Bound By Love:
A Carolyn Faulkner Trilogy
Angel of Sudden Hill by Carolyn Faulkner
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Carolyn Faulkner
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Angel of Sudden Hill
Carolyn Faulkner
Chapter One
Irina came to beneath a pile of furs that was so heavy it nearly prevented her from moving; then she realized that her hands were bound in front of her, making it doubly hard to maneuver. Try as she might, no amount of pulling loosened the stiff leather bonds. Naked and vulnerable, she tried to hurry; deep, male voices drifted into the tent from just outside and she knew she didn’t have long before . . . before . . . Struggling frantically, she could not complete that thought. That ending was just too unbearable to think about.
Oh, why hadn’t she listened to her mother when she said not to stray to far from the Keep? That there were dangerous marauders in the area who would think nothing of kidnapping her and selling her into slavery? She always lost her head when she was in the forest, gathering the herbs she used in many of the healing potions she was famous for. Her reputation as a healer was known all over the Southern Province, and it was well deserved – some of her successes still sent annual tributes that contributed to the family coffers that had dwindled alarmingly since Papa’s death.
But no healing powers were going to help her to escape. And it was too late to lament her pitiful lack of attention while her brother Brian was trying to show her the finer points of swordsmanship he’d learned while training to be a knight.
She’d just rolled onto her stomach, trying to shinny out from under the primitive covers, when the tent flap opened.
He’d waited all day for this – knowing she’d be helpless in his tent when he got to her. Even if she’d recovered and somehow managed to get as far as the door, the guards he’d posted there would have made sure she stayed put. He’d wanted her for longer than he’d ever wanted any woman; females were ripe for the pickin’ and he took them whenever he felt the urge – which was frequently - but not this one. This one was special for her extraordinary medicinal abilities.
Bryce de Keive wasted no time in divesting himself of his leather jerkin, swordbelt, and breeches as his eyes settled on the makeshift bed. He couldn’t see “the angel of Sudden Hill” under the furs, but he knew she was there, every softly rounded inch of her. Six-foot-three and gloriously naked, his heavily muscled body still glistening with sweat from the recent raid, Bryce watched avidly as the pile writhed, and soon one pink toe peeked out into the cold air. He smiled to himself. She was obviously trying to get up. This would be fun.
Her back to him, she levered herself off the bed, standing unsteadily, then hunching over when she realized that she was naked for all to see. There was no one but him to notice and he was nothing but appreciative of the site of her creamy white skin, sleek, slim back, and amply rounded bottom. When Irina turned to try to make her way out of the tent, she walked right into his bare, broad chest and found herself trapped not only by her bound arms but against the immovable mountain of huge, naked male.
Before she knew it, she was flat on her back beneath him on the bed, her wrists held above her head, out of the way, useless. A hot, wet mouth descended on hers before she could utter her first plea for mercy, his tongue violating her mouth boldly as his hands helped themselves to her high, full breasts. Shrieking, Irina rocked herself back and forth, trying in vain to avoid that rough hand, but there was nowhere to go. His grip on her wrists left no doubt that his strength was triple hers, and she could see the play of muscles beneath his skin as his bicep flexed and strangely tender fingers cupped a virginal breast, squeezing gently but firmly.
When he left her mouth to kiss wetly down the side of her neck, Irina breathed, “Please, please don’t – I’ll do anything you like – I have healing powers – I’ll cook for you – cleeeeeaaahhhhhh!” His mouth had captured a ripe pink berry of a nipple, taut and proud in the cool night air, suckling it strongly into his mouth, flicking it relentlessly with his strong tongue.
“Please- no!” Although she knew her struggles were useless, she couldn’t seem to stop, not that he was paying any attention to her at all. That dark black head moved from swollen tip to swollen tip, leaving a trail of wet kisses between, strong fingers plumping each breast in turn so that it presented itself to him as if she was begging for his sensual attentions rather than desperately trying to avoid them. To her deep, eternal shame, Irina felt her body blush pink from his ministrations, then flush hot and prickly at the strong tugging. He wasn’t hurting her, but her body pulsed with an unfamiliar ache that built with every brush of his lips over those tender bits of flesh, and it added to her fear of being manhandled by this behemoth of a man, a man whose name she didn’t even know.
