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.

it fastens he kisses the soft skin

line of my jaw and down to my neck where he has just placed his mark on me,

lazily stroking me. After a long while,

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

twist in his embrace to meet his eye. “No, I’m not. Not anymore. There was someone, 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?”

and my big

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

found someone you want to

Don’t fuck it up….

to me. What

used to go a lot

me. My stomach

God. Have I

to sex clubs,

because of

you for telling me

You were worrying?

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

do to me, what we do together. You have me thinking of

pulls me to him again and kisses me. The kiss is hard, penetrating and possessive;

You have friends there? You would like to go

love to do that, but only if you’re comfortable with it. There’s something about the atmosphere, watching people being good together…. But….” and my words stall

“But….?”

but, you realise that you would be

What I also realise is that they will see you with me, and

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

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