Hello all fellow erotica lovers and welcome to my debut story on Literotica.com. I'm looking forward to much feedback and response from anyone who gives my work the time of day and if you are looking for quick-worded smut, you won't find it here. Thank You and Enjoy.
Ebrietas
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"Anastasia, come down for dinner." my father called from downstairs. I stood from my bed and descended the stairs to the dining room where my father and several servants stood waiting for me. It's pretty simple to understand, I'm the daughter of a General.
Young, beautiful, sought after and completely pure. My father had brought many men to court me, impress me and take my hand in marriage once I had become sixteen. For two full years I had been able to keep them away with proclamations of "Father, he made me uncomfortable!" Or "He tried to put his hand beneath my dress!"
All this time I lied about their intentions with me, they all may have wanted me for my body, but I could tell what their true intentions were: I was to be a trophy wife.
A beautiful doll to sit on a shelf and smile at everyone who walks in, whilst they exclaim; "Oh my, look at her beautiful face!" and "Oh wow, that dress! What an amazing material and color. It brings out her eyes ever so perfectly."
And all the while I would sit and smile at these women and secretly I would know that they would all hate me. Hate me for my looks. Hate me for my money. Hate me for my luck. Maybe even hate me for the size of my bust (which in all honesty is quite massive).
My husband would be the talk of the town, especially in men's inner circles. Once they saw my face and my body I would be all they could think about. Every time they made love to their wives or to their servant girls, the only face they would be able to see is mine. Every time they would climax inside of another woman's sex, they would always imagine it was mine. It's not that I would resent these people for hating me or wanting me. I would not dislike them for their comments, my only concern is that I don't want to live that life.
When I was a child, I had an uncle who was a great man. He was my father's brother and he told me all these amazing stories about adventures and pirates and incredible journeys with unseen creatures, mermaids and dragons. You see, my uncle was what my father called a "scoundrel." Back then I didn't understand what that meant and it quickly became a humorous name that I would refer to my uncle as. I would say it and he would laugh and tickle me, saying "Oh am I? If I'm a scoundrel then that must make you a tart, little one."
Back then I also had no understanding of this term so I took it as how I saw it; a pastry, filled with delicious jams and covered with sugar powder. I spent a majority of my childhood actually believing I was a pastry and I could be found frequently covering myself in sugar powder and multiple kinds of berries. This childish action soon became inappropriate and on the day my father hit me across the face for it, I finally ended my pastry crusade.
But all my life I never forgot those stories. One in particular always stuck with me, it was titled "Captain Eleanora" and it was a story about a great Ship Captain, one of the only female captains to be found in all the great seas (or so I was told). My uncle always told me the stories of this Captain different from the ones he told otherwise.
This story in particular had far less recounts of great heroic battles and more tales of woe from the Captain's own viewpoint and much more depth. So much depth, in fact, that I began to suspect these stories to be true and I found myself hoping there truly was a Captain Eleanora who sailed the great seas.
Once I heard this story, my imagination was let loose and I had begun this fantasy of building a crew and going off on journeys across the seas and plundering treasure and laughing as foreign countries would send their ships after me and once they saw the vastness of my ship and power of my crew, they would run like cowards.
This had become my dream for my future and this is precisely why I continued to deny my father's suitors. I would have no man because a strong woman like Captain Eleanora does not need a husband, and if she didn't need a husband to sustain her, then neither would I.
I crossed the threshold into the dining room and gave a small curtsy to my father and the servants, before taking my seat beside my father's chair, to his left. "How are you, my Princess?"
"I'm wonderful, father." I spoke thoughtfully, "I had dreams about the open ocean and how amazing it would be to sail upon it with the salty wind blowing through my hair."
Of course I did not actually dream of these things, I simply hoped my small mentions of my curiosity of sailing and the open ocean would open my father's eyes about setting me free to sail on a ship. I know these cravings to be childish but there is no way to tell my father directly about my dreams.
"No dreams of the Duke? I had assumed he made a great impression on you. You seemed pleased by him taking you out into the town the other day. I hope nothing went wrong..."
He left the statement open, prompting me to respond to his inquiry. The truth was that the Duke had actually made a very fair impression on me at the town the other day. He was a true gentleman; upstanding, handsome, honest, respectful and quite the man. I paused momentarily, letting my father's question hang in the air between us. I decided to play it on the safe side; give a little, take a lot.
"He was nice. Not terribly nice, but nice." I said, with my eyes to the ground, looking sad and forlorn, as if this long journey of suitors had left me feeling like no man would ever love me. Thankfully the effect I desired was immediately achieved.
"Sweetheart what ever could be the matter? Did he do something to you? Like the others?" This last question had a little bite to it. He had been in the presence of many men who had "tried to take advantage of me." Obviously none of them had, I just simply lied.
I let my head rest lower and pretended to cry, deep morose sobs, into my lap. My father reached out and took my hand, waiting for me to speak.
Finally I brought my false sobbing to a stop and spoke slowly, my voice full of fake tears.
"He didn't hurt me father, I'm simply worried that I will never find the man who will truly make me feel loved and who I can love back. These suitors have become too common and they all just seem the same."
"But the duke, my Princess. Did he not make you feel special?"
I responded too quickly and my true emotions betrayed me slightly