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 nervous. Meg shows her teeth to
were screaming and shouting at her, Ben. She tried to get away from you, but you shoved her. I saw it.
wouldn’t have hit
you should stand a little further away
face drops and he backs away. “You don’t really
around me, indicating the dogs. “What do I make of you, Ben? Even the dogs are reading you, your body language. They’re not happy. I barely
things about you that I don’t care for.” he snaps. “You screw
to be. No-one was coerced and everyone enjoyed themselves. And the same applies to Michael’s
stares glumly at the sand. “You didn’t have to call the
asked Francis to call them. If he thinks you’re a threat to Charlotte, on another occasion I’m not
the sand with a toe, then, “Do you really
to me, but I don’t think it’s me you should be talking
won’t look me in the eye, instead staring out to sea. He nods, a sharp down-thrust of his chin, and then jogs back the way he
*****
waiting for me, sitting in his
tap on the window and his face lights up as he sees me. “Have
all. I was passing,
have. Coming in
is all I’m
cue, my
through the motions of putting water on to boil,
resting on my waist, his face
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 velvet band I
horny, are we?” I
of a fallen angel, “Oh, yes, and so are
I curve into
“I
“Ideas?”
bedroom, he waits quietly while I draw curtains and light a couple of candles,
he makes
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