Anna woke up early the next morning, far too early for anyone else to possibly be awake, and simply lay in bed staring at the ceiling. Her mind was constantly circling over what she had done last night with Cutler, and how much she wished they could do it again. A part of Anna was disgusted with herself for having such inappropriate thoughts about a man she was not married to and even worse, carrying out such actions with said man, but that part of her was quickly being drowned out by the pleasure he had given her. She ran her fingers over the empty space on the bed where Cutler had lain next to her and kissed her until she had fallen asleep. Anna sighed dreamily as she recalled his words about marriage, although he had not said all that much about the subject, just the knowledge that he was thinking about it was enough to bring a smile to her face. When they were married they would be able to lie together in bed all night and all morning long, no one would be able to scold them, or spread vicious rumours for whatever they were doing together would be completely appropriate for a married couple to do. She giggled as she thought of the things they could do together and she bit her lip as she remembered the distinct feeling of Cutler's tongue moving in circles across her breasts and travelling lower. Anna turned over on her side and closed her eyes, trying to ignore the wet hot sensation growing between her legs. By now she was blushing furiously in the darkness, glad that no one else was in the room to see her, but still wishing that Cutler were lying next to her. She would give almost anything to wake up next to him, but for now she could only close her eyes and imagine Cutler being next to her. She tried to fall back asleep, but no matter what she tried, her mind was active and would not allow her a moment's peace.

Tossing and turning for a good half an hour left Anna more and more frustrated. She was in two minds about what to do now that it was obvious she would not be returning to sleep anytime soon. On the one hand, she could lie there, simply staring at the ceiling until it would be an appropriate time to start moving about. Her other option was far more dangerous, but also far more exciting. After contemplating which path she should take, Anna finally made up her mind. She kicked back the covers from her body and made her way to the bathroom door which separated her bedroom from Cutler's. She threw caution to the wind as she threw back the door and entered the bathroom, closing her own door lightly behind her so as not to wake anyone up.

Anna opened the door to Cutlers bedroom and stepped inside as quietly as she could manage. She held her breath, not wanting to take even the smallest risk of discovery. Anna smiled as she saw Cutler lying comfortably in bed. His head was resting on the pillow and the sheets had been kicked off his body, leaving him naked and exposed to her eyes. She allowed her eyes to trail over his chest and stomach which was lightly covered in brown hair, her eyes wandered lower until they reached the spot she had been afraid to gaze upon just a few nights before. As she crept closer she saw that his cock was already twitching and standing half-erect, moans escaped Cutler's sleeping lips and Anna leant closer to try and hear what he was saying.

"Anna," his sleeping voice moaned, "just like that, oh yes, just like that."

Her eyes widened and Anna stared at him, contemplating her next move. She had come into his room expecting Cutler to already be awake, and then she would use her mouth and make him cum like she had wanted to do last night. Seeing his sleeping form had originally put her off, but as she watched his large cock twitch her mind gave her the perfect idea. He was already half way there; she would simply assist him in his early morning release and wake him up that way. She smirked at the thought of where her mouth would soon be as she gently lay on the bed, her face next to his twitching cock.

She set her lips together and blew a cool stream of air over his cock, watching as it twitched in response then she used her gentle fingers to bring him closer to her mouth. Slowly she pushed her tongue out of her lips and swirled it around the very tip, Cutler grunted in response and Anna froze, suddenly unsure that this was a good idea.

"Anna," Cutler moaned above her, and that was all it took for her to continue on. He had done wonderful things to her body last night and she would be damned if she would not return the favour.

She licked and swirled the head around her tongue and she could feel Cutler becoming harder under her attention. She moved slightly to position herself between his legs, this way she would be able to tell the minute he woke up properly.

With one of her free hands she cupped his balls and kneaded them gently with her fingers. Now that his cock was fully erect she slowly ran her tongue from the base to the tip and back down again. The soft pink flesh responded to her every move with another twitch. Anna moved so that her lips were kissing the head of his cock, she was about to swallow him down as far as she could when she looked up and locked eyes with a very awake Cutler Beckett.

"Good morning," she said, her lips brushing against the sensitive head with each word.

"This is not a dream is it?" he asked, still slightly disorientated from sleep.

"Why don't you lie back and let me continue so that you can find out?" she suggested. Before Cutler got the chance to answer, she slid her hot wet mouth down his cock, taking in as much of him as she possibly could. She continued to knead his balls with one hand and bob her head up and down on his cock at the same time.

Beneath her Cutler moaned and his hips bucked upwards. Anna began to move her mouth up and down his cock faster, and then she removed her mouth completely causing a sigh of desperation to escape Cutler.

