Chapter Twenty Seven - After the Wedding.
I admit, that I did enjoy the Wedding itself, and the socialising afterwards. I had recovered from the sadness that I felt because of the distance that had been put between Elaine and I; it was probably because of the champagne. And it made me feel good just to see the happy look on Alana's face as she chatted and danced with some of the large Black Men, including Bruno and Jackson, although it was clear that she was trying to make a point, as she had little time for me.
She was obviously still annoyed that I had interrupted her wedding. I, on the other hand, played the game of keeping a discreet distance from Elaine who kept trying to catch my eye -- clearly wanting to talk. The last thing I wanted was confrontation -- faint chance of that.
Eventually, the afternoon turned into evening and the festivities came to an end. Alana, Maddie, and Bruno had disappeared upstairs, only to reappear later in travelling clothes for their honeymoon. Hands were shaken, backs were slapped, and I was, after kissing Alana goodbye, standing alone on the steps of the mansion, when I felt the back of my collar grabbed in a strong grip -- I knew immediately whose long fingernails were now painfully embedded in my neck.
"Ouch!"
"C'mere you!"
"Mistress?"
"So what's with the attitude?" Elaine yelled, as I swung around to face a very red faced angry Wife.
"Attitude?" I responded, feigning ignorance.
"Avoiding me!"
"Avoiding you?"
Her face transitioned from red to 'tomato'. "Stop repeating what I am saying. Are you a bloody parrot?"
I was beginning to enjoy myself. "Who! Me?"
Her eyes narrowed and then opened in surprise as she realised that I was playing a gentle game with her. The redness left her face and the corners of her mouth lifted in a smile as she said, "Okay cj. But we still need to talk."
"Do we? What about?"
"I'm pregnant with my Lover's baby. And you...."
"OUR Master's baby," I interjected.
"Okay! OUR Master's baby. But we need to talk - don't we?"
"I would have thought that after my kissing of your tummy last night -- after you had hung your pills over my neck -- that I had already answered the question before it had even been asked. So what do you want from me now Dear?" I asked, in an almost sarky manner.
"I want to know that you are alright. That it's not been a problem too far for you after all the other shocks you have experienced this week," was her answer to my question, as her eyes searched my face for clues as to my state of mind.
She deserved an honest answer, so I needed to gather my thoughts -- I needed time. "Can we walk together and find Jackson. I want to explain myself to you both."
Elaine looked worried, but nevertheless hooked her arm securely through mine and we walked out of the sunshine and back into the darkened coolness of the Mede Manor House. We found Jackson standing with John and Jenny engaged in a conversation that had all three smiling and laughing.
"Say hello to Uncle Jackson," Jenny said, "we've had a phone call from Terry. Baby Luke was born last night, weighing in at six pounds four ounces."
We both stopped and looked at our happy Master, but Jenny had more to say, "Mother and Baby are doing well. Another triumph for the Natural Order. Don't you think so Dear?" she asked -- turning to her husband John.
He smiled back at his beautiful Wife and said, "One day, maybe soon, or maybe later, husbands such as James and I will be the norm. And pretty young Wives such as Joanne, just like Madeleine, and Elaine here, will know what it is to be loved physically by a real man - and that would be a Master such as Bruno and Jackson here."
There it was, I had put it to John in our earlier conversation, that Jenny and he were on a mission. He had just confirmed what I had thought; but instead of disquiet or anger at that thought, I realised that this middle-aged couple were right. I had seen the contentment in the eyes of the pretty Wives last night and this morning at the wedding, alongside the total acceptance of the husbands of their status as cuckolds.
That they were deliriously happy about their Wives getting naked and loved by strong dark Lovers who took these young beauties as their own -- 'Black Owned' in fact -- would be to overstate the fact; but just as I was beginning to realise, love and sacrifice can take many forms.
"And that is why I need to talk with Master Jackson and Elaine," I said in response to John.
"What is the matter james?" Jenny asked me.
"Yes! What is it?" Elaine said, with her eyes once again searching my face desperately for some indication of what I had to say.
"My question was," I said to the four people who stood before me, "and it still hasn't been answered properly, why did you think that a sudden shock would be better for me, than you and I having a 'sit down chat' about your relationship with Jackson."
"I thought I explained that," said John - eyebrows furrowed in concern.
Jackson looked enquiringly at Elaine -- everybody looked at Elaine.