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He looked out the window and put it down. "Oh...." He sits it on his lap and presses the button for the window to go down.

"What you doing out here?" Someone says to him. I couldn't see the guy.

"How you know I was out here?" Jey asks

"Your location, duh." The guy says

"Oh yeah..."

"So what you doing out here?" The guy asks again.

"I went to her parents house and picked her up. We're talking."

I see the dark figure walk into the window frame and he bends down to look into the car at me. It was his twin brother, Jon.

"What's up, Hazel." He says happily.

I smile although I'm still somewhat startled by him knocking on the window.

"Hey!" I wave.

"You were right, Josh. She is beautiful." Jey smiles at me but I could tell he seemed uncomfortable. "I don't remember her being this beautiful when we FaceTimed at the airport." Jon says

"Thank you, Jon. It's nice to finally meet you." I smile at him.

"Get out! Give your brother a hug." Before me or Jey could say anything, he was already walking over to my side of the car.

"Nah...." Jey said. He got out and tried meeting Jon on my side.

What the hell is going on?

Jon opened the door before Jey got to him so he just watched closely as I hugged Jon. It was a little weird seeing how Jey was acting.

"Chill." Jon says. "What's going on?"

"Ion trust it." Jey says

"Me?" Jon looks at him confused. "You don't trust me? Why?"

"I don't know. "I got everybody on my back and you acting weird." Jey says

"Me? I'm being weird? I'm trying to be welcoming. My bad." He says to me. "Why would you not trust me? I'm your twin. If you can't trust me then who can you trust?"

"You right." Jey agrees

"You can depend on me to have your back. I know this isn't going to go over well with the family. But I got you." Jon says

"All because he wants a divorce?" I ask. This seems so small.

"It's betrayal." Jon says.

"But their marriage isn't working."

"I get it but it's understood that it needs to be worked out. No divorce." Jon says to me.

"I guess I'll never understand then." I say with a shrug. "So where does this leave me? I'm just supposed to be the side chick?"

"No." Jey places his hands on my shoulders, turning me to him. "I don't want you to think that because you're not that. My wife and I are separated. I don't even live in the house anymore. We both know that, but they don't."

"Looks like y'all got a lot to straighten out." Jon says. "Hazel, I want you to know whatever you need, just give me a call. If he's not answering, call me. Doesn't matter what time of the day or night it is, please call me."

I look at Jey and he gives me a nod of approval.

"I will. Thank you."

He gives his brother one last look before walking back to his car. Jey waits until he drives off before he says anything.

"I'm sorry about that."

"It's okay...."

"Going back to the side chick comment...I don't want that. I really want to try to get this straightened out as best as I can and the only way I can do that is go directly to my wife and have this conversation."

"I'm okay with that." I say

"When it comes to this, with the family, the only thing I wanna ask of you is to give me a little time." He says

"I already told you I'd give you that."

"Yeah, but I might not be able to move as fast as you would want me to. Things like this take time." He says and I understand but is he going to drag this?

"So this is going to take forever?"

"No, I just mean let me do this." He says, then there's a pause for a minute. "Can I stay with you tonight?"

"Of course you can. I'm not ready to leave you anyway. That'll be perfect..." I say. "My parents will probably be asleep when we get back but you can meet them in the morning."

"I'm cool with that. I'll sleep on the couch."

"Of course." I say "But why do you want to stay with me?"

"I miss you. I don't want to just drop you off and leave." He says

"Have you not been going home?" I ask

"No, not since I've been back." He answers

"So where are you living?"

"In a hotel."

"Josh..." I started but he cut me off. I know he could hear the concern in my voice.

"It's fine. It's what I want. She didn't put me out or anything. We talked about it and thought it was best. I still get to see my sons when we have dinner together."

"Oh..." I try to process what he just said. They have dinner together? "Every night?"

"Most nights." He says. "I'm usually there by 6 and gone by 730. We talk about the boys, their schedules, things that need to get done, that's it.l

"That's...nice." I don't really know what to think of this. I guess that's cool. I feel a little jealous though.

"It's alright." He says. "Anything you wanna know, just ask. I want you to be comfortable with this."

"I don't think I'll be comfortable with any of this until it's completely done and over with."

"Understandable. But I don't want you to hesitate, if you ever want to know anything, I'll be honest with you from here on out."

"Okay." I say. "It's a lot to process. I have many questions but we can talk about it later. I'm just going to take this day by day."

