Setting my feet back on the floor, I slapped him against his chest. "Oh my god, your such a liar! I can't believe you got me like that."

Locking the door behind him, he ran his fingers along my waist before pulling my body up against his. "I've been in town since yesterday and you didn't even suspect a thing. Thats why I had to hang up because I was driving over here. The question is, why didn't you just look out your window? You would've seen my car."

Biting my lip, I said, "I don't know, I wasn't thinking. Now are you going to kiss me or what?" Pacing himself, I tried to contain my joy as he gently brushed his nose against mine. Running my fingers in his hair, I unintentionally moaned as he softly placed his lips against mine in a kiss that was long overdue.

Tilting his head slightly to deepen the kiss, the moment our tongues became entangled my body temperature spiked. I hadn't even realized how much I really missed him until I was back in his arms.

He smiled against my lips as he crept his hands down the dip of my back and firmly grasped my butt. "Is that a buttflap on you're onesie?" Satisfied with his new discovery, he popped one of the buttons and palmed my bare right cheek with his cold hand causing me to shiver. "Mmm, let's take this upstairs mama."

As I stepped out of my onesie and hopped under the covers, I watched a naked Prince light several small vanilla candles and strategically place them around the room. "You know I gotta set the mood J."

I laughed, "Oh, well what about the music. No Barry White or Teddy P?"

Crawling up under the covers at the foot of the bed before navigating his way up until we were nose to nose, he whispered against my lips, "Don't worry sweetie, we're going to make our own melody." He placed a tender kiss on my lips before leaving love bites along my neck and down the valley between breasts. Taking his sweet time suckling on each of my hardened nipples, I winced in pain when his hand brushed against my tender belly button piercing. Looking up at me before running his hand along my flat stomach, he smirked at the sparkling gold ring. "Well what do we have here?"

Pushing his bangs out of his slender face, I sighed. "Uhh, you hate it don't you? I can always take it out. My cousins talked me into getting it down in New Orleans. I shouldn't have done it, I knew you wo—oooooh, mmmm." My words were cut off by him trailing his tongue from my lower abdomen to just right above my clit and back up.

"No, I kinda like it. Just don't surprise me with a tattoo baby."

Throwing the comforter off of us, he positioned himself at eye level with my heat. Nibbling on my inner thighs, he licked his full lips and growled, "Mmmmm, look how pretty and glistening she is. Just for me." The feeling of his warm breath mere centimeters away caused me to involuntary roll my hips up towards his face. A devious grin played on his face before his skillful tongue went to work.

Holding a firm grip on my bucking hips, I bit the pillow as he slowly parted my lower lips with his tongue. Gently sucking on my swollen bud, the tightness in my lower abdomen became far too much to bare as he slid two fingers inside of me and furiously pumped against my contracting walls.

As my orgasm flowed out of me, through his slurping he moaned against my warm flesh, "Mmmm, you taste so good. I could drink from your river all day."

Under the candlelight, I could see an extra glint in his enticing eyes that hinted at a shade of green tonight. Kissing the tip of my nose and intertwining his right hand with my left, his husky voice dropped an octave. "Are you ready to make love?" Lost in his seduction, all I could do was nod.

Opening my hips wider as he worked every inch of his manhood inside of me, I bit down on his shoulder to suppress my groans from this pleasurable pain I was enduring. My walls molded around every ridge and vein before he was fully inside of me. Feeling the pressure of every last one of those eight inches pressing against my cervix I moaned in his ear for him to move.

Pulling fully out of me and then ramming back inside, my breath hitched. With every single stroke I felt myself falling deeper into an ecstasy abyss. Burying his face into the crook of my neck, as our bodies were pressed tightly against each other, I could feel the rapid thumping of our hearts that were somehow in sync with each other. I could feel the passion radiating off of his toned body. That's something I realized I have not felt with Keith, with him it's just sex. My soul is not spiritually connected with Keith's while he's inside of me.

"babyyyy, oooouhh fuck. Right there, I'm so damn closeee." With my impending orgasm seconds away, I blocked out him harshly sucking on my neck. Wrapping my legs around his waist, my walls convulsed and I came.

Pulling out of me with a wet 'pop' sound, he sat back on his knees watching my legs shake as I tried to come down from my orgasm. "Hands and knees now." Following his command, I slowly rolled over catching a glimpse of him stroking his glistening dick.

Facing the headboard and properly arching my back, I felt a harsh sting as his palm came in contact with my ass cheeks before he briefly ran his fingers along my dripping slit. "Jazzy Poo, you been getting thick on me?" Slap. "I leave and come back, I swear your ass is a little bigger. Mmm i like it, it's jiggling just right." Slap. At this point, I know I have hand prints on each cheek.

As I grew impatient, the bed shifted and he pushed my hair to the side so he could kiss the back of my neck and leave lingering kisses down my spine. Lining himself up with my entrance, he rammed inside of me in one swift motion. Digging his manicured nails into my hips, his pace increased putting me closer and closer to my next orgasm.

Grabbing a fistful of my curls, he harshly yanked me as he halted his thrusts. "Fuck! Whose pussy is this?" Here he goes with this shit.

"Yours!"

Rolling his hips in a circular motion, I could hear the satisfaction in his voice. "It's mine huh? You promise not to let another man touch what's mine?"

"Yes baby, just please! please I need to cum so bad fuuuuuck!"

