I am sooo sorry it has been so long since i updated, but sometimes we all get side tracked.

As they checked in to the small seaside inn the owners wife looked at them with a knowing smile before announcing that breakfast was at 8:30, and dinner was each evening at 7.

She ushered them to their room that had been recently updated to add a lovely ensuite bath. Elsie looked at the room that was painted a lovely shade of blue. She smiled as the woman wished them congratulations and left. They were now all alone and quite frankly she couldn't be happier. She looked over at Charles before heading out to the small balcony that had also been added in the renovation. She felt him behind her, but was still started a little as his arms came around her. She leaned into him, loving the feeling of his protective arms around her. She felt so secure, so safe, with him around.

She felt free.

She blinked in this realization. She had often thought that she could never be loved, never be accepted, because the one person who was to love her for always, her mother, didn't. She had always thought something was wrong, terribly wrong with her. She had been told she had bad blood when she was a wee lass.

But one man, her man, this man had erased that feeling in the past months. She felt beautiful when with him. She felt loved. It was amazing. She knew he desired her, and she smiled at the thought. He had fixed her, put her back together, something she hadn't thought possible. And all he had done was love her. Her mother could never take this away from her, and just that thought alone was glorious. She loved and was being loved in return.

She turned in his arms, and slid her arms around the back of his neck. She kissed him soundly and smiled thoughtfully after it had ended.

"Sixpence for your thoughts, my love," Charles said lovingly.

"Oh, I don't think they are worth that." She giggled slightly evading the question.

"I think they are. What's going on in that pretty mind of yours?" He asked again.

"Oh, I don't know. Just thinking about maybe being a housekeeper isn't all I want out of life anymore..." She trailed off slowly.

"Oh, whatever else do you want, wife?" He asked with genuine interest.

"Maybe, with you by my side, I might be persuaded to try making a family together." She bit her lip, worried she was being to forward.

A smile blossomed on his face as he twirled her around. She wrapped her legs around him and kissed him fiercely. He carried her to bed, and laid her on the bed.

With a waggle of his eyebrows he whispered, "let's start trying tonight!"

She giggle as he rolled her stockings down her legs. He placed kisses all along her legs. She sat up and kissed him, while undoing the buttons to his shirt. She pushed it off his shoulders and pulled the undershirt up over his head. He had unfastened the row of buttons and pushed her dress aside. His kisses trailed down her neck as her fingers wound into his hair that was thick with pomade to smooth out the errant curls.

She moan as he divested her of the dress completely. Her man had become quite the expert with corsets and already had her out of it. She had unbuckled his belt and undid the button, she tried distractedly to push them off his hips, down his thighs, without much success.

He grinned as he lifted her shift above her head and lent down to suck a nipple into the hot cavern of his mouth. She needed more, wanted more, writhing beneath him. She pulled his head up and kissed him passionately. He slowed her down. Wanting this night to last forever.

He stood and let his trousers drop to the floor, along with his undershorts. She took in the sight appreciatively. He grabbed the waistband of her knickers and pulled them down the long length of her leg.

She welcomed him in the cradle of her thighs, marveling at just how perfectly they fit. Their gazes locked as he eased his way in to her warmth. She let out a low moan, that mingled with his sigh. His thrusts were languid at first intermingled with slow passion filled kisses.

Soon a burning need over came her and she wrapped her legs tightly around them and flipped them over. She sat astride him and started to ride him. Her hair came down around them like a curtain and she picked up her pace. He flipped them again and thrust into her frantically. She was the first to be seized by the overwhelming climax that took him shortly after.

They lay there exhausted, tangled in each other's arms for the rest of the night chatting about names for babes and how many they just might like.

-/-/-

The rest of there short time at the seaside was spent taking long walks and making love. They had joined the older couple for luncheon and dinner, and often Elsie would chat with the older woman learning lovely things about the couple.

They bid their seaside escape fair well and went back to Downton on a early train. They spoke quietly of their love to one another, Charles reassured her that everything would be okay, and that they would take very mountain as it came, together.

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Much love
Samantha