The bell rang in the servant's quarters, summoning her to him. She slipped the small booklet she'd been reading beneath her mattress, straightened the skirt of her maid's uniform and headed off to the east wing. She found him in his study and rapped lightly as she opened the heavy oak door.
"Miss Dahlia. Would you come in here, please."
She entered and shut the door behind her. It gave a creaking groan and latched. She crossed the room and stood before the broad mahogany desk behind which he sat. He completed a last scrawl in a ledger, closed it and put it aside before speaking.
"Ah, Miss Dahlia. How are you?"
It was an odd question for him to ask, but he had been acting increasingly unusual around her of late. He seemed to be occupying the same room as her with more and more frequency as she went about her daily duties. It was never unreasonable for him to be there but she often felt a disconcerting sense that he was watching her. Then when he spoke to her she would become embarrassingly flustered. He would smile and she would feel herself flush. This question simply came as a surprise; she didn't know how to answer.
"Sir?"
"Are you well, Miss Dahlia?"
"Uh, yes sir. As well as I can be."
"Good." He smiled. She felt blood rush to her cheeks and she looked down, fussing with the hem of her white apron.
"I'm sorry. Am I making you uncomfortable?"
"Yes sir. I mean no, sir. I'm sorry, it's just the Master has never spoken to me like this before." She wondered if he had any inkling of the times she'd laid awake, rapt in fantasy, imagining his slender fingers slipping through the seams of her bodice, feeling the warmth of his touch on her skin as her own hands tear at the linen of his shirt and explore the breadth of his chest--
"Forgive me, Miss Dahlia. These are not the words I mean to speak, but I fear to give voice to the true passions of my heart."
She felt a trembling sensation radiate through her chest and take root in her throat. Looking up, she met his gaze and saw reflected in his eyes the same longing she had been suppressing since she entered his employ.
"My lord, I would know your desires though I fear their consequence."
"Oh Miss Dahlia, I can deny myself no longer. You are truly a beauteous creature and my desire is only for you."
Her face reddened as never before and she spun around, unable to face him. Disparate thoughts clashed in her mind. She had hoped for this day and thought it would forever remain merely a product of the nightly dreams that left her damp and yearning.
"My duty is to serve you, but I-- I cannot. What of the Mistress?"
"The Mistress be damned." She suppressed a gasp as she felt the words whispered into her ear. She had not heard him approach and he now stood behind her. "Ours was a union of pragmatism. She has not a tenth of your beauty."
He pulled her dark curls away from her neck and pressed his lips to her skin. She tensed reflexively for but a moment before dissolving into his embrace with a sigh. Each kiss up her neck sparked a barely perceptible shiver through her. He sucked softly at her earlobe and she sighed louder, feeling a distinct quiver move down her body. He kissed his way back down her neck to her shoulder. A warmth was growing between her thighs.
His arms were wrapped around her, his hands gently cupping her full, soft breasts. He moved a hand up to her throat, tilting her head back to allow his lips access to untouched inches of her skin. His fingers slid back down and worked their way past the white trim of her neckline and beneath the black of her uniform. There he luxuriated in the inviting warmth of her breast, feeling her breath quicken at his touch. She moaned as her nipple hardened between his fingers, her sense of duty forgotten, any pretense of resistance replaced with a consuming passion. She spun to face him, grasping his head in her hands and smiling inwardly at the momentary shock in his eyes before pulling him down toward her. Their mouths met in moist compression, tongues dancing around each other like aurora across the night sky.
With her intentions assured he began to assert himself more strongly. He reached down to lift her skirt and found that she was wearing nothing beneath. This excited him more than he could have imagined. He wrapped his hands around the smooth curves of her ass and lifted her, their mouths still locked by the magnetism of their desire. With her arms and legs wrapped tightly around him he began to feel her wetness soak into his trousers. His arousal was almost painful. He swung her around and carried her to the desk, sitting her upon it and spilling papers to the floor.
She kept her legs coiled about his waist, pressing him against her as she pulled at the neckline of her uniform and folded it beneath her breasts. With her nipples so exposed she drew back from his kiss and guided his head down to her chest. He offered no resistance and she gasped lightly as his tongue snaked down through her cleavage and curled around her left nipple. She closed her eyes, recalling every fantasy she'd had of this very moment, and opened them to find it was still true. The thrill bubbled up into a giggle that escaped her lips.
He looked up at her and grinned. She'd never seen such a look from him before, even toward the Mistress. She met his eye and it sent a shudder of excitement through her insides. His hands reached back and pried her knees from his sides, then slid firmly up her thighs, pushing her skirt up to her waist. When his hands made their way behind her ass he pulled her hips toward the edge of the desk. He held his gaze as he sank down to his knees, then ducked his head beneath the frills of her skirt.
Her clit had already begun to swell with anticipation and her juices had dripped down her inner thighs. He lapped at the streaks of fluid and followed their path to the folds of her pussy. She let out a quaking moan as his lips passed gently over her labia. His tongue slid slowly up the length of her slit, flicking as it passed over her clitoris. She stifled a yelp at the sudden burst of sensation. Waves of pleasure followed quickly as he began sucking at her clit, deftly teasing it with the tip of his tongue. She squirmed and bit her lip, grabbing fistfuls of his hair, not wanting him to move an inch from where he was. He obliged her, pushing his tongue through her pussy lips and twirling it before returning to his ministrations of her clit.
She began to breathe heavily and he felt her body tense. Her legs clamped shut against his head. He could hardly breathe. His only choice was to finish what he'd started. He increased his pace, alternating suctioning kisses with rapid strokes of his tongue. She was blinded by a trance of passion. What had started as a pulsing buzz of pleasure was now a shrieking tremor of ecstasy coursing through her. She released the grip of her thighs as minor convulsions of orgasmic aftershock reduced her muscles to liquid. It was a few panting moments before she regained the will to speak.
"My lord, I have never known such pleasure."
"Miss Dahlia, I have desired for so long to give you such pleasure. To be more to you than merely master of this house. To be your Andrew as you are my Dahlia. You are a fire in my veins and my thoughts are only of you."