CHARISMATIC
BOOK – 3
Chapter 1
Lalena woke up the next morning, the night before replaying in her head. Why had Rico stopped over? She was sure he had wanted something else. She could see the anger in his eyes when she first walked out of the bedroom. She was certain he could tell that she had been having sex. His eyes were accusatory at least.
But she didn’t owe him anything, why did she feel so guilty then? He wasn’t trying to date her just seduce her with his words. She knew this about Rico, had heard all about his behavior’s from Sally the day before. However, she still felt ashamed in a way, when she knew she shouldn’t.
“Hey baby, why are you awake so early?” Jake came up behind her in the kitchen and wrapped his arms around her.
“I couldn’t sleep.” Lalena said. “You want to go to IHOP for some pancakes?” She asked him.
He wiped the sleep out of his eyes and shook his head. “Yeah sure, that sounds good.”
She went to get dressed and ready. “I just have a craving for those chocolate chip pancakes, they are so good.” Lalena said as she was putting on her clothes.
Jake had come in behind her in the bedroom, he just sat on the edge of the bed watching her. “You’re so beautiful.” He complimented her.
“Thank you. Why do you have that look in your eyes?” She asked.
“What look is that?” He smiled widely.
“The one that says you want to ravish me!” She replied.
“Because I want too, but I know you’re hungry.” He looked down sadly.
“We’ll have plenty of time before I have to go to work.” She laughed.
“Oh that’s right you don’t have to be there until noon. You know that is still weird that he stopped over. Why didn’t he have his secretary call you and tell you? That’s her job; it’s what he pays her for. It’s like he was trying to come over for something else, it really makes no sense.” Jake commented.
“I was thinking the same thing too.” She admitted.
“I think the mayor has the hots for you.” Jake laughed. “You should have seen his face when I answered the door. Talk about taking someone by surprise. I could have knocked him over with a feather!” He added.
Lalena shook her head. “I don’t know what he wanted Jake, honestly. Yesterday he barely talked to me at work. So I think your wrong about him having the hots for me. Maybe it was just like he said, he was trying to call me and I didn’t answer. You know I didn’t hear the phone ring at all, but I checked it after he left and there were 4 missed calls. I think you’re seeing things that aren’t there.” She commented, but she had felt the same way. Rico wasn’t telling her something, and she didn’t think she would find out for sure now. He had been angry when he left the night before, she could feel the heat radiating off of him.
“Maybe, but I tell you with his reputation it’s not hard to imagine. You’re a beautiful woman, any man who didn’t want you would have to be dead or gay. I’m pretty sure that the mayor isn’t gay, and he’s surely not dead. Just watch him Lalena, I’m telling you he has some sort of feelings for you.” Jake stated.
“I wouldn’t worry about it. Honestly Jake, besides the first 10 minutes of the day, he didn’t say a single word to me. He even came to the restaurant where Sally and I were eating and didn’t even look my way.” She told him about lunch the day before.
“You could be right, but I don’t see it. If you would have seen his face you would understand why I’m saying what I’m saying. He looked at me like he wanted to kill me.” Jake said.
“I’m sure your just imagining that. Why would he want to kill you?” Lalena laughed. But she could picture the look Rico had given her too.
“I don’t know because he wants you? Who knows, only him.” Jake commented.
“He doesn’t want me. Plus it doesn’t matter now does it, I’m with you.” She said.
“Yes, just keep that in mind when he starts flirting with you at work again, because I’m sure he does. I’m not saying you’re lying about how he is with you; just that maybe you’re missing it.” Jake stated.
“I know when someone is flirting with me. I’m telling you Jake he looked right through me at lunch time, like I wasn’t even there. Not only that I forgot to tell you, Sally said that he gets blow jobs from the girls at the restaurant. I saw him get up and go in back with one of the waitresses.” Lalena explained.
“Just because a guy gets a blow job from a girl doesn’t mean a thing. I’ve had plenty of them; it’s simply a way to get your nut off. You could like another girl and someone else approaches you and wants to go down on you, hell you do it.” Jake said.
“You men are pigs.” She punched Jake. “Come on can we stop talking about this and go eat. If we don’t go now we won’t have time to come back here and have fun.” She reminded him.
“I’ll drop it for now, but I think there is more to talk about here.” Jake stated. But he got up and put on his shirt. “Let’s go, I don’t want to miss out on dessert!” He pulled her by her hand and they went out the door to go eat.