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

and down to my neck where

lazily stroking me.

else? I know when we met that you were. And because of the way that we met,

he wasn’t right and…. I don’t even

“The clubs? What clubs?”

my

lot for, er….” I

finally found someone you want to

Don’t fuck it up….

me. What are these

used to go a lot before

stares at me. My stomach

Have I spoiled

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

because

“Thank you for telling me this. I

You were worrying?

for you and me to have met in the first

you are ‘enough for me’. I love what you do to me,

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

there? You would like

something

“But….?”

realise that you would be

What I also realise is that they will see you with me, and know that while they

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

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