Chapter 12
Dennis
I woke up feeling better than I had felt in a long time. The warm body next to me moved a little when I shifted positions on the bed. Kendra made a small moaning sound and I was left growling at her from where I laid. I wanted more of her body, my need already full and ready for her again.
Kissing her, I didn’t worry about the time. It was late and we were both going to be late to work, but I didn’t care. I wanted her again, knowing that I would never be sick and tired of Kendra. One night was never going to be enough. All of the feelings that I had of her all of those times in the past were coming up with a vengeance and there was nothing I could do about it. I felt it all rush back and knew that this was because she was to be mine. It was meant to be or I wouldn’t feel this way. While Kendra wanted to say that she didn’t feel the same way, her body doesn’t lie and I just know that she wants us back together too.
“Wake up Kendra. I need you. I don’t want to wait anymore so I am going to get started without you.”
She made a sound and then moved to her other side, away from me. I wanted her badly and I started to kiss on her neck and shoulders. She whimpered with the touch and it wasn’t long before I was moving her to her back. I had to have her again and Kendra was ready for me already. She wasn’t awake yet, so I set about kissing her and climbing on top on her. Her eyes opened and met mine. “What are you doing?”
“Waking you up, baby. We are late for work, so we might as well make it worth our while to be late.”
I hoped that she would play along. She always had before, telling me that she liked to be awoken this way. If I woke her up and asked she would be upset, but if I had her body ready, the rest of her was far more willing.
This was not the case this time around. She shot up and pushed on my chest to get me off of her. I didn’t want to back away, but I was left little choice. “I have to get up and go. I can’t be late for work lying in bed with you. I have a lot that I am supposed to be doing today.”
“I think your boss will be okay with it. I only need a few minutes.”
She waved me off and told me that I didn’t know her boss. And that she didn’t understand women if I thought that the statement was going to help me any.
“Come on Kendra, you can’t be serious. I don’t know why you work there anyways. It is beneath you to work in such a place. That neighborhood is dangerous.”
This wasn’t going as I wanted it to and I could see by the expression on her face that I hadn’t won any awards for saying that to her. It was literally the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the state of the place she was working at and the neighborhood in which it was in. If it was for the money, I could remedy that quite easily. I couldn’t understand why else she would be working there. I know that Kendra had a rough background, but that didn’t mean that she was meant to work in such a place.
“Don’t say that Dennis because I don’t want to hear it. My job means a lot to me and I don’t really care what you think. Those girls depend on me and I am not going to let them down for another romp in the sack with you.”
She was mad and I didn’t want her like this. I pulled her to me and tried to kiss her to make her see that this was just a silly spat, but Kendra’s hands were on my chest, trying to stop me from changing her mind. What just happened? The temperature in the room should have gone down ten degrees with the sudden frost I was feeling from her.
“I have to go Dennis. Thanks for a good time. It was nice to do it one last time. It had been a while.”
She was getting dressed and I looked at her as if she were crazy. I don’t know what the hell just happened, but I wanted to fix it before it got worse and snowballed into something that I couldn’t talk my way out of. I didn’t like her mad at me and I had thought everything had gone so well. She had come all over me and been thoroughly satisfied many times last night. So I know that I had done my job, very well if I do say so myself, so why was she leaving in a huff? What changed?
I just didn’t understand it and I tried to stop the madness before she left me there alone in her apartment. Maybe she would see reason.
“Wait Kendra, don’t you think we should talk about this?”
She turned back to me, my hand on her arm. She looked down at the connection and shook her head that we didn’t need to talk about it at all. She shrugged me off to break the contact.
“It was just the night. It was great, you know it was. You have always known every button to push Dennis. Nothing has changed though. It was just for the night and it was good to see you again and to get together like that.”
Kendra left out the door before I could say anything else. My pride was wounded and I didn’t know what to say to her to make her see that she had this all wrong. But then she was gone, saying something about locking up if I could before I left. I was left sitting on the side of the bed, asking myself what had just happened, again, not sure at all. Kendra hadn’t even given me a sideways glance before she walked out of my life.
My cock was still hard and I still wanted her, but after a cold shower I knew that I was going to have to figure this all out. I was still stumped on the sudden change in her attitude, but I was going to get to the bottom of it before we had a repeat of before.
I went to the social media site that we had been talking on and I left her a quick message. What was so weird was the fact that if she was any other woman, I would have liked her even more for just walking away. It meant that I didn’t have to worry about clinging. But that just wasn’t so with Kendra. I wanted her to stay in my arms. Again I was wanting more than ever before and of course, Kendra didn’t want to play along.
