Mack

The little girl and her mom kept going on the sidewalk, but the moment was gone and Danny was ready to get to work. I’d seen it going so much better in my head, though I should have known that it wasn’t going to be like it was with Denise. It was going to take time and I was just going to have to look at tonight like I was making progress.

“I would like to catch up while I’m still in town.”

“And how long are you going to be here?”

“I don’t know. Depends.”

She didn’t ask what it depended on. “When?”

“After class?”

She giggled. “That used to be what you always said.”

“I know.”

There was a moment of silence and she was thinking about it. We were too close to the school to really try anything. She had a vibe out that was clear she didn’t want to get intimate around here and I didn’t blame her. I should have tried to kiss her sooner, but the conversation hadn’t allowed for such actions. Heels or not, Danny had practically jogged to school she was walking so fast.

“So?”

“Yeah, I guess we could go get a drink or something. I just want you to know that it doesn’t mean that we’re going to do anything.”

“Got it. What time do you get off of work?”

“Three.”

I told her I would be back then to get her. I wanted to get a kiss, but there were kids everywhere and several had called out her name. I watched her walk in and the same flutter of before was back and I sighed to myself. She was the one girl that made it all so damn complicated. Why had it taken me so long to track her down? That was a big mistake. I shouldn’t have waited so long, trying in vain to get over her.

Going back to the car, I had Ernest take me to a florist. If I was going to try this again with her, I was going to make sure that I did it right. I wasn’t above wining and dining someone to get my way and I wanted her. She wasn’t going to see what was coming. I had gotten rather good at it, dealing with gold-diggers on a daily. Now it was going to be practice for what really mattered, getting back in Danny’s panties.

I did have a couple of meetings that I had to go to, but not here. I had to go back to the city, but I didn’t mind the travel time. It gave me time to make calls and set things up. The meetings that I had today were not ones that I usually liked to take, but since I was branching out, I needed to meet with some heads that were necessary for what I wanted. I was going to make sure that the next part of my business model was in place today. It was a big damn day, huge really, although all I could think about was Danny.

My attention was split most of the day and twice I was asked if I was okay. Usually I was the stickler of the conversation that was quick with the question. But now I was the one that was trying to keep up. At the end of the last meeting, I came clean about where my mind was and that got a lot of agreement, apparently I wasn’t the only one that got twisted up by a woman every now and then. It was not something that I would usually say or admit, but I was never the same when I was around Danny. I thought it was me that had changed, taking me away from the man I was right now. But I was wrong. It was the lack of Danny that had changed everything.

When I left the restaurant, I had Ernest drive me back to the school and I waited another ten minutes for Danny to get out. The kids were all fleeing like the place was on fire and I remembered wanting to get out of there just as badly. Some things never seemed to change and it was comforting to know that.

Danny was beautiful as she walked out of the school. She looked a lot different than she had at the reunion. Gone was the tight dress that showed too much of her long legs or the makeup that made her eyes even more needy and tempting. She had been sex on a stick at the reunion, but even muted down and her hair all up was not enough to take it away. Maybe it was because I already knew what it was like to be with her, I don’t know. But damn if there wasn’t something about her that drew me to her like a moth to a flame.

I opened the door for her and gave her a quick peck on the cheek as she got in. I wanted her to get used to me touching her again and the small little touches were going to open it up later for the ones that were going to turn her brain off enough for me to have it all.

“You look beautiful Danny.”

“I’m wearing the same thing that I was wearing earlier Mack.”

She was always downplaying everything, but I knew that she liked when I complimented her. She was still a woman, even if she was a hard one to pin down with her differences.

I got in next to her on the other side and smiled at her. It was good to see her again and it came out before I could stop it.

“You keep saying that, but we both know what you really want Mack.”

I paused and then asked her what it was.

“You want back in my bed.”

“Or my bed, but yes. Ever since I saw you again, I want to be inside of you. As deep as I can go until you get that breathy sound to your voice again.”

She looked at me a bit bewildered and then swallowed hard. Now she was thinking about what I was and I knew then that she was going to be mine again. Someone wasn’t quite taking care of her needs, if she was with anyone. I was going to make sure to fill in the gaps. Danny deserved that. She was too much woman to not be laid out every night of the week.

“Then what?”

That was a question that I didn’t have a quick answer for. There was a lot going on in my head and I didn’t know what would happen next. All I could think about was her naked on top of me at the moment anyways. That was all I could think of and the more we talked about it, the worse it got.

“I don’t know. I haven’t thought that far ahead.”

“You never did. Now I need to know what happens next. I’m not the same girl anymore.”

“Isn’t mind blowing sex enough?”

It was said light heartedly, but she didn’t take it that way. “Not really anymore. I know that you can do things to my body that no one else can, but I also know what it’s like to not have you around. I don’t want that to happen again. So you getting me all riled up and then taking off isn’t going to work for me Mack, no matter how good you are in bed.”

I was stunned if I was honest. I never really thought about the after effects. I’d missed her like crazy, but life got wild and I was able to do other things to take my mind off of it. After a while she was just a faint memory that I had from time to time. It was impossible for me to know that I would have all of those old feelings flooding back now. Seeing her again had changed something inside of me and I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to go about it.

When I didn’t say something for a few minutes, she told me that she had a feeling that I didn’t know either. I’d never had a woman tell me that I wasn’t enough, what I was offering wasn’t enough. Danny knew what I could do to her and still she would rather not be with me. It was not a feeling I was used to having and I was almost speechless with it all.

“So where are we going?”

“Um, to a restaurant.”

She giggled at my lost expression and I can’t say that I found it all that funny. It was one of those times that I saw happen to other people, but not to me. I didn’t like the way I felt and I didn’t like that she had gotten one over on me. Danny was a complicated woman and by the looks of it, she’d gotten more complicated since I saw her last.

“Okay, well I guess that will do. I’m starving.”

“Still like shrimp?”

“Of course.”

“Well good, because I was going to take you to the best place that I’ve found for it.”

“I like the sound of that.”

There was a quiet that came over us as we drove. My romantic night was not going as I’d planned it, but I was committed to getting it back on track. The smile on her face when we got to the air strip I had outside of the city was enough to give me hope. She may talk a good game now, but I was curious how she was going to be when it came down to it. Danny had never been able to deny me before. Why would I think that it would be any different? She was still mine for the taking. I was sure of it.