“Hold on.” Loryn chuckles. While cutting her fork into her cherry pie. “Let me get this straight. You’ve been with this guy for three months? And he’s still with you even though you refuse to give him sex?”
I nod and swallow the small chewed-up piece of cherry pie in my mouth. “At first, it was all a plan and a good plan at that. I don’t know how any of it happened. It’s like the universe was forcing me to come back home. He’s not the worst guy in the world. But this past month he’s shown his true colors. I give him head once in a great while. I jerk him off, and it gets deeper, but even as my best friend, you don’t need to know all the details.”
“No!” She argues, filling her mouth with her food. She has a problem talking with her mouth full. Always has. “You’ve told me a lot of information over this past hour. And for starters, I am giving you money to get your credit back in order. This boyfriend now sounds like a piece of shit, but in the beginning, I can understand everything you did for him. Now tell me how this man stayed with you for three full months without sex.”
“Firstly. I was using him in the beginning, and it switched quickly. He started using me. But back to when we first met. He tried fucking me on day one. He’s growing tired of it. But in three months, I’ve been generous without giving him sex. He’s clean…very clean. So, I have no problem sliding my mouth on it. Then, the hand jobs are frequent. But up until the last two weeks, at least once every two weeks, he’d grow irritable and want sex. I figured he was going to cheat, and I didn’t care. I almost wish he did because of how quickly I started seeing the true colors coming from him. But what I did for him since I refused sex was, I would let him hump me while we were naked. His cock would slide up and down in between my pussy lips. It made him come, and he seemed satisfied. There was one time where he pushed the tip in and I almost let him, but I pushed him away.”
“Why are you not letting him fuck you?”
I shrug. “That’s the fucked-up thing. I don’t know. It’s almost like I’m not his for the taking. It’s like he doesn’t have access to that part of my life. I would love to think Noah fucked with my head. He somehow stamped me his for life without physically stamping me if that makes any sense.”
“It does.” She agrees and sips from her straw. “What you’re saying is it feels like if you were to fuck your boyfriend…keyword boyfriend, you’d be cheating on Noah.”
“Yes!” I exclaim. “But Noah hasn’t been mine for six months. And explain to me how I’m capable of allowing Roman to shove his dick in my mouth and heavily make out with me while grinding his cock against my body.”
“Do you feel sick afterward?”
I nod. “Every fucking time. And I know what that means. But Noah isn’t mine anymore, so I have to somehow get over that feeling. Maybe I need to sleep with Roman.”
“Woah!” She widens her eyes with surprise. “It sounds like you need to lose this Roman guy. Rewind to ten minutes ago and when you said he’s basically a pile of shit hoping to get pussy from you. He’s using you now. I bet if you had a camera in your apartment, you’d find him fucking another girl.”
I scoff. “Let him at this rate. I feel lost and confused. To be honest, after seeing you today, I’m considering leaving everything I have in that apartment and coming back home. But I also refuse to do that because of Noah. I don’t want to ruin what he and Stacey have. I left him knowing I was…”
“How about you tell him that?” She smiles and points behind me.
I freeze, my heart sinks, and my eyes fight with me to look behind me. “Fuck!” I say as our eyes lock together.
“Where the fuck have you been?” Is the first thing he roars out of his mouth.
I can’t hold back the tears and burst out bawling. His demeanor changes, and a surprise and calm look waves across his face. He quickly leans in, forces me to stand up, and wraps his arms around me.
“Where have you been?” He asks with a kind tone. “Why did you leave? You should have fought back, Harper.”
“It’s Melinda now,” Loryn interjects. “I found her one town over. She changed her fucking name. I want my cut of the reward.”
“What reward?” I ask, fighting to speak through the pain-filled breaths.
Loryn chuckles. “Your man, NOAH, put a reward out for you.”
“How does that work?” I ask. “Why would you do that? You’re with Stacey.”
“Stacey and I are roommates…” He explains, releasing his chin from my shoulder and looking into my eyes like he’s found his lost finances.
“Roommates?” I chuckle behind the tears. “Like you haven’t been fucking her?”
He slides his hands along the sides of my neck, bringing them up to my cheeks. “Yes, Harper. Stacey and I have been sleeping together. And yes, she is in love with me. But I never started dating her.”
“So,
wait a damn minute,” Loryn interjects. “Both of you are seeing other people, yet…”
“What do you mean?” Noah interrupts. “Are you dating someone?”
I scoff with disgust. “I think we should sit down. I will explain it all.”
An hour later, Noah looks like he’s going to murder someone. “Are you shitting me?” He roars in anger.
“You can’t get mad,” Loryn interjects, acting as our referee. “You’ve been sleeping with Stacey.”
“Rightfully so!” Noah argues. “Harper ran off. And…did you say you haven’t slept with him?”
I nod.
He scoffs with amusement. “What is the deal with women doing that?”
“I don’t know,” I say and exhale a shaky breath. Even after an hour, my eyes are still red, and my heart still hurts. It feels amazing to be here, but I know I have to go back. I don’t have a choice.
“I’m going to go back,” I say, turning my head away from both of them.
