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

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

he lazily stroking

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 to ask you the question,

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

“The clubs? What clubs?”

my

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

found someone you want

Don’t fuck it up….

to me.

clubs. I used to go a lot

at me.

Have

go to sex clubs, but

because of

for telling me this.

You were worrying?

important enough for you and me to have met in the

me’. I love what you do

and kisses me. The kiss is hard, penetrating and possessive; and it sets

there? You would like to go again,

that, but only if you’re comfortable with it. There’s something

“But….?”

realise that

sex with? Yes, I realise that. What I also realise is that they will see

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seat at in the lobby, with little to do right now except sit here and look alert, I gaze out of the panoramic

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