Choosing Her Lover
Chapter 30
‘A Conspiracy of Ravens’
Part Four
A Conspiracy of Ravens
My morning walk with the dogs: there is a figure jogging towards me on the beach, a small dog trotting at his heels. I turn to walk the other way.
“Kirstie!” Ben’s voice carries on the breeze. “Kirstie....”
I ignore him and keep walking.
After a minute or so, there is panting and Ben appears at my side, breathing heavily.
“Kirstie, please….”
Perhaps I should find another place to walk….
“…. We need to talk,” he says.
“I don’t think so. I saw your idea of talking.” I keep moving, stepping up my pace a little, doing everything I can to discourage the conversation.
“Please, Kirstie. Do you want me to apologise? Alright, I apologise. Is that good enough for you?”
I stop, turning to face him. “What exactly are you apologising for?”
His face falls. “I’m apologising for losing my temper as I did. It came as a bit of a shock, everything that you said, that Michael said.”
“And for threatening Charlotte?”
Now he reddens. “I wasn’t threatening her.”
are picking up my mood, milling around me,
her, Ben. She tried to get away from you, but you shoved her. I
have hit her.” He
little further away if
away. “You don’t really think that I’m the kind of
you, Ben? Even the dogs are reading you, your body language. They’re not happy. I barely know you, but quite a bit of what I’ve seen,
about you that I don’t care for.” he snaps.
involved in that that wasn’t there because they wanted to be. No-one was coerced and everyone enjoyed themselves. And the same applies to Michael’s arrangements with James and Charlotte. It’s
glumly at the sand. “You didn’t have to
Francis to call them. If he thinks you’re a threat to
the sand with a toe, then, “Do you really think I behaved
You’ve apologised to me, but I don’t think it’s me you should be talking to. I think you really should be apologising to James, Charlotte and especially to
won’t look me in the eye, instead staring out to sea. He nods, a
*****
is waiting for me, sitting in his car,
on the window and his face lights up as he sees me. “Have you been waiting
was passing, so
Coming in for
coffee is all I’m
cue,
through the motions of putting water on to boil, coffee
hands resting on my waist, his face close
me to face him, stroking my cheek, the line of my jaw and down to my neck where he has placed his mark on me, his ownership; the
horny, are we?”
yes, and so are you. Don’t think I don’t
arms, I curve into his embrace.
“I have a few
“Ideas?”
while I draw curtains and light
makes his
About Choosing Her Lover - Chapter 30
Choosing Her Lover is the best current series of the author Denis Palmer. With the below Chapter 30 content will make us lost in the world of love and hatred interchangeably, despite all the tricks to achieve the goal without any concern for the other half, and then regret. late. Please read chapter Chapter 30 and update the next chapters of this series at novelebook.com