Logan woke up to find he was alone on the bed. Kate was not in the room. He freshened himself with the water lying in the bowl left by the table on his bedside. Then he went in search of his wife. He couldn’t believe it, but he was missing her.
He went down the stairs and was bombarded with a delicious smell wafting in the air. Inexplicably his feet led him to the dining table where Raphael was breaking his fast. Raphael’s plate was filled to the brim with bread and ham and eggs. Logan thought to himself, ‘Not again! Not him, God! Raphael might be an okay sort of a fellow but he gets onto my nerves with all his chattering ways. He should have been born a girl for all the prattle that he can do. Thank you Laird, my Kate is a serene and dignified lady. My Kate? Now where did that thought come from?’
Suddenly he was interrupted in his reverie by Raphael’s booming voice, “Well hello there! Come join me to break your fast. There is some fresh bread, eggs and ham. Mmmm! Yummy!” Raphael closed his eyes to savour his food as he dug into it. A plate laded with many thick slices of bread and as many slices of ham and eggs was piled up in front of him.
‘Laird! This guy can eat! I have never seen someone eat so much at a time’ thought Logan. Out loud he said, “Thanks Raphael. And a good morning to you too!” Logan took some slices of bread and ham with eggs on a plate and sat on the chair opposite from Raphael. As he took his first bite he was pleasantly surprised by the taste of the soft fresh bread and the tender ham. ‘By jove! This is good! Just the way I like to eat! I haven’t had such fare ever since I entered the abbey. Gertie used to cook like this. I wish she were alive today as well. Laird bless her soul!’
Raphael interrupted his reverie yet again, “Man! You must be so lucky to get stuff this good every day.” He made a face and went on, “I would be lucky to get unburnt bread!”
Logan was finding it hard to keep a track of Rapahel’s grumblings.
What did he mean that I have the fortune to have such food everyday. Surely this was more so because of Raphael’s luck than mine. After all this was Daisy’s father’s castle. If anything, the cook would favour Raphael and perhaps even travel with Daisy and Raphael to Raphael’s castle in Northamber. Oh Raphael would be so lucky to get such food everyday then. I would just have to go back to the hard bread and half-cooked meat in my castle. Maybe, I should try to steal the cook here. Jean is a good cook but he is a fancy cook.
Jean was Logan’s French cook who would make fare fit to be eaten by a king. But Logan liked simple food like this. Even before entering the abbey this is what he had. Nowadays, since Jean cooked only fancy food, he had to request Jean’s fool of an assistant Pierre to cook plain bread for him. And everyone at Remington Castle knew that Pierre could burn even water. If only, Logan would not think of Jean’s sentiments so much he could mention to Jean that he liked plain food.
Suddenly Daisy came in from the kitchen with a knife in her hand which was pointed towards Raphael. “What did you say?” she asked with a petulant expression on her face.
“Umm... nothing. I was just praising your friend’s culinary skills” said Raphael sheepishly.
Daisy was about to retort when Logan asked her, “Where is my wife?”
“Where else?” she replied flicking her thumb over her shoulder towards the kitchen. She shrugged and continued on, “You must know by now. It is difficult to keep her away from there. When we were young...”
But Logan was already walking towards the kitchen, leaving Raphael to hear Daisy’s stories. All the while Logan was thinking. She cooked the food today? I never knew that she cooked the food today. Hell! I never knew she cooks at all. And such wonderful fare at that. If I knew I would make her cook all my meals. Probably that is why she did not tell me.
He smiled amused to himself. His wife was full of surprises and each surprise he liked more than the one before. He entered the kitchen and everyone seeing him filed out. Logan saw Kate standing near the oven, mixing some flour oblivious to his entry in the kitchen... yet. Suddenly she stopped what she was doing, as if she sensed his eyes on her.
She turned and saw Logan filling up the kitchen entry. He was standing casually with his arms folded and his side resting on the kitchen entry wall. She was surprised to see him here. He was looking so out of place. She had never seen him near a kitchen before. Yet, he looked comfortable. Kate was the one who was suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She felt as if she should run and hide somewhere.
Logan could not remember the last time he had entered a kitchen. Sure he cooked in the abbey at times, but never in a female setting - had wonderful aroma of fresh food, vegetables lying cut – uncut, maybe lunch preparation. He felt completely out of place. But Kate was here, her hair smeared with flour, a big spoon in her hand dripping some flour on her clothes. She looked as if she belonged here. She looked good enough to be eaten. He moved from his position near the kitchen entry and forward towards his wife.
Kate stumbled back.
She stammered out, “What... what are you doing here?”
“Looking for my wife” Logan casually replied. With that he moved closer to where Kate was standing.
“Uh... huh!” was the only thing Kate could say in reply. He was now so close to her that she could smell him. Hell, he bent over as if to smell her.
“Ummm..... Smells good!” he said as he smelled her hair and looked over her shoulder.
“Uh... huh!” said Kate. She was confused.
“Good enough to eat” he said as he bent his head to lay a light kiss on her lips.
