“His cute assistant came by looking for you, I told him you were out. Then no sooner than he left, Titan called my office. I was curious why he was so concerned so I may or may not have used my attorney line of questioning and baited him into telling me you were a couple.”
“Girl you are so damn nosy! But you know I love your nosy ass.” I laughed and just shook my head.
Marlow was a damn blood hound when she wanted to know something and was relentless until she got answers and as someone who’s been on the receiving end of her “attorney line of questioning” I can see why Titan told her we were together before I could tell her. Well, since she went through the trouble of questioning him, there was no point in denying the truth.
“Yeah, me and Titan, we just made it official yesterday after he brought me home from the hospital.” I grunted as I finally sat down on my couch because my ankle was starting to throb.
“And why were you in the hospital?” Marlow’s concern for me warmed my heart.
“I fell on my way to work. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I went to Titan’s office for a lunch meeting. That’s when he took me to the ER. I have a hairline fracture so I’m in a walking bootand they gave me crutches; and the cut on my knee is going to leave a scar but I’m ok. But because I don’t have any shoes for work under three inches, guess what Titan did?”
“What?” Marlow was always eager to gossip.
“He bought me a dozen pairs of flat shoes! That’s why his assistant was looking for me, he came over here with the delivery.” I failed horribly to hide how excited I was from someone just taking the time to think about my needs.
“Wooooooooow!” Marlow sounded impressed. “So, when did y’all fuck?” Marlow asked, cutting straight to the chase.
“Oh, my goodness we haven’t…. yet.” I chuckled.
“You mean to tell me, that fine ass man sent you all those shoes and you ain’t gave him no ass?” Marlow sounded skeptical.
“I thought he was going to bend me over and fuck me through the couch when we started kissing and humping like two horny ass teenagers last night. Lord knows I was willing andready,but he stopped because he didn’t want to make my knee and ankle worse.”
“Your mouth ain’t fucked up is it?” Marlow asked rhetorically. “You mean to tell me, he took you to the ER,waitedwith you, brought you home, brought you all those shoes?—”
“He offered to let me use his driver to bring me to work too,” I interrupted.
“Oh lawd!” Marlow yelled dramatically. “If you don’t give that man your oral thanks, I’ll do it for you!” Marlow cackled at her own joke but when she noticed I wasn’t laughing with her, she stopped immediately.
“I’m sorry B, I was joking about that last part. But when you two do get it on, would you be a dear and tape it for me? Rodney and I need some new porn to fuck to.” Marlow’s voice was pleading, and my eyes widened.
“Marlow!” I screamed. “And no bitch, I’m not recording anything because I know yo’ freak ass is serious. Titan will be for my viewing pleasure only.”
“Listen to you getting all possessive, I know that’s right, claim his ass girl!” She chuckled. “Titan is a good man Savannah! Mostly all green flags from the background check I ran on him; the only blemish I found was that he went through a nasty divorce a little over three years ago.”
I knew Marlow did an extensive background check on Titan because she did that on all potential clients, just to make sure we covered all bases and was not taking too big of a risk with new clients. What did surprise me was learning that he was divorced, and it ended badly. However, me and Titan just became a couple, so I hoped sooner rather than later, he would tell me the details. When my silence lingered, Marlow spoke again.
“You didn’t know about the divorce, did you? I’m sure he’s going to tell you; you literally just met him, and your relationship is so new it still has the umbilical cord attached.” I smirked and rolled my eyes, because where the hell does she come up with these analogies?
“Please enjoy the honeymoon phase.” Marlow continued, and it sounded like she was shuffling papers. “Well, let me get back to work and whatever shoes you don’t want, give them to me please.”
We said our goodbyes and instead of getting back to work like I should have I laid on the couch and scrolled through my contacts until I got to Titan’s name. I sent him a quick thank you text and as soon as I put the phone down, it rang.
“Hello?” I answered without looking at the screen.
“A text is not a call, beautiful.” Titan’s deep voice floated through the phone and my panties instantly became wet. If I knew his voice sounded this good on the phone, I would have called his ass after he sent me that champagne.
“I didn’t want to call you during business hours; you could have been in a meeting.”
“You have the number to my bat phone, baby. I always answer this phone,especiallyif it’s you. Speaking of which, send me a picture so I can attach it to your number.”
“I’ll do that. While I have you on the phone, I want to thank you for the shoesandlunch, you didn’t have to do that.”
“Well like your niece said the other day, if I want to be your boyfriend, ‘I have to protect and provide.’” I bust out laughing hearing his deep voice crack as he imitated my niece’s high-pitched voices.
“You’re a hot mess,” I said between laughter. “Don’t do my nieces, they could probably beat you up.”
“I wouldn’t fucking doubt it. Your brother seems like the type that fights for fun.” Titan chuckled and I laughed again because he didn’t know just how correct he was.
