by April Thomas
"Is everything alright?" He asks gently as his heart longed for an excuse to hold her.
"Ah, everything is fine, for now," Azura places the phone back onto its receiver.
"I will not request anything of you tonight," he says while moving to a stand behind her.
"You will not request anything of me, ever!" The words escape her mouth, with bitter rage, as she turns to face him.
Swiftly, he pins her against the wall of their penthouse suite. His thigh forces her legs apart as he presses against her. "It is taking everything I have not to rip that dress off and devour you. Please, do not test my temper, as well."
Was it her plump, quivering lips or the sensation of ample breasts pressing against his firm chest? Tobias Cavanaugh holds an unfathomable passion for Azura Hanson. To say she is beautiful would be too vague. Words cannot describe the beauty her being carries.
Her chest heaves up and down, the pressure becoming too much as her lungs fight for air.
"This is an arrangement. I was not given the opportunity to search out a more pleasing option." She pushes on his broad chest, swiftly concealing the quiver shooting through her as she admires the feel of his flesh under her fingertips.
"An arrangement?"
"We both know the situation. Although I'm grateful for all you’re willing to do for my mother, I will not be your sex slave."
"Is that what you think?"
"It's what I know."
"Yes, this is an arranged marriage, but the feelings I carry for you are not arranged, they are real."
"I am not something you can buy."
"I did not buy you."
"Really? It's difficult to tell by the deal you presented to my father."
Anger takes hold and Tobias, he walks away. Grabbing his suit coat off the back of a nearby chair, he hastily leaves the hotel suite.
Tobias makes his way to the resort bar and places an order for the strongest shot available. "You know what? Just give me the damn bottle." He pulls out his wallet and drops a few hundred dollar bills.
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Azura collapses on the floor of their wedding suite, in an untamable tantrum. The past three hours were spent fighting with her gown, unable to reach the hooks that will free her from bondage. Her eyes begin to burn and she is reminded of the contacts she had been forced to wear most of her life. In her deep bitterness she removed both contacts and threw them on the floor. Deep down, she resented her parents for not accepting her as she is. Now that she was out of their home she would never wear those contacts again, and if Tobias couldn't deal with it then that could be her ticket to freedom.
The last thing Azura ever wanted was marriage. Growing up in a home with six sisters, an overbearing father, and an overly-submissive mother, she refused to fall into the typical stereotype of womanhood. Being the youngest, Azura got away with a lot of things her sisters did not. She insisted on playing male-dominated sports, wearing boyish clothes, and keeping male friends.
When puberty hit and her monthly cycles began, it was a disaster, changing her life forever. Azura cried for a week. Her mother did everything to console her, but she refused to accept that she was now a woman. For the last five years, her father has struggled to find his last unmarried daughter a spouse.
Although they live in the present, to her father it is still early in the 19 century. No daughter of his will be unmarried when he passes away. Azura would not be in this situation today, if not for her mother's death bed wish.
She sobs as she thinks of all the freedom she has lost. Her sisters took marriage well. Each seemed eager to start a new life as a Mrs., and none of them complains about their cheating husbands. Azura, on the other hand, enjoyed the freedom of being a single woman without the responsibilities of managing a home, or being expected to perform certain duties to please a man.
Rage fills her, again. Slamming her small fist into the carpet does little to ease her aggression. Her body trembles as she fights to calm herself down. There is only one thing that soothes her when she is this angry. A dirty little secret she keeps mainly to herself. There is only one person she has shared this secret with; her best friend, Morgan Judd.
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It is prom night in May of 2004, and Azura arrives alone. She refused to wait for her date and do the traditional corsage pinning, followed by the limo parade through town. Obviously, this did not sit well with him, because he arrived at prom with a new date on his arm. He went even further, and added to the already circulating rumors that she was not into men; saying she offered him money to be her date, just to make her parents happy. It was Morgan who found her crying underneath the school's bleachers. He came to console her; however, his gentle touches made her crave more. She lost her virginity to Morgan, and continued to find solace in him whenever she needed to calm down, and was unable to do so on her own. Enjoying their no-strings-attached friendship was all she desired and needed.
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She needs him now to put out this fire burning inside of her. Something she refuses to give to Tobias. His eyes demand sex and her pride refuses to submit. In a blur of suppressed sexual energy, Azura pulls herself to her knees and slowly pulls her gown up over her thighs. She struggles to slip inside her white lace panties and grant herself release.
Tobias enters the suite and observes her fighting with the elaborate white gown. He kneels down behind her and slowly unfastens the gown. She releases a heavy breath, happy to be free. Tobias stares lustfully, at the smoothness of her skin; the alcohol in his system makes it difficult for him to resist her. He curses himself for returning, and regrets not going to the front desk to request an additional room, instead.
"Help me," a faint, breathless whisper escapes her lips. "Help me." She repeats the request, her voice becoming stronger.
Tobias wants to believe she is asking him to make love to her, but he figures she just wants the gown off. "There will have to be some sort of reward for this," he thinks to himself. "If only she would let me..."
