Tuesday, 26 October 2021

BLACK MASS

 

She slipped off her long leather coat.

Revealing just her underwear

Standing before me dressed all in black

A leather Basque, lace panties

A garter belt and stockings

And six-inch stiletto heels

I was instantly aroused

And wanted her there and then

But instead she knelt before me

At the altar of my lust

And took the sacrament

Monday, 25 October 2021

SPEAK DIRTY TO ME

 

She wears sexy underwear

And speaks dirty to me

I handle her roughly

Like a rag doll

I bend her to my will

I grope at her breasts

Toy with her nipples

My fingers first probe

Then penetrate her hot wetness

And revel in her response

Then she begs me to enter

And as I do I feel her shudder

Such burning passion

Consumes us both

As we are lost in the baseness of the act

Filthy words spill from her lips

As we exorcized our lust

Then sweet ecstasy

In the moment

Of our passions culmination

Friday, 8 October 2021

Choice Tales from the Vale – (336) Jolly Hockey Sticks

 

The Dulcets are a collection of villages and hamlets comprising of Dulcet Meadow, Dulcet St Mary, Dulcet Green and Dulcet-on-Brooke, to name but a few, and of course Dulcet-on-Willow, which is a large sprawling village beside the gentle shallow River Willow, which runs unhurriedly from the Pepperstock Hills to the more vibrant River Brooke, and it’s in the Village of Willow where 28-year-old Alex Monroe lives in the house he was born in.

His parents have retired to a Villa in the Greek Islands and the six bedroom detached house was left jointly to him and his brothers, Colin, two years younger, who lived and worked in Australia, and Greg, two years older, who owned and ran a Hotel in the Pepperstock Hills National Park, so Alex had the house to himself the vast majority of the time.

He was 5ft 11, slim build with curly brown hair and by profession an illustrator, children’s books mainly, though not exclusively and he had the summer house converted into a studio from where he can work in peace, free of distractions, the latter was particularly important as he was very easily distracted, especially by women and his distraction of choice normally came in the form of well covered peasantry, on the ample side of buxom, and he rarely strayed from his sensual menu, and he had no romantic attachments.

That is until the day he had his first encounter with Clarissa St Claire, the girl next door, who arrived at his front door, in a state of inebriation after one too many birthday drinks.

At the time he didn’t welcome the intrusion because she was not his normal fare and ticked none of his boxes, he liked a mature cuddlesome peasant wench, and Clarissa St Claire was anything but, she was only 18, if the number on the balloon was of any significance.

 

However despite that, a sexual encounter did take place between them in his lounge but it didn’t go as far as she wanted it too, or as far as she planned for it to go, she wanted him to take her virginity.

Which he declined to do that night, though he agreed that he would when he thought she was ready, and many other sexual interludes followed, until the day finally arrived when she got what she wanted, and more because he took her cherry and her heart.

 

But after a long summer of lust, lovemaking and love the time came for Clarissa to leave Willow for University, and by extension her boyfriend, but she was back home for Halloween as they were heading to Finchbottom for a fancy dress Halloween Party and he was picking Clarissa up from her house, he was dressed as a Roman, but he had no idea what she was going to be wearing, she had been very secretive about it, but she said he would love it.

So he drove next door and got out and let himself in her house and shouted

“Clarissa! Where are you?, we’re going to be late”

“I’m in the kitchen” she called back so he walked across the hall and into the kitchen and found Clarissa lying draped provocatively across the kitchen Island, wearing her claret and blue hockey kit, casually teasing a her nipple through the Claret fabric of her shirt with one hand and fingering herself with the other.

“Do you have enough time for some of this?” she asked “or is punctuality more important”

“Punctuality is always important” he replied “but it is also rude not to except a gift when its offered”

“I know how much you dislike tardiness so I started without you to save time” she said coyly

“So I can see,” Alex said as he watched her busy fingers vigorously frigging herself up the leg of her pale blue knickers, and he lifted his toga to release his stirring beast, and then he stood there looking down on her, keenly watching her small fingers, wet with her juice, slipping and sliding herself to orgasm as he tugged on his cock.

When she had writhed and wriggled herself to orgasm and then she lustily sucked the tangy grease from her fingers he grabbed her by the knees and dragged her horny carcass towards his waiting cock.

Having pulled her pussy to the edge of the island, Clarissa’s cunny was presented to him at perfect cock height so he wasted no time at all in spearing her up her knicker leg.

