by Lauren Wood
Chapter 4
Dennis
I got home and didn’t have much idea how I was going to go about finding her. Kendra had most likely moved on and gotten married, changed her name. She was beautiful. I could still see the little dimples in her cheeks when she really smiled. Her blue eyes were always so bright. There was no way that she was unattached. The more I thought about it, the more I convinced myself that it was all a fool’s errand anyways. Why was I trying to find her, just to find out that I couldn’t have her?
It made no sense, but I still went about finding her. The most obvious way was social media and I was thankful that her name was rather unique in the spelling. There were only a few with her name and after a quick view of the profile pictures, I knew instantly which one was her. In the back of my mind I had tried to gauge what she would look like now. Ten years is a long time and she could have changed a lot. But she hadn’t, not a bit from what I could see. She had the same dimples and the same devilish eyes that had always pulled me in before.
I stared at the picture for a while and I did nothing else. All of the memories I had with her started to flood back, no matter how hard I tried to stop it. I remembered too much and there was a moment that I questioned everything. What would have happened if I would have stayed back and been with her? My football career was okay, but it wasn’t enough to get me into professional. I still ended up working at my father’s company like I always knew I would. There had been big ideas of fame in football, but it never happened. I got my fame and fortune in business, much like it was predestined to be.
Scrolling through her posts and pages of information, I was surprised how open she was about everything. She worked at a youth shelter. I wasn’t sure what that was, but I imagined that it was linked to some kind of social work job. It didn’t pay much in the public sector, but that didn’t surprise me. Kendra had always wanted to help people and it seemed like she had found who it was she wanted to help.
It also occurred to me that she was still the sweet girl that I once knew. I had broken her heart and I knew that. I didn’t want to admit it to myself, but I had. She loved me and I loved her, though I never said it. I had said everything but that. I even let it slip once and then changed it to tell her that I loved being inside of her. It was a cop out and one that I regretted now. Kendra had a right to know how I felt about her.
I made the decision to contact her. We weren’t connected, so I had to ask her to connect and then wait. It was a long wait and there was only space for a sentence to be sent with the request. I closed the app on my phone and waited for a long time. It was actually only ten minutes when I opened it back up and checked to make sure that the notifications was on. I didn’t want to miss anything from her, no matter what time it was. I thought she would have responded by now.
Going to bed, I was thinking about Kendra and what I had picked up from her timeline. It looked like she was single, though there were a few pictures with her and another man. It didn’t have the most romantic feel to it, but I didn’t know what to think. Her status was unclear and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I wanted her to be single. Then I would be able to get a second chance. I hadn’t thought about it, but damn Bobby and that stupid grin of his. It was irritating to no end, but at the end of the day I wanted to be as happy as he was. I was only truly happy when I was with Kendra. She had made me feel different than any other girl I had ever known. Now my life was filled with gorgeous women, but it was an empty sensation when I went home at night. None of them were enough compared to Kendra.
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It took almost a week before I got a notification from Kendra. Every morning, noon and night I was checking the app, but nothing. When I finally did get a notification, it was not at all the one I was looking for. Kendra had refused my friend’s request and now I couldn’t even play through all of the ways I was going to win her over. I felt like for once I had failed miserably.
Why didn’t she at least want to talk and catch up? It didn’t make sense to me. She still wasn’t mad, was she?
I sent the request out again, trying to connect with her, with a different sentence. I hoped that this time I would get her attention, but I wasn’t sure if that was going to happen. I had a feeling that I had hurt her more than I ever could have realized.
Peggy came in with my coffee and asked me what was the matter with me. “You got that sourpuss look on your face.”
“Nothing, why?”
“You look sad Dennis. Did you have some bad news come in?”
Peggy had worked for me for several years now and she knew me too well. She also didn’t get the whole point of giving space either, but I had gotten used to that side of her. The woman cared, but right now I just wanted to be left alone with my thoughts.
“Yes, I got some bad news.”
“Well Sir, you always turn it around somehow. I am sure you will this time.”
“I made a mistake many years ago and I don’t know if I can turn it around.”
She waved me off as she was walking out of the office. “I have seen you do the impossible. I am sure whatever it is, you will figure it out soon enough. You are a hard person to say no to Dennis.”
Peggy left and I was left thinking of what she said. I was the one that closed the deals. I was a closer. I changed people’s minds and I knew Kendra front and back and everywhere in between. I knew what it was that she wanted and in the end it was the same thing that I wanted. It just took me longer to figure it out.
At the end of the day, I got another denial notification and I can’t say that it was as devastating as before. I was going to take it as a challenge. This is what I did in business to win and I know that it would work just as well on women. Kendra wasn’t that different than all other women I had been with. All women wanted to hear those sweet words that told them how much they were loved. I had never been good at that, but with Kendra it wouldn’t have to be made up. I felt strongly for her and I knew that if she would just give me a chance, I would be able to convince her that we were meant to be together.
