Duke of Pryde (Seven Dukes of Sin Book 3) by Mariah Stone

Author:Mariah Stone [Stone, Mariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stone Publishing B.V.
Published: 2025-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

19

“I’m going to wash you now,” he murmured into her ear. “You’ll tell me if it hurts, will you?”

Steam rose from the bathtub in the middle of Modesty’s room as Constantine took the washcloth and dipped it into the warm water.

She reached for the cloth. “You do not have to do that. I am perfectly capable.”

His wife was so pleasantly situated between his thighs, her back leaning against his chest. Earlier tonight, he’d rung the servant bell and asked them to bring the bathtub and hot water. The footmen and the maids had thrown curious glances at him as he’d paced his wife’s bedchamber in nothing but a dressing gown while she’d hidden under the sheets.

Let them talk.

“Of course you are. I’d like to do this for you. I know I hurt you before… I’d like to take care of you.”

She inhaled deeply and exhaled, easing back against him.

He loved her, even more now that she had given herself to him. And he’d been much rougher with her than he’d intended.

But his control shattered at her touch. He didn’t recognize himself with her.

He lowered the cloth down to her thighs.

Lit candles surrounded them in candelabras, their flames reflected in her large mirror.

It was so peaceful here. So quiet, with just the water dripping, the coals crackling in the grate, and Modesty’s even breathing as she nestled against him. He could feel the smooth skin of her back, the slight weight of her. And her wet hair pooled in the water around them, clinging to him.

“All right,” she said, and he saw a slight rise in her upper cheek as she must have smiled. “If you wish.”

He lowered the cloth and placed it on her inner thigh. The sheets were bloody as well as her inner thighs. A sign she was truly and irrevocably his.

Someone he treasured. Cherished. Adored.

He never wanted anyone else as long as he lived. She was his now, and he was hers, and that was it.

Softly, he ran the cloth closer to her sex. He kissed her cheek, her ear, her neck. “Is this all right?” he asked.

She chuckled and wriggled her behind against his groin, sending an onrush of heat straight into his cock, which quickly began to let him know it appreciated the attention.

“Very much so, indeed,” she said.

When the cloth reached her sex, she tensed slightly. “Too much?”

“It stings a little. But do continue.”

He chuckled and patted her very gently between her thighs, acutely aware of her body. She didn’t flinch or pull away, and that told him she was all right.

“You must know your way around virgins,” she said.

He ran the cloth over her other thigh. He couldn’t see what he was doing, but he wanted her to feel cared for.

“Yours is the only virginity I have taken,” he said.

“Oh?”

“You are the second woman I have known in such a way. And whatever happens, you will be the last one I’ll ever know.”

That made her go rigid, and he stopped patting. She craned her neck to meet his gaze.

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