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00:00The third month after my husband left the estate, I didn't take a lover.
00:04I became addicted to a filthy phone call that came in every night at midnight.
00:08Wait, the man with that depraved voice was that my own stepson?
00:12I'd tear that fussy gown off you, pin you against the wall, make you beg me.
00:18Be quiet, you madman.
00:21I hissed it through my teeth, my fingers dug into the receiver.
00:24I didn't hang up, I couldn't bring myself to hang up.
00:27Listening to him describe what he'd do to me, my legs gave out.
00:30I leaned against the cold wall of the corridor.
00:33A strange heat shot from my belly to between my thighs.
00:36The fabric beneath my skirt was already soaked through.
00:39My husband, the old earl, had been in London at Parliament for three months.
00:43He was fifty, I was thirty.
00:45The age when a woman wants nothing more than to be hurt and filled.
00:48This dried out body of mine was driving me mad.
00:51Knees giving out, Countess?
00:53That low, dangerous laugh, pure provocation.
00:56I clamped a hand over my mouth, tried to swallow back the shameful sound rising in my throat.
01:02My body slid down the wall instead.
01:05Trembling between hunger and shame, I couldn't stop.
01:08Four times this week, every night at midnight, that depraved call came in like clockwork.
01:14At first it was terror, outrage, an unforgivable violation.
01:19But I told no one.
01:21And worse, I didn't pull the cord from the wall.
01:23By midnight, I was waiting for the bow.
01:26The earl had been gone three months.
01:28The hollow ache in my body had grown unbearable.
01:30Before he left, every night he'd sat in the leather chair in the master bedroom.
01:35One tap of his cane on the floor.
01:37And I was to strip every layer of silk in front of him.
01:40He'd pull on his black leather gloves.
01:42The leather creaked as it stretched.
01:44Those gloved hands would need me, with terrible force.
01:48No consideration at all.
01:50Until I'd torn the sheets to shreds.
01:52Staring at him, almost begging for the final thrust.
01:56Then he'd stop.
01:57He'd peel the gloves off.
01:58Slow.
01:59Drop them on the vanity.
02:01He never entered me.
02:02Not once.
02:03He'd turn and walk out.
02:05Close the door hard behind him.
02:07I'd lie naked on the bed.
02:08Listening to his boots retreat down the corridor.
02:10My legs unable to close.
02:12And then this man on the telephone.
02:14His damp, ragged breathing.
02:16His filthy fantasies of tearing my clothes apart.
02:20Words I had never heard.
02:21A seduction from another world entirely.
02:24A world without these cold, mildewed rooms.
02:27Without the endless rain and the endless waiting.
02:30A world that offered only immediate, scalding satisfaction.
02:34It was a barbed hook.
02:36Sunk precisely into the softest, most starving part of me.
02:39He knew, exactly, how to draw out a noblewoman left alone too long.
02:47Listen, my countess.
02:49You're so desperate right now.
02:52Aren't you?
02:54Go to your bedroom.
02:56I left you a gift.
02:58Go up.
02:59Enjoy it.
03:00That low, damp voice.
03:03As if pressed right against my ear.
03:05Click.
03:06The line went dead.
03:07I dragged my unsteady legs back to the bedroom.
03:10Bolted the door.
03:11On the vanity, a black velvet box.
03:14No card.
03:15I went rigid.
03:16I scanned the room.
03:18The dark drapes.
03:19The wardrobe.
03:20The shadow under the bed.
03:22The room was silent.
03:23Empty.
03:24I unwrapped it with shaking hands.
03:27Inside.
03:27A piece of oriental white porcelain.
03:30Shaped like a dolphin.
03:32But the curve of it was wrong.
03:34Too thick.
03:35Too rounded.
03:36Tilted at the tip in a way that suggested something obscene.
03:39Something made me reach for it.
03:41My hand closed around it.
03:43The porcelain was cold.
03:44My palm was scalding.
03:46I traced my fingertip up that smooth edge.
03:49The cold hardness against the heat of my skin.
03:51I lifted my head to the mirror.
03:53The woman looking back at me had a face flushed crimson.
03:57Her chest was heaving.
03:59She was breathing hard.
04:00In great open mouthfuls.
04:02A sleepless night.
04:04Julian came back at first light.
04:06The old Earl's legitimate heir.
04:0822 years old.
04:10In a pressed, dark suit.
04:12He stood in the center of the great hall like a flawless English gentleman.
04:16But as he stepped closer, that young man's heir.
04:19Aggressive.
04:20Predatory.
04:21It closed in on me.
04:22He stopped.
04:24Bowed his head.
04:25His large hand caught my wrist.
04:27Lifted the back of my hand to his lips.
04:30His mouth brushed the cold of my skin.
04:32Hot.
04:33Frightening.
04:34Every bit of heat I had only just suppressed surged back.
04:38He didn't release me.
04:39He slowly raised his head.
04:41There was no respect in his eyes.
04:43None of the deference owed to one's stepmother.
04:45His gaze slid from my face down to my chest.
04:49Without restraint.
04:50Like a pair of rough hands.
04:52They tore my fussy gown to ribbons in an instant.
04:55Stripped my wanton body bare beneath.
04:58As though he could see exactly how I'd held that porcelain dolphin last night.
05:02Exactly how I'd breathed.
05:04I sucked in a sharp breath.
05:06Pulled my hand back hard.
05:08I straightened my spine.
05:09Held myself in the bearing of a countess.
05:12Tried to warn him off with cold posture alone.
05:15I didn't dare open my mouth.
05:17A fine layer of sweat was already breaking out down my back.
05:20Beneath the heavy silk, I pressed my thighs together.
05:23Doing everything I could to hide that one look from him had already made me tremble.
05:30Five consecutive nights.
05:32The telephone in the corridor rang at midnight without fail.
