The morning of her wedding, Adeline woke up in the middle of a dream about Hélène to find her shift soaked and herself tangled in the sheets. She gingerly stripped it off, feeling a little sheepish at the slippery feeling between her legs but slightly excited as she wet a washcloth and wiped it away.
This day after her ordeal with the guards, a bundle had arrived, a gift from her fiancé, as Etienne L'Eveque referred to himself in the accompanying note. Inside was a dress of fine pale blue muslin and instructions to wear it on the day that he returned for her. Also there were underclothes; while the nuns and novitiates could dress as they pleased under their habits, the note explained, she was to be a lady of this world and thus must dress appropriately. She pulled her spare shift over her head, followed by her short stays -- a garment which she had only ever seen in illustration and fumbled with for several minutes before discerning how it was to be used -- petticoats, and fine silken stockings completely unlike the coarse woolen set she wore in the winter. Finally, she pulled the dress over her head. It was cinched underneath her now ample bosom and fell to the floor from there. The short stays held her breasts up just underneath her collarbone, and the low neckline of the gown exposed them like two pale melons offered up on a platter.
When she had last laid eyes upon the outside world, some nine years before, she remembered the fashionable ladies all wearing much more elaborate dresses, festooned with ribbons, and high white powdered wigs. This was much simpler, she thought, much more elegant.
She braided her hair up and tucked it again under a white laced cap. Looking at herself in the same flawed looking glass, she saw that she filled out the new dress quite nicely, and hoped that, this time, she would be walking through the convent gate a married woman of the world.
This time, Sister Mathilde did not have to drag her. She walked, maintaining a stately gait, through the cloister, casting a haughty eye on Bernadette, who was laboring, elbows deep in a pile of goat manure, to fertilize the gardens. They made their way across the grounds of the abbey, back up the stairs into that small, barren room, which had not changed a whit in the year that had passed.
This time, instead of dwelling on Hélène, she thought of Gabriel and Julien, the two louts that had had their respective ways with her several weeks beforehand. She had waddled around awkwardly for days afterwards, trying to ease the ache in her bottom. But then, as often as she tried to dismiss the encounter from her mind, she found she could not stop thinking about it, no more than she could quell the heat that rose in her nethers every time the memories flitted across her mind. In hindsight, the strength with which they had gripped her was at once painful and exciting, in her memory, the pain of her violation was erotic in and of itself.
When her betrothed arrived, accompanied again by the Abbess, she did not need to force herself to look him in the eye. Instead of avoiding his steady blue gaze, she met it defiantly, jutting her chin out and examining him with the same judgmental stare that he gave her. His hair, still full and blond, had been cropped shorter and, were it not tied back, would have fallen around his chin. This time, she took a good look at him, his broad shoulders and chest, how his leather trousers clung to well-shaped calves.
"Will you take her this time, Monsieur L'Eveque?" the Abbess asked nervously. If he decided he did not like her this second time, there was always the chance he'd leave her there, without any further contributions to the abbey.
"Fetch the priest," he said, tersely, "Both of you."
"I thought we would go to the chapel..." Sister Mathilde began, but was stopped by a sharp look from the Abbess.
"Very well, Monsieur, but I expect you to honor your side of the bargain," the Abbess said.
Adeline looked at her, seeing the cold glitter in the aged woman's gray eyes.
"Of course I will," Etienne said, not taking his eyes from the girl.
This time, Adeline had an idea of what was coming as the door slammed shut behind the two nuns and braced herself for whatever cruelty he had in mind for her this time.
"I see the good Sisters of Humility have done right by me this time," he said, smiling slightly and narrowing his eyes at her, "Get on your knees," he said.
She obliged, kneeling on the cold wood floor.
"Good girl," he said, approaching her and caressing the top of her head through her cap as a master might a favorite hound. Still standing before her, she saw his hands go to undo his trousers and caught a whiff of his manhood, somewhat like that of Gabriel's, but at the same time different. She shuddered involuntarily at the memory of the guard's throbbing member being forced down her throat, and tried not to gag as Etienne pulled forth his half-hard cock from his trousers.
