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Melinda closed her eyes tight. It was too early to think about such things. It was definitely too early to start crying. But that’s all she felt like doing since last night. She was hoping after they got home and made love it would ease some of the pain but it didn’t. Not with Jordan recording it. Though she told him it was fine, she really didn’t like it. Yes, at first it turned her on slightly, having Jordan craving her like that. But since they moved into this house anytime they had sex he recorded it. She felt more like the act of sex was now a performance than something to express their love for each other. Them having sex in Tom’s bathroom was the first time he didn’t ask if he could record it. That’s properly why she enjoyed them fucking so much more than their so-called making love last night.

She let out a sigh as she huddled under the covers. She tried to go back to sleep, but Melinda was having difficulties. So she started taking deep breaths to find her center to help her. But when she did, she could smell hazelnut coffee, her favorite. Jordan had to be in the kitchen. She took another deep breath and she smelled bacon but that wasn’t all. She could smell, the smoke detector went off, smell something burning. Melinda let out another sigh as she opened her eyes up. As she got out of bed, she could hear Jordan cussing up a storm. She put on her robe and she headed to the kitchen where there was smoke in the air and flames on the stove.

“Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.” Jordan said, grabbing the fire extinguisher as he saw Melinda. “Baby stay back.” She grabbed the fire extinguisher from him and sat it down. “Baby what are you doing?” She turned off the stove and then picked up the lid for the pan, and placed it right on the pan, putting out the flames. “Oh.”

“That fire extinguisher isn’t designed for grease fires,” Melinda said as she opened up the windows to let the smoke out. “The moment you would have used it, the flames would have spread. It’s better to just deprive it of oxygen with the lid or blanket or towel. Or put it out by using baking soda.”

“Baking soda?” Jordan said, she nodded her head. “Huh. That’s why you always keep that big box of baking soda in the kitchen.”

“Exactly.” Melinda said. 

She looked at the other food he had on the stove that was also burned. “Yeahhhh kinda burned everything,” Jordan said, and she looked over at him. “I just wanted to try and make you breakfast after last night but,” he sighed. “I still fucking suck at cooking as you can tell.”

She giggled. “Yeah I remember you told me you used to spend tons of money on Hello Fresh and Ubereats before I started cooking for you.” Melinda said.

He chuckled. “I never told you but,” Jordan said and he smiled. “Remember the very first time you offered to come over and cook for me?”

“Yeah,” Melinda said, nodding her head.

“Well,” Jordan said and he smiled. “I never told you this but I didn’t have any pots or pants or cooking utensils so I went out and bought them before you came over.”

She giggled. “Are you serious?” Melinda said.

He chuckled. “Yeah,” Jordan said, nodding his head. 

“I was wondering why they look so brand new,” Melinda said. He smiled as he nodded his head. Then his smile faded as he looked at her. “What?”

“I like it when we're like this,” Jordan said. “Smiling, laughing, just joking around. I really thought last night was going to be the last time we had this.” She looked down as last night replayed and doubt started creeping into her mind once more. “You're not going to leave me are you baby?” She looked up and she shook her head, he gave her a small smile. “Come here,” they went over to each other and he wrapped his arms around, giving her a kiss. “Since I burnt all this food, do you want some cereal? I can’t burn that.”

“I don’t know, are you going to make it the right way?” Melinda said with a smirk.

“Hey, milk and then cereal is the right way baby” Jordan said, and he smirked back. “You doing cereal and then milk is the wrong way.”  

She giggled a bit. “Whatever you say, babe.” Melinda said. “I think I'm just going to lay down a bit longer and when I wake up I’ll turn that coffee to ice coffee.”

“Alright baby,” Jordan said and he gave her a kiss. “How about,” he smiled, “we make love again?”

She gave a small smile. “That would be great but I’m just really tired babe,” Melinda said.

He nodded his head. “Okay, that’s fine.” Jordan said. “Go get some sleep and I’ll clean up here.” He gave her another kiss before he let her go and she started heading back to the bedroom. “Baby?” Melinda stopped and turned back to him. “What do you think about us spicing it up in the bedroom?”

“What do you mean?” Melinda said, looking confused.

“You know,” Jordan said and he grinned. “Bringing in some toys.”

“Toys?” Melinda said.

“Yeah,” Jordan said, nodding his head. “Like a vibrator and dildo for you. Maybe we can do some anal plugs for you to see if you like that. That would help get you adjusted and get you ready for me if you end up deciding I can fuck your ass.” She looked at him in surprise. “Oh,” he snapped his fingers and smiled. “We can get one of those machines that have the dildo on it. I can tie you up on the bed and I can watch it fuck you while I jerk off.”

“What?” Melinda said, not knowing what to think. “What the hell are you talking about?”

“I’m just throwing out suggestions to spice things up, that’s all baby.” Jordan said. “What if I buy an actual camera and you know those tripods so we can record us better.”

“Where the fuck is this all coming from?” Melinda said.

“It's just,” Jordan said and he sighed. “I heard that romance tends to go out the window once a couple gets married and has kids. And I don’t want that for us, baby. I want us to be all into each other so I thought, you know,” he smiled. “Spicing things up in the bedroom would help out.”

“If you want to keep romance alive shouldn’t we go on dates and not make a porn video?” Melinda said.

“Yeah,” Jordan said and he looked down. “Guess going on dates would work better.”

“Are you bored of me in the bedroom?” Melinda said.

He looked up quickly. “What? No,” Jordan said, shaking his head. “I’m not bored of you at all baby. I just don’t want you to get bored of me and leave.” 

“You really think I’m bored of you?” Melinda said, as she started getting frustrated.  “I’m not the one flirting and eye fucking others Jordan.” He looked away. “What’s next? You're going to suggest bringing another man or even another woman into the bedroom to spice things up.”

He turned back to her. “Fuck no,” Jordan said, raising his voice a bit. “I won’t ever do that shit to you. I don’t want another man or fucking woman touching you.” He sighed heavily. “I’m sorry baby. It’s super early in the morning and I’m tossing all these suggestions at you. I’m sure you're still tired and stressed out because of last night's bullshit with Tom. Won’t you just forget what I said and get some sleep.” She just looked at him. “Go ahead baby,” he smiled. “Get some sleep.” She turned back around and headed back to the bedroom. “I love you baby.” 

She stopped for a moment. “Yeah,” Melinda said. “Love you too.” She went inside and closed the door behind her. 

“Fuck.” Jordan said. 

Couple Hours Later: 

Unable to sleep when she got back into the bedroom, Melinda had ended up taking a shower. Then she decided to soak in the tub and read a book. She was there for a while until Jordan came in to check up on her. And of course, he started taking off his clothes to join her. She didn’t mind it at first since Jordan stayed quiet and he was rubbing her feet. But when things started turning sexual he brought up recording it. Without a word or a sigh Melinda got out of the tub and went to the bedroom to dry off. She got dressed as he came into the bedroom to apologize. She just went into the kitchen and started getting breakfast together. 

When she was done cooking, they sat in the dining room and started eating. Melinda wasn’t saying a word or even looking at Jordan as he tried talking to her. She just gave him a simple nod or head shake, and occasional shoulder shrugged. After they ate, she cleaned up and started working on unpacking the kitchen while Jordan started putting up the curtains. Jordan did try to keep talking to her but eventually he gave up and put on some music for them to listen to. Once the kitchen was done, they got one of the spare rooms set up as a guest room. That’s when Jordan brought up that they should work on setting up the nursery so they wouldn’t have to worry about doing it during her pregnancy. Before Melinda could say anything someone rang the doorbell and she went over to answer it.

She opened the door and she was taken back with who she saw. “Oh hell no,” Melinda said.

“Baby who is it?” Jordan said and he went over, seeing who it was. “What do you want?”

“Mr Ryder has sent me over with some important documentation.” He said. “If I can have a moment of your time.”

She sighed. “Sure, why not? It’s not like last time things went sideways.” Melinda said in a sarcastic tone as she let him in. “Would you like something to drink?” Leading the way to the dining room. 

“No thank you.” He said.

They sat down. “So let’s see this important documentation,” Melinda said. 

He opened up his briefcase and took a packet. “This is a contract for you and Mr Weaver,” He said, handing it to her. “His offer for you to spend this upcoming weekend with him still stands.”

“Dude, come on,” Jordan said.

“Is he fucking serious with this fucking shit right now?” Melinda said. She paused and took a deep breath. “I’m sorry, you're just the messenger, I shouldn’t be biting your head off.”

“It’s quite alright Ms Mercer, it’s understandable.” He said. “Mr Ryder wants me to reinsure you that there isn’t any sexual acts involved. He just wants to get to know you more. Inside the packet are a few things he listed that he said you two can do together.

“Let me see this,” Jordan said, taking the packet from her and he started skimming through it. “Blowing, watching movies, go-kart racings, mini golf, swimming.” He looked up. “My girl isn’t going to go swimming so he can check her out in her bikini."

“It’s just a list of things they can do together, Ms Mercer doesn’t have to do anything she doesn’t wish to do,” He said. “With that said, Mr Ryder did say that if any point you wish to,” he hesitated.

“Wish to what?” Melinda said.

“To do any sexual acts, he isn’t pose to it,” He said. “You just have to be the one that gives the green light as he put it.”

“I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit,” Melinda said, rolling her eyes.

“These have NDA’s in it.” Jordan said.

“Of course he wants us to keep our mouths shut because he plans to try and crawl into bed with me,” Melinda said, as she took the packet from Jordan. “Tell Mr Ryder he can take this packet and shove it up his ass.” She handed it back to him. “And if he keeps this up, movie star or not, my four older brothers are going to kick his door down and beat his fucking ass, and fuck up his other knee.” She got up. “Excuses me, I’m going to fuck up of the punching bag in the garage.” 

She took off before anyone could say anything. Melinda kept kicking and punching the bag, refusing to take any breaks. She just kept going and going, letting all her frustration, anger and sadness out of the bag. As she did, all she could was imagine Tom and Jordan both that she was hurting. She was going at it for almost an hour when she started getting hot. She took off her shirt and went back at it, but soon the heat increased in the garage. 

“Why is it so fucking hot?” Melinda said. She put on her shirt and she went back into the house. “Jordan,” she looked around for him and she found him outside near the AC unit. “Why is it hot in the house?” 

He sighed and he looked over at her. “The AC crapped out,” Jordan said.

“You got to be kidding,” Melinda said.

He shook his head. “Look,” Jordan said. She walked over and he pointed at the inside of it. “See all the ice build up around it?”

“Can’t we just melt the ice?” Melinda said.

“We can but it’s just going to keep freezing over, baby,” Jordan said. “It’s going to be like that until we fix whatever is wrong with it.”

She sighed. “Fuck and it’s suppose to be in the 100s this week,” Melinda said. “I’m going to call Jeremiah and see if he can help out.” She headed back into the house when he grabbed her hand. “What?”

“Baby you don’t have to call your brother,” Jordan said. “I can fix this.”

“Jordan,” Melinda said. “My brother can help us get this fix.” 

“We don’t need your fucking brother,” Jordan said in a harsh tone. Melinda glared at him and he sighed. “I’m sorry baby,” he let go of her hand. “It’s just I don’t need you brother to turn around and tell your other brothers that I couldn’t fix this. Because we both know, Bobby will come down here and start giving me shit. He’s going to tell me that I don’t know how to fix things around the house for you and take care of you.”

“Then I’ll tell him something if he does,” Melinda said.

“And how is that going to look when I have my girl sticking up for me?” Jordan said. She sighed as she rolled her eyes. “Let me fix it okay?”

“Fine. Whatever,” Melinda said. She went back inside and over to the kitchen. “I swear he’s too prideful sometimes.” She stopped when she saw the packet on the kitchen table. “He seriously didn’t throw this shit out?” 

She grabbed it and ripped it apart before throwing it into the trash, then she started working on lunch. When she was done, she told Jordan lunch was ready and she went to the dining room to eat. By the time she was done and she got things picked up, Jordan finally came in. He didn’t say a word to her or looked at her as he went to the fridge and grabbed out a beer. He chugged about half of it before he turned back around to tell her something. That’s when he noticed the packet wasn’t on the counter. He walked over to the trash can, seeing the packet torn up.

“You throw away the contract?” Jordan said.

“Yeah since you didn’t do it,” Melinda said and she turned to him. “Did you get the AC working?” He sighed and he shook his head. “I’m calling my brother.” Before he could protest she walked off to get her phone. She called her brother and almost an hour later he came over, and started looking over. “Can you fix it?”

“You should have called me the moment it broke down, it would have been an easy fix,” Jeremiah said, as he looked at the AC unit. “Whatever that little boyfriend of yours did, just made it worse,” he looked over at her. “I had the part to swap out and fix it, but he damaged the other parts that I don’t have.”

“Can’t you get them?” Melinda said.

“Not for this model,” Jeremiah said. “This is an older model that they don’t make or even make spare parts for. I hate to say it, but you’ll have to get it all replaced.”

“Great,” Melinda said and she rolled her eyes. “How much is that going to cost?” He just stared at her. “Jeremiah, how much?”

“Well since the AC and heater are combined you have to replace both. That will put you around, ” Jeremiah said, he started thinking about it. “8,000 dollars give or take.”

“8,000!” Melinda said. “Fuck,” she sighed as she put her hands on her hips. “We’re going to have to dip into the savings then.”

“Sorry sis,” Jeremiah said. “Like I said if you guys called me as soon as it broke down I could have fixed it.”

“I wanted to but Jordan didn’t want Bobby giving him shit,” Melinda said.

“Remember what Mama Evelyn always said,” Jeremiah said, picking up his tool bag. “Pride comes before the fall.”

“Yeah,” Melinda said. “Thanks for coming over and trying to fix it.”

“No problem,” Jeremiah said. “I’ll have my guys drop off a couple of window air conditioners for you tomorrow morning. I’ll see you later, love you.”

“Love you too,” Melinda said. Jeremiah headed out around the back as she went back inside, to find Jordan in the kitchen with his arms crossed and looking annoyed. “It’s going to be,”

“8,000, yeah I know I heard.” Jordan said and he looked over at her. “Like how I heard him call me your little boyfriend. But what I didn’t hear,” he uncrossed his hands and went over to her. “Was you correcting him and saying I’m the man you were going to marry,” he stuffed his hands in his pockets. “Why is that? Are you planning not to marry me now or something?”

“Are you serious right now Jordan?” Melinda said. “I never said that.”

“But you're acting like it by not correcting your fucking brother. And why do you keep calling me Jordan?” Jordan said. “Yeah I know you call me it every now again, but since all that shit happened last night you just been calling me Jordan. And all this morning you’ve been refusing to have sex with me. Then when I told you I love you, you had to stop and fucking think about it. And the way you said it, it was like you had no fucking love behind it whatsoever. What the hell is going on with you?” He took his hands out of his pockets and gestured to himself. “Don’t you want to be with me? Don’t you love me?”

“Jordan,” Melinda said.

“There you go again, Jordan. Jordan. Jordan.” Jordan said, and he grunted in frustration as he rolled his eyes. “How would you feel if I call you Melinda all fucking day and keep rejecting your fucking ass when you want to fuck.” She started walking away. “Hey! Don’t fucking walk away from me when I’m fucking talking to you!”

She turned around and rushed over to him, then she shoved him, causing him to stumble back. “Don’t you ever fucking dare raise your voice at me or talk to me like that!” Melinda said. He looked at her in shock as she got into his face. “And newsflash, just because we are together, doesn’t mean I have to constantly jump on your fucking dick whenver you whip it out. I have every right to say no to you and you have to respect that.”

“I do baby,” Jordan said. “I just,”

“And the reason I keep saying no is because of what happened last night.” Melinda said.

