Chapter Thirteen
DRAVEN
I flipped the switch to shade all the downstairs windows and sit down to eat while getting to know my new phone. It seems to be a newer model and nothing I would have ever bought for myself with my own money.
As promised, it came programmed with one phone number. Mister Mayor’s. I laugh before changing the name to Domonic and I have just put it down when it chimes
-Domonic
What are you doing down there?
Calling one of those numbers
you threw away?
-Me
Why aren’t you asleep?
-Domonic
You know why.
-Me
I do.
-Domonic
Cancel your date tomorrow.
-Me
I can’t. I won’t.
-Domonic
Why not?
-Me
I don’t have Paul’s number.
-Domonic
Lol. That’s real cute.
-Me
Maybe if you told me why
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you care so much.
-Domonic
I don’t care. I just don’t want
him getting attached to someone
that he can’t have.
-Me
You don’t care…
tell me to
you don’t care.
much sense to
me what makes you
can’t have me?
-Domonic
not what
what I KNOW.
-Me
the
leave the shades
can
Sweet Dreams!
hoping that Domonic has gone to sleep. When I finally make it upstairs, I start the shower and flip the shade switch open. Nothing but darkened windows await me across the yard. With a sigh, I shrug my shoulders and begin to undress. Disappearing inside the bathroom in just my underwear. Freezing for a moment in front of the mirror, I note my
are out in my bedroom, and I know if Domonic is watching, all he can see at the moment, is the haloing glow of the bathroom light beneath the door. When I finish, I slip on the negligee which I am happy to see fits like
What kind of person, hosts a strip show covered in black and blue? A sicko, that’s who. I hadn’t seen any activity across the yard anyway. With any luck, he is asleep.
my phone chimes again.
-Domonic
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did you close the shades?
-Me
get me
could
you asleep?
-Domonic
watching
you
me a
you perfectly
-Me
did you see me without
lights on?
-Domonic
better in the dark.
Open the shades.
want to
-Me
Watch me?
me do what?
LOL
-Domonic
I ask you
with you opening the
shades.
-Me
to sleep.
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is only my second day here and already
that it
bangs out a warning that this man could
going to do with myself?”
My mind strolls back to the massage he gave me and the sound of his voice when he told me to Get up here. God, I had never wanted anything so bad in my life. Each
my life, he only wanted one thing. And he probably does. I am terrified that if I give myself to
important to him now? Ha. That’s a laugh.
is different. I like his little bouts of jealousy. For me, they are a serious
realizes Paul is coming over here for dinner. It’ll be fun to see what happens when
in my head, I
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