Chapter 15: Marital Pleasures

Sunlight shone through the bedroom windows of the suite. The carpet was scattered with disheveled clothes, torn condom packets, and used tissues bunched up. Lucas leaned against the bed's headboard, shirtless, his wheat-colored skin adorned with varied scratches and hickeys. He looked down at the blissfully sleeping Sophia in his arms. After a day of horse riding, arguing, and drunken passion, she was exhausted. Lucas gently removed the white lace mask from her face. Her black hair spread across the dark grey silk pillowcase, her eyelashes fluttering, her lips as rosy as blooming roses, her exposed shoulders creamy-white. The sleeping Sophia seemed like an angel, while when awake, she was an enchantress bewitching hearts and minds. Recalling how he lost himself over and over in her and indulged his desires without restraint last night, Lucas caressed her delicate shoulder blades where he had left countless marks. Carefully, Lucas removed the slender arm wrapped around his wais