Chapter 11
The Prints
'Now how about some coffee? Then we need to finish sorting the prints.' she said more cheerfully a couple of minutes later.
Having cleared the dishes and brewed coffee we sat down again and talked for a while about the selection and then marketing of the photographs as we sipped it. But then, when there was a distinct pause in the conversation I said. 'Have you stayed in touch with your family?'
'You mean with Matthew? Not really, only for family things, a couple of Christmases and then Mum and Dad's funerals. I think he feels much, much more guilty about what happened than I do. Blames himself for it. And of course these days child abuse is such a sensitive issue. Although there's no question of me having been abused, I mean I was actually the instigator, and undoubtedly got just as much pleasure from what we did as Matthew did. But that's not the way society would see it of course.'
'That's a shame, do you miss him?'
'Of course, in a way I do. But I understand, and the last thing I'd want is for all that guilt to bubble up, maybe hurt his relationship with his wife and children. She's very sweet, the kids are nice too, and I know they're very happy. So I just write from time to time, send cards and presents, that sort of thing.'
'And your sister, what was her name?'
'Kerrie, we are closer, though she has a very busy life and we don't get to see that much of each other. In a funny sort of way you actually know her, well, know of her.'
'Me?'
'Mmm, she's a ballerina, it was her hands that you spotted at the exhibition. You said you had seen them before, remember?'
Of course I did, vividly. 'She's your sister?'
'Mmm, small world isn't it. But if you've finished your coffee now let's go and get started on sorting out some of those prints.'
We spent about an hour doing that, selecting and grouping those we agreed had the best chance of being published or shown in the galleries Katherine had mentioned, then sorting out a few that she said she wanted to print or enlarge for herself. 'For my private gallery.' she explained with a grin.
'Do I get to see that sometime?' I asked.
'Oh I don't think you would be that interested Craig. My homosexual friends, I mean the male ones, tend to wet themselves, but I haven't noticed any of those tendencies with you. I'm very glad to say. But if you're really curious of course I'll show them to you. But not until I've included these, you'll be one of the stars, I can assure you of that.'
'Only one of?'
'Well there's a black guy in there, he did have an extraordinary penis, and of course being black makes the photographs particularly dramatic to our eyes. So to many people he's already got top billing. Then there's another guy who was a pure freak, his was so big that he'd only ever found one women who could comfortably take it. It's that one's sheer size that gives it such a visual impact. But for me, yours will be the one I'll look at again and again, I promise you that.' she added in a much softer tone.
'You don't have to look at photographs of me Katherine.' I replied.
'Mmm, that's good, but you might not always be around when I feel in need.'
'And are you feeling like that right now?' I asked, detecting a subtle shift in her voice.
'I admit that sorting through the photographs has started to get me feeling the way I was earlier, yes.' she admitted.
'Come on then.' I said, pulling her to her feet then leading her by the hand to her bed-room.
Once inside she turned and started to undo the buttons down the front of her blouse, but I reached out and stopped her. 'No, let me do that, please.' I said softly. 'But I hope you're not in such a hurry this time, because I want to try to tell you how I feel about you as I undress you.' I added as I took her face between my hands and kissed her.
It was just a light kiss, merely the brushing together of two pairs of lips. Then I did the same to her eyes, kissing each one before moving my lips down over her cheek, then finally nuzzling them against her slender neck. She stood quite still as I did that, doing no more than giving a soft sigh as my lips slipped over her skin.
'I just want you to know something of just how wonderful I think you are. Apart from all the things we have in common, and I don't just mean the physical things. Though they are utterly fantastic. You are the most beautiful woman I've ever known.' I said emotionally. 'Every single part of you is beautiful; your hair, your eyes, your lips.' I added, kissing each in turn before reaching down for one hand and lifting it to my lips. 'And of course your hands, and always miraculous fingers.'
Then, as I began to slowly undress her I continued telling her how beautiful each part was as I uncovered it; her shoulders, her breasts, her gently rounded stomach, kissing and gently stroking each in turn. Although I could feel faint, shivering tremors running up through her body as my caresses continued, and her reactions had grown a little stronger when I kissed and gently sucked her nipples, she otherwise remained quite still, her eyes closed, giving just occasional sighs of pleasure.
