Chapter Seven
Tails Up
As the afternoon seemed to be wearing down—Alex had gone around with glasses of water to replace the glasses of wine and had been keeping those filled—as her guests started thinking about leaving, Kimberly motioned for Alex to put his shirt back on and then motioned again, discreetly, for him to come up off his knees. So that when he stood beside Kimberly to see them all off, he felt surprised to be the tallest in the room after all his kneeling and bowing before them. This somehow accentuated his feeling of subservience as he said thank you, by name and using the title Kimberly commanded, to each of her friends who’d had their feet kissed by him. He assumed this was by Kimberly’s design.
After they left she turned to him. “I want to know what my friends’ feet ta
