บททั้งหมดของ Satisfying Her Darkest Fantasies: บทที่ 771 - บทที่ 780

“Rachael?”He pulled away and tipped her chin up so that he could look into her eyes. The candles he’d left burning provided just enough light that she could see his grim expression and the determination in his eyes to uncover her secrets.She sighed and looked away. “You know what kind of man my father was. And that when my father tried to force himself on Keeley, my mother made her an outcast. She was my cousin. And Keeley wasn’t the only young lass my father targeted. I knew of his evil from a very young age and I always feared …”She sucked in a deep breath and looked back at Caleb. “All I could think was what if he turned his attention to me? If he could do such a thing to his niece, what would it matter if I was his daughter?“I grew breasts at a young age. I had a pleasing shape that I knew men liked to look at. So I began to hide my attributes and make myself look more like a lad than a woman. And I learned to wield a sword because I swore if my father ever tried to force hims

Not awaiting his answer—’twas needless after all—she slowly got to her feet and then backed away a pace so that the warmth from the fire flickered over her skin.Hiding her smile, she turned until her back was presented to him and then she began untying the sash at her waist. She glanced over her shoulder to find him watching her with avid fascination.“I have need of your help, husband.”His hands shook against her nape as he unfastened her dress. When he’d undone enough that she could step from the folds of the material, she let it fall to the floor so that she stood in only her undergown.Turning so that she faced him once more, she reached up and threaded her fingers underneath the straps over her shoulders. Then she hesitated before pulling ever so slowly until they eased over her shoulders and down her arms.The neckline caught at her breasts but with a gentle tug, it slid over her nipples and fell into a pool at her feet.“Now shall I attend you, husband?”“Oh aye, wife. Aye, i

“Such displays are never appropriate in front of my men,” Caleb continued in a strangled voice.Rachael turned once more and stepped forward to loosen the ties of his trews. “Aye, husband, I’m sure you’re right. No show of affection in front of others. ’Tis unseemly.”She reached inside and cupped his heavy sac, squeezing gently.“ ’Tis not just … What on earth are you about, wife?”She stroked up and down and then withdrew her hand. “I’m undressing you. ’Tis my duty, is it not?”“Well, aye, ’tis sometimes. But right now ’tis important we have this discussion.”“Oh, I agree. Do continue. Where were you? Ah yes, you said ’tis not just … ’Tis just not what?”He frowned and shook his head as her hand grazed over his chest and then began pulling at his tunic.“ ’Tis not just unseemly. ’Tis a matter of respect. The men’s respect for me. I cannot command their respect if I’m being tumbled to the ground by my wife.”He had mustered another grim scowl, but she tugged at his trews and freed hi

He rested his cheek on the top of her head and held her so tightly that she could scarcely breathe. He trembled against her, and it awed her that this fierce warrior had been afraid. For her. That he shook with it. It shamed her that she’d thought even for a moment that he didn’t want their child, even if it was a logical conclusion at the time.Now she wanted confirmation. She wanted to hear it from his own lips that he was joyous over her pregnancy.“So you’re happy about the baby?”Her question was muffled by his chest, but he went still and then slowly drew her away so that he looked down into her eyes.“Happy? I think happy is too mundane a word. There are many words that accurately describe my reaction. Wonder. Aye, wonder. ’Tis not something I’ve contemplated until recently, and even then I spoke as a man boasting to be boasting. It didn’t really settle with me that I would become a father until Sarah bore the news to me in the hallway. The image hit me with force enough to sta

Caleb paused in his training and looked up as if knowing he’d find Rachael there watching. A slight smile lifted his lips and he nodded his acknowledgment to her. It gave her a ridiculous thrill every time he looked her way. Even though she despaired of the fact that he was oversolicitous, at the same time, she took great joy in the fact that he was so mindful of her well-being.He may not admit that he had any soft feelings for her, but ’twas obvious he hadn’t hardened his heart to her.“Soon you’ll give me the words I want, husband,” she whispered fiercely.“What’s that you say, lass?” Sarah asked.“ ’Tis nothing. I was but talking to myself.”“Come away. ’Tis starting to snow.”Rachael allowed Sarah to pull her back inside the keep and the two women walked down to the great hall so Rachael could warm herself by the fire.Despite Rachael’s earlier misgivings about learning the managing of the keep, after Caleb’s insistence that she remain inside, she had decided she needed something