Daniel was barely in the car before I started to give him a piece of my mind. All the drama with Estelle and being here with his family and making discoveries that left me more distress, and in a time like this when emotions and feeling were raging high it all compiled into an emotional volcano that erupted from me like a burst dam.

"You listen to me you don't own me. Yuh hear mi?! Your male macho egotistical display to Kameel was uncalled for!"

I watch as he quietly closes the car door and places the umbrella on the floor before turning to stare at me. I glare back and let it rip some more.

"I won't sit back and have you make a fool of me in front of your family. It's enough I have to come here and find out that you're hot and heavy with Estelle. I do have my pride even if you won't respect me or it."

I felt tears springing to my eyes but I swallow hard and will them away. There was no way I was going to sit here and make him see how much he was dragging me to hell.

"I have no problem to support you here tonight or even to stand with you as your child's mother but to be your wife in front of Estelle and her family when deep down they all know I am nothing but a ring-wearing fraud I will not do! Yuh hear mi?"

The silence from him was only making me more irate. I wanted to see some form of guilt or remorse but all I saw was dark eyes watching me with such intensity it cause me to shiver and I hope he took it to be from the cold rainy night.

"You ask me to come here to help you through this trying situation with your father when your lover happens to be his daughter. I don't see how I was needed one damn bit!"

He shifts and for a minute I thought he was going to reach for me but all he did was fish the car keys from his pocket. I fold my arms across my stomach and glare daggers at him.

"To think that all mi do is worry about what people would think to know that wi conceive a child out of a one night stand and what would become of my child if I should let him or her not know his father but right now might as well mi did jus kip mi pickney to mi sef."

I got a reaction then but it's was not what I was expecting. I heard people remark about as fast as a flash of lightning but Daniel took it to another level, one minute I was sitting in the passenger seat, and the next I was pulled against him and my lips were being crushed in a kiss both painful and oddly exhilarating.

My attraction and my need for him took away whatever fire was raging inside of me and replace it with need. I curse myself for being so darn wanton when I open my mouth to his probing tongue and allow him to drink from the ambrosiatic well of my love for him as I too explore the sweet depths of his warm mouth.

This was beginning to be a darn cycle that I need to break-- car, rain, and Daniel were a potent mix for me --but not yet. I needed more, I just needed a bit more and then I'll end it.

However it wasn't I who ended it, it was Daniel and when he pulled away from me I groan my disappointment and realize with burning cheeks that he sat there staring at me as my eyes flicker open testifying to my need for him.

"Let's get this straight you and our child belong to me and any man who tries to attest that will have to answer to me. I made you my wife yes because of our son but if you should also know even if you hadn't conceived that night destiny would have led me back to you because no matter how I try I can't get you out of my head."

His words took my breath away and I know I sat there staring stupidly at him but I still could not get Estelle out of my mind.

"I never would have thought you to be such a selfish asshole" I flared. "Wow watch me swoon and get all giddy-headed because you're such a chauvinistic brute" I add my voice laced with sarcasm. "Estelle might be taken up with such machonistic display of affection but I like my man all for me or not at all."

I made to move away but his hold on me tighten enough to keep me in place so instead of trying to pull away I glare more daggers at him.

"Estelle means nothing to me other than a sister. What we had was some years ago is long done, at least on my part. I did not need to tell you about her because there is no longer an us.

I was young and infatuated with Stella's charisma and her wild carefreeness. I was taken in by her daredevil ways as she was a far cry from the girls I knew back in my community and I became attracted to her yes even considering myself to be in love but unlike Stella, I grew up and realize life was much more than fun and excitement.

I also know that Stella will never commit herself to me or any man and where I
am heading in life a woman like that does not fit in."

I look at him and realize he spoke with an affirmation that the images of them kissing in my mind spoke against. I could still see her lips pressing up against his.

"Ok, so it's clear that yuh want a puppet. A silly girl so taken up with you that no matter what you can pull her strings and have her move to your whim and ways, yuh think that's me right?"

I gave a humorless laugh as I now try to pull away but he kept me held firmly in place. I wiggled but such action cause my breast to press and rub against him causing my nipples to come alive at the innocent but yet purely provocative contact.

"Let go!" I was so upset with myself now, even being angry with him I still wanted him sexually.

He paid my demand no mind and I tried to push him away but he only told me to relax causing me to snap at him again.

"Nuh tell mi wah fi do?"

He was driving me over the emotional precipice full speed ahead with no chance of letting up off the gas. I felt defeated and I quit trying to get out of his grip.

"I can't do this Dan?," I whisper as the tears I could no longer keep in check spill down my cheeks. "I can't be your wife in front of people who know that it is all a sham."

"Leslie you're the only one who knows the basis of this marriage beside Mama. What I share with you is between us not everybody who happens to be in my life".

I look up at him and said stupidly, "Really?"

"I informed them of my marriage and invited them to the reception. However, the circumstance of my father's ill health prevented that, and Stella, as you have come to realize, is more concerned about her selfish affairs."

"But Myra knew I was pregnant," I stated.

He smiles at me and said, "You might not see it Les but you absolutely glow with the radiance of this pregnancy."

I blush and look down at my hand that was resting on his shoulder. I stare at the band and thought in the week and few days since we have tied the not we rocked up a few more drama scenarios than a soap opera.

He tilts my face so that I was looking back at him. "I will never do anything to hurt you. I would not have gotten you involved in my life this way if I was involved with someone else. I have had my share of affairs but never have I been callous with their feelings and I have no intention of doing so with you."

I sniffled and smile at him basking in the revelation of such a sweet selfless gesture.

"It seems however that all I seem to do is go against that with you though. I ran away when we made love that night in my car, I ran away also when I heard you crying in the bathroom but I have no intention to run anymore. I L----"

The sound of someone knocking on the window beside Daniel gave me a start and what he was about to say was interrupted. When he winds down the window it was Kameel standing in the now drizzling rain with a smug look on his face.

What? great timing, I thought sarcastically.

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Can you imagine two thorns or should I say... the rat and the weasel have decided to put Leslie and Daniel's love to the test before there is even a declaration of love.
Man, what's gonna happen now? 😯

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