"That's all we can do." He smiles. "Come on...let's get you home."

"Not yet." I take a step closer to him and he smiles again.

"I don't know how good of an idea that is..."

"Why not?" I close the gap between us and I start placing kisses on his neck.

"Yeah..." he places his hands on my hips. "I don't think we should...don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see you and I wouldn't mind bending you over the front of my rolls but..." he stops as I move up to his ear. He lets me play with his ear with my tongue. I could feel his dick hardening against me midsection. "Okay." He pushes me back a little and looks at me with a serious face. "Seriously, if we're gonna do this I want us to focus on that connection we had before I gave you the best dick you've ever had."

I laugh because it's true.

"I want it." I reach out and rub his dick through his pants.

"I do too. I've thought about you every second since we left each other. Before and after we had sex. But I'm serious." He puts his hands in the way so I can't touch it.

"Okay." I step back with my hands up. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be sorry, just understand where I'm coming from."

"I understand." I say

He just stared at me for a few seconds. He didn't say anything, he just looked. I don't know what he was thinking, I couldn't read him. I just watched him watching me.

"Are you sure about this?" He asks. "All of this could turn into a big situation and if you don't want it then I'll respect it and let you go."

"I'm sure." I say and I see him let out a breath he was holding.

"Hazel, I'm a loyal and faithful man—."

"No." I stopped him from talking. "We don't have to talk about this. Your brother said he doesn't know you to be a cheater and you've also said it. I believe it. We don't need to discuss it."

"But I need you to know I will never do anything like this to you. It was hard for me to even ask you to have dinner with me. I didn't plan on asking you to stay in Chicago. I was caught up in you and it felt right. I was beating myself up for it but I'm glad I did it." He explains. "I know this is completely dumb on my part, and if we're being honest, you were too. You didn't know me. I know this can blow up in my face and I know there is a possibility this might not work out but I also feel like I want to take this risk with you."

I smile. "I feel the same. I don't know what it is about you...but as long as you're honest with me, I'll be in your corner. I promise."

Both of his hands reach out to me and cup my face. He pulls me to him, then kisses me with so much passion. I melted. When we pulled away I just looked at him. He smiles as if he knows what I'm thinking. He then turns around and gestures for me to get into the car. I don't say anything, I just get in because after that kiss there's nothing to say.

After he closes my door he gets back into the car and I watch as he puts the safety on and places his gun back under his seat.

"So you own a gun?"

He laughs a little. Seems like a nervous laugh.

"Protection."

"Of course..." I say, and there's a kinda awkward silence. I didn't want to ask but after some of the things I heard from them, I don't think it's that serious but it sure seems like it. I don't see how ending a marriage would be cause to carry a gun. There has to be more to this whole thing.

"Does that scare you?" He asks

"No, I told you before, I feel safe with you. But is it that serious?" I'm just not connecting the dots with this situation.

"It can be." He says

"So I'm just gonna come out and ask, am I in any danger? Josh, is your family going to hurt me?"

"I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know? I don't look at this to be as big as you guys are making it. I don't believe someone is going to hurt me because you want to divorce your wife."

"Not necessarily...but there are other things that contribute to this." He says. "I personally don't think it's that serious but it's not just this. I have other things going on and I haven't even really been fucking with my fam or the business like that. So I don't think so but they could try to get to you to get to me. If they find out about you."

"So only Jon knows?" I ask

"Yes." He confirms

I just started out the windshield. "Okay..."

"So what do you think this is, lust or love?" He asks

I shrug my shoulders. "I don't know. You?"

"I don't know either, but I'm willing to find out. I'm ready to explore the connection, not the physical one. I mean we can do that too but you know what I mean. I don't think we have to worry about that part."

"True. And same here." I say. "I was intrigued by the person who found my phone. The conversation on the plane kept me wanting more, that's what led to everything but I'm happy we met."

"Me too." He smiles.

"But, how'd you know where I was?" I ask. I still would like to know how he knew where my parents lived.

"I always have my eyes and ears to the streets." He says

I roll my eyes. "That doesn't answer my question."

"I put someone on you the minute we walked out to baggage claim." He admits

"What?"

"Yeah...I'm not proud of that but I had to." He says

"Why?"

"Even though I was trying to end it, I needed to make sure you were okay."

"How long have you been following me?"

"I haven't been following you. I just had my security check on you."

"When?"