Kendra never did message me back. I checked my phone several times an hour just to make sure that the ringer hadn’t been bumped to vibrate. I felt like I had been reborn and finally given another chance at the one regret I had, but now I started to wonder if it was all I my head. It was becoming clear that Kendra didn’t feel the same way. It hadn’t been the sex. It was perfect as it always was. So what was holding her back from me? Did she really not feel the same way that I felt about her?
When I got into work, I will be the first to admit that I didn’t want to be there. I had a mean mugging look on my face that I couldn’t wipe off. Peggy steered clear of me once I got snappy with her. I could tell that I had hurt her feelings. It seemed to be a theme today and I didn’t even make it to lunch before I was done with the whole thing. I had Peggy hold my calls and I told her I wasn’t sure when I would be back. It looked like I had some thinking to do.
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I found myself in a bar, one that I went to a lot more before Kendra had popped back into my life. I was surrounded by beautiful women, many working there and I didn’t feel the same excitement as before. Nothing that I enjoyed before was the same. Kendra hadn’t taken away the joy of life. She was just such a bright new light that Kendra seemed to dim all of the rest of the things around me. I didn’t want to admit it, but part of me still couldn’t figure out what I had done without her all of these years. I had a feeling though, she wasn’t filled with the same warm sentiment. She had been upset this morning and I wasn’t sure why.
I tried to call her again and she didn’t pick up. I tried to tell myself that it was because she was working, but I had a feeling it was something else. To say that I always understood what was going on in her head was a lie. Before we were together most days and I didn’t get her sudden mood swings. Either she had a bad dream or she was thinking about it all a bit too much.
I left her a text. It was a little dirty. I hoped that when she saw it she would smile. Drinking the last bit out of the first glass, I left the bar. The establishment didn’t hold the same power and allure to me as it had before. There was nothing for me here, so I instead went back to work and threw myself into it. I had a lot that I had been putting off and it helped take my mind off of last night. It had been great to be with her, but for weeks I had been neglecting work because of Kendra in my brain. It was good to have her out of it a bit so that I could get some work done.
I was so busy with everything at work, calls, meetings and deals that I didn’t hear the sound for the text message. When I saw that it was Kendra, it was my face that broke out into a grin. I had wanted to hear from her all day and I waited a moment before I opened it to see what she said.
“While that sounds good Dennis, I don’t think we will be doing that again. It was good to see you, but that was a one-time thing. Talk to you soon.”
Floored, I reread it several times, trying to find a clue as to why she said such things. I tried to call her and when she didn’t answer, I knew I was going to have to go down to her apartment and see her. I wasn’t going to let this stand. She was going to have to give me a reason and quite frankly, I was ready for her again, had been since this morning.
So when it was time to knock off for her, I made my way across town to her apartment. I had brought dinner from a restaurant I thought she would like, a bottle of wine from my cellar and flowers from a local florist by her place. I had to see her, but I didn’t want to come empty handed. I knew that some pasta would keep her from wanting to push me away, at least until she wasn’t hungry anymore.
When I got there, her car was parked out front, but it had condensation on the windows like it had been sitting there all day. Her job wasn’t far from here, so she could have walked. I had a feeling that she wasn’t going to be at home though. None of her lights were on and I knocked, not expecting much to happen. I wasn’t surprised when there was no answer. She didn’t know I was coming. Would she have been here if she would have known?
I decided to wait. I wasn’t going to be able to concentrate on anything, anyways. I just didn’t know that it was going to be such a long wait. And I certainly didn’t think that she was going to have someone with her when she got home.
At first when the car pulled up, I was checking messages on my phone and wasn’t paying too much attention. I saw the vehicle that wasn’t Kendra’s and I half-thought that it was going to be Callise. They were together a lot, Kendra talked about her a lot, but I was wrong. Instead she was with a man and I instantly felt my face getting red and my heart pounding in my chest. We had just been together the night before. How could she just go with another man so soon after?
Every part of me told me to stay in the car, but I wasn’t listening to reason. I was listening to the voice that told me to find out what was going on and to make sure that whatever man she was with did not think that she was available. She wasn’t. Kendra was mine, had been for a long time and I wasn’t going to let her slip through my fingers once more. I just couldn’t.
Opening the car door, the two didn’t hear me. Kendra was giggling in a voice that I didn’t like when it wasn’t directed at me. Something he said was funny, but it had my teeth on edge. Who the hell was this guy? Didn’t she feel anything from last night?