05:35Each time I lifted the receiver, only that cheap tavern tune.
05:39And his aggressive, panting breath.
05:42I gripped the receiver.
05:43Said nothing.
05:44Did not hang up.
05:45I listened to him describe the most depraved fantasies he had of me.
05:49In the foulest words.
05:51By day, the estate became another, more dangerous cage.
05:56Julian was always there.
05:57In the narrow corridors.
05:59At the bend of the stairs.
06:01Always too close.
06:03Whenever I wasn't expecting him.
06:05He never gave way.
06:06As we passed, his broad shoulder would brush my arm.
06:10Even through the heavy silk of my gown, his young man's body heat was startling.
06:14He turned his head, just slightly.
06:17Pressed his mouth near my ear.
06:19Murmured one word.
06:21Mother.
06:21His voice low.
06:23Damp.
06:23Almost wet.
06:25The same tone as the man on the telephone.
06:27The one who said he'd pin me to the wall.
06:29I froze in place.
06:31My fingers clenched the hem of my gown.
06:33Crushed the costly fabric in my fist.
06:35I didn't dare turn around.
06:37I just walked away in my heels.
06:39Half fled.
07:09My defenses were being shredded layer by layer.
07:10Shirt.
07:11Immaculate.
07:12Cravat perfect.
07:37He cut a piece of bloody beef.
07:40lifted his crystal goblet.
07:42His eyes pinned to my face, clear and ringing in the dead silence of the dining room.
07:47Did you know?
07:48They are the most wantful creatures in the natural world, second only to us.
07:53Mate to breed.
07:54They mate for pleasure.
07:55They rub.
07:56They satisfy themselves with abandon.
07:59He took a sip of red wine.
08:01His throat moved.
08:03His eyes stayed fixed on me.
08:05On my flushed, choking face.
08:07On my ruined breathing.
08:09Then the corner of his mouth lifted into a small, cruel smile.
08:13What did he know?
08:14Or was it suggestion?
08:16Rain outside.
08:17Heavy.
08:18It hammered the glass.
08:20I could not sleep.
08:21I went to the door.
08:23Turned the key.
08:24Click.
08:24I bolted myself inside.
08:26I stripped off the heavy, restrictive gown.
08:29Layer by layer, I peeled away every piece of fabric that stood for propriety.
08:34I struck a match.
08:35Lid a single candle on the vanity.
08:37In the dim light, I opened the black velvet box.
08:41I took out the oriental porcelain.
08:43The shape of a dolphin.
08:45Full.
08:45Rounded.
08:46Tilted at the tip.
08:47Its surface was cold.
08:49My fingers gripped it until the knuckles went white.
08:52I carried it to the edge of the bed.
08:54Sat down.
08:55The only sound was the rain.
08:57My legs wouldn't stop trembling.
08:59I pressed my knees together.
09:01My stockings whispered against each other.
09:03I couldn't stop.
09:05They rub.
09:05They satisfy themselves.
09:08With abandon.
09:09Julian's words at lunch.
09:10Ringing in my ears with terrible clarity.
09:13A countess's dignity.
09:15A countess's morality.
09:16Both shattered.
09:17On this rain-swept night.
09:19I stopped fighting.
09:21I closed my eyes.
09:22Tilted my head back.
09:52Drew long, open-mouthed breaths.
09:53Porcelain found precisely the place that needed it most.
09:56I clutched the silk sheet on the other hand.
09:58White knuckles.
09:59I began to move it along that curve.
10:01Once again.
10:02Vest of short broken breaths.
10:04Sweat slid down the sheet.
10:05Onto the cold porcelain.
10:07The sheet was twisted out of shape.
10:08My thighs shook inside their legs.
10:10My knees knocked together.
10:12They rub.
10:13They satisfy themselves.
10:15I couldn't control it.
10:16A choked breath tore out of my throat.
10:18In that rain-soaked room, the sound was deafening.
10:21I had thrown away every shred of dignity.
10:23Panting like an animal over a piece of porcelain.
10:26Unable to stop.
10:27Just as I was about to come apart entirely.
10:29Click.
10:30The smallest turn of metal.
10:31The spare key turned in the door.
10:32The door pushed open.
10:33Light from the corridor flooded in.
10:35Julie's still in his daytime suit.
10:37Standing in the doorway.
10:38His eyes cold, deliberate, fell on me.
10:43Get out!
10:44Julian took in the disordered sheet.
10:46The piece of porcelain still in my hand.
10:48My breath stopped.
10:49I grabbed at the silk coverlet in a panic.
10:51Pulled it up to cover myself.
10:52I tried for the bearing of a countess.
10:54My voice broke.
10:55He didn't move.
10:56Then he turned and locked the door behind him.
10:58Click.
10:59Piercing in the dead room.
11:00He walked to the bed.
11:01One step at a time.
11:02His tall shadow closed over me.
11:03He leaned down.
11:05Hands braced on either side of me.
11:06His hot, young man's breath struck my collarbone.
11:09Then he parted his lips.
11:10Hummed very low a few rough notes.
11:12The cheap tavern gramophone too.
11:14The one from the telephone.
11:15My eyes went wide.
11:17No sound came out of my throat.
11:18He reached out.
11:19Through the thin silk coverlet precisely.
11:21He closed his hand over the porcelain in mine.
11:23Closed his hand around my hand.
11:25He tore the silk coverlet aside.
11:27My body was bare to the cold air.
11:28His other hand braced beside my head.
11:30His tall body pressed down.
11:32He gripped my hand.
11:33Forced me to hold the porcelain.
11:34Guided my hand downward.
11:35Pressed.
11:36The full, tilted tip of the dolphin pushed up into me.
11:39It appears the piece I collected myself.
11:41Suits mother's tastes very well.
11:47He began to move my hand.
