Chapter Eight – Belted
When Keri heard Alan’s voice on the line she purred, “Thank you for the birthday surprise.”
He hesitated on the other end. Keri thought that she could hear him exhale with relief. “I was afraid that it wouldn’t fit.”
How like him, she thought, to avoid speaking of the thing that had to be uppermost in his mind. Very well, she would play his game. Keri felt somehow bolder and more powerful than she had this morning. She had been through an initiation of a sort, one that had changed her forever. Pretending that nothing had happened was no longer an option. Denial had caused all of their problems, and she refused to indulge it any more.
“It was perfect,” she said. “Just the sort of thing that I might have picked out for myself.”
He hesitated again, until she was su
