Shivering, Betsy settled into the cushioned seat at the back of her husband's carriage.
She rubbed her hands over the goosebumps on her arms, and pressed up against Oliver as the door clicked shut behind him. Almost immediately she began to warm up.
Oliver always did produce enough heat for two men.
She had never imagined she might have anything as nice as this coach, roomy enough for 4 passengers, with its dark woods and mother-of-pearl inlays.
She
had
imagined herself wearing a dress this nice, but she hadn't known just what it would look like, her small Maryland town not having had access to the latest fashion plates from Europe.
Mooonlight streaked in through the window, catching at the edges of Oliver's dark hair, not reaching his bottomless eyes, fixed on her.
Beautiful. And very much unlike the husband she had imagined for herself. But better.
She squeezed her thighs together as the driver started them off towards home. Since she'd been with child, she had found herself needing to pee more often. She'd been feeling it since the start of the third act, but she'd stuck it out through the end of the play.
She knew Oliver would reward her for it.
"Piss for me, little spy," he whispered, and before he had even finished speaking she was fumbling under the seat for the bourdaloue, twitching aside her skirts with her other hand.
With a low moan, she began to fill the pot pressed between her legs, not caring about the icy bite of the porcelain against her thighs.
Her moan sharpened into a gasp as Oliver pulled at one of her nipples — more sensitive than normal, another of the child-to-be's doings.
His other hand clasped over her mouth, muffling her cry.
"Good girl," he breathed, twisting her nipple harshly, sending sparks up and down her body. Between that and the ruts in the cobbled London streets, she almost lost her grip on the sloshing bourdaloue, a disaster not to be contemplated.
Wrapped in him, she held firm.
How on Earth had she come to feel so safe in his arms?
* * *
Something had awoken in her when she first saw him stalking through the Maryland trees, muscles stirring under his sun-dappled red jacket and close-fitting white breeches.
Something
else
had awoken in her as she watched him fish his prick out of his trousers.
She had only ever seen a grown man's phallus in her grandfather's book of engravings after famous artworks. Even soft in his hand — she could deduce that much — this man's appendage appeared far larger than the ones on the Greek heroes.
Then again, she'd never seen a Hercules this broad-chested.
He began to piss against a fallen log. His countenance remained fixed in a glower. She almost laughed out loud at the absurdity of it, but she stopped herself, trying to remain as still and quiet as a mouse.
She had come here desperate to find a way to do her part in the war. If she could find out where the redcoats were marching, she could relay it to someone who — what?
Crouching here in the brush, her plan to be a valuable spy was beginning to unravel in her mind.
Worse, in watching this beautiful man arc his golden stream into the midday sun, she was becoming all too aware of her own need to piss. Why hadn't she stopped off before approaching the encampment?
And then there was a second need, mingled with the first, throbbing between her legs. The one she felt at night when she imagined she was in her marriage bed, that in the dark above her were the kind eyes of a husband and lover.
Suddenly, she was frozen, pinned to ground by the cruel eyes of the British officer.
Caught.
Oh no.
He took a step towards her, muscles bunching, dark eyes growing wild. His manhood, she somehow couldn't help noticing, was still out, swaying like a tree in a storm as he approached, and this time she was unable to keep a bark of panicked laughter from her throat.
He was upon her in a flash, taking her wrist in an unbreakable grip.
The alarm in his eyes had softened, or perhaps hardened, into a sort of amusement.
"I could have you hanged as a spy, girl," he said.
"Please," she choked out, "Let me go."
"Just what kind of a spy are you?" He looked her up and down. "Or are you merely a vulgar American tart, getting her amusements by watching a man in his private business?"
A single clear yellow droplet hung from the tip of his member.
She watched it, face blazing red, as it fell onto the hem of her dress.
"Swear to me on your honor that you won't speak a word of this, and perhaps I can keep your pretty neck out of a noose."
"I swear," she said. What choice did she have?
His grip on her wrist slackened for a moment, then wrenched tight again.
"No. How can I trust the word of a filthy girl like you? What do the uncivilized know of honor?"
His eyes narrowed at her.
"Show me how dirty you are, American," he whispered. "Piss for me. Piss on the ground in front of me like a beast. Then I will trust that you are merely a crude, savage strumpet, not a spy."
"You...you call
me
a beast?"
He only stared down at her, unmoved. She swallowed her venom. Further angering him seemed unwise.
Putting on what she hoped was an expression of dignified defiance (but not so defiant that he might change his mind about letting her go) she hiked up her skirts, and let fly a stream of yellow into the bracken.
She released an uninvoluntary sigh as the pressure ebbed. At least in the midst of her terror, she could experience some sort of relief.