her week. Sarah told Elise to call her if she needed anything. Then, amid well wishes from the resort staff who had made their wedding so beautiful, they disappeared into the resort, leaving their guests to the festivities outside.
Chapter5
Elise followed David through the resort to an area that she had somehow missed in all of her exploration the day before. A guard opened a private door for them that was all but hidden in plain sight from the rest of the space around it.
They found themselves in a grand and secluded suite, almost an apartment. It had its own private beach, complete with a boat and a canopied beach bed. Elise stared at the opulence around her and tried her best not to feel out of place. David saw her staring at everything around them, and though he was accustomed to such beauty and finery, he too was amazed at the place they found themselves in. He took her hand and they walked through it together. There were ponds and streams that came from waterfalls in their room, there were open airways that led from the bedroom out to the gardens and the beach, and there were fountains and pools of crystalline water that shimmered in the rising moonlight.
They looked at all of it, and then David and Elise knew that the time had come to consummate their marriage. He walked with her to their bedroom and they entered it solemnly, each with a bit of uncertainty. He began to take his clothes off slowly, placing them with care on the lounge at the end of the bed, and she turned away from him, embarrassed at his boldness.
“Would you… would you mind if we don’t have the lights on tonight?” she asked, feeling horribly shy. She couldn’t imagine where it was coming from. This wasn’t her first night with a man and she was not ashamed of her body, but the awkwardness of him being a stranger unsettled her, and she felt she had to ask.
David stopped undressing and looked toward her, at her back that was turned to him. He could see how uncomfortable she was and he walked up to her and laid his fingers on her shoulder lightly.
“You knew that we would be doing this,” he said quietly.
She nodded. “I did.”
“Are you still alright with it?” he asked nervously.
“I am.” She meant it. “I’m just a little… I just feel a little shy tonight. It’s the first time with you,” she whispered.
“Okay,” he said, lifting his hand from her shoulder. He walked over to the lights and turned them off, and then the only light in the room was moonlight, and it washed over them in pale brilliance.
She slipped out of her wedding dress and David watched her, not really meaning to, but unable to turn away as he saw the moonlight reflecting on her dark skin. He felt mesmerized, in a strange way, and it drew him to her. He approached her again from behind, and touched her shoulders lightly with both of his hands. She shivered at his touch and he moved his hands down her arms to her waist.
Elise felt cool somehow, though the night air was balmy, and David’s hands were warm on her skin. She felt him embrace her from behind, his hands moving from her hips to her ribs, and a strange sensation moved suddenly through her as his fingertips brushed the lower swell of her breasts. It drew her breath away and made her a little dizzy.
His lips skimmed the curve of her shoulder, and he whispered to her, “Lay down with me, please.”
She moved onto the bed, lying on her back, looking up at him in complete disbelief that she was doing anything like this. He looked down at her with much the same thought in his own mind.
He touched her knee and she hesitated a moment and then spread her legs for him, as he hovered over her a moment, he looked down into her sea green eyes and whispered, “Are you sure you’re okay with this?”
“Yes,” she whispered back.
He closed his eyes and lowered himself onto her body, touching her softly and tentatively with his fingertips, readying her for his penetration, and then he slowly
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