“The fuck you are!” Noah argues angrily. “I finally have you. I’m not losing you again.”
“You have Stacey!” I acknowledge in anger. “Why the fuck would I come to your house.”
“He doesn’t have Stacey,” Loryn interjects again. “Stacey left this morning after I found you.”
“She did?” I question, raising an eyebrow and turning my attention back to Noah.
Noah smiles and places his hand on mine. “I told you that day you left. I might love Stacey, but I chose you. I will choose you every time. I love you, Harper.” “And you want me to come with you?” I ask, feeling out of place. “It’s been six months, Noah. My mind isn’t the same. My emotions are different. Everything about me. I don’t know. I…”
“You’re coming home with me, Harper.” He commands. “And that is final. You are MINE and no one is going to take that from me.”
“Someone did,” Loryn interjects, sending a raging fire to burn brightly in Noah’s eyes.
“He didn’t sleep with her.” He argues, and the angered annoyance in his eyes is clear. “She was better than that.”
“Close enough.” Loryn smiles while enjoying this taunting she’s doing to Noah. “Harper was letting him slide that dick in between her pus…”
“Loryn!” I interject, stopping her. “Just…no!”
“Either way.” Noah squeezes my hand tighter. “It doesn’t matter. Harper’s here, and everything that has happened, happened in the past. I don’t care what they did. Especially considering she could have slept with him and chose not to.”
I release my hand from his grip. “Even if I chose to come back, I’d still have to go back to my apartment, grab my things, and tell that poor excuse of a boyfriend that it’s over.”
“I can do all of that.” Noah smiles and stands up. “Let’s go right now. We can take my car.”
“Good.” Loryn chuckles. “You wouldn’t want to take Harpers. It’s that rusty two-door out there. That brown thing that looks like it came from a junkyard in nineteen-eighty.”
“Hey!” I exclaim. “I’m proud of what I drive. I’m broke as hell, and it proves that I am willing to be humble.”
“That’s not humble.” Loryn jokes. “That’s three hundred bucks on wheels.” She looks out of the bar window and back at the car. “Never mind. They wouldn’t even pay three hundred to scrap that thing.”
I stand up, and within less than a second, Noah slides his arms around me and brings his warm and inviting lips to mine.
As usual, my universe is rocked, sending every wild signal in my body to reach my deepest core. My heart aches for him, my nipples burn in desire for him. Everything about us and our kiss is fucking perfect.
The way his tongue slides into my mouth and intertwines with mine makes me whimper, my hands tightly gripping his shirt and pulling him in. My body is screaming for him to take me.
His hands wrap around each one of my ass cheeks, squeezing and pulling me in closer. His hot lips caress mine with such passion and hope. He is the only man in this universe to make me forget everything exists except for him and me.
I peel my lips away from his, not wanting to stop but knowing I need to. “Who said we were together?” I softly joke.
He smiles. “We weren’t together for the longest time before you finally said yes. But we were sleeping together.” He exhales with amusement. “We don’t have to be a couple. But you will be sleeping with me…and next to me…every fucking night for the rest of your life. I’m never letting you out of my sight again.”
I bite back my smile and lower my head, placing it on his chest. “And what if I say no?”
His fingers lightly tickle my side as he slides his hands around my body, holding me tightly. “Then I will be forced to throw you over my shoulder and kidnap you. Then I will keep you bound to my house.”
“That…” Loryn interjects and pauses just as fast as she began to speak. “That’s a little fucked up, Noah. But I like where you’re going with this. I won’t bat an eye if you kidnap my best friend. I will even help drive the getaway car.”
“You two are too much.” I chuckle. “And to think I stayed away from this for six months.”
“Yeah!” Loryn roars in a joking manner. “You started a whole new life, bitch! You changed your name and got a shitty apartment with a shitty car and a shitty boyfriend. What in the actual fuck? Like, why? What made you? Why not just come back home and let the breakup be the breakup?”
I shrug. “I needed to start fresh. I couldn’t fathom being around anyone but myself. It was like I needed it to happen. And there was nothing I could do about it. I needed to move on with my life.”
Noah kisses the top of my head while gently rubbing my back. “The way you came crawling into my arms tells me you realized that was not the answer.”
“Well, neither was Stacey,” I argue. “You were fucking her while I was going through hell.”
“Not completely true.” He argues back. “I was spending money and searching endlessly to find you. I even went as far as going to the Florida Keys for a week and searching for you.”
“Why there?”
He pulls away. “Seriously, Harper? Where’s the one place you kept talking about going?”
I nod. “Yes. You’re right.”
“So…” Loryn smiles and places her hand on my shoulder. “Does this mean you’re coming home?”
“To my place,” Noah interjects. “I want you to come live with me. I want it to be our place, Harper. Is that too much to ask for?”
I place the side of my head back on his shoulder. “If we do this, we aren’t turning back, Noah.”
“I’m aware.” He says, running his hand along my back. “I don’t want to turn back. You are the only person I want.”
“Oh!” Loryn says excitedly. “This is just the beginning of something huge!”
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