Antonio stood her up and then tugged her dress down to her feet. He smiled at the undergarments that she had on. They were very sexy and didn’t suit her in the least.
His laughing made her nervous again. She tried to cover herself up with her arms and hands.
“No, no. I wasn’t laughing at you, only the undergarments that I’m guessing my mother picked out for you to wear under the most innocent of dresses.” His eyebrow had risen as he had said ‘my mother.’
Anna nodded, confirming that it had been his mother who had picked out her underthings.
“I’m sure she meant well, but this simply isn’t you. I never want to see you in anything sexy again. You are sweet and innocent. Normal things suit you better. Still, I want you to turn around for me so I can see all of you.”
Anna smirked at him. “Typical male,” she joked, making Antonio grin. She removed her shoes and turned around for him.
He smiled again as he thought that she’d had this sexy corset, panties, garter and stockings on all day. They couldn’t have been comfortable, he thought. “I can’t believe that you had this on at church.” He removed them quickly so he could see his Anna.
“Anna, I have really missed this.” He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close and hugged her. She lost her balance and fell on top of him.
He held her tightly, making sure she wouldn’t fall off the bed. They landed next to each other on the bed.
He reached up and tucked a few stray hairs behind her ear. “I love you, Anna. I hope you will one day be able to forgive me for the way we met. I was a different man back then.” He smiled at her, and then he kissed her and removed his own clothes.
She blushed, as a bride should.
He rolled her onto her back and entered her. “My Anna.”
Antonio made love to her very slowly. He wanted this to last a long time. He wanted her to want him, to enjoy their lovemaking.
She held on to him as he thrust himself into her again and again. He was taking his time today. She wished that he would go faster. It had been too long since she’d had an orgasm.
He sucked a nipple into his mouth and continued to suck on it until she was moaning. He heightened the speed, and she stared at him totally confused. Her mouth had formed into an O.
He had become the only thing she could think about. Her moans got louder, and he heightened the speed once again.
“Please, please, please,” she begged him.
“Don’t worry baby. I got you.”
Her fingers were pushing into his back. She tried hard not to scratch him, but then she couldn’t stop herself. She called out his name and dug her fingernails into his skin as he drove her over the edge.
Anna was having the most powerful orgasm of her life.
Antonio let himself come then too. He lay down on top of her. His little wife had enjoyed an amazing orgasm on her wedding night.
What could be more perfect than that?
Chapter 27
“I’m so sorry. I can’t believe I did that. I don’t know what came over me.” Anna babbled on as she treated the scratch marks on his back. Antonio was shaking with laughter as his wife had him sitting on the bed so she could disinfect and bandage him up.
“Anna, the scratches only mean that I did it right. I’m lucky you didn’t bite me too.”
“I would never do that.” She felt offended now.
“It’s perfectly normal, my darling.” He grabbed her around her waist and positioned her on top of him again. “You are gentle and nice and loving all day, but in that moment your instincts take over I bear the proof that I am a great lover.”
Anna tried to pull away from him. She was so embarrassed about the way she had acted that she even managed to get out of his hold. She turned away from him and cried.
Antonio wrapped his arms around her again. “Hush, I certainly don’t think worse of you. In fact, I’m really glad that you like me that way. I knew that our bodies had called out to each other right from the start. This proves that we were meant to be together. As I’ve told you before, I want you to like it when we make love.” He was still hoping that she would be able to say that she loved him too one day. They were definitely on the right track.
“I really am sorry.” Anna said, proving that she had ignored all of his pretty words.
He laughed at her again. “I’m not. Would you feel better if I scratched you back?” he joked.
Her body stiffened in fear. He felt it and realized that he had made a mistake.
“Please, don’t hurt me. It really wasn’t on purpose.” She felt so desperate in her begging.
He turned her to him and held her face so she couldn’t turn away. “Anna, I will never hurt you. If you are very bad, I will lay you over my knee and spank you, but I will never hurt you. You are my wife now, and they get treated differently than other women. You are the only woman I truly respect. Do you understand?”
She stared at him and didn’t answer.
He sighed, “I will never scratch, bite, hit you with my fist or slap your face. I know I did once, but I regretted that immediately afterwards. Do you understand now?”
She nodded slightly. Slapping, pinching, smacking, tripping, belting and whatever else was still on limits, she thought. He had never scratched, bit or hit her with his fist before.
Did that mean that everything would stay the same, except the slapping?
“I’m not mad at you. I can prove that I have no reason to be.” He let go of her, got dressed and left. She stared at the door unsure what to do now.
He came back a few minutes later. She was still sitting on the bed.
He was paging through a book. “See look here.” He pointed to the spot on the page that he wanted her to read. It was labeled the female reaction during an orgasm.
