Evangeline's thighs grow. Would a man do that to her, some day? No—of course not. The heiress of an earldom did not allow such things.
"I didn't want to, at first," said Mary, rubbing just where her mistress needed the pressure most—the same wrinkly place at the top where Evangeline rubbed upon Mary's own cunny, "but part of me couldn't help wondering what it would feel like."
"And what did he say?" Evangeline demanded in a whisper, for she knew the answer would make her spend.
"He said he would have me stripped and whipped by Mrs. Farnsworth, if I did not reach back and spread my bottom open… and… and it… it was so big inside me… oh, my lady, I am spending…"
Evangeline bit her lip, thinking of Mrs. Farnsworth the housekeeper and of the birch rod with which she punished the older maids. She had even watched it happen to Mary, after the fact of John's having fucked her had been discovered. Mrs. Farnsworth had asked if Lady Evangeline wished to see her maid punished for immorality, and Evangeline, her heart thudding, had said yes.
Now, as she moved her hips in little pleasure-seeking jerks she could not keep from her mind's eye the memory of Mary's poor little bottom, covered in red weals, quivering over the whipping stool as she learned her lesson for fucking, and Evangeline spent, and spent, and spent.
Chapter 2
From his peephole in the wall, Philip Norris watched the naughty girls in their bed with the greatest satisfaction. Beside him, Captain Mountjoy watched just as intently through the other slit the owner of the inn, a good friend of the privateer, had let into the wall. The peepholes served such purposes as a gentleman-pirate might have for watching the innkeeper's guests. Those might involve plunder or passion—or, as in the present case, both motives might actuate the observer's mind, heart, and loins.
"Girls get up to such tricks, when they haven't been properly fucked," the captain said in a quietly mirthful tone. "Even fine ladies."
"You will see to that, captain, I wager?" Philip ventured. Though he cherished a hope of leaving behind the pirate life into which circumstance had forced him, Captain Mountjoy's domineering ways always made him eager, nearly despite himself, to emulate his commanding officer, above all when it came to the pleasurable use of young ladies.
"Aye, lad," the captain replied, as Lady Evangeline writhed under Mary's lewd fingers. "And you shall have the maid, for I know she is not your true cousin. She has been fucked, it seems, but perhaps just the once. See, she needs it just as bad from her mistress as her mistress needs it from her. Perhaps we should make them play together while we watch, and then whip them soundly for their wickedness."
Life aboard the Royal Anne provided a great many such occasions. He had joined the pirate crew to escape a death-sentence issued upon his head by a cruel gang-leader in Liverpool. Since being taken aboard the ship that sailed under the guise of a merchantman much of the time, Philip had learned to exercise his masculine prerogative, as Captain Mountjoy generally termed the d
isciplining and enjoyment of pretty girls, with a judiciousness that had seen him rise rapidly upon the ship, until he had last year reached the rank of first mate.
When Philip's "cousin" Mary Doyle had written to him, all unknowing of the ship's true calling, Philip had shared the letter with the captain and received Mountjoy's approbation to bring the girls aboard, where they would find a very different sort of voyage from the one they expected. He had felt some compunction concerning the girls' virtue, but it seemed this Lady Evangeline wished for freedom, and no species of being appeared to have more liberty than a pirate at sea. Perhaps he could persuade the captain to let them off, with Philip himself, in America.
To that end, however, he would have to make clear his loyalty to the captain and to the shameful purposes for which the girls were intended.
"Should we go in and whip them now, Captain?" Philip asked, putting into his voice all the piratical coarseness he had learned aboard shop. "They have already violated your rules, after all."
By the captain's express order, young women aboard the Royal Anne were not permitted to toy with themselves or with one another unless they did so at the lewd command of a man. Many a whipping awarded for this very offense had Philip watched, the girls confessing themselves very sorry to have stolen their cunts' pleasure from the captain.
"True, my lad," responded his commanding officer. "But I would rather wait to reveal this noble hussy's true fate to her aboard the Royal Anne. See to their arrangements on the morrow, and ensure Lady Evangeline thinks herself safely aboard a merchantman bound for Virginia. When we are well out upon the evening tide, we shall have plenty of time to teach these girls what it means to obey a captain's rules."
The Royal Anne did not present an appearance very different to that of most merchantmen, truly. When Philip led Lady Evangeline and Mary aboard, under the pretense that they must keep themselves well muffled in their cloaks for fear of detection, and bundled them into the captain's cabin, he knew he could well rely on their feminine and land-lubberly ignorance to prevent their noticing how well armed the ship was.
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