"When you made it home safely from the airport. That's it."

"Swear." I say

"I swear."

"Okay, I believe you." I say.

"Is there anything else you would like to know?"

I shake my head and smile.

"What?"

"Imagine falling in love after how we met and it works out for the rest of our lives."

He smiles back at me. "I'm cool with it."

He starts the car and we head back to my parents house.

The drive back to my house didn't seem as long as the ride over to where we were. Things seemed like they were going to be okay. I was content. My mindset was that we would remain friends, and see what we could work out. I'm trying not to have any expectations but I can admit it's hard. I just have to remember he is in a complicated situation. I can't be his girlfriend right now and I think I'm okay with that. He says he needs time and I'm going to give that to him. So that's where IM at with this but I don't know what's going on in his head. The comment, "it's me and you then" worries me a little. I just hope we're on the same page.

When we got back, I grabbed a blanket from the linen closet and we slept on the sofa together.

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The next morning, I woke up to my moms voice.

"You guys need anything from the store?" She says.

I turn my head in the direction of her voice and see my mom sitting in a chair catacorner from the sofa, sipping out of a coffee mug. She smiles.

"No, Mommy." I laugh as I watch her stare at the man laying behind me.

"Who's that?" She silently mouths.

My response to her is just a smile.

"He's cute." She mouths again with a hugs smile on her face.

"You should've told me we were having a guest." She says aloud.

"I know but I left my phone here and when we got back you guys had already gone to bed. Is Daddy here?"

"No. He's out playing golf with his buddies from the country club. The usual. However he did text me after he left saying there was a Fatu on our sofa."

"He knows him?" I ask in a slight panic.

She shrugs.

I guess Jey was right about his family being well known. If my dad knows who he is then that might mean my dad knows Jey is married. Shit.

"Did he say anything else?" I ask

She shakes her head no and I see her eyes go from me to him. "Good morning." She says

"Good morning, Mrs. Fox." Jey sits up. "Sorry to officially meet like this but I didn't want to part with your daughter last night." He stands and extends his hand to her.

My mom smiles and shakes his hand. "It's totally fine." She says. "You were respectful and didn't sleep in her bed. So, points for you. It's nice to meet you, and you can call me Evelyn."

"I'm Josh." He says then he took a seat on the opposite end of the sofa because I was still laying down.

"Fatu." My mom says

"Yes ...Joshua Fatu. You know my family?"

"No. I think my husband does. He knew you were a Fatu."

"Oh, okay." Jey glances at me then back to my mom.

"Do you need anything from the store?" She asks him.

"No ma'am. I have a bag in my car. Thank you,"

"Well," she stands up. "I'll give you guys some privacy. There's coffee in the kitchen. I'll be back a little later. Your dad will probably be out most of the day." She looks at Jey. "You can formally meet him another day,"

"Yes ma'am!" He smiles.

Never noticed how nice of a smile he has.

She walks out of the living room. Jey glances over at me again and catches me smiling at him.

"What?" He asks

"You have a nice smile."

He gets under the blanket and slides behind me. "You have a nice everything." He wraps his arm around me and pulls me close to him.

I finally hear my mom leave out of the back door. I turn around to face him. His eyes were closed, looking like he was trying to go back to sleep. He seemed kinda tired to me yesterday. Maybe he isn't getting a lot of sleep.

"Is everything okay with you?" I ask

"Why you ask that?"

"You don't seem the same. I know circumstances are different but you just seem different to me."

He sighs, "Everything is as good as it's gonna get with me."

"Are you getting sleep?"

"Last night was the best sleep I've had in a while." He days

"Why?" I ask

"Busy with the family business."

"...So what's the family business?" I nervously ask. "We never talked about that."

"Do you want to get into that conversation right now?" He asks

"I do. I feel like if we're going to be friends in that capacity, I should know."

"Are you really ready to know?" I definitely feel like he doesn't want to answer this question.

"I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't."

He goes silent for a few seconds, then sighs. "Aight. Ima tell you but this has to stay between us." He says with a straight face.

"I promise." I say

"I don't want to scare you or anything but if this got out it would be bad for the both of us."

"You have my word, Jey." I say seriously.

"So, the family business is basically wrestling. We have a wrestling company. Some of us wrestle, some of us are on the business side, like me. "

"What's the name of the company?"