“But we made love last night,” Jordan said.

“Did we?” Melinda said. He looked at her confused. “Ever since we moved in here all you want to do is record us. I hate it.”

“But I thought you were cool with it,” Jordan said.

“I was at first but that’s all you fucking want to do Jordan,” Melinda said and she stepped away from him. “It takes the fun and love out of it. It feels like you're putting on a show or something.”

“Baby,” Jordan said. “I told you why I recorded it.”

“But does it have to be all the time?” Melinda said. “I’m surprised you didn’t ask me to record it when we were having sex at Tom’s place.” He just looked at her. “Wait. Did you… did you record it?”

“Yeah,” Jordan said and she threw her hands up as she sighed in frustration. “It was just for like a minute or two baby I swear. You were really into it and I didn’t want to stop and ask you. I just pulled out my phone and just recorded my dick going in and out of you, that was it. Then when you started getting close I put my phone away.” She started walking away. “Wait baby,” he followed her to the bedroom. “I’m sorry I didn’t ask.”

“I’m done,” Melinda said.

“Are you leaving me?” Jordan said.

“No,” Melinda said, turning around and facing him. “Jordan, I’m fucking hurting okay?” Her eyes started to water. “It hurts that you look at other women and I have someone pointing it out to me! It hurts knowing you flirt with women, that you have been flirting with them this whole fucking time! It hurts that you looked me in the eye and straight up lied to me about what took you so long last night to come back with my drinks! It hurts that you didn’t tell Tom to fuck off when he first offer us that fucking deal! And it fucking hurts, that you didn’t throw away that packet!” She started crying. “I’m fucking hurting and you act like your fucking dick is the cure all and recording it would make me happy. I hate that your suggestings about bringing all these fucking toys into the bedroom to keep our romance alive, when you know that’s bullshit. You're doing it because you really don’t give a shit that you're causing me all this pain.”

“Baby I,” Jordan said and he sighs. “I’m sorry. I’m so fucking sorry.” He went over and wrapped his arms around her, letting her cry against his chest. “I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be bugging you all the time about recording. Or bring up the toys and all that shit. It’s just…” he sighed. “We… We need the money.”

“What?” Melinda said, pulling back and looking at him. “What are you talking about?”

“I lost my job baby,” Jordan said. 

“You lost your job?” Melinda said, looking confused as she stepped out of his arms. “But… but you’ve been taking off in the mornings like you normally do.”

“I’ve been looking for work. And on your days off when I’m supposed to be working I,” Jordan said. He sighed. “I go to Danny’s and hang out at his place until my usual time I get off.”

She looked at him in disbelief. “When did you lose your job?” Melinda said.

“I got the call right after I showed you the paperwork for the house.” Jordan said. “I was hoping I could find work before things got bad but,” he sighed again. “I haven’t had any luck.”

“Since you showed me the paperwork?” Melinda said. “That was like a month and a half ago.”

“I know,” Jordan said. “I just didn’t want you to worry about the money.”

She shook her head. “How were you able to cover the move?” Melinda said. “The wedding venue? The bills and the repairs to my car? Getting stuff for the house? All of it?”

“I’ve been using the money in the savings,” Jordan said, 

“Why didn’t you just tell me?” Melinda said. “I wouldn’t have been buying all this furniture and I would have just let Bobby pay to fix my car. I would have been helping out this whole time.”

“Because I wanted to be the one taking care of everything, not you baby.” Jordan said. “It’s my job to take care of it all, not yours. But by the first week, the money got really low and I started worrying how I was going to buy the utilities and all that. Then,” he looked down. “Then Danny suggested something a bit crazy but it worked.” 

“What are you talking about?” Melinda said and he looked up at her, heisting. “What did Danny suggest?”

“I started a Private page.” Jordan said. She just looked at him, processing what he just said. “It was just me, showing off my body at first. Then I started uploading videos of me jerking off. I was making pretty good money but after a month not finding work I knew I needed to up my game if I was going to pay everything. So I,”

“Oh my god,” Melinda said, Her breathing got heavy as her heart started pounding at a rapid pace. “That’s why you were recording us.”

“I’m sorry baby but like I said, we needed the money.” Jordan said.

“How could you?” Melinda said, in a harsh tone. “You promised me you wouldn’t put the videos online.” 

“I’m sorry baby, I really am.” Jordan said. “I just didn’t know what to do.”

She shook her head. “I can’t believe this is happening.” Melinda said.

“It’s not a big deal baby,”  Jordan said. “People make naughty videos all the time and post them.”

“It is a big deal Jordan,” Melinda said as she started to shake with anger. “I’m trying to be a nurse.”

“But your face isn’t in any of the videos baby,” Jordan said.

“I have tattoos and piercings that will stand out,” Melinda said. “Anyone that knows me will put two and two together. And you,” she motioned to him. “You have your nipple pierced and you have a tattoo above your pelvis. Anyone that has seen you shirtless will know it’s you.” He just stared at her. “Oh god.” It hit her. “Your face was in the videos weren’t they?” Jordan kept staring at her. “That chick from last night, what were you two talking about?” He looked away. “Look at me!” He turned to her. “Tell me, what did you guys really talk about?”

“She saw my Private page and told me she really loves the size of my dick and how I use it,” Jordan said. “She… she showed me her page and I was checking out a few of her videos.” Once again her heart and breathing picked up. “She told me that she would love to go upstairs with me and make a video with me. I told her the girl in the video was the only girl I was doing videos with. And it was just a temporary thing I was doing to make some money. Then she started talking using all these,”

“Toys,” Melinda said.

“Yeah,” Jordan said, nodding his head. “She says she makes really good money doing that. But she said to make the big bucks is to bring someone else into the bedroom. Then she said that she loves fucking girls and eating them out. She said the three of us can do a video together. I can sit there and jerk off while she takes care of you. Or while you give me a blow job she can eat you out or fuck you. I told her no because you were mine and I showed her my wedding ring. She told me that it's cool and to hit her up on her page if I change my mind. When I walked off and that’s when I saw you but I kept on going because,”

“You needed to come up with a story,” Melinda said and he nodded his head. “The video you took, the one in Tom’s bathroom was… was my face in that one?”

“She saw us coming in together and she said you were really beautiful,” Jordan said. “And a face relief would get me a lot of money.” She gasped as he covered her mouth. “I didn’t post it, baby. I.. I was going to but I didn’t.”

She put her hand back down. “You need to delete that video right now Jordan,” Melinda said. “You need to delete all those videos and take down your page.”

“We need the money baby,” Jordan said.

“Fuck the money!” Melinda yelled. “You betrayed my trust Jordan!”

“I was just trying to fucking take care of you, okay?!” Jordan yelled. “Everything I fucking did was to take care of you!” She shook her head as she stepped further away from him. “You want me to take down all the videos and delete everything?”

“Yes!” Melinda said.

“Then spend the weekend with Tom,” Jordan said. She looked at him in disbelief and disgust. “You spend the weekend with Tom will solve all our problems. We can use that 4 million and pay off the house, and get the AC replaced. Hell,” he smiled. “We can turn around and sell the house, and get a better one, a newer one. All you have to do is just hang out with him.”

“What?” Melinda said in a small voice. 

“Baby think about it,” Jordan said. “Everything will be taken care of, the house, the wedding and we’ll still have plenty left. Oh,” his face lit up. “Instead of buying a new house we can get that empty building I showed you awhile back. The one I said if I owned I would open up a gym with self defense classes and offer life couch advice. If we do that, not only will we be set for life or kids will be too.”

“Our kids?” Melinda said.

“Yeah baby,” Jordan said, smiling as he nodded his head. “Our kids. You know, the ones we always talk about having. They’ll be taken care of, we all will. All you have to do is spend the holiday weekend with Tom.” She shook her head. “Come on baby, it’s just hanging out, that’s all. Tom and the guy both said there’s no fucking involved. You just have to sit there and bullshit with him and that’s it. Then the money is all ours.” 

“No,” Melinda said, shaking her head. “No I won’t.”

“Baby come on,” Jordan said. “We have until Thursday midnight to contact him and sign the paperwork. Once we do,” he smiled. “That money is as good as ours.”

“I said no,” Melinda said through her teeth. “I would rather pack up and go back to living with my brothers.”

His face got serious as his breathing got heavy. “Fine,” Jordan said. “But if you don’t do this, not only will I not delete all those videos, I’ll post one I took last night.” Her eyes widened. “That’s right baby, everyone will know what you fucking look like. So if you don’t want me to upload that video, you’ll do this for us.”

“Bastard,” Melinda said.

“No, that’s you baby.” Jordan said and he smirked. “After all, your mommy didn’t have a daddy for you and that’s why CPS took you away from her because she couldn’t take care of you on her own. Then they dropped your fucking ass off at that poor shitty fucking foster home.” She clenched her fists and jaw. “So, if you don’t want to end up going back there and have that beautiful face of yours all over my page, you’ll spend the weekend with Tom. And just like them, I’ll give you until Thursday midnight to make up your mind.” 

Her eyes shifted to her phone on the nightstand and back to him. “Not if I call my brothers to come and beat your fucking ass.” Melinda said.

She jumped on the bed and so did he, and they both dove for her phone. Melinda almost had it, but Jordan was taller than her and had longer arms. He grabbed it right off the charge before they both crashed onto the floor and against the wall. Melinda gasped as a sharp pain shot up her left arm and to her shoulder as Jordan got to his feet. He ran straight into the bathroom and he locked at the door. She could hear him fighting with the case to get it off and yelled in excitement when he got it off. She sat up slowly as she grabbed her arm. She tried to get to her feet, but she was in too much pain. So Melinda sat there, leaned up against the wall as she held her arm while she listened to Jordan throwing her phone on the title floor and stumping on it. Once he was finally done, the door swung open and he came out with a pep in his step with a shit eating grin on his face. 

“Can’t call your brothers now with a,” Jordan said and he stopped seeing she was in pain. “Baby?” He dropped the broken phone from his hand and onto the floor. “What the fuck did I do?” He ran, jumped on the bed and jumped down next to her. He crouched down as went to look at her arm and she pulled away from him, hissing in pain as she did. “Baby please, let me look at it.” He reached out again but this time she didn’t move. He pulled down her shirt a bit, he could see the bone popping up and arm out of place. “Oh fuck,” a wave a guilt started washing over him as he started shaking a bit. “It’s dislocated. I’m… I’m sorry baby,” he looked into her eyes as he started to water. “I didn’t mean,” she looked down and he sighed. “Come on, let’s get you to the hospital.” He wrapped his arms around and picked her up as she kept hissing in pain. “I know baby, I know. It will be alright, I promise. I promise.”

The Deal Part 5 coming soon

“I’m fucking married you fucking dumb bitch,” Jordan said and he turned around. “Oh shit,” his eyes went wide when he saw it was Melinda. “I’m so sorry baby.” He put his arms around her and gave her a kiss. “I didn’t mean to cuss at you or call you a bitch. I thought it was this chick that was trying to get all frisky with me after I told her I was married.” 

“Wait, some chick was all over you?” Melinda said. “Is that why you were taking so long?”

“Yeah,” Jordan said, nodding his head. “I saw this chick getting hit on by some guy and she was looking hella comfortable. I moved closer to hear them talking and sure enough, she kept telling him she wasn’t interested but he wasn’t taking no for an answer. And you know how I am about that shit baby,” she nodded her head. “So I tried to get him to walk away but the fucker wasn’t having it. I ended up getting into his face and told him to fuck off, otherwise me and him were going to go a few rounds. He backed off and started heading out, so I followed him and made sure he left. Once he did I came back inside and asked if she was okay, and if she needed anything. She said she was good and she thanked me, then she started getting all flirty with me. She puts her hand on my chest, saying she wanted to pay me back by taking me upstairs to one of the bedrooms. I just smiled at her and showed her my wedding ring, and I walked off.”

“You really did all that?” Melinda said, smiling.

“Of course baby,” Jordan said, smiling. “Why would I want someone like that when I have you,” he kissed her. “The love of my life. My future wife and mother of my future babies.” 

She blushed. “I love you babe,” Melinda said.

“I love you too baby,” Jordan said and he kissed her. “Here.” He handed her shots. 

“I uh,” Melinda said. “I shouldn't drink these.”

“Why baby?” Jordan said. “I thought you wanted them.”

“Because I’m going to have to be a sober driver after all.” Melinda said.

“What?” Jordan said, looking confused. “Why?”

She sighed. “Tom was hitting on me,” Melinda said.

“He was hitting on you?” Jordan said and she nodded her head. “Baby, Ryder is known to be a big flirt. I’m sure it was harmless flirty.”

“He brought up about you always staring at other girls,” Melinda said and she felt Jordan tense up. “He straight out said if I was his girl his eyes would only be on me. Then he goes on a rant about how you need to get your head out of your ass and wake up. How basically you need to treat me better or I can end up walking out here with some other guy or just stay here with him.” Jordan scoffed as he shook his head. “Then he asked me for my number in case we break up.”

“What the fuck?” Jordan said, he grunted. “That fucking asshole.”

“Yeah,” Melinda said. “Then I ripped his soul out by saying he was a man whore because he had deep seeded mommy issues.” 

He started laughing. “That’s my girl.” Jordan said and he kissed her. “Wait here and I’m going to talk to him.”

“Babe don’t,” Melinda said, shaking her head. “He smelled of alcohol, like really bad. I’m sure the reason why he's wearing those fucking yellow sunglasses in here is because his eyes are red. So he has to be drunk off his ass. If anything, wait till tomorrow and come back when he’s all sober up to talk to him.”

He sighed. “Alright baby,” Jordan said. “Do you want to head out then? I don’t want you to be feeling uncomfortable.”

“Nah,” Melinda said. “We don’t get to have a whole lot of fun with us working all the time and me going to school. And once we have kids,” they smiled. “We won't be able to have fun like this for a few years.”

“In that case you drink up baby,” Jordan said, smiling. “And we’ll just take an uber home.”

“Sounds like a plan,” Melinda said. She chugged one shot and then the second. Jordan had a shook look on his face, seeing she was unphase. “Told you, just because I have a pussy doesn’t make me one.” She winked.

“Fuck me,” Jordan said and he smiled. “Let’s get you some more fucking shots.”

As Jordan got her more shots for her an idea popped in his head. He started betting people that Melinda could chug the shots without falling on her ass. A few men took him up on his bet and Melinda put them in their places. She started doing drinking games and winning each one. In a couple of hours, they had over a thousand dollars. Jordan was going to place another bet when Melinda heard the song Anywhere by 112 start to play. She went over to the area where everyone was dancing. He watched her start dancing seductively, he licked his lips as she slowly unbuttoned her shirt. She grinned at him as she used a finger to call him over. 

Jordan walked over to her, completely memorized by her. As he got to her Melinda turned around, putting her back against his chest. She slowly started grinding up against him as she continued to dance. He moaned as he started getting hard. She put her arms above her head and wrapped them around Jordan’s neck. He put his hands on her hips and he raised Melinda’s tank top up, revealing her belly button ring and her tattoos she had on her hip bones, along with her smooth slender stomach. Jordan started kissing her neck as they grind against each other while they dance. 

His lips moved up her neck and towards her lips as one hand moved up her body. He squeezed her breast, making her moan before he continued moving his hand up her body. Jordan put his hand on her throat and he gave her a gentle squeeze, putting her in a daze. Then he took a hold of her face and moved it towards him, and his lips met hers. They started kissing slowly and gently as their tongues explored each other’s mouths. Melinda moved her arms as she rotated herself so she was facing him. She broke the kiss and she whispered in his ear. They pulled back and Jordan grinned at her as he took a hold of her hand. He led her over to a hallway where they disappeared into. 

