Will woke up early and enjoyed watching his lovely wife sleep. Her hair was disheveled and he remembered with enjoyment how he had gotten it that way. He couldn't believe that everything had turned out so well for the two of them. He hadn't made such a good start to this relationship and after their hasty marriage in Vegas he was just glad that she didn't end up hating him.

His face had softened with the love he felt for Elizabeth when she woke and looked up into his face. She smiled at him as she yawned and stretched.

"Have you been awake long?" She asked as he pulled her close to him.

"Just for a few minutes," His face took on a roguish grin, "I was completely enchanted by the view as I was imagining a few ways I would like to wake you up."

"So how did you decide to wake me?" Her smile was infectious as she looked at him through half-closed lashes.

He pulled her to him and arranged it so she was on top of him as he raised himself to kiss her. "I decided to go with the classic."

Will pressed his mouth against her while his tongue sought entrance into her depths. Elizabeth felt as his arousal grew and she reluctantly pushed him away.

"I'm afraid we don't have time for this because I have to get ready for school." She drew herself into a sitting position but he pulled her back against him and moved against her with his body.

"I'll write you a note for being late." Will whispered to her huskily as he proceeded with his concentrated effort.

With a giggle, Elizabeth sat up, "I would like to be a fly on the wall when Mrs. Annesley reads that note." She affected a baritone voice and said, "Please excuse my wife Elizabeth from being late this morning because I had a desperate need to make love with her before school causing her tardiness."

Will rolled his eyes at her and smirked, "I just hate not having you with me during the day."

"I know…" Elizabeth started when she heard a knock on the door.

Georgie's voice came from outside the door. "Are you decent, can I come in?" Without waiting for an answer the door opened a crack and she poked head through the door in time to see Elizabeth straddling her brother with his hand around her wrist restraining her.

"You two are so active that you even put bunny rabbits to shame." Georgie chuckled as she closed the door and yelled back at her brother, "If you don't let Elizabeth up, we're going to be late for school."

Will lowered his eyes at Elizabeth with a slight smile curling his lip when she shrugged as if to say 'I told you so.' He yelled out the door in mock annoyance at his sister, "Mind your own business."

Elizabeth rolled off Will and proceeded to stand up as her husband said, "You two are quite the comic duo. Did you rehearse this little bit?"

"Of course not." Elizabeth replied archly as she bent to place a quick kiss on his lips, "You're also going to be late for work if you don't get up." She laughed, "Charles Bingley has had to put up with a lot lately and he will not be very happy if you're late again."

"I'm the boss and I don't care what makes Charles happy." Will reached out to take her hand, "Come back to bed, please."

"I can't, I don't have the time." She said with regret, "Neither do you."

"Elizabeth." Will called to her.

"Yes." She answered as she turned back to him suspiciously, "What is it this time?"

"Speaking of Charles," Will told her, "You need to set up a time to go out with him and Jane."

"Why."

"Bingley said that Jane has pulled away from him ever since we got married." Will said, "He seems to think that she is worried about us and blames him. He feels that it would go a long way to proving that you are not unhappy if were to all go out together." Will looked up into her beautiful eyes, "He's crazy about your sister and it is making him unhappy because she is distancing herself from him."

Elizabeth sighed, "Okay, I'll call Jane and make the arrangements."

She walked into the bathroom to take her bath, Will came in behind her and as he stared at her in her bath water he said in a silky voice, "Can I join you?" He leaned down to kiss her with a passion that showed her exactly what was on his mind.

She kissed him back with equal ardor but pushed him away gently, "Can I take a rain check after school?"

With a grin and a nod of his head he agreed, "I'll hold you to that."

Once she was out of the bath tub she got ready quickly and went downstairs to have a piece of toast and some orange juice. Georgie was already in the kitchen when she got there finishing her cereal.

"Sorry about this morning." Georgie said.

"Don't worry about it." Elizabeth's eyes twinkled and she winked at her sister, "Every once in a while your brother needs a reality check."

"That's true." Georgie laughed as the two exited the house, walked to the garage and got into Elizabeth's little bug.

On the way to school, Elizabeth said to Georgie, "Your brother is having a hard time with the fact that I'm in school again. He got used to having me around all the time and he doesn't like this at all." Elizabeth shook her head, "I'm not sure how to help him deal with this."

"It will just take time for him to get used to it again." Georgie said, "Then he'll be fine."

"You're right." Elizabeth agreed as she pulled into the student parking and they made their way to the lockers before going to class.

By the end of the day, Elizabeth was exhausted and she had a headache. Will was waiting for her and Georgie at the door when they got home but he noticed the pain etched on his wife's face.