11:49Once again.
11:51Brutal.
11:51I tried to close my legs.
11:53He drove them apart with his knee.
11:55The cold porcelain pressed and rubbed without mercy.
11:58Sweat ran from my forehead.
12:00I clenched my teeth.
12:01My other hand pushed the silk into deep folds.
12:04His wrist jerked.
12:05That cold hard thing broke past the last defense.
12:09Pushed deep into the burning heat of it.
12:11I could no longer hold my lip between my teeth.
12:14He drove my hand inside me with savage force.
12:17The shock of cold and burning heat together.
12:19My thighs convulsed.
12:21I threw my head back.
12:22My neck strangled.
12:23My body shook to its limit.
12:25I came apart in his hand.
12:27Slowly he drew my hand out.
12:29He lifted the porcelain in front of my face.
12:31From the rounded tip, a long glistening thread of moisture trailed me candles.
12:35Tremor.
12:36He stared at that thread.
12:37A scalding breath struck my face.
12:40The corner of his mouth pulled up in a cruel smile.
12:43Flatter.
12:43The porcelain fell to the carpet.
12:45In the quiet room, the bright snap of a metal belt buckle being undone.
12:49Look at yourself, Flatter.
12:50You really are just like those dolphins.
12:53Utterly wanting.
12:56The hardness and heat of a young man instantly replacing that cold porcelain pressed against me.
13:01But he did not enter.
13:02He only dragged himself along the burning heat between my thighs.
13:06Cruel.
13:07Slow.
13:07The hollow ache, after the friction of the porcelain, was unbearable.
13:11He stared at me with raw violence in his eyes.
13:14His sweat dripped on my collarbone.
13:16He was waiting for me to give up the last of my dignity.
13:18I clenched my teeth.
13:20What reason I had left forced me to shrink back.
13:22My hands pushed at his hard chest.
13:24My fingertips were shaking.
13:26I begging him to stop.
13:27He stared at my flushed face.
13:29The corner of his mouth pulled into a wicked smile.
13:34He stopped abruptly.
13:36Pulled back an inch.
13:37The pressure vanished.
13:38Cold air rushed in.
13:39My legs were ruined.
13:40I couldn't help it.
13:41My back arched forward.
13:43My thighs wrapped around his waist.
13:44Like a mad woman, I pressed myself against him.
13:47A small, humiliating whimper rose from my throat.
13:50He looked at my thighs locked around his waist.
13:53The malice in his eyes ignited fully.
13:55Every night you stand in that corridor and answer the telephone, mother.
13:58Is this what you've been imagining?
13:59Until you went mad?
14:01His voice dropped lower, mocking, naked.
14:04I bit my lip.
14:05I had no answer.
14:06He drove down onto me again, still not crossing the last line.
14:09He used that hardness only to slide brutally savage, fast against the burning heat of me.
14:14The full weight of him.
14:16The frequency of it.
14:17It destroyed what reason I had left.
14:18I threw my head back.
14:20The line of my throat strained tight.
14:22The heavy oak bed began to rock.
14:23The legs slammed against the floor.
14:25A terrible pounding.
14:29I tried to push him off.
14:31My hands locked around his back instead.
14:33My nails sank into the firm flesh.
14:35Cut bright streaks of blood.
14:36The silk sheets snagged in my grip.
14:38He went on.
14:39Fast.
14:40Without consideration.
14:41Heavy drops of his sweat fell on my collarbone and mixed with mine.
14:44Open your eyes.
14:46Horse.
14:46Commanding.
14:47His fingers caught my chin.
14:48Forced my face up.
14:49I opened my eyes.
14:51Shaking.
14:51The mask of the perfect gentleman was gone.
14:54The veins at his temple stood up.
14:55His throat moved.
14:56His eyes were dark.
14:57The lofty young air was because of my 30-year-old body drowning in his own pleasure.
15:02Watching him this undone because of me set off something I couldn't leave.
15:05The burning heat between my thighs spilled out more wetness.
15:08Where we met was a wound.
15:10What was left of my reason snapped.
15:15He went savage.
15:16Harder than harder.
15:17I threw my head back.
15:18My nails tore into his arm.
15:20My body convulsed under one savage thrust.
15:23I came apart beneath him.
15:24In the same instant his arm tightened around my waist.
15:27His body bowed taut as a drawn string.
15:29A muffled, broken sound.
15:31Scalding wetness a young man spilled across my belly and the inside of my thighs.
15:36The heavy oak bed at last stopped striking the floor.
15:38I lay collapsed on the wrecked silk sheet.
15:41Drawing huge open breaths.
15:42Trembling everywhere.
15:44The hot wetness slid down my skin.
15:45The shame of being used like a thing to be ground against used and released fell over me.
15:50My eyes burned.
15:51But the real deep pleasure he had drawn out of me was so undeniable that my heart, in this despair,
15:56kept pounding wildly.
16:01Then he stood up straight.
16:02He didn't look at me.
16:03Did up his belt.
16:04He walked to the door without a word.
16:06Click.
16:06The door opened.
16:07Shut hard.
16:08The corridor light disappeared.
16:10The room fell dead silent again.
16:12I lay on the ruined sheet.
16:13Drawing black.
16:14The wetness on my skin was going cold.
16:16He had thrown me away.
16:17Like a thing he had used.
16:19Pressed against on the bed.
16:20Rubbed against until he was satisfied.
16:22Then discarded.
16:23The humiliation rose.
16:24I clenched my teeth.
16:26My nails dug into my palms.
16:28Tears mixed with sweat fell on the pillow.
16:30The days that followed, he was worse.
16:32Whenever no one was watching, he closed the distance.
16:34At the bend of the afternoon corridor.
16:36In the airless glass house.
16:38In the dust-laden hour.
16:42He'd step across the space.
16:44Catch my wrist.
