Taboo

Keywords: Bonds, 02, Pt., Blood,

"I guess it's not every day you get a woman like me making advances on you."

Monica felt she had snatched something back, turning it into a game she had initiated for her own amusement rather than her being blinded by his natural magnetism.

"Er, no, I suppose not." Dean stuttered. "Erm, you're not pushing for some discount on the property are you? You know we offer the best prices anyway."

"Always the professional Dean. You're going to go far." She patronised him a little, though it was more to restore her self-esteem than to punish him. "I like this place a lot, but you know, I have a few other places I'd like to check first. So, I'll keep you on my list and will let you know. Does that sound good?"

"Yes, erm, yes." Dean tried to push through his uncertainty to make it more positive. "Here's my card."

Monica did not mind if he thought she was going to call him for anything else besides selling property, she could let him have that. She imagined she would soon be forgotten later that evening when he pulled some seventeen-year old clubber. Then something deep in her raised a point of curiosity about how she had come to be being fancied by someone almost a decade younger than her and more than that, she controlling where it was going, using subtle people politics and clever language. That was something she determined she was not going to let burst through for the moment because it would raise the concern about Monique's life and whether rather than Monica uncovering a mystery by seeing through her eyes, she was finding the Frenchwoman's life distorting her own.

As she walked from the flat, Monica pulled her mobile phone from her jacket and called for the taxi. She bid farewell to Dean and waited in the foyer of the block until the taxi appeared. She felt both lifted and confused by what had happened at the flat. Maybe she had anticipated too much. She had learnt more about Monique but simply just to see the wide scope of her sexuality, not anything more which might tell her why she had experienced these incidents from Monique's life. She did not want to have to face it, but maybe Harcourt was right and the message had been clear all along: these visions were doing nothing more than reminding her who she truly was. Had that idea not just been reinforced by her trying to mount the estate agent with his back pushed to the wall? She was finding that her, what Harcourt had termed it? Her own 'sexual persona' could be quite energetic when it was allowed to surface.

"To Be Continued ..."

Keywords: Bonds, 02, Pt., Blood,