“Oh God Alex” She moaned, “That feels so good”

He withdrew ready to go again, but so impatient was she that Clarissa wrapped her skinny legs around him and pulled him back into her, and she moaned loudly and smiled smugly at how clever she had been in making him skewer her again.

Alex gave her another length and her hands gripped the sides of the Island to brace herself and Clarissa gave great panting moans with each stroke and her head rolled from side to side as the frenetic pace quickened and her knuckles showed white as she gripped the counter harder with each thrust.

Her chest was heaving up and down as she neared the end and her moans had long since merged into one continuous whorish wail until her face contorted into an orgasmic grimace as her back arched and

and her whole body shuddered in a climactic crescendo and he lost control and in short pumping spasms he shot and Alex looked down at the sweaty panting ginger beauty in her hockey kit, and he found himself wondering how many other outfits from her schooldays she still had in her wardrobe.

As he withdrew down the leg of her pale blue hockey knickers, he looked down at his handiwork

“Your lovely hockey knickers are saturated” he said proudly “you won’t be able to wear them tonight”

“It’s ok” she said “I have two spare pairs in my hand bag”

“Why two?” he asked

“Well it not like you’re not going to stop on the way to the party” she said as she pulled her wet pants down her thighs “and fuck me again, in our lay-by”

There layby was on the Finchbottom Express Way, the only layby on the entire stretch that offered any privacy as there was a stand of trees shielding it from the road on one side and a shrubby copse separating it from fields beyond, on the other, and it had been the sight of many lusty adventures between them.

“I have clearly created a monster” he said and kissed her “a cute nubile monster, but a monster nonetheless”

A LUSTFUL SMILE WAS ON HER LIPS

 

A lustful smile was on her lips

When he responded “treat” to her

As her cloak slipped to the floor

Leaving every inch of her bare

“Like what you see?” she purred

“Very nice indeed” he whispered

“You may take for your pleasure

All my delicious candy treasure”

A WITCH APPEARED ON HALLOWEEN

 

A witch appeared on Halloween

She was clearly a natural blonde

And when asked to step inside

She played with the wizard’s wand

Choice Tales from the Vale – (337) Halloween

 

Mira Cooke, was the best friend of Clarissa St Claire, and both girls had perfect Carrington Chase educated voices, Carrington Chase being Downshire’s version of Roedean, although those in Downshire thought it was the other way around, and it was a voice that made Charlotte Green sound common.

They had been friends since Montessori and were in the same halls together at Abbottsford University and were going share a flat together during their second and third years.

But apart from the fact that they came from wealthy families and were well educated, to the casual observer they didn’t appear to have anything else in common.

Clarissa was beautiful, with thick curly ginger hair, elegant, slim and petit, bubbly and outgoing, and dressed to turn heads, whereas Mira was not beautiful, though she was not unattractive to look at, she was also not bubbly or outgoing and always wore black, she even had her brunette hair dyed black.

she was taller than Clarissa, and slender with nice long legs, though few people saw them as she normally wore long skirts, or loose fitting trousers, but where her friend was busty, Mira was less well endowed, though she was not flat chested.

Clarissa was an extrovert, precocious, a real Lolita, confident, self-assured, pretty and she knew it, though not in a cocky way.

Mira was a shy, socially awkward bookish girl who appeared to lack self-confidence

Being with Clarissa made her feel more confident, daring to do things she would never do alone, and she had lived her life on her friends coat tails and it was thought that without Clarissa she would flounder, but they were wrong.

Although they were both bright intelligent girls there was more to life for Clarissa but Mira was not a party girl and she was best described as bookish as she had the habit of peering over her specs.

One other way in which they differed was sex, Clarissa had been obsessed with sex since the moment she hit puberty, not that she was sexually active, other than the usual masturbation, but she obsessed over losing her virginity, not the when, but the who.

She set her cap at Alex Monroe when she was a very young girl and not long after her 18th birthday, she got him.

However Mira had gone through puberty with absolutely no interest in sex, she was much more in tune with the romantic characters in the literature she read.

That was at least until Clarissa started telling her in graphic detail about Alex and what he did to her and what he had her do to him and all of a sudden all the repressed feelings came to the fore, and she couldn’t stop abusing herself, and she had amassed a sordid selection of sex toys to deal with her urges and although she hadn’t had a man inside her she’d had a lot of substitutes over the three months since she started wetting her knickers.

