“Say that shit again and make my dick hard. I love to hear you say how much you hate my ass,” Pain told her as he went to sit back down.

He sent a text message to his homie who was good with computers and shit. He needed to find out all there was to know about Connie. Low-key, he hoped he could be her gynecologist soon.

~~

Pain stood outside the employee entrance waiting for Connie to come out. He needed to get out of the room with Nikki because she was driving him crazy. More and more every day he realized just how bad he fucked up with her. In the beginning, she was totally opposite of what she was now. He admitted that she had played him in the worst way. Truthfully, Pain had lost respect for Nikki, but he also knew he helped get her in the position that she was in now. All he could do now was be there for the baby and live his life.

“Why exactly are you standing out here smoking a blunt?” Connie asked him as she walked up.

“I’m waiting for you,” he answered.

He couldn’t stop looking at her. Even with her scrubs and white coat on, his dick still got hard at the sight of her.

“What for?” she asked.

“I wanna get to know you, Connie. I know you’re a busy woman, and I’m buy too. I just want us to share some nice convos and eventually some phone sex,” he said, causing her to smile at him.

“Phone sex? That’s something I didn’t expect you to say. I’m not gonna lie and say I’m not attracted to you because I am. I’m apprehensive because of the situation that you are dealing with up there. I know you say y’all are not together, but she doesn’t seem like one to give up easily,” she said.

“You don’t have to be worried about her. There’s nothing going on with us besides the baby,” he explained.

“That’s what your mouth says. I’m not worried about her. I have a lot that I’ve worked for in my life, and kicking her ass is the best and fastest way to lose it. You might want to let her know that I’m not opposed to dressing in all black and jumping the bushes on her ass. I have two older brothers, so I’m trained to go,” she told him.

“Look at you with your thugged out doctor asss. That shit is sexy as fuck, though. Put ya number in my phone, and I’ll text you a little later on once you get home and relax. Then we can go from there,” he told her.

Pain was outside of his element right now, but the sexy doctor in front of him was worth it. She took the phone from his hand and proceeded to put her name and number in it with a smirk on her face.

Once he got his phone back, he looked at what she put in it. He could do nothing but laugh when he saw the name. There it was in all capital letters ‘PHONE SEX & CONVO ONLY’. She joined him in laughter.

“I see you have a sense of humor. I like that shit. You’re gonna mess around and make me drop this dick off in you,” he told her.

“On that note, I’m gonna go to my car. I suppose I’ll be talking to you later,” she said with a wink.

“You’re gonna stop testing me, but yeah, I’ll hit you up later. I’m gonna walk you to your car, though,” he told her.

Pain reached his hand out to take Connie’s briefcase. After he took it from her, they walked to her car. Pain was so out of his element that he had to look around the parking lot to see if anyone saw him on his gentleman shit. It felt like someone was watching him, but he didn’t see anyone. Once Connie was secure in the car, he placed a kiss on her cheek then stepped away from the car.

“Thank you for walking me to the car. I appreciate it,” she told him.

“No problem. Go ’head and get home so we can chop it up later,” he said as she started the car.

He tapped the driver’s side door before watching her pull off.

“If you want something different, then you gotta do something different,” he said aloud to himself as he watched her brake lights.

Pain had already messed up with one good woman, and he didn’t want a repeat. He decided to take his time with Connie. Understanding her hesitation with dealing with him, he wasn’t going to rush anything. Connie could just be the one to make him be the man that these birds out here in the street couldn’t.

Not that Lawrynn was a bird or anything, bit she just let him do whatever he wanted to do. They never argued, even when she should have laid his ass out for some of the shit he did. She just took whatever explanation he gave and left it at that. Pain concluded that he had fucked up to the point that not only did he change how Lawrynn acted, but he had changed some things about himself too.

Connie drove down Battlefield Boulevard trying not to be excited about running into Pain again. She didn’t quite understand the dynamic of he and his baby mama’s relationship, but until things were clear to her good or bad, she would move around accordingly. She reminded herself that she didn’t need any drama in her life because she had too much to lose. After eight years of school, she was determined to keep her job.

“I hope I don’t have to kill his baby mama,” she said as she continued her ride home.

Connie smiled at the thought of choking the shit out of her instead of outright killing the damn girl.

Chapter Three

Murder knocked on the door and waited for Ms. Ella to answer. Lawrynn had been in his ear all night about wanting a plate of Ms. Ella’s meatloaf. Hearing the locks turn, he took his hands out of his pockets, so he could give Ms. Ella her hug and kiss on the cheek. He stopped in his tracks when Uncle Jimmy opened the door.