K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Kissing Cousins, #1
Luke is in love with his first cousin, Scarlett.
I love my cousin, Scarlett. Not only do I love her but also, something romantically forbidden, I'm in love with her. I love her in the way that a man loves a woman and not in the way that a cousin loves a cousin.
I know it sounds weird. I know that it sounds perversely perverted but I don't care. I'm crazy in love with her. I want to scream it from the rooftops that I love my first cousin, Scarlett.
'Scarlett, I love you,' I thought.
She's beautiful. She's sexy. She's shapely. She's kind. She's loving. She's everything that I'd want in a woman. Only, forbidden to marry her, she's my first cousin. We're related by blood. Having a sexual relationship with her would be incestuous.
'I love you, Scarlett! I love you,' Nevertheless our incestuous relationship, a sexual relationship that would never be, my heart was broken.
Scarlett is my Aunt Maureen's daughter. Maureen is my mother's sister. If my mother and/or my aunt knew that I not only loved Scarlett not as a cousin but as a man loved a woman, they wouldn't understand. They'd beat me with a broom. They'd forbid me to see my cousin again. They'd lambaste me for having sexual feelings for my cousin. They'd disown me for wanting to have sex with her.
If only they knew that I masturbated over Scarlett every morning when waking up and every evening when going to bed while imagining her naked and having sex with her, I'd have hell to pay. Again, with my mother and my aunt not understanding my love for Scarlett, discouraging me instead of encouraging me, they'd never make sense of my sexual attraction to my cousin. They'd never allow our sexual relationship to blossom into marriage.
They'd make fun of me. They'd tease me. They think that my love for my cousin was nothing more than a whimsy, puppy love, an infatuation, or nothing more than a forbidden, sexual fantasy. Only, they'd be wrong. I love Scarlett. I love my cousin.
'You're in love with your cousin, Scarlett? What do you mean you're in love with your cousin,' I imagined my mother asking.
I imagined my mother putting hand on her big hip and looking at me as if I was crazy.
'That's crazy, Luke. Get your mind out of the gutter. What's wrong with you? She's your cousin. You can't fall in love with your cousin,' I imagined her making a face as if she was going to vomit. 'You're blood related.'
I imagined my aunt folding her arms across her big breasts and giving me a look as if she thought that there was something wrong with me. Maybe there is something wrong with me for falling in love with my cousin. I imagined her looking at me as if she thought that I was perversely perverted. Perhaps, I was perversely perverted to be in love with my cousin. No man in his right mind should be in love with his cousin. No normal man would want to marry his cousin. Yet, I did. I wanted to marry Scarlett.
Yet, when seeing my cousin, any man would be sexually attracted to Scarlett. Any man would want to have sex with her. Any man would fall in love with her and want to marry her. I imagined my aunt laughing at the thought that I wanted to marry my cousin, her daughter.
'Don't be silly, Luke. You can't marry your cousin,' I imagined my aunt saying. "That's incestuous. There are plenty of women who aren't related to you that you can marry," she said with a laugh. "Go find a woman who's not related to you by blood."
I imagined my mother being concerned about future grandchildren.
'If you married your cousin, you can't have children,' I imagined my mother saying. 'With you blood related to your first cousin, there's a big chance that your babies would be born with severe, congenital, birth defects," she said. "They could be born with heart and lung conditions. They could be born with no arms, no legs, or blind," she said with the assurance of a medical doctor.
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Yet, I've heard of a lot of people falling in love with and marrying their second or their distant cousins, but I wondered how many people have fallen in love with and married their first cousins. Moreover, even people who married their first cousins had children who weren't born with birth defects. Back in the day, people married their first cousins because before the inventions of automobiles, trains, and planes, they married women who were within reach of their horse and wagon.
The Royals married their distant cousins to keep their titles, to preserve the bloodline, and to maintain their family fortunes. Even Princess Diana was a distant cousin of Prince Charles. Yet, marrying a distant cousin isn't as problematic as marrying a first cousin.
'Nonetheless, I wanted to marry my cousin because I love her. I truly love her. Whoever said that love was blind didn't have a royal title, a huge fortune to protect, and a Kingdom to reign. Further, they weren't entitled to a Sovereign Grant that paid each royal member a percentage of profits from what the Crown Estate made each year,' I thought.
Is it any wonder why they say in England, "Long live the king! Love live the queen! Long live the millions of pounds that we receive yearly for being the puppet head of state."
Whomever wished them a long life, no doubt, is invested in earning millions of pounds yearly in Sovereign Grants.
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Nevertheless, marrying my first cousin is strictly forbidden. My family would never allow that to happen. They'd sabotage my every move to marry Scarlett. Nonetheless, there are lots of people who have married their first cousins. Below is an abbreviated list of famous people who have married their first cousins. The actually list of first cousins marrying is endless.