But even though she had awakened sexually she still didn’t envisage progressing onto the real thing, not with the people within her social circle at any rate as they didn’t measure up against the romantic heroes in her books.

However that all changed on the day she met Colin Monroe.

Mira had arranged to pick Clarissa up from her house and drive over to Purplemere where they were meeting a group of old school friends for lunch at La Florenza.

However, as was her habit, she was twenty minutes early, so when she knocked on the front door of the St Claire house, it was her Mum who opened it.

“Hello Mira”

“Hi Mrs St Claire, is Clarissa in?”

“She’s at the Monroe’s” she replied disapprovingly, not having come to terms with the fact her daughter was seeing a man ten years older than her

“Oh ok, I’ll go and jolly her along” Mira said “Bye”

 

As she was walking next-door, a thought suddenly popped into her head, namely had Clarissa popped next door for a quickie and more importantly would she catch them in the act, and the possibility that she might, aroused her.

Which was when she recalled some of her friend’s sexual antics as described by Clarissa in detail and she found herself trying to decide which position it might be and that aroused her even more.

However, when she rang the doorbell the door was opened by a fully clothed Alex Monroe.

“Hi Mira, come in, she’s in the kitchen”

“Thanks Alex” she said and stepped inside, and then she heard voices coming from the kitchen as she crossed the hall and she wondered who the male voice was, as Alex was still two steps behind her.

When she stepped into the kitchen, she found Clarissa sat on a stool talking to a younger version of Alex, slightly heavier set with darker hair and much more conservatively dressed, in a black three piece suit, black bow tie and glasses.

“Hi” Clarissa said and got up and hugged her and then added.

“Mira, this is Colin Monroe”

“Nice to meet you” he said and offered his hand for her to shake, and when she took it, the handshake lasted much longer that it needed to, and Clarissa and Alex looked on and smiled.

 

It was half an hour later when the girls left to drive to Purplemere and Mira wasn’t sure whether the way she was feeling was due to the fact that she was highly aroused when she walked into Alex’s kitchen, but regardless she was smitten and furthermore she had a target for her lust.

 

Colin Monroe was the brains of the family as at 26 years old he was the youngest Professor on campus in Adelaide, where he was curator of the University Library, and periodically taught classical literature, and he had been in Australia for two years.

He had returned to the village of his birth, firstly to  see his brothers and secondly to use the house as a base while he carried out the task the University had sent him there to do, namely to examine some 18th Century manuscripts that the University wanted for their library, and more importantly he needed to verify their authenticity before they parted with their cash.

Colins parents had retired to a Villa in the Greek Islands and the six bedroom detached house was left jointly to him and his older brothers, but with him living and working in Australia and eldest brother Greg, owning and running a Hotel in  the Pepperstock Hills National Park, book illustrator Alex had the house to himself the vast majority of the time.

 

All in all he was only going to be in the UK for a month or so and he planned to make full use of his time in Downshire, the reunion with his brothers, catching up with friends and of course the University business, what he had not returned to Dulcet on Willow for, was to meet someone he was attracted to when he was only going to be in the country for a few weeks, but it happened anyway.  

However he decided to dismiss it from his mind and concentrate on the reason he was there in the first place, and all was going well until two days later when he and Alex were in Abbottsford in the Labuschagne Coffee House, when the girls suddenly walked in, a meeting clearly engineered by his brother and his girlfriend.

The girls didn’t stay long as they had lectures to get to, but it was long enough for them to make a deeper impression on each other.

 

At the time, when they were sat in the Coffee shop chatting, he really enjoyed being with her, and didn’t think about the consequences, it was only after they had gone that it sank in.

Colin truly liked her and he didn’t want to lead her on, as he would be back in Adelaide by Christmas, and furthermore she was only 18.

 

Mira had no such concerns, she had already taken into account that she might not see him again after December, but she was prepared to take that risk, so she decided that she would act on her feelings the next day, which was Halloween.  

 

Mira didn’t live in Dulcet on Willow, although she was born there, her parents moved the family to Dulcet Meadow when she was 11, so she had to drive to Willow.

She knew from talking to Clarissa that she and Alex would be away from the house all evening as they were going to a fancy-dress Halloween party.

Mira smiled to herself as she was wearing “Fancy

Dress” of her own.

It was 9 o’clock by the time she drove onto the Monroe’s drive and approached the front door.

