Chapter 5: Presents

That night Terrill punished Ursa further by being emotionally distant. For once he didn't come to her, try to arouse her body, or sweet-talk her. He remained silent and distant.

Even when she came to him, proffered her breast already dripping milk off the tip of her engorged nipple, and virtually shoved it into his mouth, he had not a single word of thanks.

That night, for the first time, their lovemaking was brief and unsatisfying. Rather than passing out for the night afterwards, Ursa silently cried herself into a fitful sleep that left her not rested at all.

The standoffishness extended into the next morning as Terrill spoke the minimum number of words possible to her, while Ursa treated the large box, unmoved from where she'd set it down last night, as if it didn't exist at all.

When Terrill sat down on the couch, pointedly facing away from the terrace where she sunbathed every morning, and showed no indication of moving from it, Ursa paced like a big caged cat. Finally she couldn't take it any longer.

"I'm going out," she snapped more fiercely than she'd actually intended.

"Okay," came the noncommittal reply.

Ursa was about to point out that Terrill couldn't leave for any business on his own without her, but bit off those words instead. He clearly didn't want to go out on his own right now, and she couldn't stomach the pain this was causing her. Rather than escalate the situation any further, Ursa stepped out onto the terrace and silently flew away.

Hours passed before she returned again. She mostly returned because she really had nowhere else to go, and even bad company seemed better than no company at all. When she arrived, Terrill was all smiles again.

The big box was gone. Instead Terrill was holding a square velvet box a few inches on a side — smiling broadly.

"No peeking," he chided gently.

It took all of Ursa's willpower to obey that restriction.

Terrill kept her hanging a few extra, agonizing moments before handing it to her saying in the process, "It was my mother's. I want you to have it now."

Inside was a beautiful diamond necklace. The fact that Ursa herself could make much diamonds easily by squeezing lumps of coal didn't matter. This was a gift from Terrill.

The superwoman's eyes misted up as she said "Thank you" while giving him a big hug. She then followed this up by allowing him to place the necklace around her neck, before pulling off her shirt and offering her boob to him.