BOOK 3 – PASSION AND DANGER
Chapter 12
I DREAM OF PARADISE
Bordon was the first to stir late the next morning. He looked out and saw that the sun was high in the sky. Morning, hell, it was afternoon.
He smiled as he looked down. His wife was peacefully sleeping beside him. She was on her stomach. The bedsheet was rumpled in such a way as to give him an excellent view of her flawless back. He rolled softly onto his elbow so he would not disturb her.
His beautiful princess. He stretched out a hand and caressed her slowly and softly. Her back was bare to her hips. He bent and kissed the small of her back and licked it with his warm wet tongue.
He felt her stiffen awake, but could tell she was not alarmed.
"Robert." She said softly. He moved on top of her and rested so his body touched hers, but there was no weight.
"Yes Mandy." He asked as he lowered his head to her earlobe. He nibbled and licked the edge making her squirm beneath him. "You like this don't you." He teased.
"Yes." She whimpered.
"I'm hungry darling." He said seductively in her ear.
"If you get off of me we can have breakfast." She said.
"I didn't mean breakfast my sweet. I'm hungry for you." He whispered.
He was indeed. She felt his arousal against her buttocks.
"Oh?"
"Yes." He said. He lifted himself and rolled her onto her back gently. He rested himself between her legs and entered her gently. He thrust into her. She moaned as his mouth found her bosom and kissed her twin peaks and his right hand moved downwards. He supported himself with superior strength on his thighs and his left hand. His right went between their joined bodies as he fingered her most sensitive spot. It was not long before she cried his name and he howled hers. He filled her for the fourth time within 24 hours with his warm white heat.
As they lay together relaxing she smiled at him. "I feel like I'm in paradise." She said softly.
He grinned. "I'm glad I could help you."
She smacked him playfully on the arm. He bent and took her mouth in a heart-stopping kiss.
His hand dropped to her side as he began to tickle her playfully. She cried out and struggled in his much stronger grip. She reached for her nearest weapon, the water pitcher near the bed. She lunged at him. He rolled with her. She threw the water in his face and moved onto his chest. He spurted and laughed as he wrestled with her. She was on top of him. His hands went to grab her wrists and he held them as she tried to hit him.
He was getting aroused again by her defiant display. He did not use any of his strength to subdue her, he let her play as she growled in mock anger at him. She sat on his ribs and did not seem like any weight whatsoever.
He sat up catching her body as it slid down. He sat her on his lap and hugged her tight. "I love you." He said.
She rose from him. "Then let me eat. I can't take much more of your passions. I'm faint enough as it is." She said.
He smiled and rose, letting the sheet drop from him. This caught her immediate attention.
She sucked in her breath in appreciation. He was much more muscular than her brother was and was a touch husky, but extremely attractive nonetheless. His red blond hair cascaded over his powerful wide shoulders.
He grinned at her and wrapped his arms about her. He fetched her a mantle and one for himself. He lifted her up in his arms and walked with her to the next room.
"I can walk Robert." She hissed struggling.
"No, no, my bride must be carried everywhere." He said. He kissed her mouth as he padded to the table. "And if you did you would no doubt find you are sore." He set her in a chair by the table.
He walked to the door and unlocked it. Several people were there. He smiled in Good Morning and let the maids come in and change the sheets.
More brought in a bathtub and several male servants brought in buckets of hot water to fill the tub. It did not take long for food to be laid, the bath drawn, and the sheets changed. Amanda saw that one of the sheets had a deep crimson stain. She blinked.
Bordon followed her gaze and smiled. He reached for her hand as everyone left the two again in peace.
"Robert are you bleeding?" She asked.
He smiled at her innocence. "No my sweet. You did, dear heart, although not very much. Only a few drops or so."
She looked at him in shock. "How did I bleed? I didn't feel it."
"Oh you felt it alright. That blood is your virgin blood. You lost it because you lost your virginity last night. Don't worry love, it happens to every woman."
He smiled at her.
He began to eat the food before him with ravenous hunger. He had lost many calories last night. He was a man and needed food. His stomach growled. He was hungry.
"Hungry Rob?" She asked.
"I've already had you once today. I want to get enough nourishment in me so I can have you again. After all I have a week off. What do you wish to do all day?"
"Be with you."
"Well yes. I wanted to know if you wanted to leave the room at all."
"Perhaps." She said. She had a glint in her eye as she ate an egg.
He smirked. "Oh you can get enough of me can you?"
"No. This paradise dream is quite nice. Just you and me and…"
"The bed." He said with a huge grin.
She blushed. She could not believe him. He was not being a gentleman at all. He was being a roguish boy.
She rolled her eyes at him. He laughed.
They finished their breakfast and he rose and stretched. Amanda looked in the mirror. She had a love bite mark just above her left breast were Bordon had inflicted his oral attentions during their first coupling.
He came up behind her. His hands latched firmly to her hips as he kissed her neck. "I love you so much." He whispered his voice was grated with passion.
