Chapter NiNE

She looked at her phone for what seemed like hours, 

trying to decipher the miraculously short text message C had sent... 

"Como Estas"

Like a blind detective, she looked through her minds eye and realized how dumb she was being.

Letting her fears lead her like that. 

So she stopped looking at the text message and just responded.

Small chatter began rolling back and forth between them all day long.
Chatter about what they were doing at that exact moment in time.
It went something like this;
"What you doing?"
"Nothing. What you doing ?"
"Nothing. What about now?"
"Work. You?"
"Home. Bored."
So much excitement could hardly be contained in a human, she thought.

Her work day was coming to an end and she finally decided to just throw it out there... 

Want to have sex tonight?"

She wrote.

She didn't know why she did it...

 She knew the sex with C was always lacking connection. 

So why did she always throw the bone at him? 

Did she have an ego mission perhaps? 

Was trying to get a connection going with him a challenge she thirsted for? 

Was she really that intent on winning the game of life? 

Maybe... 

But she didn't think of it that way. 

When she sent out the text, it was because she knew that inside her was an animal that needed to be fed. 

Fed by the act itself... 

The soft yet hungry kiss of the lips.. 

The tender yet electrifying Touch of the fingers.

The feeling of the smooth yet hard body that pressed up against hers...

The arousing smell of cologne and sweat that sparked all her senses to devour and savior each moment as it happened... 

The act was definitely something she came to know all too well. 

But she knew, it was also one of the most dangerous ones too. 

As she was looking up a price on her App for one of her customers, in chimes C's response...

He writes, "Yes!" 

In English... 

She almost dropped her phone, but definitely dropped her train of thought! 

She fumbled to regain herself for the customer whom she could tell knew something was up..

She apologized for her sudden shock and went back to work. 

When her day finally came to an end, she clocked out and text C back. 

"You still up for coming over?"

She makes it home and starts working on her video editing when midnight rolls around. 

Five minutes later she gets a text from C..

"Send me your location."

She was in shock! 

Was this really happening? 

Was he actually making an effort to come to her without her having to pick him up..

Her mind was blown. 

But she regrouped. 

She sends her address and patiently waits for his arrival... 

She is not thinking about the past...

She is only thinking about how great his lips will feel kissing hers. 

How running her hands through his hair will cause a tingle to run through her entire being. 

As she is sitting on her porch stairs waiting, a text message chimes in.
 He's arrived!
She doesn't even get a chance to put her phone away when she hears his voice.
As she looks up from her phone, she sees that he is already right in front of her!
She feels her heart skip a beat and jumps up and into his arms and just starts kissing him passionately.
He's caught off guard at first but then responds almost instantly with equal hunger.
He pushes her up against the wall
and they kiss like two starved wild animals that just pounced upon fresh meat!

 As their kiss ignited more sparks inside her and the flames began to become too big to contain, she opened her eyes and realized that they were still outside.
She knew she couldn't devour him in front of the whole neighborhood,
so, she took him by the hand and lead him inside her Palace...

The night went down rather well from that point on. 

For the first time... 

She felt a connection... 

They looked in each others eyes and there it was.. 

Words unspoken being heard in the silence...

She allowed herself to feel it for about 10 seconds,
but then her fear kicked in and the moment disappeared...

Just like that.

And she saw it go..

Poof!!!
Gone.

But at least she felt it..

That there was a moment of it. 

And she knew... 

Sometimes a moment is so much more then a lifetimes worth. 

She was content with that.

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The next morning, the world began to turn again.. 

C needed to be dropped off but he got all angry because he woke up late.

She knew it was not her fault so she took no responsibility for his outrage.

Instead she stayed in her happy place and just let him fume out his frustrations by letting him pick the music as they drove.

Once they got to his place, she gave him a hug goodbye but could tell by the way he hugged her that he was not  feeling at peace. 

Not her problem, she thought. 

Her only real problem was the HUGE hickey he had left for her to deal with on her neck! 

She couldn't believe how big it actually was until she got a glimpse in the mirror when she had gotten home. 

She didn't understand men... 

Why would they mark a woman they didn't want to have a relationship with?

So she looked at the hickey and thought.. 

Yes, he had marked her like a dog marks a tree
 and every inch of the sidewalk when you take it out to pee. 

But why?
She needed to know.
Was he punishing her because he saw Tric's message chime in that one day?
Was he marking his territory to maybe rub it in another guys face?

Whatever the reason,
somehow the hickey had made her feel like she was being chained.
She didn't like that.
She liked her freedom and this hickey was like a scarlet letter!

She fumed inside...
Did he just cast the first stone!?
She was not happy with that thought.
She text him later that day..
"Why did you do it?"she asked.

He didn't have an answer for her other then,
, "I'm not mad at you. You can go see other guys if you want."
She rolled her eyes so far back that she thought they were going to get stuck!

She saw his game.
But what she also knew, is that her other guy...
He didn't care if she had men.
He actually encouraged it!
So she knew she had nothing to get worked up about.
She had won either way and that to her was a checkmate.

And so she was back to being content again.

Maybe...