Page 28 of Love Me Now: Baltimore & Madelyn
“I couldn’t… If anything would’ve happened to Duval, Adir would’ve killed you.”
“Thing is, I would’ve been fine, baby. Above all things, Adir is wise. He knows that I move with intention.”
“I was too afraid to risk it,” she replied. We fell silent for a minute before she said, “I miss DJ. I raised him right and never thought he’d turn his back on me. Genesis isn’t even mine…”
“Yet, you love him,” I surmised.
“I love him,” she admitted. “I want to raise him without thinking about the mistakes I made with DJ. No child deserves to live in the shadows of another. I think about DJ every single day. There are times I have to lock myself in the bathroom and just cry for my son. Genesis doesn’t deserve to get a different version of my love and care just because I dropped the ball with DJ.”
Turning her in my arms, I lifted her chin and wiped the tears there. Seeing her cry on this perfect, dark morning and beautiful island wasn’t what I wanted for either of us.
“You’re a damn good mother, Maddie. Do you think Adir would’ve ever suggested you adopt Genesis if he felt like you couldn’t. You were so broken that day, Maddie. Yet Adir saw the same thing in you, that I see in you. Patience. Love. Kindness. Gentleness. Meekness. And even joy.”
She sniffled and wiped her tears.
“Your joy was what Duval attempted to take from you. All those other things he knew would dissipate as long as he had ya joy in his hands. If he could break ya spirit, then everything else would just fall in line. DJ was his father’s son. He made horrible decisions out of selfishness, hatred, and greed. None of those things could ever describe you, baby. You forget he had a whole ass daddy he idolized.”
“You’re right. As much as I want to wear the weight on my own, I simply can’t. I shouldn’t.”
“Not in the least,” I agreed.
She took a deep breath, then turned back around to once again, face the waters surrounding us.
“So, tell me what it is your familyreallydoes,” she stated.
Laughing, I said, “Well… When I was one, my parents created one of the first cellphone apps to blow up. By the second year of the app going live, my parents were already being offered millions of dollars for a buyout. For a time, they held tightly to the app. Then, when I was eleven, they decided to finally sell it.”
“They’re billionaires,” she whispered to the air.
“They’re billionaires,” I confirmed.
She gasped and glared at me over her shoulder. “You’rea billionaire, Baltimore?What the hellare you doingworkingfor me?” She pried herself out of my arms.
I laughed and asked, “Are you really upset with me?”
“Hell, yes! What are you doing risking your life for me? Are you crazy?” Her voice escalated and took a ride on the predawn morning breeze. “You should be somewhere with a wife and kids, enjoying your damn life. You’ve literally just watched it pass you by, and for what?”
She really was upset, and I thought it was cute that she attached me to another woman. I brought her back into my arms and kissed the stupefied look off her face.
“What if I told you that the first time I laid eyes on you, I fell in love with you. I must’ve asked for forgiveness a thousand times for coveting another man’s wife. Once I learned to stop coveting you, I realized that it wasn’t the fact that I yearned to have you. It was the fact that I looked at you and saw pure beauty. Then, I got to know you and realized it was a beauty that radiated from within. You’re one of one, Maddie. You’re rare as fuck. If I couldn’t have you, I was gon’ simply wait until the moment I had just an ounce of that feeling for another woman. There was no settling after experiencing what I did the first time I saw you.”
She blinked a few times, and the frown lines she possessed finally eased.
“The fact that you never saw me as anything other than the nigga who worked for ya family was so fuckin’ intriguing to me. You never noticed the way I looked at you. You never noticed how soft I was wit’ you compared to everybody else.”
A soft smile emerged. “I noticed once,” she said. “When you let me leave Heir’s dorm apartment without coming after me.”
Pleased, I smiled. “Precisely.”
Picking Maddie up by her thighs, I carried her as she wrapped her legs around my back and her arms around my shoulders. I carried her back inside the house, through the maze of the mansion and to the master’s quarters. The master’s quarters encompassed two floors of living space that catered to a man and his woman. This property housed five master’s quarters, ten guest bedrooms, twelve bathrooms, three kitchens, and four powder rooms. This place was built with a generational family in mind.
Inside the master’s quarters, I laid Maddie on the king-sized bed covered in black linens. Undressing her wasn’t complicated at all. She wore her signature blue silk pajamas that created goosebumps on her skin as I removed them from her body. Underneath, she was naked.
The first place my lips touched was the spot below her navel. I’d been craving the taste of this pussy again for too long. She squirmed and ran her hands over my Caesar cut as my lips kissed everywhere but where her eyes begged me to. She smelled so fucking good, and her lips were already wet as I spread her legs wide.
She jerked at the first swipe of my tongue, but I gripped her thighs, pushed them back, and pinned them to the bed. Knowing she couldn’t run if she tried to, I gave her pussy the business. Her melodic pleasure-filled voice sang loudly as I devoured her. My tongue was saturated in her juice and slid teasingly across her quivering flesh. I latched on to her clit and gave her ass a reason to scream in this bitch. A flood released from her as her legs violently shook. I smacked her thick thighs, palmed her ass, and buried my face in her shit. This was the pussy games, and my tongue was number one in the league. I wasn’t missing a single drop of her.
Once I had her unable to breathe, I kissed my way up her shivering body, stopping for a second to suck her plump nipples. As she writhed in ecstasy, I grabbed my dick and led him home. Her long nails grazed my chest, then my shoulders as she steadied herself for my invasion. Easing inside of her tight, wet heat felt unreal as fuck.