Choosing Her Lover

Chapter 22

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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.

closed. And as it fastens he kisses the

to my neck where he has just placed his mark on me,

arms around me, he lazily stroking

you this…. Are you still seeing anyone else? I know when we met that you

but, he wasn’t right and…. I don’t even want to now. I used to go to the clubs a lot, but now

“The clubs? What clubs?”

my

a lot for, er….” I chew my words, wondering how much

finally found someone you

Don’t fuck it up….

Talk to me. What are these

clubs. I used to go a

stares at me. My

Have

to go to sex clubs, but you don’t anymore? Because

yes… because of

for telling me this.

You were worrying?

me to have met in the first place, but that perhaps I could not…. be

me’. I love what you do to me,

hard, penetrating and possessive; and it

friends there?

you’re comfortable with it. There’s something about the atmosphere, watching

“But….?”

you realise that you would

will see you with me, and know that while they had you for an hour,

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

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