Two huge, tree-trunk sized legs worked their way between hers, forcing her to spread beneath him, his swollen maleness pressed intimately against her feminine secrets. He let go of her hands and, despite the deep confusion within her body, Irina was going to take advantage of every possible opportunity to escape. She was a good girl, and this man seemed bent on doing exactly what her mother had warned her about. With every bit of strength she possessed, she brought her wrists down on his head, but her action had the opposite effect from what she’d intended. The giant wasn’t even phased by her attempt to hurt him. He merely reached under the bed a little, barely shifting his embarrassing position at all, collected her wrists again in a humiliatingly easy move, and tied them with a leather thong to the top of the bed. Irina was well and truly bound, her hands secured well above her head, entirely at the mercy of a man she was sure didn’t possess any of that noble intent.
And she was right.
Once he had her pesky hands and arms out of his way, she watched in terror as an evil smile spread over his face. Those platter-sized hands, rough with calluses, teased their way down the insides of her arms and down her sides till his palms covered her breasts, then began to squeeze firmly, making her arch and struggle to get away from his deliberately painful grip. Fingertips found swollen, almost sore nipples – “Ahhhh – aiiiieeee – noooo!” and pinched, at first almost carefully, then harder, pulling at the same time, lifting her breasts away from her body using just her tenderized teats, rolling them slightly back and forth between the pads of his index fingers and thumbs. “Noooo – plleeeaassee – that hurrrrrrrrts meeeeee!”
As he held her hefty globes up by their most sensitive points, Bryce leaned forward and licked around them, gently nipping at the vulnerable undersides that rarely received any attention at all. “Do as I say, woman, or it’ll go a lot harder than this for you.”
“P-please don’t hurt me!” Irina fairly sobbed, pulling uselessly at her bonds, feeing ashamed and afraid, but strangely achy at the same time.
Her nipples were beginning to burn from the weight of her breast pulling them down as he held them aloft, wiggling and jiggling his captives occasionally. Every once in a while, Bryce pinched a little tighter, or shifted his fingers a bit, making the pain take a fresh bite out of her, enjoying the way she caught her breath and moaned each time, arching to try to find some sort of relief.
But he didn’t allow that. He controlled the pain, and the pleasure. He controlled his women, until he decided whether or not to let them go, or, more often than not, pass them on to one or more of his men as a reward for their loyalty and bravery.
“Quiet, wench,” he whispered, the threat of retaliation should she disobey inherent in the soft command. Bryce enjoyed watching her struggling to suppress her natural need to vent her pain and frustration at him. “I like to see you like this. You’re naked and bound, as you were meant to be to keep you out of trouble, and beneath a man who will be your master, learning both pleasure and pain at his hands. What could be more natural for a woman of childbearing years? Soon you will find yourself spread wide and full of me, pleasuring me as woman has been meant to pleasure a man since the dawn of time. You’ll take all of me, every inch deep into your body, and what’s more, you’ll like it, too. I’ll haul your legs over my arms to get into every part of you before I spew myself deep inside you. I’ll do that to you any time I want, any way I want, and you’ll learn to crave it, I promise you.”
When he let go of her titties all at once, the blood flowing back into what had been tightly compressed areas brought her sobbing to a renewed level of pain, while he was free to do explore other interesting areas. Bryce scrunched a little down the bed, his lips level with her belly button. Irina saw another opportunity – however dismal – at escape, and tried for it, bringing her legs up quickly to twist over onto her stomach. But she still couldn’t get anywhere with her wrists tied to the bed. Bryce took advantage of her position, though, to give her a lesson she would never forget, laying a big arm across the small of her back.
He emphasized each word with a powerful smack to her upturned bottom, making her yelp with each one. “Naughty, naughty. I didn’t tell you to turn over. Disobedience, you’ll find, will always be swiftly punished.” Irina’s father was the only person who had ever spanked her, until now. This man’s hand was making her father’s belt feel like a feather in comparison. He reduced her to tears within the first three swats, and never acknowledged either her tears or her screams of pain. He stopped only when he thought she had learned her lesson, and not before. If she hadn’t been crying so hard, Irina would have been surprised at the unusual gentleness with which he positioned her on her back again.
