“You don’t even live around here, how are we going to be friends?”
He places a hand on my shoulder gently and I swear my belly drops. With a small squeeze, he locks those eyes on me. Again, like that first night, I see something I feel like I can trust.
Trust.
I haven’t felt like… I can’t remember the last time I trusted someone. I try to recall a time when I was able to hold onto that feeling. To trust someone, to have someone in my corner. The recollection doesn’t come, but I know this is that feeling.
“I don’t have to be here all the time for us to be friends. Besides, I’m here now and that’s what matters. You seem like you could use a friend and I’m here. Question is, do you want me?”
I part my lips to say yes, but not in answer to his real question. I don’t know where the thought comes from. I’ve never been so drawn to a man in my whole life.
I pause as I have that thought. It seems right. I don’t remember much, but that thought feels accurate.
“Don’t you have to get back home?”
He shakes that pretty head. His hair spilling onto his forehead. I want to reach up and push it back into the neat waves he had it combed into.
A look crosses his eyes for a moment. Then he does something that steals all the breath I have left. He smiles, showing a pair of white teeth. Perfection.
Damn.
“I’ll go back when I have to. For now, I’m in town to hang with some friends. Problem with that?”
I roll my eyes. “Have fun with your friends. I don’t trust you,” I lie and storm off.
Chapter 16
A Friend
John
It wasn’t my plan to be here more than a few days at first, but I haven’t been able to force myself to leave. I’m finally breaking through to Roni. The tension between us has started to die down. Well, not the sexual tension. That’s only growing by the minute.
With each day that passes she’s taking on more weight and her face is becoming fuller. God, she’s gorgeous. That heart-shaped face has starred in my dreams on many nights. Even now, as I walk into the gym her face is the first thing I’m looking for.
A slow smile comes to my lips when I find her. She’s jumping rope as sweat drips all over her skin. Skin I’ve wanted to touch on more occasions than one.
Her sports bra shows off those nice plump tits that are glistening with her perspiration. What I’d give to lick every single bead that’s dripping between her breasts. Roni falls between a redbone and bronzed brown God crafted just for me. A color I wouldn’t mind seeing across my sheets as her silky skin calls to me.
“Hey, John,” someone calls out, but I don’t stop long enough to see who.
I wave and allow my feet to carry me to the corner of the gym where my new friend is focused on her task. She looks great. Her ribs have healed and she received the all clear a few days ago.
I was glad and a bit disappointed, to be honest. For two weeks I’ve had her to myself during training sessions. Now, I have to share her with everyone.
Sort of.
“Good morning,” I say as I stop in front of her.
“If you’re here to chastise me, you can leave. I said what I said.”
I shrug my shoulders. “Not my business,” I reply.
She stops jumping and turns her pretty eyes on me. I’d sell my right arm for the chance to pull her in for one kiss. It would be a long and deep one.
I’d only let her up for air after I had my fill, but something tells me I’d never have enough of Roni. Which is why I beat back the urge to grab her and pull her into my chest. She’s one drug I’m wary to sample.
“Bull crap and you know it. They sent you to talk to me. I thought we weren’t going to lie to each other, friend.”
“You’re assuming things, friend.”
She folds her arms over her chest, causing me to drop my eyes to her full mounds. Fuck, she’s put on weight in all the right places. I look lower to her curvy hips. Those thighs are thick enough to cradle me for the long hours I’d spend putting in enough work to get a paycheck.