Micah The Wanderer - Book 1: Outbound - Part 3

Part 3

I flushed with anger and embarrassment. "I don't normally walk around in the nude in front of strange women if that's what you mean by being shy. I tend to take my baths in private. It's one of those little quirks I have."

She grinned even wider. "Now isn't it much more fun when you fight back? None of this lady or mistress crap. Just saying what you mean and meaning what you say. By the way you might want to lock the door at the bottom of the stairs. I heard a couple of the girls talking about how cute you are and they were arguing about who was going to sneak back up here. Someone of your high moral character probably wouldn't want anything to do with that, right?"

"Well that depends. Was it the cute blond or the rather plain brunette?"

Bethany's eyes flashed. "Never you mind. You take your bath and go to bed like you said you were. After you come down the stairs and lock the door."

I followed her down the stairs and when she opened the door I could see that there were indeed a couple of the girls standing just outside. She shooed them away with a wave of her hand then turned to face the door as I closed it. Just before it shut she waved and said goodnight. I let out a breath I wasn't aware I was holding and turned to go back up the stairs.

Bethany was a beautiful, sexy woman who used her sexuality to keep all the men around her off balance and running to keep up with where she led the conversation. It was scary and exhilarating at the same time to be around her. I moved into the room and began to remove my clothes laying them across the chair and table in the room. I settled into the tub. The water had had time to cool somewhat so that it was warm instead of scalding. I lay back in the tub and draped the damp cloth over my eyes. I just wanted to relax for a few moments before bathing the dirt away. I was nearly dozing when I felt hands on my shoulders and a voice that spoke in my ear.

"Don't fall asleep. It would ruin my reputation to have someone drown in the bathtub."

I sat up in the bath water splashing onto the floor as I spun to face the person in the room with me. It only took me a moment to recognize the voice as Bethany's but out of reflex I was still turning to face her with water sloshing over the sides of the tub.

"Careful there fella, that's my room down there you're trying to flood. If my bed gets wet I'll just have to sleep with you up here. Wouldn't that be terrible?"

I was finally facing her and I was happy and terrified at the same time. She was still wearing the lacy see through blouse she was wearing earlier but had lost her long skirt and shoes. She stood there in only a shirt that came down to about halfway between her hips and her knees. Since the shirt was nearly see through she may as well have been naked because I could clearly see her erect nipples and the patch of hair between her legs.

As I sat there momentarily stunned she moved forward to the high side of the tub and leaned on it with her elbows. The height of that side of the tub was ideal for her to rest her breasts on the top edge. The sides of the tub were wet from my jumping around and I could see the material of her shirt absorbing the water. In moments the material of her shirt went from lacy to completely transparent and her nipples were clearly visible. She reached down into the tub and swirled a finger in the water. I slid farther back in the tub away from her.

She looked at me under lowered eyelids. "What's the matter Micah? Don't you like girls?"

I nodded and for a moment couldn't speak. Then I finally got my voice. "I'm just not used to them coming up on me when I'm naked and helpless. How did you get in here? I locked the door just like you said."

"Is that what's bothering you? That you're naked? Well I can help that."

With that she reached down and grabbed the hem of her shirt and lifted it over her head. She took it off and tossed in on the floor a few feet away. I had thought with my recent sexual experience that the sight of a naked woman would have lost some of its impact. I am happy to say I was wrong and have been wrong to this day. Each time I see a woman naked it is a new encounter and I have the same reaction I had those many years ago.

My organ, which was already hard just from knowing she was in the room with me naked, had become hard as a rock. You could use it to bend horseshoes into shape.

"As to how I got in here, well I could say that since I own this inn that I have a key but actually there is a secret passage from my room to the stairs."

I watched as she swayed over to the side of the tub.

She leaned against the side of the tub again, looked at me from lowered eyelids and spoke. "I saw you speaking with Tolkus. What did he say about me?"

I was very nervous. I was sitting in a tub with only the soapy water to conceal myself. This beautiful naked woman seemed to tower over me as she leaned there. I was afraid of what she might do if I said something she didn't like. She raised her head and looked at me more directly.

What appeared to be a genuine smile touched her lips. "Don't worry. I have heard some terrible stories about myself. It is very hard to hurt my feeling."

I thought this through for a moment and decided she was probably right. I had heard gossip when I worked nights at the Compass and knew that what Tolkus had said was probably mild compared to what other stories had circulated.

I looked into her eyes, mainly to keep from looking anywhere else and being distracted as I replied. "He said you were a con and a swindler when you're not an outright thief."

I hesitated before going further.

"Anything else?"

I responded. "Yes, he said that as far as anyone around here can tell, you are celibate. I'm sure you can understand why I might question your motives for being in my room naked. I know that I am not irresistible. The continuing state of virginity of several girls in my home village is testament to that fact. I have little money and I will not surrender the emperor given to me by the leader of the Imperials."

