Chapter Thirty-one: Sue me
Kate lets out a contented sigh as she shifts, only to find she's somewhat restricted from moving around her bed. Mostly because the right side is occupied, there's a strong arm around her shoulder and the scent of a cigarette in her room. Thomas looks at her, his blue eyes searching her face for any signs of regret for last night.
She smiles up at him, assuring her that she's all right. "Mr. Shelby." She doesn't know why she feels slightly shy around him after everything they shared together last night, but she does. Maybe it's because its daylight now and there's nothing hidden between them.
"Hey," he exhales before dropping his cigarette into a glass of water by his elbow. "How are you feeling?"
She smiles as she lazily traces his chest tattoo with her finger. "Happy."
"Good." He kisses her and again, that feeling curls up in her stomach as she feels him against her.
"Thomas."
"I know, I know." he starts to sit up. "You want to get up." she grabs his shoulder, pulling him back towards her. he smiles in pleasure. "You don't want me to get up. That works for me too."
"Hmm, you devil." She gasps as he latches onto her neck, lightly biting and sucking her enough to get her aroused, again. "God, how do you do that to me?"
"Dunno," he drolls out as he leans forward and kisses her. "how the hell do you fit so perfect to me?"
"Mmm, Thomas." She weakly protests as he slides inside her. "We should be getting up, I'm probably late."
"I'll," he kisses her throat as she arches against him. "make this one quick."
She nods and drapes her arms around his neck. She freezes when she sees a bite mark on his shoulder. "I did that?" he nods as he settles into a delicious rhythm, pounding hard inside her before trapping her in a deep kiss.
She wiggles her hips, positioning her legs up around his waist, allowing him slide in further. Thomas's arms were tight around her shoulders and her waist as he holds her close to him. She loves this about him. In addition to the passion, there was a language that his body spoke of how deeply he treasured her. Kate moaned as she felt that explosion growing so quickly inside her. Thomas senses it and his hands grip the bed sheets tightly, speeding up his movements, drawing short, gasping whimpers from her.
"Come on," he encourages as he strokes a hand through her hair, running it down behind her ear. "come for me Kate."
Kate moans, bringing her hand up to touch a spot on her neck. Thomas doesn't even question her, he knows what she wants. Someone knocks on her door, causing her to gasp. "Katherine?" it's her mother. Kate looks up at Thomas, who lost his rhythm for a few moments, before continuing to pound inside her. "Are you still in there?"
She shakes her head, looking up at him as she covers her mouth. Thomas shoots her a look of extreme annoyance as he leans forward and bites her neck, causing her to let out a cry as she orgasmed, clenching tight around him as he releases inside her. Thomas, grabs her hand, firmly pulling it away from her mouth and Kate can't bite her lip fast enough to stop the remains of her cry from echoing softly in the room.
She stares up at him as he looks down at her, his breathing is hard and the tension between them is almost suffocating. "Katherine?" her mother pounds on the door again. "Are you alright in there?"
"She's fine." Thomas answers loudly, causing Kate's eyes to bulge. "Give her a moment."
That's when the hysterical screaming starts on the other side of the door. Kate blushes in embarrassment. "Oh my….I can't believe you just did that to my mother."
"She deserved it." He hops out of the bed and grabs his union shorts and trousers. He looks around and then nods to himself. "Right. You weren't wearing anything last night." She sits up, struggling to make sense of what had just happened as he moves calmly to her dresser. He opens a few before tossing her a silk nightdress, which was ironically white. "There you go."
"Should have thrown me red." She mutters. "Based on what she's going to say about me."
"Oi," he waits for her to poke her head through the nightdress. "you're as good as my wife right now; I'm not going to let anyone hurt you, including her."
Kate nods as Thomas unlocks the door and her mother comes barreling in, on the warpath. "You get away from me! You gypsy scum!"
Thomas blinks before walking back over to the bed. "Good morning to you as well, Mrs. Kovach."
"You're such a stupid girl, Katherine!" her mother shouts. "What made you do such a thing? You're getting married tomorrow!"
"No," Kate sits up, holding her mother's gaze. "I told you and Emmett specifically last night, that I wasn't going to marry him."
"I suppose you think I'm going to allow him to marry you?" her mother shouts. "Well I won't!"
"What's going," all heads whip towards Roesmary's voice. Her mother lunges to keep Rosemary from peaking around the corner, but it's too late. Kate groans as rosemary lets out a joyful shriek. "I knew it! I knew it!"
"You, go downstairs and have breakfast!" her mother snaps before shooting them a scathing look. "Have you no respect for our property and my children?"
"Look, you need to calm down." Thomas says. "Nothing inappropriate happened between us."
Her mother looks to her. "Are you a virgin? And you tell me the truth!"
She shakes her head, surprised at how calm she feels. "No, I'm not anymore."
Her mother shoots them both dark looks. "And you say nothing inappropriate happened! You ruined and corrupted her!"
Thomas groans as he sits on the edge of the bed. "Does she ever stop talking?" he mutters.
Kate shakes her head as her mother continues ranting. "I can't believe you did this! You're like a whore!"
