What made you turn up suddenly?”
She perched on the sofa and picked up the book. And right from the start it began to go wrong. “I’m right here next to you. You look as though you’re about to fall apart.”
“I’m all…” I began, and caught the look in her eyes. And on yet other occasions there’s something in the car with me, something I can’t see but which is out to kill me. I moaned. Sometimes I see Amanda around. What had happened? I clutched the pillow with both my hands as the darts of pleasure lancing out from between my legs joined together and grew into an uncontrollable surge. That’s the name you chose for me?”
“Do you mind me calling you that?”
“No, of course not. It gave me a luscious sensation that, while it didn’t make me come, did give me the hope that my sexuality wasn’t quite dead. That night I had the first of the nightmares. I clutched the pillow with both my hands as the darts of pleasure lancing out from between my legs joined together and grew into an uncontrollable surge. “Let’s do your front.”
Obediently, I rolled on to my back.