Bethany interrupted me with a sad look on her face. "Let me tell you something about the way the world used to perceive women. We were either wives or whores. There was never any middle ground. Women warriors are being accepted now but just barely. I have worked hard to become respected in business as a woman using every trick at my disposal including these."

As she said this she cupped her breast in her hands. "And do you know what would happen to all my work if I slept with one of those men downstairs? I'll tell you. Every man down there would think that maybe he had a chance to get me into bed. I would lose what respect I had. As long as none of them think they have a chance, no matter how much I flirt around or show myself, they still respect me because they know they are all on equal ground. They all know I will be sleeping alone. If I chose one man they would all start to defer to him and try to work through him instead of me. That is why when I get the chance I take advantage of the situation. I do not have a regular lover. Only those I deem trustworthy enough to carry my secret. The fact that you have an emperor means you are trustworthy. The fact that it was Jarl Thorval that gave it to you makes it doubly so. I know that I can trust you not to tell anyone of what happens here tonight. The fact that you're cute too doesn't hurt. Now if you'll allow me I need a bath too."

With that she bent over to retrieve another bucket of water that had been sitting on the floor between her feet. Such was my fascination with this beautiful, naked woman that I had not even noticed the bucket until she bent over to pick it up. Watching her pick it up was an experience in itself. The rounding of her buttocks as she bent over. The glimpse of dark hair from behind as she parted her legs for balance, the play of muscles under her skin as she straightened up.

She turned towards the tub and poured it in as fresh steam rose to the ceiling. "I detest tepid water." She said as she lifted her leg over the side of the tub and slid into the water.

She submerged to her neck and then bobbed back up until the water was barely touching the bottom of her breasts. The water, which had seemed hot before, now seemed to be boiling hot and I was sweating profusely. I had wondered about the size of the tub, it was huge, but now I saw that it was intended for more than one person. I was pressed up against the far side of the tub but could feel her silken thighs rubbing against the outside of my legs. I tore my eye away from her breasts and looked up into her face.

She had a mischievous grin on her face and seemed to be able to look right into my head. "I promise you. Nothing I'm going to do to you is going to hurt. Why don't you slide over here and let me wash your back for you?"

She held her arms out as if to gather me up in a hug and I found myself sliding across the tub towards her. As I got closer she touched my shoulders to turn me away from her and face the other way.

She pressed her hands into my back to stop me sliding any further back. "Just relax. I think this will be enjoyable for both of us."

I heard splashes behind me and then a soft cloth was pressed against my back and a gentle scrubbing began. The swirling motion continued over my shoulders and down my back. I had never experienced such an erotic feeling. As she worked up over my shoulders she pulled me back towards her.

Soon my back was pressed up against her front. I could feel her breasts pressing into my back and the soft hair between her widespread legs was tickling my buttocks and my organ which was already hard as an iron bar became as hard as tempered steel. If I had stood up to close to the side of the tub I had no doubt in my mind that I would rip through it like a broadsword through a melon.

She had worked her hands down my chest till they had submerged in the water and gently grasped my throbbing flesh. I turned my head to the side and her mouth came down on mine. She was taller than I but at this point I could not have cared less. Her tongue plunged into my mouth as her hand worked over my rampant staff.

I moaned into her mouth, torn between warning her of my impending climax and letting it happen to relieve the build-up in my loins. I had been in a state of arousal from almost the moment I had seen her downstairs. Her teasing had made it even worse and now the climactic moment was at hand. I decided that keeping this beautiful woman happy was more important than my own climax.

I pulled my mouth away from hers. "Please Bethany I can't hold back much longer. I'm sorry. You have done your work to well. I am about to explode."

She smiled. Then she kissed me tenderly on the lips. "Silly boy, I want you to explode, this time. You are young and will recover quickly. When we have blunted the edge of your lust, then we shall truly enjoy ourselves."

Her hands beneath the water accelerated and the sensation overwhelmed me. I leaned back into Bethany, feeling the hard points of her nipples pressing into my back. Her hips were also gently swishing back and forward, rubbing the soft hair of her crotch across my buttocks. I leaned my back on her shoulder as my balls drew up to my body in preparation of delivering their salvo.

She whispered in my ear. "Stand up quickly my love, and turn around."

I stood up on rather unsteady legs and could feel her hands on my hips turning me to face her. She knelt in the tub with her head level with my crotch. As I completed my turn her head plunged forward and her mouth enveloped the head of my shaft. I could feel the suction of her mouth as it moved down to the base of my organ. She had kept one hand on my organ as I stood and turned.

