Once I was ready, I shifted in my seat, ready to start this uncomfortable but necessary conversation. “Melanie, first, I want it to be clear to you that it is not my desire to replace you. That is something that I could never do, so there’s no need for us to even entertain a conversation that speaks on the matter.” I paused and allowed my words to hang in the air for a moment before I continued.
“I want you to know that your daughter did not tell your business out of malice or trying to be messy. Eloise loves you and is worried about you. I love Eloise, so off the strength of my love for her, and just as a woman, I want you to be good. I know Alexander feels the same way,” I assured her.
She cleared her throat and shifted in her seat. With a small twinge of attitude, she responded. “Well, I appreciate your concern, Dr. Basil, but I am fine. Marriages have issues, which had you been married, you would know. If Alexander marries you, you’ll see that he’s not perfect.”
One thing that I noticed in this morning’s interaction was that she was great in her attempts to divert a topic. I wasn’t sure if it was because she truly had a lack of accountability or if it was because of embarrassment. It was hard to tell.
“When Alexander marries me, I won’t need to see that he isn’t perfect. I already know that because I’m not perfect. I don’t need to be married to know that marriages have issues. One issue that I can know will never be accepted is a nigga putting his hands on me. Even if for a moment I thought I wanted to accept it, I have too many brothers that will make death a reality forwhoever the man is,” I told her with a raised brow. “Melanie, we can play the game, but I know that man put his hands on you as recently as within a day or two.”
See, I watched her body ever since the moment she’d walked into Alexander’s house. Her movements were stiff and slow. When she sat down, she lowly winced but tried to cover it with a cough.
Her face tightened. She stared at me for a moment before she rolled her eyes. “I guess Dr. Hestia Basil knows everything, huh.”
“I don’t know everything, but what I do specialize in is trauma. Your body movements told on you. Also, you didn’t do a very good job covering up that black eye. You should have went one shade darker on the concealer,” I told her.
Melanie’s eyes bucked a little, and her hand instinctively went to the black eye that she covered with makeup. The first crack in her dam showed itself with the single drop of a tear from that same eye. I allowed her to have her moment before I told her that I wasn’t judging her. I simply wanted to help in any way that I could.
She dapped her eyes with the tissue that I gave her. “I don’t know what happened. We used to be so good together. He lost his job, and it was like he lost his mind. The staying out at ungodly hours started, then the arguing, then the cheating. It’s like he doesn’t want to be a man anymore when we have four fuckin’ sons.”
I sat there and allowed her to vent. It made me wonder if she had any friends. The way she vented to me was like she had never let this out with anyone else. “Do you have anyone that can help you outside of your mom? Do you have friends?”
I took a sip from my coffee mug too soon because the warm coffee came out of my mouth when she told me that she found out recently that her best friend was fucking her husband.There is no fucking way!“That’s why I look forward to my baby girlcoming to see me. I feel so alone until I see her. I want to leave, but I need more time.”
My head shook side to side. “Wow! I hope you beat that bitch’s ass. I can understand the lonely part, but you have to understand where Alexander is coming from. Regardless of how lonely you are, that is not a valid reason to put your daughter in danger. The same way you drove your ass up here on some rah-rah, you can come to spend the weekend.”
We locked eyes with each other for a beat before we both tittered. “Look, I apologize. I swear I’m not this girl, but I miss my baby. I just needed her this weekend.”
“I get it. Would you really have wanted her there in that environment after he did whatever he did to have you stiff walking today? Again, I’m not judging you,” I reminded her.
Melanie huffed. “I know you’re right. I know that Alexander has every right to say that Eloise is not coming back down there.”
My hand extended to cover one of Melanie’s. “How about you stay at Ma and Pa’s house for the weekend so you can spend time with Eloise? I know she would love to spend time with you and introduce you to her bestie.”
She was hesitant because she didn’t bring clothes with her, but I told her that wasn’t a problem. One of theMt. Oladies owned a boutique, and we could get her other weekend necessities from Walmart. After she reluctantly agreed to this weekend and the ones to follow until she changed her situation, I called Alexander back out to the dining room. I told him what the plan was for the weekend, and he stood there with squinted eyes.
“Wait, what? I’m befuddled, so I need one of you to un-fuddle me please. What kind of conversation did you two have that ended in Melanie spending the weekend at my parents’?”
I giggled because he looked more concerned than befuddled. “That doesn’t matter. Just know that until some changes aremade, she will come here on her weekends. I’ll talk to Ma and Pa about her staying there in the guesthouse.”
Yeah, I was an understanding person, but I wasn’t foolish. Her ass wasn’t staying in Alexander’s house. I wouldn’t imply that Melanie was shady, but I knew like she did that we both knew what a good man Alexander was. He was walking temptation, even when he did nothing. A lesson that I learned a long time ago was that you don’t sit a crackhead in a room of crack and not expect them to want to partake.
A Short Time Later
I Need You . . .
“Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!” I couldn’t find any other words that could better explain how I felt with my man’s dick in me.
We were already almost thirty minutes late for the couples’ ride event. This event was also a newer event that was established by the new official ladies ofKOK. A while back when Sour Thang said that theMt. Oladies were taking their men, she had a slight point. SinceMt. OandKOKhad gotten closer, there had been a lot of crossover relationships. There were a lot of the men ofKOKthat dated our women as well.
Before Dindi came along and developed a relationship with her father, no one thought about crossing lines. It wasn’t that there was beef, but it was just this unspoken rule. After Aaron and Gracie’s relationship became public, all bets were off. Hell, a few babies were created on their wedding night from hookups, as quiet as it was kept.
Alexander grunted behind me as he stroked in and out of me. “Your vice grip pussy having ass. Oh, I feel that, Hes. I feel it! Wet this dick up!”
His words triggered an almost violent orgasm. My breath literally caught in my throat for a moment. I had to tell myself to breathe. Just as I was about to finally speak, this man slipped his lubricated finger into my asshole while he angled his stroke to that sacred place inside of me. My body convulsed as I moaned louder than I ever had. “Bread! Oh my God!”
“Fuck!” He yelled out just as I felt his nut flow into mine. Words could not express how much I loved that feeling.
Both of our breaths were shallow. He stayed inside of me for a moment longer before he rolled over to lie next to me. “You know everyone is waiting for us. If anyone pops shit, I’m blaming you and your dick.”
