Chapter 113

AFTER the reception and saying goodbye to her parents, Caroline made her way to the bedchamber that she will be sharing with the master of the house now. She was now Lady Caroline Cutler, Viscountess of Stonelockteco.
She was looking at the maid that was opening her bedchamber and stepped into the room. It was lightened by the candle and gas lamps that made the room appeared to be sensual and alluring.
Caroline gulped. Oh dear, I think I might have stepped into a lion’s den now, she mused before she stiffened when the dressing door was opened and Dan stepped into the bedchamber, wearing nothing but a towel around his waist.
He was still oblivious to Caroline before he turned to look at the door of the bedchamber and stilled as he saw his wife in her wedding gown. Caroline held her chin up as if to challenge him to say anything at all.
But he did not.
Danial Cutler ignored her as he went to put on his nightshirt and when Caroline did not move an inch, he turned to regard her then.
“Don’t you want to bathe?” Danial asked her as she was gritting her teeth right now. How can she do that when it was obvious that she was wearing her wedding gown and no maid to help her.
Lexi cannot come with her as her parents forbid it and Danial said that he was more than happy to give her a new ladies’ maid. But it was all an empty promise. Caroline crossed her arms in front of her chest, thrusting her breasts before Danial was focusing on it. He gulped.
Good, let him suffer, Caroline thought grimly before she was staring at him.
“Well, in case you have not to notice, my lord, I don’t have a maid to help me to get out of this dress, and…I don’t know that I will be sharing a bedchamber with you. I thought I would have my own personal chamber,” Caroline said before Danial was looking at her face.
At least he saw me now, Caroline thought as she was still staring at her husband for the solution of her situation right now. Danial cleared his throat before he nodded at her.
“Forgive me then, my dear, I forgot to tell you that your ladies’ maid will be arriving later. I supposed we can manage the night without her,” Danial said as he was stepping closer to Caroline. She stood back before her husband was arching his eyebrow at her.
“What are you doing?” she asked him before Danial was mused with her question.
“Well, I was trying to play as your ladies’ maid tonight,” he said as if it was like talking about the weather. Caroline gasped at his answer.
“No, no. That would not be necessary. I can manage it if you just leave the room,” she said before her husband was arching his eyebrow even more.
“Why would I do that? This is my bedchamber as well,” Danial said, amused with her statement. Caroline narrowed her eyes to her husband before she huffed.
“I would be much comfortable if you’re not in the room, my lord so that I can change and have a bath as you suggested earlier,” she hissed before Danial was chuckling at her. Caroline would roll her eyes at his reaction but she was unable to do so as her breaths were tightened with the corset that has been sitting against her chemise for almost a day now.
“I could help you with the undressing…”
“No, no. Thank you for your kindness but I think I can manage, my lord,”
“Danial,” her husband cut her as Caroline was blinking her eyes at him.
“What?” she asked as she was looking at Danial. He sighed before he was striding toward her and before she could turn away, his long fingers were working on the lace string that was holding her dress in the front.
“It’s Danial. Not my lord or anything else. If you don’t want to call me by my name, then perhaps endearment would suit you better. Maybe, darling or my lo—“
“It’s fine, Danial. I can manage this. You don’t have to help me—“
“Why are you being so stubborn, I just want to help you to get out of the dress. It’s not like I will be taking advantage of you if you would not let me touch you,” Danial said quietly before she was being released by the tightness of the bodice and her corset before she was stripped out of her gown. Then, she stood naked with only a chemise that covered her skin.
Caroline felt conscious somehow of how her husband would view her. She knows that in the past, Danial might have a mistress to satisfy his needs, an experienced woman in the art of seduction and lovemaking.
What did Caroline know about them? Nothing at all for she was innocent and she did not know what to do with this…delicate matter right here with her husband.
Danial cleared his throat before he turned away from her as if trying to give her some privacy to get ready for her bath and maybe some alone time before the time to consummate their wedding night.
