7. Alise
ALISE
“Shorty why have you not changed the battery in that smoke detector?” Carter asked making me laugh. We had been on the phone for five minutes, and it was obviously annoying him the same way it annoyed me.
“Because one of the disadvantages of ridiculously high ceilings is that I can’t change it without a ladder, and I keep forgetting to get one. Actually, the kind that I need probably won’t even fit in my car. I have to figure something out.”
“Nah, you don’t have to figure anything out. I got you as soon as I get back in town.”
“Ouuu out of town. Where are you headed?”
“Golden Waters for a wedding.”
“Who’s getting married?” I cut a kiwi in half.
“I’m not really sure,” he chuckled. “I was invited a few months ago as a plus one. I actually forgot about it until two weeks ago.”
He was going to Golden Waters on a date to a wedding on the exact same day his thirty day fast was over.
I wanted to laugh at myself for being so stupid.
He forgot he had been invited to a wedding.
So, I was supposed to believe that someone invited him to a wedding then dropped off the face of the earth.
We were only dating. Not exclusive, and we hadn’t even had sex.
It still felt like he was playing in my face, however. I was going to keep it cute though.
“Nice. Enjoy. I love weddings.”
“I haven’t been to one in about ten years.”
Carter’s words began to sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher.
It was noise that I couldn’t comprehend.
My heart raced, and I rolled my eyes because why was I having physical reactions to this man’s bull.
It was fun on my short trip to the land of delusion, but it was time to head back to reality.
Like a dummy, I’d assumed Carter would break his sex fast with me, and he was headed out of town with another woman.
Someone that he’d probably been sleeping with all along.
What fine ass man chose to keep his dick dry for thirty days just because? Yeah, I was real stupid.
“My son is calling. Let me call you right back.”
“Okay.”
I ended the call so fast it wasn’t even funny.
Did I have a right to feel some kind of way?
I think I did. We had spent the last three and a half weeks talking every day.
We had numerous dates. The man had sent me flowers twice, gave the tightest hugs, and even a forehead kiss.
I wanted to take him down so bad it wasn’t even funny, and some hoe was going to get laid in Golden Waters after a wedding. How romantic.
“It’s cool,” I mumbled. I knew it was coming, but it still wasn’t any less disappointing.
The kiwi in front of me was no longer appetizing, and that was when I knew I was out of my mind.
I was entirely too old to be losing my appetite over a man.
That was what I wasn’t going to do. I bit into the kiwi as my phone rang.
I scoffed at the sound, and I didn’t even know who was calling.
If it was Carter, I wasn’t going to answer.
Glancing over at the screen, I sucked my teeth when I saw that familiar unsaved number. Trey’s ass was getting blocked.
I snatched the phone up, but rather than sending him to voicemail then blocking the number, I answered. “What?” the attitude in my tone was thick.
“You mean as hell, and it doesn’t even make any sense because I didn’t do anything to you. I was calling to ask you if you wanted to go out to eat next weekend.”
My frown deepened. He had to be cut off from the coochie for two months before he got the bright idea to ask me out on a date. I didn’t desire to go anywhere with him. Before I could tell him that, my smoke alarm chirped. “You have a ladder?”
“Um yeah. What does that have to do with us going out to eat?”
“If you come change the battery in my smoke detector, I’ll think about it. My ceilings are high, so you will need a ladder. And if you come, you won’t get any pussy. Don’t come pissing me off,” I warned.
“Damn I have to come do manual labor just to get you to go out on a date with me? You tough. I’ll come though. Give me an hour.”
“Okay. Cool.”
As soon as I hung up, the phone rang again and that time, it was Carter. My entire face scrunched as I placed the phone on the counter and walked away from it. I. didn’t have anything to say to Mr. Carter.
I thought I was dreaming when I heard the doorbell.
When my phone rang, my eyes popped open, and my heart was racing because the phone had scared me.
Squinting at the screen, I saw that Carter was calling.
I also saw that it was two in the morning.
The doorbell rang again, and I jumped up and went to the door with confusion all over my face.
I had to disarm the alarm system before opening the door and when I did… my God in heaven.
Carter was so fine standing there in a suit I wanted to vomit. “What are you doing here?” my brows furrowed. Maybe I was tripping, but he didn’t appear too pleased to see me.
“What’s wrong with you man?” he stepped over the threshold of my home. “I called you four times. You had me thinking something was wrong. Why you ignoring me?”
Looking in his face was the wrong thing to be doing. Carter was beyond handsome. God did His big one when He made that man. Carter was pure perfection, and I didn’t know if I wanted to curse him out or suck his dick.
“Aren’t you supposed to be in Golden Waters?” I chose to ignore his question.
“That’s what this is about? You mad about that?”
“I’m not mad about anything,” I lied.
The comment made Carter suck his teeth. “What was it you told me? You don’t have to lie to kick it. If you’re mad about me being on a date, just say that.”
I didn’t want to admit that I was jealous. I would have rather pulled my eye lashes out one by one. “Carter,” I folded my arms across my chest. “I was sleeping good. I don’t have time for foolishness.”
“You don’t have time for foolishness?” his brows lifted, and the expression on his face was for sure uncertain. Carter was looking at me like he didn’t know if he wanted to knock my head between the washer and dryer or just shake his head and take me as I am.
“I’m sleepy as hell, but I drove all the way back here to see why you weren’t answering the phone. That shit is not cool,” he chastised me. “I didn’t have sex with her. In fact, she’s mad that I came back to Diamond Cove. It must be, be mad at Carter day.”
I just stared at him. If Carter drove back from Golden Waters just to appease me, that was going to make me fold faster than a lawn chair. Yes, I had been jealous. That was too hard to admit out loud.
