Misty Reigenborn Romance Boxed Set (173 page)

“Thank you Ricky, but I should have known better.  Even if he wasn’t married, he was always too old for me and I knew it.”

She picked up her phone and scrolled through her pictures until she found the only one of Eduardo that she had left.  He was shirtless and grinning brazenly at her.  She handed her phone to Ricky.

Ricky looked at the picture and then handed the phone back to her.  He shrugged.  “You said he was thirty?  He looks like he could be in his early to mid-twenties.  Did he lie to you about his age initially?”

“Well, he told me he was twenty-four, but that was still nine years older than me.  But he talked about stuff that was older like he’d been there, so one day I dug in his wallet and looked at his license and found out how old he really was.  I was really mad and stopped seeing him for a while, but I went right back to it.  It’s been really hard for me since I came to Crestview.  None of the girls there seem to like me and I was so lonely.  I’d still feel lost if I hadn’t met Seneca. She’s the best friend I’ve ever had.”

“I’m very glad you met her.  Everyone needs at least one friend like that in their lives.  So, you started dating Jude to try to get away from Eduardo and it didn’t work?”

“I didn’t start dating Jude just to get away from Eduardo, but yeah.  I liked him at first.  Now he’s annoying and makes me want to be with you even more.”

“Is there something that Eduardo is holding over your head?  Has he threatened you or is there some reason that you keep going back to him when you don’t want to?”  He paused when there was a knock at the door.  “I’ll be right back.”

Ricky returned with their food a few minutes later.  She asked him if he cared that they ate on his bed and he said no.  She still had some hope that they would end up making love that night.

They ate in silence.  When they had finished, Ricky took the leftovers to the kitchen and made them both a cup of cocoa before he came back to the bedroom.  He handed her the mug.  She took a sip and then set it aside on the night stand.

He said “Go on please.”

Molli sighed.  “You asked if Eduardo was holding something over my head or if he’d ever threatened me.  He’s never really threatened me; he just tells me that we’re not over until he says it’s over.  When I first started going out with Jude, whenever I went over to his place I’d tell him about the stuff that I did with Jude to try to make him mad.  But he thought it was funny and it seemed to turn him on even more.  He’s kind of holding something over my head right now.  He knows about us and he’s threatening to tell Mellenda.”

“If he knows, half of the rest of the town of Brentwood must know.”

“I don’t think so.  Don’t you think that Mellenda would have called you by now if she knew?”

“I would certainly think so yes.  How did he get Mellenda’s number?”

“He was with this other girl that goes to Crestview and she gave it to him.  I didn’t think they were friends but iris is popular and so is Mellenda so I guess maybe they are or at least enough that they exchanged numbers.  He told me that if I didn’t keep having sex with him, he was going to tell Mellenda.”

“I certainly don’t expect you to do such a thing to protect me.  I’ll have to find some way to tell her myself.”

“I think I might have a way to get her number away from him.  I’ll go over to his girlfriend’s apartment when he’s drunk and take it out of his phone and search to see if he has it written down somewhere and then tear it up.  He might be pissed but I don’t care.  And I’ll make sure that Iris never gives it to him again.  I’ll tell her that he gave me herpes.”

Ricky looked alarmed.  “You don’t really have herpes do you?”

Molli shook her head and tried not to laugh.  “Of course not.  I’m really surprised that Eduardo doesn’t have it with the way he has sex with so many women but he doesn’t.  And I’ve never done it with anyone besides you without a condom.  I love the way that it feels when you’re inside of me.”

Ricky cleared his throat.  “Yes, I do too.  Do you think that Eduardo may be an actual danger to you if you take Mellenda’s number from him?”

“No.  He went to jail for hitting his wife once, but he said that she hit him first and they didn’t bother to take her to jail.  I don’t know why, but I actually believe him.”

“Domestic violence is a rather delicate issue.  Do you think that you can continue to avoid him until you graduate?  Do you think that he told Iris about us?”

“I doubt it.  I think that if he had, she would have already told Mellenda.  I already pretty much avoid him.”

