Chapter 16

SIN

After scanning the environment for the second time tonight, whilst looking for the werewolf that had infiltrated my domain, I jumped into the room through the window.

I do that all the time. I found it easier to get into the room that way. Also, I loathed using the doorway.

I sighted Artemisia on the bed, fast asleep.

I felt awful for hitting her. I never had a reason to do so to any of the women I had been with before.

Besides, she had made me do it because it wasn't my intention.

I wonder if she had gone out on purpose to annoy me or she just wanted to get some fresh air.

Yet, no matter what her reasons were, it was still disobedience to me because I had warned her not to.

Also, I thought of what might have happened to her if I hadn't noticed she was gone.

Sighing, I moved away from the entrance to where she was laid on the bed. I groaned as her intoxicating scent wafted into my nostrils.

Even when I was not close to her, I still felt her fragrance around me.

"Geez woman, just what the hell are you doing to me?" I mumbled whilst sitting beside her.

I tucked a strand of hair that was shielding her face beneath her ear before scrutinising her flawless face

as the moonlight brightened it.

Her cherry coloured lips parted and a slight snore drifted out of it.

My ears moved closer to her lips as they parted. I heard her moaning out my name as she writhed on the soft sheet.

Maybe I was hearing things, I mulled as I watched her closely.

"Sin..."

My brows creased as I heard it again. I doubted if she was having a sensuous dream about me since she began touching herself.

I watched intently as her hand cupped her left breast. She twisted her already pointed nipples in the transparent gown she wore.

I licked my lips and imagined it was my mouth on the tiny buds right now.

I let out a groan as my pants tightened. I attempted to look away from her unclad body to resist the temptation of touching her, but I couldn't.

Shit!

I tugged my hair in frustration and gazed down at my pants. I couldn't remember the last time I had a nasty thought to take a woman when she was asleep.

I had never done or thought of that before.

But, Artemisia was different.

Ever since she strolled into the cathedral, I hadn't stopped thinking about her and all the things I wish to do to her delicate body.

Perhaps, I should start staking my claim on her since she was mine after all.

Still, I couldn't force myself on a sleeping woman.

Aside from it looking weird, it was sickening and could be termed as molestation.

She was my wife and would not be running away anytime soon even if she had planned to do so, I was going to make sure she didn't.

There was plenty of time to claim her, I reminded myself and willed my thoughts away from her tempting lips and body.

I tried to leave the bed but halted when her hand gripped mine.

"Sin..." She mumbled, groggily.

"Do you want anything?" I asked in a calm voice. Also, I tried not to react to the way her touch was stirring up my emotion.

"Make love to me." She said, then proceeded to lift the black lacy nightie off her body.

"What?!"

My eyes went wide as I stared at her. I believe she wasn't the one talking because the Artemisia I had come to know would never offer herself to me easily without a fight.

"I want to feel you inside me right now." She lifted herself off from the bed slowly, straddling me. Her lips went to my earlobes and she suckled on them. She pushed out her tiny yet beautiful breast to the front of my mouth and she moved her lips closer to mine.

I caught a whiff of the liquor she had taken in her breath. Then, I realised she had been drinking and it was the alcohol in her system that was doing the talking.

"You don't know what you are saying," I muttered, shaking my head. I tried to shove her off me, but couldn't as she held on too tight.

Moreover, I didn't want to hurt her by using my strength to shove her because she looked fragile.

"Artemisia..."

"I want this Sin." She whispered.

I shivered as her teeth grazed my ear. Slowly, I shut my eyes whilst thinking of her offer.

"You don't." I let out, opening my eyes slowly. "Perhaps, when you come awake in the morning, we could talk about this again because I like it when my women are sober."

"Bummer." She muttered with a pout.

I shook my head. "Why were you even drinking?"

I asked even though I know I wouldn't be getting a reasonable answer.

She laid back on the bed and didn't answer my question. I wonder if she had heard me or was still in the trance she was in.

"Just sleep," I urged, patting her thigh.

I grabbed a pillow and an extra duvet from the wardrobe and proceeded to the door.

"Where are you going?"

"Out of this room," I said and left without answering any more questions from her.

The truth was, if I had stayed longer in the room with her, I would be tempted to take the offer.

But, since I knew she wasn't in the right state of mind, I didn't want her to regret it when the morning came.

I groaned as I glimpse the boner in my pants again. It had grown harder and was seeking a release from the tight compartment it was in.

"Calm down, boy. You won't be getting it anytime soon." I said, patting my pants slightly.

I stripped down to nothing and stepped into the shower. I flinched as the cold water cascaded down my back.

I gripped my member as my thought drifted back to her tiny nipples and lips.

I imagined her mouth wrapped around my member and her head bobbing as she pleased me.

Shit!

I released the hold I have on it and stepped out of the shower.

I didn't bother drying my body. I laid on the couch and stared at the white-painted ceiling.

I had vowed celibacy and had also promised not to please myself.

But, I had violated it the first time by being with Emma, Artemisia's little sister.

Now the thought of Artemisia had made me want to pleasure myself! She had made me want to do what I had never done!

Why did I violate the rules I had been holding so dear to me when these two came into my life?

I couldn't answer the question. Rather, I thought of something else and not how sexually frustrated I was at the moment before sleep eventually came.