Unknown to them, Tom was across the room watching them the whole time. After Melinda took off, he went after her to apologize to her. Then he saw Jordan talking to a woman and how Melinda saw it too. So he stopped a few feet behind her and waited to see how it would play out. If Jordan was about to fuck around, not only was he going to throw him out. But he was going to offer Melinda a shoulder to cry on and help her take her mind off of Jordan by taking her to his room. But instead, Jordan blew the woman off to his surprise and Melinda went over to him. So he found a spot across the room and watched them betting people while they did drinking games.

Then when he saw Melinda dancing, he had to stop himself from going over there. He couldn’t help but admire the way she moved her hips. Nor couldn’t he help but lick his lips when he saw her busting chest, her hourglass figured, her piercing and tattoos. She was definitely the type of girl he would go for. Though she was Jordan’s girl, he didn’t care. Especially seeing how Jordan was still checking out chicks when he had someone as beautiful with a gorgeous body like Melinda. Yeah, she busted his balls but she was the only to ever call him out and he wanted to get to know her more because of it. Then when he saw Jordan taking Melinda down the hallway with a grin on their faces, he knew exactly what they were going to do. That’s fine, because he knew exactly what he was going to do too. 

Bathroom:

As soon as they got inside, Jordan locked the door. They both quickly undid their pants and lowered them. He spun Melinda round and leaned her over the sink. He took a hold of his hard cock rubbing the tip of it against her already wet folds. She started moaning, making him groan back in return. He started pushing past her folds and he let himself go, and took a hold of her hips. Jordan thrust his hips forward, slamming himself deep inside of her, making Melinda cry out. He grinned and he started pounding away at her pussy while he watched her expressions in the mirror. Jordan kept going as hard and as fast as he could, making her cry out each time he hit her G-spot.

Melinda’s walls soon started clenching around his cock, making him groan loud as his body tensed up with hers. Her legs started to shake, followed by her clit and walls started pulsating. She cried out daddy as she started cumming hard. Jordan tightened his grip on Melinda's hips as he started cumming. Then he shoved his cock deep inside and rolled his hips, making them moan loud as they finished cumming together. He leaned over her as they both panted from their release. He started kissing her back gently and made his way up to her neck. 

“I love you baby,” Jordan whispered as he kept kissing her. “I love you so so so much.”

“I love you too babe.” Melinda whispered. 

He pulled out of her, making both sigh. “Fuck,” Jordan said, ran his hands through his hair as he leaned back up. “That was fucking amazing.” He slapped her ass, making her moan. “You have such a great ass baby.” He squeezed it. “When are you going to let me fuck it?”

She quickly removed his hands. “Never,” Melinda said as she leaned up.

“Aw come on baby,” Jordan said, he pouted. “I promise I’ll use a lot of lube.”

“No,” Melinda said, turning to him as she got her panties and pants back up. “Not with that python of yours.”

He grunted as he put his boxers and pants back up. “Just the tip.” Jordan said. She glared at him. “Okay. Okay. Okay.” He leaned down and kissed her. “What if you were on top?’ She punched his arm, “fuck,” he chuckled as he rubbed his arm. “I love it when you get violent." He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in close. “It really turns me on.”

She giggled. “You're such a prev.” Melinda said.

“You fucking love it.” Jordan said with a smirk. She smiled as she nodded her head. He smiled as he gave her another kiss. “I really love you baby, like so so so soooooo much.” She giggled as she kissed him. “Want to start heading home?” She nodded her head. “Alright,” he gave her another kiss before taking her hand and leading her back out of the hallway.

“I can’t believe we had sex in someone else's bathroom.” Melinda said. “And with tons of people around.”

“Want to find Tom’s room and fuck on his bed?” Jordan and she giggled. “That’s a yes.” She playfully smacked him, making him chuckle. “You know you want to baby.”

“Shut up,” Melinda said as she landed her head against his arms. “All I want is to go home and cuddle with you until we fall asleep.”

“After I pound that pussy again.” Jordan said.

She giggled. “After you pound my pussy again.” Melinda said. He chuckled as they headed outside. “Want to walk around a bit before we call for a ride?”

“A moonlight stroll with my wifey to be?” Jordan said and he smiled. “Why not?” 

They walked around outside, exploring Tom’s property while they talked about the wedding. They definitely were going to un-invite Tom after the stunt he pulled. Jordan still couldn’t believe that Tom would turn around and do that after he just told him they were going to get married and have kids. He really couldn’t believe that Tom turned around and ratted him out about staring at other girls. But he’s sure Melinda checks out guys too. Plus he wasn’t flirting with the girls, he was just looking. Okay, he flirted a bit but he never asked for numbers or touched them. Just harmlessly flirty, that’s all. 

“Babe,” Melinda said and Jordan looked down at her. “Did you hear me?”

“Sorry baby, I zoned out a bit because of all those beers.” Jordan said. “What did you say?”

“I said that guy in the suit is staring at us.” Melinda said, she motioned her head and he looked over. “See him?”

“Yeah,” Jordan said as the guy started walking over to him. “If I’m right he works for Tom. I think he’s like his chauffeur or something.”

“Did you think Tom got told we had sex in his bathroom?” Melinda said.

“Nah,” Jordan said, shaking his head. “Plus if he did it’s not like I nutted all over the bathroom. I just nutted in you.” She playfully smacked him and he chuckled. “I bet Tom sent him to say sorry for him.”

“We’ll see,” Melinda said. 

“Mr Weaver. Ms Mercer,” He said. “Mr Ryder would like to have a word with you two.”

“Why?” Jordan and Melinda said together.

“He would like to extend an oliver branch for his behavior earlier.” He said. Jordan looked down at Melinda as she looked up at him. She nodded her head and they looked back at the guy, and Jordan nodded his head. “This way please.”

Tom’s Parlor Room:

When Jordan and Melinda stepped into the room they looked around. The walls were black with light figures that had dim lightening. There was a glass coffee table surrounded with purple velvet couches on one side of the room. There were a few purple velvet chairs spaced throughout the room. Then there was a bar, filled with liquor, a beer tap, glasses and barstools at the counter. They took a seat on the couch together and he poured them a shot of whiskery, and handed it to them.

“Mr Ryder will be in here shortly.” He said he took off and closed the door behind him.

They looked into trouble. “You know this is how horror movies start right?” Melinda said.

“Yeah,” Jordan said, looking around the room again. “It’s a good thing you got that big ass knife Bobby gave you tuck under your tits.”

“Yep,” Melinda said. She dipped her finger into the whiskey and looked at her nail polish. “Drinks aren’t drugged.” She showed him it didn’t change. 

“I guess he’s trying to make an entrance.” Jordan said. They chugged the shot down and placed their glasses on the table, that’s when the door opened up and Tom stepped into the room. “You better be giving my girl one hell of a fucking apology man.”

“Don’t worry I will,” Tom said, closing the door behind him before going over to them and sitting on the other couch. “I am really sorry for how I was acting. I’m,” he chuckled lightly. “Pretty fucking drunk right now. I started throwing back a few before the party even started. But still, that isn’t an excuse for how I was acting. I’m very flirtatious and I joke around a lot, and sometimes I just don’t know when to knock it off. And from the bottom of my heart, I’m really sorry about that.”

“Whatever,” Melinda said. “Can we go now?”

“Yeah but first,” Tom said. He looked over at Jordan. “Bro, I’m sorry how I treated your girl tonight, she didn’t deserve that. I know I fucked up by hitting on your girl, but I really didnt’ mean it. I see you as a friend bro, a real good friend actually. And I want to make it up to you guys for what I did.”

“It’s cool man,” Jordan said. “We can just squash this.”

“No bro,” Tom said, shaking his head. “I really want to make it up to you guys. Since you guys just bought a house and you guys got a wedding coming up, and plan to have kids I’m sure the bills are stacking up on you guys. So I want to offer four million dollars to help you guys out.”

“What?” Melinda and Jordan said together.

“Yeah,” Tom said, smiling as he nodded his head. “Four million dollars.”

“Fuck,” Jordan said and he smiled. “Thanks man.”

“What’s the catch?” Melinda said.

“Baby he just said he’s going to give it to us for what he did.” Jordan said.

“No,” Melinda said, shaking her head. “He said offer, not give. Offer applies there’s a deal to be made in exchange for the money. So,” she glared at Tom. “What’s the catch?”

He chuckled. “You're good,” Tom said, smiling at Melinda. “Real good.” He licked his lips as he put his hands together. “Since you're going to marry my boy Jordan here, I want to get to know you more. I really want to see if you're the one for him. And, see if he’s the one for you since,” he looked at Jordan. “He likes to window shop.”

“I told you I don’t care if he stares at other women.” Melinda said and Jordan looked over at her.

“No you didn’t,” Tom said. “You said all the guys you’ve been with checked out other girls. I asked you if it bugged you and you just shrugged your shoulders. I bet you see him staring at girls all the time but you don’t say anything do you?” Melinda didn’t say anything. “Thought so. And I also bet you don’t even check out other guys do you?” She shook her head and Jordan let out a sigh as he looked down. “See, you're respectful and loyal to him. When I kept flirting with you, you got aggressive and shut me down. But will he be the same?”

He looked up. “Bro I had some chick trying to get on my dick earlier and I showed her my wedding ring,” Jordan said, showing him the ring. “And I walked away afterwards.”

“But do you still flirt with girls?” Tom said. “And before you want to say no, remember I was there when you flirted with all those girls at the gym when you two started sleeping together.”

He sighed. “Yeah I flirted.” Jordan said and he turned to Melinda. “But I swear baby, it was just harmless flirty nothing else.” She just looked down. “Come on baby, you know I love you and only you. If I didn’t I would have fucked that chick right?” She looked up at him. “Right?” She sighed and nodded her head. “Plus, we’re getting married and having kids. I never wanted that with another woman before because I love you. None of those other girls matter to me because I got you to come home to.”

“But what if you didn’t?” Tom said and they looked over at him. “What if you were alone for a whole weekend, no contact with Melinda whatsoever and you went out, and some woman was all over you. Could you say no to her?”

“I would say more than no to her,” Jordan said. “I would tell her fuck no.”

“Then let’s find out,” Tom said and he smiled. “Since I want to get to know Melinda more and see if you’ll fuck around on her, let’s make a deal. I’ll give you guys four million dollars if you guys can maintain a no contact between each other this upcoming holiday weekend. So from Friday 8AM to Tuesday 8AM, you guys can’t contact each other by any means and can’t be around each other. Jordan, you’ll be at the house and Melinda,” he grinned. “She’ll be here with me, all alone.” He held his hand out and they looked down at it. “What do you say? We got a deal?”

“Fuck this,” Melinda said getting up. “Let’s go.” She headed for the door.

“There’s no fucking involved or anthing like that,” Tom said. “It’s just us hanging out and bullshitting. You’ll get your own room and everything. I’ll keep it in my pants. I promise.”

She stopped and turned around. “No!” Melinda said. She looked at Jordan who was still sitting down. “Jordan! Come on!” 

“Baby,” Jordan said. 

“Whatever,” Melinda said as she turned back around and headed for the door. “I’m calling my brothers for a ride to their place.”

He shot out of his seat. “Baby wait,” Jordan said.

Melinda kept going, refusing to look back.She was shaking for all the anger building up inside of her. She was mad at herself for letting the staring slide and mad that Jordan now thinks it’s okay he’s flirting with women. She was pissed that Jordan most likely lied to her about what happened between him and that girl tonight. Pissed that Tom flirted with her and now offered money to spend the weekend with her. She was sick that Jordan looked like he was thinking about it. Sick that he just sat there not doing anything about it. 

Once she was by her car, she grabbed her phone out to call her brothers. That’s when Jordan showed up, out of breath from running after her. She put her phone down, allowing him to catch his brother so he could explain himself. He had his hands on his knees as he leaned over, trying not to throw up after all that drinking and running.

She rolled her eyes “And you workout,” Melinda said.

“Cardio has….. Never been…. My thing,” Jordan said and he took a deep breath as he stood back up. “Unless it comes to the bedroom with you,’ he winked at her and she just glared at him. “Come on baby, don't be pissed at me.”

“You didn’t say shit back there!” Melinda yelled.

“Hey,” Jordan said, putting his hands on her shoulders. “I admit I was stuck on fucking stupid with what Ryder said. I was still trying to wrap my mind around it, that’s it.” She scoffed. “Look baby, we’re both fucked up right now and emotions are all over the fucking place right now. Let’s get home, crash out, and in the morning after a cup of coffee and food in us, we talk about what the fuck just happened tonight.” She looked away. “Baby please,” he stepped in front of her so she’ll look at him. “Please baby.”

“What really happened with you and that girl?” Melinda said.

“Baby I told you,” Jordan said.

“I want the truth Jordan,” Melinda said, getting in his face. “Did she really need help or were you just flirting with her the whole time?” He didn’t say anything. “Tell me the truth now or I’ll give you your ring back right now.”

He sighed. “I was flirting with her the whole time.” Jordan said. Melinda felt like she got punched in the gut as she stumbled. “Baby please,” he tried to take her hands in his but she pulled away. “Baby it was just harmless flirty that was it, I fucking swear. Once she got handsy and wanted to go upstairs I shut it down.” 

“Have you ever,” Melinda said, debating to ask the question, fearing what his answer would be. “Have you ever cheated on me?”

“What?!” Jordan said. “No baby,” he shook his head. “Never.” He took a hold of her face and looked into her eyes. “I swear baby I never, never fucking cheated on you. Even when we were just fucking, I never touched another one in anyway. Not even a fucking hug. I have only ever been with you since the moment we met. Because even when we were just fucking around, I felt something for you.”

“Then why are you flirting?” Melinda said as her tears started forming in her eyes.

“Oh baby please don’t cry,” Jordan said, as he started panicking. “Don’t cry. I,” he sighed heavily. “I honestly don’t know why I flirt.” She looked down. “Hey,” he raised her head back up, seeing tears falling. “Oh baby don’t cry, please don’t cry.” He started wiping her tears. “I fucking swear baby I’ll work on it. I’ll…. I’ll go to therapy okay? I’ll do therapy.” She tried to look away but he refused to let her go away. “Please baby, I’ll do anything to fix this because I don’t want to lose you,” his eyes started to water. “I love you baby. I love you so much. You're the first woman I ever loved,” he started sniffing. “I don’t want to lose you Melinda, please, let me fix this. Let me fix this.” She nodded her head and he sighed in relief. “Thank you baby.” He kissed and he pressed his forehead against hers. “Let’s go home and get some sleep. And I promise once we wake up, everything will be better. We’ll talk about what happened and I’ll look up some therapists." 

“Can we even afford one right now?” Melinda said.

“Don’t worry about the money baby,” Jordan said, smiling. “I got it all figured out. Remember,” he pulled back and looked into her eyes. “I told you a long time ago I will take care of you right?” She nodded her head. “And that’s what I plan to do, baby. No matter what, I’ll make sure you are taken care of. I don’t care what I fucking have to do, I will make sure you have everything you want and need. You’ll never have to worry about living the way you did back in that foster home. You won’t ever hand me down stuff, living from paycheck to paycheck. I will take care of everything baby, I swear.” She smiled at him. “Hey,” his smile got bigger. “I love you.”

She sighed softly. “I love you too.” Melinda said.

“Want to go home and make love?” Jordan said. “No fucking,” shaking his head. “I want to make love to my future wifey and mother of my babies.” She smiled and nodded her head. “Can I record it?” She rolled her eyes as she looked away. “Please baby, I want to remember us making love more than anything.” She sighed and she looked back at him, nodding her head. “Thank you baby,” He kissed gently. “I love you so much baby, so so so much.” He kissed her again. “And I always will, I promise.”