"Do you know what to do with this?" he asked, shaking it in her face.
She looked up at him, all the bravado gone from her dark eyes, and shook her head pleadingly, "Please," she whispered, "Please don't..."
At her words, his manhood began to grow before her eyes, and she took in a sharp breath of air to see that, fully erect, it was larger than either of the two she had seen beforehand. She looked up at him again, genuine fear on her face, pleading silently with him. To her relief, he put both hands comfortingly on her head and petted her again for a moment. This time, though, his hands locked at the back of her head and she found her face being guided roughly towards his manhood. She opened her mouth involuntarily to protest, and quickly found her lips shoved against the base of his cock. She gagged again and again, trying vainly to draw a breath as he plugged her throat. Saliva flowed freely from the corners of her mouth as he drew her head back sharply and plunged it back between his legs. She struggled a moment, but found that this made it more difficult to breathe as he responded by thrusting down her throat even harder. Finally, she went limp, let her jaw hang slackly, and allowed him to have his way.
"Don't give me that, you bitch," he groaned, "I thought you were different from the other girls! Suck it!"
She obeyed, pulling it into her mouth as she had to Gabriel's much smaller cock, moving her tongue up and down the shaft as he pushed it into her face again and again. She found that, when she cooperated, he eased up a bit, allowed her to take long, drawn out breaths as she clumsily caressed the tip of his cock with her tongue.
"Good girl," he sighed, pulling her mouth back down onto his cock, "Yes, that'll do quite nicely..."
He allowed her to breathe, and adjust to taking his manhood down her throat, for a few minutes, but soon grew impatient with her. Without warning, she felt his hands grip the back of her head roughly and he began to thrust into her mouth much as Gabriel had. The difference between this man and Gabriel, however, amounted to four or five inches, that is, four or five inches that got crammed solidly down her throat with every thrust instead of sort of poking at it. Thankfully, this sudden brutality was indicative of his proximity to climax, and within a few moments, he had thrust agonizingly hard, and she felt the base of his cock pulsate between her lips as he loosed his seed. With Gabriel she had had to force herself to swallow the viscous stuff, but with the tip of his cock shoved so far into her, she had no choice in the matter, and simply had to let it slide down her throat as he withdrew from her mouth.
She coughed a bit, tasting his salty issue in the back of her mouth. She calmly wiped her mouth and her eyes -- she hadn't even realized throughout the ordeal that tears had been pouring from them -- and stood up, looking at him defiantly again. This time, it was he who averted his eyes, avoiding her gaze. She counted this as a small victory -- as much of a victory as she could expect given that she had just had windpipe all but crushed by a man's cock.
They stood there silently, while she arranged her hair under her cap, and made sure that nothing was amiss with her clothing, all the while keeping her eyes on his. She remained silent as Sister Mathilde and the Abbess arrived, along with a priest that Adeline did not recognize. She remained silent as the proper words were said, binding her and Etienne as man and wife, voicing her consent in the form of a nod, and it was silently that she and her new-made husband walked through the gate of the convent. She threw one contemptuous glance behind her old home as two of Etienne's servants hurried ahead of them with the trunk that held all of her worldly belongings and stowed it under the small coach that would, presumably, convey them to her new home.
"Let me give you a hand there, Madame L'Eveque," one of the servants said, offering her an arm to step up into the carriage. She looked at him, and bit back a gasp of surprise to see that it was none other than Julien, whose nethers had made life so uncomfortable for her for a week or so. She took his arm, and he winked at her as she clambered onto one of the fine cushioned seats. She glanced back to see the other servant, and as she had half expected, his partner in crime was standing at the back of the coach, grinning knowingly at her. She quickly sat back, feeling the heat rise to her cheeks, and realizing that it was not the two boors in her new husband's employ that she ought to be worried about, but the blue-eyed devil that now sat across from her, and was busily drawing closed the curtains.
"Wait -- please, sir," she said softly as he did so, "I had hoped I might see the countryside. It has been so long..."