Something I can't get out of my head

I have a vivid imagination:1

Eprolog2

Her eyes, as brown as chocolate, held a deep longing and a great pain that as it apeared only he could see...because he caused it.3

He looked upon her lips with desire, red as wine, and he knew only too well, they were as sweet as honey.4

He dared look lower and saw a hint of clevage held at bay with only her corset.5

Would he dare leave his love? He couldn't even stand not touching her, and yet he tourtures himself by paying so much attention to her beautiful details...6

"I wont let you go!" he proclaimed. And with that he immediatly snached her into his arms, his love struggling with what little power she posessed against the man she loved.7

"It's too late!" she cried, "You never wanted me, you never needed me, you only used me to fulfill your wicked needs!"8

He continued to hold heruntil at last she gave up into his arms tears and all.9

He held her gently then cradled her head in his hand, pulled back and stared into her eyes and said10

"I need you, I love you, without you I am nothing, please believe me when I tell you that I can't go on without you...marry me."11

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Chapter 113

"Andrew you tease!" giggled Lauren as her lover whispered devious suggestions in her ear. "Don't you know you are speaking to a lady who has been chaste all of her twenty and four years! You're going to have to do better than that!"14

She stood upon their picknic blanket to evade her lover's seemingly eight hands.15

"Do better you say?" he said in a sly tone. He stood up and took a few steps toward her. "Well, I had thought I was doing quite well these past few weeks what with all our secret meetings in our little clearing within the forest. I thought you content by my side and had you vocalize it quite nicely many an hour. Shall I have to demonstrate all we have done these past few weeks and then more? Quite tempting to say the very least!"16

Lauren quickly started into a sprint before Andrew had the chance to grab her. Andrew, quick to react, took two full strides and caught up with her. He took her by the waist and brought her down with him.17

He pinned her to the ground and kissed her passionatly.18

"Oh Andrew," she sighed, "You don't know how happy I feel when I'm with you. You're my world and you're all I would ever want in my world. I can't wait till we're married and we can finally be one before God."19

"Darling, you know I love you and I feel just as happy as you do when we're together, I couldn't imagine a single moment without you in my arms...but I would endure a year and more of torture if only I knew that in the end of it all, you would be with me again."20

"Andrew! Oh my darling! Why are we waiting to be married?!"21

"I want everything to be perfect for us darling, right down to our first night together."22

"Andrew you do love me!"23

"You had doubt?"24

"Of course not silly, I could never doubt you."25

"Alright then," he said climbing off Lauren and helping her to her feet. "Come now darling, lets eat our lunch then, if you like, we could take a walk around our little clearing then play a game of catch and ravish the queen of my heart."26

"Catch and ravish you say?" she laughed as they sat to eat "Don't think I will make it easy for you, you sly fox!"27

"Funny you should mention 'sly fox' my dear."28

"How so?"29

"Hm...I don't know how I feel about feeding you gossip instead of your turkey sandwich."30

"Oh don't tease me so Andrew! You know I love a good piece of gossip!"31

"Thats what I fear. If I tell you what I know you must promis not to speak a word of it to anyone am I understood?"32

"Yes, of course."33

"Alright, well, have you ever heard of a man named Jarred Brown Cooper?"34

"Heard of him! Why he's the talk of the town! He has been for many weeks now. I heard that his name is well respected and is very well to do. My girl friends describe him as the handsome, dark haired rogue. They tell me he has these lightning blue eyes that just look straight through a person and into his soul..."35

"Sounds like you've met him already my dear. Must I be jealous of this new man?"36

"Of course not! I'm mearly repeating what my girlfriends have told me. Many of them also say that within just a few days that he had been here he met a maid of one of the most talked about women and asked her to marry him. The lady who hired her was furious when she found out, for she also had fallen for the rogue. I haven't any idea who she or the maid would be though."37

"My! Where do your girl frineds get this fountain of information"38

"Oh, here and there."39

"Well my love, let me fill you in on the minor details, I'm sure they will shock you. The young maid is Camila-"40