“I suppose we should be more careful.  I get so excited to see you that I forget sometimes that no one is supposed to know that we’re together for the time being.”

“I know what you mean.  Do you think we could go back to doing what we were doing earlier?”

Ricky smiled.  “Yes.  I have to take you back to Brentwood tomorrow I’m afraid.  I would very much like to spend the weekend with you, but I have to work.”

“It’s okay.  I should probably try to get that number from Eduardo as soon as possible anyway.”

Ricky sighed.  “I would prefer it if you didn’t hang around him at all anymore.”

“Yeah, me too.” 

Molli kissed him.  They were soon making love.  It felt different to her that night to her than their first time together had.  She felt like they had taken another step towards being together.  She knew that some guys probably would have been disgusted when she’d told them about Eduardo.  She also knew that some guys would have told her to have sex with him so he wouldn’t tell their girlfriend about her.  She was almost positive that Jude was one of them.

They took a leisurely shower together and then headed to bed.  Ricky let her sleep in the next morning, though he said he had to go in to work that afternoon.  She hoped that he missed her as much as she missed him when he wasn’t around.

He dropped her off in town within walking distance of Peggy’s apartment.  He kissed her goodbye.  She wondered if he cared if Mellenda found out about their affair or if he was acting like Jude had and waiting on Mellenda to catch them so that he didn’t have to break up with her.

Peggy’s car wasn’t in the lot.  She wondered if Eduardo was there.  She knocked on the door and Eduardo called out “Yeah.  Come in.”

His words were slurred.  She could tell that he was drunk.  She opened the door and then closed it behind her, wrinkling her nose at the mess.  It smelled worse inside the apartment than the last time she’d been there.  She’d wondered if that was possible.

Eduardo was sitting on the chair.  He looked up at her and said “Hey baby.  Did Ricky take all night long with ya?”

Molli rolled her eyes.  “I spent the night at his house.”

“How come you never spend the night with me?”

“I don’t want to sleep between you and your girlfriend.”

“That might be kinda fun.  Hey, come here and give me a kiss.  On both of my heads.”

“No.  You stink and so does this whole apartment.  Don’t you guys ever clean up or bother to take out the trash?”

Eduardo yawned.  “Sometimes.  Come on baby, I’m horny.  Peggy’s been gone all damned night.”

“Maybe she left you too.”

“Crisha didn’t leave me.  She’s still sitting on her fat ass in our house.”

“I’ve seen your wife Eduardo.  She does not have a fat ass.  She’s beautiful.  She’s going to find herself a better man one of these days.”

“Uh huh.  Come here baby. I’m too lazy to get up.”

“That’s not why I came here Eduardo.  Give me Mellenda’s number.”

“Hell no.  Then I won’t have nothin’ to hold over your head.  You’ll never come to see me anymore if you’re getting fucked by both Jude and your college boy.”

“Ugh.  Just give me Mellenda’s number.  Ricky will break up with her when he’s ready.  I promise I’ll still come see you.”

“Yeah right.  One of us is dumb, but we ain’t both that dumb.  Enrique’s playing you just like Jude did.  He ain’t gonna break up with her until she catches you slobbin’ his knob out in the woods.”

“That was not what I was doing when Tory caught me with Jude.  Ricky really cares about me.  He told me that he wanted to ask me out before he asked Mellenda out.”

Eduardo laughed.  “You really are stupid aren’t you girl?  Don’t you know by now that guys will say anything to get down your pants?”

“Ricky is not one of those guys.  He’s not like you.  Now give me Mellenda’s number so that I can get out of here.  This place makes me want to throw up.”

Eduardo closed his eyes.  “Huh uh.  You ain’t leavin’ until you take a ride on my roller coaster.  But I’m all out of rubbers so we’re gonna have to do it bare back.”

“Hell no.  I don’t watch to catch whatever Peggy’s given you.”

“Can’t you read what it says on a package of condoms?  I ain’t gonna knock you up since you’re on birth control and I ain’t got no STDs, so come on over here and bring little Eddie to attention.”

