Page 42 of Julia and the Rake

“I am sure they will all agree if we give them a reason to want to avoid any sort of scandal,” he murmured.“Climb into bed with me, Julia.”He repeated the same request as he had the last time they were together late at night.He even shifted back on the bed and threw back the bedcovers, again much as he had on that previous occasion.

His chest was bare, with a smattering of dark hair, and he wore only his drawers.His fully erect cock was visible against the straining material.

Her eyes were wide.“But you have been shot!”

“I am sure the doctor assured you it was a flesh wound only?”

“Well…yes, he did.But you were unconscious for an hour or so.”

“But I am very much awake now, and with the woman I love and who loves me in return.And as you can see, none of those previous things is preventing other parts of my body from working as they should,” he added huskily.“I believe I would truly have to be dead to cease desiring you.”

“In that case…” Julia stood up and allowed her unfastened robe to slide down her arms before dropping it to the carpeted floor.

“Leave it,” Nicholas instructed when she would have unfastened and removed her nightgown too.“This time, I wish to undress you myself,” he explained at her questioning look.

They undressed each other.Made love to each other.Slowly.Intensely.Until Julia’s body felt as if it was on fire and desperate for something—someoneto assuage the need now possessing her.

“Please, Nicholas,” she begged.“I want you.I want to feel all of you.”Her bare legs were wrapped about his waist, her feet resting on the firmness of his buttocks.

He raised his head, his weight resting on his elbows as he looked down at her.“Are you sure?”

“Very,” she confirmed without fear or hesitation.

“I do not have the strength to deny you anything.But if we do this, we will also be married as soon as it can be arranged.”One of his hands moved between them, and she felt his fingers moving up and down the wetness between her thighs.“It might hurt at first,” he warned.“But I will do my best to make that hurt as brief as possible.”

Julia stared up into his deep brown eyes.“I trust you.”

“Thank you.”He accepted that trust before his lips once again claimed hers.

Even as he ravished her lips and mouth, his finger continued to stroke between her legs, pressing against that nubbin which caused the ecstasy to once again burst through the whole of her body.

Even so, she drew in a nervous breath, her hands clinging to the broad width of his shoulders, when she felt the tip of his cock pressing against her entrance.

“Relax, my love.”Nicholas lowered his head to suck one of her nipples into the moist heat of his mouth, suckling gently at first and then harder, his teeth biting down on the sensitive tip.

Julia was so concentrated on the pleasure-pain that she barely registered that other slight pinch of pain between her legs as Nicholas’s hips pushed forward and the walls of her channel welcomed and accommodated the thickness and length of his cock.

“I feel so full,” she gasped, hands still clinging to his shoulders.

Nicholas raised his head.“Too full?”

She forced the tension from her body, allowing Nicholas’s cock to press forward even farther.“Just full enough,” she assured huskily.

“I could stay here forever.”Nicholas peppered her lips and throat with kisses.“Buried inside you.The two of us now one.”

Julia’s heart melted as completely as her body had.“I love you, Nicholas.I love you so much.”

“And I love you,” he groaned.“You are my everything, Julia.The only woman I have ever loved.The only woman I shall ever love.”

Warmth made her chest swell with so much love for this man.A love that had been hard fought for, and now they were both the winners.Of each other.Of their future together.

She began to undulate her hips beneath him, first taking his cock deeper, then pulling back until that hard flesh was poised on the edge of complete withdrawal.She then took his cock deeper again.

“Mine,” he bit out fiercely as he took control of those thrusts.

Deeper.

Harder.

Until Julia knew with every part of her that the dam built inside her was about to break.“I love you!”she cried out as her body convulsed with pleasure.“I love you so much, Nicholas!”

She felt his cock harden even more, seconds before the hot splash of his release pulsing inside her, claiming her as surely as she had claimed him.

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They were married a week later.Their son, Lord Henry (Harry) Frederick Harding, was born exactly a year after their wedding.