Now as her mouth descended that hand moved down between my legs to caress my balls and then to continue on to my puckered anus. She inserted her water slick finger and that was it. I could hold back no longer. Semen boiled up my shaft and spurted into her mouth which she had clamped down on me and applied suction. My knees buckled and I had to grab her shoulders to keep from falling. Bethany's head continued to bob up and down pulling the last of my semen from my organ. When my heart began to slow down I stepped back from Bethany and my organ came out of her mouth with an audible pop.

She grinned up at me and spoke. "Now turn around and sit down. We must finish our bath before we proceed any further."

Numbly I obeyed and her hands began moving over my body again, working up a foamy lather then rinsing it away. It didn't take long for her to finish me but my flesh was starting to rise again by the time she was done.

"Now get out and dry yourself. I'll finish my bath and then we'll continue."

I climbed out and dried myself but watched her from the corner of my eye. It soon became obvious that I was supposed to be watching her as she lathered up her impressive breasts and rinsed them and then started to do so again. I turned to watch and that familiar grin spread to her lips again. She stopped washing her breasts and got up on her knees in the tub. She lifted one leg and placed her foot on the bottom of the tub. From this position the water level had fallen until it was only about half way up her thighs. Her body held no secrets from me from this position.

She caught my eyes with hers then looked down at her hand. I followed her gaze then watched as her hand moved to between her thighs. I could see as the soft cloth parted her nether lips and stroked gently between them. Her hand moved forward and up to rub across the exposed upper reaches of her slit. When the cloth made contact Bethany's eyes closed and she grabbed the side of the tub with her free hand.

Her body shuddered and she took her hand away from her crotch. "Whew! I'm close. Let me get dried off and we will proceed to the bed."

She rose from the tub on the side where I stood. I would have had to tilt my head back to look her in the face but my eyes never passed her heaving chest.

I heard her voice as if through a layer of cloth. "Will you hand me a towel?"

I reached behind me without turning my head and grabbed another towel. I handed it to her.

"Thank you."

She proceeded to dry herself off. I watched as she twisted and turned, running the towel over her body, bending over to dry her legs and rubbing her breasts. If I hadn't been already aroused that little show would have made me as hard as dragon scales. She threw the towel on the floor and turned to walk towards the bed.

She got a few feet away and looked back over her shoulder. "Are you coming?"

For the first time in the whole time that Bethany had been in my room my brain kicked into gear.

I grinned at her and said, "Not yet, but hopefully soon."

Her eyes glittered and I could see that she liked that I was responding, playing with her. "Well, not too soon I hope."

She climbed on the bed and stretched out on her side. She looked back at me and patted the bed next to her. I awkwardly climbed on the bed, my erection bobbing in front of me. I stretched out on my side facing her, close but not quite touching her. I reached out and touched her cheek.

She smiled at me and said, "Most young men in your situation wouldn't have contented themselves with just touching my cheek, or I should say at least not that cheek."

I flushed and pulled back my hand. I opened my mouth to let her know what I thought of her and her other young men, despite the consequences of doing so.

She held out her hand in a placating manner. "Peace. I meant nothing by it. Most men would have thrown me down and tried to have their way with me long before now. The fact that you haven't tried shows me that you are perhaps more mature than your years. That you are more caring than other men I have known. Your restraint has emboldened me to ask you a further favor tonight."

She looked at me with an expression that I could only call hopeful. I thought about it briefly but the answer was a foregone conclusion. She had already done so much for me. I could deny her nothing within reason so I nodded my assent.

She hesitated a moment and then almost in a whisper, "I have always been the passive one in this bed. I lay here and let the man do as he wishes. This usually consists of me just laying here and telling him how great he is compared to any of my other lovers. Tonight I wish to do it as I wish, to be the one in control. Will you let me be the one on top, to be in control?"

I nodded. To have actual sex with a woman I would have agreed to anything. As pleasurable as my sexual experiences to date had been I had not actually had sex in the traditional sense. No way was I denying myself this chance by making her mad.

Bethany shoved me over on my back and quickly straddled my stomach. From this position I could see her beautiful breasts and could also feel the dampness between her legs as she slid the open lips of her pussy on my stomach. She started to ease her way back towards my throbbing flesh and I felt her backside bump into the head of my cock.

"Ooh, not there. Maybe some other time."

While I was thinking about some other time Bethany reached back with one hand and grasped my turgid flesh as she raised herself up. She positioned herself over my member and I felt the dampness again but this time on the head of my shaft.

She looked down into my eyes. "Please hold back as long as you can. I need this so bad."

I started to reply but she began to lower herself and the liquid heat of her pussy stole my breath away. The feeling was incredible. I clenched my teeth and made fists in the covers of the bed. Her hips met mine and I was enclosed in velvet vice. I tried to think of anything else to take my mind from how incredible it felt. Then Bethany started to raise herself up and plunge back down. I let out my breath and watched her face through squinted eyes.