Letting go of my hair, he slithered his hand around and rubbed on my aching clit causing me to go insane. "You've been taking your birth control on time baby girl?" I moaned out a yes before he finally picked up his pace. A good six strokes later, I came again. At this point, he had a death grip on my hips as he mercilessly rammed into me. Shrieking at the harsh contact of our hips, he let out a loud grunt as he buried himself inside of me and shot him warm seed along my walls.

Collapsing down on the bed, I was sure I was about to sleep through the New Year.

After another round, somehow we ended up downstairs snuggled up in my bedspread by the toasty fireplace. Listening to his steady breathing while my head lay on his chest, the crackling of the flames helped set the sensual scenario we had found ourselves in. We had been playing word association for who knows how long and him trailing his fingertips down my spine was throwing me off.

"ummm, Noah?"

He said, "The future."

"black?"

"beauty and power."

"kitchen counter?"

A deep laugh escaped his lips, "Round 3." I lifted my head up to meet his gaze and asked him, "How did we even end up in that predicament?"

He put his left arm behind his head. "Well, you said you were thirsty so I followed you down stairs. When you bent over to grab the orange juice, well your lower lips caught my eye and from there it's history."

I laughed, "You naughty boy. Ok, ok last one. Honesty?"

He sighed, "Of the upmost importance."

Laying in silence for what seemed like forever, P spoke up first. "Jasmin, can you be honest with me?"

"Sure."

"Since we've been together, have you been with another man?"

My arm twitched when his shocking question hit my ears. I didn't know where it was coming from and I didn't know whether to be afraid that he already knew something or offended at his accusations. Even though I felt like he wasn't in the right place to question me, I knew if I lied to him he'd see right through it and only make the situation worse. "Yes."

Tightening his grip on my waist, I could hear a bit of harshness coat his tone. "How long?"

"That's irrelevant, he's not important to me."

"Do you love him?"

"Honestly? No. He could never make me feel the way you make me feel P. You bring so much joy to my life. You're honestly one of my best friends and have been since I first met you. You make me laugh and I know you love me. You ignite this fire inside of me and I love it but sometimes I hate it."

"Why do you hate it?"

I sheepishly said, "You know why."

Another five or so minutes passed by before he deeply exhaled. "I filed for divorce." Sitting straight up, the blanket fell exposing my breasts. Resting the palm of my hand on his bare chest, I kind of just stared at him trying to process the words he just said. I guess I took too long to respond. "Say something."

"What do you want me to say? Congrats? Jump for joy? I don't know that just seems kind of mean and insensitive. I don't know what to say. I guess I just never thought you would actually go through with it."

Rubbing the back of my hand, he stared up at the ceiling as he rambled. "I don't know, we just hadn't been right since the end of '96. And especially after that second miscarriage, I just felt myself detaching altogether. I don't know, I prayed on it."

"Did I have anything to do with you filing?"

"You had nothing to do with the demise of our relationship, the downward spiral started long before I met you."

Over with this whole conversation, I laid back in my original spot before abruptly changing the subject. "So you're doing big things at the end of 1998, so am I. Guess what I did P?"

I looked up at him to see a confused yet inquisitive look on his face. "What did you do?"

The tone in my voice perked up and I smiled. "I signed a lease on a house! Your girl is officially moving out on her own."

He kissed my forehead and pulled me on top of him. "Congrats baby, this is a big step." He chuckled, "So no more sneaking out?"

"Nope, no more sneaking out. It's a nice house in Eden Prairie. 4 bedrooms, gated subdivision, bomb ass kitchen. Morgan loves it because it's only 10 minutes away from her house."

"I bet she does. Hmph, you should've told me you were looking. I would've had a realtor find you a place in Chanhassen."

I cut my eyes at him. "Ha! You wish, you'd just love to have me that close to you. You're not slick Spud."

As the fire died down a bit, he looked over at the digital clock on the end table."So any last song requests before midnight Princess Jasmin?" Briefly thinking to myself, I giggled before I rolled my pelvis against his softened member as I started rapping. "This a'int nothing but a little funky mac song, all I'm saying is that I wanna smack it all night long. On and o—"

He covered my mouth and sternly said, "No. I regret ever letting you hear that song." He made the mistake of moving his hand.

"That's what I know you like, I'm your nigga now about to read your righ—". Covering my mouth again, I quickly snatched it off. "Okay, okay. I promise I'm done now. Seriously, could you sing Sweet Thing?"

He smacked his lips, "I guess."

As he serenaded me to one of my favorite songs, I felt so relaxed. Briefly looking over at the clock, 1998 was officially over. Things have happened in this past year that I never thought would have happened in my wildest of dreams. A large smile graced my face as I realized I had brought in the New Year in the arms of the man I can confidently say I loved. I'd be lying if I said the news of a divorce didn't cause me to feel a sense of happiness but I had to be realistic about this whole situation. It's a long road ahead. I'm unsure what 1999 holds in store, but I know one thing.

I'm ready as hell to go along for the ride.

*Well y'all it's officially 1999! A lot has happened in 1998! I want y'all to leave any predictions about what might be coming in the future or any questions or comments down below. Also before I forget, I wanted to mention how this book has so far gotten to over 6K views and I am speechless! I never thought it would get all the love it has gotten and I am grateful for it and all of y'all that have been rocking with it since the beginning. Prince and Jasmin have been kicking it for this long, and ummm there are plenty of edges to be snatched from this point on. I don't think y'all ready! 😂😂😂*