Entanglements
Chapter 26
After they had their fill of the meal they had shared, Sami was tired, but she also realized the necessity of providing more distance between her homelands because she could only imagine the horror of what her father might do if he found her with EJ. She didn't want EJ to suffer more than he already had at the hands of the members of her clan; the reality of his capture had plainly been marked upon his back.
She thought it might even be troubling him some when he had turned a certain way while he was putting back on the clothing of Eric's she had given him before they had left her home. EJ was a bit broader in the shoulders than her brother which could make the material rub the places that were trying to heal from where he had been lashed by the whip when he had been taken captive.
"EJ, are you all right?" Sami asked with concern in her voice.
"I'm in good health Samantha," was all he would say in reply, there was no need to worry her with something so trivial. He would be fine physically given time although he wasn't certain he would ever be able to forget the carnage of the last battle they had fought when he had lost his brother and father both within the space of a day.
It seemed this man's pride was something that would rival her sense of pride, which caused Sami to give him a disbelieving look, "It's your back, isn't it?"
When he wouldn't answer her she walked over to the bundle of things she had been able to procure before they had left and pulled out a small jar. She brought it back with her, stood before EJ and opened it.
"What's this?" EJ asked without ever admitting any kind a malady he might be experiencing.
"This is something to sooth your back. It is a concoction my mother taught me to make before she died. She said it was something a woman needed to know how to make to help ease the pain of her mate when they returned from battle."
"So at least now you are considering me your mate instead of a mistake you think we made together?"
Sami sighed, "What's done is done. I can't go back now."
"I understand that completely, but the question remains do you want to go back?"
"It's best to leave the past where it belongs. I chose to give up my childhood to become a woman and I have to be strong enough to accept the consequences. I didn't want to marry Austin, but my whims shouldn't have put you in harm's way either."
"Are you saying I was only a means to an end, just a girlish whim you momentarily had in regards to me?"
Sami shook her head, "No EJ, what I'm trying to convey to you is coming out all wrong. I claimed you for selfish reasons, ones that may end up endangering your life more than it already was…"
"Have you considered I would have eventually found a way to escape? That I may have been killed trying to get back to my country if not beforehand I could have when the rest of your clan returned. I was never going to be subservient to anyone. I've been brought up to be a ruler of a country, not a steward for another man. I could not bend my will to another way of life other than the one I was destined to live. Darling, you were my godsend, my very own angel."
Sami scoffed at such a notion. "I'm not an angel…"
EJ leaned over to stop her from disclaiming what he believed her to be and kissed her cheek before he whispered, "You are my angel and I will move heaven and earth for you if need be."
"Well then kind sir, let your angel take care of you," Sami turned him around and carefully lifted up the tunic with one hand until EJ conceded to pull it off of him once more. She put her fingers into the jar to get some of the healing ointment on them and then she carefully rubbed it on his back, hoping this would ease the sting of pain she knew he must be feeling.
At first EJ was tense when her fingers traveled the lines that had recently been etched upon his back, then he began to relax somewhat as Sami continued, her touch gentle and soothing. She lightly hummed a tune while she worked.
"What a pretty tune." EJ commented wishing he could see her face, but she was engrossed in completing her task.
"It's one my mother used to sing to me."
"She must have been a wonderful mother."
Sami stilled and replied in a faraway voice, "She had this way about her that could make the darkest day brighter."
EJ turned around to face Sami, "It seems her daughter is very much like her then because I was dispirited by the loss of my father, my older brother, two of the most important people in my life and you mended my broken heart, made me realize I still had a purpose beyond wanting to seek revenge."
"You were going to avenge their deaths even if it could have caused your own?"
EJ didn't immediately answer as he looked away until Sami reached out for one of his hands. "I wish I could say I don't harbor ill will on the men who have destroyed a huge part of my family. My way of life has been altered drastically by this last battle we faced."
"EJ, these men you are speaking of are my family and friends."
"Ones who possess a savagery I could only imagine before I experienced it firsthand."
Sami stepped back as if she had been struck, realizing while she knew stories of their battles, had seen men who had been injured when they returned home and of course the never ending procession of slaves the clan had captured, she had never been there to see the actual carnage these wars caused.
"You must think me a savage as well…"
EJ vehemently shook his head, "Never my love."
"EJ, what do you think your family will think of you bringing home a girl who is a member of the clan who killed their patriarch along with their eldest son?"
"My mother has always wanted my happiness and she will see you make me happy, that you are the light in the darkness that helped me find my way back home."
"And the members of your kingdom, do you truly believe they will be accepting of me? My clan has killed their king and the man who was next in succession for the throne. They will view you as weak for allowing me to live, much less ever see why you would want me for your wife."
"It is not for them to decide who I take as a mate. You are my wife!"
"They believe you will marry another upon your return."
"Samantha, do not argue with me further about this matter."
"I will argue with you about this matter until you see reason…"
And then she didn't get anything else out of her mouth as EJ's mouth covered hers. Sami's tongue immediately greeted his along with an involuntary moan when she felt him lift her wrap and caress her bare ass. EJ fed off her anger, pushing her back to the nearest tree where she couldn't escape his advances before covering her body with his again, kissing her hard enough to draw blood. He thrust his hips into hers, making her open her legs and then he pulled them up around his waist.