The Deal Part 4

She giggled. “That is tempting but we don’t need the money with what we make between us,” Melinda said.

“True but,” Jordan said, holding up a finger. “We just bought the house and if we have to make repairs or anything like that, extra money would help fix it. And we won’t have to touch the money we already have saved.”

“Yeah,” Melinda said, nodding her head. “I guess you're right.”

“Sooo,” Jordan said and he started buttoning up her shirt. “For now keep your secret weapons hidden and you can bust them out on Ryder and the other guys the way you do on me.” He winked. 

She giggled. “Alright.” Melinda said. “As long as you're okay with that babe because they’ll be staring at my breast and ass.”

“I’m totally cool with it baby,” Jordan said, smiling. “You know why?” She shook her head. “Because I know no matter what.” He wrapped his arms around her pulling her against him. “You're still coming home with me and,” he kissed her. “We’re going to get married and,” he kissed her again. “Have a few kids running around here and,” he smiled as he kissed her again. “We’re going to grow old and grey together.”

She smiled as she put her arms around his neck. “It’s crazy we went from being friends with benefits to this.” Melinda said.

“You're telling me,” Jordan said, smiling. “I won’t lie baby that day you told me you were two weeks late, I was freaking out about it at first. I was thinking what the hell am I supposed to do, I’m not ready to be a dad. How are we going to do this co-parenting shit. But when you took that test and it came back negative, I was really bummed out about it. Like seriously bummed out. Then when you told me you wanted to call off the whole thing between us. All I kept thinking that day and night was how much I wanted to be your man and a dad.”

“That’s why you came to my place at 3 in the morning?” Melinda said.

“Yeah,” Jordan said, smiling. “I had to come over to tell you I was in love with you and wanted to spend the rest of my life with you.”

She smiled. “I’m still sorry my brothers chased you out of the house when they caught you in my bedroom.” Melinda said.

He chuckled. “It’s cool baby,” Jordan said. “I’m just glad I was able to put the ring on your finger before I had to jump out of the window and make a run for it.” She giggled. “Speaking of your brothers, they’re cool with me now right? Since we’re living together and getting married, and going to have a family?” She smiled as she got out of his arms and grabbed her phone off the bed, “baby?” She kept smiling as she walked out of the bedroom. “Fuck me seriously?” She giggled as he followed out of the bedroom. “I can’t believe they still want to beat my ass.”

“Just make sure to wear running shoes when we get married.” Melinda said.

“Oh okay,” Jordan said, in a mocking tone, making her giggle. “You're lucky I love you so much I put up with your brothers baby.”

“And you’re lucky they love me so much that they put up with you.” Melinda said. He chuckled. “Alright, let’s get going to this party.”

“Let’s do it.” Jordan said, smiling.

They headed out and started heading over to Tom’s place. The whole way, Jordan was acting nervous while Melinda was as calm as could be. Like she said, she’s met celebrities before and to her, it was never a big deal for some reason. Some people flip out with excitement or about to pass out. But Melinda, she was never like that and she treated them the same like she would anyone else. For that, a lot of celebrities thank her for treating her like a normal person that they really are. When they started pulling up at Tom’s place they could already hear music blaring and seeing tons of people walking everywhere. They parked the car and got out, and looked around. The guys wore casual clothes but the girls, that was a different story.

“I feel like the poor kid again.” Melinda said.

“Hey,” Jordan said, taking a hold of her hand. “You don’t have to feel like that baby, okay? These chicks aren’t dressed up fancy, they’re dressed up slutty, big difference. And even if they were all fancy and shit, that doesn’t make you the poor kid. Like I said, I love the way you dress baby, because it’s part of your personality which I love so much. And your personality made me fall in love with you in the first place, alright?” She smiled and nodded her head. “Good,” he smiled as he kissed her. “Let’s go inside and have some fun, okay?”

“Okay,” Melinda said, smiling.

Jordan led the way as Melinda hung back a bit. Though Jordan said the girls dressed slutty and he loves the way she dressed, it didn’t stop him from staring at the girls he was passing by. He nearly broke his neck checking some of them out, but Melinda was unbothered by it. She was used to the men she was with staring at other women so now, she just let it go. Just like Jordan said early, about her coming home to him, he was coming home to her so there was no reason to get upset. When they got to the door, they handed over their invite and went inside. 

The place was two stories and there were people partying on both floors. There was a long table filled with food and a bartending area, and a DJ playing. They could see people outside in the pool and others on the dance floor. They walked around a bit so Jordan could look for Tom, but he didn’t seem to be anywhere inside. He asked around and asked a few people but they either didn’t know or one person said he was in this spot and another person said he was in another spot. 

“Baby,” Jordan said. “I’m going to head to the bathroom, you good here?”

“Yeah,” Melinda said, nodding her head. “I’m going to get to roam around, text me if you can’t find me.”

“Alright,” Jordan said, he gave her a kiss. “I love you.”

“Love you too.” Melinda said. 

Other Side Of The House:

Tom was sitting down on the arm rest of the chair while he talked with a few people while they drank. He decided to hang out in his den where it was more quiet and less people. There were a few people playing pool and other games, along with video games that he had set up. When the people he was talking to stepped away, that’s when he spotted a girl that wasn’t dressed like the other girls with their ass and tits out. She had black ankle boots that her black slightly torn jeans were tucked into. He grinned and nodded his head, seeing how nice her ass looked in the jeans. Her brown hair was long and in curls. She had several bracelets on each wrist that looked like they were picked at random like her rings on her hands. She was a red and black plaid shirt that had the sleeves rolled up. Tom kept his eyes on her, waiting for her to turn around so he could see how big her breasts were. But she was too busy chatting with a group of girls to turn around so he could get a glimpse. He was about to get up and go over to talk with her, when a familiar face walked up to him.

“What’s up bro?” Jordan said, smiling.

“Jordan,” Tom said, smiling as he got up. He gave Jordan a bro hug before sitting back down on the arm of the chair. “What have you been up to, man?”

“You should know stalker,” Jordan said. “You found out where I live after all.”

He chuckled. “That’s because I ran into Danny when I was out.” Tom said. “So what’s going on with you? Still banging that chick you told me about?”

“Yeah,” Jordan said and he smirked. “About her.”

“Don’t tell me she traded you up.” Tom said. “Because that would be a smart thing to do.” They laugh.

“No man,” Jordan said, shaking his head. “I actually bought us a house.”

“Wait,” Tom said, looking surprised. “Us? As in, you and her?”

He smiled. “Yeah,” Jordan said, nodding his head. “A little bit after you stop going to the gym, me and her got serious. I asked her to marry me and she moved in with me in that studio apartment I used to have. We just moved out of there a couple weeks or so ago.”

“Back up,” Tom said. “You asked her to marry you?” Jordan smiled as he nodded his head. He looked at Jordan with a serious face. “Is she pregnant? She’s pregnant isn’t she?”

He chuckled. “Nah man,” Jordan said. “But she will be after we get married next year.”

“What?” Tom said and he chuckled. “Jordan Weaver is getting married and plans to have some kids.”

“Yeah,” Jordan said, smiling. “Crazy huh?” He took a drink of his beer.

“Fucking nuts,” Tom said. “I remember you always checking out chicks in the gym.”

“Yeah I was,” Jordan said. “But I always have been loyal to her even when we were just fucking. Now don’t get me wrong, I still,” He smiled as he checked out a girl that was passing them by. “Look.” He looked back at Tom. “But I only window shop. I already have the girl of my dreams laying in my arms every night.”

He chuckled. “Yeah right man,” Tom said and he shook his head. “If you were seriously in love with this chick you wouldn’t check out other girls.”

“I am seriously in love with her.” Jordan said and he smiled. “That’s why I asked her to marry me and got us a place, and plan to have a family with her.”

He chuckled. “Whatever man,” Tom said, he took a drink.

 “What about you bro?” Jordan said. “How’s your knee doing? I heard you fucked it up pretty bad.”

“It’s good,” Tom said, nodding his head. “It fucks with me now and again, but other than that, it’s been good. I’m actually going to be working on a new film in a couple of months called Fuze with a director I worked with previously. I just got to dye my hair back to brown and cut it short.”

“Sweet,” Jordan said, smiling. “What’s the movie about?”

“It involves the British EOD team and a heist.” Tom said. “I’m playing this guy named Major Will Tranter that’s one of the leads in the film. I would give you more details but, you know how it is.”

“No worries bro, I get ya,” Jordan said. “Glad you're going to be on the big screen again.” He smiled.

“Same here,” Tom said, smiling.

“So where’s that model chick you were banging?” Jordan said.

He chuckled. “I kicked her to the curb like a long time ago,” Tom said. “I’ve been with like hmm shit,” he chuckled. “Five girls since then.” Jordan chuckled. “You know me man,” he smiled. “I don’t stick with one girl too long. I’m Tom fucking Ryder after all.” They laughed. “So where’s your girl that you claim you are in love with? At home so you can check out all these chicks and get shit face?”

“I don’t claim, I am.” Jordan said, smiling. “And she’s here actually, like literally. She texted me saying she was back here bullshitting with some girls.” He looked around the room. “Oh,” a big smile formed on his face. “There she is,” he motioned to the pool table. “That’s my girl right there.” Tom looked over. “She’s the one in the plaid shirt.”

His eyes widened. “Are you fucking serious?” Tom said. 

“Yep,” Jordan said and he smirked. “She has a great ass doesn’t she?”

“Goddamn,” Tom said, grinning as he nodded his head, pretending he wasn’t already checking her out. “Fuck yeah she does. I can see why you said you love fucking her doggy style.” They chuckled. “I won’t lie man, I always thought that you were bullshitting when you talked about her body. The girl sounded too good to be true.”

He chuckled. “Wait till you see her tits, they’re fucking huge.” Jordan said. “Hey baby!” Melinda turned around and Tom’s heart immediately started pounding in his chest like it was about to burst out of it when he saw her face. “Come here and meet Ryder.” Tom found himself getting nervous as he watched her sway her hips as she made her way over to them. “She’s hot huh?”

“With how beautiful she is I wouldn’t be fucking window shopping.” Tom mumbled. 

“What?” Jordan said, looking back at him.

He looked over at Jordan and smiled. “I said yeah man,” Tom said. “She’s pretty fucking hot. I see why you picked her.” He smiled.

“Thanks bro,” Jordan said. They turned their attention back to Melinda as she got to them. “Baby, this is Tom Ryder,” he put his arm around her waist. “Ryder, this is my fiance,’ he smiled big. “Melinda Mercer.”

“Hey,” Melinda said, smiling as she offered her hand to him. “It’s nice to meet you Mr Ryder.”

“Yeah,” Tom said, smiling as he took her hand and shook. “Nice to meet you too.” He let her hand go. “So this guy here,” he motioned his head to Jordan. “Tells me you two are living together and getting married, and having a family. You know, all that good shit. Is it true or he just fucking with me?”

She giggled, making Tom’s smile get bigger. “It’s true.” Melinda said. “We’ll be getting married on our anniversary next year.”

“You know what man? You should come.” Jordan said. He smiled. “It’s just a small wedding, but it would be great to have you there and all that.”

“If I’m not filming, sure,” Tom said, smiling. “I’m down.”

“Cool,” Jordan said.

“You know what,” Tom said, crossing his arms. “Something is wrong with this picture?”

“Like what?” Jordan said.

“Besides that you have a girl too gorgeous for you?” Tom said, they laughed a bit. “Your girl doesn’t have a drink in your hands. Man, what kind of fiance are you that you get your ass a fucking beer but not your future wife?”

“Oh fine,” Melinda said. “I’m not drinking tonight, sober drive.”

“Now don’t give me that shit,” Tom said. “I can get you guys an uber. Better yet,” he smiled. “You guys can just crash in one of my rooms. It’s not like I don’t have any to spare.”

“You sure man?” Jordan said.

“Come on bro,” Tom said, lightly backhanding Jordan’s arm. “Of course I’m sure. We go way back.”

“Well I’m down for staying over,” Jordan said and he turned to Melinda. “What about you baby? Are you comfortable crashing here?”

She shrugged her shoulders. “Sure,” Melinda said. “It’s not like I got work or school tomorrow.”

He clapped his hands together. “Then it’s settled, you guys are crashing here tonight. Now,” Tom said and he smiled. “What kind of drink do you want?”

“Hmmm,” Melinda said as she thought about it. “What’s the strongest drink you got?” 

He grinned. “Absinthe.” Tom said.

She smiled. “I’ll take a couple of those then.” Melinda said.

“Baby you know I don’t tell you what you can or can’t drink but Absinthe,” Jordan said, giving her a concerned look. “It’s some strong fucking shit baby.’

“Just because I have a pussy doesn’t make me one.” Melinda said

He started laughing. “Oh my god.” Tom said and he smiled. “Oh I love this chick.” He waved Jordan off. “Go on man, you heard your girl. Bring her two shots of absinthe.”

He took a deep breath. “Alright then baby.” Jordan said and he headed back to the main room.

“Now that he’s gone,” Tom said, he smiled. “I can interrogate you since you're about to marry my boy.”

She giggled. “Alright Mr Ryder,” Melinda said.

“Please,” Tom said. “Call me Tom.”

“Alright, Tom.” Melinda said. “What’s your first question for me?”

“Why fucking Jordan?” Tom said and they both laughed a bit. “Like seriously, he’s a cool dude and all that, but what made you say, yeah this guy is the one.”

“My brothers,” Melinda said, he gave her a questionable look. “I got four of them, all older and all tough guys. Bobby’s been in and out of jail for assault, Angel is ex marines, Jeremiah is alright and Jack is a punk rocker both will throw down. And they are all very overprotective of me, so they’re always literally chasing guys I’m with or even interested in off. They even beat up a few. But Jordan,” she smiled. “He wasn’t like the other guys that just stayed gone. He always came back. I figured if he was willing to do that for me, he had to be the one.”

“Is that right?” Tom said and she nodded his head. “No mushy girly feelings you get when you are around him?”

She giggled, making Tom smile. “Well yeah,” Melinda said. “But I was telling myself it was nothing since me and Jordan, which I’m sure you know we started off as friends with benefits.”

“Right,” Tom said, nodding his head. 

“When I met Jordan I had just gotten out of a two year relationship that ended because I decided to introduce to my brothers because he was talking about marriage and kids. But my brothers,” Melinda said and she sighed. “They scared him off and I never heard from him again. Jordan was just supposed to be a fun experience since I never did friends with benefits before and to help me move on. But we had a pregnancy scare so,”

“Wait,” Tom said. “He didn’t tell me about that.”

“Well it was some time after your injury,’ Melinda and Tom nodded his heads. “Turns out, I wasn’t and I told Jordan that we should stop the whole friends with benefits thing even though I got on better birth control after that. But he ended up sneaking into my house to talk to me.” She smiled. “He asked me to marry him and move in with him. I thought since he was willing to basically get murder by coming into my room at 3 in the morning, he was the one for me. So I told him yes and then my brothers bursted into my room and he jumped out my window.” They laughed a bit. “But he came back the next day to pick me up and move me in, and the rest is history as they say.”

“You didn’t care that you moved into that shitty studio apartment of his?” Tom said.

“No,” Melinda said, smiling as she shook her head. 

He grinned. “Is it because he bought you a big fancy home?” Tom said.

She giggled as she shook her head. “To be honest Tom,” Melinda said. “He didn’t even tell me he was buying a house for us.”

“Really?” Tom said, looking surprised.

“Yeah,” Melinda said, nodding her head. “We only ever talked about getting a two bedroom apartment if I ever got pregnant. I had no idea about the house until he showed me the paperwork that he bought the place.”

