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He stared blankly at me. I knew he wouldn’t let it go. My skin began to prickle and tighten.
“Fine,” I groaned. “I got a little emotional because that was the first time you’d embraced me like that during sex. I told you sex is how I connect and I never felt it with you because… well, most of the time it was like sex with me was a chore to you. You didn’t cuddle me, barely touched me, and would leave soon as we finished. I felt like I was the only one actually enjoying it, but last night it felt like you were too. It felt good and caught me off guard. It’s not a big deal.”
“Oh. I see.” He nodded slowly. He started massaging my ass cheeks. “A chore? That’s what you thought.”
I shrugged. “I always came so I wasn’t upset per se. However, it did feel good knowing you weren’t a robot and could show emotions.” I snickered. “I mean who knew you were so thorough when it comes to pleasing your partner.” Again, my hips moved against him.
That brought a chuckle out of him. “So what you’re saying is I have a lot to make up for?”
I grinned. “You said it, not me.” Moving in, I kissed him again. Now that Yosiah had given me a sample of what he was capable of, I felt myself turning into an even bigger sex fiend than I had been before. I had been so backed up from the years of neglect and now it was all pouring out and coming to the surface.
“I’m man enough to admit I could have handled things better over the years and I’m sorry for being so neglectful to your needs.”
His apology struck a vibrant chord inside me. My pulse quivered in my veins. My heart felt as if it would burst. I kissed him again, this time more eager than before. Yosiah freely gave into my hungered kiss and it exploded through my veins, making my blood heat.
I didn’t want to get greedy because I didn’t want to wake up and feel like all this was just a tease and things went back to how they were between the two of us before, but I couldn’t help it. The more affection Yosiah gave, the more I couldn’t help but take.
Just as our kiss started to heat up, a vibration from Yosiah’s pants pocket gained my attention. One of his hands left my side and moved to grab it.
“Give me a second, baby,” he said, as if it was the most natural thing. It was the first time he’d addressed me as such causing a shock to surge up my spine.
“Hey, Mama,” he answered.
I tried to school my face not to ball up. Yosiah loved his mom, but she caused me to break out in hives.
To bring the focus back to me and what we had going on, I moved in and nuzzled my face into his neck. My hand went to his dick and I stroked it through his pants. Undoing the button andlowering the zipper, I bit the corner of my bottom lip seeing the bulge growing in his briefs.
Yosiah grabbed my wrist when I went to grab the rim of his briefs. He furrowed his brows and shook his head while still talking to his mom. Poking my bottom lip out, I didn’t accept that. He had already spoken to his mom today. With all the birthday calls and texts he’d been receiving, I’d shared his attention enough.
Snatching my hand from his hold, I went back to remove him from his briefs.
“See you in a few hours, Mama.” That caused me to pause.
Yosiah finally hung up and tossed his phone to the side. “You’re going to your parents’ tonight? I thought we could finish celebrating your birthday together since we go back to the real world tomorrow.”
“We’regoing to my parents tonight.” My frown deepened. “It’s a tradition for my parents to throw me a birthday dinner and she was calling to verify the time.”
“Oh. I guess that makes sense. But what’s with thiswe’rething? You never invite me to anything with your parents.”
“And that was wrong of me. I don’t know the direction our marriage will take but Idowant to be better as your husband.”
“Really?”
He pulled my body closer to his. “What can I say? You’re growing on me. We only have a few months left in this contract and we can decide if we’re going to divorce or not. I realized I haven’t put any effort into this marriage. I’m going to give these next couple months a fair shot so we can determine if this marriage is worth continuing.”
I was shocked by his confession. It wasn’t the heartfelt confession I’d hoped for, but it did show I was wearing him down and that was better than nothing.
“And what brought this on?” I asked slowly.
He brushed his hand down my arm. “Seeing your unguarded side caused me to look at you differently. You’re not just the airheaded, superficial woman I always thought you were.”
My eyes narrowed. “Thanks. I think.”
Yosiah chuckled and curled his hand into my hair. “All I’m saying is, after being forced into marrying you and only seeing that person, it’s nice to know that’s not all you can be. You’re more than a pretty face and I never realized how big your social media presence was or how much people were influenced by you. I thought all you did was take pictures all day because you were full of yourself but you were working in your own way. My assistant is back, but before then, you helped keep things organized for me when I didn’t know I needed it or ask.”
Since I was never one to give up, eventually I knew he would start seeing things my way, and by my birthday, the word divorce wouldn’t even be in his vocabulary anymore.
CHAPTER 18
