Chapter Two
I stepped outside into the cold, grey light of the autumn day, hands bound, mind shocked and lust whirling around my senses like a tempest. The abbey seemed oddly quiet and then I realised why as I saw the hushed crowd of nuns and workers penned against the wall of the gatehouse by a dozen armed soldiers. My flock saw me and voices rose as if they were expecting me to rush across and save them but then they hushed again as the sheriff pushed me forward, sending me staggering as I tried to maintain my balance with my hands tied awkwardly behind my back.
"Pax vobiscum!" I cried out in my helplessness and tears coursed down my cheeks as I was roughly pushed past them by a couple of soldiers while de Courcy stayed behind to remind his sergeant what to do with my people. Would he really weed out the young, attractive nuns and condemn them to working in a whorehouse? Surely he wouldn't be that cruel? I kept that hope in my heart as I was thrown over the back of a warhorse and tied securely, ankles to wrists so that I would not fall off.
It seemed an age before the sheriff emerged, mainly because the two soldiers he had sent with me amused themselves by feeling up my legs, chuckling gleefully as I tried to keep my thighs closed against their depredations. Part of me wanted to surrender and just let their fingers worm their way into my soaking slit but I fought against such weakness, determined not to let them gain pleasure from my body. To my surprise, Edith, still stark naked, came with de Courcy, tugged along implacably despite her resistance. He handed her over to the guards and told them to bring her along as he mounted the horse I was tied to and spurred it into movement.
The journey seemed to take an eternity yet in reality it can only have been half an hour or so before we arrived at his imposing manor house on the outskirts of the town. I sighed with relief when the horse stopped as I had been continually jostled up and down and from side to side as it had cantered along. My flesh felt bruised all over and I slid off the back and nearly fell to the floor when the ropes which bound me were untied.
"Bring them both inside and let's make them comfortable," remarked de Courcy and the guards grabbed us and frog-marched us after the tall figure of the sheriff. Along a corridor then through a stout wooden door we walked before we descended a steep set of steps and passed through another oak door and into a large cellar.
"This will be perfect to hold them for a while," stated the sheriff to the guards before he turned his attention on me and smiled wickedly. "Welcome to your humble new abode, abbess. My apologies if it isn't up to your usual standard of accommodation but I suggest that you make yourself as comfortable as possible until I return!"
I refused to answer his taunts and he just smirked then turned on his heel and left, followed by the two soldiers, one of whom banged the door shut behind him and fastened the latch into place. I stared round the room, taking in the solid stone walls, heavy door and lack of any windows and I knew that we would not be escaping unless we had some help from the outside. That seemed unlikely to say the least! Who would bother to rescue us? Clearly, the Protestant clique at court had gained the ascendancy with the rise of Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell and somebody clever and crafty must have murmured in Henry's ear that his debts could be sorted by stealing the wealth of the monasteries and abbeys. Kirkwood's lands would now be sold off to the highest bidder and the silver plate and gold chalices melted down to provide funding for one of the Tudor's futile wars or to line the pockets of his followers like de Courcy.
"Abbess Eleanor," murmured Edith who was standing by my side.
"Yes, Edith?"
"What is going to happen to us?" she continued, blue eyes filled with tears as they looked trustingly up at me.
"I do not know, my child," I answered truthfully, placing a hand on her shoulder and feeling her naked flesh quiver underneath my touch. She sobbed and I pulled her to me, cuddling her as if she was a young child, feeling her head rest on my breast as I stared round the dark room, despair filling my soul. I stroked the girl's back, feeling the knobbly ridges of her spine under my fingertips then the sudden swelling softness of her bottom cheeks. Her head shifted as I touched her buttocks and I exclaimed in delight and shock as her mouth found my nipple and sucked on it strongly. The jolt of desire raced down to my groin and I felt my clitoris tingle with pleasure in response. My hands stroked her soft cheeks faster as her lips teased and tantalised my nipple, sucking through the thin fabric of my plain white habit. It had been so long; ever since I had become the abbess, I had resisted temptation but now I fell into the devil's hands immediately. My own hands left her bottom cheeks for a few moments so that I could lift my habit over my head and then her mouth was back on my breast, teasing my flesh through jus the thin covering of my shift as I tossed the garment on the floor.
We sank down together onto my habit, her lips breaking away from my breast and finding my mouth instead. My lips parted and her tongue darted in like a snake's, teasing and tantalising and tasting slightly odd for a few moments. It was the scent of a man, I realised after a while, and I remembered how she had looked spread over the table and my pussy gushed with slippery secretions in response. How had she felt when those cocks pushed into her mouth and spent their sticky sperm inside? I could taste it there still and then I wondered if I would be able to taste it elsewhere too and my heart leapt at the wicked thought as my hands caressed her body, sweeping up her thighs and then finding the softness of her breasts as we lay down on my nun's garment in the middle of the room.
It was as her mouth broke away from mine for a moment that my mind sparked a thought and I voiced it instantly.
"When they took you, Edith, you weren't a virgin, were you?"
"No, not by a long chalk, abbess," she replied with the faintest of blushes. "Lost it well before I became a nun. I was playing around with one of the lads from the village and he went a little too far after I teased him and that was that! Then I experimented with a few others but my stepmother found out and she persuaded my dad that I should enter the abbey and become a nun. Wanted me to pray for her soul, the hypocrite!"
"Hypocrite?"