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Rukem swung his arms, needing a solid thirty-minute sparring session. “What do you mean?”
“I mean…she focuses on helping with this while… falling for you. It can still be a natural process. I think it’s worth a try and I think I’ll go crazy if we try it any other way. I need to be with Sophie and I need you behind that. You need to be with Darby—”
“How do you know I need to be with her? What if it’s somebody else I’m supposed to be with?” Rukem shook his head. “No, I’m definitely supposed to be with her. My entire body nearly revolted just mentioning other options.Sheis the one. The question is how far am I supposed to put my dick in?” He let out a gasp from the amount of lust the question alone brought. “I knowitwants to go as far in as it can but is this merely chemical warfare?”
“It isdefinitelychemical warfare but that doesn’t mean that’s all it is. If it’s right, then those chemicals would still be there. What if there was no pleasure putting your dick in it, would you still want it? With her?”
His legs ceased its brainless driving, bringing him to a halt on the floor. Would he want to put his dick in Darby if there was no pleasure. “That’s hard to answer,” he realized. “Everything about her is a pleasure. Seeing her, watching her. Being near her, listening to her speak, the words she uses, the variations in her voice. Untangling all the little signals she gives, all the special Darby Mae quirks. Her softness, her petite size, hercourage,her smile,” he said as one of her bright ones filled his mind. “The answer is yes,” he was sure. “But I don’t want to just put my dick as deep as I can, I want to put everything as deep as I can.” He glanced at Ace who sat with a half grin on his face. “That’s alotof putting into a single person, one who has dreams of dedicating her life to teaching.”
“You’ll need to just show her that she can have both.”
Excitement slammed Rukem at hearing that. “How?”
He flopped a hand on his chair. “You’re the fucking Pharo. If you say she’s a full-time teacher, then she is. If you say she’s the moon and the stars, then she is. She answers to you as a teacher so I think it’s the perfect set-up.”
“Mother of all,” he muttered, back to pacing, excited. “We had a very similar discussion, it was one of the ways she flirted with me. Conjuring up visions of me being bossy with her and her being required to listen.” Rukem covered his face with both hands with a growl of torment. “I am on fire, brother, just imagining what you say, and how you say it with such ease as if it’s possible, reachable, right there in my grasp.”
He chuckled with an easy, “It is. And you can kick it off with a date.”
“Adate? Isn’t that the wrong message?” Rukem realized. “What about a double date? You and Sophie. Maybe we make it about helping Sophie reconnect with the world.”
Ace snapped his fingers and pointed at him. “Like a job. Good one King.”
Rukem’s phone vibrated and he pulled it out. “It’s the infirmary.” He glanced at Ace. “Sophie’s awake. And asking for you.”
Ace stood immediately. “Take me to her.”
****
Rukem stood at Darby’s door, dialing her number.
On the fourth ring, hearing his own name in her soft, raspy voice broke him down more than he already was.
“I need to speak with you about something very important.”
“O-…Okay. When?”
“Now. I’m at your door.”
“What time is it?” she whispered while he wondered what she wore. “Oh wow, it’s two in the morning. I’m coming.”
Rukem waited as she unlocked the door and then hurried in when it opened, not letting himself look at her longer than a second as he did. But it was enough to know she wore pajamas that covered her loosely, thank God. He wasn’t stable enough to see her and not give his new addictions away.
“Is Sophie okay?” she asked, locking the door back and turning with her arms crossed over her chest.
He forced himself to make his way to the couch when the temptation to find her nipples beneath the modest black pajama top nearly ripped him in half.
“Rukem?”
“Yes, she’s fine,” he said, sitting and scrubbing his face.
“What’s wrong?” she urged as his leg bounced up and down.
“The Kings met tonight. And all the Bishops.”
“Yes, you…told me.”
Right.
