Chapter 66
Emily was smiling happily as she was submerging herself in the lake. The cold water lapped her warm skin as the stars were shining brightly like the fine jewels that one found in Stonelockteco. She sighed before her husband was kissing her naked shoulders.
“What are you thinking about, my love?” Ian said as he was washing her back with a rag. Emily sighed before she was leaning back against his chest.
It was chilly but being close to her husband brought the fire inside her. Her Demon was happy and contented that she didn’t have to ravish Ian again tonight.
But something else was pulling her to the other side of the lake. She heard someone singing but Emily thought that it must have been the wind among the trees.
The dark forest that was known as Ngis Forest swayed before Emily felt like she had enough of bathing for now. She turned to look at her husband as Ian was arching his eyebrows at her.
“What’s wrong?” he asked before Emily smiled.
“I think I would like to have supper now,” she said, wanting to get out of the water as quickly as possible. Surely she was not the only one that heard the singing that was filling her head right now. Right?
“Oh… okay. Let me get some towels to wrap us,” Ian said before he moved to the banks of the lake and got up. Then, he was helping Emily to climb up the banks. Ian took the fluffy towels that they prepared after their time on the ground for outdoor sex. Ian smirked at the thought.
“What would you like to eat? We got some steaks and fish if you like. I also asked the cook to prepare some raw chicken if you don’t feel like eating—”
“The steaks are good. I would love some medium raw steaks,” Emily said, feeling her hair on the nape stand up as if something was watching them. Ian beamed at her.
“Okay! I get that prepared for us then,” her husband said, oblivious to the feeling of being watched when he just handed her the chemise to wear before pulling the breeches over his powerful thighs.
Then, Ian was making his way toward the campsite where they would be staying for a week. Or if Emily would not say anything about those strange feelings that she was having when they were alone in the lake.
Probably just my imagination, she mused before picking up her dirty bodice and skirts and following Ian’s pursuit.
Her husband knew the way of the wilds as Ian was making a smokeless fire pit. He said that it would not attract the predators that roamed the wild near Ngis Forest.
Emily smiled before she smelled the juicy meat that was being cooked on the spit. She licked her lips as she was drying her hair with towels, lounging around in her nightgown as Ian was wearing his breeches and the ruffled shirt from before. Emily arched her eyebrows at her husband.
“Will you not change before tucking in?” Emily asked as Ian’s amber stare was illuminated by the fire. It felt like she was being the prey of a very dangerous predator. But that was before Emily had the chance to be like her husband.
Now, she was as much a predator as her husband was.
Ian smirked. “It will do no good if I have to change a lot of clothes while we’re in the wilds. This way, I can minimize the use of clothes that we prepared, and perhaps you would like to go hunting tomorrow with me?” he asked her as Emily perked up. She bit her lower lips.
“Would you bring me to go hunting?” she asked him, as Ian nodded. She smiled at her husband. Ian arched his eyebrows.
“Why? Don’t you usually go hunting with your father or brother before?” he asked and knew instantly that question was striking the nerve that Emily was holding back. She turned her head away from the spit, losing her appetite immediately. Ian rectified the situation.
“I’m sorry… I shouldn’t have asked that—”
“It’s fine. Most of the time, whenever they were going hunting, I would spend some time with my mother back in our townhouse in the capital. Father and brother would come to St. Betown to prepare themselves for weeks of hunting in the woods,” Emily said as she was smiling weakly. She was fidgeting her fingers before gripping the skirts.
She sighed. “Sometimes, I always wonder if they just don’t want me around because I am a genteel-bred lady and was destined to stay at home and manage the household. Not wandering the wilds with my husband,” she said as Emily’s brown stare was looking at her husband’s handsome face. She beamed at Ian. “But you prove that any husband can take his wife to go hunting with him. So, thank you for thinking that I am worth being with you here going hunting tomorrow,” she said as Ian stood up from his seat near the pit. Then, he was kneeling in front of Emily as he took her hands into his.
“I would not have anyone else besides me when I go hunting, my love,” he confessed as Ian kissed her knuckles. Emily was staring into his amber eyes as if they were hooded now.
“And I would be happier if you would come and learn those skills. Who would have thought that you could kill prey with a bow and arrows?” he said, as Ian smirked at Emily. She laughed, smacking his chest playfully before sighing.
“Thank you, my love,” she whispered before she was leaning her face closer to him.
“Thank you for looking over my plain look and beauty. I know that I am not the most beautiful girl of the well-bred ladies—”
Ian put his finger on her mouth, stopping Emily from speaking ill of herself. He shook his head.
“You may think that you are ordinary, Lady Emily Hassildor. But I saw you. I saw how you are compassionate and love to clean the shit out of my bedchamber. And I know you love to dance away the night,” he said as he was tracing his thumb over her lower lips. Emily licked her lower lips, touching his thumb with her tongue. Ian groaned.
“You’re such a tease, my little minx,” he growled before pulling her face closer as Emily smiled. She gripped his shoulders as she was angling her mouth to fit his. They kissed.
The kiss was explosive in every way possible and before they could go any further, the meat was distracting Emily as her stomach growled loudly. Ian broke the kiss before he chuckled softly.
“Looks like I have to feed you first, my love, before we can have our lesson in shooting arrows,” Ian said as he went to the spit, and punctured the meat that was cooking before slicing pieces for Emily and himself. Emily licked her lips as his kiss still lingered there.
“And I cannot wait for that lesson,” she said as she was getting up the plate that was full of meat. Ian chuckled before they dug in their dinners as the stars were twinkling in the skies. Emily moaned when the meat hit her tongue, as the cook always seasoned to perfection every meal that she made.
“Oh, Gods. I love this so much that I can eat the whole meat,” Emily said as Ian was cutting even more thin strips of meat from the main meat on the spit.
The smokeless cooking was helping as there would be no animals coming their way if they smelled the smoke. Plus, it would ease Ian a little with the attacks from the wild animals that were roaming the Ngis Forest.
“Eat up. You will need it for your practice later on,” Ian said as he was chewing on the meat as well. Emily smiled as she was biting another after another strip of meat until her stomach was full and she could barely move.