She smiled as he kissed and licked the back of her earlobe. She shivered and tried to curl it away. His hand lifted and kept her shoulder down. She walked away from him and looked out the door that also served at a window. It had a French balcony. She looked out into the gardens below.
Bordon came and drew her back to the bedroom. He then showed her how to pleasure him. She had a natural talent for it and was a fast learner. He quivered for several moments afterwards. She was only the second woman who had performed such an act on him. It was quite an experience for both of them.
He gazed at her as she reclined between his legs. One of his legs was bent with his foot flat on his bed. She leaned against it a smile on her sweet lips. He lifted part of her hair and brought it to his nose. It smelled of roses and sex. An arousing mix, but he was too spent to do anything about it right at that moment.
She sleepily crawled up him and rested on his chest as she looked down into his eyes. He pulled the sheet about them. His hands settled on her back. Her hands moved to play in his hair. It was strange to him that someone would be so fascinated with his hair. She loved to have her hands in it. He sighed and let her. He found it arousing in a subtle way.
She relaxed and laid her head down so she could hear his rhythmic heart beat. So she slept.
Tavington knocked on their door just after 4 PM. The two had not showed their faces outside their rooms all day. It was tea time and he was anxious to see his sister. He did not really know why, but he was.
A maid was walking down the hall as he knocked for the fourth time.
"They can't hear you sir." The young miss said softly. "They are having too much fun." She blushed when she realized what she had just said to the high-ranking officer.
"Good God!" he said. "In the middle of the afternoon?" he asked nothing in particular. His Major was going to be so worn out from his nights and days with Amanda that he could not ride. Tavington prickled with anger and surprisingly, jealously.
The girl he had taken was worth seducing her, but she had to leave him just after dawn. A pity. She really was a pretty little thing.
He sighed. He walked away from the door. He hoped that they would soon come out. He wanted to see Amanda. Perhaps a small part of him wanted to make sure she all right. Bordon was not a small man. He hoped that his officer had been gentle when he broke his sister. He would hurt him if he had not been.
The Bordons did not rise for breakfast again the next day. Cornwallis and O'Hara seemed to think that there was nothing out of the ordinary. Tavington was worried.
He went to their rooms. He knocked and was rewarded by a voice. He heard the door unlock and he came face to face with Bordon in a loose shirt and his breeches. His hair was flaming in the light from windows behind him.
"Greetings William." He said cheerfully. He took Tavington's hand and pulled him into the room. "Mandy, darling, we have a visitor." Bordon said over his shoulder toward the bedroom.
Tavington could make out the scents of roses, manly cologne, and the smell of sex. He spotted a bathtub by the fireplace. One or both of them had bathed some minutes earlier. Wet footprints went from the bath to the bedroom. They were much too small to be Bordon's. Bordon's hair was wet and loose. Obviously they had bathed together.
A pink velvet clad Amanda came from the bedroom. She shut the door behind her, but not before he caught a glimpse of the rumpled bed. Her long tresses hung about her to almost her knees. They were still damp. She went to the window and opened it to allow fresh air to come in.
Bordon sat himself in a chair and offered Tavington a place to sit.
"Can I get you anything?" Amanda asked.
"A hug?" Tavington asked.
She smiled. "Of course."
She came to him and embraced him. She smelled lightly of roses. "So how are you two?" he asked. She stood next to him. Tavington's arm wrapped about her waist.
The pink velvet was tight against her slender frame. Silver buttons went down the front to her belly. Silver decorated the high collar. Her neckline showed off her thin shapely neck, but her bosom was completely covered. The sleeves were long with a piece of cord over the middle finger of each hand to hold the triangle fabric over her hand.
"I'm a little stiff, but happy." Amanda said. She looked about for a seat. There was not one readily available. Bordon seemed to read her mind. He patted his lap gently in invitation. She moved away from her brother and sat down on her husband's muscular leg. He sat with his legs apart so she could sit and lean against him, but he could still see around her.
Tavington eyed his new brother-in-law as Bordon wrapped an arm about her waist and caressed her hip absently.
"Are you two ever going to show yourselves?" he asked.
"We may…later…for dinner perhaps." Bordon said.
He kissed his wife's cheek that was nearest his face. Tavington watched. They were truly in love with each other.
"Cornwallis sent me to inquire." Tavington admitted. "Now I must leave to go escort a supply line." He said rising.
Amanda rose and hugged him.
He hugged her back and kissed her head. He stepped back a bit. "I'm glad your happy and I'm glad that there are two now to guard you."
She smiled. He smiled back and walked to the door. "Good day Major." He said as he turned at the door.
"And to you sir."
Bordon rose and went to the door and locked it as he turned to his young wife. "Shall we go out?"
"Where?" She asked.
"To the stables for a ride." He said as he began to tuck in his shirt into his breeches.
"You have been riding for two days." She reminded him. He looked up at her in surprise. She grinned at him as her eyes danced playfully.