But that instant of tenderness didn’t last. Bryce watched her yelp and hitch her hips up in the air when her roasted bottom touched the rough skins, then he settled himself low on her, forcing the issue, enjoying her futile attempts to buck him off, letting her exhaust herself against him, rubbing her prickly private hair against him. “Pleaseletmego! Pleaseletmego!” she chanted.
Bryce reached up and pinched a bruised nipple tightly, warning, “Be quiet, or I’ll strap your bottom well and truly, little girl, instead of those little love pats I just gave you.”
If those were lovepats, Irina didn’t want to think what he’d do to her with a strap – she knew she wouldn’t survive it. It was hard, but she closed her mouth, her eyes wide with fright as they pleaded with him silently.
Since her hands were out of the way, he leaned a little to the side, keeping those milky white thighs apart by the breadth of his body, but Irina kept her legs as tightly together as she could, despite him. Bryce touched her knee. “Open.”
She defied him, remaining still. His palm cracked rhythmically against her upper thigh, snapping down as hard as he could against her soft flesh. “By God, you will learn to do as you are told, woman – “
Sobbing, defeated and humiliated, Irina’s left thigh inched its way outward slowly. Still his punishing hand fell, until her leg was so far spread she thought she would come apart from it. Her privates were on lewd display for his eager eyes, and Irina thought she would die of shame. She had been raised gently, modestly, and nothing in her young life had prepared her for this degredation.
Bryce drew in a deep breath of her woman’s scent, reveling in it. A thought struck him – had she been aroused by his rough handling of her? Some women were, he knew. She’d been found wandering the forest all alone, unescorted, and the men he’d sent to kidnap her said she was known by some in the village as a witch because of her unique abilities. That scent was unmistakable – he knew a hot, wanton filly when he saw one, and this one was practically begging to be mounted and ridden – fast and hard, just the way he liked it and she needed it.
His sword hand traveled possessively down her body, squeezing here, pinching there, deliberately making her squeal, then reminding her to be quiet or feel his belt across her backside. He was only too eager to see that tempting bottom reddened further as she danced to his painful tune. His hand was so big he could measure the width of her hipbones between his thumb and the tip of his smallest finger. When his fingers descended below her bellybutton she began to keen wildly behind a clenched jaw, bucking and writhing with renewed strength when he cupped her hair covered mound. Bryce let her tire herself out, just as he’d let a wild mare expend all of her energies trying to avoid the saddle, only to find herself bridled and mounted and following the commands of her master’s hands and knees perfectly hours later, when she realized there was no choice. It was much the same with a recalcitrant woman.
This little one was no different – he’d break her to his hand just as easily. She was no match for him. To add to her shame and because he knew he could do it, he would make sure she thoroughly enjoyed it, every painful, pleasurable step of the way. She would learn to do exactly as she was told, or suffer the consequences.
His middle finger delved boldly between those exposed lips to the very heart of her, grinning broadly when he found himself baptized in her juices. “Ah, wench, your words lie but your body speaks the truth.” Bryce dragged his finger up, just a little ways, to discover an extremely swollen, fleshy button. That teasing finger rubbed with excruciating slowness up the side of that throbbing bundle of nerves, making her whimper and cry out unintelligibly, too tired anymore to struggle much, even as a second digit joined the fray on the other side, both sliding up and down and up again –
“God in Heaven have mercy on me please nooooooo!” Irina didn’t think she could survive the feelings that were building inside her. Every thought in her head, every nerve in her body seemed to be concentrated right where his hand was, right where his breath drifted hotly over the area that he was deliberately agitating.