Even though he still had on his trews, EJ started a slow, steady rhythm between them feeling her drenching wetness through the material that was preventing his cock from where he wanted it, which was to be fully embedded inside of her. He covered her face with kisses; drug his lips up and down her neck, only pulling away long enough to tell her. "You will listen to me! Our vows cannot and will not be undone! I am your husband!" He then claimed her mouth again, his tongue stroking hers.
At this particular moment Sami hated that EJ believed about them was right. something she believe in as well, but she'd be damned if she'd admit it to him, even if she couldn't stop herself from arching into his movements. She kissed him just as fiercely for a few seconds and then pulled on his hair almost painfully to get him to relinquish his current possession he had claimed upon her mouth.
"I will not be told what to do, what to feel like I'm some kind of mindless wench…"
But this momentarily delay tactic Sami tried to employ didn't accomplish what she had hoped it would because EJ only stopped long enough to take one hand away from her body to roughly jerk his trews down and then he tugged the rest of her clothing away. "Do you really want to defy me again Samantha?"
He went back in for another punishing kiss before she could answer him, his huge hands palmed her breasts, kneading and rubbing them. His cock swelled further at her wanton moan and he bucked into her wet heat for mere seconds then he somehow managed to pull out of her to drag his hardened cock up and down her center, making her moan even louder.
Sami felt like she was on fire, the rest of the world retreating far away as EJ somehow managed to bring her to just this moment in time, to his burning kisses, to feel his rough hands upon her breasts, the hardness of him seeking entrance to her once more which even in her anger towards how stubborn he was being she instantly welcomed him into her body. She used the leverage of the tree to open up more to him and hooked her heels behind his ass, using them to push him harder against her.
EJ groaned when he felt her heels against him. "So you'll listen to me now? That there will be no more argument about whom you belong with, whom you belong to!"
In the fading light of day he ignored the way she shook her head frantically. Even though he ground into her body to the hilt, it still wasn't enough for him. He wanted to mark her to the point where she would know there could be no denying they were supposed to be together.
That was until her cry of pain stopped him instantly.
He immediately pulled out of her when he saw her face contorted in what he assumed was pain. "What's wrong?" he asked, panicked. While he wanted Samantha to understand he was the head of their newly formed family, he never wanted to quench her fiery spirit to where she felt she had no choice but to submit to his will.
Sami shook her head again, and tried to catch her breath enough to speak, but she couldn't summon up enough air to say anything out loud.
EJ began to pull out of her, but Sami legs remained firmly clamped around his waist.
"Oh angel, I'm sor…"
Before EJ could state his apology to her, Sami managed to finally speak, looking straight on into his now worried eyes, "EJ, you need to know I will argue with you when need be. I'm not one of your future subjects in your kingdom for you to dictate what I will or will not do."
Her statement made the worry from EJ's eyes vanish as he felt his ire start to arise; no one had ever spoken to him in this manner before. "Oh yes I will tell you what to do and you will do as I say."
"Only if I agree to it…"
EJ's jaw clenched and he gripped her waist and was ready to inform Samantha exactly who was in control of this situation she uttered something that made him almost cum instantaneously.
"Right now, EJ I want you to fuck me." Sami said trying out the crude word EJ had taught her during one of their earlier trysts.
EJ's voice was slightly strained. "You don't want me to stop what I was doing?"
"The word fuck is pretty explanatory all in itself, isn't it?"
EJ stayed inside of her instead of pulling out like he had considered he might need to do when she had whimpered out in what he that thought that she had been in pain. "Yes, it is, but darling I was concerned I was hurting you."
"I believe I'm starting to realize there is a very hazy line between pleasure and pain."
"You want to experience such things?"
"With you EJ, I want to experience it all, even if I don't entirely see things your way and before you can argue with me I want you to make us come, really hard. I want you to come so hard that I will see and feel your seed overflow out of me to spill onto the ground" Sami admitted honestly.
EJ felt himself growing harder with such explicit words from her. For a moment Sami thought he wasn't going to do as she asked because he drew himself completely out of her, yet before she could voice her concern he might stop, EJ slammed back into her and then began ruthless thrusts, bordering on the side of barbaric.
"Oh god," Sami gasped as each time EJ slammed her against the tree, the solidness of the tree to support her allowed her clit to be stimulated as well without EJ manually using his fingers to touch her there.
"Ready to come sweetheart?" EJ asked as he continued to pound into her. "You like it when I fuck you hard?"
Sami felt her orgasm hit as soon as EJ asked her those questions. She hissed, "Yes! I'm going to…"
EJ kept fucking her, never slowing down even as he felt her walls start to bear down on him. Sami held onto him tightly as EJ dropped his head on her shoulder as his body continued to mindlessly pump into her, on the verge of release himself, yet wanting to prolong the pleasure for them both as long as he could manage it.
He finally lost the battle to stop the inevitable from happening and shuddered, his seed exploding deep inside of her. He held her close to him, pulling her away from the tree and carried her while he was still inside of her. He asked her, "Do you like it when I come inside you?"
Sami felt another tremor go through her as she sensed his seed was seeping out of her and she wrapped her arms securely around EJ's neck, still too caught up in the emotions of her argument with EJ all the while being fully connected with him as well. She sleepily rubbed her body against his and placed her head on his shoulder.
"You want to go to sleep sweetheart?"
She murmured something inaudible and EJ slid out of her warmth. He took Samantha to the blankets they had spread out by the small fire he had built earlier, the darkness of the night fully enveloping them both now. He gently laid her down and then lay down too, spooning her body to his knowing they should be traveling in the night, but they were both so tired they were sound asleep within minutes.