She flicked her tongue out over the tip and then swirled it around the head before taking as much as she could back into her mouth. Again Cutler's hips bucked upwards in response and Anna nearly gagged on the sensation of his cock filling her mouth completely. Cutler's hand trailed down the bed until it reached the back of her head. His fingers tangled into her hair as he thrust his hips forward into her wet mouth.

He had expected her tongue on his cock to feel amazing, but he was not prepared for her free hand to be kneading his balls, coaxing his orgasm along faster with each movement of her head.

Cutler sped his thrusts up, knowing that he would not last much longer with her mouth wrapped around his erection, "Anna my sweet, I am about to cum," he moaned.

She let out a sweet moan in response and nipped at the flesh of his cock, for someone who had never done this before, she certainly knew how to make Cutler moan.

With a few more thrusts into her hot wet mouth Cutler let out an animalistic moan as his cum spilled forth into her mouth. Anna swallowed as much of the hot liquid that she could, but some inevitably dripped down onto a part of her breast which was exposed. She continued to lick and suck at Cutler's softening cock until it was flaccid once again. She then sat back and watched Cutler with an innocent smile on her beautiful face.

"Did I do a good job Cutler? Did I please you?" she asked nervously.

"You did a brilliant job my sweet," he said, trying to catch his breath, "come up here and lay next to me."

Anna obeyed and moved to lie next to Cutler on top of the sheets. They both turned on their sides face to face with one another. Anna still had not noticed the lone drop of cum which was sitting on her breast, but Cutler had not forgotten about it. He leant forward and used his index finger to wipe the cum away. Cutler held his finger up to her lips; Anna licked the tip of his finger with her sweet pink tongue. Seeing the look of lust in Cutler's eyes she swirled her tongue around the top of his finger and then took it into her mouth, sucking on it the same way she had just been sucking on his cock. Her head bobbed up and down slightly around his finger and Cutler could feel a twinge of pleasure surge through his body and result in a twitch of his cock.

"Anna my sweet, if you continue to do that I am afraid I will not ever make it out of bed today."

She removed her mouth from his finger and said, "is that such a bad thing?"

Cutler let out a moan in response, "no my sweet, it would be a fabulous thing, but you and I both know we have to keep up appearances lest someone become suspicious of our actions."
"I wish we did not have to sneak around in such a manner. I would love to lie with you freely whenever I wanted."
"I would love to do the same my sweet, but alas propriety always ruins our fun."

"Propriety," she said with a huff of anger, "I wish there were no such thing sometimes."

"If it were gone my sweet, you would miss it."
"Right now I would not miss it for the world," she said, pushing and pulling at Cutler in order to make herself comfortable in his arms. She arranged him in such a way that her back was leaning against his chest and his arms were around her waist. Anna leant her head back against Cutler's shoulder, tossing and turning a bit more before finally deciding that she was comfortable for the time being.

"I am not your pillow you know," he informed his wriggling bed guest.

"But I do so enjoy you as such."

Cutler raised an eyebrow at her comment, in a manner of seconds he had flipped her around and pinned her arms to the bed with one hand. With his other hand he began to run his hands over her sides, jabbing her gently in the ribs and tickling her. She shrieked and giggled beneath him, trying to escape from his assault but being ultimately unsuccessful.

Cutler watched intently as she squirmed around underneath him. Her breasts bouncing and her face tinted red from the effort of attempting to throw Cutler's body off of her.

"Cutler! Cutler please stop!" she squealed, kicking her legs and trying to get free.

Cutler ignored her protests and proceeded in ghosting his fingers down her sides. Anna continued writhing and calling Cutler's name as he smirked and laughed darkly at her smiling face. The more noise she made and the more she twisted and turned her body beneath him, the more Cutler became aroused. Each time she said his name he could feel a pleasant surge of arousal make its way down his body, straight to his growing erection.

"Cutler please stop tickling me, I will do anything, just please stop! I cannot breathe properly!"

"Oh my sweet, that is a very dangerous thing for you to say, especially when you are in such a vulnerable position," Cutler said lowering himself to whisper in her ear.

As his body came lower to rest against Anna's she could feel his hardness pressing against her thighs. Her innocent green eyes widened in shock and she licked her lips in a nervous gesture.

"Now what was that about you saying you will do anything?"

"You stopped tickling me before you negotiated or agreed to any terms of a contract, therefore it does not apply."

"You forget that I still have you pinned beneath me," Cutler said with a smirk, "I am a man of business young Lady Sullivan, do not think you can best me in my own profession." He let go of his grip on her wrists and turned his attention to placing gentle kisses on her neck.

A sigh of pleasure escaped Anna's lips, "but I already have," she said.