16:45Press me against the rough wall.
16:46His body would come down.
16:48His knee would choke between my legs.
16:50Through the heavy gown.
16:51That hardness pressed against me.
16:52I'd breathe at my face.
16:54His thighs would start their work.
16:56Once.
16:56Again.
16:57A frequency that didn't stop.
16:58I bit down on my lower lip.
17:00My nails clawed into the wall.
17:01Sweat fell from my forehead.
17:03One of his hands gripped my waist.
17:05The other pushed up under my skin.
17:06His fingers through the silk stockings worked the burning heat between my thighs.
17:10Open your legs.
17:11Let me end.
17:12Very well.
17:13A command.
17:14I was shaking.
17:15The wetness had soaked into the fabric.
17:17I wanted his weight inside me.
17:18To fill the hollow weight.
17:20But I clenched my teeth.
17:21Grabbed my skirt.
17:22Forced my knees tight.
17:23Held the last line.
17:25I would not yield.
17:26He stared at me with that ugly look.
17:28Then a small, cold laugh.
17:30He pulled his hand back.
17:31The pressure was gone.
17:32He smoothed his cravat.
17:34Adjusted his cuff.
17:35Without expression.
17:36Turned.
17:37Walked away.
17:38His shoes on the wooden floor.
17:39The sound retreating.
17:41I leaned against the cold wall.
17:42My skirting disorder.
17:44My legs would not stop shaking.
17:46The ache he had left suspended in me half built and unfinished was driving me mad.
17:53This forbidden disorder held until my brother arrived.
17:56I should never have agreed to let him come.
17:59It destroyed him.
18:00It destroyed me.
18:02The heavy oak doors swung in.
18:04Thomas walked in with his case.
18:06Nineteen years old.
18:07In a thin shirt.
18:09Clean.
18:10Unguarded.
18:10I stood in the great hall.
18:12I stood in the great hall.
18:13Julian stood at my side.
18:14Thomas came forward.
18:16Greeted me, sister.
18:17Then turned to Julian.
18:19Held out a stiff, polite hand.
18:21Julian did not take it at once.
18:23His gaze moved slowly over Thomas' face.
18:26Across the tense line of his jaw.
18:28Down to the throat that moved as Thomas swallowed nervously.
18:31In the great hall there was only the sound of the clock.
18:34I stood half a step away.
18:36I heard Julian's breathing deepen.
18:38His throat moved.
18:40The dangerous excitement in his eyes flared all at once.
18:43The look of a starving hunter sighting prey.
18:45More avid, more greedy than when he'd pinned me to a wall at midnight.
18:49He extended his hand.
18:51His broad, rough palm closed around Thomas' hand and squeezed tight.
18:55Welcome to the estate, Thomas.
18:57Very low.
18:58Damp.
18:59Aggressive.
19:00Watching his gaze warm because of Thomas, every drop of blood in my body went cold.
19:05Ice ran up my spine to the base of my skull.
19:08Cold sweat broke down my back.
19:11Julian had stopped seeing me entirely.
19:13For days, his eyes never settled on me.
19:16Not for a second.
19:17He had gone to Thomas.
19:18That afternoon, the photography darkroom of the estate.
19:20The heavy door was ajar.
19:22A line of dim red light.
19:23I stopped outside.
19:24Through the narrow gap Thomas at the basin.
19:26Julian behind him.
19:27The small distance between them gone entirely.
19:30Julian's tall body pressed down.
19:32His broad chest against Thomas' thin back.
19:34He reached around from behind.
19:35Folded both arms around Thomas.
19:37Those large hands.
19:38The ones that had gripped my waist at midnight.
19:40Now covered the backs of Thomas' hands.
19:42Guided them down into the developing fluid.
19:44The surface trembled.
19:46Julian bent his head.
19:47His mouth brushed Thomas' ear.
19:48He spoke low, slow, damp.
19:50The same tone I had heard every midnight in the telephone.
19:53Thomas did not know how to develop a photograph.
19:55He stood frozen.
19:56His thin shoulders shook against Julian's burning chest.
19:59Their breath tangled in the red light.
20:01The heat that had been mine.
20:02The violence that had been mine.
20:04All of it transferred.
20:05I stood in the cold corridor.
20:06My fist clenched.
20:08My nails sank into my palm.
20:09Sharp pain.
20:10A bead of blood seeped through my fingers.
20:12Wet and sticky in my hand.
20:14I stared at the two figures pressed together in the gap of the door.
20:17Whatever sense I had left burned to ash.
20:19I had to do something.
20:21Deep night.
20:23The corridor was dead silent.
20:25I stopped at the end of the corridor.
20:27Near Thomas' guest room.
20:29The heavy door wasn't fully shut.
20:31A narrow line of yellow light spilled across my shoes.
20:35I heard them.
20:36Thomas' breathing fast.
20:38Defenseless.
20:39The breathing of someone already lost.
20:41Already past resisting.
20:43Then Julian's voice.
20:45Very low.
20:46Very slow.
20:47With that damp tone I had heard so many nights in the corridor telephone.
20:51He was drawing Thomas across the last line.
20:53I stared through the gap.
20:55Julian's dark coat lay on the carpet.
20:57His tall body had Thomas pressed against the edge of the bed.
21:00Thomas' trousers were already loosened.
21:02The same large hands that had gripped me.
21:05Used me.
21:06Were now between Thomas' open lights.
21:08The muscles in Julian's arm passed.
21:10A strong, controlling rhythm.
21:12Fast.
21:13Heavy.
21:13Up and down.
21:14The wet, sticky sound was loud in the dead room.
21:17Thomas made a single broken sound.
21:20My violence.
21:21My hardness.
21:22He was about to give all of it to someone else.
21:25The bright snap of a metal belt buckle from inside the room.