Her eyes were closed and her mouth hung open. Little grunts accompanied each impact of our pelvises together. Each time her sheath closed around my flesh I came closer to that critical moment. I held back as best I could but was inexperienced and had little control over myself. Add that to the spirited effort Bethany was expending on me and the length of this encounter was already longer than it should have been.

I felt I couldn't hold out any longer and was about to say something to Bethany when she let out a groan that I felt all the way to my testicles. Her vagina clamped down on my flesh and she went completely stiff, her mouth and eyes wide open. Then she closed her mouth, clamped her teeth on her lower lip and shuddered all over. This lasted for several seconds then her pussy relaxed and she started moving up and down again, riding me harder than she had before.

She had leaned forward with her hands on my shoulders. Her breast dangled enticingly in front of me and I reached out to caress her nipples as she continued to slam her hips into mine. She shuddered again but not as intensely as before. I had felt close before she had frozen in place and stopped moving, now I was teetering on the edge.

Bethany looked down into my eyes. "Oh good boy! Now let me have it. Hose down my insides and put out the fire in there."

The words acted as a trigger and I felt myself release and emptied my seed into her hot waiting sheath. The gush of my semen seemed to trigger another release in Bethany as well. She stopped moving and shuddered all over as I emptied myself into her. She held her position until I felt myself stop spurting then raised herself from my crotch. She lay down on the bed next to me and draped one arm over my chest. As my breathing returned to normal I looked over at Bethany.

She was smiling over at me with a dreamy smile on her face. "Gods I needed that." She cocked her head to the side. "Not bad for a beginner. You were a beginner weren't you? Not quite a virgin but not a hustler either right?"

I looked at her and then shook my head. "No, I'm no hustler. I just wanted to please you. I've only had one other of what you would call a sexual encounter in my life, and this is the first time I've been inside a woman in this way."

I proceeded to explain my encounter with the tree spirits and how Marcasius had abused them. How I had told of what he had done and returned the stone to the tree spirits. When I finished telling the story I looked back at Bethany and she had an odd look in her eyes.

"I chose well. Not only are you an honorable man but you try to help people. I know my secret will be safe with you. Now you just lie there and I'll be back in a moment."

She climbed off of the bed and walked towards the tub. The lamp had been turned low earlier and she stood partially in shadow with her back towards me. I heard the splash of water and then silence for a few moments then the splash of water again. As I watched Bethany walked back towards the bed. Even though I had just expended myself just a short time before I felt myself responding to her beauty and nakedness as she approached.

When she reached the side of the bed she reached out with her hand in which there was the washcloth from the tub. She began to swab my member to clean it and it responded immediately by hardening to its full length.

"You should always clean up afterwards. It keeps away the evil influences and …oh my… again already? Well you won't get any sleep like that."

With that she climbed back on the bed and straddled my hips again. She seated me between the petal soft lips of her pussy. They were still slightly cool from being washed but warmed up quickly as she plunged herself down on my hardened staff. There was no teasing or subtlety about this encounter. She was riding me like a prize stallion. Obviously this position gave her a feeling of power that she thoroughly enjoyed. I felt her pause and shudder several times as she pounded her hips into mine.

This time, the moment of climax took longer to approach for me but I felt that Bethany achieved it several times before I was ready to release my seed again. My third orgasm was powerful but seemed less intense than my first two that night. After I completed my spasms of release Bethany slid off of me almost immediately, retrieved the washcloth and gave my sated flesh a very thorough scrubbing. She then bent over and planted a kiss right on the head of it. Despite my recent exertions my flesh twitched and tried to become hard again.

Bethany quickly stood back up and reached to pull the bedcovers over me. "Oh no you don't. I'm already going to be sore tomorrow because of you and we both need to get some sleep. You told Tolkus you would meet him at the second hour and I won't have him being suspicious because you're late."

The tone was bantering but when I looked in Bethany's eyes they were soft and glowing.

She reached out to caress my cheek. "Thank you Micah. Now I can bear the loneliness a little longer. Just remember I will be here if you travel this way again."

With that she turned and left the room through the door to the stairway.

I lay there and stared at the ceiling for a while. Yes she could trust me. I had listened to her description of a woman's life and had wanted to deny it but I couldn't. Even in my home village women are treated more as property than partners or companions. They weren't abused or neglected, not really. They were treated somewhat like furniture. If you want to sit down it's nice to have a chair but if you don't then you don't really think about chairs much. No, I wouldn't tell Bethany's secret. I decided in this moment that no women would ever be shamed by having shared my bed. Even these tales are not for public consumption but are meant to be read by my heirs sometime after my passing.

With this decision settled, I drifted off into a dreamless sleep.

The End of Book 1

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