"Elizabeth, what's wrong?" Will's tone was concerned as he led her to his study.

"Just a headache, that's all." Elizabeth tried to be lighthearted but Will knew enough about her moods to suspect that something was wrong.

"What happened today?" His voice was soft and compassionate.

"It's nothing, really." She told him, "Everyone is treating me differently and it frustrates me. Everyone seems to want something from me. The teachers, the girls and the guys even joined the fray today. I just want everyone to leave me alone." She said with a sigh.

"The guys, what did the guys do?" Will tried to keep the tension and jealousy out his voice.

"They're such juveniles." Elizabeth shook her head, hating to tell her husband the truth, "Like the rest of the school, they seem to think that I married you for your money or because I'm pregnant." She looked into his eyes, "As insane as it sounds, most of them seem to think that I have become a woman of the world and would be into to having sex with them. Every word they speak has sexual innuendo attached to it."

The rage emanated from Will's body while he stood and paced the room as he sputtered, "How dare they approach you in that manner." He balled his fists up by his side and his anger and jealousy were palpable as he spoke, "You're mine and I would kill anyone who dared to touch you."

"Will, you don't have to worry about that." Elizabeth reached out to stroke the side of her husband's cheek, "I don't want anybody but you."

His anger melted as he looked down into her eyes and saw the pain there, "Let me get you something for that headache." Will said as he walked to his drawer and pulled out a bottle of pain reliever.

He got her some water and she gratefully took the pills he offered her. She closed her eyes for a moment and when she opened them he was looking at her with a worried frown. "I'll be okay in a little while; I just need to lie down." He put his arm around her waist and walked her upstairs to their bedroom. "I talked to Jane today and we are set to go out to dinner on Saturday night."

"Good," Will breathed, "That should make Charles happy."

"Will, you should know that whenever I talk to Jane, she grills me about our marriage." Elizabeth smiled weakly, "I've been less than forthcoming but she is persistent."

When Elizabeth got into bed, Will climbed in beside her until he heard her even breathing that indicated that she had fallen asleep. He slipped out of bed and went back downstairs to his study to get some work done. His thoughts kept him busy as he kept going over things in his mind. This is all my fault, if I hadn't insisted that we get married this wouldn't be happening to her. But if we hadn't got married her father would have gone to jail and I wouldn't know how much joy being married to Elizabeth would bring me. She is my wife and there's nothing I can do to change that and I definitely want to take every one of those boys and thrash them to within an inch of their lives.

A few hours later, Georgie poked her head into the room. "How are you doing?" She asked her brother when she saw him at his desk with his head in his hands.

"Did Elizabeth tell you what happened with the boys today?" Will asked his sister.

"No, but she didn't have to." Georgie said, "The idiots weren't even being discrete and everyone in the school is aware of what they were after." She saw the pain on Will's face, "You don't have anything to worry about, Will. You're married and Elizabeth loves you." Her eyes pleaded with him to understand, "You know that."

"You're right." Will said trying to sound calm for Georgie's sake. "I'll go up and see if she's awake."

As he walked upstairs, a traitorous thought kept invading Will's consciousness. Does she really love me? She's never said the words even when we were in Paris and she came to me, she only said that she wanted me. She's never told me that she loves me. What if she never loves me? I can't bear the thought of losing her.

When he got to their bedroom, he found that Elizabeth was still asleep. He locked the door and crawled into bed beside his wife and in an act of a desperate man, he kissed her with a passionate intensity and she returned his passionate embrace. She had a smile on her face when she said, "Will."

He undressed quickly and went to work on the buttons on Elizabeth's shirt. Her hands began roaming over his body and with both hands on his rear pulled him close to her. He took possession of her mouth and removed her shirt with an impatience of a man who needed to slake his thirst. Once he removed her jeans and underwear he began to pleasure her until she writhed and cried out with longing to be fulfilled. Will's intense need urged him to greater plateaus of ardor with a feverish need as they rode the waves of ecstasy until both partner's uttered wild cries of release as they reached the summit in an explosion of mind-numbing pleasure.

Their bodies were slick with sweat as they clung to each other in the aftermath of their lovemaking. Elizabeth voice was hoarse as she kissed her husband gently and whispered, "Will that was unbelievably wonderful." She snuggled against his chest as she placed light kisses upon his overheated body, "I don't know why but the more we're together the better it gets and the more I want you."

He longed to hear those words that she had yet to tell him as she snuggled against him and fell asleep to the beating of his heart. Will's thoughts were too overpowering for him to fall asleep and he just marveled at the fact that it was he who held this amazing woman in his arms.

