Free The Dark King's Bride by Janessa Anderson

politely. “I think that is a good idea as well.”
                  “Well…”
                  “Well what?”
                  “Lily…You have to remove your clothing in order to take the bath properly.”
                  The moment he said those words to Lily, he watched a look of shock mixing with that of a horrified expression moved across her face. His eyes could tell that she hadn’t realized she would have to undress herself in front of him in the privacy of the bath chamber since Magdalene was not there to assist her with it due to him giving her the rest of the night off.  He took note of her hands grabbing at the skirt of her dress a bit nervously while his ears picked up on the shaky sound that had grown within her gentle voice.
                  “O-Okay, D-D-Daniel.” Lily looked around the area she was in with for a moment for a changing screen, but found nothing there to change behind in order to keep some form of modesty. Moving her eyes back towards him, she focused on his gaze while her childlike nervousness exposed itself even more in her voice towards him. “Um…C-Could you turn around while I undress? I…”
                  Seeing her feeling distressed about taking her clothes off in front of him, Daniel walked across the floor, erasing the rest of the space between herself and him, and cupped her face in his hands. His thumbs brushed her cheeks up and down in a gentle, massaging gesture, while he spoke up to her with his deep voice taking on a more soothing sound to it in order to calm her nerves.
                  “My lady…” Daniel whispered to her, softly, “You have no reason to fear anything from me.”
                  “I know…It is just…”
                  “Just what, Lily?”
                  His eyes watched her head lower down a bit from his piercing stare to look in the direction of her feet. He slipped his hand away from her face just so that it was still nearby as to cup it again when the time seemed just right. Daniel waited in anticipation as he listened to her gentle voice.
                  “I have never undressed in front of a man before, Daniel.”
                  Of course…That explained everything to him. He was the first man she had ever been in this situation with, and he would also be the first one to see her body without any clothes on covering the curves that drove him absolutely crazy with unbridled passion. Any woman that hadn’t done this sort of thing in front of a man before would be nervous about what to do or how to go about it.
                  Letting a faint smile come to his face, Daniel moved his hand back onto her face, and cupped the bottom of her chin. He eased her head back up to where their eyes met, and spoke to her with only tenderness within his deep, soothing voice.
                  “It is perfectly natural for you to feel nervous or even afraid to do this in front of me, Lily. A woman who has never undressed for a man before would be just as nervous and on edge like you are right now.”
                  Daniel thought for a moment: How am I going to ease the concern and dread from Lily? He didn’t wish for her to continue to be uneasy about the whole arrangement of not only staying there at his home, but also bathing before him. Suddenly, his sent him a suggestion that seemed to be the perfect fit for the moment.
                  Moving his hand away from her face, he placed his hands at his sides shortly before his deep voice escaped from his strong mouth once more.
                  “If it will help you, I will undress you from behind so that way your more private parts will be facing away from me, and you won’t have to show them to me until you are comfortable with the idea of displaying them…Would that be