“Whoa,” Tom said. He smiled. “Jordan must really love you too if he’s willing to do all that.” She smiled as she nodded her head. “Even though,” his face got serious. “He still checks out other girls," he took a drink. 

“Every guy I’ve been with also checked out other chicks.” Melinda said.

“Doesn’t bug you?” Tom said, shrugged her shoulders. “I bet your brothers don’t know about him checking out girls do they.” She shook her head. “You know,” he smiled. “If you were my girl, I'd be keeping my eyes on you and only you darlin.” He winked at her.

“That’s nice,” Melinda said. “Do you want a cookie?” He chuckled. “And it’s Melinda, not darlin.”

He chuckled again. “I’m sorry Melinda,” Tom said, putting his hand over his heart. “Really I am. I was just trying to make you feel better, that’s all.” He put his hand down. “In all honesty, you are a beautiful woman Melinda and Jordan needs to get his head out of his fucking ass, and see that. Because from what I heard from him and how you carry yourself, you're a great person and he shouldn’t be disrespecting you like that. But you can bet if I fucking catch him staring at chicks tonight, I’ll put him in his place myself for ya.”

“Thanks Tom but you don’t have to.” Melinda said.

“He needs a wake up call,” Tom said. “He needs to know how lucky he is that you don’t just say fuck it and go home with any of the dudes here tonight. Hell,” he grinned. “You can just stay here with me.” He winked and she rolled her eyes, and he chuckled. “I’m joking about the last part.”

“Yeah, I bet.” Melinda said.

He chuckled again. “I am.” Tom said. “I’m just trying to make you laugh.”

“Then try a knock knock joke.” Melinda said and he chuckled. “I’m sorry for my bitchingness it’s just when it comes to men flirting with me when I’m taken, I get aggressive.”

“No it’s cool,” Tom said, smiling. “It shows how much you respect him and your relationship with him. I just hope he starts doing the same with you. Be ashamed if you two break up because he wants to take you for granted like that. In case you guys break up, can I get your number in advance?” She scoffed as she turned and started walking off. “Wait,” he reached out, taking a hold of her wrist and that was a big mistake.

The Deal Part 3

The Deal Part 1

“Babe?” Melinda called out from the kitchen.

“Yeah?” Jordan said as he walked into the kitchen.

“Can you see if the mail is here yet please?” Melinda said as she put away the dishes. “I’m still waiting on that package.”

“Sure baby,” Jordan said. He gave her a quick kiss and headed to the front door. He opened it and saw a package on the doormate. “Sweet.” He picked up the package and he noticed a large black envelope that was under it. He picked up and checked both sides, no type of writing on it. “That’s fucking weird.” He stepped inside and closed the door behind him. “Hey baby,” he headed to the kitchen. “Was there an envelope that’s supposed to come with the package?”

“Not that I know of,” Melinda said and she turned to him. “Why?”

“Because this was under the package.” Jordan said, showing her the black envelope. 

“Does it say who it’s from?” Melinda said.

“Doesn’t say anything,” Jordan said and he showed her the other side.

She looked confused. “That’s weird,” Melinda said.

“That’s what I said,” Jordan said as he put the package on the counter. “So do you think it came with the package?”

“No,” Melinda said, shaking her head. “Normally when someone I order from has a letter or anything like that, it’s inside the package.”

“Uh,” Jordan said. “I wonder who sent it then.”

“Just open it,” Melinda said. “It could be from the neighbors.”

“True,” Jordan said. “We already had that old couple inviting us over for dinner. And the other young couple wanted us over for game night.” He opened it up and pulled out the card that was inside, and he read the cover of it. “You're invited.” He showed it to her.

“Maybe the neighbors are throwing a party this weekend or something.” Melinda said.

“Let’s find out.” Jordan said. He opened it up and his eyes widened. “Oh shit.” He smiled and looked up at her. “Baby, it’s from Tom Ryder.”

“Tom Ryder?” Melinda said. “As in The Tom Ryder? The actor that was going to the gym you're working at?”

“Yeah,” Jordan said, smiling as he nodded his head. “I haven’t seen that fool in almost a year since he got injured filming Kick-Ass 3.”

“Oh yeah.” Melinda said. “You said he busted the hell out of knee when he missed his mark and hit that metal pipe.”

“Mm-hmm.” Jordan said as he nodded his head.

“What is he inviting us to?” Melinda said. “And how does he know where we live?”

“He must have gone to the gym and asked Danny or someone.” Jordan said and he went back to reading the card. “Wow,” he smiled. “He’s throwing an exclusive party this Saturday and he wants us to come.”

“Are you serious?” Melinda said she went over to him and looked at the card.

“See?” Jordan said and he pointed. “Right there.”

“Oh shit,” Melinda said. “He is inviting us to an exclusive party. I wonder why.”

“I told you we were pretty cool when he went to the gym.” Jordan said. “I would always talk to him about you and he would talk to me about that model chick he was going out with. And we hung out a few times at his place with Danny and some of the others, remember?” She nodded her head. “He must be finally all healed up and wants to celebrate.”

“Does it say we got to dress up or anything?” Melinda said. 

“Nah Ryder never puts on a suit or anything like that when we hung out,” Jordan said, shaking his head. “I think doing business casual should work. Not too fancy and not too I just rolled out of bed.” 

She smiled at him. “So no muscle tank tops to show off your muscles." Melinda said 

“Haha,” Jordan said. “I think you forget I still got these muscles right here,” he refluxed and his forearm muscles popped up causing his veins to be more defined. “What did I overhear you tell your bestie about my veins when I was walking by you when we first met at the gym?” She smiled as she blushed. “That’s right,” he grinned. “That man has veins for days and you know he has veins downstairs too.” She giggled and he stopped flexing. “And you did that very cute and sexy giggle of yours that I love so fucking much.” He put his hands on her hips and slowly swayed her. “Then I turned back around and I said, oh baby you have no idea. I got veins for days there too.” She giggled as she blushed again. “And I started walking over to you and your bestie dipped so we could talk.” She put her arms around his neck. “I asked you, do you want to find out little mama? And you said,”

‘Sure thing daddy,” Melinda said, grinning. “Name the place and time.”

“Mm-hmm,” Jordan said, nodding his head as he licked his lips. “You came over to my studio apartment later that night. You were in a very sexy short black lace dress that hugged this gorgeous," he ran his hands up and down her sides. “Hourglass figured of yours. And these amazing huge tits,” he grabbed her breast giving them a squeeze and she let out a slight moan. “And this nice big round ass.” He slapped her ass, making her moan as he took a firm grip of it. “I unzipped your dress nice and slow while I,” he started kissing her neck. “Kissed your neck. Your dress just came right off of you and onto the floor. Then I took off your bra and kissed my way down to your tits.” He started kissing down to her breast. “Then I sucked on your nipples.” He pulled down her tank top, exposing her naked breast and he started sucking one of her nipples, making her moan. Then he went to the other one, sucking on it for a bit. “Afterwards I kissed down your stomach.” He started kissing down her stomach as he kneeled down. “Then I took off your lace panties with my teeth.” He grabbed the string of her pj shorts with his teeth and he pulled, causing the knot to be undone and the shorts to fall down to the floor, leaving her in just her tank top. He looked up at her as she looked down at him. “And once I took them off,” he kissed her pussy, making her moan. “I started eating this beautiful pussy of yours out.” He grabbed her leg and started raising it up.

“Jordan,” Melinda said, stopping him. “We can't right here.”

“Why not baby?” Jordan said. “Couples are supposed to have sex in all rooms of the house when they move in,” he grinned. “It’s an unspoken rule after all.”

“Yes and I’m all for it but,” Melinda said, smiling. “But we don’t have curtains up here and we have neighbors that go on walks all the time around here, remember?”

“Fuck your right,” Jordan said and he grunted in frustation. “And I was going to put the rest of the curtains up today.” He wrapped his arms around her thighs and he lifted her up and over his shoulder as he stood up. “I guess the bedroom it is then.” He slapped her ass, making her giggle as he carried her to the bedroom. Once there he tossed her onto the bed, she removed her tank top. “So baby,” he grinned as he got onto the bed. “Can I record myself eating you out?”

She blushed. “Ever since we moved in here a couple of weeks ago all you have been doing is recording us every time we are doing something.” Melinda said. “Why?”

“Because we’re always busy in the morning because of work and you're going to school at night now, so we hardly see each other.” Jordan said and he leaned over her. “And I get lonely when you're not here baby. Then when we are here, we are still trying to unpack and set the house up. Also when you graduate and become a nurse you're going to work more hours, and I’m going to get even more lonely so I need these videos to keep me company. Plus,” he grinned as he kissed. “You're very,” he kissed her again. “Very,” he kissed her again. “Sexy.”

“Yeah, I bet.” Melinda said, smiling.

“So can I?” Jordan said, smiling. She gave him a look. “Pleaseeeee.” She giggled as she nodded her head. “Yes.”

“Remember though,” Melinda said, giving him a serious look. “My face can’t be in the videos just in case someone gets a hold of your phone. I don’t need to end up on naughty site and a future patient to tell me they’ve seen me on there.”

“Don’t worry baby,” Jordan said and he gave her a kiss. “Our videos will never end up on naughty site, I promise.” He kissed her again before he sat up. “Now prop up your legs and spread them nice and wide for daddy.” He got his phone off the nightstand as she did what he asked. He pulled up the camera on his phone and pointed it down at her pussy, and started recording. “I just love how smooth and nice your pussy is baby,” he ran two fingers from her pelvis down between her legs. “Fuck,” he slide two fingers between her wet folds and moved them up and down. “Your already wet baby.” He slid his fingers inside of her, making her moan. “Oh yeah,” he pulled his fingers out so he could get a shot of how wet she was. “Your fucking soak wet for daddy,” he slide his fingers back into her, making her moan again. “Aren’t you baby?” 

“Yes,” Melinda whispered. He started moving his fingers, making her moan more. “Yes.”

He kept moving his fingers. “Want daddy to taste you baby?” Jordan said. She moaned yes. “Tell daddy you want him to taste it,” he pushed his fingers deep, rubbing up against her G-Spot and making her moan. “Otherwise daddy won’t do it.”

“Please daddy,” Melinda said and she moaned as he moved his fingers more. “Taste my pussy,” He pushed deep and rubbed up against her G-spot again. “I need you to taste my pussy daddy.”

“That’s daddy’s good girl.” Jordan said. He removed his fingers and he leaned his head down. He made sure the camera was close as he started licking her. He moved his tongue up and down her wet folds before flicking her clit with his tongue, making her shiver. “Fuck baby you taste so fucking good. Daddy can’t get enough.” 

Jordan moved his mouth against her pussy as his tongue went inside of her. She let out soft moans as he moved his mouth and tongue slowly to tease her. Melinda started grabbing the sheets as he picked up the pace. She moaned as his tongue made its way to her clit and two fingers went back inside of her. He started moving his fingers in and out of her as his tongue flicked against her clit. Melinda moaned louder as her body started to tense up. He gave her clit one final flick before he sat up and started moving his fingers faster, causing her walls to tighten up.

“Is daddy’s baby getting close?” Jordan said and she moaned yes. “You want to cum baby? Want to cum for daddy nice and hard?” She moaned yes daddy over and over again. He started moving his fingers faster causing her walls to start to tighten up. She started moaning louder as her legs started to shake. “That’s it baby cum for daddy. Cum for daddy.” 

“Oh fuck!” Melinda said and her walls and clit started to pulsate. “I’m cumming daddy. I’m cumming.” She started moaning and panting as she started cumming. “I’m cumming.”

'You're such a good girl for daddy, Now baby,’ Jordan said, grinning as he started going faster. “I want you to make a mess for daddy,” He started hitting her G-Spot more, causing her to hit another climax. “Come on baby, you can do it. Make a mess for daddy.” She cried out fuck daddy as she arched her back when she hit her ultimate release. He removed his fingers and started rubbing her clit, making her squirt more as her legs and body shaked. “Oh yeah, there you go baby, that’s daddy’s good girl.” 

Jordan kept going until she begged him to stop. He chuckled as he moved his hand away allowing her to start calming down. He got a close up of her pussy, spreading folds apart to show she was still twitching from cumming so hard. Then he recorded the mess she made before he stopped the video. Jordan got off the bed and sat his phone on the night stand, and started removing all his clothes. He grabbed his phone again and got back onto the bed. He rolled Melinda onto her stomach and raised her hips up, getting her on all fours. He scooted in closer as he started recording again. 

He started rubbing his hand up and down her pussy, getting his hand wet and making her moan. Jordan showed the camera she was still soaking wet before he took a hold of his big, thick, hard cock. He started jerking himself off, moaning as he got her wetness all over him. Then he let himself go and took a hold of her hip as he lined his cock with her pussy. He moved the camera closer as he started moving his hips forward and sliding his cock inside of her. Melinda started moaning as Jordan made his way deep inside of her. 

“Fuck baby,” Jordan said and he let out a groan. “Your pussy feels so fucking good. It’s always so nice and fucking tight.” He started moving out slowly at first, savoring the moment. He kept up the slow and steady pace, making them both moan as he kept recording himself moving in and out of her. Then Melinda started moving her hips, going faster and harder, making him groan. “I fucking love it when you make this ass of yours bounce on daddy’s dick.” He slapped her ass a couple of times. “Come on baby, make daddy fill up this pussy.” She started going faster and harder as he kept slapping her ass. “That’s it baby.” He groaned louder as he felt her walls tightening around him. “Oh fuck your pussy is going to make daddy cum baby.” Her legs started to shake as his body started tensing. “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Daddy’s going to cum baby. Daddy’s going to cum.” He grabbed her hip and pushed in deep, cumming deep inside of her as she came on him. “Oh fuck baby.” He groaned. “You made daddy cum so hard.” They were both panting as he slowly pulled out of her. “Hmm fuck,” he smiled as he moved the camera under her a bit to show her pussy better. He chuckled as he slapped her ass again. “Your pussy looks so fucking beautiful filled with my cum right now baby.” 

He slapped her ass one more time before stopping the recording. Melinda’s building collapsed onto the bed, making him chuckle again. Jordan got off the bed and sat his phone back on the nightstand. He went over to the bathroom and washed up a bit, before coming back with a wash cloth for her. He cleaned Melinda up and went back to the bathroom for a bit. He came back out again and got back on the bed, and he laid down next to her. Jordan gently played with her hair as he moved it out of her face. He looked at her and smiled, seeing she was still panting lightly. 

“I love you baby,” Jordan said.

She smiled. “I love you too babe,” Melinda said.

He scooted closer to her. “I can’t wait till we get married, you know why?” Jordan said, she shook her head. “Besides that I get to call you my wifey,” she giggled, making him smile.  “I really can’t wait to call you the mother of my children.” She blushed. “Did you make that appointment to get your birth control removed?”

“I did,” Melinda said as she rolled over to her side. “I got it scheduled a couple weeks before the wedding.”

He smiled. “Good,” Jordan said. He moved his hand down to her stomach, brushing his knuckles across from it as he let out a soft sigh. “I can’t wait to have a little me and you running around here.”

“In a year we will,” Melinda said.

“Yeah,” Jordan said as he looked down at her stomach. “Hopefully everything works out by then.”

“What do you mean?” Melinda said.

“You know,” Jordan said as he looked back up at her. “Getting the house situated and getting everything together for the wedding. Making sure we have enough saved before we start trying to have a baby. Stuff like that.” She nodded her head. “You know no matter what, I’ll do everything in my power to look out for you and take care of you right?”

“I do,” Melinda said and she placed her hand on his cheek. “You okay babe?”

“Yeah baby,” Jordan said. “Why do you ask?”

