“My husband,” she whispered in return. “My love.”
Gates picked Kathalin up and lay her upon the bed, his big body covering hers as the firelight reflected off their features. His mouth drifted away from hers, to her neck, to her delicate shoulders, trying to avoid the fur around her neckline as a free hand began to unlace the ties on her gown. His attentions were gentle and delicate as Kathalin lay there, eyes open, watching him. He must have sensed her attention because he lifted his head from the swell of her bosom, his gaze melding with hers.
It was a moment full of silent words of love, of gratitude for this moment they thought they’d never experience. Her surcoat was coming loose in his hands and he lifted himself up, kissing her nose, her cheek, as he slid the coat off her shoulders, kissing the flesh that came exposed the lower he pulled the garment. Gently, he pulled it off her body, leaving her clad only in her shift and hose, and bathed in the warm glow of the fire. He managed to pull all of that off of her as well. Flipping the coverlet onto her to cover her nakedness, he stood up and pulled his tunic over his head.
His gaze never left her face as his padded under tunic came off, revealing his magnificently muscular chest, thick neck, and broad shoulders. There was a fine matting of dark hair over his chest and Kathalin watched with a mixture of curiosity and apprehension as he removed his boots and breeches as well. Completely nude, and nearly full aroused, he faced her for a moment, allowing her to become acquainted with his naked form, before climbing beneath the coverlet with her.
Hot flesh against flesh met and melded, searing and scorching as Gates’ lips latched on to hers again. She was so soft and warm, and to feel her against him with such intimacy was more than he could bear. He’d been with many women, and many times, and had experienced naked flesh against his, but not like this. Never like this. The sheer sensation of it overwhelmed him to the point of madness.
His mouth moved away from hers, down her neck, seeking a heated nipple. Beneath him, Kathalin bucked and gasped at the newness of the sensation but Gates held her slender body fast, hardly allowing her any movement at all. He didn’t want her to squirm away from him as he greedily suckled her breasts, first one and then the other, using his body weight to keep her from moving too much as his right hand stroked her thighs. They were so very supple and he left her breasts to wedge his big body in between her legs so that he could put his mouth on her thighs and groin. He could smell her feminine musk and it was intoxicating, filling his nostrils until he could hardly stand it. As he lifted himself upon her body again, his manhood pressing against her virginal core, he put a hand between their bodies, touching her pink folds gently, easing his way inside her.
“Relax, sweetheart,” he murmured against her cheek. “You will enjoy this, I promise.”
Kathalin, who had so far been loving everything he had been doing to her, was suddenly apprehensive. His fingers, and his great shaft, were touching a place she’d rarely touched herself. It was very sensitive and as he stroked her carefully, her entire body quivered in a way she could not control.
“I… I am not afraid,” she breathed, although it was a lie. “This is how children are born, how a husband touches a wife. This is how….”
He suddenly thrust forward, cutting her off, filling her with his fullness as she gasped at the sting of possession. The sting of losing her innocence. But it was truly no sting at all, more of a feeling of closeness and intimacy that she had never imagined. Gates was atop her, in her body, filling her with his manliness, and Kathalin forgot all about her apprehension. Already, she loved the warm possessiveness of it, the feeling of being impaled by a man. It was shocking, but true.
Already, she craved it.
Instinctively, her hands move to his buttocks, her nails in his flesh, and Gates groaned with pleasure as he began to move. She was tight, so incredibly tight as he thrust into her body, slowly and with measured force, lost in a world of fluid warmth that all revolved around the woman in his arms. Her hands on his buttocks were feeding his desire with a fervor he’d never before experienced, with anyone, and as he made love to his wife, one thought, and one alone, rolled through his head.
This is the first time I have truly made love to a woman.
The very first time.
Aye, he felt like a virgin. With the number of women he’d had in his lifetime, it was a foolish thing to think but he couldn’t help it. Nothing he’d ever done like this in the past even came close to this moment in time when he bedded the woman he loved. It was more than a physical need; it was an emotional one, a spiritual one, and a need that overwhelmed his entire being. He kissed her deeply as he impaled her on his manhood again and again, the kisses infused with the love and passion he felt for her even as he filled her body with his. This was more than simply a coupling by any standards.
It was an awakening.
Exactly nine months later, on a cold October night, the result of that awakening was born after four hours of very hard and very fast labor. When Gates finally entered the chamber upon being informed by Rosamund that his fat and lusty son had been born, one look at his weary wife cradling the red-faced infant and Gates realized, at that moment, that nothing he had ever done in his life could compare with what he was envisioning. He could only feel light and love and happiness beyond anything he could ever comprehend. There was no longer any past for him; there was only the future. The Dark Destroyer, the destroyer of women’s hearts and the rogue of epic proportions, finally knew what it meant to be a man.
A true man.
That night, Gates slept with little Liam Alexander Edward de Wolfe tucked safely in his arms.
* THE END *
The De Wolfe Pack Series:
The Wolfe
Serpent
Scorpion
Walls of Babylon
The Lion of the North
Dark Destroyer
About Kathryn Le Veque
Medieval Just Got Real.
KATHRYN LE VEQUE is a USA TODAY Bestselling author, an Amazon All-Star author, and a #1 bestselling, award-winning, multi-published author in Medieval Historical Romance and Historical Fiction. She has been featured in the NEW YORK TIMES and on USA TODAY’s HEA blog. In March 2015, Kathryn was the featured cover story for the March issue of InD’Tale Magazine, the premier Indie author magazine. She was also a quadruple nominee (a record!) for the prestigious RONE awards for 2015.
Kathryn’s Medieval Romance novels have been called ‘detailed’, ‘highly romantic’, and ‘character-rich’. She crafts great adventures of love, battles, passion, and romance in the High Middle Ages. More than that, she writes for both women AND men – an unusual crossover for a romance author – and Kathryn has many male readers who enjoy her stories because of the male perspective, the action, and the adventure.
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