He came to her and hugged her. "I love you my sweet beautiful Amanda Mouse."
He kissed her passionately. She smiled as his tongue entered her mouth and caressed her own. She purred and her knees were becoming weak. He held her firmly against him.
She slowly pulled back from the kiss and smiled. "I wish to go ride my horse." She said.
"As my wife wishes." He said with a roguish grin. He grabbed his waistcoat and buttoned it. He grabbed a ribbon and tied his hair loosely back away from his face, but free in a loose ponytail.
She brushed out her hair and then braided it. He watched her. It took some work for her to do, but she managed it. He came to her and wrapped his arms about her and caressed her belly. He wondered if he had impregnated her. Surly after the two days of bed sport she had conceived. He so dearly wished it. She sighed and relaxed. Her head fell back. He kissed her throat lightly.
She pushed him away lightly knowing all to well if that continued they would never make it out the door.
He walked and put on his sword. He may be off duty, but he would not go unarmed when rebels could attack them.
She rose and he walked and brought her a mantle. Then he handed her her riding gloves. She slipped them on. He slipped his own on his much larger hands. He wrapped it about her thin shoulders.
Arm in arm they walked out into the hallway and down the stairs.
Several officers smiled in acknowledgment. They walked to the stables. Their mounts were there. Bordon saddled both allowing his wife to stand and watch.
He led the horses out. She followed. She went to her mount and fed her a piece of carrot. Bordon's horse nuzzled her hand for a treat as well. She smiled and lifted another and gave it to him. She scratched his head and spoke softly to him.
Bordon watched. His mount generally disliked strangers, but he liked her. He smiled to himself. Small wonder, who doesn't? Amanda is the most pure being on the planet.
He dropped the rein of his horse and went to help Amanda mount. He lifted her easily up by the waist. When she was ready her lifted his rein and mounted deftly.
Amanda smiled at him.
They rode down the great tree row to the rode. There they turned and rode into the wilds beyond. She spurred her horse ahead. Bordon laughed and accepted the unuttered challenge. He rode quickly, but she leaned over her horse's neck and beat him to the top of the low ridge.
"You ride very well." He said catching her as she paused on top.
"So do you." She said raising an eyebrow so he would catch her double meaning.
He smiled. "Now, now, my sweet."
He took the lead and rode at an easy pace to a lake. They were a few miles from Middleton Place.
He dismounted and tied his mount to a tree. He came to her and helped her down and likewise tied Amanda's horse. They walked to the small lake.
She looked out as she removed her riding gloves. "It's beautiful here." She whispered.
He grinned. He was behind her as she took in the wonderful view. Across the lake was a low hill covered with trees. The sky was bright blue.
She felt him come up behind her. She felt the warmth of his body. She looked down. His arms were bare. She felt a pronounced hardness in her back. He leaned forward and kissed her neck. His loose hair covered her shoulder and tickled her neck as he kissed her.
She turned slightly and noted he was naked. His fingers released the cords on her fingers. His hands worked up her arms gently. He began to undo the buttons of her dress slowly as his mouth worked its way to her ear. "I want you." He said softly and seductively in her ear.
Soon the buttons were undone. He pushed the cloth from her shoulders and it fell to the earth. She gasped, but his hands roamed her stomach and down around her hips. She turned to him. She kissed him on the mouth. He kissed her fiercely.
Before she realized it she was in his arms and he walked into the water. He walked until he was chest deep. The water was warm and pleasant. She was still in his arms as their kissed deepened. She turned and moved down his body. Her legs wrapped about his hips. She reached down and drew him into her. Both sighed. He was quite taken aback by her boldness, but was happy to let her lead.
His hands moved to her hips as she rose and fell against him. The angle was right so he hit her most sensitive spot with every one of her thrusts. The weightless atmosphere was amazing to both of them. She cried out his name. He followed soon after. He held her close until they came back to themselves.
She moved away from him and dove under the water as she swam from him. He looked about for her. He was starting to get concerned after a minute passed. Then he felt the water behind him move. She came to the surface with a rush. She wrapped her arms about him.
"Ha! Ha! I have you." She said.
He turned so fast she let go of him. "Oh no you don't. I have you." He said with a grin as his hands wrapped around her.
They laughed and splashed each other and had a good time. After about an hour they were tired. Bordon held her to him tenderly as he walked to the beach. He laid her the soft grass just inside the tree line so she would not burn her skin from being out in the sun. It did not take them long to dry in the summer heat.
He collected their clothes and dressed himself as she dressed. She unbound her hair and squeezed the excess water out. He sat next to her as he put on his boots. She swung her hair back intentionally hitting him in the face with the wet mass.
"Amanda!" He exclaimed.
She gave him an innocent smile. He smiled as well. God, he loved this woman. She was beautiful. The sun caught her features and added to her.
He helped her mount. He mounted himself and looked over at her. He would spend the rest of his life with this young woman. He could not wait to explore this new adventure with her. They turned their mounts and rode back towards Middleton Place.