Mulan's POV

Our wedding night. It would be an understatement to say it was incredible.

We'd been secretly having sex for weeks at Wu Zhong; in my tent mostly, but even the pond. Ever since Shang had seen me naked getting out of the pond and told me if I slept with him, he wouldn't kill me, we'd been intimate nearly every day we'd been together. I won't deny it, that was a terrible thing to do. I'd been nervous and unsure about our arrangement at first and I felt like a dirty whore, letting my captain have me whenever he wanted. I'd hated the difficult situation he'd put me in.

I couldn't bring myself to express to him how I felt. But, I knew I was angry over his demands and that it would eventually erupt.

Even though everything about an army captain having relations with his soldier was wrong, after a while I'd enjoyed it. I knew the feeling of being a dirty whore was still there, but I ignored it.

Our wedding had been simple and small, thrown together in a day. When we finally were alone in our bridal chamber that night, he gave me a huge grin. No more sneaking around hoping not to get caught, no more having to be nearly completely silent, no more worrying about knocking a tent over. And no more abortion herbs. If I got pregnant again, it wouldn't be cause for panic.

I had longed for the chance to stay in his arms all night, and now I finally could.

He had his robe off quicker than you could say Kung Fu. I took my slow, sweet time with taking off the layers of my clothes. He loves to watch me get undressed, and always has. When we first started having sex at Wu Zhong, I was very uncomfortable with him watching me. Eventually, when I discovered he enjoyed it so much, I got used to it. Then I started having fun with it, dragging it out and driving him nuts.

So now I make it take a long time, especially when I know he is really anticipating having sex. I tossed my sash at him and let him hold it up to his nose for a minute and breath in my scent, then slowly peeled off another layer and threw it at him. Eventually, I was completely naked and climbed on the bed next to him.

As always, his attention went right to my breasts. He moved back and forth between them, licking and sucking and biting, as I ran my fingers through his hair.

I wasn't expecting what he did next, even though I knew he loved to make me crazy by putting his mouth on me. He made a little trail of bites and kisses down my belly. Then he went down to my knee and dragged his tongue all the way up the inner part of my thigh. He flicked my nub a couple times with his tongue, causing me to gasp and grab his hair. Then he drug his tongue up my inner thigh on the other side. Finally, he buried his face in my heat and gave the nub his complete attention. I tightened my hold on his hair as he licked and sucked and jammed his fingers into me. He kept this up until my fingers tightened on his hair even more, my back and neck arched wildly and I let out a scream, totally forgetting there were other people in the house.

Then Shang pulled himself up and over top of me. After cumming so hard, he felt incredible as he pushed inside of me. I tasted myself on him as our tongues found each others. I loved that. His thrusts shook my whole body until pleasure crashed over both of us like a rogue wave. Then he rolled on his side and we held each other as we caught our breath.

Never would I have thought this solemn, serious army General could be such a wild and intense lover. He was usually so disciplined, so controlled. I got to see a side of him no one else did.

Nope, we didn't sleep much that night. Or rather, that week between when we got married and when he had to return to the Imperial City. We were married now and there was no more keeping secrets about what we did together, so we made the most of it.

"Remember the night we knocked my tent over?" I laughed as I reminded him of the night we'd gotten a little carried away. It had been the first night we'd been able to have sex after being restricted for a week because of the herbal miscarriage. My tent was set away from everyone else's, so no one heard it we don't think. We'd had wild sex that morning in the pond, but it still wasn't enough. When he'd come to my tent that night, we'd yanked each other's clothes off and gotten right to it. Partly through, Shang had decided to flip onto his back and pull me on top of him. But he had forgotten that my tent was smaller than his and rolled right into the side of it, making it collapse. He'd rolled us back over and reached up and fixed it without even pulling out. How he managed that, I'm still not sure. But we'd quietly laughed about it until he went back to his tent.

"You mean the night I did this?" He pushed me onto my back and pushed in, then flipped to his back, pulling me over him. "Yup, that would be the move that knocked my tent over."

This time, we didn't knock anything over. As I moved over him, his hands wandered between caressing my breasts and massaging my ass. His mouth chased my bouncing breasts as he tried to catch my nipples with his tongue. Then, because he knew I loved it, he stuck his finger up inside my back passage. This drove me wild and I soon crashed down on him with an intense orgasm. He groaned my name as his own orgasm hit him.

Right before we decided to get up and get dressed the next morning, I realized something. My mother might come in here and inspect the sheets looking for evidence of whether or not I was a virgin before last night. They had been questioning me about whether or not anything had happened between my captain and me after he discovered I was female, and they didn't seem to believe me when I told them nothing happened. Perhaps I was a bad liar or maybe the medic came here and told them or they were just suspicious.

I grabbed a dagger from Shang's armor and sliced my finger a tiny bit. I laid down on the bed naked and let the blood drip onto the bedsheet between my legs at about where I thought it would have stained the sheet had I been a virgin. There. Now if my nosy mother comes in here, she'll think last night was my first time.

It was late morning before we even emerged from our room. Of course, Grandma Fa had plenty of teasing for us.

"Busy making me a great grandchild, were ya?"

"Grandma!" I blurted out, blushing.

Later, I saw my mother sneak into our room. I called that right. She looked very surprised and confused when she came out. Hopefully, that will be the end of that. I had a sneaking feeling it wouldn't be, though.

We had a wonderful 4 days, mostly in each other's arms, until he had to return to the Imperial City. He hoped to be back in a couple weeks. I hoped so. I hardly had been away from him for more than a day for months. I passed the lonely days by riding on Khan, practicing martial arts, and chores. Every night, I touched myself to fall asleep. I thought about making love to Shang, and the time I'd spent at the brothel. I realized now that I craved both men and women sexually, but my loyalty was to my husband.

As it turned out, Shang was able to come home in two weeks like we had hoped. I had a surprise for him.

I was pregnant again. This time it was cause for celebration, not panic like before. I knew there was a chance this baby had happened while we were still at Wu Zhong or on the road to the pass, but it was hard to know. I was only a week late.

I got rid of the rest of my Dong Quai by burying it in the horse's' dung pile after cleaning out the stable. I wouldn't need it anymore.

Of course, my parents and grandma were happy about the baby.

First thing Shang did when he got home was to scoop me up and carry me to our room. Two weeks was the very longest we'd ever been apart, as of yet. I knew there would be longer separations in the future.

It felt so good to be in his arms again. I didn't want to ever let him go, but I knew that wasn't reality. Not when I was married to a general of the Imperial army who could be called to duty at any time.