Instantly, his hand was removed, only to smack down hard against the heart of her desire. Pain exploded where only pleasure had existed before, then again and again. Bryce spanked her pussy five times total, not going easy on her despite the loud screams each slap elicited. “When I say quiet, girl,” he whispered, his mouth near the top of her bruised delta, “I mean quiet.” In direct contrast to the now throbbing pain between her legs, his mouth was soft and gentle, the warm wetness soothing her well-punished flesh. As she was trying to recover from the horrifying feeling of being spanked in a place no one had ever touched in her life, he slid his lips and hands between her legs, his broad-as-a-barn shoulders naturally keeping her spread wide for him. Mouth opened as far as possible, he settled it over that puffy nubbin, holding her down as she arched up violently, a mindless moaning cry springing from her lips at the explosive pleasure.
Bryce brought his right hand to join his mouth at the juncture of her thighs, pressing an eager finger to the entrance of her womanhood, circling round and round, watching his captive grow more and more frantic – but carefully quiet except for the occasional whimper of frustration. Slowly, he advanced his fingertip into her moist cavern, watching her response avidly . . . watching her mouth form a rounded “o” of surprise . . . seeing her breath catch . . .
Then his fingers met an entirely unexpected, fleshy barrier.
He pressed again, a little harder. He wasn’t getting anywhere. Bryce added a finger, probing and pressing up into his little witch’s pussy, but the barrier held.
His mind could barely wrap itself around the thought, but there was no denying it: his little witch-healer was a virgin.
Chapter Two
“What’s your name?” The gruff question in the middle of her imminent defloration startled Irina, especially when she’d been punished several times for speaking.
“M-my name?”
“Yes. Answer me.” Bryce was trying to keep his head all the while her intoxicating scent and the feel of her warm wetness called to him like a bewitching siren, enticing him to take her regardless of the consequences, whispering that she was his, that he needed to bury himself inside her, take her innocence as his due and tame her to his hand as he’d planned. That was probably what he was going to end up doing anyway.
“I-Irina. Irina Montessori.”
Just as he was going to back to the delightful oral task he’d set for himself, slipping his upper lip over that wet bump, then his lower lip back up it – over and over - while she shuddered beneath his tender ministrations - his head shot up. “And your father was – “
“Jacques de Montessori, Duke of Auberne.”
A flood of the worst kind of language poured from his mouth as his mind raced. He was well and truly caught. The young woman who was tied to his bed, spread out on it like a two-bit whore, who was just about to be impaled on his fingers and then his cock - was a lady of rank. If he took her – and his body assumed that was a foregone conclusion – he would end up marrying her, no matter how assiduously he’d avoided that sanctified state in the past. It was the only thing he could do. Any son gotten on this woman would be a fine addition to his family and could not be born on the wrong side of the blanket. He watched his carefree bachelor days meet an ignominious end, and it did nothing to dampen his temper.
But, marriage did have its . . . compensations. He wiggled his fingers against her natural protection from him, making her draw a frightened breath. “Do you know what a man does to a woman in the marriage bed, Irina de Montessori?”
Considering her circumstances, trussed up like a Yule pheasant, delectably nude and half-aroused, with a fully capable mountain of a man between her thighs who was contemplating the myriad ways he could breach her body’s defenses, her answer was absurdly prim. “Such vulgar information would never be made available to me.”
Bryce chuckled. “Well, you’re about to find out, woman. But before that, I intend to indulge myself a little.” And indulge he did. Bryce went back to doing something that he adored – loving a woman with his mouth. It was the pursuit of power in the guise of lust, but it only worked if the woman enjoyed his attentions. Judging by the size of Irina’s love button, the fact that her pouting pink nipples were still taut despite having been punished hard – or maybe because of that fact – and the copious evidence of her natural juices just awaiting to adorn his first plunge . . . oh, she was definitely enjoying this, despite her protestations to the contrary.
At least he was starting out on the right foot, keeping her where she belonged – in his bed, naked, presented for his pleasure. Every wife should be so trained. He was going to revel in training her – making sure she obeyed his every command, raping her little cunny at will, punishing her severely on the least little excuse. He would be firm and strict, just as a man should be with his wife and his children. Moreso with his wife, as children would never stray.