His lips softly rest on her back; he presses a kiss to her spine and the loving energy he has been trying to withhold from her releases, sending spiraling energy down her spine until it sends shivers to her clit. Encouraged by the sound of her moan, he peels her out of her gown. She lies back in her white, lace lingerie. She looks up at him and the moon light piercing through the balcony hit her eye casting a mysterious electric blue glow.
Tobias watches, in heated amusement, as her fingers slip beneath the lace bra, caressing her brown nipples. Again, her supple lips called to him for help, and he finds himself pulling off his clothes. As his eyes continue to observe her beautiful body, they make their way to her face and he is startled yet intrigued by the glow in her eyes. "Your eyes?" he whispers but his words only come out as a weak mumble to her. He doesn't care; they are beautiful and intriguing to him and only made her irresistible to him.
Lifting her from the floor, she wraps her slender legs around him, pressing against his thick, hard cock. Another shiver runs through him, making his cock harder than it was before. Gently he lays her on the bed, running his fingers up the length of her stomach and between her breasts, savoring every touch. Azura does not hesitate to free her breasts. He joyfully sucks in her nipple, flickering and sucking, as they become hard. Azura runs her fingers through his hair, pulling and begging for more of him. Making his way to her feet, he strips off the remainder of her undergarments and kisses the soles of her feet. Kissing his way up her legs and between her thighs, his warm, wet tongue slips between her lips, finding her nub. Bolts of sexual energy shoot through her stomach and careen its way to her heart and mind. Her ears begin ringing as her pussy drips, aching for the full length of his cock to fill her.
Feeling her wetness and seeing her clit throb, he cannot hold back any longer. The heaviness of his cock falls against her wet pussy and her hips gyrate, fighting to pull him into her. Grabbing hold of his cock, he looks down on the beautiful scene playing out before him. Her beautiful breasts dance in a
hypnotic motion as her hips and waist beckon for his gentle touch. He seeks out her opening, and forces his way in. Azura lurches forward, grabbing hold of his arms, as the welcomed pain of his cock forces its way deep inside of her.
Her tightness pleases him, enormously. Feeling her tighten and release as her hips gyrate and she grinds her pussy all around him, he kisses her tender lips. They are in absolute heaven. Her soft moans, and his deep groans, seem to go on for hours. Sinking deeper into her tightness, she begins to orgasm, screaming and grunting, uncontrollably. Tobias cannot hold on any longer. His cock explodes, filling her with his rich seed.
As they drift off to sleep, she whispers the name, Morgan. Tobias' heart breaks. Is this why she's resistant toward him? She is in love with another.
Azura falls into a light sleep. Never before had she felt such pleasure. It was not like this with Morgan. He was ridged and selfish. And when they were finished her anger diminished, but not like this. The anger was completely gone, and replaced with love and warmth, not bitterness and emptiness. She slowly opened her eyes as she slowly woke from her light sleep. She checked to see if Tobias was sleeping, and she found herself becoming aroused as she watched him sleeping soundly. A smile came across her face as she thought about the love they made.
Quietly she slipped out of bed and walked across the room. The balcony doors were partially open and Azura craved to feel the cool night air on her bare skin. It was something she missed when growing up with her wolf mother although eventually she found covering for her skin to make it through the cold winters. She spent most of her time naked and free. She slowly opened the door and walked out to the balcony. The ocean breeze hit her skin and instantly filled her with joy. She stood there silently enjoying her solitude.
"Azura?" Tobias called out to her from the doorway of the balcony. She wiped her head around to see her husband glaring at her. "You’re naked in the balcony." Her eyes...her parents warned him about her eyes, the physical defect is what they called it. However, Tobias seem to get caught up in them, his spirit seemed to be taken away with her and he wanted to learn more about her, more about what made her so different.
"I guess this is where you piss all over me!" Azura said turning to face him.
"Piss on you?" Tobias repeated almost humored by her response.
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"Yes, piss on me... Claim me as your woman! Take away my freedom my joy!" Azura continued.
"Why would I want to take away your joy? Why in the world would I want to piss on you?" he replied. "You’re standing butt naked on the balcony, if it wasn't for the fact that we are in the penthouse suite I would have lost my mind. I don't want strangers looking and admiring my woman."
"Your woman!" she snapped.
"Can you please get you sexy ass back in this suite!" he demanded stepping aside so that she would enter.
"No!" she said defiantly.
"No?" Tobias repeated in a calm voice. "Okay," he mumbled stepping naked out onto the balcony. He picked her up and held over his shoulder as she kicked and screamed for him to put her down. He stepped back into the suite with her and pinned her against the wall swinging one of her legs onto his other shoulder. He dove his tongue into her pussy, she instantly gasped for air as she pulled his hair. He joyfully massaged her pussy with his tongue enjoying every minute of it. He barely noticed when she stopped fighting him. She was now caressing his head, pressing his mouth and tongue to go deeper into her warmth. He stopped and gently placed her feet on the floor. They both breathed heavily as they gazed into each other’s eyes. "I- I don't want to fight you...I just want to make love to you every minute of every day," Tobias whispered.
