“Daddy!” Dakota shouted while doing her usual race into my arms.
“Hey, pretty girl. I heard you took it upon yourself to get all dirty today.”
Smiling, she pretended to be confused. “What are you talking about? I’m all clean…see.”
“Mmhmm, and you smell just like a fresh bar of soap too. I wonder why?”
Still grinning, she shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t know.”
“You’re a funny little something.” I pinched her cheeks. “Go tell your Papa bye so we can go.”
“Okay,” she said before hopping out of my arms and skipping off to the backyard.
Miss Jewel smiled. “That little girl of yours knows she’s a handful.”
“That she is. But I wouldn’t change her for anything.”
Reaching for my hand, she gave it a gentle squeeze and looked up at me. “I know you wouldn’t, and that’s what makes you such an amazing father.”
“Thanks, Miss Jewel.”
“Anytime, son. Anytime.”
12
Nova
A day at the gym.
That was exactly what I needed to blow off some steam, and hopefully, I could make some sense of what happened yesterday. Needless to say, my mind was still blown about how far things went with Don.
“So, let me get this right,” Izzy said while increasing the speed on her exercise bike. “You were seconds away from getting the best dick of your life, and you put a stop to it? Have you lost your damn mind?”
“First of all, we don’t know if it would have been the best dick of my life. I mean…it was definitely the best head of my life, but—”
“Nah, I call bullshit. I’m not interested in any of this nonsense you’re trying to feed me. You had one job…one damn job…get the dick and report back to me. How hard was that?”
Confused, I wiped a bead of sweat from my chest. “Report back to you? This wasn’t some special assignment for you to oversee. This was a random moment that went way too far and shouldn’t have happened.”
“Girl, bye. Nothing about that situation was random. It was meant to happen, and I’ve been waiting for it for years. But, as usual, you got all in your head and fucked it up. I wish you would stop that shit. You’re messing up the program.”
“Ugh,” I replied before rolling my eyes and forcing my feet to go harder into the bike pedals.
“Don’t get an attitude with me. Get an attitude with yourself. You messed up something good, and you know it.”
She was right. I knew I had messed up something good. But what was I supposed to do? There were way too many things that could go wrong if I took that path.
“Izzy, you don’t understand. I can’t be with Don like that.”
“Why the hell not? You already know that he’s a good man, he’s crazy about you and he’s not a deadbeat dad. Sounds like a winner to me.”
“As true as all of that is, he’s also one of my closest friends, lives in a different state, and probably has the potential to make me addicted to his dick. I don’t need those kinds of problems in my life. Oh, and let’s not forget that I’m still married.”
She waved me off. “Girl, it sounds like you’re just giving me a bunch of lame excuses. You’re only still married because you’re dealing with an idiot. As far as the rest, there’s nothing better than being with a man that’s your friend, and let that dick teach you things that no ordinary dick can. I’m pretty sure he’s packing some heat.”
Taking a moment to break away from my overthinking, I tucked my bottom lip between my teeth and told Izzy, “He’s definitely packing some heat. You should have seen the way he took control of me. All I could do was open my legs and do whatever he asked. My pussy was on ten.”
“Hell yeah! That’s the shit I like to hear. How could you turn something like that down?”
