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“Hey, Cam. You remember me?” He asked after slipping into the driver’s seat.
“You’re mommy’s friend.”
“That’s right. Can I be your friend too?”
“Mommy said I can’t be friends with strangers. It’s not safe.”
He smiled, “Dangerous people can pretend to be your friends sometime. She’s right.”
“Mommy, can Mack be my friend too?” Camdyn asked.
I wanted to scream no. She didn’t need to get attached to something that could never be. This was supposed to be sex, and that’s it, but Marcus found a way to make things more complicated than they had to be.
“Sure, Cam,” I mumbled, resting my elbow against the door.
“She said yes!” Cam replied as if we weren’t all sitting in the car together.
“Cool, are you hungry?”
“Yes! Can we get pasta?” She asked, and my eyes bulged at him, but Mack didn’t care. Last night it was my world, but today it was Cam’s.
“If that’s what you want. We can get pasta.” I was irked by his patience and kindness. They were also the very things that turned me on.
“They’re not even open yet. You can eat when we get home Cam,” I interjected.
“Relax, it’s cool,” Mack replied, shifting the car into drive and then casually resting his hand on my thigh.
I didn’t know what ‘it’s cool’ meant until we pulled up to the restaurant. They weren’t scheduled to open for another thirty minutes, but somehow Mack walked inside and came back out with a bag of food that made Cam give him an ovation from the backseat.
This man was dangerously addictive. Not just for me but for Cam too. He treated her like a princess, making her every wish come true. It broke my heart because she deserved to know that kind of genuine care. Her own father refused to get his shit together and provide it, yet Mack did it effortlessly.
“Is Mack coming over to our house?” Cam asked while Mack removed her seat from his car, buckling it in my backseat like a pro after only one lesson.
“Not today.”
“Then when?” Camdyn pressed.
“That’s up to mommy,” Mack replied, putting me on the hot seat.
“When can Mack come over, mommy?”
“I don’t know, Cam. Get in your seat, please.”
Her lips tooted in disappointment as she climbed into her car seat. I buckled her in with her tablet before shutting the door.
“What did I do?” Mack asked, acknowledging the scowl on my face.
“You can’t do stuff like that.”
“Like what? Get Cam something to eat or check your baby daddy?” He asked with a tinge of jealousy in his voice.
“We both know this can’t be anything more than last night. Kids get attached, Mack. She already has one man in her life she can’t depend on. I don’t need to make it two.”
“Are we talking about Cam or you?”
“Both!” I erupted, running my hand through my hair in frustration. He was so patient with Camdyn and me. Mack provided the type of affection I’d been craving my whole life, but we didn’t make the rules. “I know you mean well because that’s who you are, but last night needs to stay last night. I don’t need Cam or me getting attached to something we can’t have.”
“Aite. I get it,” he replied, and it killed him to say so.
