"How long have you been staring at me?" Roger asked.
"A long time. I can't believe that you are mine."
"That goes double for me!"
"Roger I have loved you, irrationally, since I was eighteen. This was my ideal outcome and now it's come true. I have enjoyed the incredible feeling of connectedness with your cock deep inside me."
"Would you like to do it again?"
"No."
Roger was used to being surprised around Georgina but NO took his breath away. Georgina smiled, shut his mouth and kissed his eyes.
"They were popping out, you don't need popped eyes."
"No!" he said.
"We're married now we don't have sex, or sexual adventures."
He was almost sure she was joking but as usual her face gave nothing away.
"Georgina don't be silly a marriage is the place for sexual adventures, stretching limits, learning bodies and gaining the knowledge to truly satisfy your partner."
She just stared at him, could she be serious he thought.
"About my wedding vow-"
"You don't have to obey," he interrupted. He knew she wouldn't anyway. "This isn't the way I planned to spend the morning. I was hoping for physical rather than philosophical," he said.
"You promised to forsake all others be faithful only to me, I didn't."
He stilled and played over the events of the previous evening, he was an emotional mess but she was right. When Ralph had given her permission to omit obey she had missed, forsaking all others, too and no one noticed. The impact of what she was saying hit him.
"Are you going to get your sex elsewhere?"
He didn't believe he'd ever doubt her. She kissed him, the passion of the kiss burned those doubts with a heat that precluded even smoke.
"Silly Billy. After waiting for so long and saving you my virginity why would I desert you?"
He tried to emulate the passion in his kiss.
"I want you to make a new vow, I'd hate for you to miss out on another birthday celebration."
"OK, what do I promise?"
"If you match my promise I will release you vow of monogamy."
Georgina put her hand over her left breast, he wished it was his hand.
"I promise to make my marriage the place for sexual adventures, stretching limits, learning Roger's body and gaining the knowledge to truly satisfy him emotionally and physically. Ours will be a marriage of love unsullied by boredom or duty."
Roger covered her hand with his, took her other hand and placed it over his on his heart.
"I promise to make my marriage the place for sexual adventures, stretching limits, learning Georgina's body and gaining the knowledge to truly satisfy her emotionally and physically. Ours will be a marriage of love unsullied by boredom or duty"
"We can have sex now, if you'd like?" Georgina said with a cheeky grin.
"Georgina, I'd follow you blindly over a cliff, I know what I've just promised but what does it mean to you?"
Georgina smiled, Roger refusing sex, he must be serious.
"It means when I'm old, worn and wrinkled I still want sexual adventures and I want most of them with you."
"MOST!"
"Of course, I love you!"
"No, I meant who else?"
"Whoever we decide."
Roger really did look perplexed.
"OK," he said, "we are both old and wrinkled, tell me what a sexual adventure might look like, so that I understand."
"Well maybe through the week we have failed to find a role play or sexual position that pleased us, so we might ask Octavian and his wife around to play."
"So you want to fuck my brother..."
He stopped, her grin was so wide it met at the back of her head.
"Sorry Roger, that was mean. If we both agree we should include other people we love into our play."
"Yes please!"
"You agree?"
"No, but as I recall you asked if I wanted sex, Yes please."
She smothered him with her body. When he found air again, he said, "Georgina, I love you and trust you. I know you will only add spice to our marriage. I like your suggestion because I love Reggie, and Brielle and Lola would certainly add flavor."
"Don't you love Brielle and Lola?"
"No, not in the same way as Reggie. Lola doesn't know what love is. I'll probably love Brielle when she finds the ability to love herself and trust others, she is certainly more damaged than she looks."
Georgina wanted to hear more, she loved this amazingly perceptive man.
"Isn't that a stronger reason to love them?"
"Yes but Lola walks around my offer of love as if she doesn't recognize it and Brielle can see it but thinks it's deception."
"Don't stop caring though."
"I couldn't, why are you sharing my words and not my body?"
Georgina fixed his problem.
The phone rang at an opportunistic moment, they had played and rested and were ready to re-emerge into the world.
"It will be your brother."
Roger raised an eyebrow and picked up the receiver. He just listened.
"OK."
"He's coming to see us, ten minutes."
Georgina sprang out of bed.
"Can I help you get dressed?"
"You can watch or we'll blow the ten minute deadline. Although I don't mind your brother catching us fucking."
"I do, I'll watch."
Roger smiled, Georgina was a tease it took her eight minutes to get her bra and knickers on and one minute to fully dress.
"OK, you have one minute," she said with a monster grin, "assuming you can get that," she nodded at his erection, "into your underwear."
"We could always refuse to answer the door," he said hopefully.
