It was the middle of the night, and I watched multiple men in her face. That was expected, but what I didn’t expect was for her to act like she didn’t have an issue with it. Yeah, we weren’t about to play those games. That was the reason that I was on my way over to the table that she sat at with her girls.She has me completely fucked up.
“Excuse me, ladies.” I interrupted their conversation. Once I had their attention, I continued. “You ladies look beautiful tonight. Hestia, may I have a word with you?”
I extended my hand to her with the expectation for her to put hers in mine. She glanced at the ladies around her for a second before she placed her hand into mine. “Um, yes, of course.”
My eyes roamed to her hips as she stood. I loved her wide hips. Once she was out of her seat, I held her hand to escort her out of the ballroom. She asked me where we were going. I only had a two-word answer for her. “Trust me.”
We walked through the lobby to the elevator and waited. Once the doors opened, we walked on, and I pressed the fifteenth-floor button. Not even a second after the doors closed, Hestia wrapped her arms around my waist. “I missed you.”
I used my hands to remove her from my body. My heart ached at the dejection that rose to her expression. Unfortunately, it had to be this way until we established some things. “That’s not what we’re doing right now, love.”
“What’s wrong, Alexander?” Worry took over her tone and body language. The confident Dr. Hestia Basil had left the elevator.
Her beauty was breathtaking. Her mind was astonishing. This woman was who I wanted. “Let’s get into the room so that we can have a private conversation.”
Moments later, the elevator door opened, and her hand was in mine again. My room for tonight was at the end of the long hall. We walked down the hall in silence and entered my room in the same manner.
She declined my drink offer. “This is a nice room. I assume you have plans to bring a woman up here later.”
I unbuttoned my tux jacket, took it off, then laid it across the armchair in the lounge area of the room. I walked over to the bar to pour myself a drink because I felt like I would need one for this conversation. Once it was poured and a sip was taken, I responded. “I didn’t have plans to bring a woman up here later. I had plans to bring my woman up here, but the problem with that is I’m not too sure if I have one.”
The cutesy smirk that she wore moments before dropped. She shifted her position on the bed. “What do you mean?”
I leaned back on the bar, then crossed one leg over the other at the ankle. “Let me ask you. What do you think this is between us? Do you think this is just a good time, or are we building something?”
She smiled as one of her shoulders lifted to her ear. “I mean, I’m having a good time. I know you are.”
I nodded before I stood to my full height. “Okay, cool. You can leave, beautiful.”
She jumped up from the bed with wide eyes. “Wait! What do you mean I can leave? What is happening right now?”
My hands slipped into the pockets of my pants. With an angled head, I gazed at her. I sighed before I spoke. “I will take some responsibility in us getting where we are right now. I made the mistake of going into this without explaining to you that this is not fun dick . . . It’s committal dick. If I wanted to just have fun with some pussy, I would have never had it with my daughter’s mentor.”
There was no way that I would risk my daughter’s relationship with a woman that she admired just because I wanted to get my dick wet. There were too many women out here for that. In this scenario with Hestia, I assumed that she understood where I wanted this to head. There was no way that she could unequivocally know that, if I didn’t tell her.
“So, you want us to be in a relationship? Is that what you want, Alexander?” she asked with a raised brow.
My feet brought me into the space that I loved to be in, . . . hers. “That’s exactly what I want. Hestia, I’m forty years old with a setup life. I’m ready for my wife and my child with my wife. I don’t have time to play these get my dick wet games if it doesn’t lead to that. Understand?”
She swallowed hard. I thought she would need a minute to think about it, but she didn’t. “I don’t have a problem with that. What does that look like for you?”
“It looks like us committed to each other in every way. We are building toward forever. I will respect you, and you will respect me. Eventually, I will love you, and my love will be intense. Is that something that you can and are ready to handle? Love, I don’t have time for indecisiveness.”
There was this uncertainty in her eyes to my stance. “I’m ready for that. What happens if we realize that we’re not a match for each other?”
I wrapped my around her waist. “Hestia, trust me. If we weren’t a match for each other, I would have discerned that by now, . . . pussy aside. Your pussy is great, but not that great to overshadow a bad spirit.”
I had never been a man that was swayed by the feeling of pussy on my dick. Even when I was out in the world at a younger age, on the fuck around, I still never fucked with women who had fucked up spirits. My spirit was too precious for that. Melanie wasn’t a romantic match for me, but she didn’t have a bad spirit. At the time that we fucked around, I wasn’t looking for the one. I wanted the one I could fuck right now.
“Okay,” Hestia said with a smirk. “I’m happy that you know that I don’t have a fucked up spirit. Now that we’ve established that, does this mean that me and you are in an exclusive relationship?”
I took a moment to study her. The confidence that was once missing had returned. Confidence looked good on my woman. “Yes, that means that we are in an exclusive relationship.” My lips moved to her ear. “So, keep those niggas out of your face. As cool as I am, my heat burns.”
A Short Time Later
What Do You Think, Baby Girl . . .
The day was here to tell Eloise about Hestia’s and my relationship. My baby wanted to wait a little longer, but I was good on that. I gave a month’s grace past the night that we solidified our relationship. It was time because I was tired oftiptoeing around. I wanted my baby in my bed whenever I wanted her to be there.
