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“Okay.” Terry said the word slowly.
“I’m not making sense, I know that. I’m trying to figure it out too. I mean, fuck, you were just inside me less than two hours ago.” I flushed at my words.
“I love it when you talk like that,” he cooed into the phone.
“Terry,” I warned.
“What?” he said with a chuckle. “What’s the matter, dirty girl?”
“I am not having phone sex with you.”
“Oh, so you just want to have sex in person. Well, in that case, I can be over there in like twenty minutes,” he said, his tone serious. I was worried he might actually come over if I didn’t deter him.
“No, you’re not coming over here, and we’re not having phone sex. Okay?”
Silence filled the line.
“Terry,” I tried again.
“I’m nodding,” he admitted. “Well, nodding and playing with myself.”
“Jesus, Terry,” I said, blushing.
“Relax, I’m not over here doing that. I’m just trying to figure out what we are doing.” He emphasized the word we and it made me giddy.
“I think that we are taking a beat and seeing where this goes.”
I felt silly for being excited talking about a ‘we’ with Terry, especially when I had no idea what that meant. But the hell with it. I wanted some more of that delicious sex. But that wasn’t all. I wanted an explanation as to why he left to begin with. I wanted to know the man that had been placed back in my life again. We had been apart for so many years, and so much had happened to both of us. I knew that if I didn’t attempt to learn about him and his life, I would regret it forever.
“What do you say?” I asked him because he was still silent. “Do you want to get to know each other again and see where this goes?”
“That means you’re going to have to tell me what happened to you,” he reminded me.
I sighed into the phone. “Yeah, I know that. But not right away. Give me time to come around to it.”
“I’m not going to force anything on you, Mia. You can tell me whenever you’re ready. I know you want answers about me and we’ll get to those. But I also want answers. Because, baby, you are different. It’s not a bad different, but I can tell that something earth-shattering happened to you. I have my suspicions, but I want to hear you say the words.”
I swallowed down another sip of wine. “You do realize that what happened took place after you left me. Technically, I don’t owe you that one.”
“Mia,” he said, almost in a scolding manner. “Come on, if we’re actually going to do this, there can’t be any more games or getting out of things on a technicality. I want to know you—all of you.”
“Okay,” I said in a small voice. “I just need you to give me some time. I will do this in my time. You are going to have to be patient with me.”
“I won’t push you into anything you’re not ready for. I want to be with you again, not just for a quick and dirty fuck. I want to know you again, the woman you are today.” There was sincerity in his voice, and it tugged at my heart.
“Fine, no more games.”
“Really?” The shock in his voice came through the line. “You’d agree to that?”
“I will if you will. Which means you have to tell me the story of why you left me. Not tonight,” I clarified. “But I deserve to know eventually. I’ve earned the that right.”
“You have and I will.” His tone was confident. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned being around you and inside of you again”—his voice dropped to a sexy low tone on the last part—“it’s that I can’t stay away. I want to be with you again, whatever way that you’ll have me.”
“You’re so good at saying all the right things, that much I remember about you.” I still had all the cards and letters he wrote me. All the poetry he’d written onto a blank sheet of paper. I told myself it was a nice parting gift that I got to keep. He found a way to show me how he felt; with his words. I knew that may have been an overreaction, but only time would tell. “You’re going to have to show me.”
“I will,” he promised. “I will show you and tell you. Even if we never develop past some quick fucks or slow lovemaking sessions, I’m in for it. Mia, darlin’, you’re worth it—you were then and you are now. And I...I was just a dick.”
I laughed. “Something we can agree on.”
