After Sweetie, Sweetheart, Sugar, Princess, Poppet, Pumpkin, Kitten, Angel, Angel Face, Bum Fluff, Chick, Chuck, Duck, Honey-bunch, Fat Slag, Slut, Schnookums, Whore, Skinny Bitch, Old Cow, Tart, Greedy Pig, Ma Cherie Amor, Diamond, Rock Star, Darlin’, Dear, Baby, Babe, Babes, Lover and Love, it made a refreshing change to be with a man who just used her name.
He seemed to say it quite often. Over the phone, in texts, across a room, at dinner, in company, in private, in the day, in the evening, in her kitchen, in her bed, into her ear, murmured onto her breasts. It rolled off his tongue beautifully.
Mildred.
Never before had her name sounded so, so, so...sexy.
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Love it. That first paragraph is brilliant.
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