After that horrible night, Clara did her best not to resist him during his nightly visits to her bed. She loathed him with every particle of her being, but as he mounted her and rode her, his thrusts often causing the four poster bed to shake and rattle against the wall, she tried to remain silent and endure. But the night of her first caning seemed to free Sir Horace from any semblance of decorum he had exercised thus far. He now demanded that she receive him without her nightgown. He also squeezed both her breasts, often pinching her nipples and tugging them until it was all she could do not to cry out.
Sometimes, he probed her with his fingers in advance of mounting her. He seemed to want her to object. Indeed, she began to suspect that he was looking for any excuse to cane her again and to breed her in that rough, degrading way.
Clara did not know how she endured. The fine gowns and fancy carriages which his money provided had once been all she desired, but now it seemed poor compensation for the way he used her body like a broodmare. She was perpetually sore and aching and during the day, whenever she came across Sir Horace in the house, she could not even bear to look him in the eyeβa fact which appeared to amuse him to no end.
"Shy, are you madam?" he asked one afternoon when he encountered her in the library. "Never fear, I shall soon have you in a better frame of mind. Get yourself over the desk."
Her eyes widened, a jolt of panic raising the fine hairs at the back of her neck. "My lord?" She took a step backward. "Surely you can't be serious."
"Over the desk, ma'am," he said, his eyes hardening. "Or I will summon Thomas to put you there."
Her vision clouded with tears. Too humiliated to say another word, she stumbled to Sir Horace's carved wooden desk and bent over the top.
Sir Horace came up behind her. He kicked her legs wide and unceremoniously hoisted her skirts, crinoline, and petticoats over her back. He then tore her drawers down the middle. "You're not to wear these anymore," he said. "I want you accessible to me at all times."
So this was to become a regular occurrence, she thought bitterly. She must now endure his degradations in the daylight as well as in her bed. She squeezed her eyes shut tight at the feel of his shaft pressing into her. After two weeks of daily attentions, it was still difficult to take him.
He thrust home and immediately began a steady, pumping rhythm. His shaft slid in and out of her tight sheath, each time pulling out to stretch her tiny opening around the thick, rounded head and then driving back in full length. He grunted as he worked within her and she whimpered beneath him in discomfort and shame. He held her hips, riding her as if she were a particularly troublesome mare. She could feel his ballocks slapping against her sex with each thrust.
"Please," she whimpered.
Her soft objection earned her a firm slap on the buttock. "Quiet!" he growled. He thrust in and out, his breath growing heavy. "If you can't keep still and quiet, next time I'll have Thomas come and hold you down while I take my pleasure."
She moaned, knowing by now that it was no idle threat. "Ahhh," she groaned as he thrust deep. A gush of heat flooded her womb.
"That's it," he grunted. His penis jerked within her, shooting jet after jet of hot spunk. "Take your breeding, madam. Every last drop."
Afterward, she had grudgingly thanked him as he now made her do each time he covered her. And then, he had left her there, her skirts still over her head and his hot seed trickling down her leg. She had had to right herself and tidy her clothing. Meanwhile, Sir Horace disappeared with his steward to check on the drainage in the north corner of the estate.