"Bloodline wrestling business." He answers

"Okay. I don't see anything wrong with that. What's so bad about it?" I ask

"Well, to break everything down for you, BWB puts on shows. We hire wrestlers from all over the world to come wrestle at our shows that we put on once a month. We fly the wrestlers in, we put them in a hotel, they wrestle for us and we fly them out." He explains

"Okay so like I said, we're so bad about that." I ask again.

"We fly them in to perform from all over the world, to San Francisco to perform for us. However, although the company is very legit, we do have some illegal dealings within that."

"What do you mean?" I ask

"When we fly these wrestlers in, they bring us a package. It could be a different variety of drugs, sometimes money, and sometimes hardware."

"Do they know what's in their packages?"

"No. We keep it that way because it's already risky. If they know what they have, things could go south fast." He explains

"So how does that work? I mean, you can't get drugs through the airport, anything illegal for that matter, how do you guys pull it off?"

"We do have our own hanger, on the airport grounds. We have about 10 jets, and that's how we're able to get things to and from easily."

"Wow. So you don't have money, like you have money money."

He laughs. "The business is very successful."

"So what's your part of all of this, what exactly do you do?"

"I pretty much just run the shows, makes sure everything runs smoothly. I also make sure of all business as far as when they come into town and make sure everything is handled."

"In other words, you make sure they're comfortable and taken care of while they're here."

"Yes."

"So you have a show once a month that means you come to San Francisco once a month?"

"If I'm lucky. I'm pretty much always back-and-forth. I hate it."

"So when you're in Atlanta, are you pretty much doing the same thing?"

"We're starting to expand, and since I live there, that's one of the markets we're expanding to. Florida is going to be the second."

"Are you guys only expanding in places where your family lives?"

"Yes."

"All of this is crazy." I say

"Tell me about it."

"Are all the wrestlers like this or do you legit have regular wrestlers?"

"We have a mix. We like to keep things balanced."

"I want to come to one of the shows." I say with a smile.

"Funny enough we have one tonight ."

"So I can come?" I instantly get excited.

"That's risky." He says

"How is it risky?"

"Because my family will be there."

"Oh..."

"I told you this is gonna be hard, and I don't know how I'm gonna work this shit out, but I'm gonna figure it out. If you really want to go, the only way this can happen is if you act like you don't know me. And I know hearing me say that again pisses you off, but I cannot risk it."

"In this case, I get it."

"I'm happy to hear that. I'll definitely come check on you and see how you like things but we just gotta act like we don't know each other."

"I don't want to but I can do that." I say.

"If you're cool with it, then I am too."

I smile, and kiss his lips. We began making out and I ended up on top of him. I know he said he wanted to focus on the connection we had and not the physical one but his dick is hard as a rock right now and I don't think he's thinking about that.

"Stop grinding on me like you wanna fuck." He says

I laugh, "I do. You wanted me, now you got me. Fuck me like you miss me."

"I know I fucked you like I'm not, but I'm very respectful and I'm not gonna have sex with you in your parents house." He says

"That sucks, because I was willing to do anything." I say seductively.

"Oh word?" He smiles. "Maybe you should come stay with me for a few days so I can give you what you want then."

"I thought you didn't wanna focus on the physical connection."

"I still want that, but there's so much sexual tension between us. I don't think we'll be able to do that until we can relieve this tension."

"I agree." I say. "Can I increase the tension for a second?"

I don't wait for him to respond. I continue grinding on him. I started playing with his ear with my tongue. Sucking on his ear, I feel him grab my hips and push me down on him. He started rubbing my ass then after a few minutes he let out a frustrated sigh.

"You trying me....."

I giggle, "Purposely." I grab his face and we begin making out heavy.

The making out only lasted a few minutes before he stopped me.

"That's enough." He says. "We not having sex. I don't have no condoms and I already told you we not fucking in your parents house."

"I know. I just got carried away." I laugh and stand up. "I need to shower. I'm super wet and it's uncomfortable."

"Me too." He points to his pants. "But you can go first."

"Such a gentleman."

"Ladies always first." He says.

"Go get your things, I'll be upstairs."

"Aight..." he picks up his phone off of the coffee table. "Let me take care of some business first." I watch as he starts doing something on his phone.

I go upstairs and take a shower. After getting out I stood there in my towel. My mind fell on everything that's happened within the last 12 hours. 12 hours ago, Jey was just a memory and now he's a reality. I love that I got what I wanted. I'm so happy. Let's just hope everything works out.