“I let you settle down. I will be in the study room if you need anything,” he mumbled before he was out of the room, leaving Caroline to get ready for her awaited bath as Danial was walking out the bedchamber.
Caroline was thankful when her husband was out of the bedchamber before she was making her way to the dressing room. She spotted the golden bathtub with hot water waiting for her before she removed the chemise and submerged herself into the tub.
She moaned as her aching muscles were greeting the hot water. She sighed before she was leaning against the bathtub, thinking of the statement that her husband just said to her face then.
“It’s not like I will be taking advantage of you if you would not let me touch you.” His voice echoed in her head as Caroline was splashing the water onto her body, perfumed with lavender soap and something else.
Apple, that’s what it was.
She was thinking over and over again about the way that her husband was referring to her when he was removing her dress. He did not blink an eye on her when she stood in her chemise, clearly naked underneath them and he turned away from her.
That snobbish man! Caroline thought angrily before she was feeling something else in her chest when she thought of the women that would serve as his mistresses before her. Would he turn to them if she refused to serve his needs?
Caroline huffed when she was thinking about that. If my husband wanted to lay with someone, it should have been me then. No one else, she thought furiously before it was dawn on her.
Caroline was actually thinking of getting in bed with her husband.
She sunk deeper when she was feeling the fuzzy feeling that settled on her stomach before a smile was plastered to her lips. If anything else, I might as well seduce him into turning to me before anyone can come between us, she thought, not knowing that her heart has beaten so fast for the next plan that she had in mind to execute after her bath.
And someone would be happy to know that it was the only thing that kept Caroline knocked his door.

DAN sighed before he was putting the ledger away of his tenants in Stonelockteco. As the Viscount that controlled the region, he has to make sure that the production of the minerals and the fine jewelry will be meeting the monthly quota that he had set for himself.
It was not a thing that he thought for himself but to sustain the rapid population that increased when the mines have been opened more than 5 originals that were settled during his father’s region.
It has been 10 years when he took over the region as his parents died in a carriage accident. Danial has been 15 years old at the time that he cannot remember exactly what happened before the young queen anointed him as the new Viscount of Stonelockteco.
Dan sighed before someone was knocking on his door. He clicked his tongue, thinking it was the butler that would disturb him when Dan clearly said that he was not to be disturbed. He ignored it at first but the knocking was persistent.
“Come in,” he barked before he was sipping on the rum that he had poured for himself earlier when he saw Caroline in her chemise. Bloody hell, Danial thought that he would go insane with needs when his demon was pressing him to claim her, right there, right then.
The doorknob turned and when Dan was looking at the door, he was doubling back and blinked so hard that he did not believe what he was seeing in front of him right now.
His wife was wearing a thin muslin nightgown that barely covered her pinkish nipples that were hardened, maybe from the cold as Dan gulped at her sight. Her blonde mane was curling around her back as she was stepping closer to him with determination on her face. Dan cleared his throat, trying to control the eagerness of his cock when she dressed like this in front of him.
“I thought you have gone to bed,’ Dan said with indifference when he was sipping on his rum. Thank goodness that his hand did not shake from the lust that was flowing inside his veins right now.
Bloody hell!
Caroline was tracing her fingers on the desk as she was standing in front of him like a cat that was lazily walking around. Dan was looking at her fingers before she prompted herself on the desk in front of him. Her nightgown rode to her thighs, revealing the smooth creamy skin there.
Damnation!
“I would be but it would be only me. I was waiting for you, Danial,” she said huskily, and the way she said his name…bloody damnation! Dan doesn’t think that he would be controlling his body tonight.
It was succumbing to her will.
“I will be in the minute. Just let me finish with this and—“
Everything was forgotten when Caroline suddenly straddled his laps and took his glass before drinking the rum in one shot. He was too shocked to do anything before Caroline sighed and put the glass down on the table.
“You talk too much,’ she said and with that, she pulled him by the nape before her mouth claimed his in a searing kiss that left him wanting more.