The Duke Who Loved Me
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His finger was coated with it, and he groaned against her breast. She was ready for him, but he wanted to explore her. Feel every part of her. He dragged two fingers up her wet folds and when he reached the hard nub at the top, she let out a soft mewl and her body shuddered.
He let her nipple go with a soft pop, and he watched her as he rubbed his finger along that nub and inside her core. He was able to slip a finger in, but it was a tight fit.
She lifted her hips and her head thrashed back and forth on the bed. Gripping his hair, she held his face to her breast, but was too restless, writhing on the bed, and her hands moved down and grabbed his shoulders. Her body moved in a sensual rhythm that only they knew.
He kept plunging his finger in and out of her wetness, and rubbing the small nub that had peeked out from the top of her sex.
She moaned out his name as he rubbed that spot, and thrust his finger in and out of her, mimicking the way their bodies would move soon.
He did this for a few moments, feeling her sheath drawing his finger in tighter with each pass in and out of her, until she stiffened in his arms and cried out into the room.
Aidan felt her get even more wet, felt her walls contract against his finger, and he desperately wanted to feel her do that on his cock.
He took a breath, seeing her pleasure made him leak drops of cum from the tip of his cock. It was practically weeping from the pressure of not being inside her. He was harder than he had ever been in his life.
He pulled his fingers out of her body after her release, and up to suck them into his mouth. It tasted like salt, sin and woman. His woman. The first and only woman he would ever taste.
The flavor indescribable to its real taste. It made his cock leak even more drops of wetness, and he knew that someday he would taste her down there, lick her for hours until she begged him to stop. Right now, though, he needed to take her, to make her his.
Moving up her body, he paid homage to her breasts once more, sucking those tight peaks into his mouth one by one, until they were puffy and red from his mouth.
Lifting up on one elbow, he settled his cock at her entrance, “I will go slowly, because I have heard it will hurt you the first time.”
She nodded, her eyes opening to watch him. They were dazed, and he loved seeing that look in her blue eyes. It was time, and he slowly pushed just the tip of his cock in, and she sucked in a breath. Moving slowly, adding an inch at a time, and then back out, over and over until he reached the barrier of her virginity.
Watching her face for any sign of discomfort, he knew it was best to get it over with. With a great surge, he pushed in all the way. She gasped in shock and shut her eyes tight, he said, “No, Rhi, I need to see you. I need your eyes on me. Please my love.”
She opened them slowly again and looked at him. They were still full of heat, and she took a deep breath, “More, Aidan. I need more. The pain is gone. I just feel so full.”
Rhiannon
Feeling Aidan’s cock inside her, was foreign and exhilarating. His entire length was buried deep inside her, and it felt big, her body was full, but he held still, letting her adjust to him.
It didn’t hurt. Not like she thought. She had gone through worse pain than this.
She could almost feel their souls melding together as he stayed still inside of her. But, she needed something, anything. It ached inside, and he could soothe that ache by moving. By doing something.
She looked into his passion filled gaze, “Move Aidan. You need to move. Please.” The last word was said on a moan, and he nodded. Moving his hips until just the tip of his cock was inside her, and then he pushed back in. It was tight, and wet, and the feeling of him moving inside her was unlike anything she had ever known.
She shivered in his arms, feeling him move inside her made her sheath clench to keep him there. She felt him touching places inside she never knew even existed. And she loved it. Loved each smooth glide of his cock as it stroked in and out of her, getting faster and rougher with each glide.
It made her reach for something and she wanted to grab hold of, and never let go. She wanted that explosion like the one he gave her in the stables.
She knew it was close, that release called to her and she craved it. Feeling him move inside her, she knew that it was only a matter of time and she could tell this release would break her apart, but she also knew Aidan was there to put her back together.
“More, I need more Aidan. I want all of you. I love you.”
Aidan
He nodded, sweat rolling down his back. She was covered in a sheen of sweat as well, as he moved out almost to the tip, then plunged back in.
Her head lolled back, and so did her eyes as he did it again. This time a little faster and then faster still. She wanted more, then that's what she would get.
He moved down to kiss her as his hips started a rhythm of their own. Knowing instinctively what to do as he thrust in and out of her. Faster, harder.
He loved feeling her tight flesh surrounding his cock. The wet, slippery slide tighter than a fist as he pumped in and out of her wet sheath. He could feel her clench around him at times and it was hard to keep his pace steady, when all he wanted to do was fuck her like an animal.
She groaned into his mouth as he started to pick up the pace more and he tore his mouth from hers, groaning out his pleasure as well.
He never knew being with a woman could feel like this, but he also knew that being with Rhiannon was different than ever being with anyone else.
She was his whole life, his love. His soul recognized hers as its other half. He knew that she was his. That was all that mattered.
Moving his hips faster, he sat up a bit on his knees and lifted her leg to curl around his hip, changing the angle of her hips, and hitting inside her so deep, he felt he could touch her womb.