She read on, and her eyes widened. The book said the same thing that he had said. It had really been a wonder that she hadn’t bitten him. She closed the book and glanced at the cover and gave it back to him. It was a medical book.
“Anna, I won’t let this become a problem. We are going to make love often in the next couple of days, and believe me we will continue to make love after the honeymoon. Every night that you aren’t bleeding we will make love, and if you scratch, bite or do whatever it is that you need to do in that moment, it will be okay. It makes me very happy that your body liked mine.” He laid the book down on the nightstand and removed his clothes again.
He went to Anna and hugged her to him again. She still looked so ashamed of herself. He pulled the blankets back and guided her under them before he crawled in behind her and wrapped her in his arms.
He turned out the light, and they slept together as man and wife.
Chapter 28
“Anna!” Antonio had been looking for her for a while already. He stood in the courtyard; turning to see which room she would come out of. He was surprised to see her come out of the laundry room. She quickly hurried to his side.
He gazed down at her. “Is everything straightened out now?”
She nodded without looking up at him. The servants had been refusing to function correctly for her. They knew that he held her responsible for everything that went wrong in the household. She took the blame while the servants were pretending that they were on a paid vacation. Antonio told her that as the lady of the house it was her problem to see to the servants.
“Good, I knew that you could handle this.” He was smiling as he returned to his office.
Anna hurried back to the laundry room.
This started a week ago when he had opened his closet and noticed that his clothing wasn’t returning from the wash. He scolded her and pointed out that it was her job to ensure that the household ran smoothly.
When she spoke with the servants, they ignored her and pretended not to understand her. Her heart had felt as if it was going to break.
She wanted to get this right for Antonio. He had been nothing but nice to her since the wedding. He had faith in h
er that she could control the servants, but she couldn’t.
Anna had talked to Señora Raposa who pretended that she didn’t understand Anna. She would say something in Spanish, and Anna would give up and leave. She tried to talk to other servants, using her hands and feet, trying to get them to understand that they actually had to do their jobs, but they refused to listen to her.
Anna gave up and did the work herself. She had been ironing his shirts and pants and everything else. She would have his closet filled again by this evening. Tomorrow when he opened his closet, he would praise her again. She had it all worked out.
“Anna!” Antonia couldn’t believe it. She wasn’t in her reading room, again. The bed had been removed from her room and a lounge chaise had replaced it. He had done everything to make her comfortable, but she was playing hide and seek with him again.
The whole point of marrying a woman was so a man didn’t have to chase one down.
Again she came out of the laundry room. He shook his head at her. “Anna, I expect you to keep an eye on the clock. Any dealings you have with the servants should be taken care of in the morning right away. I will not play hide and seek with you.”
She nodded as she heard the servant girls laughing in the kitchen. The kitchen door was open to catch a breeze because of the heat.
“It’s time to eat.” He came down the stairs, and she walked towards the bottom of the staircase to join him. He took her hand and looked at her curiously. “Why are you sweating?”
“It was really hot in the laundry room.” She met his eyes.
He let go of her hand and charged into the laundry room. “Who were you in there with?” He grabbed her arm and yanked her to him.
“No one, really.” She was shaking her head. She had realized what he was thinking in the meantime. “I was only making sure the work was getting done, so I was snooping around in there.”
“You better not be lying to me. I swear I would kill you if I ever caught you with another man.”
She looked deep in to his eyes and saw that he meant it. She worried that he would kill her because he thought that she had done something when she hadn’t. He wouldn’t stop to listen to the truth.
“You know I’m not like that.” She blushed at the thought of being with anyone but him. She couldn’t even imagine it.
“I’m sorry, Anna. I know you aren’t like that. I didn’t mean to scare you or hurt your feelings. I guess I have a jealous streak,” he admitted with a smile.
“Would you? I mean do you plan to have an affair?”
Antonio’s jaw dropped. What a question, he thought.
“I mean, a person often hears that mafia men aren’t faithful.”
“Then I’m a unique mafia man. I have every intention of being faithful to you and only you. Besides, when a man has such a talented wife in the bedroom, why would he look elsewhere?”
Anna hushed him and swatted him in the belly with the back of her hand. “I hope no one heard you,” she scolded him.
Antonio took the gentle swat in stride and walked her into the dining room.
He let his right hand slide down the length of her body before he pulled out her chair and helped her into it.
Vinnie hid his grin as they waited for the food to be served. Anna sat up straight in her chair and waited quietly for lunch to be served. The servants came in and gave them their plates. They were laughing at her again. Their giggling even caught Antonio’s attention, and he wasn’t in the mood for giggling maids.
“What is so funny?” he barked at them in Spanish.
Anna jumped unsure if he meant her.
The servant girls quickly left to hide from his wrath.
“I want you to get them under control,” Antonio told Anna.
