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“You don’t understand.” Candi sniffled. “Like, you’re so perfect and I’m so… fucked up.”
“I’m fucked up too. Our hurt ain’t the same, but before you got your mean ass in my car, I was trying to overcome heartbreak.”
Candi interrupted him with a scoff. A man as fine as him had women willing to throw themselves at his feet. There was no way he had been walking around here with a broken heart. She wasn’t convinced.
“On some honest shit, I felt something when you got in my car. Some love at first sight shit.”
“Boy!” Candi didn’t want him to play like that.
“Nah. For real. Like, right now, sitting here with you, it feels like my heart dancing.” Jay nodded, loving the way he found the right words to describe what he felt. He had to say it again. “Shit feels like my heart dancing. I ain't even know a heart could fuckin’ dance. You got me so outta body, Candi. Don’t make me have to live life the other way.”
“What are you saying? Or asking?” Candi twisted her body to look into his handsome face. Her eyes went to the facial tattoos that added to his image. Jay was fine on the worst days. How that other girl could walk away from him, Candi felt she had to be crazy.
“Come home with me. Let’s go get you some stuff and hit the road to Bama.” He needed to get out of the city and Candi could use a change of scenery.
“Um, I have a job because I got bills.” She bucked her head.
“I’ll pay it up. Right now. Log into your bills and shit right now, I’ll pay it all up for a year.”
The laughter started but stopped when she saw he was serious. “You for real?”
“Do I look like I’m playing? I’ll give you my card and you can pay up everything for the next year.”
“We gonna be gone that long?” Candi asked. Nothing at that moment was making sense.
“Does it matter? My ma can keep your job secured until you are ready to come back. Just say you’ll take a chance on this shit I’m feeling and come home with me.” His eyes pleaded with hers to say yes.
Pulling her lids together tightly, Candi needed to calm her beating heart. Going out of town with a man wasn’t new. However, the man Jay was made it feel like something she’d never done before. It gave her the feeling of being a teenager and the popular boy asking you to be his girlfriend. All of it was a wave of emotions she’d never felt before.
“Don’t make a nigga beg. I mean, I will though.”
That caused her to laugh. Inhaling deeply, she smiled. “I guess I’ll go with you to old country ass Alabama. I don’t want you to be bored out of your mind and shit.” Her eyes fluttered when his tongue snaked inside her mouth. Jay had a way of leaving her breathless while breathing life into her. It was a beautiful oxymoron. Her legs wobbled but Jay made sure he was there to hold her up.
As he pulled away, he stared into her eyes. “Where you been all my fuckin’ life?”
“Being misused—broken.”
“Never again, Magic.” His lips curled into a smile. “Come on, so you can get your shit and we can get on the road.”
“We going today?” Candi asked, following behind him like a shadow.
“Mhm.” He nodded, silencing his phone that started back up again.
Skeptically, Candi eyed him. “And the bullshit starts,” she commented as her nose flared.
“No bullshit. Never.”
“That’s what all niggas say.”
“I don’t see how you can’t tell I’m not the average nigga. My shit ain’t messy.”
Stomping into the bathroom to use it, she slammed the door. Although she felt a little uneasy, it wasn’t enough to stop her from seeing where things could lead with Jay. At the least, she would walk away with her bills paid up for the next year. As the thought popped back into her mind, she pushed the door open. “Oh, and let me get that card to pay my bills.”
Jay laughed at her trying so hard to look mad and have an attitude. He went to his wallet and passed her the Amex. “I would say make it two years, but I know you’ll be full of my kids and living with me by then.”
“But not a ring,” Candi stated rather than asking.
Reaching out, he stopped her from walking back into the bathroom. “I’ll get you ten fuckin’ rings. One for each finger if that’s what you want.”
