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, jittery and

get away from you, but you shoved her. I saw it. You temper looked pretty much out

have hit

should stand a little further away

“You don’t really

I make 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,

he snaps. “You screw around, and you admitted

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

stares glumly at the sand. “You didn’t have to

heard James. He asked Francis to call them. If he thinks you’re a threat to Charlotte, on another occasion I’m not sure he’d bother

with a toe, then, “Do you really think I

question. Yes, I do. You’ve apologised to me, but I don’t think

sea. He nods, a sharp

*****

I return home that evening, Ryan is waiting for me, sitting in

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

was passing, so I thought I’d

have. Coming in for

coffee is all I’m being

on cue, my panties are

I go through the motions of putting water

behind me, his hands resting on my waist, his face close to mine as he

my jaw and down to my neck where he has placed his mark on me, his ownership; the velvet band I wear around my neck,

are we?”

yes, and so are you. Don’t

arms, I curve into his

“I have a few

“Ideas?”

draw curtains and light a couple

he makes

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