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  "We'll camp here for the night." I halted my men in a copse of forestry that ran the length of a stream. I knew she had to be tired but she said nothing, stubborn wench. Too late I remembered that she was newly breeched and the hard ride could not have been easy on her sore muscles. Once again I find myself lacking as a husband. “Are you overly tender Rhian?” I hadn’t called her by that name in so long. I know it had given her much pleasure before, that shortening of her name from my lips. I sought to ease the soreness from her shoulders but she held herself stiff, stubborn ‘til the end.

  My squire came over to help her down but I shooed him away, I didn't want anyone else's hands on her. After last night I was feeling rather territorial where she was concerned which was really stupid considering it was part of my squire's duties to help his lady. Whatever the case I didn't want his hands on her.

  My horse is fifteen hands high so there was no way for her to alight by herself so I'd have to help her down. I climbed down and reached back up for her board stiff frame. She kept her face straight ahead ignoring my outstretched arms. I could hear my men moving around behind us setting up camp, and hoped they weren’t about to be witness to yet more of their mistress’s displeasure with her husband.

  "How're you feeling my love?" I took her down and held her before me. Dare I steal a kiss? It had been so long since the night. All day riding with her held so close I had had to steel myself from the rampant need of my body. He knew her now, knew her well and was even now hungry for more. “Well, how do you feel?”

  "I'm not talking to you." She set herself away from me and folded her arms as she looked about the forest where we’d be bedding down for the night. “There’s no need for worry little love, we are well secluded here and my men are prepared for any occurrence.” I thought perchance she as worried about our safety in such a place between home and safety. Though the kingdoms have been at rest for some time now there were still bands of outcasts who roamed the forests looking for loot.

  She turned her back to me then letting it be known that she had no interest in my words.

  "Suit yourself; Alec get my lady a hot bath as soon as the tent's set up lad." I had to glare the poor boy into action, as he seemed enthralled by her. She had a smile for him of course, which almost brought the poor fool to his knees as his mouth hung agape. “Be about it Alec.” My sharp reprimand brought him back to his senses and his youth showed in the blush that covered his cheek at being caught by his king practically ogling his wife.

  "Yes your majesty." The young man ran to do my bidding all but tripping over his feet while Rhiannon tried to work the kinks out of her back and shoulders.

  "I need to check on Jason." She tried to walk around me but I stopped her with a hand on her elbow.

  "No, I'll check on Jason, he's one of my men now and unless you want him to be mistreated the way he was in your land you'll stop babying him and let him be a man."

  "He's fifteen summers..." She was itching for a fight but this was one we wouldn’t have; if mother was right she’d been working her way up to asking me to bring the young man to our home. Once there he would’ve been my responsibility, and now after having met him I knew what course of action to take to make his once wretched existence something more.

  "I've said all I mean to on the subject, let it be."

  “Jason is my concern…”

  “He’s mine now, as a brother and as one of my trusted men. He does not need his sister mothering him in front of his new comrades it will only shame him.” I knew she wouldn't accept that because she's been nurturing him for so long but what she didn't understand, hadn't realized is that her babying him was more of a hindrance than help. I've been watching the young lad since we met and I'd come to learn that he's not hampered by his impairment. Anyone meeting him for the first time might be mistaken in thinking him weak, but it didn't take much to see that he had both inner and outer strength not to mention a beautiful heart.

  She'd marched off away from me in a fury but her stiff legs from the day's ride didn't allow her to get too far in her pique. She almost crumpled to the ground before I caught her up in my arms. I took a moment to enjoy the feel of her in my arms, something I knew wouldn’t last too long since she was still playing the hellcat. I inhaled her scent, spice mixed with the heat of the sun from the day’s ride. My cock, which seemed in a constant state of need since his first taste of her raised his head, seeking, yearning. Later.

  "I'm sorry love, I know I rode us pretty hard today but we really need to get home in haste." She put her nose in the air and ignored me; I didn't let that out me off though. In the hours that we'd been riding I'd come up with a plan of action. No matter how offensive or nasty she was towards me I have set it in my mind to show her only tenderness. It's the least I could do after all. I accept full responsibility for this disaster she was not to blame in the least for any of it. So I will take the fall out on my shoulders since I'd been a neglectful husband and king who'd allowed her to be treated so poorly. So I will accept every epithet thrown at my head and every scornful look, though they pierced me deeply, she was due her pound of flesh.

  I hope she didn't make me suffer too long though, it was hard not having the loving girl who'd first come to me all those months ago. Would she ever return or will I now be saddled with a less joyful replica? Someone who was ever wary of the same, never feeling comfortable in her own home again? I was only now realizing what a monumental task I’d set myself. How will I reforge the bond that had been broken, the trust we had lost? I will do it; no matter what it took I will do it because she meant everything. I won’t lose her again, not to the machinations of someone else’s wiles and not to her anger.