21:28Clatter.
21:29The sound struck my ear.
21:31I stood outside the door.
21:32Stared at the suit jacket on the carpet.
21:35I raised my hand.
21:36Closed it around the cold brass handle.
21:38Without hesitation.
21:39Pushed the door open.
21:42A loud crack.
21:43The brass handle slammed into the wall.
21:45Thomas flinched.
21:46His face flushed scarlet.
21:48He stared at me with horror and shock.
21:50Shirt open.
21:51In disarray.
21:52I didn't look at him.
21:53I looked at Julian.
21:54On the edge of the bed.
21:55His hand was still between Thomas' legs.
21:57Motion stopped.
21:58That wet, grating friction gone.
22:00He slowly raised his head.
22:01The dangerous excitement in his eyes.
22:03A cold smile pulling at his mouth.
22:05I walked to the bed in my heels.
22:07Step by step.
22:08Sis.
22:08Thomas' voice trembled.
22:10He fumbled at his fallen trousers.
22:12I ignored him entirely.
22:14I stared straight at Julian.
22:15Both hands catching the sash of my robe.
22:17I pulled hard.
22:18The robe fell open white skin.
22:20Nothing beneath but lace.
22:21I lifted my leg.
22:22In front of my own brother I climbed astride Julian's thigh.
22:25Through the rough trousers of his suit.
22:26I pressed down on the hardness already weighted.
22:29My hands pressed his broad shoulders.
22:31My thighs were shaking violently.
22:33I caught his hand, the one that had just been working Thomas.
22:35And pressed it flat against my chest.
22:37Let him go.
22:39The last thing you want.
22:42I will give it to you.
22:44Now.
22:46Take me.
22:48This instant.
22:51Julian didn't refuse.
22:53He smiled with genuine interest.
22:56He tore the last barrier away.
22:58The rough fabric of his trousers scraped my thighs.
23:01He locked his hands around my waist.
23:03Drove up into me.
23:05His hardness broke into me at once.
23:07Without mercy.
23:08I sat astride his thigh.
23:10In front of Thomas.
23:11I pressed my hands on his shoulders.
23:13I began to drive myself down.
23:16Once.
23:16Again.
23:17The heavy bed frame rocked.
23:19The legs slammed against the floorboards.
23:21A great, terrible pounding.
23:23I threw my head back.
23:25I could not hold the sound.
23:26Wide, open breaths echoed in the room.
23:29Sweat slid down my throat.
23:31Across the torn lace.
23:32Thomas was huddled at the side of the bed.
23:35Frozen.
23:36His eyes were red.
23:37Locked in horror on the place where Julian and I were joined.
23:40Julian leaned back against the headboard.
23:43A wild fire in his eyes.
23:44One hand gripped my waist.
23:46Controlled how deep I went.
23:48The pace.
23:48His other hand reached for Thomas.
23:51That broad palm caught my brother's chin.
23:53The thumb moved.
23:54Slow.
23:55Back and forth across Thomas' trembling lips.
23:58Are you watching closely, Thomas?
24:00Look at your dignified, virtuous sister.
24:02Look at how she rides a man.
24:04See how wantish she is.
24:07I shook all over.
24:09I clenched my teeth.
24:10I didn't stop.
24:11I stared at Julian.
24:13My movement turned wilder.
24:15Heavy.
24:16Frequent friction.
24:17The impact was deafening.
24:18A final savage thrust.
24:20He locked my waist.
24:21His body went rigid.
24:22A muffled, broken sound.
24:25Scalding wetness filled me.
24:26I collapsed against his chest.
24:28Drawing huge breaths.
24:30My thighs trembled against his trousers.
24:32He released my waist.
24:34That hand slipped down.
24:36Brushed across the edge of where we were still joined.
24:38His rough fingertip came away coated.
24:41A long, glistening thread of wetness.
24:43He reached for Thomas again.
24:45The fingertip pressed against Thomas' lips.
24:48He smeared the wetness across them.
24:50Without restraint.
24:51Do you want it?
24:52Your sister's taste?
24:55Don't you stop.
24:56And mine.
24:57In a few days, I'll give it to you.
25:00I lay against his sweat-soaked chest.
25:03The words struck my ear with terrible clarity.
25:05My hand closed slowly into a fist.
25:07My ten fingers clenched the sheet beneath us.
25:12After that night, everything changed.
25:14The music of an evening reception drifted through the great hall.
25:17I stood behind a pillar.
25:19I watched Thomas' eyes follow Julian.
25:22I walked over.
25:23I caught Julian's wrist.
25:25I pulled him straight into the storeroom at the end of the corridor.
25:28I locked the door behind us.
25:30No lamp.
25:31I stared at him.
25:32My hands caught the straps of my gown.
25:34I pulled him down hard, tearing, fabric splitting.
25:38The heavy silk fell to my waist.
25:40I stepped forward.
25:41Pressed myself against him.
25:42His rough suit scraped my skin.
25:44I caught his broad hands.
25:46Pressed them against my open dress.
25:48He caught my waist.
25:50Spun me around.
25:51Pinned me to the heavy wooden door.
25:53The bright click of a belt buckle.
25:55He drove into me without mercy.
25:57The door pounded against its frame.
25:59I dug my hands into the wood.
26:01Pushed my back against him.
26:03Met every brutal stroke.
26:05His scalding sweat fell on my back.
26:09Your brother is still looking for me in the hole.
26:11He doesn't deserve it.
26:13Give it to me.
26:15Move.
26:16His fingers on my waist tightened.
26:18Nearly dug into the flesh.
26:19He turned savage.
26:20A heavy, ceaseless rhythm.
26:22I threw my head back.
26:23My throat strapped.
26:25In the dark of the storeroom,
26:26only the slap of flesh in the ragged browns.
26:31Crack.