I got home and tried again. I was nothing else if I wasn’t persistent. I knew that there was a lot riding on her acceptance, but even as I waited for another denial to my request, I was already thinking about what I could do to change it to a yes. I just needed an angle. That was all life and business was, just finding the right angle.
“I am going to convince you yet Kendra. I should have done it a long time ago. I am not going to rest until you are underneath me, screaming my name once more.”
There was no one in the office to hear me. I made a few calls and tracked her down better. Now I knew where she lived and where she worked. I was not above going there and getting that face to face that Peggy was talking about. How could she say no to me then? No woman was able to. Kendra was going to be no different.
I knew what her weaknesses were and I knew that I was one of them. While she could deny me through text, I knew that it would be impossible to deny me once we were face to face. All I had to do was remind her how good it was, how much pleasure I could give her. I needed to get my hands on her tight little body again and she would be lost, just as she was before. I could still hear her begging me for more, tempting me to my limits. It was no different now and no amount of years was going to change that kind of chemistry. She wasn’t going to be able to forget who had given her the best orgasms of her life.
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My brother’s best friend was sexy as hell and now I was finally getting noticed.
I was back in town after finishing up my degree and I ran into my brother’s best friend Rex. Rex was the man that I had dreamed about when I was a teen and he had n
ever given me the time of day.
Now he was seeing me and once I had his attention, I wasn’t going to let it go. There had always been something about Rex, but now I knew what it was.
Watching him in action was all it took to make me realize what it was I really wanted.
I wanted to be the girl that made him beg for more.
I wanted to be his girl.
Chapter 1
Charlie
“Your sister is going to be back in town tonight. I was really hoping that you would stay around until then at least Charlie.”
“I don’t know if I can. Work has been hectic and I need to get back into the city.”
My mom looked at me like she didn’t believe me or didn’t think that it was important enough to blow off what she was asking. It wasn’t work that was going to hold me up. It was the fact that I had other things to do. It wasn’t the 9 to 5 job that kept me busy, but the one that I did on my own time that she didn’t know about that was giving me so much grief. The one that she wasn’t supposed to know about, but always suspected something when her gift cost a bit too much during the holidays. I was still trying to keep her in the dark about work, so it was never a good idea to try and use it as my excuse.
“You are going to have to make time for Sherry. I haven’t seen her all year and it would be nice to have both of my kids back in one place. You know that she is never here long. Don’t you miss your sister?”
Here comes the guilt and I knew I was going to be lost in it if I didn’t find some reason quickly why I couldn’t come. “I do miss her, but she is going to be back for a while I though. Isn’t she taking off a little time before she goes back? Besides, I was supposed to meet Rex later.”
“Well tell him to come over. I haven’t seen him in a while either. I never see you since you moved to the city. I hope that Sherry doesn’t do the same thing. You guys go off to college and don’t come back. You are supposed to come home after you get your degree.”
“I had to go where the money was. No one around here wants to pay anything, so unless you want me pumping gas at the station, there isn’t anything for me here.”
She was rocking back and forth in her wooden rocking chair, a tea in her hand. The porch afforded a good view and mom was enjoying the breeze. What I didn’t understand was why everything had to come down to this. Why was it that she couldn’t see it was miserable in this small town for anyone under the age of fifty? There were no jobs, no people that I really wanted to hang around. Hartford had always been the kind of place that you wanted to leave. It didn’t matter how you got there, it wasn’t an end game place. It was a jumping off place for me and I didn’t want to ever get back to the slow life that I had here. I preferred the fast-paced life that I had made for myself in the city.
“I know son. I just wish you were closer and weren’t so busy…”
“I will try to come out more. The drive isn’t so bad.”
She smiled to herself and we both knew that she had won. Mom got what she wanted by her gentle suggestions because Sherry and I knew that it was her way of manipulating us to do what she wanted. Even though we knew about it, it didn’t change the effectiveness of her tactics after all of these years.
“Good I would like to see you more and for once I would like both of you kids to be home at the same time. We will have dinner. I miss that. If you guys would start having kids of your own, I would have grandkids to keep me occupied.”
“Okay, you win. I will stay till Sherry gets back, but I am not talking to you about grandkids. I don’t even have a steady girlfriend right now, so that is going to have to wait.”
“What about Tina? She seemed like a nice girl.”
I chuckled to myself and shook my head. Tina was a great lay and sucked me off like her life depended on it, but she wasn’t really the type that I would want to marry, if there was even such a thing out there. She was a rebound and I had only mentioned her before to avoid a similar conversation about my love life. It was never what I wanted to have with my mother.
