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And afterwards, as we lie together, naked in the half-light, he says, “I have something for you if you will accept it.”

He seems a little uncertain as he produces a small satin bag from a side-drawer, the kind that usually contains jewellery. I open it to find a narrow, black velvet choker, with a dewdrop pearl suspended.

“Will you accept it?” he asks, a trace of anxiety in his voice. “Will you wear it?”

Am I being collared?

I think I am….

I finger it, rolling the pearl in my fingers; so small and delicate a thing, and yet, so laden with significance.

“You understand what you are asking of me?” I say. “When you give me something like this? When you ask me to wear it?”

“Yes, I understand,” he says. “And yes, I am asking that you wear it for me. Will you do that?”

His voice brims with hope and worry; desire and unease. “Am I asking too much of you? Or too quickly?”

The pearl, opalescent with pale, swirling, beautiful colours, sits between my fingers.

Is this too soon?

No, I want this too….

“No, I don’t think you are. It’s just that no-one before has ever wanted me like this….”

“I want you like this. Isn’t that enough?”

Unravelling the velvet, I place it around my neck, fumbling with the catch at the back.

he whispers, reaching behind me to clip it closed. And as it fastens

jaw and down to my neck where he has just placed his

lazily stroking me. After

sorry, I know I shouldn’t, but I have to ask you this…. Are you still seeing anyone else? I know when we met that

There was someone, but, he wasn’t right and…. I don’t even

“The clubs? What clubs?”

and my big

to go to clubs a lot for, er….”

found someone you want to be

Don’t fuck it up….

me. What

I used to go a lot before

stares at me. My stomach

Have I

used to go to sex clubs, but you

because of

telling

You were worrying?

have met in the first place, but that perhaps I could

‘enough for me’. I love what you do to me, what we do together. You have me

pulls me to him again and kisses me. The kiss is hard, penetrating and possessive; and it sets my heart pounding again. Then

often? You have friends there? You would like to go

only if you’re comfortable with it. There’s something about the

“But….?”

that you would

will see you with

*****

to do right now except sit here and look alert, I gaze out of the panoramic

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