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“Then stay with me.”
“Like just shack up with you for the next few days?”
Several lines appeared across Bakari’s forehead. “Let me get this straight. You can lick, kiss, and suck on me. Let me dick you down but staying with me is off limits?”
“That’s crazy when you put it that way.”
He tugged on my hand. “If all you want is sex with me again, we can do it right now and go our separate ways. But if you want to enjoy me and Jamaica, stay a few more days. You’ll be caught up in the conference all day tomorrow and leave Wednesday. What fun is that?”
“I can already tell you run hot and cold, Bakari. You’re not going to trip out on me and be dismissive, and I’m stuck in your space.”
“I plead the fifth about how I can be.” He chuckled. “But I can promise that I’ll be uninhibited with you for the next few days. That we just have fun, with no worries about whatever we have waiting for us back home. And when it’s over. It’s over. You have to promise the same.”
“Okay.”
He shook his head. “That means that whatever I ask you to do, you do it. That includes answering me truthfully.”
“That applies to you too.”
“I have no problem doing whatever you ask. And I already told you about my woman at home.”
“Wait...so she isn’t a hypothetical?” I sensed she wasn’t, but a part of me hoped he was completely single.
“No. She’s very real.”
This time I leaned closer to him, meeting his gaze directly. “You usually cheat on your girlfriends?”
“No. Then again, I rarely have girlfriends.”
“Then she must be special, and maybe you’re on the way to loving her.”
Bakari glanced up for a second. “Let’s just say she came along at the right time. She’s no more special than other women I’ve dated.”
“Then why have a girlfriend?”
Bakari shifted in the lounge chair closer to me. “I’m getting older and thinking it’s time for me to settle down. My parents married young. My brother has been married for almost ten years and seems to enjoy it. As I said, she came along when I was tired of dating. Nothing more. Nothing less.”
“Yet, you slept with me.”
“That doesn’t mean I’m not serious about who I have back home.”
“Umm...I think it does. Don’t tell me you’re one of those men who doesn’t know the definition of faithful?”
“I can and will be faithful to the right woman, especially my wife. I haven’t decided if the woman I’m with is the woman for now or for the long haul.”
“Damn. I hope my man won’t ever think that way about me.”
“He won’t.” Bakari smoothly moved to sit next to me. “Is who you’re talking about a future man or current man?”
“I don’t cheat, so no, I don’t have anyone.” I thought of Nico.
“Even in the dark, I could tell there’s someone. Thought we were being honest.”
“There used to be someone. He’s moved on.”
“And you haven’t.” He surmised quietly.
“No.”