26:32The storeroom door was kicked open.
26:34Thomas in the doorway.
26:35His eyes red-rimmed.
26:36His chest heaving.
26:37He stared at the two of us.
26:38Disbelief written all over his face.
26:40I'm going to London.
26:42I'm going to write to the Earl.
26:45I'm writing everything down.
26:47Everything you've done.
26:48Come.
26:49Hold him.
26:50I calmly straightened my skirt.
26:52Steadied my breath with Julian.
26:53Watched him come apart.
26:54The guards moved forward.
26:56Caught Thomas by the arm.
26:57Thomas struggled.
26:58A guard kicked behind his knees.
27:00Thomas dropped onto the carpet.
27:01The guards twisted his arms behind his back.
27:03A knee on his spine.
27:05His face pressed to the floor.
27:06He opened his mouth to scream.
27:08Julian came up behind me.
27:09His tall body pressed against mine.
27:11The hardness still there.
27:12Through the silk of my gown.
27:14One of his arms came around.
27:15Caught my waist.
27:16I looked at my own brother.
27:17Pinned.
27:18Helpless.
27:19On the carpet.
27:20Julian's fingers tightened.
27:21The hardness behind me slid against me.
27:23Up.
27:23Down.
27:23My breath broke.
27:25My thighs clamped together inside my skirt.
27:27I leaned back into Julian's chest.
27:29Looked at Thomas on the carpet.
27:32You aren't going anywhere.
27:36Thomas' pounding on the door was sealed away at the end of the corridor.
27:39The estate fell entirely silent.
27:42The next day.
27:43Afternoon.
27:44The library on the second floor.
27:46The old Earl's leather sofa.
27:49Julian had me down on it.
27:50He hadn't removed his jacket.
27:52The rough fabric scraped my thighs.
27:55He tore at the silk of my gown.
27:57The clatter of a belt buckle on the carpet.
28:00He gripped my waist.
28:01Drove down savagely.
28:03The leather sofa beat against the oak panel.
28:05Heavy documents in the inkwell shook loose from the desk.
28:09Scattered.
28:10I threw my head back.
28:12Sweat fell on the leather.
28:15Evening.
28:16The bath chamber.
28:18Steam everywhere.
28:19He walked in.
28:20Pinned me against the wet glass.
28:22Nothing between us.
28:24Skin to skin.
28:25His hardness pushed straight inside.
28:28One hand at my throat.
28:30The other pulled my leg up high.
28:32A savage rhythm.
28:33The glass door shook.
28:34A great noise.
28:36I locked my arms around his broad back.
28:39My nails left deep streaks of blood.
28:41My wide breaths and the impact drowned the sound of water.
28:45From day into night.
28:46From leather sofa to cold tile.
28:49My legs shook every day.
28:51My thighs and knees were covered in deep bruises.
28:54But the moment he stepped close.
28:56The moment that burning hardness came against me.
28:59A fresh helpless wetness spilled out.
29:04The days of indulgence did not last.
29:07That night.
29:08A storm.
29:09I stood at the top of the stairs.
29:11My robe was loose.
29:12On the inside of my thigh.
29:13The sticky thread left only minutes before.
29:16Crash.
29:17A great.
29:17Heavy sound.
29:18The oak doors of the great hall were thrown open.
29:21Wind and rain poured in.
29:22The Earl of Ashworth stood in the center of the hall.
29:25Long black coat.
29:27Rainwater ran from his hem and pooled dark on the floor.
29:30He had returned from London.
29:31Early.
29:32The cane in his hand struck the floor.
29:35Tap.
29:36The sound was perfectly clear in the dead estate.
29:38He raised his head.
29:40Cold eyes pinned to my face.
29:42I stepped back half a pace.
29:44My knee struck the wooden banister.
29:46The bruise beneath my stocking pressed against the hard wood.
29:48A fine, dense, cold sweat broke at once across my forehead.
29:52I clutched at the crumpled silk of my skirt.
29:54The burning wetness beneath had been struck cold the moment the wind came through the door.
29:59I stood there.
30:00My chest rising and falling.
30:02Drawing wide, open breaths.
30:04The Earl stared at me.
30:05Beneath his utterly cold gaze.
30:07My thighs clenched themselves together under the galley.
30:09They would not stop trembling.
30:13He drew off the black leather gloves.
30:15Slowly.
30:16Slap.
30:16The soaked gloves struck the long table.
30:18He stepped forward.
30:19His mud-soaked boot struck the floor.
30:22He raised his head.
30:23That utterly cold gaze passed over my loose robe.
30:26Down the silk skirt I had crushed into deep folds.
30:30Came to rest on my face.
30:32I let go of the hard wooden banister.
30:34Walked down the stairs.
30:36One step at a time.
30:38The sticky thread on the inside of my thigh moved with every step.
30:41Brushed against my skin.
30:43I stopped in front of him.
30:45Raised both hands.
30:46Began to undo the buttons of his black coat.
30:49My fingers shook.
30:50They touched the rough, cold, wet fabric.
30:53They would not bend properly.
30:54Click.
30:55The first button came open.
30:56Slowly.
30:57The Earl did not move.
30:59He stared down at me.
31:01Above us on the stairs.
31:02Leather shoes against wood.
31:04Julian.
31:05Standing in the shadow on the second floor.
31:09He'd thrown his white shirt back on.
31:12Sloppy.
31:12The collar open.
31:14Across his collarbone a fresh red welt.
31:16Both hands in his pockets.
31:18Looking down at the hall.
31:20The corner of his mouth pulling up.
31:22A small, almost smile that meant nothing.
31:25The Earl suddenly raised a hand.
31:27That broad, cold palm closed around my wrist as I worked the buttons.
31:32His thumb pressed down hard.
31:34Onto a dark red bruise on the inside of my wrist.