 

Colin was enjoying a quiet night alone, there seemed to be a lot more coming and goings in the Monroe house than he remembered, so the prospect of spending the evening alone was very appealing, so he kicked off his shoes, slipped off his jacket and unbuttoned his waistcoat and poured himself a drink.

After sitting alone quietly reading a book for about half an hour he was disturbed by the sound of the doorbell, his first thought was that it was trick or treaters, so he ignored it and poured himself another drink, then there was another more persistent ring, and he ignored it again, then came another even more persistent ring, so he got up and walked out to the hall and reluctantly opened the door.

He was just about to give the trespassers a piece of his mind when he realized it was Mira.

“Oh hello” he said “Come in”

 

Mira had never felt sexier as she did in that moment as she stood on the door step, or hornier for that matter, and she was determined that she would very soon use her sexiness in order to have Colin satisfy her urges.

 

As she walked past him into the hall he realized there was something different about her and as he looked her up and down he realized what it was, She was wearing heels instead of flats, and a short skirt revealing her lovely long legs.

“It’s a bit late for trick or treating” he said

“And which would you choose “Trick or treat”?” she asked as she slipped off her coat

“Definitely a Treat” he replied

Mira took his reply as the green light and she pushed him back against the wall and kissed him and in response to his returning her kiss she laced her skinny arms around his neck and pulled her whole frame in close.

“Is everything black?” He asked after pausing the kiss

“Of course” she replied, and she wasn’t lying, even her pubes were dyed black

The kiss resumed and the combination of the all black attire, and the fact that he knew from Clarissa that it was her first kiss, was making his cock throb like a Formula 1 engine.

His hands began on her back but quickly descended to settle on her the surprising delight of pert little buttocks and after a few minutes she was relieved when he grabbed a handful of her skirt with one hand and slipped the other one under it.

When he had both hands up her skirt and settled on her silk clad buttocks, he determined she was wearing a teddy and a suspender belt.

She was pressed tight against him and her tongue continued to energetically explore his mouth as he pirouetted her so her back was now against the wall then he slipped his thumbs inside her knicker legs and with his fingers tracing the shape of her buttocks they followed the lace trim slowly towards the gusset were he unpopped the poppers one by one, and when the fourth had yielded his hands fondled the exquisite globes of liberated flesh of her well defined cheeks, even more delightful when naked.

Mira disengaged her mouth from his and burrowed her face in his neck instead and as she nuzzled his neck his hands traversed her landscape until one hand paused on her soft belly, poised to descend and as if to hasten its arrival Mira began nibbling at his collar bone, his neck, his earlobe, and then her tongue was in his ear, and she trembled as his fingers crossed the threshold and drifted through her lush bush, and he slipped a finger into her crack.

She stopped tonguing his ear the second his fingertip touched her crease and rested her forehead on his as she moaned at him.

Lacking any finesse on his part, and any self-control on hers, he quickly fingered her creamy cunny until she came loudly in his face.

Mira’s panting mouth kissed his lips and her hand unsubtly settled on the waist of his trousers, and she immediately began undoing his belt, but Colin took hold of her hand and said

“As it’s your first time lets go upstairs”

“My first time?”

“Sorry I thought you were a virgin” he clarified

“Who told you that?”

“Clarissa mentioned it” he confessed

“Well I am” she admitted, “but treat me as if I wasn’t”

Mira then walked to the middle of the room and sank to her knees on the Persian rug.

And as she did he undid his trousers and knelt behind her so he could do her on all fours on floor, as she clearly wanted.

“I’ll be gentle baby” he said and she looked at him over her shoulder and replied

“There’s no need”

So he lifted her skirt off her buttocks and he entered her superlatively tight pussy and her response was instant and loudly appreciative.

“We should do this upstairs,” he said

“Shut up and do me,” Mira begged, so he obliged

Her skirt kept falling down over her buttocks as he banged her so he grabbed a handful of skirt and slipped his fingers inside her waistband , while the other hand caressed her rump and to the casual observer it would have looked like he was a bronco rider as Mira’s head was rolling wildly from side to side, swishing her hair as she bucked and howled as he banged into her again and again, until through gritted teeth she juddered and came loudly and he exploded inside her.

 

Afterwards Mira stayed on all fours debauched and dishevelled panting and sighing as he pulled out.

“Wow that was even better than I’d hoped” she said and chuckled

“Was this what you planned then?” he asked her

“Yes” she replied and after a few minutes the panting Miss Cooke got unsteadily to her feet and redressed herself.

