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Chapter Twenty-Three

Elizabeth walked back into her bedroom. She said, "Would you unbutton my dress? I don't want to call for Juliet."

"Certainly."

Percy got out of the bed and started unbuttoning Elizabeth's dress. As he was unbuttoning her dress, she said, "When we were first married you said relations could be a lot of fun if I allowed myself to have fun. Prove it."

Percy's first thought was, 'Yes!' His second thought was, 'Pecker don't fail me now.'

Percy said, "I will do my best. Shall I loosen your corset?"

"No, I will just unhook it here in the front."

Soon Elizabeth was standing in front of Percy with just her chemise and her pantalets on. She had never felt so exposed. It was all she could do not to cover herself up.

Percy said, "You are so beautiful.

Elizabeth did something she had rarely done. She blushed. She shyly said, "Thank you."

Percy stepped forward and started kissing his wife. She was kissing him back with more passion than he had ever known she had ever possessed. A lot more. After a few minutes, he said, "Let's get in the bed. It is more comfortable lying down."

Then Elizabeth Mildred Kennesaw Butler did something she had never done before. She giggled. With every passing moment she was feeling freer. Free from the dictates of her past.

Percy had an erection for which he was glad. Yet, he knew that Elizabeth had to make all the stops along the way to the promised land if he was going to get her there. He prayed she reached her satisfaction at least once but hoped for more. He caressed her breast until he felt the nipple harden. He then suckled on her breast through the chemise. He felt her stiffen, but he just kept doing it. Soon he felt her relax. When he heard her moan, he almost lost all control. Fortunately, he was a man of fifty and had enough control to carry on. Of course, as aroused as he was, he would probably obtain another erection pretty quickly, but he didn't want to chance it.

After a few minutes of suckling on Elizabeth's breast, Percy said, "I need to give the other one some attention. I wouldn't want it to get jealous."

Elizabeth giggled again.

Percy unbuttoned Elizabeth's chemise. He pushed the fabric away with his hand and was gratified that her nipple was still stiff. After he placed his mouth on it again, she moaned.

Percy pulled back and took his nightshirt off. Elizabeth looked at her husband. It was the first time she had seen his naked chest. She said, "You have a beautiful body."

"So do you."

Percy laid back down next to his wife. He was going very slowly. He started kissing her again. He caressed her stomach and her rib cage. When he first touched her special spot, it was only with fleeting touches. When she groaned in what sounded like frustration, he started stroking her womanhood with his hand. He once again felt her stiffen, but he just kept stroking her. Percy was a lot more knowledgeable than Rhett and he knew exactly where to stroke a woman to get her aroused. Percy had a lot more experience than Rhett, but unlike Rhett Percy had worked to develop his sexual skills on the whores because he had wanted to know how to arouse and satisfy his future very proper wife.

Percy's father had told him all about sex and all about how to pleasure a woman, explicitly. He didn't remember everything his father had said, but he remembered his father saying, 'Take it slow. It takes women a lot more time to get excited than us men and especially proper ladies. At the top of their mound is an incredibly sensitive button. Be gentle at first then exert more and more pressure. And women can achieve satisfaction too. In fact, they can receive it many times in one sexual session.'

Behind closed doors his father had never pretended to be anything more than what he was. A poor orphan child who had sold his soul too many times to count. He had been a cabin boy. Fortunately, the captain had not sodomized him very often, but he had sucked a lot of dick. Thomas (as he was known then) had borne it because he had to escape poverty. When he was twelve he had become part of the crew and he had never given another man sexual pleasure ever again. Thomas had learned how to pleasure a woman by listening to the crew. Those men talked about sex like they were talking about the weather. When he was twenty, he had become the captain of a pirate ship. He and his crew had visited a lot of whore houses. The first time he had visited a whore house one of the older crew members had told him to always use a condom and never kiss the whores. When he was thirty, he had amassed a fortune. He decided to become respectable in Charleston, South Carolina. He wanted to be what he had only dreamed about when he was an orphan on the streets of Liverpool. He wanted to be a rich, respectable member of society. He changed his name to Alexander Thomas Butler and married a young girl named Grace. Grace had been anxious to save her family plantation. Grace Mulberry had been his saving grace. Alex had no regrets. He had always done what he had to do. In the end he had loved his wife and he believed that she had loved him. At the very least she had been extremely fond of him. When she died, he had felt like he had lost his reason for living. He had lost four of his children that year also. Yet, Percy had given Alex hope in the future.

