Breath Of Heaven by Holby Cindy

Author:Holby Cindy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical Romance, England, Love Story
ISBN: 9780843964042
Publisher: Leisure
Published: 2010-06-01T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

She was weak and she hated herself because of it. Why else would she cover her face and turn away from her husband when all he’d done was save her and thus save Aubregate? While she lay on her side with her legs tucked up close to her, Llyr howled and scratched at the door. She felt Rhys move from the mattress where he had collapsed when he was finished. She heard the heavy sigh he let out as he stood and moved about the room. She could do nothing to stop Llyr’s howling, just as she’d been able to do nothing to stop what had just happened. It was her duty as a wife to submit to her husband.

“Eliane,” he said. “Look at me.”

Submit to you, husband…She recalled the words of the wedding vows she’d spoken, and she opened her eyes. His gaze was upon her, his eyes fathomless black pits in his haggard and weary face. Did he feel the pain of her father’s passing also?

He is gone…

Rhys grasped her shoulders and pulled her up to sit. She was grateful to see he was covered once more, but only from the waist down. She did not think she could stand to look upon him otherwise. The pain between her legs was still fresh, and inside she felt raw. Was this what submission meant? To accept her husband’s possession, even though there was pain? What about before, when he’d kissed her and held her and touched her? There was no pain then, only a longing for something she could not explain. Was this all there was to being married? Was this what her father mourned all those years after her mother was gone? Her name was the last that he spoke. He died with it upon his lips, as if he saw her.

“Drink this.” Rhys handed her a goblet half-filled with wine. She obeyed, drinking it all down when he placed an encouraging finger beneath the cup to hold it up. When she finished, he took it from her. As he moved away to replace the cup on the table, Eliane saw the blood of her lost virginity splattered upon the sheet. She once more closed her eyes. She felt her robe come over her shoulders and then Rhys gently guided her arms within and pulled her hair from beneath it. How could he be gentle with her now, when before there had been nothing but pain? Yet he’d seemed to enjoy the mating. The sounds he made bespoke great pleasure. Was it thus for men? Was that why they sought the act so desperately? Was that why women were encouraged to submit to their husbands?

“I would speak with you if only yon dog would stop howling.” He looked over his shoulder. “And if we did not have visitors bearing down upon us.”

As if Llyr heard Rhys’s request, he stopped howling and they both turned their eyes upon the door. There was the sound of growling, and then Llyr yelped.

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