Bryce suckled at the swollen nub, laving it with his broad tongue, over and over, listening for the increase in her irrepressible moans, backing off each time she got too close. He wouldn’t make it easy on her, taking the opportunity at the height of her pleasure to press his fingers against her barred opening, making her squeal with pain. Soon she would have to choose between the pleasure and the pain, or he would choose for her. Her body relaxed a little, settled against his fingers, loosing up around him very gradually. He resumed his teasing kisses, reaching his free hand up to tweak an abandoned nipple, making her cry out as he plucked it in a deliberately cruel fashion. A new flood of honey christened his fingers as he made her breast hurt but pleasured her woman’s nest. She loved what he was doing to her and would never be able hide that fact from him. Bryce advanced his fingers a little, applying pressure judiciously, pushing, prodding, demanding entry from her virginal little body. Eventually he was going to storm her gates, but he liked the idea of forcing her to surrender to him as he brought her body to the heights of pleasure for the first time and impaled her on his fingers at the exact same moment.
Irina didn’t think she could tolerate much more of this. She didn’t know what he was doing to her, didn’t know if there would ever been an end to the relentless rounds of pain and pleasure he subjected her to. His mouth was doing unspeakably vulgar things to her, yet she would weep if he stopped. Every once in a while, he reached up and pulled one of her nipples, almost treating it as a teat and milking her hard. It hurt badly, but it also felt good, and she couldn’t reconcile the conflicting feelings. His broad, insistent fingers – they were trying to get inside her, for goodness sake, hurting her more with each foray, never backing off, applying constant, uncomfortable pressure between her legs until she felt like she was going to split wide open . . . and yet that, somehow, inspired pleasure in her also, despite the true pain.
Once again, Bryce reached up to capture another tortured tip, alternating every time. He watched her for a moment, seeing and feeling her breasts rise and fall, watching her swallow hard to try to catch her breath and accustom herself to the stabbing ache, seeing the flush all over her slender body as he brought it to life, even against her will. This time, he determined, would be the last time. He wanted to be inside her – indeed, he’d been fully capable since he’d entered the room. Taking her for the first time on his hand, while bringing her to climax with is mouth made a powerful statement – both her pleasure and her pain was in his hands alone. He owned her – whether or not he married her. He would be her master, her lord, her protector, her disciplinarian. She would bend to him, one way or the other.
With renewed determination, Bryce lay the broad, flat back of his tongue over her most vulnerable point, feeling it pulsing with each surge of hot blood through its swollen depths. His lips settled about the fleshy bump, creating a seal that trapped her in the hot wetness of his mouth. Applying a careful pressure, he barely moved his tongue, rubbing incessantly, demandingly. He wanted her to surrender her pleasure and her body to him, and he wanted it now. At the same time, he crossed his middle finger over his index finger and pushed up, hard, into her, not letting up for a second, taking full advantage of every time her body tried to relax and stretch around him.
Irina didn’t know what to do – she felt as if she was going to fly apart. Her nipple was being pinched and pulled painfully, and she couldn’t get away from it. That newly discovered area between her legs was being slowly invaded by his other hand, hurting her more and more as he made headway into her body. But his mouth – his mouth was going to be the death of her. She knew she was going to die as she felt him drag his rough, wet tongue over and over her, and there was nothing she could do but endure it all.
Just as her internal storm broke, and every muscle she owned spasmed uncontrollably in delight, Bryce’s fingers ripped the veil of her innocence away, making her shriek in a violent combination of pleasure and pain. He made her ride his fingers until the last of her contractions melted away and she was left shuddering and mindless in the aftermath, then Bryce rose above her, snagging a taut, abused nipple between his teeth as he positioned himself at the entrance to her body, joining them together with a single, powerful, merciless stroke.
Irina thought he would come out through her throat, screaming as he forced her passage open for only the second time, requiring that her body accommodate the breadth and width of his considerable member. Bryce gave her no time to adjust to his possession, beginning a rhythmic internal battering that she wanted to hate, but that instantly regenerated the ache that she would have sworn had been extinguished by what he’d done to her seconds before. She was small and tight, and every retreat and advance scraped her insides, rubbing her raw with each new layer of sensation. And, through it all, he kept a tight bite on her nipples, alternating from one to the other, making her breasts bounce with his strong strokes, which pulled unavoidably on her poor nipple.