“I don’t know.” Melinda said. “You seem like something is on your mind. Like something has been stressing you out or troubling you.”

He smiled. “I’m cool baby,” Jordan said. “Always am. Come here,” he pulled her up against his body and they wrapped themselves around each other. He kissed the top of her as she laid her head against his chest. “I love you baby. I love you so so so much.”

“I love you too,” Melinda said. She let out a soft sigh and closed her eyes. “Goodnight babe.”

He kissed the top of her head again. “Goodnight baby,” Jordan said, closing his eyes. “Sweet dreams.”

The Deal Part 2

She let out a sigh as she huddled under the covers. She tried to go back to sleep, but Melinda was having difficulties. So she started taking deep breaths to find her center to help her. But when she did, she could smell hazelnut coffee, her favorite. Jordan had to be in the kitchen. She took another deep breath and she smelled bacon but that wasn’t all. She could smell, the smoke detector went off, smell something burning. Melinda let out another sigh as she opened her eyes up. As she got out of bed, she could hear Jordan cussing up a storm. She put on her robe and she headed to the kitchen where there was smoke in the air and flames on the stove.

“Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.” Jordan said, grabbing the fire extinguisher as he saw Melinda. “Baby stay back.” She grabbed the fire extinguisher from him and sat it down. “Baby what are you doing?” She turned off the stove and then picked up the lid for the pan, and placed it right on the pan, putting out the flames. “Oh.”

“That fire extinguisher isn’t designed for grease fires,” Melinda said as she opened up the windows to let the smoke out. “The moment you would have used it, the flames would have spread. It’s better to just deprive it of oxygen with the lid or blanket or towel. Or put it out by using baking soda.”

“Baking soda?” Jordan said, she nodded her head. “Huh. That’s why you always keep that big box of baking soda in the kitchen.”

“Exactly.” Melinda said. 

She looked at the other food he had on the stove that was also burned. “Yeahhhh kinda burned everything,” Jordan said, and she looked over at him. “I just wanted to try and make you breakfast after last night but,” he sighed. “I still fucking suck at cooking as you can tell.”

She giggled. “Yeah I remember you told me you used to spend tons of money on Hello Fresh and Ubereats before I started cooking for you.” Melinda said.

He chuckled. “I never told you but,” Jordan said and he smiled. “Remember the very first time you offered to come over and cook for me?”

“Yeah,” Melinda said, nodding her head.

“Well,” Jordan said and he smiled. “I never told you this but I didn’t have any pots or pants or cooking utensils so I went out and bought them before you came over.”

She giggled. “Are you serious?” Melinda said.

He chuckled. “Yeah,” Jordan said, nodding his head. 

“I was wondering why they look so brand new,” Melinda said. He smiled as he nodded his head. Then his smile faded as he looked at her. “What?”

“I like it when we're like this,” Jordan said. “Smiling, laughing, just joking around. I really thought last night was going to be the last time we had this.” She looked down as last night replayed and doubt started creeping into her mind once more. “You're not going to leave me are you baby?” She looked up and she shook her head, he gave her a small smile. “Come here,” they went over to each other and he wrapped his arms around, giving her a kiss. “Since I burnt all this food, do you want some cereal? I can’t burn that.”

“I don’t know, are you going to make it the right way?” Melinda said with a smirk.

“Hey, milk and then cereal is the right way baby” Jordan said, and he smirked back. “You doing cereal and then milk is the wrong way.”  

She giggled a bit. “Whatever you say, babe.” Melinda said. “I think I'm just going to lay down a bit longer and when I wake up I’ll turn that coffee to ice coffee.”

“Alright baby,” Jordan said and he gave her a kiss. “How about,” he smiled, “we make love again?”

She gave a small smile. “That would be great but I’m just really tired babe,” Melinda said.

He nodded his head. “Okay, that’s fine.” Jordan said. “Go get some sleep and I’ll clean up here.” He gave her another kiss before he let her go and she started heading back to the bedroom. “Baby?” Melinda stopped and turned back to him. “What do you think about us spicing it up in the bedroom?”

“What do you mean?” Melinda said, looking confused.

“You know,” Jordan said and he grinned. “Bringing in some toys.”

“Toys?” Melinda said.

“Yeah,” Jordan said, nodding his head. “Like a vibrator and dildo for you. Maybe we can do some anal plugs for you to see if you like that. That would help get you adjusted and get you ready for me if you end up deciding I can fuck your ass.” She looked at him in surprise. “Oh,” he snapped his fingers and smiled. “We can get one of those machines that have the dildo on it. I can tie you up on the bed and I can watch it fuck you while I jerk off.”

“What?” Melinda said, not knowing what to think. “What the hell are you talking about?”

“I’m just throwing out suggestions to spice things up, that’s all baby.” Jordan said. “What if I buy an actual camera and you know those tripods so we can record us better.”

“Where the fuck is this all coming from?” Melinda said.

“It's just,” Jordan said and he sighed. “I heard that romance tends to go out the window once a couple gets married and has kids. And I don’t want that for us, baby. I want us to be all into each other so I thought, you know,” he smiled. “Spicing things up in the bedroom would help out.”

“If you want to keep romance alive shouldn’t we go on dates and not make a porn video?” Melinda said.

“Yeah,” Jordan said and he looked down. “Guess going on dates would work better.”

“Are you bored of me in the bedroom?” Melinda said.

He looked up quickly. “What? No,” Jordan said, shaking his head. “I’m not bored of you at all baby. I just don’t want you to get bored of me and leave.” 

“You really think I’m bored of you?” Melinda said, as she started getting frustrated.  “I’m not the one flirting and eye fucking others Jordan.” He looked away. “What’s next? You're going to suggest bringing another man or even another woman into the bedroom to spice things up.”

He turned back to her. “Fuck no,” Jordan said, raising his voice a bit. “I won’t ever do that shit to you. I don’t want another man or fucking woman touching you.” He sighed heavily. “I’m sorry baby. It’s super early in the morning and I’m tossing all these suggestions at you. I’m sure you're still tired and stressed out because of last night's bullshit with Tom. Won’t you just forget what I said and get some sleep.” She just looked at him. “Go ahead baby,” he smiled. “Get some sleep.” She turned back around and headed back to the bedroom. “I love you baby.” 

She stopped for a moment. “Yeah,” Melinda said. “Love you too.” She went inside and closed the door behind her. 

“Fuck.” Jordan said. 

Couple Hours Later: 

Unable to sleep when she got back into the bedroom, Melinda had ended up taking a shower. Then she decided to soak in the tub and read a book. She was there for a while until Jordan came in to check up on her. And of course, he started taking off his clothes to join her. She didn’t mind it at first since Jordan stayed quiet and he was rubbing her feet. But when things started turning sexual he brought up recording it. Without a word or a sigh Melinda got out of the tub and went to the bedroom to dry off. She got dressed as he came into the bedroom to apologize. She just went into the kitchen and started getting breakfast together. 

When she was done cooking, they sat in the dining room and started eating. Melinda wasn’t saying a word or even looking at Jordan as he tried talking to her. She just gave him a simple nod or head shake, and occasional shoulder shrugged. After they ate, she cleaned up and started working on unpacking the kitchen while Jordan started putting up the curtains. Jordan did try to keep talking to her but eventually he gave up and put on some music for them to listen to. Once the kitchen was done, they got one of the spare rooms set up as a guest room. That’s when Jordan brought up that they should work on setting up the nursery so they wouldn’t have to worry about doing it during her pregnancy. Before Melinda could say anything someone rang the doorbell and she went over to answer it.

She opened the door and she was taken back with who she saw. “Oh hell no,” Melinda said.

“Baby who is it?” Jordan said and he went over, seeing who it was. “What do you want?”

“Mr Ryder has sent me over with some important documentation.” He said. “If I can have a moment of your time.”

She sighed. “Sure, why not? It’s not like last time things went sideways.” Melinda said in a sarcastic tone as she let him in. “Would you like something to drink?” Leading the way to the dining room. 

“No thank you.” He said.

They sat down. “So let’s see this important documentation,” Melinda said. 

He opened up his briefcase and took a packet. “This is a contract for you and Mr Weaver,” He said, handing it to her. “His offer for you to spend this upcoming weekend with him still stands.”

“Dude, come on,” Jordan said.

“Is he fucking serious with this fucking shit right now?” Melinda said. She paused and took a deep breath. “I’m sorry, you're just the messenger, I shouldn’t be biting your head off.”

“It’s quite alright Ms Mercer, it’s understandable.” He said. “Mr Ryder wants me to reinsure you that there isn’t any sexual acts involved. He just wants to get to know you more. Inside the packet are a few things he listed that he said you two can do together.

“Let me see this,” Jordan said, taking the packet from her and he started skimming through it. “Blowing, watching movies, go-kart racings, mini golf, swimming.” He looked up. “My girl isn’t going to go swimming so he can check her out in her bikini."

“It’s just a list of things they can do together, Ms Mercer doesn’t have to do anything she doesn’t wish to do,” He said. “With that said, Mr Ryder did say that if any point you wish to,” he hesitated.

“Wish to what?” Melinda said.

“To do any sexual acts, he isn’t pose to it,” He said. “You just have to be the one that gives the green light as he put it.”

“I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit,” Melinda said, rolling her eyes.

“These have NDA’s in it.” Jordan said.

“Of course he wants us to keep our mouths shut because he plans to try and crawl into bed with me,” Melinda said, as she took the packet from Jordan. “Tell Mr Ryder he can take this packet and shove it up his ass.” She handed it back to him. “And if he keeps this up, movie star or not, my four older brothers are going to kick his door down and beat his fucking ass, and fuck up his other knee.” She got up. “Excuses me, I’m going to fuck up of the punching bag in the garage.” 

She took off before anyone could say anything. Melinda kept kicking and punching the bag, refusing to take any breaks. She just kept going and going, letting all her frustration, anger and sadness out of the bag. As she did, all she could was imagine Tom and Jordan both that she was hurting. She was going at it for almost an hour when she started getting hot. She took off her shirt and went back at it, but soon the heat increased in the garage. 

“Why is it so fucking hot?” Melinda said. She put on her shirt and she went back into the house. “Jordan,” she looked around for him and she found him outside near the AC unit. “Why is it hot in the house?” 

He sighed and he looked over at her. “The AC crapped out,” Jordan said.

“You got to be kidding,” Melinda said.

He shook his head. “Look,” Jordan said. She walked over and he pointed at the inside of it. “See all the ice build up around it?”

“Can’t we just melt the ice?” Melinda said.

“We can but it’s just going to keep freezing over, baby,” Jordan said. “It’s going to be like that until we fix whatever is wrong with it.”

She sighed. “Fuck and it’s suppose to be in the 100s this week,” Melinda said. “I’m going to call Jeremiah and see if he can help out.” She headed back into the house when he grabbed her hand. “What?”

“Baby you don’t have to call your brother,” Jordan said. “I can fix this.”

“Jordan,” Melinda said. “My brother can help us get this fix.” 

“We don’t need your fucking brother,” Jordan said in a harsh tone. Melinda glared at him and he sighed. “I’m sorry baby,” he let go of her hand. “It’s just I don’t need you brother to turn around and tell your other brothers that I couldn’t fix this. Because we both know, Bobby will come down here and start giving me shit. He’s going to tell me that I don’t know how to fix things around the house for you and take care of you.”

“Then I’ll tell him something if he does,” Melinda said.

“And how is that going to look when I have my girl sticking up for me?” Jordan said. She sighed as she rolled her eyes. “Let me fix it okay?”

“Fine. Whatever,” Melinda said. She went back inside and over to the kitchen. “I swear he’s too prideful sometimes.” She stopped when she saw the packet on the kitchen table. “He seriously didn’t throw this shit out?” 

She grabbed it and ripped it apart before throwing it into the trash, then she started working on lunch. When she was done, she told Jordan lunch was ready and she went to the dining room to eat. By the time she was done and she got things picked up, Jordan finally came in. He didn’t say a word to her or looked at her as he went to the fridge and grabbed out a beer. He chugged about half of it before he turned back around to tell her something. That’s when he noticed the packet wasn’t on the counter. He walked over to the trash can, seeing the packet torn up.

“You throw away the contract?” Jordan said.

“Yeah since you didn’t do it,” Melinda said and she turned to him. “Did you get the AC working?” He sighed and he shook his head. “I’m calling my brother.” Before he could protest she walked off to get her phone. She called her brother and almost an hour later he came over, and started looking over. “Can you fix it?”

“You should have called me the moment it broke down, it would have been an easy fix,” Jeremiah said, as he looked at the AC unit. “Whatever that little boyfriend of yours did, just made it worse,” he looked over at her. “I had the part to swap out and fix it, but he damaged the other parts that I don’t have.”

“Can’t you get them?” Melinda said.

“Not for this model,” Jeremiah said. “This is an older model that they don’t make or even make spare parts for. I hate to say it, but you’ll have to get it all replaced.”

“Great,” Melinda said and she rolled her eyes. “How much is that going to cost?” He just stared at her. “Jeremiah, how much?”

“Well since the AC and heater are combined you have to replace both. That will put you around, ” Jeremiah said, he started thinking about it. “8,000 dollars give or take.”

“8,000!” Melinda said. “Fuck,” she sighed as she put her hands on her hips. “We’re going to have to dip into the savings then.”

“Sorry sis,” Jeremiah said. “Like I said if you guys called me as soon as it broke down I could have fixed it.”

“I wanted to but Jordan didn’t want Bobby giving him shit,” Melinda said.

“Remember what Mama Evelyn always said,” Jeremiah said, picking up his tool bag. “Pride comes before the fall.”

“Yeah,” Melinda said. “Thanks for coming over and trying to fix it.”

“No problem,” Jeremiah said. “I’ll have my guys drop off a couple of window air conditioners for you tomorrow morning. I’ll see you later, love you.”

“Love you too,” Melinda said. Jeremiah headed out around the back as she went back inside, to find Jordan in the kitchen with his arms crossed and looking annoyed. “It’s going to be,”

“8,000, yeah I know I heard.” Jordan said and he looked over at her. “Like how I heard him call me your little boyfriend. But what I didn’t hear,” he uncrossed his hands and went over to her. “Was you correcting him and saying I’m the man you were going to marry,” he stuffed his hands in his pockets. “Why is that? Are you planning not to marry me now or something?”

“Are you serious right now Jordan?” Melinda said. “I never said that.”

“But you're acting like it by not correcting your fucking brother. And why do you keep calling me Jordan?” Jordan said. “Yeah I know you call me it every now again, but since all that shit happened last night you just been calling me Jordan. And all this morning you’ve been refusing to have sex with me. Then when I told you I love you, you had to stop and fucking think about it. And the way you said it, it was like you had no fucking love behind it whatsoever. What the hell is going on with you?” He took his hands out of his pockets and gestured to himself. “Don’t you want to be with me? Don’t you love me?”

“Jordan,” Melinda said.

“There you go again, Jordan. Jordan. Jordan.” Jordan said, and he grunted in frustration as he rolled his eyes. “How would you feel if I call you Melinda all fucking day and keep rejecting your fucking ass when you want to fuck.” She started walking away. “Hey! Don’t fucking walk away from me when I’m fucking talking to you!”

She turned around and rushed over to him, then she shoved him, causing him to stumble back. “Don’t you ever fucking dare raise your voice at me or talk to me like that!” Melinda said. He looked at her in shock as she got into his face. “And newsflash, just because we are together, doesn’t mean I have to constantly jump on your fucking dick whenver you whip it out. I have every right to say no to you and you have to respect that.”

“I do baby,” Jordan said. “I just,”

“And the reason I keep saying no is because of what happened last night.” Melinda said.