Azura slid against the wall to the floor. His words and the emotions she felt coming from him confused her deeply. She didn't understand how to make sense of what was happening to her with him. She looked up at him with tear filled glowing eyes, yet the first thing she could see was his swollen cock. She was curious of what it would feel like to make him feel how he had made her feel earlier. Her hands slide up his thighs and her warm mouth took him in.
His knees grew weak and he roughly placed his hand on the wall to steady his weight. "Azura," he groaned. She stopped and looked up at him. He lifted her to her feet then picked her up and walked with her to the bed. "We have to learn other ways to communicate," he said gently.
Silently she spread her legs and began to play with herself. She wanted him, she wanted more of him and she knew that she may not feel this way by the morning.
Tobias couldn't resist her any longer. "You are beautiful. Do you know that?" he whispered as he placed himself between her thighs.
"You think that I am beautiful," Azura responded surprised by his words.
"Yes and so much more," he answered as he forced his thick hard cock inside of her.
She placed her hands on his arms and dug her nails in as the pain came then went.
"I love your eyes...I have never seen a blue like that before and the way that they glow...I have always found you attractive...always," he said looking into her eyes.
Azura fell silent as she stared into his eyes. Tobias leaned down and kissed his wife and for the first time she kissed him back. Although his heart was a bit disturbed concerning the man's name she whispered the first time they made love. He could not deny he was falling for her and he had never fallen for any woman like this before.
They fell asleep wrapped in each other's arms. By morning, room service had arrived and set up an amazing breakfast for them in the suite's dining room. Tobias woke before Azura. He showered and dressed and seeing that she was still asleep he decided to wake her with breakfast in bed.
He smiled as the smell of bacon and eggs seem to bring her back from dream land. "Good morning beautiful," he greeted her.
"Good morning," she blushed while sitting up. The sheets rolled down exposing her round breast.
He found it interesting that she seem to have no apprehension or modesty about being in the nude. Her parents did make her seem like she was not completely there in the head, but he just didn't see her that way. To his in-laws Tobias had just taken a major problem off of their shoulders, but to Tobias he had just found a rare beauty. He was willing to take on the arranged marriage if it would be the only way to get close to her.
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Shelby Meade, a gorgeous red headed vixen plopped down on the couch of her friend’s condo. She posed and sprayed a can of Easy Cheese directly into her mouth, then continued to complain about her new dilemma.
"Well, I decided the only solution is to seduce him," Shelby spoke turning her head towards her friend.
Jackie Doyle looked at her friend and shook her head. "Shelby, learn when to call it quits. He never considered you more than a good hump in the hay," she scuffed.
"A hump in the hay, who talks like that?” Shelby mocked.
"Look, be lucky you still have a good paying job. Tobias doesn't need you, and I'm sure when his wife settles in, you will be the first thing she gets rid of," Jackie added.
"I can't believe you’re taking his side Jackie!" Shelby snapped sitting straight up on the couch.
"You guys have had this flakey on and off bedroom Olympics thing for fifteen years...If he wanted to marry you then what’s stopping him?" Jackie pointed out.
"This marriage is a fake, it’s an arrangement. And with him keeping me around, it just proves it. I'll give him his space, but I know he never had anything like this!" Shelby said tapping her crotch. "And he will be back for more, real soon."
"He is married, you have to respect that!" Jackie said as she glared at her friend.
"Yea we'll see how long those vows will last when he gets back home," Shelby said standing from the couch and slipping into her high heels.
"Where are you going?" Jackie questioned confused.
"I need to make sure they don't come back happy," Shelby said grabbing her purse and walking out the front door.
Jackie sighed, "When you’re stupid, you�
��re stupid." She grumbled.
Shelby made her way down to her vehicle and drove off, frustrated by the thoughts of the romantic nights she shared with Tobias. She hated their last conversation and she knew that if she called his phone one more time, she would lose her financial security for good. However, if it was for business it couldn't hurt.
She dialed his number and was startled when a female answered. "Hello?" she repeated for the second time. Shelby hung up the phone and burst into tears.
Azura looked at the cell phone puzzled...
"Who was it?" Tobias asked as gently rubbed more sunscreen onto his wife's back.
She looked at the cell phone to see what the Caller ID displayed. "Shelby?" Azura answered.
Tobias suddenly became ridged. "What did she say?" he asked.
"Nothing, she hung up." Azura replied.
"I guess it wasn't important," Tobias said blowing off the subject.
"Well, who is she?" Azura asked. She was already jealous about the call and didn't like the energy she was feeling coming from him.
"Ah, well, Shelby is my secretary," Tobias answered visibly uncomfortable with the conversation.
Azura observed the signs that his body and spirit were giving her. It was something she learned from her wolf mother so many years ago. It just seemed to stay with her all these years. She was amazing good at reading people’s body language and energy. And what was coming from Tobias was turning her stomach. They had three more weeks on their honeymoon and she was already beginning to sense a major life mistake coming her way.