Her fingers trace the lines of my chest and pinch lightly at my nipples eliciting a gasp of pleasure. Her nails scrape the skin in a perfect mixture o...r pleasure and pain. She draws my face to hers and I pierce her lips with my tongue with a frantic urgency. I need her now, my desire approaching torture. She pulls my closer by scratching lightly at my back until the fervor is nearly unbearable. My sole desire is to take her, here and now. To throw her onto the bed in a fit of passion and ravish. I don't think this should take very long." Frank relaxed, just as he'd been told. But he was still very worried. Sure he felt relaxed. But it wasn't as if he'd had another choice. Randy began reading from the tome again. "Lacs gruitem, viath phan, Liar puhur ge saery ret, Fahkem nime shuv umdu stame floohter. Sty urgs if braim if ste britz, Greiths du surdy-fax dracfe-Tai ghutzun, Geiody du ekwih ste busnetz Wemof, Gy nem ge puwedet imt priwet, Dorm vunem braim vast emwy." Once again Frank. ” So, what are you offering for dowry Sir James?” “Well I promised the lass a good marriage and I’ve read your letter of reference that you tendered to my butler this morning. I should think that two hundred pounds should be enough to help you overlook her family condition.” “I’m not sure my father would be willing to bless the match for less than five hundred pounds my lord. It will be a tricky matter to hide the wanton behavior from my family unless I take the wench to London or Bristol. Say Missouri, or Idaho, perhaps. Nice scenery in both states, and it didn't get as cold. Plus, I would be in the contiguous portion of the states for major purchases.I was still going to retain my home in Alaska. I would be using it mostly as a retreat, though. I would keep up payments on the land I had purchased, and go to it in the event of an emergency, or when I just wanted to get away from it all. That was what I had originally intended.With the bad weather moving in, my live in help.