Bryce was aware of every nuance of her response, as he had been with no other woman, and when he plunged the hardest, making her titty hurt the worst, her breathing changed, grew harder. She loved it, as he had known she would. His teeth closed more tightly around the next nipple as he rammed himself into her, taking her hard and fast and intending on putting her away wet – to be used over and over again that night.
At that thought, he reared back and sprayed his essence within the walls of her folds, coming uncontrollably and wildly and with absolutely no thought for anyone or anything else until he collapsed on top of her, practically unconscious. Bryce repeated that scene multiple times that night – taking her whenever the mood struck him, and in any way he wanted. He left her bound, and, to her complete embarrassment, pressed a crockery chamber pot beneath her not long after he’d deflowered her. “You must need to pee.”
She did, but she didn’t want to do it in front of him. Stubbornly, she refused.
It took him a minute as he puttered around the room, then he noticed that he hadn’t heard the sound of any tinkling, and the pot, when he pulled it out from under her, was dry as a bone. Bryce’s teeth set awry as he considered what to do. He settled it quietly for her. “I can’t promise you that I’ll remember to offer this convenience again. If you pee in my bed, I can assure you that you’ll regret it.” He replaced the pot beneath her hips, and deliberately stood there and watched her urinate. Another valuable lesson for his soon-to-be-wife. He meant what he said, and he would not tolerate any missishness. “Good girl,” he patted her when she’d finished, like a dog who’d performed on command.
A choking sob rose up in Irina’s throat, coming out as a heartrending wail that died out to childish, hiccoughing sobs until he sat down beside her with a wet cloth over his hand and pulled her legs roughly apart. Irina immediately clamped them back together. Just as quickly, Bryce dropped the cloth on the bed, grabbing a nipple between each thumb and forefinger, pinching and rolling them mercilessly while he commanded in a husky, no-nonsense voice, “Spread your legs.”
Irina sobbed piteously, but there was no pity in him. Resigned to her fate, she began inching her legs apart, but he wouldn’t let her stop until she had quite literally put herself on display for him. “Don’t move.” Irina turned her head away from him, flinching once when she felt the rough caress of the cloth on her privates, but remaining silent and still through the rest of it. Bryce cleaned her up, noting a small amount of blood on her thighs and on the cloth, but that she otherwise seemed to have survived it well.
When he was done, she asked with a good dose of sarcasm in her voice, “Can I move now?”
Impudent little cuss! Bryce thought, almost chuckling at her pluck. “No, you may not, although you are right to ask my permission to do such things. Keep your legs well spread – I like looking at that beautiful little pussy of yours.”
Despite her outraged squeal, she obeyed him, all the while fervently praying to God that he take her now, so that she would not be subject to any more of this unbearable humiliation. But the Almighty had more important things on his mind, apparently, because after giving her several gulps of cheap wine and sharing his meager dinner of bread, fruit, and cheese, she saw Bryce ogling her lewdly. Irina couldn’t keep herself from whimpering at the idea that she might be subjected to more of the same from him.
And she was. Determined to flaunt his mastery of her body, Bryce indulged his love of the female form to its fullest extent. He played with her already brutalized breasts, making her cry with both pain and pleasure when he slapped her plumped out nipples, hard, again and again. He turned her over onto her tummy and spanked her bottom, watching with detached interest as the imprint of his hand appeared all over those lovely hillocks, then up and down the backs of her thighs. “Eventually,” he lectured in a painfully soft voice, “you will learn to obey me without question.” The pain became rapidly intolerable for Irina, who was doing everything she could to avoid the blows with no success. Bryce merely threw a leg over hers, trapping her with one easy move so that all she could do was endure her punishment until he decided to end it.
By the time that point came, her bottom was a ripe, sore red. Experimentally, he reached between her legs, wondering if, even in the face of such a severe session that had her sobbing her heart out, her body had betrayed her and readied itself for his possession, drawing pleasure even from the most arduous pain. And he was right.
Any doubts he had about his need to marry this woman fled in that moment. She needed him, needed his firm, disciplinary hand – among other things – on her bottom, needed his raging cock buried deep inside her on a regular basis, needed to be constantly reminded of the place she occupied in his world – beneath him, receiving him, clenching around him as he drove into her.