When I step out of the bathroom I hear Jey's voice. I stand at the top of the stairs to listen to his conversation. I know I shouldn't eavesdrop but there's still a lot I don't know about him and if he's not willing to spill, I have to find out on my own. Although I think if I asked he might tell me. He seems to be pretty honest aside from that one lie.

"Man, I don't care about none of that. Everything happens for a reason. If I wasn't meant to be here then I wouldn't be..." After a few seconds he lets out a long sigh. "I might be, but I know how I feel. I ain't felt like this in a long time. I know it's wrong how all this started, but I'm not going to continue to live how I was. I know you're looking out for me but chill. I got this."

I know he's talking about our situation and I know he is talking to his brother. Hearing that makes me smile.

"She ain't like that." He says. "Babygirl don't want shit from me but me.......Yes, I'm sure. Just let me deal with this. I appreciate you being worried about me but just let me handle it on my own. You're my brother, I know you have my back..... aight. I'll see you tonight."

I don't hear anything else after that so I'm assuming he hung up. I don't hear anything for a second so I walk down to the landing of the stairs.

"I'm done."

He was still doing something on his phone but he turned around to look at me. I watched as his eyes scanned the towel covering body.

"You're really trying...." He laughs

"I actually wasn't. I was just letting you know." I smile as he gets up and walks over to me. He slowly walks up the four steps then backs me up to the wall. He didn't touch me but by the look in his eyes I knew he wanted me as much as I wanted him.

He gets closer to me, I could feel the warmth of his body. That alone sends chills through mine. I don't know what this man did to me but I craved this man and his touch. I just wanted him in ways I've never wanted anyone else.

"Seeing you all wet and knowing you're naked under this towel is doing all kinds of things to me right now." He says in a low seductive tone.

"I've been feeling the same way ever since you showed up on my porch..." I said

He just looks at me then he inhales and exhales. He seems to be a little frustrated too.

"Touch me." I say. I need it. I can't continue like this I'm going to lose my fucking mind off he doesn't.

He shakes his head no. "If I touch you you'll explode...that's just how I want you."

I whine out in frustration. "Jeeey..."

"Damn. Don't say my name like that." He licks his lips then I feel his hand wrap around my throat. I was so turned on by his touch. This was even new to me. What was I going through?

He just watched me, smirking. "I love what I do to you." His hand got tighter.

"You like teasing me?" I tried talking normally but it still came out as a moan.

"I'm not trying to do that. I wanna give it to you." He pulls me towards him by my neck and kisses me. It was one of those sloppy kisses that made my knees weak.

He pushed back when he was done with the kiss and removed his hand. "After the show, come to my hotel."

I nod my head. "Okay."

"I'm going to get my things." He quickly exits.

I stood there for a minute trying to compose myself. Fuck. I was horny as hell and after that I was going to need another shower.

He came back in and I showed him to the bathroom. It took everything in me not to barge in and hop on him. I just got dressed and headed down to the kitchen. I figured he was hungry so I started to prepare some breakfast for him.

After he was done he came down with his duffle in his hand.

"Thank you for letting me stay at your parents house with you." He says from the doorway.

"You leaving?"

"Yeah. Baby, I have a lot of business to handle today. The show is tonight."

"Oh..." I was disappointed because I thought I would get to eat breakfast with him.

"Walk me out and come get this wristband."

I put on my shoes and followed him out to his car. He puts his things in the trunk of his car then he walks back over to me. He wraps his arms around me and grabs my ass.

"I'll send you the address. And when you come tonight, dress like you want me to notice you."

"Oh, I can do that." I say, wrapping my arms around his neck.

He smiles. "Again, we can't engage like that in this setting, so don't get mad if I have to ignore you."

"Will she be there?"

"Nah, she doesn't attend the shows, but a lot of my family will be there. You don't have to ever worry about seeing her out." He stares directly into my eyes. I could tell he was serious about that comment.

"Okay." I say

"I know it's hard but put that out of your mind...okay?"

I nod my head.

"Be there at 8." He leans in and kisses me. I wasn't expecting how aggressive it was. When he forces tongue down my throat it gives me flashbacks of that first night in Chicago, in the hotel room. I want this man so bad.

"I'll call you when I get a minute." He says the steps back and puts the wristband on my wrist.

I was so stuck, the only thing I could do was smile and nod my head. He laughs and gets into his car.

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