chapter 1 before the big day

Jason was good at everything he ever tried to do. He was always top of the class in school, in every subject. He passed all his exams with A's or A*. At university, he was captain of the football team, captain of the rugby team and captain of the cricket team.
After graduating university with first class honours in psychology, he got a job with a prestigious teaching hospital in the NHS and quickly started to ascend the ranks to consultant.
He was on the small side, for a man at 5 foot 7, but he was not bad looking. He still kept himself very fit, training for triathlons. His holidays were the active kind too, spent skiing in the Alps or scaling the Atlantic.
He had curly fair hair, that he kept very short, or it would bush out and frizz. He had unusual pale green eyes that contrasted with his natural outdoor tan.
He was never lucky in romance though. If he chose a pretty girl, her conversation lacked the intellectual stimulation that he needed. However, if he chose a girl who could stimulate him intellectually, she was most likely ugly as sin.
Sarah was different. She had beauty as well as brains. She had a degree in geology and wanted to become a vulcanologist, but had bills to pay, so she'd had to plump for a job with a developer who needed soil samples, many feet deep analysing it to see if it was worthwhile building on the land.
Jason fell in love with her instantly. He loved the way her long blonde hair slipped into her blue eyes and she was always having to push it out of the way. She was slim and she liked to keep fit by running. She had fabulous long slim legs. Jason liked to see them on show in short skirts and heels, but not too high a heel, or she would tower above him.
The pair of them dated for six months before they decided to get married.
They decided on a very traditional wedding in an Anglican Church, with traditional wedding vows. Sarah, vow was not just to love and to cherish her new husband, she vowed to obey him as well. She did not think too much of it at the time. She had no intention of being her husband's servant, it was simply a part of the wedding ceremony that had always been there. She thought more of the love and to cherish part because she had an aged aunt who thought the minister had said 'to London for cherries', so that was what she had repeated during the ceremony.
She chose a traditional wedding dress with a veil and a short train. She had two bridesmaids in pink, she had fresh flowers for her bouquet. The reception was at a local hotel and the night time do was in the local community centre.
Thir wedding night was in the same hotel where the reception had been held. Their honeymoon was a week in Sharm el Sheik in Egypt so they could go scuba diving in the Red Sea.
Everything went as it should. On return from honeymoon they moved into a brand new two bedroomed semi detached house.
All the while Jason kept thinking that she was so beautiful, that even though they were married, other men might desire her, or even try it on with her. He was not going to have that! He started to formulate a plan to keep Sarah for himself, forever.