31:37The print of fingers.
31:39Left ten minutes earlier.
31:41When Julian had pinned me against the leather sofa.
31:43I sucked in a sharp breath.
31:45My teeth broke the skin of my lower lip.
31:48The taste of iron flooded my mouth.
31:52The Earl let go of my wrist.
31:54The dark red bruise had been pressed into deep purple.
31:56He turned.
31:57Took up his cane.
31:58Walked toward the end of the corridor.
31:59The leather boots struck the wooden floor with a heavy beat.
32:02I rushed forward.
32:03My back struck the heavy oak door.
32:05Pressed against it.
32:06Blocking him.
32:06The brass handle on the guest room door was wrapped in a thick chain.
32:10Long nails driven into the window frame.
32:12Why has Thomas not come out?
32:13Ill.
32:14Gravely.
32:15Cannot bear the draft.
32:16The Earl said nothing.
32:17The corridor was utterly silent.
32:19His gaze passed across my loose road.
32:21Slowly across the rough chain.
32:23Came to rest on my eyes.
32:24Five seconds.
32:25He did not reach for the door.
32:27He did not touch the chain.
32:28He only stared down at me.
32:29I leaned against the wood.
32:30Drew short, open breaths.
32:32My legs shook violently beneath the silk.
32:34My knees knocked together.
32:35I couldn't stop them.
32:36The absolute pressure of him crushed me.
32:38But under that dangerous stare,
32:39the still damp thread on the inside of my thigh began to burn again.
32:43From deep beneath my skirt,
32:44fresh wetness spilled against my will.
32:46Aching to be filled.
32:49The night was crueler.
32:51The wide marriage bed.
32:53The Earl lay beside me.
32:54In the dark, only his heavy, even breathing.
32:57I lay flat on my back.
32:59My hands clenched the silk corner of the coverlet.
33:02My nails almost cut through.
33:04The bed was clean.
33:05Solemn.
33:06But my mind was nothing but Julian.
33:09The pin against the wall.
33:10The leather sofa.
33:12The savage, broken breathing.
33:14The brutal impact.
33:16The absolute control.
33:17And the absolute silence they set my body on fire.
33:20I dared not turn.
33:22I dared not make a sound.
33:24I clamped my thighs together.
33:26The wetness between my legs spilled out in great heavy pulses.
33:30Cold sweat soaked my silk nightdress.
33:32In the Earl of Ashworth's bed, I shook to the point of madness.
33:36Fantasizing wildly about his son breaking down the door.
33:39Climbing onto this bed and filling me.
33:44Luncheon.
33:45The long table.
33:46The air was as dead as a stagnant pond.
33:49The servants stood at the wainscoting like wooden posts.
33:52The Earl sat at the head.
33:54The silver knife in his hand.
33:55Cutting slowly at his meat.
33:57I sat at his right.
33:59Julian sat directly across from me.
34:01The Earl bent his head and chewed.
34:04I sat upright in the high-backed chair.
34:06But beneath the heavy linen under the great shadow of the table,
34:09I slipped my right heel off.
34:10A small, dull sound.
34:13Drowned by the clink of silver against porcelain,
34:16I extended my foot in its thin silk stocking across the table,
34:20pressed it against Julian's calf.
34:22Through the rough fabric of his trousers,
34:25I dragged the top of my foot up the line of his shinbone.
34:29Slowly, with weight.
34:31Once, again, the crudest provocation.
34:34Julian's knife stopped.
34:36He slowly raised his head.
34:37Those wild eyes crossed the silver candelabra and pinned me.
34:42The Earl was half a meter away at the head.
34:44Lifting his crystal goblet.
34:46Drinking red wine.
34:47Julian stared.
34:49Beneath the table, his shin lunged forward.
34:51Drove between my feet.
34:53The rough fabric forced its way up.
34:55Pressed savagely against the thin silk.
34:57I sucked in a sharp breath.
34:59My silver fork scraped against the porcelain.
35:02A piercing chime.
35:03The Earl paused.
35:05His cold gaze cut to me.
35:07I bit my lip.
35:08Held my back straight.
35:10Met his eyes.
35:11My head full of how I would draw Julian into a dark corner tonight.
35:15Beneath the table, where no one could see.
35:18My knees closed tight around his leg.
35:20Wetness surged.
35:22Slid down the inside of my thigh.
35:26Next month, you report to the royal foot guards.
35:29I've arranged everything.
35:31For the family.
35:32The Earl's silver knife cut through a bloody piece of beef.
35:36Red juice seeped onto the snow-white porcelain.
35:38A perfectly flat sentence.
35:41In the dead dining room, it struck like thunder.
35:44My knees clamped on Julian's calf beneath the table went rigid.
35:47Clatter.
35:48The crystal goblet slipped out of my hand.
35:51Hit the floor.
35:52Glass shattered.
35:53Deep red wine sprayed everywhere.
35:56Bright red.
35:57The Earl stopped chewing.
35:58His gaze crossed the long table.
36:00Settled on my face.
36:02Three servants rushed in.
36:04Dropped to their knees to clean.
36:05I sat upright in the high back chair.
36:08Drawing short, open breaths.
36:10The wetness between my thighs burning hot a moment ago went cold.
36:13Julian did not look at the broken glass on the floor.
36:16He slowly drew his leg out from between mine.
36:19Set down his knife and fork.
36:21Leaned back into the high back chair.
36:23Drew a long breath.
36:25Let it out slowly.
36:26The aggression that had wrapped around him day and night, the ready-to-bite menace, all of it, lifted clean
36:31off him in that moment.
36:32His eyes crossed the silver candelabra, looked at my chalk white face.
36:37He tilted his head a fraction.
36:39The corner of his mouth pulled up slowly into a faint smile.
36:42No anger.
36:44No anger.
36:45Just a kind of relief.
