Chapter Forty

"Ai-Aidan." I said breathlessly as I dug my nails into his back.

"Ari." He says in a husky voice as he leans down and places kisses all over my chest. He starts sucking on my neck and biting all over.

"W-wait." I say as tears start to well up in my eyes.

"I can't. I can't control myself anymore." He continues slamming his body into mine, deeper, faster, as his grip gets firmer and his biting increases. I dig my nails deeper into his back, as the tears hazed my vision, and my body began to shake under the pressure.

"Almost." He says as he holds me.

When he finishes, he just hovers over me, both of us out of breath. I don't know how he has the strength to hold himself up – I feel that I could crumble into a million pieces at any moment.

As my eyelids waiver, me trying to keep them open just a little while longer, the final tears flutter down my cheek.

"Ari…" He says in a tentative, uncertain voice. "I was too rough." He says with a frown as he looks at the red marks and bites all over my body.

I open my eyes to see him wiping the tears away.

"I didn't mean to hurt you I…" Aidan said, his gaze trying to avoid mine.

"Yo-you didn't."

"I can see the marks." He said and rested his head on my chest.

"I-I left marks on you too." I say and look at him, I had dug my nails so deep that I could see blood. "We-we should get someone to look at them."

"I'm fine."

"You're bleeding Aidan." I say and reach up to his wounds.

"It's not serious."

"Bleeding is serious." I say and he laughs. He picks his head up and looks at me.

"Did you know I survived 4 years in the resistance without a single scratch?"

"Re-really? No I didn't…"

"And when I'm finally wounded it's by my wife." He said this without malus or anger. "I deserve more after-"

"Stop it. I'm fine." I wrap my arms around him and kiss him hard. I keep kissing him and bringing him in closer.

"Ari." He protested but I kept kissing him, pushing my tongue into his mouth.

He finally pulled away and looked down at me with a puzzled look on his face.

"What are you doing?" He asked, seeming confused but curious.

"Sh-showing you that I'm fine."

"What you're doing is getting me all riled up again." He leaned his whole body down so he was pressed against me, he was still holding himself up most of the way so it didn't hurt.

"Is that what you want? After what I just put you through?" He asked, he seemed to be trying to seduce me and figure me out at the same time.

"It is our honeymoon. I didn't figure once would be enough…" I say and he smirks.

"Never. But you look like you can hardly stay awake as it is."

"I-I'm just sore." I say and he frowned again. "B-but it doesn't hurt. You didn't hurt me. I swear."

He groaned. "You did provoke me remember." He leans in to bite my ear and place loud, wet kisses there. "Still you might've gotten more than you bargained for."

"N-no. And now we can cross su-sunset off the list."

He pulled away and peered down at me confused. "What list?" He asked.

"Of places to…" I say and my face started to feel like it was on fire. "Y-you know."

"Make love to?" He asked and I nodded. He laughed and bent down to kiss me. "What else is on the list?"

"Th-there isn't an actual list."

"Oh but you said there was."

"It was a joke."

"I don't think so. What else is on the list? Let's knock a bunch off this week." He said as he started to place kisses all over my body.

"Ai-Aidan. W-we should go inside."

"Why's that? Is the sand bothering you?"

"N-no but people are…" I say embarrassed. I try to just bury myself further in the blanket as if that would help.

"Oh yeah." He said and smiled wide. "I'm sure they heard it all."

"Y-you are terrible!" I say and push him. "I t-told you to control yourself."

"After all the teasing you did? And you weren't exactly holding it in either."

"I-I couldn't." I say. "How embarrassing. Not exactly Queen like behavior." I felt like I just cry and drown in a puddle of tears.

"How about this, if anyone says anything I'll have them beheaded? That's King like behavior right?" He joked.

"Y-you're terrible. C-can we go in-inside now?"

He chuckled. "I'll have them draw us a bath. You can relax tonight."

"You're feeling nice tonight."

"I am always nice." He said, sounding a little offended.

"Uh huh. Keep telling yourself that. Can I have my clothes now?"

"After that comment? Not a chance. You're going to have to beg for forgiveness."

"N-no way!"

"Then I guess you're walking to the beach house naked."

"I will not!"

"Then I guess you could crawl." He kept joking.

"I bet you think you're hilarious." I push him off me and roll myself up in the blanket. "I'll just go like this."

He breaks out into laughter as I stand up. "Come on, grab your clothes."

"Nope, I'm going to the beach house like this. And you can sleep out here." I say as I march towards the house.

"What are you going on about?" He asked.

"Oh I'm going to lock you out." I say.

"You wouldn't."

I turn around to look at him, "watch me."

"You little." He jumped up, put his pants on, and started to chase after me. "Come here."

"No way!" I squeal as I run towards the house. He's able to catch up to me and scoop me up in his arms. "You should behave yourself. I'm not sure you can handle a week-"

"I shall behave as I like." I say with a smile. "And I can take whatever punishment you have cooked up for me."

"Oh we'll see about that one." He says as he goes into the beach house. "Have the servants bring us some bath water and wine."

"Oh, I do like wine."

"I was going to let you rest but now you're in for one hell of a night Mrs. Shaffer."

"I think you mean Queen Shaffer."

He just chuckled and threw me down on the bed.