To her surprise, Bernard did not express any shock.
“Many women are the same,” he assured her, pulling her even more tightly against him. “But don’t be afraid, love. I will take care of you, and you will never have to be frightened again. Do you trust me?”
“You know I do,” Janice answered. “But I heard one of the maids saying that making love is painful. They said you just have to lie still and be quiet.”
“Then their husbands are not loving them properly.” Bernard kissed the top of her head. “It might hurt a little the first time, but after that, it will be, I hope, a pleasure for you.”
“I love you,” Janice whispered.
“And I love you. Now let me show you how much.”
He began to unlace the back of her dress, trailing a path of kisses down her spine as he did so.
Janice moaned in pleasure as the soft, ticklish sensation of his lips sent waves of delight to her nerve endings, making her whole body writhe involuntarily in delight.
He cupped her breasts from behind while kissing a path down the side of her neck and teased her nipples with his thumbs through the thin fabric of her shift.
“I have never felt anything so lovely,” Bernard breathed, feeling her pliant flesh mold itself into the shape of his hands. “You are a goddess.”
Janice moaned with satisfaction and turned around in his arms, tilting her face to look into his eyes. They held each other’s gaze for a moment, then Janice began to undress him. She pulled out his shirt from under the belt that held up his kilt, then pulled off his belt so that it fell to the floor in a heap. He stepped out of it, and Janice, after a moment’s hesitation, looked down apprehensively at his shaft, which was now proudly jutting out toward her.
“See what you do to me?” he asked huskily, with a hungry look in his eyes that Janice had never seen before.
She swallowed nervously, then shrugged out of her dress. Bernard took off his shirt and pulled her shift over her head before tossing them both on a nearby chair. They stood close together, not quite touching, each studying the other’s bodies in wonderment for a moment.
He was a perfect specimen of male beauty.
“You are not what I expected,” Janice whispered, still looking at his shaft in disbelief.
In truth, she was mesmerized by it. Then her eyes traveled upward to his gloriously muscled torso, the broad flat planes of his chest, and the width of his strong shoulders. He was so different from her! Where she was soft and rounded, he was hard and angular. Where he was rough, she was smooth. They complemented each other in every way.
“And you are even more lovely than I thought you would be,” he replied as he picked her up and set her tenderly on the bed. His gaze traveled all over her for a few seconds before he smiled wickedly. “Mine, all mine,” he growled.
He sounded as if he was a man who had been starving and was now being presented with a feast. Indeed, to his eyes she was a feast, with her lush, ripe breasts, tiny waist flaring into her rounded, womanly hips, and the long shapely columns of her legs. In between them lay a little patch of dark hair that held the source of all her pleasure and love.
Janice arched her body up to him as his lips descended on hers, and she felt his tongue sweep into her mouth to do a sensual dance with hers. She had only the vaguest notion of what was going to happen next, but the place between her legs was throbbing insistently, impatient for…what?
He had settled his large body between her legs, and she felt the long piece of hard flesh rubbing rhythmically against the sensitive spot at her very core. She had only been vaguely aware of that spot until now, but now the sensation building up there was becoming more and more wonderful by the second.
Nothing she had ever experienced had prepared her for it. She felt as though she was reaching for something, but just as she was about to grasp it, Bernard moved away, sliding himself down her body and leaving a trail of kisses in his wake.
She was shocked when she felt his tongue sweeping down between her soft folds, then, when she felt him sliding first one, then two fingers inside her to tease her wet and sensitive flesh, she squealed.
“What are you doing?” she asked breathlessly as she felt his thumb begin to rub against her sensitive nub. It was almost unbearably pleasurable.
Bernard did not answer her at first. He had moved back to her breasts, suckling one, then the other of her nipples, tasting the sweetness of her flesh and growling with satisfaction. When he looked up at her, his eyes were feverish with desire.
“I want you to be mine,” he whispered. “And I want you to enjoy every moment of it. Janice, I would do anything for you, and first of all, I want to make you my lover, my wife. Trust me. This may hurt a little at first, but I will be as gentle as I can be. I promise.”
He kissed her once, tenderly, as he slowly slid himself inside her, pausing now and again to watch Janice’s face for any sign of pain. He wanted to thrust himself into a frenzy but held himself back with a great effort, not wanting to scare her or make her first time any more painful than it had to be.
Presently, Janice felt a short stab of pain, and she gasped, then tensed against him for a moment, her hands gripping his arms hard enough to inflict bruises. Then she relaxed as Bernard kissed her again and gently pushed until he was completely sheathed inside her.
Janice closed her eyes with a soft moan, then lifted her hips and instinctively began to move with him in a back-and-forth rhythm that was as old as time, then gradually a strange but wondrous feeling began to blossom inside her. She felt as though she was climbing a mountain, but the summit of it seemed so far away that she thought she would never reach it. It came imperceptibly closer and closer until she was almost there.
Then, one last thrust from Bernard shot her skyward into a place she could never have imagined, a place of ecstasy where she felt as though she was flying. She screamed as wave after wave of pleasure washed over her.
Gradually she came down to Earth and watched as Bernard achieved his own fulfillment, crying out her name as he climaxed before slumping on top of her. He rolled over, taking her with him until they were lying face-to-face looking into each other’s eyes.