Chapter 31 – The Overseers Outhouse, White Orchard Plantation, 8pm May 17th 1864
Tom Shepherd could not believe his good fortune. Not only had he been rescued by the infamous Confederate Raider, William Quantrill, but he once again found himself in the company of the gorgeous bitch, Catherine McCown.
It seemed that Miss McCown had indeed been conspiring with Quantrill to the point where the two of them seemed to have some sort of relationship. They got the share the big house together, and no doubt a bed, whilst he got to enjoy the company of his fist, like so many other nights spent alone. There wasn’t even a worthless slave girl to abuse … how he would love to inside to be inside the warm, young body of Mercy right now. But even she had left.
He tossed off his boots and retrieved his supply of white corn mash whisky. Gripping the stopper in his teeth he pulled it out and spat it onto the woollen bed cover, before resting his weary body and putting the bottle to his lips.
He would have her this time. As Shepherd thought about the whipping she had received, his groin stiffened, forcing his cock to harden.
Fuck, she had looked magnificent, naked and chained, body dripping with blood and marked with welts.
He pulled out his shaft and began to work the foreskin back and forth. They should have let him fuck her while she was unconscious … after he had whipped her pussy and those firm tits of hers!
He jerked himself faster, massaging the underside of his swollen cockhead to speed the onrush of his seed.
As he arched his back and shot his juices high into the air, he thought about nothing but forcing that uppity bitch to pleasure him!
Chapter 32 – White Orchard Plantation, 9pm May 17th 1864
William remained stationary, trying to keep his gaze on Catherine’s face, as if maybe it wouldn’t be polite to stare at her body. She smiled and teased, “Why, I do declare that you seem a little bashful …” Catherine paused, then continued. “… William, I know my body is a little … bruised, but I took all my clothes off so you would look at me, so please do me that honour.”
Permission granted, his gaze dropped like a stone. He looked down, up, down, and up again. Catherine shivered as his scrutiny moved over her, making her feel hot and cold at the same time. He stared and stared, and just when she was wondering what she might have to do to move things along, he reached behind his head, yanked off his shirt, unbuckled his belt, dropped his dust covered pants, kicked them away, and then he was naked, too.
“Couldn’t let you be naked alone,” he murmured.
“No,” she agreed, “that wouldn’t be right.”
William nodded, replying, “And I want everything to be right. I want it to be perfect for us. For you. You deserve that.”
He moved towards Catherine, still looking her up and down, slow and intense and astonished and gratifyingly awed. The girl felt shaky and nervous and not at all composed. Butterflies fluttered from her stomach all the way up her throat.
“I’m pretty sure, since I have never done this before, not like this …”
Catherine began an explanation that was not required.
“Ssshhhh Catherine, you don’t need to say anything. Forget everything …”
But she finished her sentence, “… it won’t be perfect.”
“Are you kidding me, Catherine?” He reached for her hand “You are all I ever wanted, if I can’t make love to you, there’s something seriously wrong with me.”
She let him lead her, walking slightly behind him, enjoying the view of his back and ass. His skin was darker than Catherine’s but then again pretty much everyone’s was, and she couldn’t wait to touch it everywhere. As he moved, the muscles on his lean body rippled, and Catherine shivered thinking about him stretching naked on top of her, pushing inside, wrapping her legs around him.
Stopping at the bed, he turned, stared at her a long moment, then with an explosive exhale said, “Lord, Catherine, you’re so beautiful. So, so …”
“Do you really think I’m beautiful, even after …?” Catherine said with a slight choke to her voice.
He laughed. “In every possible way. I dreamed about this. Prayed that I’d live long enough and you’d live long enough. You’re the most fearless, brilliant, incredible woman I’ve ever met. What did I do to deserve you?”
His wide eyes looked so honest and earnest, they melted her. Again, she took his hand and drew it to her body, put his palm against her stomach and slid it up to her breast, shivering when he grazed her nipple with his thumb.
“You did everything to deserve me. You listen to me and let me breathe and talk and teach me things. You’re brilliant. And you are kind and good and ... you’re everything I ever wanted.”
He inhaled sharply, his hands moving across her skin, sliding to cup her breasts gently, then hungrily, and for the first time, he looked at her and did nothing to disguise the lust and desire he so clearly felt.
Catherine gasped. It was staggering. He wanted her so much, and she loved seeing that in his eyes! She felt everything his hands were doing as intensely as she had ever felt anything … like the cells in his body were sinking into the cells of her body, touching her all the way to the place where her soul was being resurrected following the horrors at the hands of Sampson.
Despite everything it took a little while to move beyond the first shaky, nervous part, but when they did, they found that their bodies moved together as easily, hungrily, and passionately as their minds.
William loved her, but she was nervous, apprehensive, partly still caught up in the torments of her mind, but her lover took it slowly, and so it was easy and beautiful. And it was clumsy at times and so damned intense and she felt so vulnerable when he slid his long, hard length over her body and rocked himself into her gently and with exquisite care, cradling her head, staring into her eyes the entire time.
Then, when they found a rhythm and he moved inside her, Catherine started to cry and couldn’t stop. Silent tears rolling down her cheeks. She stared up at him and he looked down and he started to cry, too, and without saying a word, they both understood why the other was shedding a tear.
No matter how much time they had together, it would be too short, because he could die or she could die, or they could both live a century and it still wouldn’t be long enough.
When Catherine was with him life lost all its sharp, dangerous edges. She cried because she’d never felt so much emotion in her life. She cried for her parents, for her life, for her country, for the horror of the past week. Catherine cried for everything she had lost ... and for what she had found.
She reached up and touched the tears glittering in his dark eyelashes, caught and kissed them then kissed him with the salty tang of both sets of tears on their tongues.
Then neither of them was crying but their eyes were locked, wide with wonder, as he moved faster and deeper and her body trembled around him and her orgasm formed a kaleidoscopic fanfare inside her head.
Catherine didn’t just climax with her body, the explosion of so much sensation did something to her head, too. As if it was injecting an incredible chemical into her brain and suddenly, she arched and trembled with a violent release like nothing else she had ever experienced in her young life. Catherine started to laugh and so did he, but he was growling and gasping, too, and he shook on top of her and threw his head back and groaned and roared and it was the best sound she had ever heard … he sounded free and happy and totally alive.
She held him afterwards, cradling her head to her chest, smiling. They drifted in and out of sleep, then his lips were against her ear, whispering softly, “I love you Catherine.”
“I love you too my darling.”
To Be Continued ...