Enchantress Mine by Bertrice Small

Author:Bertrice Small
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: NAL Trade
Published: 2015-11-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

It was night and the manor of Aelfleah had settled down to rest. Outside the narrow windows of the lord’s house the snow, which had been threatening to fall for several days, was silently drifting down through the pitch black night to quietly blanket the sleeping earth. In the hills above the valley a wolf howled his lonely cry and was taken up by another of his kind who hunted nearby. They were doomed to failure this night and would go to bed hungry, for all the other creatures had taken shelter from the storm.

Mairin had bathed earlier in the large oaken tub that had been set before the fireplace in the solar. It had been refilled with boiling water after the evening meal and left to cool. Now with everyone else abed Josselin was to be bathed by his wife. It fascinated him that although she was a widow, Mairin had not been in the least embarrassed by his nakedness when he had first pulled his clothes from his body. Indeed she had seemed to assess him, or was that his imagination? He was uncomfortable to think she was weighing and balancing his attributes against others she had seen in such a state of nature.

“You are very long,” she noted innocently while looking at him up and down. He had just stripped the last of his clothes off.

“Is there any particular part to which you refer, lady?” he teased her devilishly.

“Everything about you is long, my lord. Your face, your arms and legs, your trunk. Indeed I have never seen such a long man.”

“Is there nothing else of great length that takes your fancy, lady?” He leered wickedly at her.

He could see her seriously considering his words for a long moment. Then suddenly she turned fiery red as what he really meant struck home. “Oh, knave!” she scolded him as he laughed. “Get into the tub, my lord, before the water cools too much! I am not certain that a cold bath would not be more suitable for such a randy fellow!”

“Oh, Mairin, my sweet enchantress of a wife! I admit to being as randy as a young billy goat for you! You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen! We have been man and wife these six nights yet I have been unable to bed you. Do you know how very much I long to lie with you? To caress your beautiful body? To possess you fully?”

She smiled, and began to gently soap his broad shoulders. “Tonight, my lord, we will both satisfy our desires for each other. I will give you pleasure such as my first husband taught me, pleasures that delight a man. In return you will make love to me, and give me children. I very much want children!”

She had no idea of the effect her words had upon Josselin. The blood pounded in his ears and with a suddenness that surprised her he reached up and pulled her into the tub with him.

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