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Sara, now eighteen, see more than a child to most of the servants at Ravensbury, but she held herself erect and demanded respect with a stature she had learned fro that she caentry, and she had married into better

Her wedding night saw her restless, agitated, and unable to meet her new husband’s eyes

He took her hands “My darling…so shy? You needn’t be nervous, we can take this slowly”

She was in a flihtdress and took his hand and put it on her breast He looked surprised, but the desire took over and he fondled her, teased her nipples, bent his head as he exposed her lovely young breast and licked the rosebuds into pertness

“Come, Sara,” he said as he led her to the bed and took the straps of her white nightdress and dropped the gown to her waist

She said nothing She couldn’t tell him that what had her nervous wasn’t shyness, no, but the fact that she wasn’t a virgin Would he know? She had to pretend she was a virgin Would he wonder if he didn’t see blood? Could she cut herself somehohere he wouldn’t notice and leave a stain of blood for hie?

He laid her gently on her back as he rubbed her leg slowly and old hair between her thighs and expertly cupped her there Her body responded to him She discovered she liked his touch

“There, love, does that feel right?” he said softly as his finger played with her sex “You are my wife, my treasure…one day you will be theand passionately

She threw her arher, but she had to control herself She couldn’t be too forceful He believed her a virgin

He had to believe that It was all important that he believe that

Oh, but she liked his hands on her…could he et Raoul?

Perhaps? Sara had found the more tiood and he was steady, but she wanted wild and exciting

“I’ll try not to hurt you, precious,” he said as his clothes vanished and he climbed onto the bed to straddle her He positioned his ateway “Sweetheart, you are so open, so ready,” he said, sounding slightly surprised

“Because I love you and have been waiting for you to make me yours,” she said as she tensed

He entered her slowly at first, rubbing his erection against the walls of her opening before he worked his way inside of her She could feel hiht her untried Oh, but this was so different than being with Raoul Raoul had taken her roughly, boldly, and made her his in an instant that very first time