Anna nodded, showing him that she would. Antonio talked to Vinnie in Italian and ignored her. That meant that they were talking about something that he didn’t want her to know about, but as time went on, Anna was picking up a few words. There was going to be another drug delivery tonight.
She began to eat. Her mouth was on fire. She grabbed her glass of water and drank it down quickly. She coughed after she was finished with her water.
“What’s wrong?” Antonio demanded to know. He got up and knelt beside her chair.
“They spiced my food.” She coughed until she could speak again. “I’m sure it was a mistake.”
Antonio called the servants and demanded that they get Anna a fresh plate. He reminded them that Anna had a sensitive stomach.
Vinnie eyed the scene in front of him with great interest. He had thought that ‘this’ had stopped after she had fallen, but he realized several things that Antonio didn’t seem to be noticing. The servants were picking on Anna, and she was letting them, and even trying to hide it.
Instead of going to her husband and telling him, she was hiding the truth from him. She would be cracking soon. A woman couldn’t take pressure like that very long.
Vinnie wasn’t sure if Antonio knew or not. He decided that it wasn’t any of his business. The servants were testing the new lady of the house. Anna needed to learn to stand up for herself.
Was Antonio pretending not to notice so she would learn how to do that?
He discussed transport problems with Antonio that had arisen due to stricter border controls.
Anna returned to her reading room after lunch. She pretended to sit down and read as her heart banged in her chest. She had to figure a way to get his clothes out of the laundry room and into his closet. And she had to get everything in there as professionally as she could.
She waited an hour before she got up and sneaked down to the laundry room to fetch his things.
Most everything that he had needed to be hung up. She folded his clothes and laid them in his closet in what she hoped was the way they belonged.
When she was finished, she dropped to the floor and cried her heart out. She had her hand over her mouth as she screamed into it. She didn’t want anyone to know how much the behavior of the servants was hurting her.
Anna washed her face and then lay down in bed.
She first awoke when Antonio joined her in bed. He had been very clear about this, and they had made love every night since the wedding. Her period was already two days late.
Would the servants pick on the baby too?
Chapter 29
Antonio woke with the alarm. He sat up in bed and stretched, and then he leaned over to Anna and kissed her. He left to take a shower.
Anna knew that meant that she had to get up and get dressed now. She had washed and ironed one of her own dresses so she too would have something to wear today. She joined him in the shower, and he made room for her.
They did everything together. She had lost her shyness about it. He was only interested in getting clean at the moment. That was too bad. Sex was a good stress-reliever.
He finished first, and got out of the shower while she washed her hair. That was something that always took a long time. He shaved while she toweled herself dry and then went into her reading room. His eye was always on her, but that was more out of habit than fear. She hadn’t tried to runaway since that day in the woods. The lesson had been effective, he thought.
Still, it was good for a man to know where his wife was. But on the other hand it was also good that Anna knew that she was allowed to roam about the house as she pleased.
She came back dressed and waited off to the side for him to finish. It always took him a lot longer to get ready, which was also something that amused him.
He went into his walk in closet. The walls were painted a dark blue gray mix and the woodwork and customized designer shelves and drawers were cherry wood. It had a very masculine feel to it.
Anna waited off to the side as he opened drawers and looked through his shirts and trousers. “There is still a lot missing, but you seem to have gotten the servants on the right track. Well done, Anna.”
“Thank you, Antonio.”
He held out his hand i
n her direction. That meant that she had to take it, and that they would go down to breakfast together.
She was nervous as she waited for what the servants would pull now. Their plates came in again, and she eyed hers with suspicion. It looked alright. Even if they hadn’t done anything to it, the psychological effect was there.
She wouldn’t be enjoying any more food in this house.
Antonio’s eyes were on her plate again. “Are you feeling sick?”
She shrugged in reply. That decision could be made after she tasted the food. It tasted fine so she continued to eat as she thought about what they could have done to her food that she couldn’t make out with the naked eye.
Antonio finished and kissed her again before he went off to his office. Anna stayed put. She wanted to talk to Señora Raposa again.
Anna was about to give up when she finally came in. “Señora Raposa, please I need your help getting the servants to do their work. Please, help me.” She gazed up at the older woman.
The Señora was looking at Anna and shaking her head. She mumbled to herself in Spanish as she left with their dishes.
She was in on it too. Anna had hoped to find a friend in her because she had taken care of her when she was sick, but apparently, that had been forgotten.
Anna went back to the laundry room and finished ironing his things. She carried a heavy basket of their clothes up the stairs to their room. She put away his clothing first and then hers.
Antonio was calling out to her again just as she was finishing. She hid the laundry basket in her wardrobe and hurried to him. He did look a little pleased that she had been in her room.
He set her down at her spot and kissed her hand. Vinnie, who was ever present, sat across from her. He was watching them too.
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