I cocked my head towards the door. Jason must still be on the phone, I could not imagine he would be deliberating ignoring us.
“Are you ready for that? Living in is a big commitment. Sounds a bit quick.” She looked genuinely alarmed.
“It’s OK. He’s been good for me.” I did not want to mention specifics.
“You’ve healed up alright then?” she asked.
“Physically I’m fine, Pip. A little scarring. Nothing terrible.”
“You do look better, brighter in your cheeks.”
I could not tell her that I had just been fucked hard up the bum and my face was still flushed from the orgasm.
“I’m grateful for everything, Pip, all your help, everyone’s help after what happened,” I said. “I have to go with my instincts and they’re telling me that I’m in a good place now. Better place. If I go to parties, munchies or clubs, then it comes back to haunt me. He, he was there with me,” I whispered the last few words.
“So this is good-bye?” said Pip bewildered.
“No, please, email me, ring me. Just don’t expect me to show up anywhere. I’m going to be busy. He’s quite demanding of me. A nice kind of demanding,” I quickly paraphrased when she frowned.
“Are you absolutely sure about this, Gem? This isn’t some traumatic rebound is it?” She touched my hand as it rested on my lap.
I took a deep breath. Was I rebounding? Then I thought back on the last weekend with Jason. The incredible sex in his study and the swimming pool. The subdrop I had afterwards and his words of comfort as he picked me off the kitchen floor. Emotionally I was drifting and uncertain of our future together. I wiped the vision of sex from my mind and thought about him. Jason the caring dom, moving in with him and sharing myself with him every day. I gave Pip a beaming smile.
“No rebound, Pip. I’m happy. I trust him. Seriously, after all I’ve been through, if I can trust someone again then I must be on the right track. He’s something special, Pip. I’m a lucky girl.” I patted
her hand.
Her face relaxed and she flicked the hair out of her eyes. Older than me and certainly more experienced.
“How’s bossman?” I asked her.
“Oh same as ever. One visit a month. I think you’re brave moving in. Two years and we still only see each other occasionally. Leeds is such a long way. We manage. He’s left his wife. So I suppose he’s starting to take our relationship seriously.” She shrugged her shoulders.
I never was happy with her involvement with a married man though Pip had pointed out his wife had ceased sexual contact years ago and they had stayed together until the youngest child left home.
The door behind us opened and Jason appeared, mobile in his hand. I stood up immediately and went to him. He took in Pip with his ever observant eyes. He must have noticed the choker collar around her neck. Drawing me towards him with his free hand, he bent down and kiss my lips. His grip on me was tight as if his arms were a crab’s pincers.
“I can’t stay the night, early meeting in the morning. You understand?” He looked down at me, pulling my chin up so our eyes met. “Calls to make tonight as well.” He flashed the mobile before slipping it into his jacket pocket.
“Yes, I understand, sir.” I looked around the room. “I’ve got lots to do here.” I waved my hand around the room. Pip had risen too and I was not going to hide the nature of our relationship from my friend. She understood the dynamics very well. I stepped back to make the introductions.
“Jason, this is Philippa, Pip.” I watched him shake her hand.
“Pleasure to meet you, sir,” she said demurely. Pip was too well trained to be anything but super polite to another dominant even in the absence of her own master. “I hope I’ve not deprived you of Gemma’s company.”
“No,” smiled Jason. “We’d finished. You’ve know Gemma long?” His question was surprisingly acerbic.
“A few years, sir,” she blinked fractionally and I knew she had been hit by his voice, the eyes and the total demeanour that he could exude when he wanted to. “I helped Gemma, after....” her words ended abruptly.
“Pip found me and fetched help. So I’m very grateful to her,” I finished off her sentence.
Pip gathered up her scarf. “I should go. You’ll want to finish whatever....” another embarrassed trail of words finished abruptly.
Jason waited in the sitting room while I showed Pip out of the door.
“Wow, Gem,” she said quietly. “Quite a catch, heh?”
I blushed in reply. We hugged and I watched her dash off down the street. Jason came out into the hallway to join me.