Disclaimer: I own nothing regarding GWTW

Author's Notes: Thank you for all the reviews and feedback.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

After Rhett and Scarlett were out of the buggy he turned to the doorman, Mr. Farnsworth, and said, "I will be needing my buggy again in about two to three hours."

"Very well, Mr. Butler. I will have the boys keep it up here."

"Thank you."

Rhett picked up the carpet bag and the box of toys. He walked into the entrance to the hotel. One of the bellhops came forward to help them with their luggage. The man was a young man, and it was plain to see he had been in the war. He had a wooden peg where his calf had once been. Sadly, he was one of the lucky ones because he could still function.

Rhett told the man, "Hal, would you get Mrs. Butler's luggage out of the buggy and take it to my new suite. 601 And the other trunk also."

"Yes, sir."

He smiled his pleased with the world smile when he had referred to Scarlett as Mrs. Butler. She wondered if that would ever get old to either one of them. It thrilled her to no end to be referred to as Mrs. Butler.

As Rhett and Scarlett stood there in the lobby waiting on Hal, she looked at him questioningly. He said, "I had already arranged a larger suite. I just needed an excuse to get you to the hotel. We are on our honeymoon."

Scarlett didn't know what Rhett meant by his statement. As she was pondering it, Hal had returned from outside. He said, "This way Mr. and Mrs. Butler."

As Scarlett walked behind Hal towards the stairs, she suddenly knew what Rhett meant. She said, "In the afternoon?!"

"Yes. We can do it any time we want to do it. And I want to do it very muchly with you again. Do you want to do it with me again?"

Scarlett blushed and said, "No lady would admit to wanting to do that."

"Then I won't make you admit that you want to do it with me as much as I want to do it with you."

Scarlett scowled at Rhett. Yes, Rhett was going to be an exceedingly difficult man to have as a husband. An extremely difficult man. Nonetheless, she was tremendously happy he was her husband.

By this time, the couple was at the door to the suite. Rhett took out his key and unlocked the door. Scarlett didn't say a word. After Hal had left with his tip, Scarlett was in Rhett's arms letting him know she wanted him as much as he wanted her.

This sexual session was much slower. Rhett took Scarlett on a sensuous journey. He stroked her arms, her back, her abdomen, her breasts, her behind, and her female parts. She touched him on his face, his arms, his chest, and a few times on his bottom, and once on his abdomen close to his member but she didn't actually touch his member.

Rhett was thrilled that Scarlett was touching him at all. He was excited that she was touching him so much. He was on cloud nine that she had orgasmed twice before he had put his member in her. Once while he was stroking her with his hand, and once when he was orally stimulating her.

When Rhett had put his mouth on Scarlett's private part, she tried to pull his head off of her. He had stopped and said, "I am going to do this, and you are going to enjoy it."

There were so many times that Rhett had to back off or he would have spilled his seed on the sheets. When he entered Scarlett, he lost it altogether. She had orgasmed with his entering her which he might have been able to ride through but when she called his name and followed it with 'I love you.' He lost all control.

As Rhett laid there trying to catch his breath, he thought, 'How could I have ever thought I would stop loving her? I have loved her from the moment I saw her when she was just an eight-year-old little girl.' Rhett's thought didn't make him feel like a pervert. It made him feel like he and Scarlett were destined to be a couple. That he and his wife truly were the most romantic couple in history. They loved each other more than Anthony and Cleopatra, more than Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, more than Romeo and Juliet, more than anyone else who had ever lived.

Scarlett was lying there trying to catch her breath and she was thinking, 'Wow!' She also thought 'I get to experience that pleasure the rest of my life. Well, actually for the rest of Rhett's life. I am pretty sure not all men can do what Rhett can do. Although I do wish Rhett wasn't always in such a hurry to finish.' By some female special sense, she knew better than to say anything to Rhett about that.

Rhett continued to lie there next to Scarlett. He wanted a cigar but not enough to get out of the bed. Not enough to move an inch away from his wife. His wife! How wonderful that sounded.

Scarlett was lying there and she almost giggled when she thought, 'I had just hoped it would be as good as it was with Charlie. It is so much better, and Rhett makes me feel loved and cherished.

After about thirty minutes of them lying there and talking, Rhett said, "We have to get up or we will miss our celebration but first I want to give you something."

Scarlett giggled and said, "You already gave me something."

Rhett smiled and kissed Scarlett, he said, "Something else."

Rhett got out of the bed stark naked. Scarlett knew she should look away. She was sure no proper lady would stare at a naked man. She decided it was alright because the naked man was her husband. He walked to his coat and took his cigars out. He said, "Let me light my cigar first."

"Alright, Dear."

