Author's note - This is a work of fiction. The characters are all above the legal age of consent.
BALLING THE BELLE
Charlotte O'Leary tiptoed down the wide staircase of the Five Pines mansion. The other female guests of the estate's annual soiree were upstairs resting in anticipation of the evenings festivities. Charlotte wasn't interested in rest. Charlotte was horny.
She spied the object of her lust, Bentley Phelps, walking toward the drawing room with a bottle of fine brandy in his hand. Phelps was the scion of Five Pines, an elegant, bookish young man whom everyone agreed would do great things one day. Charlotte wanted him to do great things to her and she wanted them done now. She skipped across the marble floor, seized Bentley Phelps by the arm and dragged him into the library.
"Why, Charlotte. What is it?" He gave her a bemused, indulgent smile. "Why aren't you upstairs with the other ladies?"
"They bore the shit out of me," she said. "I want to be with you, Bentley."
"I'm flattered of course. But I have other guests to attend to." He showed her the bottle of brandy as though that explained everything.
"Your other guests are stodgy old men who can talk of nothing but war, war, the price of cotton and more war." Charlotte took the bottle from his hand and set it down on a small writing table. She batted her long eyelashes and turned in such a way that he couldn't help but notice the generous swell of her bosom. "Don't you think it would be more interesting to spend some time with me, Bentley?"
"I do. Yes, indeed I do. But I have responsibilities. You understand that don't you, my dear?"
She wanted to slap the condescending smile off his face but instead, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him passionately. Her tongue darted between his lips and hungrily explored his mouth. It was a kiss designed to enflame and entice. For good measure, Charlotte pressed her pelvis to his and moaned softly. But Bentley pushed her away.
"Charlotte, we mustn't."
"Yes, we must."
"No. No, we can't."
"Yes, we can." She reached for the buttons of his fly.
"No, Charlotte!" He brushed aside her anxious hand.
"For Chrissake, Bentley," she wailed. "Don't you want me? I'm hotter than a half-fucked rabbit in a forest fire and you're saying no? What's wrong with you?"
"There's nothing wrong with me," he said. "At least I hope not. The truth is, Charlotte...I'm betrothed to another."
"No!"
"Yes. To Bethany Wilmington."
"I don't believe it!" Charlotte staggered back a step. "Why would you want to marry that titless, mealy-mouthed heifer?"
"You mustn't speak that way about Bethany, Charlotte. She's a wonderful girl."
"She's a fucking mushroom."
"I'm sure you'll think differently after you've come to know her." Phelps smoothed down his lapels and retrieved his brandy. "And now I must return to my guests."
Charlotte seized an antique vase and would have sent it crashing into the back of Bentley's blonde head if he hadn't already closed the library door between them. Instead, she whirled and threw the vase in the opposite direction, where it sailed over a stuffed couch that faced the fireplace and shattered against the mantle.
"Has the war begun without me?" asked a disembodied voice.
Charlotte gasped with surprise. "Who's there?" she demanded. "Show yourself at once."
A handsome, grinning face appeared above the back of the sofa.
"You!" Charlotte hissed. "I know you...you're that scalawag from Charleston."
"Ben Rutler, Miss." He leapt to his feet and bowed from the waist. "At your service."
"How dare you eavesdrop on me, you...you..."
"And how dare you interrupt my nap with such a display of unmitigated lust?"
Charlotte sucked in her breath and turned crimson. "If you so much as breathe a word of this..."
Rutler cut her off with a wave of his hand. "I've no intention of sharing your secrets with anyone else, my dear. Nor your abundant charms."
"I can't imagine what you mean." She turned her back to him but Rutler crossed the room with a few quick strides and spun her to face him.
"I mean to have you, Charlotte," he said. "I expect there'll be no objections since you've already declared your need and that fool Bentley Phelps has turned you down."
"Don't you poor-mouth Bentley," she said. "You're not fit to say his name."
"Hah! A few minutes ago you were ready to brain him with a vase."
"Yes, well..."
"You practically begged him and my guess is he'd have liked to accommodate you. But he couldn't. A man like that is impotent in the face of your kind of beauty, Charlotte. Your desire emasculates him. You won't have that problem with me."
He took her roughly in his arms and crushed her lips with a hard kiss. "You need to be fucked, Charlotte, and fucked often by someone who knows how. Now lose that ridiculous hoop skirt."
Her lips tingled and his bruising kiss ignited a fire in her belly, but Charlotte O'Leary was raised to be a proper young lady, a child of class and privilege. Lessons of decorum and correct behavior been relentlessly drilled into her by her parents, her mammy, and a platoon of knuckle-busting nuns. Given the opportunity to engage in animalistic intercourse with a known scoundrel, Charlotte's education would not fail her.
"Ben?" she whispered.
"Yes, pet?"
"Would you please lock the door?"
She shed her bodice, her hooped skirt and several layers of petticoats. Stripped to his under drawers, Rutler helped her remove the whalebone corset that narrowed her waist and compressed her tummy. "A barbaric invention," he muttered, tossing it over his shoulder.
He slipped the straps of her chemise over her pale shoulders and pushed it down over her perfect breasts. "Exquisite," he said, bending to take a pink nipple between his lips.
"Oh, Ben," she murmured. The fire in her belly coursed downward and she pushed the chemise down over her hips to expose her lower body. His hand glided between her thighs. His fingers probed her dark curls and teased at her dewy flesh. An involuntary shiver passed through her when he pushed a digit through her eager portal. Charlotte threw her head back and her hips forward.
"Ben," she sighed. "Whoever told you it was permissible to touch a lady like that?"
"Delia Winston," he said. "She was my fifth grade teacher."
Charlotte reached down and plunged her hand into his linen drawers. His cock felt deliciously smooth and hard. She stroked it lightly with the tips of her fingers. It was warm and silky, yet strong and vibrant. She longed to have it inside her.
As though divining her thoughts, Ben eased his finger from her pussy and led her to the couch. "Sit here," he said, slapping a padded arm.
"Whatever for? Wouldn't we be more comfortable..."
"Be quiet," said Rutler, "and I'll show you some things I've learned." He lifted her by the waist and set her on the sofa's arm. Then to Charlotte's surprise, he dropped to his knees.