When he found he couldn't sleep, Will got out of bed, took a shower and once dressed made his way downstairs to make some dinner. It wasn't very long before Georgie ambled downstairs into the kitchen and was followed a few minutes later by a still sleepy Elizabeth.

When she found her husband, she raised onto her toes and kissed him, "I missed you when I woke up."

He embraced her and said, "I missed you too, but I hope you're feeling better now."

She pulled his head down to her and whispered, "I feel great, who knew that would be exactly what the doctor ordered."

Will laughed and swung her around, suddenly feeling much better about things as he said, "You still owe me that bath you promised me."

Her smile was radiant, "You have a date because I never renege on my promises."

Georgie looked at them with a huge grin, "Come on you two, just one meal without all the mushy stuff is all I ask."

Will ruffled his sister's hair, "Sorry Georgie, I'm afraid the mushy stuff is here to stay." His eyes found Elizabeth's and she was smiling broadly.

After dinner, Georgie and Elizabeth did their homework together and when they were done Elizabeth found her husband in the study working.

He looked up at her and asked, "Everything done?"

"Yes sir," Elizabeth said with a mock salute, "Any other duties that I need to perform?"

"I can think of something." Will's eyes found hers with an intense stare, "But you can do that later, right now I need to ask you what Denny Saunders did to you in your freshman year."

"Oh that." Elizabeth turned red as she thought about it.

"It can't be that bad," Will was supportive, "just tell me."

"In my freshman year, Denny Saunders declared himself in love with me." Will eyes widened before she continued her story, "I made it very clear that nothing was ever going to happen between us but he wouldn't take no for an answer and began to stalk me." Elizabeth sighed, "He would follow me from class to class and send me roses and candy at school. It all became very embarrassing and when he began to follow me home and call at all hours of the night, I went to Mrs. Annesley, she was vice-principal at the time." Her eyes clouded over as she relived her past.

"So what did the school do?" Will couldn't help but ask.

"Nothing." Elizabeth returned, "You see Denny's parents are on the school board and nobody was going to take the word of a lowly accountant's daughter who didn't mean anything in this town." Elizabeth still sounded a little bitter. "Mrs. Annesley tried but she was outranked and overruled by the principal."

Will shook his head with horror and motioned for her to keep going.

"I decided to take matters into my own hands as Denny's actions starting getting more outrageous and sexually charged." Elizabeth shut her eyes, "I began to video my confrontations with him. Not only did he beg me to have sex with me on video but he admitted to being a virgin as though he thought that would make me feel sorry for him or something. He was being sexually explicit verbally and his actions mimicked what he was saying."

"I edited the video and sent it as a global e-mail to the entire student body." Her shoulders sagged, "In those days I was not very tech savvy and just sent it from my own e-mail account. Suffice it to say that Denny's parents found out and complained to the principal. They traced the e-mail back to me and I was suspended for a week for distributing pornographic material."

"What happened to that little prick?" Will asked as his anger mounted.

"Nothing." Elizabeth said in a matter of fact tone the enraged Will, "His parents made sure that no hint of scandal touched their son's name and it was never brought up that although I filmed and distributed the 'pornographic material' that it was their son who had been the cause of that material." Elizabeth's voice was coldly angry, "I vowed that I would get even with him one day and learned everything I could about the tech world. I made lots of great friends who have always had my back and stuck out their necks for me and Georgie when Denny sent out his e-mail about her."

"So that was why you knew that Principal Annesley would not be able to do anything about it when I talked about going to her?"

"Yes." Elizabeth agreed, "I knew I had to handle the situation myself. I also realize that Principal Annesley is well aware that I had something to do with the situation but as long as there is no evidence and I didn't confess there is nothing she can do no matter who complains. I could tell by her manner that she was glad of those facts."

"Elizabeth, I'm so sorry you had to go through that." Will said sympathetically.

"I'm not sorry." Elizabeth said, "It was that incident that made me who I am today. Because of that I never wanted to go out with my classmates even though I was asked out by a lot of them. I was never interested in anyone until I met you at the Pemberly Winery Christmas dance."

I'm glad you told me about this," Will said with a gulp of embarrassment, "That incident also brought you back to me."

"We also have to thank Georgie." Elizabeth reminded him, "Without her, I would never have seen you again."

"I wouldn't have bet on that if I were you." Will said as his blue eyes twinkled, "I would have found my way back to you regardless. Now I believe you owe me a very soapy, wet bath."

"I believe that you are right but you're going to have to catch me first." Elizabeth said with a giggle as she raced out of the room followed by her loving husband.