Chapter 21. Learning to Live

Proserpina

The course of the days in my life altered radically.

Earlier, I had been a carefree student, with my life caught up in my studies, cooking for my roommates, and enjoying it.

Now my life revolved around Lucien. All of a sudden, my schedule was pushed to the background; Lucien's timings and his convenience were foremost.

I began to miss classes, my submissions were delayed, and my professor called me for a long chat to try and understand what had happened to his most dependable student. But I was giddy in love, imagining a future with the man who seemed to be besotted with me. At first, he spent every night at the little house, and our lovemaking was as intense and passionate as it had been on the first occasion when he had taken me on the floor of his study at the club. It was as though he could not have enough of my body, and I revelled in giving him pleasure. He could bring my body awake with a look, a touch, and I was helpless be