“It just didn’t work out. I am only twenty four. No one that I know is married yet. It is better to find the right one, isn’t it?”
“I guess, but don’t wait too long. I am getting old and your father has five years on me. I would like to see them before I leave this world.”
I smiled at her and shook my head. It was hard to be aggravated with her and at this moment I just couldn’t be. She got her way, she always did and there was nothing that I could do about it. I was told by those who knew us both, that I got that specific trait from her. Not even the devil could refuse me. Well she was the one person that I couldn’t convince.
“Okay, well then I have a couple of calls to make and then I am going to go pick up Rex.”
“Just be back for dinner. I will make your favorite.”
She was bribing me with food now. Roselyn would use anything in her power and since she had always been a great cook that had always been on the blackmail list. I couldn’t say no to her lasagna and she knew it.
“I will be here by six. Dad will be home around then, right?”
Rosalyn nodded her head. “Like clockwork. I wish you would get something like that so that I would know where you were and when to expect you.”
“Okay mom, I got to go. I will be back in a little bit.”
I got off of the porch before I was pulled into something else. I really needed to get back to the city like now, but I was just going to have to wait and see how it went. There was no getting out of dinner and then I would see Sherry. Sherry was like my mom. She would rope me into something. It was what she had done before heading across the country for college. I doubted that anything had changed. The only difference I seen in the summer when she was back was that she was more annoying than usual.
Getting in my little red car, I peeled out of the driveway, but not enough to turn an eye from the older woman on the porch. She would tell me if she thought I was being too rowdy. I looked back in my rearview mirror and I swear that I could see the scowl on her face.
Sighing to myself, I thought about just not going back, but I knew better. I knew that the next time I seen her there would be consequences. It was just one dinner, right? I would be in and out in no time. Rex and I would just have to drive in when it was all over. I had business that had to be taken care of tonight, one way or another. If not, I would have to figure it all out when I got back. I hated to leave the club unattended for too long, especially on a Saturday night. It was like asking for trouble.
Chapter 2
Rex
“How the hell did I know that I would find you here Rex with some hot female on your arm?”
I looked over to Charlie and shook my head. “Because you have the worst timing as always and there is only one bar in this whole town. Where the hell else would I be but here trying to get a taste of the local fare? It has been a while since I found one as sweet though.”
The woman next to me giggled, liking the attention and it told me more tha anything that she was the kind of girl I was looking for.
“True. And who do we have here?”
He was looking from me to the hot little blonde that I had just met by the name of Candy. I was sure that it wasn’t her real name, but it didn’t matter. The woman was sweet and I was feeling like some sugar. Candy would do just fine. Plus she wanted to be a dancer and make it famous in Chicago, so who was I to kill her dreams? We owned a club in Chicago and were always looking for new girls. All of the girls had other aspirations, just waiting for that one shot. Candy wanted to be an actress someday. For now she would do just fine getting naked on the stage.
“She wants to come with us back to the club. This is Candy and she wants to dance for us Charlie. I told her that she has what it takes, don’t you think she does? Nice little body and a cute face. I think the guys will pay well to see her naked. Wouldn’t you?”
He looked her up and down and I could see a slight gleam in her eyes. “Yes, I can s
ee that, but this is not really a good time for bringing in more girls. We have to go back for dinner at my house before we leave. Roslyn isn’t going to let us go without sharing dinner there and waiting on Sherry to come in. She said you are to come too, so I am here to pick you up. Don’t mean to get in the way of your fun which I am no doubt sure you are about to have with this lovely young lady.”
I wasn’t going to argue with Charlie’s mom, especially if there was cooking involved. Since me and Charlie had been friends for years, I had always loved her cooking. But he was right about what I was there for. I wanted to slide into this woman immediately. I didn’t want to wait, but I would. My mom was long gone and I didn’t even remember her, so Charlie’s mom had always invited me over for holidays. Rosalyn made me feel welcome and I was unable to refuse her.
“Well she gets what she wants.”
“Yes she does. Maybe you can pick up your little friend later on our way out? We can always use another beautiful face at the club Candy and yes, you have what it takes. I am sure many men are going to lose a lot of money trying to get on your good side.”
She giggled and seemed to take a minute to follow the conversation, but reacted properly soon enough. She was pretty, but she sure the hell wasn’t that smart. It was about how I liked them. Less thinking was always good for less headaches. When I made it clear that I was about to head out, I gave her my number and told her to get some things together for the trip. I also promised that I was going to make her scream tonight when all was said and done.
“We have a few apartments in the city and you can share with one of the other girls. I think this is going to be a good change for you Candy. Chicago is a beautiful city with all kinds of opportunities for hot women like you.”
