“You are a precious gem, Koi. I could never be careless with you.”
“Thank you, Salem.” I sighed. “You have no idea what a bright light in my life you’ve been after traveling a long, dark, and lonely road.”
“I’m here to guide you back into the light, beautiful.”
I smiled at him. “Thank you.”
“See ya in an hour. Stay here for a minute before you leave, a’ight?”
“Of course,” I replied sweetly.
I wanted time to return home first to shower and change. My cheeks grew warm at the thought of what I would do to him. I knew that I was wrong, but I just couldn’t help myself where Salem was concerned.
I rang the doorbell and waited anxiously for Salem to answer. I picked up birria tacos from a little restaurant that I loved on the way to his place. I called and let him know that I would be bringing dinner.
When he pulled the door open, he wore basketball shorts that hung low on his hips. I could tell that he was fresh out of the shower from the scent that emanated from him and how wet his hair and beard were. A few beads of water dotted the hairs that rose just above his waistband and made me want to lick them away.
“You hungry?” he teased when I licked my lips.
“Famished,” I replied in a sultry tone.
“Get ya li’l ass in here,” he commanded with a chuckle as he tugged my hand and pulled me inside.
I set the food up on the table as he headed into the kitchen to get silverware and drinks. When he returned and sat beside me, he said a prayer over our food and then tucked into his meal. After a while, Salem chewed his taco and reached out and ran a hand over my head.
“You seem to have something on your mind. What are you thinking about?” I asked.
He tilted my chin, leaned in, and then kissed my greasy lips.
“Listen, I don’t want this to be just sex between us. I see something serious between you and me. So we need to address that. Because after I graduate, I may be in a safe space, but you’re still at the school. Eventually, people will find out about us, and they can’t do shit to me because I’ll be gone. But you’ll still be in the line of fire, and I don’t like that shit. I don’t want to be sneaking around to be with you, Koi. For a long time, I thought that I had missed out on all the best things that life had to offer.”
“You’re only twenty-five, Salem.”
“I lost three years of my life, and the next few, I worked my ass off to prove myself and to change my stars. When I met you, I was infatuated with your beauty and sexuality. But when I started taking your class, I saw the possibilities of what we could have from the start. All semester, all I wanted was you.”
“What made you break your promise about keeping it professional?”
“You saw me naked. All of me,” he teased, laughing.
“Most people mean that internally when they say that, but it was literal for you and me.”
“Right. But the semester was coming to an end, and I knew it was the best time to make my move. We didn’t have too long before I lost contact with you altogether, and we didn’t have so long that we had to wait until we could safely become involved with each other. I’ve been a patient man, Koi. No more sneaking around.”
“If you’re suggesting that we go out in public, you know that I can’t do that. It won’t keep people out of our business.”
“That may keep them out for now, but not for long. What kind of relationship is that to be sneaking around? That tells me that you only want something temporary. Baby, I’m not in a place to accept a temporary situation. It feels like my ship hasfinally come in, and I’m not about to miss it this time. I’m trying to set my life up for the future. This ain’t about sex with me.”
I set my food down, grabbed a napkin, and wiped my mouth with it. I climbed onto Salem and straddled him. Looping my arms around his neck, I muttered against his lips, “You sure it’s not about sex?”
I felt his dick press into my core as it thickened with arousal. A smirk took over my lips as I pressed them into the side of his neck. He tasted so sweet there. I gyrated on his crotch, grabbed his hands, and placed them on my hips.
After we had sex the first time after reuniting at the college, we shared our stats. We discussed that we were both comfortable with having sex in the future without protection, and we had. I was on birth control, so pregnancy was not an issue for us.
Salem’s hands reached around my back and slowly slid down to pull my short jean skirt up. His hands caressed my ass and slid through my crack.
“No panties?”
“No panties.”