“You’re too drunk for that.”

“C’mon Molli, just touch it a little.  I miss the feel on your hand on my dick, your cunt on my dick and especially your mouth on my dick.”

“You are so disgusting.”

“No, I’m horny and ain’t afraid to admit it.  You were never afraid to admit it before either.  If you’ll screw me, I think I can fall asleep.  I was up all night worrying about Peggy.”

“Ah, isn’t that so sweet?  I seriously bet she left you.  Left you with this mess, left you to pay the rent, left you with a worse drug habit than you had before you started screwing her.”

“She wouldn’t leave me.  She loves me.  Even better than you used to.”

“Uh huh.”

Eduardo’s eyes closed.  She watched him for several minutes and then she stepped over to him and reached for his cell phone.  He grabbed her hand without opening his eyes and placed it on his crotch.  She sighed and let him rub himself with her hand for a minute, thinking that he’d fall back asleep.

His breathing was soon the even breathing of sleep again.  She removed her hand and reached for his cell again.  He didn’t stop her this time.  She scrolled through his contacts until he found Crestview-Mellenda.  She was disgusted by how many phone numbers he had from girls that went to Crestview.  She erased Mellenda’s number and then carefully reached into his pocket and found a slip of paper that had Iris written on one side and Mellenda on the other.  She shredded it and
then flushed it down the toilet.  The water seemed to be back on since the toilet flushed, but she thought she saw a mouse scurry under the tub. 

She eyed Eduardo for a few minutes.  When there was no sound besides his drunken snoring, she crept to the door and opened it as quietly as possible.  She closed the door behind her.  Eduardo didn’t call out to her, so she took off down the street and away from the apartment building as quickly as possible.

She headed to the bus stop after eating lunch at a sandwich shop.  When she got back to Crestview, Mellenda wasn’t there and she wondered again if Ricky had lied to her about having to work and was seeing Mellenda instead of her again. 

Eduardo called her at six o’clock that evening.  She was suddenly glad that Mellenda wasn’t around.

“Hello.”

“Why in the fuck did you take her number bitch?  And what makes you think that I won’t show up at Crestview and tell her about what you’re doing with her man face to face?”

“She wouldn’t believe you.  Mellenda doesn’t think that I’m good enough to go to Crestview, let alone to go out with Ricky behind her back.”

“For a bunch of rich girls that are all supposed to be so damned smart ya’ll are sure a bunch of dumb bitches.  Did you talk Iris out of seeing me?  I called her today and asked her to come over.  She told me to go fuck myself.”

Molli held back a giggle.  “I haven’t seen Iris.”

Of course she’d mentioned to one of Iris’s friends when she’d come in that Eduardo was spreading herpes around Crestview.  From the look on the girl’s face Molli had thought that she was sleeping with him too, though her name hadn’t been one of the ones that Molli had found in his contacts.

“Sure you haven’t.  And you didn’t fuck me did you?  My dick was dry when I woke up.”

“You are so nasty.  I did have sex with you.  I wiped you off and zipped your pants back up after we were finished.”

“Liar.  I don’t remember none of that.”

“You were too drunk to remember anything Eduardo.  I have to go.  Ricky’s calling me.”  He wasn’t but she wanted to get Eduardo off of the phone.

“Make lover boy wait.  We ain’t done talkin’.  What if I run into Mellenda in town and decide to tell her about you and Enrique?”

“What if I dropped those videos off to the cops that I have of us together?”

“If you were gonna do that you would have done it already.  I told you to get rid of the damned things you stupid bitch.”

“You made them you moron.  I had to have some way to guarantee that I could get away from you.”

“You’re a cunt you know that Molli?”

“And you’re an asshole Eduardo.  I’m not having sex with you anymore and that’s that.  Stay away from me.  If you call me on the phone, I won’t bother to answer.”

“Who you gonna turn to when Jude knocks up some other stupid bitch and Enrique’s headed to the aisle with Mellenda?  Where you gonna get your cock then?  We all know that you can’t live without your daily dose of dick Molli.”