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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.

as it fastens he kisses the

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

arms around me, he lazily stroking me. After a long while, he

we met that you were. And because of the way that we

Not anymore. There was someone, but, he wasn’t right and…. I

“The clubs? What clubs?”

and my big

er…. I used to go to clubs a lot for, er….” I chew my words,

found someone you want to

Don’t fuck it up….

me. What are

clubs. I used to go a

at me. My stomach

Have I spoiled

he smiles. “You used to go to sex

because

telling me this. I have

You were worrying?

you and me to have met in the

do to me, what we do together. You

is hard, penetrating and possessive; and it sets

have friends there? You

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

“But….?”

realise that you

I also realise is that they will see you with me, and know that while they had you for

*****

with little to do right now except sit here

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