“Uh... huh!” said Kate.
Is he talking of the food or of...? He has not been acting himself since...
But Kate was waylaid from her musings as a maid entered the kitchen saying, “Is the bread ready? ....
Oops!”
“Uh... huh!” replied Kate. Too late the maid realized that Logan was with Kate. She looked unsure whether to go in or out. Before she could think what to do Kate had replied so the maid responded in kind, “Ok then. I shall take it,” but a little too brightly.
“Uh... huh!” said Kate.
“I shall be gone in no time,” the maid rushed on. She wanted to be gone as soon as she could.
“Uh... huh!” said Kate, who seemed to be capable of uttering only those two syllables. Logan looked on amusedly from his wife to the maid. Kate looked perplexed and at a loss to put together two words, while the maid was trying to take the bread out of the oven while pretending to not look at him. He felt that he could take it no more and would burst out laughing. So he said,
“Tell the others, someone else has to cook today. My wife and I are going to spend the day out.”
“Uh... huh!” said the maid as she looked up at Logan and dashed out with half of the bread leaving the oven open.
Kate burst out laughing. Logan stared at her and she stopped as if unsure if she had offended him somehow. She didn’t want him to think that she was laughing on his suggestion to spend the day out. She wanted to go out with him and know this side of her husband better. However Logan said, “I never saw you laugh before. You should laugh more often. You look good when you laugh.”
“Uh... huh!” said Kate.
Now he was the one who started laughing. He took her hand and led her out of the kitchen through the back door towards the river still laughing.
Stunned Kate could only follow him, running sometimes to keep up desperately with his long strides. Logan realized that she was slowing down and turned to her.
“Was I walking too fast again?” he asked her softly.
Kate did not reply but only nodded her head and then looked down.
“Next time tell me if I do something like that. Do not wait for me to ask you.” He told her smiling.
Kate once again nodded her head and then looked down.
Logan once again started laughing. Kate looked up at him wondering what she did this time to amuse him.
“You make me happy,” said Logan smiling. Kate did not know what to say to that so she kept mum.
Suddenly, Logan bent a little with mischief in his eyes and he put his right arm under her knee and his left arm behind her back and picked her up. Shocked Kate could only hang on to him as her arms went about his neck.
Still smiling Logan carried her all the way to the river and entered it. Kate did not know what was going on in his mind. But she was waiting for him to put her down and then she would talk to him and get to know this playful side of Logan more.
But as sudden as he was being this day, he dropped her in the river instead of putting her down. Kate could only gasp as she went down the water with a splash and came up gasping for air. She was completely soaked in water now. But Logan was nowhere to be seen.
She turned around and finally spotted him on the bank of the river. He was taking off his clothes and then he entered the river yet again with only his breeches on. The sight of the sculpted body of her husband could turn her insides to a mush in an instance. But she was angry with him for dropping her unceremoniously in the water and then going out to take off his clothes before he would enter. She narrowed her eyes at his lithe form straddling towards where she was standing soaked to the bones and no doubt looking like a bedraggled puppy.
Logan came up to her and smiled down at her. Her eyes narrowed even more.
“What?” innocently asked Logan.
“Don’t pretend you do not know ‘what’?” said Kate in a huff as she turned to get out of the water.
“Tell me” insisted Logan by stopping her and holding her arm firmly yet gently.
“You... you dropped me in the water!” accused Kate.
“I am sorry. But I thought your clothes were smeared with flour. That will get washed off in the water. And I didn’t think you would be comfortable taking off your clothes to enter the water,” replied Logan calmly.
“Yeah... well. You could have warned me at least!” said Kate adamantly trying to maintain her anger in face of his calm logic. She sure did not want to get naked in broad daylight to be seen frolicking with her husband.
“And what would be the fun in that?” mocked Logan.
“Fun???” said Kate narrowing her eyes again. Then she saw the mischief in his eyes and continued with an answering mischief in her eyes, “I will show you fun!”
With that she splashed his face with water and swam off to another side before he could recover.
Logan cleared his face and eyes off the water to look for his errant wife and saw her swimming twenty paces away from him. He started laughing once again and started to take long swimming strides to join his wife to exact his revenge on her.
They played as kids for sometime before Kate got tired. Logan could sense her tiredness and took her in his arms once again to walk out of the river. This time Kate just hugged him as she hung on to his neck.
Logan got out of the water and laid her on the grass while he lay on the left side of her. He rested his head on the palm of his right hand as he looked down upon his beautiful wife. He didn’t remember a day he had enjoyed more in his life.
She lay there quietly before she said, “I have to go back and see for the evening preparations.” The sun was already way up in the sky signalling that the castle folks must have had their noon meal as well. It was time to start thinking of what to cook for dinner. She tried getting up, but Logan stopped her.
“Stay. You are all wet. Stay with me till you dry,” said Logan.
She looked down at her wet clothes and then looked at him, “This wouldn’t have been the case if it was not for you.”
