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 closed. And as it fastens he kisses the soft skin at the nape of

my neck where he has

together, entwined, his arms around me, he lazily stroking me. After a long while, he speaks

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

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

“The clubs? What clubs?”

my big

for, er….” I

finally found someone you want

Don’t fuck it up….

Talk to me. What

I used to

at me.

God. Have I spoiled

smiles. “You used to go to sex clubs, but you don’t anymore?

yes… because

you for telling me this.

You were worrying?

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

a beat. “Ryan, you are ‘enough for me’. I love what you do to me, what we do together. You have

pulls me to him again and kisses me. The kiss is hard, penetrating and possessive; and it sets my heart pounding again. Then

there? You would like to go again, but

love to do that, but only if you’re comfortable with it. There’s something about the atmosphere, watching

“But….?”

that

will see you with me, and know that while

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do right now except sit

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