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“Ah…ahh…oh…Evan…der…ah.” I put my hand over my mouth to keep from crying out.
“No, I need to hear you,” he said as he filled me in ways that I’d never thought possible. When I did not remove my hand, he leaned over and bit my nipple.
“Evander!” I gasped.
“Yes, just like that.” He grinned, licking my skin as I heard the sound of our flesh moving together, the bed shaking withus.
I turned away, seeking even the slightest bit of air, only to see my reflection in the mirror across the room…My face, just now, looked like the woman’s in the shrubbery, like Miss Edwina Charmant’s. I understood why she had looked like this. How could I not when all of me was being taken to such new heights?
The pressure in my stomach rose. This was— this felt— it was heavenly. I wanted more. My chest was on fire, but I wanted more.
He sat up, pulling my hips to him, thrusting harder, faster, shaking, grunting like a beast. Was this what he meant before? I did not know, and I did not care.
I cried out, gripping the sheet, my toes curling as I came undone. His pace slowed for only a moment longer, filling me, before his eyes closed, and he stopped.
When his eyes reopened, his chest was rising and falling quickly. “I am not yet finished with you, wife.”
I was not sure what else was to be done, but I felt too good to care. “As you wish, husband.”
He laughed, falling onto the bed beside me. “Let me reclaim my wits first.”
“Where have they gone?” I teased.
“To you,” he said with eyes closed and a smile upon his face. “Always to you.”
I smiled, watching him, though my eyes, too, were heavy. “We are married,” I whispered and put my hand on his chest.
He took it and kissed my palm.
“That we are,” he replied as he kissed my shoulder. “And it is a miracle of the highest order.”
“A miracle?” I asked, snuggling closer to him for warmth, only to feel the sheet rise over me. He was on his side, watching me. “Did you not think we would ever be married?”
“After all that occurred, I thought the chance was lost to me forever,” he replied, his fingertips on my skin. “I even thought to pray that you would find another more worthy than I, though I also dreaded ever hearing such news. It was why I avoided the ton during the spring.”
“I stayed away from society,” I replied. “In fear of meeting you and your…late wife.”
“Is it cruel of me to say I did not consider her my wife? Nor did I take her as one.”
“You did not—”
“I did not,” he answered.
“Then for the last four years you…”
“Took matters into my own hands, as I refused anyone else,” he confessed. “I considered it my punishment.”
“So, no one else has had you?”
“I fear I am not all that innocent.” He chuckled, twisting a curl of my hair.
“So, you were a rake?”
“I was…I was…” He struggled for the word. “A man.”
I made a face, which made him laugh, then leaning over, he kissed my lips.
“Worry not, for you are the only one who shall know me as such.”
