Chapter 88: Meera in Ulrich’s Bedroom [1] R-18

After a dinner that had been the most crowded and lively his dining hall had ever seen, Ulrich excused himself, retreating to his study.

He left Meera and the sisters alone at the table, fully aware of the risk. Meera was a master at reading expressions and took a wicked delight in provoking reactions. Yet, Ulrich thought that the encounter would do the girls good. The sisters lived a sheltered existence, rarely interacting with outsiders. They needed to learn how to parry words with a woman like Meera, an experienced, worldly opportunist who would not coddle them or bite her tongue out of respect for their noble titles.

For two hours, Ulrich buried himself in paperwork, reviewing the sprawling logistics and staggering costs of his domain. When the final ledger was closed and the wax seals were set, he extinguished his candles and walked through the silent corridors toward his personal quarters.

He opened the door to his bedchamber, stepping inside and shrugging off his tailored coat. But his night routine halted abruptly.

Meera was sprawled across his bed. She lay flat on her back, her arms spread wide across his linens, staring up at the ceiling with a look of boredom.

The moment she heard his footsteps, she sat up, a wide smile breaking across her face. "Finally. You are here."

"A guest room has been prepared for you in the eastern wing," Ulrich replied as he draped his coat over the back of a chair.

"I do not wish to sleep in the eastern wing," she replied simply.

"Then you should have arrived on time this morning," Ulrich replied sternly. "Had you done so, your business would have concluded by the afternoon, and you would be long gone by now."

"Oh, goodness." Meera’s smirk deepened. She slowly began to remove her silk gloves, pulling them from her fingers and tossing them carelessly onto the rug. "Why do you think I arrived so late, Ulrich? To prevent you from sending me away too soon, of course."

Ulrich let out a dry scoff. She was a truly unique specimen, he had to give her that. Her brazen, flirtatious nature reminded him so much of Faith that he found it difficult to summon his usual, iron-clad rejection.

"I see you have wasted a great deal of thought on unnecessary machinations," he said.

"They are not unnecessary," Meera argued. She shifted to the edge of the mattress, lifting one foot to unfasten her delicate shoes, letting them drop to the floor with a soft thud. "I consider my time with you to be highly precious."

Ulrich watched her in silence. With her shoes discarded, she crawled back up the length of the mattress, kneeling near the footboard. She rested her hands on the carved wood, offering him an unapologetically seductive smile.

Standing just a few feet away, Ulrich reached up and slowly loosened his cravat, pulling the dark fabric free from his collar. His eyes never left hers.

"What is it you truly want from this?" He asked, his voice dropping into a serious tone now.

"I want you," she replied without hesitation.

"Because I saved you from the sea monster that day?" He asked, turning his body fully toward her.

"That is the main reason, yes," she replied.

Ulrich stared at her, the silence stretching taut between them.

Meera leaned forward over the footboard, her gaze turning perceptive. "One night could be dismissed as an accident. A momentary lapse in judgment, or an opportunity seized. But if we cross into a second night... things change. Is that what you are thinking?"

Ulrich did not answer, but she had struck the truth.

He had convinced himself that the chaotic, breathless night they had shared in the cabin of that ship was nothing more than an anomaly. They had narrowly escaped death, and their coupling had been a frantic release of instinct. It was easily categorized and set aside.

But this was different. To take her here, in the quietness of his own bedchamber, was a choice. Over the past two years, he had come to rely on her; he trusted her, knowing exactly the kind of cunning, self-serving woman she was. But if he crossed that physical line again tonight, the nature of their bond would definitely shift. She would cease to be merely a trustworthy woman; he had slept once in a storm.

If he stepped forward now, they would cross a dangerous, irrevocable boundary.

And Meera, it seemed, was aware of this and had already decided she did not care.

"I don’t care about your wealth or your title," Meera said quietly, reaching forward and finding the buckles of his breeches with deft fingers. She worked them loose, her eyes holding his the entire time. "I wish to make love to a man I love. A man who saved my life. And I wish for that man to make love back to me without overthinking every consequence."

She lowered his breeches, and his cock emerged immediately, already half-hard, thick even in its partial state.

"Don’t think too much, Count Rubenhart," she said, a soft smile curving her lips as she wrapped her palm around his length, her fingers closing warm and sure around him. "Just enjoy yourself as much as I intend to enjoy myself."

With that, she leaned forward and pressed a single, light kiss to his pink glans.

Then she began to stroke him.

Her rhythm was hesitant at first, as though she were learning the weight and texture of him by feel alone. But she adjusted quickly, her hand finding its confidence, letting her fingers trace the full length of his shaft from base to tip. Beneath her palm, he hardened further with every pass, growing longer and thicker until her fingers could no longer comfortably reach around his full girth.

She didn’t let that stop her.

Meera kissed the swollen head of his cock again, then dragged the flat of her tongue slowly from the crown downward along his length in a single stroke.

"Ngh..." Ulrich’s exhale was controlled, but it escaped him nonetheless.

The satisfied glint in Meera’s eyes sharpened immediately. She licked the head again, more slowly this time, circling the sensitive ridge of his glans with the pointed tip of her tongue.

His cock twitched visibly in her grip. She felt him swell further against her palm, warmer now, pulsing faintly, and she continued, alternating between stroking his length and laving her tongue across the head and the responsive flesh just below it, learning what made his jaw tighten, what made his breathing shift.

Precum gathered at his tip, a faint, glistening bead. Meera didn’t allow it to fully form before she licked it clean, tasting him on her tongue.

She pulled back and licked her lips, looking up at him with frank appreciation.

"You are big, Ulrich," she commented with a chuckle.

Then she leaned forward, kissed his glans once more, and this time parted her lips and took him into her mouth.

Ulrich’s hand closed into a fist at his side.

Meera’s mouth was warm, humid, and soft in a way that made the word inadequate. He felt his cock settle against her tongue, felt the gentle suction as she adjusted her lips around his girth, drawing him in to roughly half his length. She couldn’t manage more than that for now; he was simply too thick, but what she could take, she held with a focused pressure.

It was her first time with a cock in her mouth. She was aware of the strangeness of it, the hardness filling her, the faint taste of him coating her tongue, the way her lips were forced wide. And yet a definite heat stirred low in her belly, arousal threading through the intimacy of the act.

"Mph... mmh... mmph..." 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Wet, obscene sounds began to fill the quiet bedchamber as Meera started to move, bobbing her head forward and back, her lips dragging along his shaft, her tongue pressing against the underside with each pass. Saliva built quickly, making everything slicker, the sounds growing lewder with every motion.

Ulrich felt the sensation with a ruthless, concentrated intensity, the drag of her lips, the slick pressure of her tongue, the heat radiating from her mouth around his most sensitive flesh. His release pressed at the edges of his control, insistent and building, and he held it back through will alone, wanting more of this, unwilling to let it end.

He unclenched his fist slowly and brought his hand to rest atop Meera’s head, not guiding but simply to anchor himself.

Meera tilted her eyes upward.

If his cock weren’t filling her mouth, she would definitely be smiling widely. He could see it in those aqua blue eyes, the triumph, the warmth, the wicked satisfaction of having finally pulled this composed man even fractionally undone. She held his gaze as she resumed her rhythm, bobbing with renewed vigor, her cheeks hollowing as she applied more suction.

Ulrich looked back down at her. From this vantage point, he could see beyond the obscene, perfect sight of her lips stretched around his cock to the generous swell of her cleavage below, her corset working desperately against its own structural limits beneath the deep neckline of her gown, threatening to surrender entirely with every forward movement.

His hand tightened almost imperceptibly in her hair.