Man and Wife: A Sweet Historical Love Story by Carolyn Faulkner

Author:Carolyn Faulkner [Faulkner, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blushing Books Publications
Published: 2016-12-25T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

He then brought the belt down hard across those two cringing cheeks, making her scream and shriek and twist and try to hide that beautiful target by crushing her hips into the end of the bed, but there was nowhere for her to go.

There was no escape.

Hardening himself against her reactions, against what he knew to be her very real pain and fear, he brought that stiff leather down again unmercifully, watching it bite into her, seeing the angry red swathe it left behind, parallel to the first, nearly covering all of the skin that was available to him before he really got started.

He glanced up. Her arms were still out, but they were much lower as if her agony had caused them to migrate.

"Arms," was all he said, and they resumed their former position instantaneously.

Not that it saved her from feeling the kiss of his belt again, this time down the middle of the two previous strikes, marrying that stark red together. Mari had thought she was out of her mind when he brought her that strange pleasure, but she now knew that was nothing in comparison to this. There was nothing of her but this, no life outside him standing over her, the same fingertips that had brought her to ecstasy earlier touching the small of her back as if to hold her still, just above the area he was disciplining.

And again, across all three of them at once, top to bottom diagonally, expertly keeping it from wrapping or even so much as touching any area other than her bottom.

Then he threw the leather away from him as if it offended him and went to sit on the side of the bed. "You can put your arms down now," he said tonelessly.

Mari was too far gone to do it, though, just in case he changed his mind, until he finally reached down and gathered her to him, not giving her a choice but to be pulled up against him as he stretched them both out on the bed, facing each other.

After a long while of kissing her tears away with surprising tenderness, he confessed roughly, "When I saw you were gone, I had only one thought."

Mari's mind was slowly returning to her, although most of it was still occupied trying to come to grips with the state of her bottom, but she figured that she probably knew what he'd been thinking at that point—that he wanted to throttle her.

But she was wrong.

"I have never been so afraid in my life, and I've stared into the eyes of pirates who were trying to kill me and my crew and board my ship. I've never been much afraid for myself or anyone else, beyond my friends or family, and even that had nothing on the way my heart hit the ground when I looked down and you weren't there. The things that ran through my head—I just hoped against hope that I would see you again alive. I know you have no idea what goes on in places like that, but I am intimately acquainted with them.

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