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.

whispers, reaching behind me to clip it closed. And as it fastens he kisses the soft skin at the nape of my neck.

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

he lazily

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

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 I simply want to be with

“The clubs? What clubs?”

and my

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

found someone you

Don’t fuck it up….

Talk to me. What

sex clubs. I used to go a lot before

me. My

God. Have I

he smiles. “You used to go to sex clubs,

because of

for telling me this. I have been

You were worrying?

in the first place, but that perhaps I

skips a beat. “Ryan, you are ‘enough for me’. I love what you do to me, what

me. The kiss is hard, penetrating and possessive; and it sets my heart pounding again. Then he

often? You have friends there? You would like to

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

“But….?”

you realise that you would

be meeting men you have had sex with? Yes, I realise that. 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. They couldn’t keep

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right now except sit here and look alert, I gaze out of the

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