She shook her head, she had a bone to pick with Octavian.
"I'll call the girls. You lever your lever into some clothing."
Georgina grabbed the phone while Roger ran around like a headless chicken finding all of his scattered garments.
There was a bold knock at the door.
"People in Honeymoon Suites do not customarily receive visitors," Roger said, as he opened the door.
"I'm not a visitor, I am your brother."
Georgina flew past him and launched herself into Octavian's arms. Roger was surprised both at Georgina and Eight who caught her as if she was expected.
"Can I kiss my sister in law?"
"A chaste peck is acceptable," Roger said, but it was too late.
Although there were no lips, Octavian was definitely cuddled. He looked at Roger and winked when Georgina let him go. Roger was amazed he felt no jealousy.
"I amend chaste kiss, to whatever my wife finds acceptable."
"Why have you interrupted out matrimonial bliss?" Georgina asked.
"The German spies, we have trouble."
Georgina grabbed the phone and ordered morning tea for four. Neither Roger or Octavian commented they knew she loved sweet things. They chatted, mostly about last night. Octavian laughed about the interlude in the Powder Room.
"Why did you love my brother too much to marry him?" Octavian asked, just like an elder brother straight to the point.
Georgina raised an eyebrow at Roger. He got up and kissed her.
"If you can greet him like that, you can share any secret that YOU want to."
Georgina grabbed him as he was walking away and returned the kiss.
"When Roger told me about Helen, he said that continuing the family name is essential. I have been infertile since I was sliced-"
"Why the fuck didn't you tell me?"
"Why would you be interested in my plumbing?"
"MI5 or MI6 will pay for surgery to rectify the problem."
Georgina was touched, her eyes were damp.
"Thanks Octavian, I appreciate your concern. Paying isn't an issue though. The way the government works they'd probably think they owned my womb."
Georgina was crying now, Roger couldn't work out why she cried so easily but he liked that she expressed her emotions. Men would smile while their hearts were being broken, he thought women had the better balance.
There was a knock at the door. Georgina accepted the trays and shared the extra helping between them all. When all the banter and consumables had been dispatched, Roger said, "What's with the Krauts?"
Octavian grimaced. "When Mosley and Dunn were arrested for the serial killing we arranged for full press coverage. There was even a Sunday editorial. We thought that with Cynthia's death clearly being coincidental to her spying they would come and recover the files, they didn't. Our best brains have concluded that your operation has been infiltrated it's the only way they'd know it was a trap."
"Only?" Georgina said.
"Well no, most likely then. I'm worried about Brielle she doesn't have clearance, I'm worried about Reggie too but she is more open. Brielle has dark corners."
"Lola is OK because you fucked her last night?" Georgina said, the venom was thinly disguised.
Octavian didn't take the bait.
"No Lola has had a high clearance, since before the war. She has come through a review squeaky clean, unlike Brielle."
Georgina stood and in a tone that left not an iota of doubt said, "I would place my life in either Reggie's or Brielle's hands at the drop of a hat. If we are penetrated it is NOT them."
"So you'd be happy to bait a trap to prove their innocence?"
"Absolutely not, trust by definition does not need to be tested. You play your silly games but I will not be a part of it!"
"Will you tell them?"
"Only if I know!"
The room was subzero, no one stood up to Octavian. Roger decided to intervene before they all froze.
"Octavian, I support Georgina fully. If you want to test the loyalty of our friends, you do it!"
Georgina knew the value of loyalty, she was not prepared to filter her values for the sake of family harmony. She was looking forward to a deeper relationship with Roger's brother, that seemed to be off the table now. Through misty eyes she saw Octavian move, next she was in his arms.
"Georgina, you are a joy. I expected that from you but you've given my brother a backbone too."
Georgina just held him, his comment was so busy it would take a while to de-code. Octavian pulled Roger into the clinch.
"God, Rags. If I didn't need some pampered rich, landed, peer in my bed you wouldn't have come close to this treasure."
Georgina smiled
"But, Brother-in-Law, I almost meet your specification exactly."
"I know, Dear. You are not titled."
"No, I'm not pampered."
The brothers stood open mouthed.
"Tell!" they said together.
"Until Mussolini, I was a Countess. A direct decedent of Caterina Sforza, the Countess of Forli."
"Titles only travel the male line," Octavian said.
"When Pope Sixtus died, Caterina Sforza's husband was killed and his lands overtaken. She escaped the Pope's murderers, formed an army and recaptured her husbands domains. Then supported the new pope, Pope Aleander VI. In gratitude he granted secession down the female line as a lasting testament to her male strength forged with female compassion. He credited her with defending his Papacy."
"You lucky bastard Rags, if I'd only known!"