36:47The kind that comes when something inevitable has at last arrived.
36:51One word from this old man who held absolute power and the bodily abandonment I had thrown my dignity away
36:56for was ground to powder.
37:00Luncheon ended.
37:01The earl dropped his napkin.
37:03Took up his cane.
37:05Walked toward the library.
37:07The leather of his boots struck the floor with a sounding rhythm.
37:10The sound disappeared at the end of the corridor.
37:12I stood up.
37:14The silk of my long gown clung against my shaking legs.
37:17I was not afraid.
37:19Julian had accepted his sentence.
37:21I had not.
37:23A twisted hatred born of absolute submission churned in me.
37:26That old man had taken my youth.
37:28Now he meant to cut away easily the one outlet I had.
37:32I stared at Julian.
37:33Bit through my lower lip.
37:35The taste of iron flooded my mouth.
37:38I turned.
37:39Looked down the deepest part of the second floor corridor.
37:42There.
37:43The earl's master bedroom.
37:44The cleanest, most exalted forbidden room of the estate.
37:48If he meant to end it.
37:49Tonight, I would push open that door myself.
37:52On that bed, the symbol of his absolute dignity, I would open my legs without restraint.
37:57I would have his son, who had just surrendered, drive into me in the lowest, most savage way.
38:02I would leave that old man's dignity and his sheets a complete ruin.
38:09I stood barefoot in front of the master bedroom door.
38:12My hand on the cold brass handle.
38:15Footsteps on the stairs.
38:17Julian came up.
38:18He'd taken off his coat.
38:20Held it in his hand.
38:21His cravat undone.
38:23Loose around his neck.
38:24He had accepted the old man's arrangement.
38:27He was on his way to his rooms on the third floor.
38:29I blocked him in the middle of the corridor.
38:32He stopped.
38:33Looked at me.
38:34The corner of his mouth pulled up a tired, temperature-less smile.
38:39Get to bed, mother.
38:40It's over.
38:42It's over.
38:44Pitched low.
38:46Carrying a final resigned acceptance.
38:48He moved to step past me.
38:50I caught his wrist.
38:52My ten fingers clenched.
38:54Nails dug into the flesh of his forearm.
38:56He stopped.
38:57Turned his head.
38:58I said nothing.
39:02I only stared at him.
39:04My other hand found the collar of my silk gown.
39:07Snap.
39:08The first button came open.
39:09The second.
39:10The third.
39:11I caught the fabric in both hands.
39:14Pulled it apart.
39:15The heavy gown slid down my thighs.
39:18Fell on the wooden floor.
39:19Cold air struck me.
39:21The corridor was dead silent.
39:23Julian's eyes locked.
39:24I gripped his wrist.
39:26Pulled it fully.
39:27Pressed his warm palm directly against my bare chest.
39:31I stepped back.
39:32My back pushed open the oak door of the master bedroom.
39:38The hinge turned silent.
39:40The room in that wide bed of the Earl of Ashworth, made up with snow-white silk, was exposed in
39:44the dark.
39:44The most untouchable forbidden room of the estate.
39:47I looked into his eyes.
39:49My breath fell on his jaw.
39:50One last time.
39:51On his bed.
39:52Now.
39:53Julian looked at me.
39:54His gaze went over my shoulder.
39:56To the bed.
39:57The resignation in his eyes under absolute madness cracked apart by inches.
40:01His throat moved.
40:02Hard.
40:03His breathing turned heavy at once.
40:05Slop.
40:05He dropped his coat to the corridor floor.
40:07He caught the back of my neck with one hand.
40:10His tall body drove forward.
40:11He stepped into the master bedroom.
40:13Click.
40:14The heavy oak door he shut it behind us.
40:16Bolted it.
40:18Julian slammed me down onto the snow-white silk.
40:21No wasted motion.
40:22He undid the belt.
40:23Brutally drove straight inside.
40:24I threw my head back.
40:25The back of my skull struck the Earl's pillow.
40:27One wall away the library.
40:29The muffled creak of a leather chair.
40:30The scratch of a pen across paper.
40:32The old Earl was in the next room.
40:34The snow-white sheet was destroyed in seconds.
40:36Julian gripped my waist.
40:37A heavy, ceaseless rhythm.
40:39The heavy oak frame began to rock.
40:41The legs slammed against the floor.
40:42A pounding so loud it shook the walls.
40:44Sweat fell from his chin onto the silk.
40:46My hands locked around his broad back.
40:48My nails dug deep into the flesh.
40:50Cut long streaks of blood.
40:51The blood and the sweat ran together.
40:53He drove down.
40:54The cruelest thrust.
40:55I threw my head back.
40:56My throat strained.
40:57I could no longer hold my lip.
40:58A sharp, broken cry tore out of my throat.
41:01In the empty estate, the sound was deafening.
41:03In the same second, he locked his arms around me.
41:06His body went rigid.
41:07A muffled, broken sound.
41:09Scalding wetness poured into me.
41:10The air went dead.
41:11The scratch of the pen in the library stopped.
41:13The leather chair was silent.
41:15In the corridor, heavy leather boots.
41:17One step, another, stopped outside the master bedroom door.
41:19Cracks.
41:20A terrible splintering noise.
41:22The heavy oak door was hacked to through from outside by a long sword.
41:25The metal bolt broke loose.
41:27Sat to the floor.
41:28Splinters flew.
41:28Lightning spritzed away.
41:30The bone-white flash lit up the room.
41:31The Earl of Ashworth stood in the door.
41:33Dressed in black.
41:34A cold, gleaming crusader's sword in his hand.
41:37Rainwater still ran from the hood.
41:38No expression.
41:39Cold.
41:40Dead.
41:40His gates passed over the splinter door and hanged itself on the ruined bed.
41:44On the two bodies still charmed.
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