Page 31 of Love me Like XO

“And? Stop hating, Ree and you better not be mean to him.” Then her attention was on me because her sister was now out of sight. “Let’s get this tour cracking so you can go handle your business.”

I laughed. “I ain’t going nowhere. We got some time to spend and a tour to finish. Then you gotta unpack this fucking suitcase.”

She rolled her eyes but obliged. She led the way out of her bedroom with a smirk on her face. “What do you want to see?”

“What do you want me to see?”

“I mean you’ve seen my bedroom which is my favorite part of the house. I guess I can show you my other favorite. Seconds later we walked into a dark open space. She went into the corner of the room and turned on a light which revealed the largest collection of books I’ve seen.

“I read a lot, so for me when I was deciding what I wanted in my house, I focused on creating rooms that mirrored my personality and the things I looked to do on a day-to-day basis.”

“You do hair, don’t you? Where is that part of you in here?”

She shook her head. “I’ve never really liked doing hair, but I went with it because I’m good at it and it pays the bills. You’d be surprised what bitches will pay to get some shit sewed into their scalp.” We walked around her house a little longer, while she showed me the movie room in the cut of her basement that Malik and Taree were occupying and then the unfinished bar she was having built.

“Just a normal home with a few things to make it so that I never want to leave.”

I chuckled, looking around before I felt my feet taking me in her direction. Placing my hands at her sides I leaned down and picked her up. Like magnets her legs wrapped around my waist and her arms locked around my neck. I backed her up sitting her on the wooden encasement that would soon be the full bar.

“I would say I’m sorry for the jaw, but every time the words reach my lips they get stuck.”

I chuckled, face to face with her before I leaned forward and mashed my lips against hers. A peck was what it started as before aggression entered the space.

She knew what she wanted, as did I and neither of us had ever had a problem getting just that and much more from one another. The only question is if she was ready for what I brought because this time she let me between her legs we’d be solidifying something.

“You know once we take it here, ain’t no rewinding it. Yeah, we’ve fucked before, but not in the air like we’re about to now.”

She blinked her eyes open. “I’ve been hurt before. I’m talking about to my core by two people I thought loved me. So, I get if you don’t wan?—”

“That ain’t it at all. I’m letting you know that once we go here and fuck with intentions then every between me and you heightens. I wasn’t playing when I told you I wanted you, shit I’m out here ready to catch a fucking case if you even think you’re gonna fuck another nigga.” I had to chuckle at myself.

“Alright then. Let’s do it.” She cracked trying to lighten the already so heady moment.

“That was a given shorty. I’m talking about everything else that accompanies. Once you mine, then you mine. Ain’t no in between or getting out of this.”

She smiled. “Let yourself know that too.”

There was nothing more that needed to be said. I picked her thick ass up and we started toward her bedroom which was about a floor and a half up. For this pussy I was about to run that shit.

The moment we reached her room, I let her down.

She giggled like a kid, hell we both did for a few seconds. That all ceased the moment she called herself pushing me back against the bed.

Of course I sat back on the bed watching her now walk over to the door and lock it. Then, on some petty shit she stood there with a smirk on her face as she slowly began to lift her shirt from her body.

“Man get yo’ ass over hea’ and stop playing with me.”

She giggled, before she brought her body into my space.

With my hands on her welcoming hips, I steered her onto my lap just knowing this was about to be a long ass night that would pour into the morning. A morning where neither of us would leave this room, because instead of sleep we’d be depleting one another’s energy.

I haven’t fucked all night then cuddled since I was fucking sixteen and trying to be in love, but with Empress she was able to get things out of me that I wouldn’t dare give another. Empresswas different, and I knew that from that moment at the bar, but I didn’t know what I was looking at. I didn’t know what I had encountered until I spent enough time trying to find out what it wasn’t.

While she lay asleep in my arms after we fucked all night, I was wide awake, watching the news. That fucking Malik had indeed did what was necessary. All of the stations were covering the explosion of northbound freight trains coming into the city. He told me they intended on blowing up a few of them, but they had blown up the whole damn line.

“Why are you up so early?” She hummed, before moving her bare thigh off me. “And watching the news at that?” By now she had maneuvered and turned her back to me, giving a nigga the perfect view of how I wanted to start my morning.

“Gotta know what’s going on, shorty.” My hand eased from her side down the thigh she now had curled over the other.

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