“But we made love last night,” Jordan said.

“Did we?” Melinda said. He looked at her confused. “Ever since we moved in here all you want to do is record us. I hate it.”

“But I thought you were cool with it,” Jordan said.

“I was at first but that’s all you fucking want to do Jordan,” Melinda said and she stepped away from him. “It takes the fun and love out of it. It feels like you're putting on a show or something.”

“Baby,” Jordan said. “I told you why I recorded it.”

“But does it have to be all the time?” Melinda said. “I’m surprised you didn’t ask me to record it when we were having sex at Tom’s place.” He just looked at her. “Wait. Did you… did you record it?”

“Yeah,” Jordan said and she threw her hands up as she sighed in frustration. “It was just for like a minute or two baby I swear. You were really into it and I didn’t want to stop and ask you. I just pulled out my phone and just recorded my dick going in and out of you, that was it. Then when you started getting close I put my phone away.” She started walking away. “Wait baby,” he followed her to the bedroom. “I’m sorry I didn’t ask.”

“I’m done,” Melinda said.

“Are you leaving me?” Jordan said.

“No,” Melinda said, turning around and facing him. “Jordan, I’m fucking hurting okay?” Her eyes started to water. “It hurts that you look at other women and I have someone pointing it out to me! It hurts knowing you flirt with women, that you have been flirting with them this whole fucking time! It hurts that you looked me in the eye and straight up lied to me about what took you so long last night to come back with my drinks! It hurts that you didn’t tell Tom to fuck off when he first offer us that fucking deal! And it fucking hurts, that you didn’t throw away that packet!” She started crying. “I’m fucking hurting and you act like your fucking dick is the cure all and recording it would make me happy. I hate that your suggestings about bringing all these fucking toys into the bedroom to keep our romance alive, when you know that’s bullshit. You're doing it because you really don’t give a shit that you're causing me all this pain.”

“Baby I,” Jordan said and he sighs. “I’m sorry. I’m so fucking sorry.” He went over and wrapped his arms around her, letting her cry against his chest. “I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be bugging you all the time about recording. Or bring up the toys and all that shit. It’s just…” he sighed. “We… We need the money.”

“What?” Melinda said, pulling back and looking at him. “What are you talking about?”

“I lost my job baby,” Jordan said. 

“You lost your job?” Melinda said, looking confused as she stepped out of his arms. “But… but you’ve been taking off in the mornings like you normally do.”

“I’ve been looking for work. And on your days off when I’m supposed to be working I,” Jordan said. He sighed. “I go to Danny’s and hang out at his place until my usual time I get off.”

She looked at him in disbelief. “When did you lose your job?” Melinda said.

“I got the call right after I showed you the paperwork for the house.” Jordan said. “I was hoping I could find work before things got bad but,” he sighed again. “I haven’t had any luck.”

“Since you showed me the paperwork?” Melinda said. “That was like a month and a half ago.”

“I know,” Jordan said. “I just didn’t want you to worry about the money.”

She shook her head. “How were you able to cover the move?” Melinda said. “The wedding venue? The bills and the repairs to my car? Getting stuff for the house? All of it?”

“I’ve been using the money in the savings,” Jordan said, 

“Why didn’t you just tell me?” Melinda said. “I wouldn’t have been buying all this furniture and I would have just let Bobby pay to fix my car. I would have been helping out this whole time.”

“Because I wanted to be the one taking care of everything, not you baby.” Jordan said. “It’s my job to take care of it all, not yours. But by the first week, the money got really low and I started worrying how I was going to buy the utilities and all that. Then,” he looked down. “Then Danny suggested something a bit crazy but it worked.” 

“What are you talking about?” Melinda said and he looked up at her, heisting. “What did Danny suggest?”

“I started a Private page.” Jordan said. She just looked at him, processing what he just said. “It was just me, showing off my body at first. Then I started uploading videos of me jerking off. I was making pretty good money but after a month not finding work I knew I needed to up my game if I was going to pay everything. So I,”

“Oh my god,” Melinda said, Her breathing got heavy as her heart started pounding at a rapid pace. “That’s why you were recording us.”

“I’m sorry baby but like I said, we needed the money.” Jordan said.

“How could you?” Melinda said, in a harsh tone. “You promised me you wouldn’t put the videos online.” 

“I’m sorry baby, I really am.” Jordan said. “I just didn’t know what to do.”

She shook her head. “I can’t believe this is happening.” Melinda said.

“It’s not a big deal baby,”  Jordan said. “People make naughty videos all the time and post them.”

“It is a big deal Jordan,” Melinda said as she started to shake with anger. “I’m trying to be a nurse.”

“But your face isn’t in any of the videos baby,” Jordan said.

“I have tattoos and piercings that will stand out,” Melinda said. “Anyone that knows me will put two and two together. And you,” she motioned to him. “You have your nipple pierced and you have a tattoo above your pelvis. Anyone that has seen you shirtless will know it’s you.” He just stared at her. “Oh god.” It hit her. “Your face was in the videos weren’t they?” Jordan kept staring at her. “That chick from last night, what were you two talking about?” He looked away. “Look at me!” He turned to her. “Tell me, what did you guys really talk about?”

“She saw my Private page and told me she really loves the size of my dick and how I use it,” Jordan said. “She… she showed me her page and I was checking out a few of her videos.” Once again her heart and breathing picked up. “She told me that she would love to go upstairs with me and make a video with me. I told her the girl in the video was the only girl I was doing videos with. And it was just a temporary thing I was doing to make some money. Then she started talking using all these,”

“Toys,” Melinda said.

“Yeah,” Jordan said, nodding his head. “She says she makes really good money doing that. But she said to make the big bucks is to bring someone else into the bedroom. Then she said that she loves fucking girls and eating them out. She said the three of us can do a video together. I can sit there and jerk off while she takes care of you. Or while you give me a blow job she can eat you out or fuck you. I told her no because you were mine and I showed her my wedding ring. She told me that it's cool and to hit her up on her page if I change my mind. When I walked off and that’s when I saw you but I kept on going because,”

“You needed to come up with a story,” Melinda said and he nodded his head. “The video you took, the one in Tom’s bathroom was… was my face in that one?”

“She saw us coming in together and she said you were really beautiful,” Jordan said. “And a face relief would get me a lot of money.” She gasped as he covered her mouth. “I didn’t post it, baby. I.. I was going to but I didn’t.”

She put her hand back down. “You need to delete that video right now Jordan,” Melinda said. “You need to delete all those videos and take down your page.”

“We need the money baby,” Jordan said.

“Fuck the money!” Melinda yelled. “You betrayed my trust Jordan!”

“I was just trying to fucking take care of you, okay?!” Jordan yelled. “Everything I fucking did was to take care of you!” She shook her head as she stepped further away from him. “You want me to take down all the videos and delete everything?”

“Yes!” Melinda said.

“Then spend the weekend with Tom,” Jordan said. She looked at him in disbelief and disgust. “You spend the weekend with Tom will solve all our problems. We can use that 4 million and pay off the house, and get the AC replaced. Hell,” he smiled. “We can turn around and sell the house, and get a better one, a newer one. All you have to do is just hang out with him.”

“What?” Melinda said in a small voice. 

“Baby think about it,” Jordan said. “Everything will be taken care of, the house, the wedding and we’ll still have plenty left. Oh,” his face lit up. “Instead of buying a new house we can get that empty building I showed you awhile back. The one I said if I owned I would open up a gym with self defense classes and offer life couch advice. If we do that, not only will we be set for life or kids will be too.”

“Our kids?” Melinda said.

“Yeah baby,” Jordan said, smiling as he nodded his head. “Our kids. You know, the ones we always talk about having. They’ll be taken care of, we all will. All you have to do is spend the holiday weekend with Tom.” She shook her head. “Come on baby, it’s just hanging out, that’s all. Tom and the guy both said there’s no fucking involved. You just have to sit there and bullshit with him and that’s it. Then the money is all ours.” 

“No,” Melinda said, shaking her head. “No I won’t.”

“Baby come on,” Jordan said. “We have until Thursday midnight to contact him and sign the paperwork. Once we do,” he smiled. “That money is as good as ours.”

“I said no,” Melinda said through her teeth. “I would rather pack up and go back to living with my brothers.”

His face got serious as his breathing got heavy. “Fine,” Jordan said. “But if you don’t do this, not only will I not delete all those videos, I’ll post one I took last night.” Her eyes widened. “That’s right baby, everyone will know what you fucking look like. So if you don’t want me to upload that video, you’ll do this for us.”

“Bastard,” Melinda said.

“No, that’s you baby.” Jordan said and he smirked. “After all, your mommy didn’t have a daddy for you and that’s why CPS took you away from her because she couldn’t take care of you on her own. Then they dropped your fucking ass off at that poor shitty fucking foster home.” She clenched her fists and jaw. “So, if you don’t want to end up going back there and have that beautiful face of yours all over my page, you’ll spend the weekend with Tom. And just like them, I’ll give you until Thursday midnight to make up your mind.” 

Her eyes shifted to her phone on the nightstand and back to him. “Not if I call my brothers to come and beat your fucking ass.” Melinda said.

She jumped on the bed and so did he, and they both dove for her phone. Melinda almost had it, but Jordan was taller than her and had longer arms. He grabbed it right off the charge before they both crashed onto the floor and against the wall. Melinda gasped as a sharp pain shot up her left arm and to her shoulder as Jordan got to his feet. He ran straight into the bathroom and he locked at the door. She could hear him fighting with the case to get it off and yelled in excitement when he got it off. She sat up slowly as she grabbed her arm. She tried to get to her feet, but she was in too much pain. So Melinda sat there, leaned up against the wall as she held her arm while she listened to Jordan throwing her phone on the title floor and stumping on it. Once he was finally done, the door swung open and he came out with a pep in his step with a shit eating grin on his face. 

“Can’t call your brothers now with a,” Jordan said and he stopped seeing she was in pain. “Baby?” He dropped the broken phone from his hand and onto the floor. “What the fuck did I do?” He ran, jumped on the bed and jumped down next to her. He crouched down as went to look at her arm and she pulled away from him, hissing in pain as she did. “Baby please, let me look at it.” He reached out again but this time she didn’t move. He pulled down her shirt a bit, he could see the bone popping up and arm out of place. “Oh fuck,” a wave a guilt started washing over him as he started shaking a bit. “It’s dislocated. I’m… I’m sorry baby,” he looked into her eyes as he started to water. “I didn’t mean,” she looked down and he sighed. “Come on, let’s get you to the hospital.” He wrapped his arms around and picked her up as she kept hissing in pain. “I know baby, I know. It will be alright, I promise. I promise.”

“I’m fucking married you fucking dumb bitch,” Jordan said and he turned around. “Oh shit,” his eyes went wide when he saw it was Melinda. “I’m so sorry baby.” He put his arms around her and gave her a kiss. “I didn’t mean to cuss at you or call you a bitch. I thought it was this chick that was trying to get all frisky with me after I told her I was married.” 

“Wait, some chick was all over you?” Melinda said. “Is that why you were taking so long?”

“Yeah,” Jordan said, nodding his head. “I saw this chick getting hit on by some guy and she was looking hella comfortable. I moved closer to hear them talking and sure enough, she kept telling him she wasn’t interested but he wasn’t taking no for an answer. And you know how I am about that shit baby,” she nodded her head. “So I tried to get him to walk away but the fucker wasn’t having it. I ended up getting into his face and told him to fuck off, otherwise me and him were going to go a few rounds. He backed off and started heading out, so I followed him and made sure he left. Once he did I came back inside and asked if she was okay, and if she needed anything. She said she was good and she thanked me, then she started getting all flirty with me. She puts her hand on my chest, saying she wanted to pay me back by taking me upstairs to one of the bedrooms. I just smiled at her and showed her my wedding ring, and I walked off.”

“You really did all that?” Melinda said, smiling.

“Of course baby,” Jordan said, smiling. “Why would I want someone like that when I have you,” he kissed her. “The love of my life. My future wife and mother of my future babies.” 

She blushed. “I love you babe,” Melinda said.

“I love you too baby,” Jordan said and he kissed her. “Here.” He handed her shots. 

“I uh,” Melinda said. “I shouldn't drink these.”

“Why baby?” Jordan said. “I thought you wanted them.”

“Because I’m going to have to be a sober driver after all.” Melinda said.

“What?” Jordan said, looking confused. “Why?”

She sighed. “Tom was hitting on me,” Melinda said.

“He was hitting on you?” Jordan said and she nodded her head. “Baby, Ryder is known to be a big flirt. I’m sure it was harmless flirty.”

“He brought up about you always staring at other girls,” Melinda said and she felt Jordan tense up. “He straight out said if I was his girl his eyes would only be on me. Then he goes on a rant about how you need to get your head out of your ass and wake up. How basically you need to treat me better or I can end up walking out here with some other guy or just stay here with him.” Jordan scoffed as he shook his head. “Then he asked me for my number in case we break up.”

“What the fuck?” Jordan said, he grunted. “That fucking asshole.”

“Yeah,” Melinda said. “Then I ripped his soul out by saying he was a man whore because he had deep seeded mommy issues.” 

He started laughing. “That’s my girl.” Jordan said and he kissed her. “Wait here and I’m going to talk to him.”

“Babe don’t,” Melinda said, shaking her head. “He smelled of alcohol, like really bad. I’m sure the reason why he's wearing those fucking yellow sunglasses in here is because his eyes are red. So he has to be drunk off his ass. If anything, wait till tomorrow and come back when he’s all sober up to talk to him.”

He sighed. “Alright baby,” Jordan said. “Do you want to head out then? I don’t want you to be feeling uncomfortable.”

“Nah,” Melinda said. “We don’t get to have a whole lot of fun with us working all the time and me going to school. And once we have kids,” they smiled. “We won't be able to have fun like this for a few years.”

“In that case you drink up baby,” Jordan said, smiling. “And we’ll just take an uber home.”

“Sounds like a plan,” Melinda said. She chugged one shot and then the second. Jordan had a shook look on his face, seeing she was unphase. “Told you, just because I have a pussy doesn’t make me one.” She winked.

“Fuck me,” Jordan said and he smiled. “Let’s get you some more fucking shots.”

As Jordan got her more shots for her an idea popped in his head. He started betting people that Melinda could chug the shots without falling on her ass. A few men took him up on his bet and Melinda put them in their places. She started doing drinking games and winning each one. In a couple of hours, they had over a thousand dollars. Jordan was going to place another bet when Melinda heard the song Anywhere by 112 start to play. She went over to the area where everyone was dancing. He watched her start dancing seductively, he licked his lips as she slowly unbuttoned her shirt. She grinned at him as she used a finger to call him over. 

Jordan walked over to her, completely memorized by her. As he got to her Melinda turned around, putting her back against his chest. She slowly started grinding up against him as she continued to dance. He moaned as he started getting hard. She put her arms above her head and wrapped them around Jordan’s neck. He put his hands on her hips and he raised Melinda’s tank top up, revealing her belly button ring and her tattoos she had on her hip bones, along with her smooth slender stomach. Jordan started kissing her neck as they grind against each other while they dance. 

His lips moved up her neck and towards her lips as one hand moved up her body. He squeezed her breast, making her moan before he continued moving his hand up her body. Jordan put his hand on her throat and he gave her a gentle squeeze, putting her in a daze. Then he took a hold of her face and moved it towards him, and his lips met hers. They started kissing slowly and gently as their tongues explored each other’s mouths. Melinda moved her arms as she rotated herself so she was facing him. She broke the kiss and she whispered in his ear. They pulled back and Jordan grinned at her as he took a hold of her hand. He led her over to a hallway where they disappeared into. 