 “Shit” She said looking down at herself and noticing the large holes in the knees of her stockings.

“What?” he asked

 “I’ve ruined my stocking, that wasn’t part of the plan” she said and laughed

“I wouldn’t worry, you won’t need stockings where we’re going” he said and took hold of her hand and led her upstairs.

Choice Tales from the Vale – (067) Returning to the Missions

 Stephen Tanner lived alone in the village of Sharping-St Mary only a few miles from Purplemere.

He lived in a small three bedroom Tudor cottage which suited him perfectly as he was only 5ft 6 so the low beams didn’t affect him.

He worked in Purplemere three days a week but worked from home the other two.

It was a well-paid job and he was good at it but he didn’t enjoy it and it neither focussed nor fulfilled him.

 

It was on Friday morning between Christmas and New Year when the phone rang and when he read the caller ID he saw it was his mum.

“Hi mum” he said

“Hello Stephen darling, I can’t talk long, I have another favour to ask”

“Could Nicola stay for a couple of nights before leaving for the missions?”

Nicola was the daughter of his mums best friend Karen and she was also his first crush and she going to be staying under his roof and Nicola had a lot to answer for, Stephen got his first stalker thinking about her and furthermore he had his first wet dream over Nicola, well not exactly over her obviously, but she was in his dream when he creamed his PJs.

And it was Nicola who was the first to feature in his wank bank.

Nicola was six years older than him and he was smitten with her from the first moment he saw her, and when he thought back to that time he was sure she was with him, but nothing ever happened, apart from a kiss, one single solitary kiss, a kiss that blew his mind.

But when she had stayed with him a month earlier they had finally laid the ghost of their unfulfilled relationship when he laid her on the sofa.

So Nicola could most certainly stay for a couple of nights and he got a very distinct trouser tickle just at the thought of it.

 

She would be arriving some time that afternoon so he went off and made up the spare bed for her though he hoped she wouldn’t be needing it.

Unfortunately the weather had taken a turn for the worse with heavy snow moving across the country from the east.

He had no way of knowing where Nicola was as he didn’t know exactly where she was coming from, he didn’t even have a phone number for her.

Stephen phoned his mum about seven o’clock and she did have a phone number but all she could do was leave a voice mail as Nicola wasn’t picking up, then about an hour later he had a call from Barbara Hicks brother to say that Barbara and Nicola were stuck on the M11 in heavy snow and would get to him as soon as they could.

They finally arrived a little after eleven o’clock with the snow falling fast again.

Due to the lateness of the hour and the treacherous conditions he insisted that Barbara stay the night as well, which meant sadly that he wouldn’t be exploring amidst Nicolas unruly black pubes.

 

He left them both in the kitchen making a hot drink while he went upstairs to make up a bed for Barbara in the box room.

It was a bit frustrating having the expectancy all day of enjoying Nicola’s delightful bod only to be denied it by his own generosity.

It was the only thing to do though under the circumstances he would just have to go to bed with the nagging want and be unable to slake his thirst.

The only consolation was that he thought Nicola might be lying under the duvet just as horny and disappointed as he was.

 

Stephen had a very disturbed night’s sleep full of erotic imagery, past and present lovers dressed as snowflakes frolicking before him, or enjoying a sixty-nine on a sheepskin rug, an angel bent naked over the sofa wearing nothing but wings.

In fact every woman he had ever had or wanted to have appeared during the course of the night.

As a result he awoke the next morning un-rested and very, very horny.

He decided to get up and shower in an attempt to buck him up, but although he felt clean and fresh it merely masked his fatigue.

So he slipped on his dressing gown and went downstairs and was surprised to find Barbara sitting at the kitchen table nursing a mug of coffee.

“Morning” he said far more brightly than he felt “Sleep well?” 

“Good morning Stephen, yes very well thank you” she replied formally before continuing

“I hope it was ok, but I made myself breakfast”

“Yes of course it was” he replied as he looked out the window.

“It’s stopped snowing then?” he observed

“Yes” she replied, “I’m going to make a move shortly, get while the going is good as it were”

And she smiled broadly after her statement, he didn’t know if it was because he was feeling so washed out or not but Barbara certainly appeared to be a much brighter person than he was expecting compared to the Ms Frosty knickers that he met the last time she was in his home.

