Saturday, February 18, 2023

Chapter One: Of Kilted Pleasure

Of Kilted Pleasure

Chapter One

 

Once more, she watched as he removed his tartan, folding it carefully and laying it on the stand beside her bed. His approach familiar, quiet, and without words. He held her face tenderly in his calloused hands, his breath gentle and confident. Tonight, unlike so many other nights, she dreamed the two of them were alone in her room at home, lying stripped of their clothes; naked flesh melding into one as they joined. Often in these dreams, she would find herself beside her imagined handsome, ruggedly dark Highlander lover in a secluded glen, a moor with rolling fields of aromatic heather and the hardy thistle. The last rays of a nonchalant setting orb beating orange and rouge as it began to close its eyes to the day as dusk began to creep into her mind's vivid and lucid apparition. He would be with her all night.

She urged her lily-soft palms as they pressed against his bare and naked chest to feel his heat, inviting him to warm her thoroughly; he could warm her deeply as no man, in reality, had ever been capable of doing. His warrior heart beat steadily upon her skin, pulsating, sending rhythmic vibrations through her wanting form. If she closed her eyes even a slight bit more, she could feel each pulse as it penetrated into her soul.

            Softly, only barely moving his strong long fingers, he traced along the softer form of her breast. Erotic quivers of desire rippled over her, tiny pinpoints of pleasure now vivid on her nude exposed flesh. She trembled with excitement, the anticipation of his hardness pressing inward on her thigh. Gently, he moved his right hand to drape hers to assist her with his desire for touch. She never fought him.

            Was he indeed only an imagined lover? Would he ever manifest himself, showing her that genuine and sustainable love does exist in a world so cruel as to have enslaved her mind to this, her only means of escape from what others would call reality? She had never seen his face entirely; he had never revealed it. Perhaps he was just that, an image, a thought, or maybe he was waiting for her to leave her true and sustainable reality for what would be a better and more fulfilling fantasy; his idea of truth.

            Their passion continued. Craig repeatedly thrust his tongue inside her taut body, her long, muscular legs clamped about his neck. Her deepening moans sent shivers down his spine; he couldn't stop himself; he wouldn't stop. No sounds on earth could soothe the man as the music she created each time he took her. She was his instrument to hold, to play, so perfectly tuned. With each movement of her hips, another string plucked, pulling him deeper within her; raw, delicious cries of a woman, his woman. She gave herself entirely to the moment. Grabbing him abruptly with both of her hands, his head near hers, his mouth open and wanting. She kissed him hard, allowing herself to hear him pant and taste him breathing his very life into her lungs.

            Sweet, moist drops of perspiration flowed between them as she turned upon her back, asking him for his fullness; her request now his command. He quietly spoke in his native language words of love as they repeated their motions; he worshipped her with his mouth, not leaving a single inch of her passioned-craved body without his touch. He entered her fully extended, his cock engorged, wet with excreted sweat. They moved together in an undulated rhythm, rising, lifting, falling, holding their breath together as he plunged devotedly over and over again. The moment's explosion intensely increased to the point of exhaustion, yet neither man nor woman was willing to cease their calling. The evening's hour wore the cloak of twilight before the fire of their lust subsided and began to wane. As she slowly opened her eyes, reality returned to herself, she sighed a mournful breath of loneliness.

            For Aria, the truth was too tormenting to bear. For three long and enduring years, she had been the bride to a man whose hands were brutal and unforgiving. She couldn't think of herself as ever being able to rest assured in them. Why not fantasize about Craig now? Hadn't he been there for her all these years, since before she was given to that monster James McFarlane? She was now known to the village as Mrs. James Fraser McFarlane? Wasn't her name hers anymore? No one ever called her by her real name now; it was always "Mrs. McFarlane" or "James' wife"; even the sound of it repulsed her. She closed her satin brown eyes to think only of the one man who held her close and always knew what to feel and think. He alone was her refuge now. Craig Allan Mackenzie. Though he was only a vision, a mere apparition, he was more real to her than the agonizing truth of being made to bed a man who she despised.  Given to him some sort of property, kept alive only to bear him a child. Would the truth ever be known of the actual cause regarding the young Mrs. McFarlane before her? What became of her? Where had she fallen? Was she alone when it happened? No one challenged the man upon his statement that his first wife had simply fainted while standing upon a hilly glen; her fall not only took her life but by good fortune, freed her from a life with an angry bastard.

            Craig, though only in her imagination, had been with her since her early childhood. He began as she, a child, only inches taller and a bit faster than she. Aria's clear mind could conjure the best of stories, and these are the things that kept her patient now. Only through her lovemaking with Craig could she withstand the physical touch of her husband. It was Craig's words she would say and Craig's thoughts she would have in order to wane off the pressure and the hideous breath that met her each night. That she could imagine herself with another man was not a sin, not in her mind, not as long as he lived captured within the confines of her emotions and inward eye. No one would be the wiser. With his strong voice speaking the sweetest of Scots Gaelic, she could also pretend to be far away from the oversight of Cobb's Row and all of Gorbaldis with a million eyes and tongues to watch and lie about her, to her. Some would brand her a witch if they could feel what she felt each time Craig's hard fingers moved gently between the softer lips of her groin, keeping her mind as far away from what was indeed her existence. Even in his better moments, James could never be as caring or as sensual a lover as Craig Allen Mackenzie had grown to be.


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