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Augustine tried to keep Dalian and me from talking in depth and it was nice that he was clueless, but my thoughts on him didn’t last very long. He was out of my worries after spending a little while with him. No wonder Evelyn had made it clear that I was a suitable match as well. Dalian wasn’t a loser per say, but he was not going to become anything. He had no ambition, just to do enough, have enough. Someone like Augustine deserved to be with someone that was going to put the same amount of effort into things.
When it was over, I took Augustine home. I talked Dalian into making it easier by letting me take her. It wasn’t because I was closer, but because I just wanted to spend some time with her. Dalian didn’t have the guts or wherewithal to find out what I was doing. He wasn’t for her. I had decided that. Augustine knew that she deserved better. She deserved a real man and Dalian wasn’t it.
“You should have let me go with my fiancée, Derrick. That was rude.”
I shrugged and told her that he shouldn’t be her fiancée. Augustine scoffed at me and told me that I had nothing to say. She thought that I was just starting drama for her. I wasn’t. I was trying my best to show her how I felt about her. I couldn’t help it if she wasn’t listening to anything I had to say about it.
“You would be bored. I am saving you from that.”
She looked over at me and our eyes met for a moment. “Why do you think it would be any different with you?”
It sounded like she was trying to get a rise out of me. She had to know that I would take my time to prove her wrong. I put my hand on her leg and she jumped a little, like she knew what I was going to do with her knee and thigh. I was going to get a rise out of her, whether she could manage it or not.
My eyes never left the road, the speed was fast, and it was full of cars. I didn’t need to see what I was doing though. Augustine’s sounds of shock and pleasure were pretty easy to go by in a “hot and cold” kind of way.
I did look over after I found out how damp her panties were. Augustine had her head back against the seat, eyes closed, and her thighs trying to break my hand to get in there. I just wanted to slide in and claim her for my own. She was fighting it though and when I wiggled my finger a bit on her clit, she jerked and then came, in the sweetest sounding release that I’d ever heard. It was like music to my ears.
When I stopped in front of her apartment building, I moved my hand, with every intention of doing more, but Augustine was out of the vehicle in record time. I didn’t have a say and she was gone. I could still smell her in my car and feel her wetness on my fingers. It was complicated, but what could be easier to understand than what I needed? Why had she ran off? Even though I wanted to follow her, after what happened last time, I figured it would be better to give her some space. She wasn’t afraid this time when I touched her, but panicked enough that she ran away wasn’t normal, right?
I was just going to have to wait until tomorrow and see how it all shook out.
* * *
Augustine wasa few minutes late to work the next day. Again, I worried that Augustine wasn’t going to come back in. I knew that I was pushing something that she could possibly not be ready for. I worried about that more than anything. I couldn’t imagine her not being in my life and losing her for good. It wasn’t an option I was willing to think about. After getting to know her fiancée, she would be crazy to stay with him. He wasn’t for her at all. Anyone that was around them together for a few minutes would know that.
“Good morning, Augustine.”
“Morning, boss.”
I asked her if she could just call me Derrick, but Augustine wasn’t sure about all of that. She said that she liked calling me boss. I just shrugged. It wasn’t like I could demand it. If I could demand things of her, I had a feeling that it would be a lot harder to focus. I wanted to force her hand and make her mine, but I couldn’t. All she had to do was marry me, fix our problems, and make me happy. I wasn’t joking. I wanted her and the more I thought about it, the surer I was that I wanted Augustine. No one else would ever do.
“I think we should talk in my office, Augustine, if you don’t mind.”
Augustine did mind. “Sure, okay.”
I followed her into the room and hoped it went the way I wanted it to.
21
Augustine
“You can’t seriously be considering marrying him, Augustine, I mean really.”
It was the first thing that Derrick said, and I didn’t know how to respond. It wasn’t that nice of a thing to say, but he was right, of course. Dalian was not who I needed in my life. He was not for me. I knew that as soon as I met him.
“Why do you care?” I asked.
“I have told you why I care. You deserve someone better, someone who can appreciate all you have to offer.”
I didn't know what to say to that. Derrick had not faltered from the fact that he meant any of it, and that surprised me more than anything else. He hadn’t changed his tune, which made me wonder if it was possible.
The way he touched me and made me feel amazing the night before probably confused me more than anything else. Now, I was starting to see that maybe it didn't have to make sense. I was always doing what I was supposed to do, and it never brought about any kind of happiness. Instead, I started to see myself with who I was engaged to, and I couldn't say that I liked the way it played out in my head very much. He was not a man that I would be happy with.
“So, you just want to get married, knowing that it needs to be in the next couple of weeks?”
“Yeah, if that is what you need.”
“I just don't understand why you would do that. You don’t have to abide by the same rules that I do.”
