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She widens her eyes at me and shakes her head, and I narrow my eyes in return. I’ll be damned if I’ll have him eyeing her ass and fantasizing the entire time she’s with him.
A chuckle behind me prompts me to turn around. “It’s been a while, my boy,” Captain Connor says.
“Excuse me,” I grunt.
“Been a while since I’ve seen your nose open that wide,” he remarks.
Captain Connor and my father are close friends. He’s been around since we were kids, hence his familiarity with me.
“My nose isn’t open wide. I don’t appreciate your staff looking at my woman that way.”
“Don’t have to worry about that boy. Dylan is probably looking at your ass more so than that woman’s,” Captain Connor says, releasing a deep-bellied laugh at my scowl.
I shake my head and ask, “Were all my items delivered today?”
“They were. Have you told your guest how long this trip will be?”
I shake my head and say, “I’ll tell her in time. Just waiting for the perfect moment.”
He laughs again and shakes his head. “You Maxwell men never learn, do you?”
Rather than answering, I clench my teeth tightly and ask, “Are the things in our suite?”
“They are. Everything that you asked for. Sabrina had them delivered this morning before you even landed in Maryland.”
Nodding, I say, “Perfect. Well, I’m heading down.”
“We’ll be departing shortly,” he says.
“Good.”
I turn to walk away before I pause and turn around. “Cap?”
“Yes, son?”
“Happy New Year.”
“Happy New Year, Cade,” he says before turning around and chuckling once more.
I push the feeling of doom and gloom aside, and I hope Yesenia will be on board with what I’m about to tell her tonight. I shouldn’t have gone about it how I have, but I realized before we left Alta that I wanted more from this woman than I let on with her.
Lauren wasn’t wrong when saying I’m always looking for relationships. I am. I’ve tried screwing multiple women without a care, which is not my style. Can I do it? Yes. Without remorse, when they’re left wondering what happened? No.
I always want more. It’s who I am. I’m an all-or-nothing man. I just have to go about it my way. While I may be telling everyone else, Nia included, that I only want sex from her, I know that’s a goddamn lie.
Yet, I also know that I have to protect my heart. If I don’t, she’ll screw it over. There wasn’t one person in love with Lauren during our youth, but two of us. It was easier for me to deny my feelings than for Drew.
Why? Because I quickly realized after a few sessions of hot and heavy sex with Lauren that she felt the same way about him. She entertained flirting with both of us because it was fun, and that’s just who Lauren is. She loves for all the attention to be on her, but she’s only truly ever loved one man, and that was Drew.
It was easier for me to move out of their way than go deeper with her and suffer heartbreak more severely than I already was.
That’s the woman that Cap was referring to when he said he hadn’t seen my nose wide open in some time. It took a long time to get over her, but I never allowed our friendship to suffer because of it. After Lauren, I tried fucking women for the hell of it, but that was never me. So, I immersed myself in a series of relationships, but I found that I compared all of them to Lauren.
Ultimately, I settled for dating women long-term until they would begin looking, asking for, and expecting more. Then I would break it off with them and start all over again.
I don’t think that’s what this is with Nia. I don’t know what I want with her, but it’s not just for her to be a fuck buddy. Nia has the potential to break me.
So, until I can figure out what I want from her, I’m satisfied with just sex for now.
