Chapter Nine
Graduation
Standing in the bleacher seats of the university’s gymnasium—where he had graduated four years before—Alex was overwhelmed with pride as Kimberly strutted across the court toward the stage. He felt like yelling over the light applause that surrounded him and his own pounding two hands, “I obey that woman. I belong to her.” He had spent that morning under the folds of the thin black cape she wore pleasuring her.
Kimberly’s mother, after a flight complication and a late attempt to bother fixing it, ended up not making the trip out for her daughter’s graduation. Alex tried, sensing Kimberly’s resentment, to cover for the woman’s slight, but he felt both angered and hurt by the woman who had single-handedly raised the woman he loved.
The ceremony concluded, and Alex
