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.

clip it closed. And as it

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

his arms around me, he lazily

you still seeing anyone else? I know when we met that you were. And because of the

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 big

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

finally found someone you want

Don’t fuck it up….

to me. What are these

I used to go a lot

me.

Have

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

because

me. “Thank you for telling me this.

You were worrying?

for you and me to have met in

I love what you do to me, what we do together. You have me thinking

kiss is hard, penetrating and possessive; and it

often? You have friends there? You would like to go

with it. There’s something about the atmosphere, watching people being good together….

“But….?”

you realise that you would

What I also realise is that they will see you with me, and know that while they had you for an hour, with me, you have stayed.

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the lobby, with little to do right now except sit here and

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