When Percy turned eighteen, his mother had been dead for three years. There was no one to tell Alex that what he was telling their son was not the right thing to talk about. It wouldn't have mattered, Alex wanted Percy to know all the information. More information than Percy could remember. Percy supposed he should have shared the information with his sons, but he hadn't been able to break out of the mold of a perfect gentleman. Although he had given Rhett money to give to Robert to buy a whore and a condom. No words were ever spoken between father and son about what the money was for. Percy had just said, "Give this to Robert." Rhett could have gotten mad that Percy had never given him any money to buy a whore with, but he didn't. His father didn't give him the money very often and both Percy and Rhett knew Robert was a horrible poker player. Robert couldn't keep his emotions off his face. Therefore, he had no way to make money. Both Percy and Rhett knew how strong those urges could be. Of course, when Rhett gave the money to Robert, he took complete credit for the generous gift. Rhett would hand him the money and say, "Go have some fun on me."

Percy would not have wanted it any other way. He certainly hadn't wanted credit for buying his son a whore.

When Elizabeth desperately called his name, he kept stroking her through her first orgasm. He kissed her but didn't enter her. He wanted her to enjoy her first orgasm to the utmost. He didn't want her to feel that now she had to reciprocate. He had just wanted her to enjoy herself completely.

When Elizabeth had recovered herself, she whispered, "I don't know about fun, but that was wonderful. Is that what you feel?"

"Kissing now. Talking later."

Elizabeth laughed. A sound Percy had rarely heard. He knew at that moment that he loved Elizabeth and he always had. It was why he had never taken a mistress. He just couldn't be unfaithful to her, especially not in that way. It was why he had forced her father to let him marry his daughter. Fortunately, her father had been a weak man. His Elizabeth was not weak. No, she damn sure wasn't.

Percy stroked Elizabeth some more until she was desperately calling his name. He entered her. She orgasmed. So did he. She had never gotten completely undressed.

Percy rolled over with his wife in his arms. She happily went with him. When they had caught their breaths she said, "I think I am going to enjoy being improper."

"Improper with me?"

"With the entire world, but especially with you."

"I have to know. What brought about this wonderful change?"

"What you said about where had I been hiding my feelings for the last twenty-six years. I realized that I was doing everything that was right and proper because someone else had told me it was right and proper. I realized I had never had any fun in my life. Not just in my marriage, but in my entire damn life."

"I am so very glad that you no longer want to be proper in our marital bed."

"Not just in our marital bed, but in every part of my life. You will have to help me not fall back into stiff Charleston behavior."

"I will gladly help you learn how to play."

The couple was quiet for a few minutes. Percy said, "Let's get you completely undressed."

"Alright."

It didn't take long for Elizabeth to shed her few garments. Elizabeth and Percy were quickly back in the bed. They were enjoying being pressed up against each other with nothing in between them. Actually, it was a dream come true for Percy. A dream he had never let himself dream because he thought there was no way it could come true.

After a while Percy said to Elizabeth, "In June I am going to start training Robert on the managing of Middleton Acres."

"Robert? Not Rhett?"

"No, not Rhett. He can barely spend a week at the plantation."

"True. Robert loves it there."

"I will leave the plantation to Robert in my will."

"What about Rhett?"

"He will receive a large amount of money as will Rosemary."

"She won't need it. She will have a husband to support her."

"No, this is important. She will have money of her own. I will leave it to her in trust thus it will always be hers. I never want her to have to marry for money."

There was a long silence as both parties thought about the fact that was why Elizabeth had married Percy.

Percy said, "Robert and I are going to the jewelry store tomorrow to buy a ring for Robert to offer to Daphne. He is going to ask her to marry him."

"Good. Robert loves her."

"How do you know you have rarely seen them together?"

"I can tell when he talks about her. She will breathe new life into this family, just as Scarlett has."

"Do you think Rhett loves Scarlett?"

Elizabeth pulled herself up so she could see her husband. She said, "Of course, that is the only reason that stubborn mule that is our son would have married the girl. He didn't know it at the time, though. He probably told himself, he was just doing it to have a carnal relationship with her. He probably would have given up his station in life just not to marry a woman he didn't love."

"Yes, he would have."

"She is softening him."

"No, not softening him. She is making him believe in the future. He is still a hard man. A man who will do what he must do to obtain his goal, just as my father would."

Percy didn't add – Just as I would. What proper gentleman would intentionally let a foolish man get a thousand dollars in debt to him just to have the leverage to make the foolish man sell his daughter in matrimony? Until now Percy had thought himself a foolish man for forcing a marriage between himself and Elizabeth.

Elizabeth said, "Do you love me, Percy?"

In that moment, all Percy could answer was the truth. He said, "After tonight I am hopelessly in love with you."

"That is good because I am in love with you. Maybe not hopelessly, but pretty committed."

Percy was happy with her declaration. He said, "Do you want to put your nightgown on?"

"It is the proper thing to do, so no."

Percy laughed and said, "Are you going to intentionally do improper things?"

"I'm not sure yet. I realized tonight before I returned to our bedroom that I have never had any fun in my life. Not even when I was a child, because I was always striving to behave appropriately.

"From this moment forward, I will do my best to fill your life with fun and happiness."

"And I you. Now blow out the lamp and let's go to sleep."

Percy blew out the lamp and laid back down. He went to sleep happier than he had ever been.