She let out soft sounds now, moans and sighs with each stroke and arched her back off the bed, her perfect breasts glistening with sweat, their nipples beaded with her pleasure as they swayed and moved with his hard rhythm.
He thrust into her harder, faster, the feeling of his release tugging at the base of his spine. Every thrust and move inside her, made Aidan see stars.
Rhia cried out again and again with each thrust into her, each time he was all the way inside her tight welcoming body, he had to keep his climax at bay.
He reached down between their bodies and touched the small nub at the top of her sex. Rubbing it softly in a circle was enough to send her over the edge.
She screamed out his name, and clenched around him, her channel gripped his cock hard, practically milking him for his seed. He would give her what she wanted, what she demanded of him as she cried out her release to the room.
He let go of the hold he had on his body, on his release, crying out as well and followed her over the edge, finally spilling his seed deep inside her.
He almost blacked out from the pleasure of releasing his seed deep inside her, and his eyes rolled back in his head. He needed to breathe, to do something, but it seemed his body wasn’t quite his own at the moment.
They were both breathing hard, their chests heaving with breath, and he collapsed on top of her, still buried to the hilt inside her.
Aidan took a moment to just breathe, to feel her body under his, his arms tight around her, their bodies slick with sweat, trying to ground himself and her, the pleasure something unexpected and so phenomenal Aidan felt he was flying.
Small aftershocks moved through her and into him as she shuddered beneath him. He wanted to savor the feeling of being one with the woman he loved.
He moved back enough to look into her beautiful face, her eyes were closed and her face still the picture of ecstasy.
He would remember this moment always. Propping himself up on his elbow, knowing how heavy he was compared to her, he leaned down to kiss her swollen red lips.
She opened her eyes slowly, and smiled at him. “That was the most wonderful thing I have ever experienced Aidan.”
“I didn't know it could be like that. That it could be so powerful. So, magical.” She said and he pulled her in tight to him and kissed her forehead softly. “I didn't either.”
He held her close for a minute, waiting until his breathing slowed and his heart stopped pounding. He needed this moment with her, and he would take it. He would remember this moment for the rest of his life. Every single second of it. He cherished it.
He could feel their combined releases on his cock and while he relished in it, Aidan thought she might be uncomfortable.
Pulling out of her, they both groaned at the loss of him deep inside her. He got off the bed and grabbed the towel she had used earlier.
Washing himself off, he turned to her and did the same, washing away the small trace of blood and his seed from the inside of her thighs. He gave her a soft kiss there, and he looked up into her eyes.
She smiled at him and he climbed back up on the bed and lay down behind her, pulling her up against his chest as he snuggled into her.
Smelling her hair and feeling her naked flesh against his, he said, “Being here with you is the best thing I could have ever hoped for. I never thought I could find someone like you. Truly thought I was cursed to wander through this life alone. But then you came and found me. I love you Rhia. I am truly sorry for all you went through. Katarina will be punished for spreading such lies.”
Rhia sighed in his arms, “Being in your arms makes me feel whole. I didn’t even know I was not until I met you. And, I am sorry too. Truly Aidan, I am. So sorry that her words could almost drive us apart. It was so shocking and hurt so badly, I could barely make it here. I knew that it wasn't like you at all. It certainly didn't sound like something you would do. Be with one woman, while making promises to another, but in the moment, I believed every word. Mainly because she knew things about you that she most definitely shouldn’t know and that I still have a hard time believing that you would want to be with me. Someone with nothing to bring to our marriage. Just my heart.”
He grimaced. “Rhi, I have never wanted a woman like her. I was honestly content to be alone for the rest of my life, rather than having a person like her as my wife. She is a hateful, selfish woman. When I stumbled upon you, I thanked my lucky stars for you. For who you are inside and out. For not seeing my scars. For looking past my name, my title and my reputation and just seeing me. I can't tell you how grateful I am that I would find someone that I love. Someone who completes my soul. The other half of my heart. I never wanted you to be subjected to her, or her mother and I hate that you were. More than once. I hope you can forgive me for that.”
Rhia looked up into his eyes, her head resting on his shoulder. “Aidan, you have nothing to apologize for. You helped me, protected me, and that is more than I realized. I don’t see the flaws you see. I only see the handsome, wonderful man I love. Your cousin may have tried to break us, and I almost let them. But, I won’t let doubts cloud me any longer. Nothing they say will ever break it again.”
Hating his selfish bitch of a cousin, and hating the foul words she would dare spew in order to get her way. Knowing how much she had hurt his love.
Almost destroying their love in the process. He was lucky that he had found Rhiannon in the first place. If she hadn’t stayed the night, or had left first thing this morning, well. It didn’t bear thinking of.
He pulled her in tighter to him, kissing her neck softly and just reveling in her naked skin against his. Nothing had ever felt this good, this right.
Holding her close, skin on skin, he knew without a doubt she was his, just as he was hers. They had always had something special from the very start, but this? This was something else entirely.
People searched for their entire lives to find this type of love; and Aidan had found it. No question.