Logan smiled and said, “But you enjoyed it. Admit it.”
“I did,” said Kate with a shy smile.
Logan’s smile widened as he dipped his head down to kiss Kate’s lips. They had been tempting him since morn when he had first spotted her in the kitchen looking so delectably eatable.
Kate saw his smile and the ways his grey eyes darkened just before he dipped his head. And readied herself for one more of his potent kisses.
Logan saw the answering fire in Kate’s eyes right before he touched Kate’s lips lightly with his own. He deepened the kiss and took her lower lip in his mouth and sucked upon it. Kate let out a low moan as her hands came up to wound in his hair and anchor him to her. She held on to his head as if it was the only thing to stop her from drowning. Her moan egged him on more and he licked Kate’s upper lip with his tongue as if requesting entry. She opened her mouth for him on another moan and he plundered it with his tongue. Her tongue matched his moves as if they were playing duel with each other. Then he sucked her tongue in his mouth. Kate’s moan was louder this time. There was an answering hollow in the pit of her stomach and she held on to Logan tighter, trying to bring him closer to her if it was possible.
She felt the unmistaken proof of his manhood desperately trying to push the confines of his soaked breeches and come in closer contact with her body. She felt him grind his manhood on her covered nether regions. Suddenly she felt the loosening of the top of her gown as the lace gave way to his probing fingers and the warm sunlight fell on her bosom. But then she was lost to the world as Logan’s fingers traced the outline of her right breast. Her hard nipples puckered even more as she pushed off the ground to offer more of her breasts to Logan’s wandering hands. Logan cupped her breast and squeezed it before he pinched her nipple.
Her delectable moans were swallowed by Logan before his mouth started his descent on her body. He kissed her chin and neck before sucking on her ear followed by sucking the spot on her neck which she never knew was so sensitive before she met Logan. Logan sucked harder on that spot sure to leave a mark there for the whole world to see. He bent lower and kissed her left mound before sucking in her left nipple in his mouth. All the time his left hand played havoc with her right breast, sometimes touching, sometimes squeezing, and sometimes pinching. His mouth complimented the movement of his hand and sometimes he licked upon her left breast and sometimes sucked on the nipple.
Logan felt himself growing harder by the minute. He wished they were in their bed chamber to finish what he had started. His pretty wife could make him lose his head in broad daylight in the open. He had fallen under her spell completely. But this was way too public for him to consummate near the river and with an effort he didn’t think he was capable of, he stopped his ministrations.
He gave feather light kisses to both the mounds before closing the lace of her gown on them. He looked up into her eyes then and the glazed look in them assured him that she was as affected as him of their small tryst in the open. He lightly touched her face with his fingers before bending down to lay an as light a kiss on her lips. He then touched his forehead to hers as he cupped her face in his hands and said, “Good Laird help me! I want you so much. I wish we were in our rooms so I could continue this.”
Kate saw the sincerity in his eyes and the dejected look translated to her own face.
“I want you too,” she said earnestly as she tipped her face up to give him another of her mind drugging kisses.
“Stop!” said Logan and added with a wail, “or else I will not be able to stop!”
Kate smiled up at him and then Logan tried adjusting the lace of her gown further more to try and take his mind off her luscious body. It was then that he saw the love markings he had left in wake of his passion. He touched them lightly and realized that there was nothing that could be done about the one on her neck near her shoulder.
But he didn’t regret it being there. It was for the world to see that Kate was his and his alone. She invoked a protectiveness and a possessiveness in him that he didn’t know he was capable of.
Kate noticed what he was looking at and said, “That bad?” She worried her lower lip between her teeth and continued on, “I should have worn the yellow gown with the higher neckline. What will I do now?”
Logan looked at her and said, “Nothing. I like my mark being there... on you. It just shows to the world that you are mine.”
He was looking at her with such intensity in his eyes that Kate could not say anything and just lay her head on his chest to hide her face. But she was happy that he thought like that because she too thought the same. The whole world would know that he was so enamoured with his wife, with her. Logan turned on his side and lay with his back on the ground but he pulled her with him so that she lay half over him.
They lay like that for some time, each lost in their own thoughts before Logan said, “Your clothes have dried. Would you like to go back to the castle before I complete here what I had left undone earlier?”
Startled, Kate pushed up from his chest and saw that he had that mischief back in his eyes.
She smiled and started to get up. Logan followed and put on his clothes. Kate started walking towards the castle with Logan soon joining her.
Just as she entered the castle gardens and was about to turn towards the kitchen back entrance, Logan came close behind her and bent down to say in her ear, “Tell the others we will have dinner in our chambers itself. Come to our chambers soon.”
Kate continued on to the kitchen wondering what he was up to now when he shouted from behind, “I want to finish what we left undone.” Kate turned to look at him with shock when she saw that there were kitchen maids around including the one who had disturbed them earlier in the kitchen.
Logan’s booming laughter followed her inside the kitchen while the maids snickered among themselves once they had seen then love mark on her neck. Kate was completely mortified.
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