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“OK. I'm getting ready to go to my last meeting and then I'll be heading to the airport. If you talk to Keilah before I do, tell her to call me as soon as she can.”
“I will,” Cameron replied. “And don't worry, she'll be fine. Have a safe flight.”
Ramsey hung up his cell and hurried off to his meeting.
 
 
The flight to New York seemed to be taking longer than Keilah had anticipated. It didn't help that Trenton kept staring at her seductively. Chrisette returned to the restroom to try on yet another outfit as soon as the pilot gave the all clear.
Trenton started laughing obviously irritating Keilah.
“What's so funny?” She asked.
“I'm sorry. It's just that I never expected to have this type of emotional reaction upon seeing you again.”
Keilah shifted in her seat and said, “You're full of it, Trenton.”
He put his hand on her knee, gently stroked it and said, “Have you forgotten how hot we were together.”
With lightning speed, Keilah grabbed his wrist and twisted it doing her best to break every bone possible.
“Damn, Keilah! That shit hurt!”
She pointed her finger at him and angrily said, “I meant for it to hurt. Don't you ever touch me! You lost that privilege a long time ago so whatever fantasy you're sitting over there having about us, forget about it.”
“Just hear me out,” he requested. “I know I was a fool for putting my male pride over my heart. You have a strong personality and I now understand just how important your career is to you. I wasn't ready for your type of independence. I guess you could say I felt like my manhood was threatened but I'm ready now,” he revealed. “I still love you Keilah and I would love it if you would give us another chance.
Clearly pissed off, Keilah pointed towards the restroom and said, “You're a damn fool! How dare you step to me like this and your woman is in the bathroom?”
He chuckled and said, “Oh, you don't have to worry about Chrisette. We're just good friends.”
“I don't care who the hell she is. I've moved on with my life so I'm good. You need to do the same.”
“Are you sure you won't... .”
Keilah raised her voice and said, “I'm married, Trenton, happily married to be exact. I'm over you and have been for a long time.”
“Married?” He whispered to himself in disappointment and disbelief as he laid his head against the back of his seat.
Chrisette exited the bathroom in a red Donna Karan dress that accentuated her long magnificent legs and struck a model posed.
“Ta-Dah!” She yelled, “So what do you think?”
“It's nice, Babe. You look great,” he replied with little enthusiasm.
Chrisette sat down next to him and gave him a seductive kiss on the lips.
“Do you really like it?” She purred.
He smiled and said, “Of course I do. You make the dress, the dress don't make you.”
Pleased, Chrisette hugged his neck and gave him a longer, passionate kiss.
“That's my Baby,” she whispered as she reached up and lovingly wiped her lipstick off his lips.”
She looked over at Keilah and asked, “Do you like my dress?”
“Yes it's very pretty,” Keilah answered as she stared at Trenton.
Chrisette laid her head on Trenton's shoulders and said, “I don't know why you risk your life doing the kind of work you do. You know you could be a model too don't you?”
Keilah laughed.
“No seriously,” Chrisette responded. “You're very beautiful and you have a fabulous figure. My agency would sign you in a heartbeat. You have that exotic look that a lot of the designers are looking for.”
“Thanks but I'm not interested. I'm happy just being a wife and mother.”
“OK but I don't think you realize what you're turning down. You could travel all over the world, wear beautiful couture clothes and make a lot of money.”
“Like I said, I'm not interested,” she repeated before asking if she could get a bottle of water from the refrigerator.
“Leave it alone, Chrisette. Keilah's happy with her life and money's the last thing she has to worry about. Her business and family is very successful,” he explained.
“Wow! Rich, brains and beauty,” Chrisette replied. “You can't go wrong with that.”
“Passengers, we have been cleared for landing. Buckle your seatbelts and I'll have you on the ground very shortly,” the pilot said over the intercom.
Keilah buckled her seatbelt and prayed that Patrick was in route to New York to get her away from them. In the meantime she hoped that she had shut Trenton up once and for all.
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