Although seeing her beauty and touching her silky skin was more than enough to excite me I was in no hurry, wanting to give her as much pleasure as she could stand, wanting to demonstrate by doing that just how strong my feelings had grown for her. So it was some time before I dropped to my knees and, before unfastening her skirt, slid my hands slowly up and down her legs, again telling her how beautiful each part of those were too.
But of course the thought of the delights that lay beneath it were too strong to resist for too long and I felt my fingers trembling as I finally undid the skirt and helped her step out of it. I had anticipated what colour panties she'd have on, knew they would match the pale green bra I'd already removed, but hadn't anticipated just how strongly I'd react to the actual sight of them on her.
They were pale green, silk, but with a panel of the same coloured lace down the front, through which the rich, coppery auburn triangle above her sex clearly showed. Each time I had seen it I had reacted strongly, and apart from anything else I'd found there was something powerfully erotic about its unusual colour. Just seeing it never failed to excite me but at that moment, for some reason I couldn't explain, those feelings were even stronger than usual, and I felt my already fully erect cock surge even higher.
I reached around her and took her bottom in both hands, pulling her towards me and kissing the prominent bulge in her panties. The scent of her arousal wafted into my nostrils, telling me that what I had been doing had been affecting her almost as strongly as it had me. And that thrilled me even more.
'Sit down on the bed please Katherine.' I said as I tugged the waistband of her panties down over her hips and then moved with her as she did as I'd asked. Having taken them off I eased her legs apart, feeling my heart skip a beat as I looked at her pussy.
'Of all the beautiful parts of you, this is most beautiful.' I said. 'I don't have the words to describe it, I wish I did. I just wish I was a poet so I could try to describe how I see it.
Sometimes I think of it as a flower, an exotic, tropical flower. At others it's more like a fruit, a sensually erotic fruit, an over-ripe fig or mango. Like those it's not only how it looks that excites me, there's also its scent and taste, and I love both.' I whispered, slowly, very slowly running my hands up the insides of her legs towards it.
'And like those fruits, once I see it I can't wait to taste it.' I said as I bent forward to kiss her thigh. The gasp Katherine gave as I did that was much louder and sharper than the previous breathy sighs she had previously been making, but that turned to a low moan when instead of moving higher, I lifted my head and added. 'But, knowing the pleasure will be even more intense if I curb my impatience, I resist the temptation to just immediately gobble it up.'
She squirmed as I pushed my hands under her bottom and lifted her a little, then reached down for my head, running her fingers through my hair and giving a series of low, breathy sighs as I began to kiss my way up the inside of her thighs. I started just above her knee and moved from one to the other, but slowly worked my way upwards, feeling my cock responding to the increasingly strong thrills I was getting from both the feel and scent of her.
The mind is a strange and complex organ, obviously capable of performing many tasks at the one time. But I still found it amazing that mine chose that moment to click into creative mode, when I would have thought there were more than enough things going on to keep it fully occupied. But it did, perhaps triggered by the dozens of photographs I had seen of myself, suddenly giving me an image of a painting I should do, of Katherine.
The sketch book I'd started the day after we had first met was by then more than half full of sketches and small paintings of her, or of various parts of her. I had tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to capture some of key things about her, the unusual colour of her hair and eyes giving me the most trouble. But those things apart, I suddenly knew what the finished picture should look like.
So, as I continued kissing and stroking her I stared at her pussy even more intently than I had been doing, committing to my visual memory the tiniest details of its appearance, and especially the way the light reflected off its moistly glistening folds.
But even as those images were going into store they were also affecting other parts of my brain, those connected to my baser instincts, and I felt my physical need for her growing steadily stronger. Yet somehow I managed to hold those feelings in check, managed to concentrate on increasing Katherine's excitement and ultimate pleasure.
Even when I finally reached her pussy I continued to take my time. Kissing and licking it, from time to time running my stiffened tongue up and down the fleshy furrow, and resisting the increasingly strong urging of her fingers to do more than that. I held off directly touching the protruding spike of her clitoris until I felt her trembling tremors growing even stronger, then guessing how she must be feeling by then, I finally began to delicately lick it.