I want to hang around here, stay on the team and see what this old heap looks like when the renovation is finished.â
âIs that all?â I hear the smile in his voice as he rolls me onto my front, still palpating my bottom in a way thatâs utterly sensual and full of delicate, delicious menace. âI do hate it when someone I care about keeps things from me.â He lifts his hand, and thatâs more menacing than ever. âNow, tell me the whole truthâ¦or I shall be forced to punish you.â
âYou might think Iâm a bit forward.â
âIâll be the judge of that, Rose. Now tell me.â
I hesitate again. Deliberately.
He makes a soft tutting sound, and though I canât see him, I imagine him shaking his head, and his gorgeous black hair rippling.
A little tap lands on my right buttock. Itâs light, barely a smack at all, but my sex ripples in luscious excitement. He barely has to touch me and Iâm soaring toward pleasure already.
Another tap lands and I swirl my hips, rubbing my mound against the mattress, trying to stimulate my clit.
âKeep still. Donât be naughty.â
Heâs fighting not to laugh, and his voice is so warm, so affectionate that I begin to melt in an entirely different way. My spirits sing as I work my crotch, happily defying him.
He smacks again and again, a little harder, warming up my hind parts to match the glow in my sex and in my heart.
âTell meâ¦tell me everything.â He smoothes his free hand down my back and my flank, the other still softly slapping at my bottom.
Itâs hard to answer now because Iâm so turned on I canât think straight to form words, and itâs also getting difficult to keep my hips still against the sheets.
I grab at the pillows, clutching the linen of the pillowcase hard in an effort to concentrate.
âIâ¦Iâve decided that Iâd quite like to find out what itâs like to be a marchioness!â
Thereâs a pause, during which I hold my breath, then I feel a kiss settle on the small of my back like a butterfly.
âWell, I can tell you what that will be like.â His breath is hot against my skin, wafting over my bottom, which is already even hotter. âYouâll never have any money. Youâll spend your life enslaved to a great monster of a house thatâll never ever stop needing attention.â He kisses me just one more time, and then straightens up again. âAnd youâll probably get your bottom smacked at least once a day, if not considerably more often!â
Spanks begin to rain down. Hard, loving, rhythmical and stirring. I surge against the mattress, my clit pulsating and my heart thudding and leaping with the purest love.
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A while later, Iâve been spanked and Iâve been fondled and Iâve been comprehensively fuckedâ¦and Iâve been brought to climax again and again and again. And with each smack, each stroke, each thrust and each orgasm, Iâve been told that Iâm cherished and adored.
Christianâs gone back to sleep now, and Iâm lying here savoring the peace and the closeness of his beloved body. Pretty soon Iâll have to start making phone calls and explaining a lot of things to a lot of very astonished people. But for now, Iâm just listening to my darlingâs breathing and the sound of a new, teeming downpour outside.
British weather? Itâs not so badâ¦in fact, I love it! Almost as much as I love the man whoâs at my side.
THE PRIESTESS
E LLIOT M ABEUSE
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