Once Rhett had his cigar lit and had taken a couple of puffs off of it. He got an object out of one of his trunks.

When Scarlett saw it was a ring box, she said, "You must have been pretty sure I would say yes, if you had already bought the ring."

Rhett laughed and said, "No, I wasn't sure. In fact,….." Rhett's brain and heart started shouting, "Shut up! Shut up! Keep your damn mouth shut!" Even Pride had joined in. For once Rhett listened to the little voice in his head. He quickly recovered himself and said, "In fact, I had no plans to ask you to marry me, yet. The words just slipped out."

With a puzzled look on her face, Scarlett said, "What do you mean?"

Rhett looked at Scarlett's sweet, innocent face. He inwardly sighed when he thought, 'She believes I am all those wonderful things that gentlemen are supposed to be. Funny, I want to be all those things for her. I never want her to truly know what a bastard I really am.' Rhett knew he could never insult her by telling her he had been about to ask her to be his mistress. He knew that would hurt her to the core of her being. He said, "All I knew in that moment was that I wanted to protect you. To get you away from all this horribleness. I hadn't even thought about the details. All I knew was I wanted to spend the rest of my life gazing into your beautiful green eyes, but I was stubbornly holding on to an outdated plan. When you asked me if I was asking you to marry me, I realized that was the only way it would work. I realized in that moment that the only way I could ensure you would be by my side for the rest of my life was if you were my wife. Then nobody could ever separate us."

"Oh Rhett. I want to spend the rest of my life with you too. Only death can separate us now."

"Only death but hopefully not too soon." Rhett took another puff then put his cigar in an ashtray. He sat down on the bed with the box. It was a little bit disconcerting to Scarlett to be lying where she couldn't help but stare at his flaccid manhood. Randomly, she thought, 'It looks so much smaller than it feels.' She sat up taking the sheet with her. Rhett continued, "I didn't buy the ring and if you don't like it, I will buy you another one. It was my grandmother Kennesaw's engagement ring. Or even if you don't like it as an engagement ring, I will buy another ring for your engagement ring."

"Stop talking and let me see it."

Rhett opened the box. Scarlett saw that it was a beautiful sapphire solitaire with a gold band. She said, "It is beautiful. Let's see if it fits."

Rhett slipped it on her finger and amazingly it fit. Scarlett laughed and said, "Your grandmother must have had very tiny hands. My hands are small but if I hadn't been starving for the last few years, it probably would not have fit, but it does."

"When you put your weight back on, I will get it enlarged."

"Thank you, Rhett. It is so beautiful."

"What do you think? Will you be happy with it as an engagement ring?"

"I don't know. I had always imagined my engagement ring would be an emerald. Although I like the specialness of this ring having been your grandmother's engagement ring."

"We will go with it for now until you make up your mind."

"Yes, I do want to have a ring to show off."

"We will pick out our wedding bands when we get to New Orleans where the selection is better and the prices are lower."

Scarlett giggled.

Rhett kissed her and Scarlett pulled him to her and let the sheet fall away. Rhett pushed her back on the bed. Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Damn, we really do have to get up and get dressed. If we don't everyone will be wondering what we are doing and why we are late."

"I don't want to get up, but I will. Turn around."

"No, you will just have to get used to me watching you dress."

"That is going to be awkward while the maid is in the room helping me get dressed."

"I will help you get dress from now on."

"Rhett, you know nothing about getting a woman dressed."

"Let me get you dressed, and we will see how good of a lady's maid I am."

As Rhett was helping Scarlett get dressed, she said, "I think you are far too familiar with women's undergarments."

"No, I'm not. I am just a quick learner." Rhett then lied and said, "I have never gotten any other woman dressed."

"Really. How wonderful."

Rhett told Scarlett the truth though when he said, "I have never slept with another woman."

"I slept with Charlie for two weeks. He is the only person I have ever slept with. At first, it was uncomfortable for me because it was something I had never done before. What about your wife?"

"I was never intimate with my wife. I always wanted to be able to annul the marriage when I found someone I really did want to marry. Then she died, and I didn't have to."

Scarlett started giggling at the flippant way Rhett had made his statement. Rhett shrugged his naked shoulders and said, "Well, I didn't."

"Please get dressed."

Rhett walked over and started putting on his underwear. He said, "Does seeing me with nothing on give you salacious thoughts?"

Scarlett blushed and said, "Of course not."

Rhett thought, 'Yes, it does, my dear. I just realized that Scarlett has a very large vocabulary for a person who doesn't read. Interesting.'

When Rhett looked at Scarlett before they left the hotel room to go back to Hamilton House, he knew that he would do whatever he had to do to keep this woman happy. Up to and including living in the country.