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.”

up my mood, milling around me, jittery and nervous. Meg shows her teeth

from you, but you shoved her.

hit her.” He

should stand a little further away if you want

“You don’t really

reading you, your body language. They’re not happy. I barely know you, but quite a bit

there are things about you that I don’t care for.” he snaps. “You screw around, and

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 call

heard James. He asked Francis to call them. If he thinks

the sand with a toe, then,

a serious question. Yes, I do. 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,

he won’t look me in the eye, instead staring out to sea. He nods, a sharp down-thrust of his chin, and

*****

return home that evening, Ryan is waiting for me, sitting in his car, working

tap on the window and his face lights up as he sees me. “Have you been

at all. I was passing, so I thought I’d

have. Coming

is all

right on cue, my panties

through the motions of putting water

my waist, his face close to mine as he nibbles at an

where he has placed

horny, are we?”

angel, “Oh, yes, and so are you. Don’t

in his arms, I curve into his

he says. “I have

“Ideas?”

quietly while I draw curtains and light a

he makes

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