  Chapter 9

  I left her to her bath behind the tent walls while I spoke to my men. Alec had set up our tent a little ways away from the others, not too far but far enough to afford us some much needed privacy. I kept my eyes trained on it to make sure she stayed safe, not that anyone would dare approach my tent especially since they knew she was at her bath. But that's the reason I was so focused on her even as I gave my men their orders for the night's protection and the morning's ride. Knowing that she was naked only a few feet away made me hungry and I didn't like the idea that any of my men might be imagining what the beauty looked like in her present state. I needed to overcome this new malady of mine jealousy is a bloody nuisance.

  The men were a little restless as they wanted to head to the water to wash away the day's grime, cook already had the meat roasting on a spit and the horses were rubbed down and fed. I'd charged my man Jonas with watching over Jason while I saw to my wife's comfort. I'm sure my queen's ravenous by now, all she'd had to eat since luncheon was an apple and some water. Knowing her stubbornness I'd better let Alec or Jason take her food in, she'd most likely throw it at my head if I tried.

  See I'm already learning how to deal with her. I believed it wouldn’t be long before her natural tenderhearted nature won out and she forgave me. At least that’s what I keep telling myself, a man can hope can’t he? I wondered how much damage I'd do if I tried to take her tonight, after all I'd breeched her maidenhead only the night before only to be followed by hours in the saddle, and she was bound to be sore. Still I'll test the waters later, maybe I'll wait until she was asleep so she wouldn't be tempted to do me bodily harm.

  I couldn’t resist going to her as my men turned for the stream that ran through the forest. There were but a few left in the camp when I made my way into our tent. The sight that met my eyes was one I would wish to behold time and again. Relaxed in her bath, tendrils of her hair kissed her cheek and her neck from the heat of the water. She was a beauty without compare as she ran the bathing cloth along her raised leg. At the sight of me she dropped her leg back into the copper tub that had been brought just for her pleasure. I would not have my wife bathing in the open with my men about. Though I know it’s done it’s not something I favored.

  Walking over to her side, wordlessly, I knelt behind her and taking the cloth from her listless hand took over where she’d left off. “What is this you do? I can attend to myself or one of my ladies will help me if I have need of it.” I inhaled the scent of roses from her neck before bringing the cloth up between her legs. “It is a husband’s pleasure to care for his wife in all things is it not?” I did not await her answer but instead turned her face towards mine so I could take her mouth.

  I sucked her tongue into my mouth, teasing it with the edge of my teeth even as I caressed between her thighs with the soft cloth. When I was sure that she was too preoccupied with the feelings coursing through her to put up any resistance, I dropped the cloth and used my fingers instead to wash her. She moved against my hand beneath the water and I had to press my aching cock against the tub for relief. I won’t take her now this was for her. To keep her body well awakened so that when I did take her heaven willing there would be no fight. I felt her body tremble in release as she pulled my tongue wantonly into her mouth, her soft cries were captured between us. Only then did I release her lips and without uttering a word stood and left the tent for the stream. The cold water will help to cool me down until later.

  She's been fed and bedded down, the camp was finally quiet, my men keeping their ribaldry to a minimum out of respect to her presence. She'd put a bolster between our places on the spread furs that made up our bed when I finally retired for the night. I guess that answered my question, though I may control her body, once the pleasure had receded she was back to being the stubborn hellcat.

  I removed the offending pillow and threw it across the tent before pulling her forcefully into my arms with her back to me. She struggled for a few moments but I didn't let go, she still refused to speak to me the stubborn woman.

  "Stay." If I had to I would use my strength to overpower her because she had shown that there's no give in her, so I'll have to do the taking. Fair enough, but I hoped she knew her strength was no match for mine.

  Not long after her struggles subsided, I cupped her under her shift, she was hot and soft and...wet?

  Huh, seems my stubborn little dove likes being close to me, she may fight me all she wished but her body didn't lie. She clamped her legs together trapping my hand between her thighs. I just simply bit into the flesh of her neck until she released in more ways than one. I was pleasantly surprised that such a simple act could make her juices flow but the evidence was in the palm of my hand.

  Sweet mercy, she was such a sensual creature so much fire and passion and so responsive to my touch. I played her body until she cried out in heat, her young ripe ass grinding back against my rod that was ready to rut in her. “Tonight I will coupe with you in the way of my ancestors. Shh, shh, there’s no need to fear.” Her body had tensed up on me at my whispered words. “It will give you great pleasure to be fucked like the beast of the wild. In this way I will reach even farther inside you than last night.” I tore the shift from her body to get to her. Her breast spilled forth into my hands and I took them as I pressed her back against my front.

  “I’ve decided dear wife so hear me well. I will allow you to hold onto your stubborn pride for a time, your little rebellion is needed it seems to assuage your anger; but this, here, you will never deny me.” I cupped her warm pussy as I said the words into her neck. I released my cock pressing it into the firmness of her ass. “The choice is yours my love, I can take you softly, gently, or you can fight me and I will fuck you without care. Either-way the end result will be the same, I’m coming into you and you will not say me nay. What will it be?”