"NO!" she gasped. "I don't believe you! Camila, the young foreign woman who works for...BRIDGET!! I don't believe it!"41

Camila, a young woman from a distant land called La Isla de Cristo, stepped off the boat as it docked and faced many a stare from strangers who didn't believe she should have been there. No one really knew where that specific island was, many also didn't understand her when she first arrived because of her heavy accent. 42

She was a five foot woman with olive skin and a complection any woman would envy. She had dark ringlet curles that came up to her shoulders and made her look innocently younger than what she really was. Her eyes were the shape of almonds and the color of cocoa beans, they alone could attract much attention, but her full red lips and curvy figure made her too much for men.43

She soon found work with Bridget, a wealthy young woman who was in need of a personal servant. Bridget too was beautiful, with her light complection and big blue eyes. She too had curves but what attracted her men most was her long raven hair that came down to her waste.44

"Believe it darling, It's all true. I had it confirmed by a reliable source, Bridget's brother Ferdinand. He has been staying by his sisters side even before this whole ordeal. He had decided to leave a few days before this scandal but he said he felt compelled to stay an extra few days and low and behold, he is now staying until he feels his sister can do without him."45

"And just how did Firdinand reveal all this to you? You had never told me that he was a personal friend of yours."46

"Darling, you don't know many of my male companions for the simple fact that I wish to keep you to myself as long as possible."47

"I'm touched, but my love, Bridget is a personal friend of mine, I can't fathom why she would conseal something like this from me."48

"Couldn't you? Honestly, don't see how shameful and scandelous this whole situation is to her? Camila is still serving Bridget, but now she's a kitchen maid. She wouldn't dare face public with Camila, yet she still has her as a servant because that would be the only way she would be able to see Mr. Brown Cooper."49

"How is she allowing that? If Camila is confined to the kitchen, how is Mr. Brown Cooper still coming around?"50

"Bridget threatens them both. If he doesn't continue to come and see her she say's that she will ship Camila back to wherever she came from. She's told this to Camila as well. What she doesn't know is that Camila and Mr. Brown Cooper sneak off during the night for an hour just to be together."51

"How do you know this?"52

"Believe it or not, it was the same Ferdinand that told me. He saw Mr. Brown Cooper knock on the kitchen window and out came Camila. He followed them one night and for that whole hour they just held eachother and kissed as if they were parting and never to see eachother again. He followed them again a few times just to see if that was all they were up to. Aparently so."53

Lauren was left with her mouth open in shock. 54

"How could Ferdinand allow such a thing?! Did he reveal this to his sister?"55

"Not as far as I know. He fears his sister's health would fail were she to find out."56

"Well, has this ended? Surely Ferdinand put a stop to it."57

"I'm afraid thats not so. Ferdinand, believe it or not, has now taken the side of Camila and Mr. Brown Cooper."58

"How could he do such a thing?! I am apauled that he would do such a thing as betray his own sister!"59

"You of all people should know how Bridget is, I believe that Ferdinand feels that this is just another one of her 'deserts of the month' if you forgive my language. And Ferdinand has heard one of Camila and Mr. Brown Cooper's conversation's, he believes that they are truly in love with eachother."60

"Well! If her own brother wont tell her, I most certainly will!"61

"You will do no such thing! I confided in you and you gave me your word. And besides, imagine if that were us, we're doing no different than they are. The only difference is the circumstance."62

"Oh but Andrew-"63

"No buts Lauren, If you insist on this matter then I will have no choice than to punish you and not in the way you will enjoy. I shall cut off our tryst for a time."64

"NO ANDREW! You know I can't go on without our daily meetings in our special place!"65

"Then you will do well to do as I say! Now enough of this talk, enough talk period, I would rather do something more productive with my mouth, don't you agree?"66

She recognized that look in his eye. "You'll have to catch me first!" She laughed as she jumped to her feet.67

"Oh, have no fear my pet," he said as he started after her, "I will catch you and the prize will be well worth the chase!"