“I’m not hurting you, am I?”
“No,” she said, catching her breath. “No, it’s good. It’s…” There weren’t really words, particularly not when Percy shifted his focus and began to rub her sensitive nubbin while Will continued to fill her.
The same soaring tension she’d experienced earlier began to build inside her belly. She knew now it would grow, spread through her fingers and toes, tickle all across her scalp until it possessed her completely, just as surely as William was possessing her now, and how she knew in time they would both possess her together.
“More,” she groaned a few moments later, realising she wanted him to speed up, even though her heart was already racing and she sounded completely breathless.
“You’ll have no complaints from me about that. Ride as hard and fast as you like.”
Yes of course, she was astride him. She leaned forward, clinging to him as she ground her hips, and he met her thrust for glorious thrust. The change in angle not only improved things, it made her wetter, hotter…Oh God! She was there again, shattering all to pieces while he still plunged into her.
She felt him come, felt the pulse of his cock while she was still clawing her senses back together, and the wetness of his seed filling her. She heard his cries and the way he moaned as he said her name. “My precious treasure,” he called her. “My sweet love.”
She was his. His and Percy’s or at least she was going to be. She’d made her mind up. A kind man wasn’t enough. Not when she could have two wicked men instead.
Percy was hard again by the time Will pulled out. He pushed into her, taking her from behind until he spent again. Then the three of them cuddled up tight, their heads all in a line upon the pillows, with one man on either side of her.
“I had no idea,” she admitted. “If I had there would never have been any doubt in my mind. I know what I want now.” She wanted this, wanted both of them, and to hell with convention and the potential backlash. Being loved by them would make it worth it. “The answer is yes. Yes, I will be your wife, Lord Ricborough—Will. And I’ll gladly welcome Percy into our bed and between my thighs.”
“Do you hear that Percy? She agrees.”
Their lover only grunted. He was already sleeping soundly.
Will dropped a kiss upon her nose. “Stay here for the rest of the night, so that we can see you when we wake.”
“If I do that, there’ll be no hiding what we’ve done.”
“I don’t want to hide it. I want to scream it out loud to everyone, so that they know that you are ours.”
“Yes,” she agreed. “I’ll always be that.”
Epilogue
“What do you have to say for yourself, sir?” her father demanded of William the following morning. Aunt Clara had eventually realised that she was missing from her room when she hadn’t risen when called. It’d taken her no time at all to decipher where she’d gone, and to gather her father so that they might storm the room.
Poor Percy had been obliged to hide on the balcony so as not to cause too great a storm, while they were both marched down to the study.
“I should have you expelled from this house immediately. You bed my own daughter, in my own house, and at Christmas no less. It’s not done, sir. It’s not lordly. It’s not right.”
William failed to look contrite. “What I have to say is this—May I please wed your daughter.”
“What?” Mr. Marsh huffed and spluttered, his face turning even redder than hers. She guessed he’d assumed Lord Ricborough to be an irredeemable cad. “Marry her? Well yes,” he blustered. “I damned well think you better had, and soon too.”
“I’d be happy for the vicar to read the first banns today,” William remarked amiably.
“Good,” her father said. “Good.” She’d never seen him quite so lost for words.
“May I please join with the family and guests for breakfast?” Viola asked him. Strictly speaking, she was not invited to mix, but was supposed to return to her quiet life in the nursery on Christmas Day.
“I rather think you had better. It seems I’ve an announcement to make. You’d best go and make yourself presentable somehow.”
Aunt Clara tugged her away. “Leave them to work out the details. Let us go and find you something decent to wear. Perhaps the yellow and blue sprigged muslin could be made presentable. We’ll have to send for some dresses to be made and order stockings and shifts and all manner of new things. If you’re to be a lady, you’ll have to be well turned out.”
“Of course, Aunt,” she agreed, though she didn’t think Will would mind what her clothes looked like, as long as they were easily unfastened.
Percy stood poised at the bottom of the staircase. He met them in the centre of the hallway, shot her a questioning glance and beamed in response to her nod. “I hear that congratulations are in order, Miss Marsh. It seems were about to be cousins.”
“That’s right,” she agreed.
Aunt Clara tutted.
Percy stepped forward a pace, so that he was only an inch or two away from her. “Then allow me to be the first to offer you room in our heats as one of our family.” Then raising a sprig of mistletoe above her head, he kissed her. “I know you’ll make William the most splendid wife.”
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Author’s Note
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Epilogue
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