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undressed Wilhelm.
Beth climbed into bed and covered herself with the sheet. Wilhelm's
groomsmen pulled back the curtains on their side of the bed and let Wilhelm
climb in.
The chancellor asked, "My prince, Lady Elzebeth, do either of you find any
displeasing feature about the other?"
Wilhelm looked at Elzebeth. Elzebeth looked at Wilhelm.
"I find nothing displeasing in my bride," Wilhelm said.
"My lady Elzebeth, find you anything displeasing in your husband?" the
chancellor demanded.
Looking at Wilhelm, in the light of the lamps, she felt her face grow warm.
The ladies stood on one side of the bed and the men on the other. The curtains
were pulled back on each side so that everyone could see everyone else.
"I find nothing displeasing in my husband."
The crowd sang another bawdy song. Then the bed curtains were closed,
leaving the newlyweds together in the darkness.
The group left the solar singing a bawdy song about the pleasures of the
marriage bed.
"Do you think they're actually gone?" she whispered to him.
He listened for a moment and heard the music once more begin downstairs.
"They've resumed merrymaking downstairs."
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"Hello, Husband."
"Hello, Wife," he answered as he pulled her into his arms. "You looked so
beautiful today."
"I wanted to be beautiful for you."
Wilhelm kissed her. Within a moment, it was unclear who was kissing
whom. They were devouring one another. Neither of them could get enough of
each other's mouth. Then his mouth left hers and he began to trail his lips across
the side of her face, down her throat, into the valley between her breasts, then he
stopped to kiss and suckle each of her nipples.
He lay back on the crisp, lavender scented sheet and pulled her to him. He
didn't have to ask. She kissed him then moved her lips down his throat, down
his chest, until she was able to kiss and suckle each of his nipples. She heard him
gasp his pleasure. Her lips continued downward until she kissed his navel. Then
she turned her attentions even lower.
She kissed his penis and scrotum, then planted a kiss on the inside of his
thighs. Then she moved back to his groin.
Beth took the tip of his penis into her mouth and ran her tongue around the
glans.
He moaned.
She lifted her head.
"Don't stop," he begged.
She laughed then took his cock into her mouth again. Slowly, teasingly, she
moved her head up and down along the hard length of him.
"Beth!"
She lifted her head and moved up to lie beside him. "Did you like that?"
"No more than you will like this," he told her as he began a sensual assault
on her body.
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He kissed her, then kissed her throat, her breasts, her belly, just as he had
before. Then he began to explore her pussy with his lips and tongue. He found
her clitoris and began to tease it with his tongue.
The change in her breathing told him that she was enjoying this. He wanted
it to be good for her. She was a responsive woman. The memory of how
responsive she had been before had him at the edge of his control. All he wanted
to do was to bury himself in her, to shove his cock up into her and fuck her fast
and hard. But this was their wedding night and it was a time for play and
exploration. The problem was this exploration was killing him. He didn't know
how much more he could stand.
"Sweet Beth, I thought I could stand a bit more love play. But, I need you too
much right now."
"Just come to me, Will."
He didn't need a second invitation. He positioned himself between her legs.
"Wrap your legs around me!"
She complied with his order.
He knew that he should be gentle with her. But he couldn't be. Once he was
inside her, he went wild. Yet, he realized with satisfaction that she was just as
wild for him as he was for her.
She reached her climax. Just as she had before when they were together in
the summerhouse, she felt the edges of her consciousness blur as she blacked out
at the height of her pleasure.
When she came back to herself, he was beside her, holding her tightly. "Yes,
we shall serve each other well, my lady wife."
She wanted to tell him that she loved him. But she didn't dare. There had
been no words of love from him. She wasn't about to make herself that
vulnerable. She knew that it would break her heart if she confessed her love for
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him only to have an uncomfortable silence, or worse, follow. Her love for him
was something he would learn after he confessed those feelings for her.
He reached down between the mattresses and the bed frame. She heard him
remove a cork from a bottle. The bottom sheet between them became wet. Then
he corked the bottle and put it back in the hiding place.
"Will?"
"No man ever had a sweeter virgin, Beth," he told her quietly.
She wanted to cry. He was being protective of what people thought of her.
That had to mean that he loved her at least a little. With time, he might grow to
love her as she loved him.
As morning broke, Elzebeth looked at her husband. She couldn't believe the
night that they had just spent. There had been little sleep; catnaps here and there
throughout the night between lovemaking sessions, each one hotter than the one
before. Yet, the day had broken and there was work to be done.
She stopped cold in her thoughts. What work did she have to do? There were
no cows to milk, no eggs to gather. There was no breakfast to get onto the table.
There were no horses to feed. No milk to separate. No cheeses to start.
Wilhelm was looking at her. "What?" he asked lowly.
"That's what I am wondering. What am I to do with myself all day, now?"
"You'll find enough to do. There needs a good deal of work done here to
prepare for the Emperor's visit. You will need to sew yourself new clothes. The
cloth is in the storeroom. I've frequently thought that the great hall needs
tapestries to cut the winter breezes. You could spend years with your ladies
making those. You need to assess the state of our domesticity and bring things
up to your standards. I doubt that you will be bored."
"I did notice that your stillroom was woefully inadequate."
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"See. You will find much to keep you busy. You need to look over the
financial records of running the castle. You are now my steward. Everything that
I have here is yours to manage."
She looked at him. "I need to have time as well to practice my profession."
"Of course, caring for the people is one of the duties of the lady of the castle. I
wouldn't attempt to take you away from that work."
"Daylight is wasting."
"Don't go yet," he told her. "We still have time."
"Do we?"
He laughed quietly. "Everyone else is still asleep. I want you again. How is it
that I can't get enough of you?"
"I'm not going anywhere."
"Aren't you? I thought that I was going to take you to heaven and go right
along with you, my dearest wife."
"Careful about those promises, husband," she teased him.
"You think that they are empty promises?"
"Why don't you prove to me that they're not?"
"Gladly, wife."
Then he took her in his arms and kissed her gently, persuasively as though
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