Will You Take … ? (100 Word Challenge)

(The prompt for this week’s 100 word challenge for grown-ups was ‘but I turned it off…’)

I wrapped the soft silk around my hand, letting its weight slip through my fingers like water.  Ivory, like my wedding gown.

Raising it, I caught the fragrance of freesias, and remembered hiding my trembling hands behind a bouquet of gold freesias that day.

I needed nothing to hide behind now.  No one saw me any more. I’d become invisible.

My cheeks burned.  Shame?  Or just my body staging yet another trawl for oestrogen?

A voice whispered in my ear:  ‘Thou shalt not …’

But I turned it off.

Sliding the negligee into my pocket, I quickly left the store.