"You, shut the f**k up!" Thomas shouts at her mother as he gets up and levels a dark, curious look at her mother. "That's enough! I don't know, why the hell, you go out of your way to hurt her-
"I hurt her? I hurt her? My husband paid you to make love to her!" Kate gasped and the blood bled out of her face at her mother's words. "No one can hurt her anymore that you have. You made her fall in love with her, took her virtue and now you'll be leaving with whatever sum my husband paid you!"
She covered her mouth, her heart pounding in her chest at those words. Thomas turns towards her and she knows instantly from the look on his face that it's true. She stares at him as her world comes crashing down around her.
"Is it true?" she demands. "And don't lie to me!"
"Some of it is." he states.
That was enough for her. "Get out." she declares. "Both of you. I don't want to see either of you."
"Thanks for that Mrs. Kovach." Thomas says sarcastically as he reaches for her. "Kate, it's not what it sounds like."
"My father," she shouts as she throws the covers off the bed. She is so furious with him that her head is already splitting, but that's nothing in comparison to the hurt and betrayal she feels towards him. "paid you to get me into bed with you?" Kate gets out of the bed and her legs instantly buckle underneath her from the unexpected pain she feels. She groans as she grabs onto the side of the bed. She looks up at him in confusion as he kneels beside her. "What's the matter-
"Your medical books forgot to tell you," he picks her up with a slight smirk on his face. "that you'll feel a bit sore after your first time."
"I can't believe you." She snaps. "You're such an arrogant bastard!"
"Kate," he shoots her an innocent look. "I've had you four times last night. Did you really think you weren't going to feel a thing?"
"Oh, my God." Her mother grabbed a hold of the doorframe and moaned. "Four…dear God, what if she's pregnant?"
"Not your concern." Thomas states
"You bastard." She spat at him as she smacks the back of his head. Thomas drops her on the couch and sits beside her as she shouts at him. "You're a liar! That's the one thing I thought you'd never be to me! From the moment we met, you always appeared honest to me!"
"I have never lied to you about my feelings." Thomas states firmly. "Not once."
"I trusted you! I gave up everything for you!" Kate's emotions are spiraling out of control! "I abandoned my fiancé, disgraced my family, compromised my virtue and reputation only to find…father paid you to do that to me! Words…cannot express how betrayed I feel right now! You're just like Emmett!" Those words hit him hard and Kate knows that those words hurt him. Oddly enough, she feels no satisfaction knowing that.
"What the devil do you have the whole house in an uproar about now, woman?" her father asks as he enters the room. She glowers at him while he raises a brow. "I see."
"That's all you have to say?" her mother shouts.
"What do you think I should say or do?" her father asks far too calmly. "Shoot Mr. Shelby? No, I don't think Kate would like that."
"Want to bet?" Kate shouts at her father, causing him to jolt in surprise. "Mother says that you hired him to seduce me? Is that true!?"
Her father's eyes widen as he looks at her mother. He exhales before stating. "By now, I should think that you'd know better than to believe everything your mother says."
"Is it true?" she demands firmly.
"Partly." Kate goes to slap Thomas, but he's quick and catches her by the wrist. "I did offer him 100,000 pounds if he was able to get you into his bed." She lets out a frustrate sound as she struggles to get free. "But then, the boy had to go and do a stupid thing."
"Such as?" she demands as Thomas wrestles her into a position on the couch, trapping her with his body. "Will you get off me?"
"When you calm down, I will." His own tone is far too calm for this situation, which serves to further irritate her.
Kate glances towards her father. "So, what stupid thing did he do?"
"He fell in love with you and decided he'd rather have you, than the money." That causes some of the anger to whoosh out of her. "The deal's been broken for a while and he hasn't received one penny from me."
"Thank you Kovach." Thomas states. "We'll see you all downstairs once Kate and I have talked. We need to settle this."
"Right. Willow, let's go."
"I can't leave them alone together!"
"Why?" her father asks dryly as he pushes her mother towards the door. "They're both consenting adults and clearly, you have no control over them now."
"I will never forgive you for this Gilbert." Her mother swears. " I mean it!"
"You will."
"I will not!"
"Then, I guess you won't be present when they give us our first grandchild." Her father turns to face her, his hand on the doorknob. "Kate, Mr. Shelby says you agreed to become his wife. If that's true, don't go throwing all of that away so quickly without listening to him. In a marriage, you two are going to have many fights. This is just a small upset, believe me."
Thomas exhales as her father shuts the door, his hands firmly gripping her wrists. "Will you listen to me?" She can only nod at him. "What do you want to know? Ask me anything and I'll tell you."
"Tell me the whole story," she snaps. "start from the beginning and it had better be the truth!"
He nods. "It will be."
She exhales and snaps. "Let me sit up, please." He nods and releases her. She exhales and sits up, pulling her feet up onto the couch. She closes her eyes, inhales and exhales deeply before stating tightly. "I'm listening and you better have a damn good explanation for agreeing to do such a thing to me!"
TheHoodedAssassin: Her mother's not the only one as mad as Hell right now!
Angel029: I know, it was bound to happen eventually, with all that drama going on between them and more now.
Idcam: Yes, but as always with Thomas, there's another down moment.
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