In the days of old, when lords and knights went off on spectacular, yet often long winded campaigns, the deserted ladies were left with three choices. Some, due to the nature of arranged marriages, would spend their time in the arms of some miscreant nobleman who, fearful or faithless, remained behind. Others who, with a less hot blooded yearning, were content with their chosen husbands would remain chaste until their men came home. A third choice made was by women whose soul was hued with both the deep color of passion and the light of fidelity. They would, remaining true to their vows, find their needed sensualism with members of their own gentle sex.
The noble beauty Madame Stephanie de Monteros was of this third persuasion. Stephanie had been betrothed, and soon after married to Lord Hugh de Monteros once she turned twenty. Hugh was a man glowing with chivalry and nobility, and Stephanie fell in love with him almost immediately.
The gallant de Monteros had departed with the Kingâs league to the Greek Isles, leaving his bride of two years alone at their chateau. There were of course maids and stewards, messengers and servants to do her bidding, but no one to accompany her at meals or at night.
Deep into the night, with only the moonâs soft gleam bathing her, she would lay awake thinking of the soft caresses and gentle feelings she so missed. Upon the soft linen of her bed, dressed in nothing but the nightâs cool air, she would pleasure herself while her mind wandered. Imagining the sultry winds of the Aegean, or the golden hills of the Levant, her hands would play across the lust-tightened form of her body. The large nipples standing out firm, tipping her small, soft breasts. A flat stomach, rigid with anticipation, and the round smooth behind, and feminine, curvy waste. Her legs were long and trim. She was the Nordic Queen of her ancestral blood wholly in form and essence.
It was one of those nights of self-indulgence when she first discovered the sensuality of another woman. She laid bare, using her right hand to stimulate her clitoris and her left to drift across her sensitive skin, she could sense more than just the moonâs voyeurism. Someoneâs gaze was transfixed on her writhing body, watching her self stimulation, and she was driven further toward climax by the sensation.
Thinking nothing of it at the time, Stephanie had left her chamber door open. Someone stood just inside the gaping aperture, still locked behind the shadows. Stephanieâs pale skin was aglow from the moonâs luminous touch, making her act quite visible for anyone within her doorway to admire. Her body trembling with fiery orgasm, she knew not if she should cover herself, or remain as her humor willed it.
There was indeed a gaze locked on her, through eyes watered with lustful surprise. The maiden Lysette roomed beside Stephanieâs chambers, and she always kept her door ajar lest her lady required something. With both doors open, the mellifluous sighs and soft moans entered the maidenâs room freely. Such sounds of erotic joy gripped her with curiosity, and so she had made her way to look in on her lady.
What she beheld froze her; she had oft times seen the woman bared, as when bathing, but never in such throes of passion.
It was a sight to beholdâthe soft gleam of the moon flowing from the window, bathing Stephanie in a milky aurora. Her hips raised high off the bed, both her hands busy between her legs, one massaging her clit, and the other feeling deep between her warm, moist folds. She loosed her breath in long, high notes. Her toes were curled hard against the edge of the feather bedding, with silk sheets shunned aside and left in a wrinkled pile. Her eyes were clenched tight, imagining the touch of her love, but she could still sense the attention given her.
Her thighs tensed, her fingers moving with heightened fervor, she climaxed. Masked behind her own moans, she could just make out a muted squeal from her doorway. Broken from her erotic oblivion, she bolted upright and looked to the door. She spied only a silhouette disappearing into the darkness of the hall. Wanting to discover her midnight admirer, she quickly wrapped a silk sheet about her and made her way to the tenebrous hall. A slight creak she heard, a heavy oak door swinging on its whining hinge. She knew where the sound came from, and it was the next door down, the door of her hand-maiden Lysette.
She looked as a phantom wrapped in her silk, seemingly gliding across the floor. Thus she made her way to the maidenâs door, which she nudged open wide enough for her lean body to fit through. The moon was feeding its soft, primrose gleam into that chamber through its wide windows. The light ricocheted off the silk sheet draped across Stephanie, enhancing her spectral appearance.
Before her she saw the maiden Lysette lying back upon her bed, her eyes were wide with abashment, but they twinkled with her risen hunger. Stephanie let the silk drop from her body while Lysette, impassioned and timid at once, gazed on as the fabric exposed the ladyâs wondrous body to her. Her heart thumped hard within her chest, and her breath was stilled, her belly tightened, and between her thighs she grew warm.
Stephanie, unencumbered of the sheet, strode to her hand-maidenâs bedding and sat upon its edge. She reached out and laid her hand on the younger womanâs leg, gently caressing it. The soft feel of that flawless skin blew any restraint she might have felt right away. Her own breath went short.
âYou can touch me if you want to,â she whispered to the maiden, inviting her. âDo what your eyes betray you want to, donât be afraid.â