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“Romans,” Glenda said, knowing that Carter was running his crew from there. Like everybody else, she had heard that Mileena had broken up with Carter again.
That’s where his head was when they met that night. Mileena had told him the night before that she was tired of being last on his list and Glenda knew how brokenhearted he was about it. That was where they found their bond, sharing their pain and releasing their anger, tension and frustration in bed. The sex they had was powerful. She was getting closer to him and felt that Carter was pulling further away from Mileena and getting closer to her, but that was when Carter went to jail.
Glenda knew that if Mileena had left him again, that Carter was heartbroken, and she wanted to be the one to ease his pain as she did all those years ago.
As Glenda expected, Carter was in his office at Roman’s, talking to Hassan about a problem that he was having with one of his men that had been coming up short for weeks. To that point, Carter had been understanding about it. After all, everybody has a bad run and Benny Jones was no different. But he was now into his fourth week and had begun ducking Hassan.
“I’ve run out of patients with this guy, Carter.”
“You have my blessing to handle this fuck any way you see fit,” Carter said and pointed at Hassan. “And make an example of him. Make sure everybody knows that coming up short is bad for your health.”
Hassan stood up. “I’m on it,” he said as there was a knock at the door.
“Come!” Carter shouted, and Geno stuck his head in.
After recovering from his wounds, Geno tried to get his old life back on track. When he was released from his doctor’s care, he attempted to go back to work. Geno was told that since he had missed work for three days prior to his calling in, their company policy considered that abandonment of position and he was terminated.
Then, to add insult to injury, he was informed that since abandonment of position constitutes misconduct, an employee who is declared to have abandoned a position was not entitled to severance pay. With few options available to him, Geno turned to Carter and he was glad to put him on, so he could earn. To Carter, Geno was a hustler and having somebody on the team that knew how to get money was priceless.
“You have a guest,” Geno said.
“Who?”
“Glenda Dukes.”
Carter may have shaken his head, but he wasn’t at all surprised that Glenda was there. “Show her in,” Carter said, and Hassan left the office with Geno.
It may have been a minute or two later when there was a light tap on the door before it opened, and Glenda walked in wearing tight jeans that showed off her wide hips and thick thighs. Carter stood up and admired Glenda’s perfectly rounded breasts pressing against the crop top that revealed a hint of her stomach. Glenda was sexy, there was no doubt about that, and her presence in his office could only mean one thing.
“Hello, Carter.”
“Glenda, how are you?” Carter asked and gave her what amounted to a polite hug and a peck on her cheek. But Glenda was having none of that. She pulled Carter closer, pressed her body against his and their lips met. It wasn’t the frenzied exchange of lips and tongues as their kisses had been in the past. For Glenda, it was more of a let’s see if we can’t find our way back to where we once were kiss.
For Carter, it was confirmation that she wasn’t just in the old neighborhood and dropped in to get a slice. She was there to get something started between them and Carter had to decide if that was something that he was still interested in. They were good together for the short time they had, but that was years ago. He slowly broke their embrace and took a little step back.
“That was more like it,” Glenda said, and Carter answered by extending his hand toward the chair in front of his desk.
“How’s it going?” Carter asked.
“I know that you probably don’t know this, but I went back to med school and now I am doing my residency at Westchester Medical Center Hospital.”
“No,” Carter smiled. “I did not know that. Congratulations.”
“Thank you.”
“What made you finally make the move?” Carter asked, remembering that it was one of the things that Glenda used to talk about all the time.
“Finally got fed up with his shit and decided to take your advice and start living for me.”
“Well, I’m glad you did.”
“Better late than never, right?” Glenda said.
“Right.”
“So how have you been, Carter?” Glenda asked and hoped he would want to open up and talk to her about his breakup with Mileena.
Carter shrugged his shoulders. “I’ve been better.”