Total pages in book: 118
Estimated words: 109178 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 546(@200wpm)___ 437(@250wpm)___ 364(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 109178 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 546(@200wpm)___ 437(@250wpm)___ 364(@300wpm)
Her complexion deepened, and her eyes sheened over. “Thank you.”
“What are you thankin’ me for? I should be thanking you for giving me a chance and rollin’ with the bullshit that I call my life. This shit isn’t for the weak.”
“No, no.” She shook her head. “Thank you is definitely in order. Thank you, Lennox, for letting me cry on your shoulder about troubles with my mama, my daddy when he was alive, and just… my everything. Thank you for making me laugh back then, and now. Thank you for forgiving me when I moved away and didn’t contact you anymore. Thank you for being my friend, before you were my lover.”
He swallowed hard. His heart swelled deep inside.
“Thank you for always being there for me even when I wasn’t there for myself,” she continued, toying with her cuticles. “You’d show up when my heart didn’t even make an appearance. Sometimes I probably didn’t even indicate any gratitude because I was just expecting you to wipe my tears with no questions asked. I got spoiled by how well you treated me. That was selfish, but I still had the mind of a child back then. Pardon me for that. I,” her voice cracked, “I always loved you, boy… I always thought you were what a man ’sposed to be.’”
“I know you loved me. Somewhere deep inside of me, I knew, and that’s what kept me wanting to be there for you. You taught me a lot of things. How to laugh at myself. Be more open-minded. You were more mature than you gave yourself credit for. Wise beyond your years. You were just a little lost and hurtin’. You taught me how to even want to love, even when that love isn’t returned. You taught me how to look beyond my circumstances, and believe I could start my own life, with or without the support of others.”
“Well, thank you for tellin’ me that. Glad to hear I was of some assistance to you, too.” She smiled sadly. “I had nobody in my life to show me how a man is supposed to treat a lady. But… I did have you. I had so many excuses and reasons why I didn’t follow my heart with you, but sometimes, every blue moon or so, I used to wonder if would have followed my heart back then, could I have avoided that car accident, and then avoided that rain? I know the answer to that now. Rain waters us, don’t it? It makes us stronger. We are gardens that need to be irrigated, and without the rain, we can’t appreciate the sun.
“I know deep down I would have had to have gone through all of that misery to truly appreciate and understand you, Len. I wasn’t ready back then, nor were you. You were still too broken, but you were trying to start over and mend. Now, just like you said, we know that we’re broken, and that’s the first step. Broken crayons can still color. You’re much further along than me in your healing journey, but at this point we can pick up the damaged pieces together and help each other along the way.”
She leaned in and kissed him. He fell deep into her oral embrace.
Once he’d gotten his fill, he broke her romantic spell over him and stepped back to size her up. Then, without a warning, he grabbed her wrist and dragged her towards his truck. The woman screamed and twisted, unable to break free and demanding to know what he was doing. His hard dick practically broke through his jeans, standing at attention and chomping at the bit. He opened the passenger’s side of his vehicle with the fob and forced her in the back. She screamed, laughed and yelled as he shoved her on her back and slammed the door behind them. Breathing hard and with dire need, he pressed himself onto her warm, soft body, trapping her in place, and claimed her mouth.
He sensed the thrill of her arousal as he pawed at her clothing with one hand, undoing buttons and zippers and snaps along the way. She writhed beneath him as he kneed her legs apart, resting comfortably between them. He tossed her bra and shirt aside, and the pants flew somewhere onto the front seat. When he’d stripped her down to her panties, his eyes pierced hers.
All he could hear was their breathing, and all he could feel was her heart racing beneath him. He delivered a tender kiss to sweet lips as he pushed her panties to the side. Undoing his pants, he dragged them down to right below his ass, freeing his hungry, thick, long beast. He grasped the base, and as she moaned and sighed, he dragged his dick up and down her pussy until he could feel the warm wetness he so craved.