Cutler bit her earlobe then trailed his tongue down her neck. He found the sweet spot where her neck joined her collar bone and he sucked on the skin, running his tongue back and forth. She moaned in pleasure, running her hands along his back and burying them in his hair. Anna tugged at his hair as he bit down on her collar bone, her hips rising off the bed to meet with Cutler's flesh.

He winced and pushed her hips back down on the bed away from him, Anna stared up at him with a questioning look in her eyes.

"Are you alright Cutler? Did I do something wrong? Did I hurt you?" she asked, her voice full of concern for the handsome blue eyed man above her.

Cutler rolled off of Anna and closed his eyes, his forehead creased with lines of frustration. He had been so close to Anna's entrance that one slight movement would have allowed him to slip between her legs and sink into her warm opening. Cutler had to fight every urge in his body to part her thighs and make the young girl now lying beside him into a woman. He longed to bury himself deep within her and make her scream and moan beneath him, but ultimately he knew that he could not do so without destroying her reputation and that was the last thing he wanted to do to his Anna.

"Cutler?" she called to him, hesitantly reaching her hand out to lie on his chest.

He opened his eyes and looked at Anna, there were tears brimming in the corner of her eyes and the hand which was resting on his chest was shaking along with the rest of her small body.

"You did not do anything my sweet love."

"But you are hurt?" she asked.

"No I am not hurt," he said before taking a deep breath and continuing, "please stop crying." He took her small hand in his and linked their fingers together. "I pulled away from you because if I did not I would not have been able to control my actions, with your body being so close to mine, in my bed, my sweet it would have ended with the loss of something I have no right to take from you just yet."

"Oh," she said simply at a completely loss for words, "I am sorry Cutler."

"You have nothing to be sorry for. Anna, you really must stop apologising. It is my body that does not know how to behave itself, so I should be the one apologising to you."

"There is nothing to apologise for Cutler, perhaps I should have stayed in bed rather than come visit you this morning. I should have left you to your dreams instead, it would have caused you less pain," she said sadly.

"Nonsense my sweet, I am very grateful for what you did, your lips are a thousand times better than any dream," Cutler said taking a moment to pause before asking. "Consequently, how did you know what I was dreaming of?"

"You were saying my name and other things like 'just there'; I inferred from that what you were dreaming about."

"Ah, I see," he said. Slowly his body was returning to normal, but a dull painful throb still pulsated through his softening manhood. "Come lie under the sheets with me for a while, you look as though you could use some sleep."

"I came to see you this morning because I couldn't get back to sleep, my mind kept going over what happened last night," she said licking her lips and smiling at Cutler. She prodded and pulled at him in much the same way that she had earlier until they were both lying on their sides, Cutler's body moulded into Anna's from behind. His arms were wrapped around her waist and his face was buried into her long honey blonde hair. He placed gentle kisses to the flesh of her exposed neck and she let a small moan slip from her mouth.

Cutler grunted in response, he knew he should tear himself away from her warm supple body, but he simply could not get enough of the sound of her moans, "you really did enjoy last night didn't you my sweet?"

"Yes, a thousand times yes," Anna replied.

Cutler removed one arm from around her waist and trailed it down her side, "will you take off your nightdress for me? I want to feel your skin."

Anna silently sat up and removed her clothing before returning to her position curled up with Cutler lying behind her. "Is this satisfactory?"

"This is perfection, now sleep my sweet," he said kissing her neck.

"But what about your problem from before?"

Cutler laughed darkly, tightening his grip around her waist, "We have the entire day to indulge our desires my sweet. If you get more sleep now then we will be able to continue until late into the night."

"Can I stay in here then, sleeping next to you like this?"

"For as long as you want," Cutler had tried to keep her out of his bed, for the sake of what little propriety there was left between the pair, but he could not help himself. He wanted Anna lying in his arms any and every chance that he got.

Cutler lay there, just watching Anna as she slept, her breasts rising and falling with each breath she took. If Cutler removed his arms from around her she would whimper in her sleep and grab at the air until she found him again and when she did she would let out a sigh of relief. He smiled at her and kissed her neck, knowing that she would not respond, but unable to stop himself. The beautiful young woman lying in his arms was completely and utterly his, never before had he felt so loved in his life. He wished that the end of the month would come quicker so that he could ask Lord Sullivan for permission to marry Anna. Cutler could not rest properly until she was wearing his ring around her wedding finger and people were addressing her as Lady Beckett.

"Soon you will belong completely to me," Cutler whispered in her ear, "and then nothing will stop me from taking you again and again."

"Okay Cutler," Anna said sleepily, rolling over to smile at Cutler's surprised face.

"I did not mean to wake you my sweet," he said kissing her forehead.

