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.

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

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

around me, he lazily stroking me.

to ask you this…. Are you still seeing anyone else? I know when we met that you were. And because of

eye. “No, I’m not. Not anymore. There was someone, but, 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 chew my words, wondering how much I can

you

Don’t fuck it up….

Talk to me. What are these

I used to go a lot before I

at me.

Have I spoiled

to sex clubs, but you

because

me. “Thank you for telling

You were worrying?

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

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

hard, penetrating

You have friends there? You would

something about the atmosphere, watching people being

“But….?”

you realise that

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

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to do right now except sit here and look alert, I gaze out of the panoramic front

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