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…
to
don’t
much sense to
me what makes you think
have me?
-Domonic
not what I think.
what I KNOW.
-Me
that’s all, then the best I
leave the shades open
so you can watch
Sweet Dreams!
await me across the yard. With a sigh, I shrug my shoulders and begin to
on the negligee which I am happy to see fits like a damned glove – then I exit the bathroom,
show for when my bruises are all gone. 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
minutes later my
-Domonic
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did you close the shades?
-Me
me this phone
that could harrass me?
you asleep?
-Domonic
watching
you were gonna
a
you perfectly
-Me
see
lights on?
-Domonic
see better in the
Open the shades.
want to
-Me
Watch me?
do what?
LOL
-Domonic
ask you to
with you
shades.
-Me
to
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is only my second day here and already I am crushing on someone.
know that it
draw, the pull, the ache. All of it bangs out a warning that this
going to do with
in his bed, staring at my windows. 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 time he touched me my body zinged with energy. When he asked me how my neck was doing, I should have lied. I should have said it
probably does. I am terrified that if I give myself to him, that he will abandon me immediately afterward, or that I
you’re important to him now? Ha. That’s a
me, they are a serious turn on. The fact that he refuses to admit that he likes
wonder if he realizes Paul is coming over here for dinner. It’ll be
in my head, I
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