  She had kept her silence throughout my speech; just the harshness of her breath from her struggles could be heard. At my question she reached up and behind her dragging her nails along the side of my neck. “Very well then.” In answer I took the flesh of her neck between my teeth as I bore her down to the bed on her hands and knees. My cock needed no help finding her opening and surging in. Her loud scream, not because I had been rough, but because she had been bested, rang out into the night. I seated my cock deeply so as to prevent her throwing me off.

  I held still and enjoyed the feel of her cunt wrapped tightly around my cock again. It had been too long since the night before, too long without this. “I think when we reach our home and after I’ve dealt with my troubles I shall enjoy spending a week locked inside you like this.” I pushed her head down into the furs so that I could raise her ass higher so that I could go that much deeper into her. With her hair grabbed tightly in my hand I started to fuck her just as I’d said I would; like the lion with his lioness. I felt quite like the king of beast just then as I claimed what was mine. Her moans of pleasure and her body’s wetness were testament to the fact that she was enjoying this fucking.

  “That’s it my little hellcat, fuck yourself on my cock.” Her body had taken over control of her as she moved back against me taking me into her stomach as I plunged in again and again trying to reach her very end. Just when she started to squeeze around me in release I pulled out and latched my mouth onto her cunt drinking her juices from her. She mewled and cried as her fingers dug into the furs beneath her. She worked her cunt on my stiff tongue, as I showed no mercy. I couldn’t be too long at this most wonderful of pleasures, though I could lick her forever. No my cock demanded attention, he wanted back into her sweet heat.

  She seemed to come back to her senses as I turned her onto her back. Of course she had had her pleasure so now she fights me. She put up a token resistance but I held her arms down above her head and spread her legs with mine even as she glared up at me. I grinned down at her, which made her try to kick me. Still she said not a word, just spat at me with her eyes. I looked down at her ripeness, her pink petals opened for me soft with the dew of her essence as I guided my stiff shaft without hands into her opening and sunk in nice and slow. She grabbed me with her tightness as I threw my head back in deep pleasure; this was worth her ire and her rages against me, for this I'd endure her animosity for as long as it takes.

  I held the sweet globes of her ass in both hands as I worked her on and off my cock, her beautiful breasts begged to be sucked as her body betrayed her. Her wetness escaped and covered me as her hips moved against mine. Leaning over I took her nipple into my mouth and suckled, drawing upon it hard as if seeking sustenance. Soon, soon I will plant my seed in her womb, that more than anything will bind her to me forever, the thought made my head light and set my body on fire.

  I placed my body flush against hers holding her tight as we mated, her cries rang out into the night as I sucked the soft skin of her neck, my hips driving into hers as I rode her to completion. Thankfully we were far enough so no one would hear her screams of pleasure for I swear I wouldn't have cared one jot in that moment so far gone was I. I couldn't stop so fever hot was my need to pour my seed into her, her tiny hands held onto my back as I pounded towards orgasm and when she bit into my neck in her final throes of ecstasy I said a silent prayer that my seed would be true and she'd be carrying my son by morning light.

  “You have the sweetest cunt in creation sweet Rhiannon. Never again will you try to keep this from me. This is mine as you are mine, as I am yours.” I gave her no chance to answer me whether yea or nay as I covered her mouth with mine feeding her the taste from her own sweet honeypot while our bodies came down together from our wild ride. I pulled out of her body and pulled her into my arms and got settled for the night. Who knows what the morning light will bring? But come what may we will be one step closer to where we’d been before. Maybe there was something to this loving her into submission thing after all for no sooner than I had turned her into me had she curled around me like a cat and fell into slumber. With one final kiss to her brow I too dropped off into oblivion.

  Chapter 10

  Okay, so a night of sweet loving and hard fucking did nothing to sweeten her disposition. I'd left her in the wee hours to help the men break camp thinking that I would give her a little more time to rest since I'd kept her up most of the night. But that didn't seem to earn me any points either, instead I got a tongue lashing for making her appear tardy in front of her men. It seems her majesty the queen has decided to take ownership of her subjects at least, though she still wishes her king to the devil.

  “Is this the way we shall start every new day then wife? With you spitting like a wild thing even after a night spent locked together?” Her cheeks went up in flames as she turned her back to me to finish her morning ablutions. Walking over behind her I pulled her back into me with my face buried in her neck and my arms wrapped around her. “Your were my wild little lioness last night, now this morn you’re a hissing tigress.”

  “Unhand me you oaf.” She tried kicking my shin but I sidestepped her and turned her around so I could steal a kiss from her pouting lips. She nipped my lip until she drew blood. Pulling away I wiped the small spill away while looking down at her. “Tonight you will pay for that, I shall make you beg and plead with me before I take you over and over again.”

  “I will never beg you for anything my lord; now kindly remove yourself so that I may make myself ready. The men await do they not?” With one last stolen kiss I turned and finished my own dress before leaving the tent. My first order of business after seeing that all was in readiness was to check on her brother. “And how did you pass the night Jason?”

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