I slowly sat back up and swung my legs around and got off the table, as I stood I stumbled, Edward caught me and carried me to my bedroom upstairs.
"Rest a while my love, it has been a very eventful day, myself and Katie will clear up everything," Edward said to me in a loving tone.
Edward took me upstairs to my bedroom and laid me carefully onto the bed, he stayed with me and held me close until I was a sleep.
I woke up several hours later, the house was silent, Edward was not in the room and there was no sound in the house. I got up slowly off the bed, put my robe on and went to the window, if I did not have a clock in the room, I would have thought it was dawn, but it was 5 in the evening and the sun was setting. I slowly closed the dark blue velvet curtains and returned to sit on the bed. The cuts pulling on my back with every move I made, my whole body ached.
I opened the door to my bedroom and walked tentatively down the stairs and into the lounge, there was no sign of the events that had happened there hours before and still no sign of anyone around.
I sat on the couch and turned on the television to watch the news. I curled my knees up and laid back on the couch and started to drift off to sleep again. Moments later I was awoken by a noise in the kitchen, I slowly got to my feet and crept toward the door of the kitchen. I opened it slightly and could see the shape of a man standing by the refrigerator facing away from the door. I had no idea who it was, I slowly made my way into the kitchen, there was a knife on the side near the door that I picked up and wielded like some mad woman about to stab someone. I raised the knife above my head slowly and moved further into the room, the man turned and I closed my eyes while bringing the knife down quickly.
I felt a hand grab my wrist that was holding the knife, I slowly opened my eyes and that is when I noticed, it was Rich.
"What are you doing Lisa, its only me silly," he side with shock in his voice, but then a slight smile.
"Oh my god, Rich, I am so sorry, I didn't know who it was and after last night, well, I didn't want anyone surprising me," I said as I put the knife on the kitchen counter shakily.
"I understand," he said pulling me a little closer, "I stayed last night to make sure you where ok, and I hate to admit it, but, I was staying with John, and, well, I can't exactly go back there."
"Of course, you can stay here for as long as you like, but I must warn you, I don't think I will be here myself for much longer. My husband is due back in a few days and my Master has told me he wants no other man to touch me in a sexual way unless he says so."
"But where will you go?" Rich asked looking at me with soft eyes.
"I have no idea, I am sure my Master will sort out a place for me," I replied looking down.
Rich pulled me closer and ran a hand softly over my cheek while looking into my eyes lovingly.
"Would your Master think this contact was sexual in anyway?"
"I don't think so," I replied blushing slightly.
"Then what about this," he whispered leaning in more and kissing me softly.
I closed my eyes as he kissed me, his hand now softly holding my neck at the back, my raven hair cascading down over the back of my robe. My heart fluttered as my hands caressed his back softly.
He withdrew from the kiss for me to answer his question.
"I am not sure," I replied breathless.
"Then that will be as far as I push you, I would not want you to be punished again," he said letting me go and smiling lovingly at me.
I slowly walked away from him, my hands slowly slid down his back as I stepped away from him, my heart still fluttering like a butterfly. I took a depth breath and made us both a hot drink before we both went back to the living room and sat on the couch together. Rich took the remote for the TV and turned it off. We sat in complete silence for a while before Rich started talking.
"So," he said and then paused, I looked up at him, "can I ask, why a ghost?"
"I am not sure, he showed himself to me, we talked for a while before telling me he was a sexual person in life before his life was taken suddenly. He offered me something that I was not getting, and I guess I took it without questioning it really," I replied to him before taking another sip of my tea.
"Aren't you scared that he may find someone else once you get too old and just move onto the next person?" Rich asked looking at me directly.
"I hadn't even thought about that, I guess he will move on once I have got too old for all this, he has eternity to do all this, I only have a few short years really compared to the time he has," I replied as I lowered my head, feeling a little saddened.
I hadn't even thought about it before now, he would eventually grow tired of me, and my body would grow tired, I know that everything was great at the moment, but I would grow older and my body would not be able to take some of the punishments that Edward would ask me to do for him. I felt slightly scared thinking about this and I did not notice a small tear running down my cheek that Rich wiped away.