He was grateful. Beyond grateful. Life hadn’t treated him with kindness when he was growing up, and still knocked him to the ground quite often, but if this woman was his reward?
He would bear a thousand punishments, a hundred beatings just to have her in his life. He smiled against her hair and closed his eyes.
“Aidan?” She asked, her voice sounding sleepy and drained. “Yes, love?”
“How did you find me so soon?” Her voice still quiet in the room.
He laughed, “Well, I didn’t wait too long after you left to come looking. I came back after getting you a drink, but people stopped me every time I turned around. And then Katarina made me dance with her.” He shuddered and Rhia giggled.
“It was awful Rhia. Pure torture I tell you. The things I do for you.” He leaned down and kissed her lips softly.
“When I finally made it back to your chair, it was empty. My mother told me how Koryn spilled her drink down your dress and she checked in the retiring room. When you were nowhere to be found, my mother and I looked everywhere. The gardens, dark recesses in the ballroom, everywhere. I went to your room and when I saw your ball gown on the bed and your old clothes missing, I just knew. Something had happened, and it scared you off. I didn’t know what, but I felt like that was the case. It frightened me. And my family. They were all worried about you. I was most scared that you could have been hurt, could have fallen and I wasn’t there to help you. After making certain you weren’t in the house, Cole suggested I find Julia. Which I did. She was in the stables, which remind me to tell you how I found her,”
He stopped and looked down at her, a smirk on his face.
Rhia’s eyebrows drew down in momentary confusion. “Julia? She wasn’t anywhere to be found when I went to my bedchamber. I was so worried about her. Was she all right? Please tell me what happened?”
Aidan chuckled, “She was out in the stables, kissing my stable master. You could see from the looks on their faces that I was the last person they expected to see. I think John and her are in love.”
Rhia gasped and giggled. “They were kissing? Julia has never given men the time of day! I am so happy for her. She deserves all the happiness in the world. Thank you for telling me. You can continue with your tale now.”
Aidan kissed her lightly and pulled her into his arms tightly. She sighed against his chest and kissed it softly.
“We sent riders each direction. I wanted to head to Scotland knowing you would have tried to go there, but changed my mind also thinking of your leg and how it probably would not let you walk the entire way, so I checked here first. I rode very slowly on the road here, checking the trees, trying to see if you had stopped somewhere, or had fallen and gotten hurt, or anything really. And it took longer than I thought. But I couldn’t leave any stone unturned. It was important to check and see if you had fallen. And when I got here, the proprietor didn’t want to tell me a bloody thing. But coins are always persuasive, so a small fortune later, and here I am.”
She laughed. “I am glad you found me. I was going to leave this morning after a short nap and putting some warm cloths on my leg, but I found something more interesting to amuse me.”
He laughed this time, “Oh really?”
She nodded. “Really. I love you Aidan. I mean what I said, and having you here with me, doing what we just did, well, I can’t be more grateful that I get to have you. And that I can call you mine.”
He smiled against her hair, “I love you too Rhiannon. I meant what I said as well. As soon as I can manage it, we are going to marry.”
She pulled his arm tighter around her, and kissed it. Yawning, she said, “I can’t wait for that day. To be your wife, and to have you be my husband.”
He laughed again, “Sleep my love, I am here to watch over you.” Her breathing evened out after a time and he knew she was asleep.
He held her close, and breathed her in. He still couldn’t believe that he had found her, she agreed to be his wife, and they had made love.
He glanced at the ceiling and thank
ed his lucky stars for this beautiful, strong, amazing woman that was lying in his arms.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Aidan
Northumberland, England Sept 1812
They slept for a few hours, and when the sun was high in the sky, they made love again. Aidan was afraid of hurting Rhia, but she insisted that she was fine. It was just as perfect as the first time. Maybe even more so, since they both knew what to do better the second time.
Aidan helped Rhia dress slowly. Every few minutes though, he would stop to kiss her skin, any that was still exposed to him. She would still, and then let out a sigh of happiness. Her skin dusting with goosebumps after each kiss.
He would smile against her skin and say, “I love you.” It felt so freeing to him to be able to tell her his feelings. He did love her. With everything he was.
When they finished dressing, they kissed one last time and Rhia admired her ring. “I love my ring Aidan; it is so beautiful.”
Aidan smiled down at her and leaned down to kiss her. “It was my grandmother’s. And her grandmother before her. It has a very important meaning to our family. They say that whoever receives this ring in love will live a happy and loving life together with the person who gave it to them, and together, their love can withstand the test of time. Which is why my mother wanted to give it to you.”
Rhia looked up at him in shock. “Your mother wanted me to have it? Oh, Aidan, that is so wonderful. I love her so much.” Her eyes swam with tears. “I cannot believe she would do that.”
Aidan hugged her, “Is it truly hard to believe my love? My family loves you very much. My mother has wanted you to become part of our family since she met you. She told me that she just knew you were someone important, and she was right.”
Rhia hugged him back, “I want to thank her.”
Aidan laughed, “Then let us go back home and let her know the good news.”