Buying The Virgin Part 1-3
Chapter 85: The Girl Who Was Hunted - Chapter One
CHARLOTTE
Sitting in my room, the small private space that I call my own, in the house I share with seven other students, my phone beeps. It’s an incoming message, from Michael
“Purchase completed fifteen minutes ago. Your Home awaits you.”
*****
Fumbling, as I balance my bags in one hand, door keys to the lock in the other, I step into the hallway of the student house.
As I tramp upstairs, a voice floats down from the top floor; Marie. “That you, Charlotte?”
“Yup,” I shout back.
“You’ve got visitors…. They’re up in the kitchen here. I made them a coffee while they waited.”
I don’t get visitors. There is only one possibility. Racing upstairs, I dash into the kitchen, and, yes, it’s them, my Master and Michael, both grinning wildly.
“Surprise!” says Michael. He sweeps me into his arms, swinging me around, kissing me on the mouth.
My Master, more circumspect, touches me on the shoulder, kissing my forehead. “Hello, Charlotte. Lovely to see you.”
“Mas…. James! Michael…” Suddenly conscious of Marie’s stare, I say. “Oh, Marie. This is Michael, my fiancée and… James…. his friend. This is Marie, one of the other house shares.”
Marie is looking at Michael with far too much interest for my liking. “Ah…. the mysterious fiancée at last,” she says. “We’ve been wondering what you’d be like… Can’t say I blame Charlotte for keeping to herself so much when I see what she’s saving herself for….”
Michael says nothing. With his blond, blue-eyed, good looks, he always draws attention. My Master sucks in his cheeks, looking amused.
“Come on downstairs,” I say. “We can talk in my room. It’s a bit quieter there. Thanks for making the coffee, Marie.”
“Oh, no problem.” She eyes Michael, all too obviously, and he pointedly fails to notice.
me, holding me tight, his mouth opening over mine. His kiss is long and slow, and when he finally pulls away, he remains
were coming? I’d have at
would
study room; a bed, a desk, bookshelves, a chair, wardrobe and built-in drawers, but now, my Master sitting on the single chair, Michael sits on the end of the narrow bed as I put on the kettle. Then I have to go back up to the kitchen
You might swing a cat in
it for working
“It’s a bit busy around here, isn’t it.” says my Master. “How about
to go out with you both. It’s been so long. I
my books and notes, open on the
no. That’s fine. I have until
not going out anywhere with
I don’t really go out. I’m here to
later…” he lifts my
to wear for going out in. I only brought jeans and tee-shirts
of your other clothes along. They’re in the car. And um, perhaps you should have a shower first? You smell of machine
college today, they were showing us how to use a
what you’ll be expected to do when you’re working properly? In an actual
shop and a tool shop
It’s a bit crowded in
I’m being. “, I think she’s expecting her boyfriend, Pete, along
“Another student?”
the Aeronautical Engineering
my two Lovers wait upstairs in the kitchen, I shower and wash my hair, put on some make-up and check out the clothes they have brought with them. A classic ‘little black dress’ and high heels, and I feel ready to
at walking in heels - I go upstairs, to find my Master and Michael chatting with some of my housemates. Kylie and Sandra are there; Caroline too, and a couple of the boyfriends. Michael is drawing attention from the girls and my Master looks amused. Pete is there, his back turned to me
as he
“Um, sorry. didn’t
Michael. “You’ve seen a side of
*****
into the lobby, all polished glass and brass, expensively perfumed air