Page 96 of 10,000 Hours With A Rich Menace

“Tell me.”

“She made our paths cross, had me fall in love with you, and you are going to take Raye out… this is his karma. She wanted her baby girl to have protection, and I never got it from the one man that was supposed to protect me.”

He let out a deep hearty laugh with his head tossed back. “That’s some dark shit, Wonder.”

“I’m saying… doesn’t it seem like it, though?”

“Hell yeah, but she’s right about one thing.”

“And that is?”

“Her baby girl will always be protected being Menace Caselli’s wife… niggas won’t even think twice when it comes to you, Wonder.”

“His weird wife.”

“Fuck it… they already think I’m weird.” He smirked, showing me his perfect white teeth. His smile was so beautiful, and I wished he did it more.

“Do you really love me, Mavie?”

Maverick softly kissed my lips. “I do, Wanda.”

“Okay.”

“You love me?”

It was my turn to kiss his lips. “I do, Mitchell.”

“Okay.”

Looking away, I looked back into his eyes. “I want to give you my virginity.”

His brow raised. “Oh yeah?”

“I’m ready.”

“How you know I’m ready?”

I snorted. “You’ve done this before… plenty of times.”

“Not with you, Stevie.” He kissed my neck and wrapped his arms around me, as I held onto him.

This moment couldn’t have been more perfect, and although I was a woman already, I was ready to becomehiswoman and give him my most precious gift.

Menace

Recommendation: Listen to “Forever” by Damage

Since Wonder started sleepingin the bed with me, I couldn’t remember what it felt like to sleep alone. When I went on that two-day business trip, I tossed and turned all night wanting her next to me. Wanting to lay on her as she rubbed my beard while I fell asleep.

I had gone so long without affection from the opposite sex that this shit was better than sex. People confused affection with sex, and I had gotten plenty of sex through the years.

Never this.

Feeling a woman rub your beard while humming softly. Wonder was like melatonin because half the time I didn’t need my scotch to put me to sleep. Soon as I climbed into the bed with her, she opened her legs, allowing me to get between them and lay on her.

No words were ever exchanged because she was learning me. Her hands always found their way into my beard, and then she hummed the words to “Fire and Desire” or “Interference.” Ionly knew the second one because she was humming so hard, I thought she was about to have a heart attack, and then she told me the song.

Since Angelica, I closed my heart to ever allowing someone inside. I’ve had relationships throughout the years, and they never lasted. If you were not worthy than you were replaceable, and half the time those bitches were replaceable. I could find another one of them without even trying.

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