Unknown to them, Tom was across the room watching them the whole time. After Melinda took off, he went after her to apologize to her. Then he saw Jordan talking to a woman and how Melinda saw it too. So he stopped a few feet behind her and waited to see how it would play out. If Jordan was about to fuck around, not only was he going to throw him out. But he was going to offer Melinda a shoulder to cry on and help her take her mind off of Jordan by taking her to his room. But instead, Jordan blew the woman off to his surprise and Melinda went over to him. So he found a spot across the room and watched them betting people while they did drinking games.

Then when he saw Melinda dancing, he had to stop himself from going over there. He couldn’t help but admire the way she moved her hips. Nor couldn’t he help but lick his lips when he saw her busting chest, her hourglass figured, her piercing and tattoos. She was definitely the type of girl he would go for. Though she was Jordan’s girl, he didn’t care. Especially seeing how Jordan was still checking out chicks when he had someone as beautiful with a gorgeous body like Melinda. Yeah, she busted his balls but she was the only to ever call him out and he wanted to get to know her more because of it. Then when he saw Jordan taking Melinda down the hallway with a grin on their faces, he knew exactly what they were going to do. That’s fine, because he knew exactly what he was going to do too. 

Bathroom:

As soon as they got inside, Jordan locked the door. They both quickly undid their pants and lowered them. He spun Melinda round and leaned her over the sink. He took a hold of his hard cock rubbing the tip of it against her already wet folds. She started moaning, making him groan back in return. He started pushing past her folds and he let himself go, and took a hold of her hips. Jordan thrust his hips forward, slamming himself deep inside of her, making Melinda cry out. He grinned and he started pounding away at her pussy while he watched her expressions in the mirror. Jordan kept going as hard and as fast as he could, making her cry out each time he hit her G-spot.

Melinda’s walls soon started clenching around his cock, making him groan loud as his body tensed up with hers. Her legs started to shake, followed by her clit and walls started pulsating. She cried out daddy as she started cumming hard. Jordan tightened his grip on Melinda's hips as he started cumming. Then he shoved his cock deep inside and rolled his hips, making them moan loud as they finished cumming together. He leaned over her as they both panted from their release. He started kissing her back gently and made his way up to her neck. 

“I love you baby,” Jordan whispered as he kept kissing her. “I love you so so so much.”

“I love you too babe.” Melinda whispered. 

He pulled out of her, making both sigh. “Fuck,” Jordan said, ran his hands through his hair as he leaned back up. “That was fucking amazing.” He slapped her ass, making her moan. “You have such a great ass baby.” He squeezed it. “When are you going to let me fuck it?”

She quickly removed his hands. “Never,” Melinda said as she leaned up.

“Aw come on baby,” Jordan said, he pouted. “I promise I’ll use a lot of lube.”

“No,” Melinda said, turning to him as she got her panties and pants back up. “Not with that python of yours.”

He grunted as he put his boxers and pants back up. “Just the tip.” Jordan said. She glared at him. “Okay. Okay. Okay.” He leaned down and kissed her. “What if you were on top?’ She punched his arm, “fuck,” he chuckled as he rubbed his arm. “I love it when you get violent." He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in close. “It really turns me on.”

She giggled. “You're such a prev.” Melinda said.

“You fucking love it.” Jordan said with a smirk. She smiled as she nodded her head. He smiled as he gave her another kiss. “I really love you baby, like so so so soooooo much.” She giggled as she kissed him. “Want to start heading home?” She nodded her head. “Alright,” he gave her another kiss before taking her hand and leading her back out of the hallway.

“I can’t believe we had sex in someone else's bathroom.” Melinda said. “And with tons of people around.”

“Want to find Tom’s room and fuck on his bed?” Jordan and she giggled. “That’s a yes.” She playfully smacked him, making him chuckle. “You know you want to baby.”

“Shut up,” Melinda said as she landed her head against his arms. “All I want is to go home and cuddle with you until we fall asleep.”

“After I pound that pussy again.” Jordan said.

She giggled. “After you pound my pussy again.” Melinda said. He chuckled as they headed outside. “Want to walk around a bit before we call for a ride?”

“A moonlight stroll with my wifey to be?” Jordan said and he smiled. “Why not?” 

They walked around outside, exploring Tom’s property while they talked about the wedding. They definitely were going to un-invite Tom after the stunt he pulled. Jordan still couldn’t believe that Tom would turn around and do that after he just told him they were going to get married and have kids. He really couldn’t believe that Tom turned around and ratted him out about staring at other girls. But he’s sure Melinda checks out guys too. Plus he wasn’t flirting with the girls, he was just looking. Okay, he flirted a bit but he never asked for numbers or touched them. Just harmlessly flirty, that’s all. 

“Babe,” Melinda said and Jordan looked down at her. “Did you hear me?”

“Sorry baby, I zoned out a bit because of all those beers.” Jordan said. “What did you say?”

“I said that guy in the suit is staring at us.” Melinda said, she motioned her head and he looked over. “See him?”

“Yeah,” Jordan said as the guy started walking over to him. “If I’m right he works for Tom. I think he’s like his chauffeur or something.”

“Did you think Tom got told we had sex in his bathroom?” Melinda said.

“Nah,” Jordan said, shaking his head. “Plus if he did it’s not like I nutted all over the bathroom. I just nutted in you.” She playfully smacked him and he chuckled. “I bet Tom sent him to say sorry for him.”

“We’ll see,” Melinda said. 

“Mr Weaver. Ms Mercer,” He said. “Mr Ryder would like to have a word with you two.”

“Why?” Jordan and Melinda said together.

“He would like to extend an oliver branch for his behavior earlier.” He said. Jordan looked down at Melinda as she looked up at him. She nodded her head and they looked back at the guy, and Jordan nodded his head. “This way please.”

Tom’s Parlor Room:

When Jordan and Melinda stepped into the room they looked around. The walls were black with light figures that had dim lightening. There was a glass coffee table surrounded with purple velvet couches on one side of the room. There were a few purple velvet chairs spaced throughout the room. Then there was a bar, filled with liquor, a beer tap, glasses and barstools at the counter. They took a seat on the couch together and he poured them a shot of whiskery, and handed it to them.

“Mr Ryder will be in here shortly.” He said he took off and closed the door behind him.

They looked into trouble. “You know this is how horror movies start right?” Melinda said.

“Yeah,” Jordan said, looking around the room again. “It’s a good thing you got that big ass knife Bobby gave you tuck under your tits.”

“Yep,” Melinda said. She dipped her finger into the whiskey and looked at her nail polish. “Drinks aren’t drugged.” She showed him it didn’t change. 

“I guess he’s trying to make an entrance.” Jordan said. They chugged the shot down and placed their glasses on the table, that’s when the door opened up and Tom stepped into the room. “You better be giving my girl one hell of a fucking apology man.”

“Don’t worry I will,” Tom said, closing the door behind him before going over to them and sitting on the other couch. “I am really sorry for how I was acting. I’m,” he chuckled lightly. “Pretty fucking drunk right now. I started throwing back a few before the party even started. But still, that isn’t an excuse for how I was acting. I’m very flirtatious and I joke around a lot, and sometimes I just don’t know when to knock it off. And from the bottom of my heart, I’m really sorry about that.”

“Whatever,” Melinda said. “Can we go now?”

“Yeah but first,” Tom said. He looked over at Jordan. “Bro, I’m sorry how I treated your girl tonight, she didn’t deserve that. I know I fucked up by hitting on your girl, but I really didnt’ mean it. I see you as a friend bro, a real good friend actually. And I want to make it up to you guys for what I did.”

“It’s cool man,” Jordan said. “We can just squash this.”

“No bro,” Tom said, shaking his head. “I really want to make it up to you guys. Since you guys just bought a house and you guys got a wedding coming up, and plan to have kids I’m sure the bills are stacking up on you guys. So I want to offer four million dollars to help you guys out.”

“What?” Melinda and Jordan said together.

“Yeah,” Tom said, smiling as he nodded his head. “Four million dollars.”

“Fuck,” Jordan said and he smiled. “Thanks man.”

“What’s the catch?” Melinda said.

“Baby he just said he’s going to give it to us for what he did.” Jordan said.

“No,” Melinda said, shaking her head. “He said offer, not give. Offer applies there’s a deal to be made in exchange for the money. So,” she glared at Tom. “What’s the catch?”

He chuckled. “You're good,” Tom said, smiling at Melinda. “Real good.” He licked his lips as he put his hands together. “Since you're going to marry my boy Jordan here, I want to get to know you more. I really want to see if you're the one for him. And, see if he’s the one for you since,” he looked at Jordan. “He likes to window shop.”

“I told you I don’t care if he stares at other women.” Melinda said and Jordan looked over at her.

“No you didn’t,” Tom said. “You said all the guys you’ve been with checked out other girls. I asked you if it bugged you and you just shrugged your shoulders. I bet you see him staring at girls all the time but you don’t say anything do you?” Melinda didn’t say anything. “Thought so. And I also bet you don’t even check out other guys do you?” She shook her head and Jordan let out a sigh as he looked down. “See, you're respectful and loyal to him. When I kept flirting with you, you got aggressive and shut me down. But will he be the same?”

He looked up. “Bro I had some chick trying to get on my dick earlier and I showed her my wedding ring,” Jordan said, showing him the ring. “And I walked away afterwards.”

“But do you still flirt with girls?” Tom said. “And before you want to say no, remember I was there when you flirted with all those girls at the gym when you two started sleeping together.”

He sighed. “Yeah I flirted.” Jordan said and he turned to Melinda. “But I swear baby, it was just harmless flirty nothing else.” She just looked down. “Come on baby, you know I love you and only you. If I didn’t I would have fucked that chick right?” She looked up at him. “Right?” She sighed and nodded her head. “Plus, we’re getting married and having kids. I never wanted that with another woman before because I love you. None of those other girls matter to me because I got you to come home to.”

“But what if you didn’t?” Tom said and they looked over at him. “What if you were alone for a whole weekend, no contact with Melinda whatsoever and you went out, and some woman was all over you. Could you say no to her?”

“I would say more than no to her,” Jordan said. “I would tell her fuck no.”

“Then let’s find out,” Tom said and he smiled. “Since I want to get to know Melinda more and see if you’ll fuck around on her, let’s make a deal. I’ll give you guys four million dollars if you guys can maintain a no contact between each other this upcoming holiday weekend. So from Friday 8AM to Tuesday 8AM, you guys can’t contact each other by any means and can’t be around each other. Jordan, you’ll be at the house and Melinda,” he grinned. “She’ll be here with me, all alone.” He held his hand out and they looked down at it. “What do you say? We got a deal?”

“Fuck this,” Melinda said getting up. “Let’s go.” She headed for the door.

“There’s no fucking involved or anthing like that,” Tom said. “It’s just us hanging out and bullshitting. You’ll get your own room and everything. I’ll keep it in my pants. I promise.”

She stopped and turned around. “No!” Melinda said. She looked at Jordan who was still sitting down. “Jordan! Come on!” 

“Baby,” Jordan said. 

“Whatever,” Melinda said as she turned back around and headed for the door. “I’m calling my brothers for a ride to their place.”

He shot out of his seat. “Baby wait,” Jordan said.

Melinda kept going, refusing to look back.She was shaking for all the anger building up inside of her. She was mad at herself for letting the staring slide and mad that Jordan now thinks it’s okay he’s flirting with women. She was pissed that Jordan most likely lied to her about what happened between him and that girl tonight. Pissed that Tom flirted with her and now offered money to spend the weekend with her. She was sick that Jordan looked like he was thinking about it. Sick that he just sat there not doing anything about it. 

Once she was by her car, she grabbed her phone out to call her brothers. That’s when Jordan showed up, out of breath from running after her. She put her phone down, allowing him to catch his brother so he could explain himself. He had his hands on his knees as he leaned over, trying not to throw up after all that drinking and running.

She rolled her eyes “And you workout,” Melinda said.

“Cardio has….. Never been…. My thing,” Jordan said and he took a deep breath as he stood back up. “Unless it comes to the bedroom with you,’ he winked at her and she just glared at him. “Come on baby, don't be pissed at me.”

“You didn’t say shit back there!” Melinda yelled.

“Hey,” Jordan said, putting his hands on her shoulders. “I admit I was stuck on fucking stupid with what Ryder said. I was still trying to wrap my mind around it, that’s it.” She scoffed. “Look baby, we’re both fucked up right now and emotions are all over the fucking place right now. Let’s get home, crash out, and in the morning after a cup of coffee and food in us, we talk about what the fuck just happened tonight.” She looked away. “Baby please,” he stepped in front of her so she’ll look at him. “Please baby.”

“What really happened with you and that girl?” Melinda said.

“Baby I told you,” Jordan said.

“I want the truth Jordan,” Melinda said, getting in his face. “Did she really need help or were you just flirting with her the whole time?” He didn’t say anything. “Tell me the truth now or I’ll give you your ring back right now.”

He sighed. “I was flirting with her the whole time.” Jordan said. Melinda felt like she got punched in the gut as she stumbled. “Baby please,” he tried to take her hands in his but she pulled away. “Baby it was just harmless flirty that was it, I fucking swear. Once she got handsy and wanted to go upstairs I shut it down.” 

“Have you ever,” Melinda said, debating to ask the question, fearing what his answer would be. “Have you ever cheated on me?”

“What?!” Jordan said. “No baby,” he shook his head. “Never.” He took a hold of her face and looked into her eyes. “I swear baby I never, never fucking cheated on you. Even when we were just fucking, I never touched another one in anyway. Not even a fucking hug. I have only ever been with you since the moment we met. Because even when we were just fucking around, I felt something for you.”

“Then why are you flirting?” Melinda said as her tears started forming in her eyes.

“Oh baby please don’t cry,” Jordan said, as he started panicking. “Don’t cry. I,” he sighed heavily. “I honestly don’t know why I flirt.” She looked down. “Hey,” he raised her head back up, seeing tears falling. “Oh baby don’t cry, please don’t cry.” He started wiping her tears. “I fucking swear baby I’ll work on it. I’ll…. I’ll go to therapy okay? I’ll do therapy.” She tried to look away but he refused to let her go away. “Please baby, I’ll do anything to fix this because I don’t want to lose you,” his eyes started to water. “I love you baby. I love you so much. You're the first woman I ever loved,” he started sniffing. “I don’t want to lose you Melinda, please, let me fix this. Let me fix this.” She nodded her head and he sighed in relief. “Thank you baby.” He kissed and he pressed his forehead against hers. “Let’s go home and get some sleep. And I promise once we wake up, everything will be better. We’ll talk about what happened and I’ll look up some therapists." 

“Can we even afford one right now?” Melinda said.

“Don’t worry about the money baby,” Jordan said, smiling. “I got it all figured out. Remember,” he pulled back and looked into her eyes. “I told you a long time ago I will take care of you right?” She nodded her head. “And that’s what I plan to do, baby. No matter what, I’ll make sure you are taken care of. I don’t care what I fucking have to do, I will make sure you have everything you want and need. You’ll never have to worry about living the way you did back in that foster home. You won’t ever hand me down stuff, living from paycheck to paycheck. I will take care of everything baby, I swear.” She smiled at him. “Hey,” his smile got bigger. “I love you.”

She sighed softly. “I love you too.” Melinda said.

“Want to go home and make love?” Jordan said. “No fucking,” shaking his head. “I want to make love to my future wifey and mother of my babies.” She smiled and nodded her head. “Can I record it?” She rolled her eyes as she looked away. “Please baby, I want to remember us making love more than anything.” She sighed and she looked back at him, nodding her head. “Thank you baby,” He kissed gently. “I love you so much baby, so so so much.” He kissed her again. “And I always will, I promise.”