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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.
me,” he whispers, reaching behind me to clip it closed. And as it fastens he kisses the
my neck where he has just
me, he lazily stroking me. After a long while,
know I shouldn’t, but I have to ask you this…. Are you still seeing anyone else? I know when we met that you were. And because of the way that we met, I don’t really have the right
but, he wasn’t right and…. I don’t even want to
“The clubs? What clubs?”
and my
used to go to clubs a lot for, er….” I
finally found someone you want
Don’t fuck it up….
Talk to me. What are
clubs. I used to go a lot before I met
me.
God. Have I spoiled
sex clubs, but you don’t anymore? Because
because
“Thank you for telling
You were worrying?
is important enough for you and me to have met in the first place, but that
what you do to me, what we
me to him again and kisses me. The kiss is hard, penetrating
went often? You have friends there? You would like to go again, but
would love to do that, but only if you’re comfortable with it. There’s something about the
“But….?”
realise that you would
What I also realise is that they will see you with me, and know that while they had you for an hour, with me, you have stayed. They
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do right now except sit here and
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