“And why isn’t your smoke alarm chirping?” he asked while his facial expression remained stoic.
My heart fell into my ass. Why I was afraid to tell him that Trey stopped by was a mystery. Words became tangled in my throat. I didn’t want to be lied to so me lying to him wasn’t cool.
Clearing my throat, I shifted my weight from one side to the other. I didn’t want to come off as a liar because I was anything but that. “Trey stopped by and changed the batteries for me.”
Carter didn’t respond. Instead, we had a brief stare off before he finally chuckled. “The man you been ducking for two months? You get mad at me and finally give him some pussy?” the rage in Carter’s orbs turned me on and scared me at the same time.
Reeling back, I frowned. “Pussy? I said he came by and changed the batteries. How did you get sex from that?”
“We’re too grown for the dumb shit. So, he just came by, changed the batteries, and left?”
“He did,” I snaked my neck. “Just like you forgot about a wedding that you agreed to and went there, and you didn’t have sex. See how that works?”
We were both standing there looking pissed and irritated. The harder he glared at me the tighter my stomach clenched. How he had turned it around and was angry at me was baffling, but he was so fine when he was pissed I wanted to apologize with my vagina.
“Let me get a blanket man. I’m tired,” he grumbled. “I’ll sleep on the couch.”
My jaw slacked as Carter advanced toward my couch.
He was really angry with me. When he made it to the couch, Carter stepped out of his shoes, unbuttoned his pants, took them off, then proceeded to unbutton his shirt.
When he lifted his head and noticed me staring, he had a nerve to frown. “The blanket?”
Oh, he was on one, and I was starting to get mad again.
Inhaling deeply through my nose, I went to the linen closet to get him a blanket.
I wanted him in my bed, but if he didn’t want to be there, he could sleep on the couch with his big ass.
I passed Carter the blanket I was holding, and he didn’t even say thank you.
Back in my bedroom, I got into bed. He was strict, but I liked it.
When I caught myself smiling, I rolled my eyes and stared up at the ceiling.
I didn’t want to like Carter as much as I did.
Being an adult and expressing myself, communicating, giving him a chance, was all fine and good until I ended up hating him and heartbroken.
When I got married, I thought it was for forever.
When it ended, I reminded myself that everything ends eventually some things just sooner than others.
Even with my parents, their union ended because my father died.
There was always an end no matter how it occurred, and that was the hard part.
Sometimes, I felt I’d rather be alone than to grow old with someone and have to possibly lose them if they died before me.
I became lost in my thoughts. Before Carter arrived, I had been in a deep sleep, but my mind was racing and knowing he was in the other room, had me wired.
I had just turned on my side to try and force myself to sleep when he entered my room.
My heart lurched a bit as he ambled toward the bed.
When he eased onto the mattress, my pussy ached.
Carter looked over at me and shook his head.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do with you.”
I was scared to speak because if I did, I might sound like a horny, teenager. I had never yearned for a man the way I wanted Carter. He eased over and placed his body on top of mine. “What you got to say for yourself?”
My chest swelled. My breath hitched in my throat, and I almost moaned. What the fuck was wrong with me?!
“I’m sorry,” my voice came out in a whisper. “I was jealous, and I didn’t want to talk to you.” The confession had barely rolled off my lips good before Carter was snaking his tongue into my mouth. Feeling his hard member stabbing my thigh as he kissed me passionately had me ready to explode.
“Where am I at?” he broke the kiss and moved his mouth over to my ear.
“Here,” I breathed out closing my eyes.
Carter French kissed my earlobe, and the way my body jerked was embarrassing. He lowered his body until his face was between my thighs. He pulled my panties to the side and placed the softest kiss on my mound. My back arched, and Carter sucked me into his mouth and moaned.
“Oh my God,” my chest heaved up and down as I placed both hands on the back of his head and tried to bury his face in my pussy.
That only made him go harder. Sucking, slurping, circling his tongue over my clit, sliding his tongue down the crack of my ass.
I didn’t know if I wanted to run or fuck his face.
“Carter,” my voice was raspy, and I felt like I was about to lose my mind.
His only response was to hum, and the vibration that his mouth caused made the dam break.
I moaned embarrassingly loud. The only way to describe the words coming out of my mouth was gibberish.
The way I exploded shocked even me. Carter moved his mouth over to my thigh, and he gently bit my flesh then sucked it. He wasn’t playing fair at all.
When he came up for air, his face hovered over mine, and he had a smirk on his face that subtly warned me not to fuck with him.
I caught his bottom lip between my teeth and held on lightly while we stared at one another.
When I released his lip, he damn near shoved his tongue down my throat.
I was so caught up in the kiss that when he pushed his thick, meaty dick inside me my eyes popped open.
He filled me up so perfectly, you couldn’t tell me his dick wasn’t made for me.
That man was the devil. The harder he kissed me the deeper and more intense his strokes became.
My clit swelled, and I felt like I was on the brink again. “Carter!” I half moaned half screamed while locking my legs around his waist.
“This what you wanted right?” he breathed into my ear.
“Yes, baby. Oh my God, yes.”
The moment it felt like my world was about to explode, Carter snatched himself out of me. I damn near growled because what the fuck was he doing. “Next time I tell you I’m going to do something you better not ever ask the next man to come do that shit. You got it?”
I nodded embarrassingly hard. Carter snaked his togue into my mouth and pushed back into me with enough intensity to send fireworks shooting through my core. I had never felt such pleasure in my life. My body was limp. My brain was mush, and the mess underneath me oh my God.
“Got damn,” Carter growled as his dick jerked inside me. That turned me on even more. I began matching him thrust for thrust, and he never pulled out. His dick remained hard, and we went straight into round two.