"I know," she said, her eyes drifting back closed, "I am still sleepy though."

"Go back to sleep, I promise I will not say another word."

Anna nodded in response and returned to sleep in a matter of seconds. Cutler shook his head and smiled at how easily she fell asleep, wishing he could do the same.

The grandfather clock in the hallway struck eleven o'clock and Cutler Beckett was still lying in bed, his stomach growling for food, but he was unwilling to leave the bed and the warm body he was still sharing it with.

Ms. Kirkpatrick, one of many maids in the Beckett manor, had decided that she should pluck up her courage and rouse her Master for the day. He had yet to make his way downstairs and begin his work for the day. None of the other servants had the courage to wake him, knowing he had a fierce temper when he was awoken in the early morning, and so the job had fallen upon the old Ms. Kirkpatrick. The young Lady Sullivan would be the next on her list of people to wake while she was upstairs, it was terribly unbefitting that the young lady was still in bed at such an hour. She would make a terrible wife if this was the way she conducted herself, the girl needed proper instruction and obviously her Father and her foreign Mother had failed to do so.

Ms. Kirkpatrick did not knock upon the door before entering, but the moment she stepped through the door she wished that she had done so. Her Master lay in bed, bare chested with his arms around the equally naked Lady Sullivan. The sound of the door opening and the gasp of the maid instantly alerted Cutler to the woman's presence. The maid stood frozen in the doorway, her eyes glued to the pair lying tangled beneath the sheets, her mouth opening and closing like a fish trapped on land and gasping for a last breath. Her mind was racing a mile a minute as she thought of the implications of what she was witnessing would have on the reputation of the small impressionable girl lying in the bed of an older, unwed man. Lord and Lady Sullivan had failed in much more than giving their daughter the proper instruction, they had raised a whore for a daughter.

Cutler's frozen blue eyes locked with the dark brown eyes of Ms. Kirkpatrick.

"Get out," Cutler ordered the old maid, venom and anger dripping from each syllable.

She turned and all but ran down the hall to get away from the terrifyingly ice cold stare of her boss. Certainly now she would be disciplined, if not fired, she knew there was no escaping her wretched fate. Ms. Kirkpatrick smiled to herself, if she was fired, she would take the reputation of the young noblewoman down with her. She may be an old woman, but she was by no means a fool who could be bullied and pushed around, no matter how important her employer happened to be.

Cutler gently shook Anna's shoulder to wake her up. Her eyes fluttered open and stared at Cutler, smiling as she always seemed to be around him.

"Good morning again," she said, covering her mouth as a yawn threatened to escape.

"Yes it is my sweet," he replied running his fingers through her hair and untangling the ends with great care not to hurt her.

"What is the time?"

"Well past the time that we should have risen to begin the day, it is nearly time for lunch."

"My goodness!" Anna exclaimed, "I have wasted your entire morning!"

"I would not call laying here with you a waste of the morning my sweet, but we need to get up now. How about I go downstairs first while you bathe and join me later?"

"Yes, we will have to arrive downstairs at different times so that no one gets suspicious."

"Alright then, take as long as you like my sweet, there is no hurry," he said.

"There is always a hurry when I am separated from you Cutler," she said, rolling on her back and stretching her arms above her head, "may I have a good morning kiss?"

"It is hardly morning anymore my sweet, but I will give you one kiss and then I really must be going." Cutler pulled Anna close to his body, his mouth capturing hers in a fierce kiss. This time it was her tongue that licked at his bottom lip, asking for entrance which he quickly granted. Their tongues rubbed against one another, twirling and battling for dominance which Cutler quickly asserted. He could feel the beginnings of arousal build up and tore himself away from her mouth, panting and trying to regain his breath. Anna lay beneath him, licking her lips and savouring the taste he had left on her tongue.

"Mr. Mercer, it appears we have a small problem that needs to be dealt with immediately," Cutler said as he sat himself down at his desk in his office.

Mercer stayed silent waiting for Cutler to further elaborate on what was needed of him that particular day. "Ms. Kirkpatrick witnessed something which she had no business in, make sure that she keeps the information of what she witnessed to herself. I trust that you will use your best judgement to see to the matter," Cutler finished.

"Of course sir," Mercer said, flicking at the dirt underneath his fingernails with the knife he was holding in his other hand.

"Oh and Mr. Mercer?"

"Yes sir."

"Do not let Anna know what happens, she does not need to worry about such matters."

Mercer nodded as he contemplated how to best dispose of Ms. Kirkpatrick and exactly where he should bury her old body. Today may have started out to be a bore, but Mercer was happy in the knowledge that before the day was out he would get to partake in his favourite sport.