 

While Barbara was outside defrosting the Morris Minor he sat at the kitchen table drinking a coffee when it finally dawned on him what Barbara’s early departure meant, a revisit to the Missionary position.

 

Barbara came back inside after warming up the car

“I won’t disturb Nicola” she said

“Why not”? I thought “I’m going to the minute you’ve gone”

“She could use the rest,” she continued

“Good idea” he agreed

“Well I will see you on Sunday” she said “Bless you for your kindness”

 

He watched the Morris Minor drive away then waited for five minutes before he ascended the stairs.

Stephen gently opened the bedroom door and tiptoed inside and he could see her pajama trousers lying draped on the foot of the bed.

The first thought to enter his mind was that she had removed them in order to allow her ease of access to her pussy to satisfy herself after the disappointed of not getting rogered.

He slipped off his dressing gown and let it drop to the floor and his pants followed close behind and then he got under the duvet and cuddled up close to her and he was delighted to find her naked below the waist.

Nicola was on her side with her back to him and his first thought was to spoon her but instead he backed away and rolled her gently onto her back.

Stephen kissed her lips but got no response so he un-buttoned her pajama jacket all the way down to the bottom.

Once he had dealt with the final button he slowly opened the two halves like the leaves of some great tome and looked down on her in the half-light and admired both her body and his craft.

Her breasts had all but disappeared but her nipples sat there invitingly so he took the nearest one into his mouth and sucked on it gently.

Nicola murmured softly in response but she didn’t waken but his suckling was obviously fueling an erotic dream.

He left her erect swollen nipple wet with his saliva and watched her sleeping face as his hand drifted across her belly to her lush curly bush and dallied there toying with her tousled curls and she still slept.

After a moment his finger parted her lips like opening a pea pod and it was instantly immersed in her hot creaminess.

She murmured again in response to his fingering but despite his attentions she still remained asleep.

Having reached the point where he couldn’t have got her any wetter if he fingered her all night and not awakened her he decided to mount her.

 

He carefully positioned himself between her thighs and slid his cock between her sticky lips all the way up to his aching balls and she sucked in air through her teeth.

The first stroke just added to her already lip creaming dream, the second had much the same effect but caused her to stir a little beneath him and lick her lips.

The third brought her to that ecstatic point, that hinterland between erotic dream and sensual reality, unsure if she was vividly dreaming of receiving cock or if she was actually receiving cock.

However the fourth penetration left her in no doubt as she open her eyes and she knew for sure that he was inside of her.

“Oh Stephen” She said and smiled at him then she closed her eyes again as her penetrated her again and she wriggled like a fish with each penetration making her squirm beneath him

A few strokes later she came deliciously noisily and spurred on by her audible appreciation of his efforts he went at her harder and faster and her knuckles whitened as she was gripping the headboard as she moaned and writhed beneath him she came again and as he reached the precipice her utterances were growing higher in frequency until she reached Shangri-La

“Oh Godddd Stephen” she screamed and with her writhing sweating body prostrate beneath him he explode inside her

 

“I wasn’t expecting that” she panted as he withdrew and climbed off of her and she let out a rather smug self-satisfied sigh as she cuddled up to him.

“If you weren’t expecting it why didn’t you have your bottoms on?” he asked puzzled

“I took them off because I thought you would come to see me last night” she replied, “Why didn’t you?”

“I didn’t think you’d want to with Barbara in the house in case she heard us,” he said

“You didn’t need to worry” Nicola added, “She’s a bit deaf and she sleeps like the dead”

“Never mind I got here eventually,” he said

“Mmmmm” Nicola replied

 

After fucking Nicola awake in the half-light of morning they spent the rest of the day in each other’s company.

It was fairly mundane to be honest she did her washing and ironing while he pottered around in his study.

However the mundanity of the day was more than compensated for by the nerve tingling sexual interludes, which were numerous, and as far from the mundane as it was possible to get.

She wanted to make the most of the time they had together as well as packing for the journey.

Her time with him was almost up and when Nicola left his house on the morning of the 30th of December and she travelled to China he would probably never see her again.

But she left an indelible impression on him so as they lay in each other’s arms on their last morning together he said

“Don’t go”

“I have to go” she replied sadly

“But I love you Nicola” he said and she gasped

“And I love you”

“Then don’t go”

“But I have to” she said “it’s my life’s work”

“I know” he replied “So let me come with you”

She just lay there silently and grasped his hand in hers and putting it to her lips she kissed it and said

“Yes please”