Proserpina

We had lain in each other’s arms after all the torrid lovemaking of that night.

The food had been heated and we had eaten slowly, feeding each other, till somehow, I ended up in my lover’s lap again.

Cuddling into his hirsute chest, I murmured,

‘Lucien Delano, I cannot live without you…’

He said nothing for a long time and then said in a hoarse growl,

‘Don’t leave me again, woman.’

For answer, I pulled his head down and kissed him fiercely.

I melted in his arms as he took possession of me once again.

***

Sometime in the wee hours of the morning, I came awake to a...