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Ermias started chuckling as I smiled wider than the Kool-Aid man.

“Yeah, somethin’ like that. Can you get away?”

“I can later.”

“Bet. I just sent you the passcode to get inside my condo. When you done, meet me there.”

While I continued working so that I could get done, all I could do was smile. Tonight was about to be another sex-filled night, and I couldn’t wait to get blessed with some superb dick.

A Few Days Later…

Friday was finally here, and I couldn’t wait to see Ermias again. We linked up the other night, but we haven’t been able to link up since. Between his work schedule and mine, I had been crazy busy. I really was digging how things were going with Ermias, I legit had struck gold. My mom always told me tonever let the right hand know what the left is doingandto accept people for who and what they are otherwise leave them be. She wasn’t a gold digger in a ghetto way but long as a man fucked her good, kept her pockets filled, and catered to her when she needed attention, she was good and Karl provided that for her with ease while being able to maintain his best life.

I loved how they loved each other, I just wanted a little more than she did. It took for my mom to explain to me that financially it wouldn’t make sense for her and Karl to combine their assets and get married. He was financially secure and so was she, which made for a great foundation yet her fear of losing all she had due to a relationship frightened her and I could totally understand that.

My dad was my mom’s first love, and I was the only child that he had and because of that, he pretty much left my mom his entire estate, which was split sixty-forty with me making me financially secure as well.

At the same time, the money wasn’t just placed into my bank account. In order for me to have access to the money, I had to be doing something productive and income generating. If I chose to not go to college that was fine, but I still needed to have a way to generate an income. When I went to school to learn how to groom dogs, I also took a course for grooming artists and fell in love, and my mom was in full support of my decision.

My dad was Cuban-American, his mom who I never met because she passed away before I was born was from Cuba. He used to tell me how hard it was for him growing up having a mom whose first language was Spanish. Through all the adversity my dad went through he became a very well-respected multi-millionaire who was an IT genius.

After my dad died, my mom sold the house I grew up in and we moved to the city in a condo that is not too far from here and that’s where she still lives. I had yet to tell my mom about Ermias, but it was something that I was strongly thinking about. I just wanted to feel him out first. I didn’t want to come on too strong and run him away, but now with me about to meet all of his friends, it was something that was heavy on my mind.

Since Kimmie insisted on driving, once I finished getting dressed, I went to her place so that we could have a couple of drinks before we left for the party.

“Wait, you not taking the Alfa?” I asked, as Kimmie and I walked through the parking garage to her Gensis. “Did you give it back to Jaysun or sum?” I looked around ‘cause normally, the Alfa was parked right next to her other car.

After releasing a large sigh, Kimmie started chuckling and shaking her head. “It’s a long story but in a nutshell, the other day I came down to run to Trader Joes and the Alfa was being towed. The tow truck driver said some shit about a voluntary repo or sum.”

“Ouuu not a voluntary repo! On who credit, yours or his?”

“It’ll have to be his ‘cause he gifted me the car. When he gave it to me, he said it was paid for, and everything was in his name. I hadn’t even switched the paperwork yet.”

“Damn Indian-giving ass! What a lame cause how they come repo a car that is paid in full!” I huffed.

“Exactly! But fuck Jaysun and fuck that Alfa Romero. I didn’t like it as much as my car anyway.”

Kimmie put the address for The West Park through On Star and we coasted down Lake Shore Drive listening to R&B and enjoying the view. The whole time all I could think about was anticipating seeing Ermias.

KIMBERLY “KIMMIE”

The last few days I did my best to stay away and not talk to people outside unless I was working, while I detoxed Jaysun from my mind, body, and soul. He had called me a couple of times after he left the other day, but I didn’t answer any of his calls because he did some real fougasse shit taking the car he bought for me back. It wasn’t that I needed the car, it was just the principle of it. This was the reason why I didn’t do relationships. People be too weird for me to let them into my heart only to break it.

When Claudia asked me if I wanted to go to a party with her, I was down and ready to get outside. The day the repo man came to take the car back was one of the most humiliating things I had to experience. The only saving grace I had was the fact that my name wasn’t on the paperwork, and it wouldn’t be affecting my credit. Jaysun could’ve just asked for the car back, and it wouldn’t have been any issues. Had I done that to him, he be all over the world discrediting me cause that was the type of shit niggas did. They liked to dish it but couldn’t take it.

The whole ride to the lounge we vibed to the music and just chilled. It was always a vibe whenever me and Claudia hung out. Once we pulled into the back parking lot, we got out and valet took my keys. Claudia’s homegirl, Dymond, had met us up here because she was kicking it with Claudia’s boo, Ermias’s homeboy.

“Damn, that Alfa looks like the one you just had.” Claudia pointed out as she and I walked toward the entrance.

I glanced over to the car, and it was the same color as the one that I just had but I wasn’t sweating it because I knew my shit had been repo’d and wouldn’t be back out on the streets that fast. When we went inside, the atmosphere was an entire vibe and did no justice to the description that Claudia had given me.

It was hella nice inside, it gave a club, lounge yet classy and sexy vibe. There were quite a few already there and within seconds of us walking in the door Claudia’s boo approached us.

“Hey, you, come meet my sis,” Claudia smiled as she gave her boo a hug and very long and sensual tongue kiss. “This my sis, Kimmie; Kimmie, this my man Ermias.”

“Nice to meet you. I’ve heard a lot about you.”

“I hope all good things,” I replied as Ermias, and I gave each other head nods.

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