Esteban

"That feeling that you have right now, is how I felt when I got the video and how I felt last night watching you with Sabrina,"  Remi tells me, and I get the point, it's painful.

"And just to be clear, there is nothing and has never been anything between Gav and I. I am not Tina. I mean that. I will not share with you your former mistresses. I am not going to lower myself and fight over a man who thinks so little of me, my reputation, and my child that he will risk it all because he feels bad." her focus is on me waiting for my answer.

Before I can respond she adds "I understand if you need to atone for your past behavior but take this time and do that before it ruins any chance of us having a future." There are no tears in her eyes but the sadness I see breaks my heart. I stand up moving around the table. I pull her out of her seat into my arms.

I know what she is trying to do and it's not necessary. I love her, I want only her, and I don't need time to confirm this or prove it to anyone. I kiss the top of her head and her hands move up my back and she tightens her hold. I feel the shake of her body and know her emotions have gotten the best of her.

What can I do to assure her none of this is necessary, I know she plans to leave me at least for a while that is her MO, but not this time, I won't allow it to happen. "I refuse to let you go, we don't need space, we don't need it" I whisper in her ear, my chest is wet with her tears "Trust me, believe in me and stay with me-" my emotions prevent me from speaking.

"I'm not leaving you, I want you to have a choice. You have other options " her voice is weak "There is no other option for the second time you are my choice" Leaning back I lift her chin and give her a kiss, a confirmation of my love and commitment, a promise. "It's just us.

We end our conversation by laying on the couch, I feel her ass press into my manhood and place my hand on her hip to stop the movement "You are the one hung over, you need to rest and not with my dick in you" my voice is hoarse with lust. Remi's response was to turn over and face me, replacing her ass with her hand and applying pressure. I can't resist and a moan escapes me.

Remi kisses my neck, the pressure I felt is gone, and her hand is now rubbing the back of my head, she knows what that does to me. Wrapping my arms around her I roll on my back. "What are you doing?" I get my answer when she straddles me. Her moves are seductive, she grinds herself on my hardon. 'Remi-" she shushes me and then places her finger in my mouth. My body naturally responds to her, and my hips lift to meet the friction she is creating.

My eyes close "Hey" I open my eyes "Eyes on me" I watch as she pulls her shirt over her head, leaning over me she places her nipple on my lips, the firmness and pressure parts them and I draw her deeper into my mouth. Using my teeth I apply pressure, I squeeze her ass, swirling my tongue around her, I draw more of her into my mouth before releasing and moving my attention to the other.

Remi's movements become intense, the room fills with the sound of our passion. Her eyes are still on me, we are connected. Closing her eyes Remi bends down erratically she kisses me, pure passion fuels our movements, and her body tenses, her kiss turns into moaning and I know she has found her release, Her hips don't stop, she whispers seductively in my ear " join me" I cum hard. Breathing hard I take in my topless beauty, then we are both laughing.

"You make me feel like a teenager, this is the second time you've made me nut in my pants" She owns me and she knows it. "Is that a good thing?" the way I feel now I would say yes it is a good thing "Yes it's a good thing". I lift her off of me and place her down on the couch "I need to clean up" Remi jumps up "Oh I'm coming too I can use a shower" She pulls her shorts down and walks past me going to our bathroom.

As usual, our shower turns into an hour of hot sex leaving me worn out. Getting out of the shower I tell her to get dressed, that we are going out for dinner." We still need to discuss our wedding and we need some air or else we will end up fucking all day.

We went back to our Hookah spot and surprisingly they had good food. After placing our orders the hookah arrives "Set the date" I say picking up my drink "For what" Remi pulls on her hookah, bending her head she blows the smoke up in the air. "Our divorce or wedding you decide" That gets her attention and she sits up ' A bit harsh our divorce, really?" I see I have her attention. "What I've waited for you to be not busy enough to discuss it-" I say but she cuts me off " "I'm not the only one who has been busy Sir" Uh oh I struck a nerve.

"We both have been busy, but we are not now so set the date so we can tell our family over Thanksgiving dinner." my expression makes it clear, we are doing it now.

"How about next June?" She proposes "Nope too far out" I respond "It's seven months" I hear the irritation creeping into her voice. "Esteban, it takes time to plan a wedding" she reasons. "Not with our connections, pick another date.' I counter. "January 8," she says the date, and immediately I know what it is, it's the date of the first parlay. "Perfect, if it wasn't for that day we wouldn't be here," I smirk at the veil of surprise that covers her face. "You remember the date?" She asks, I nod my response.

"Okay January 8 it is, small or big?" she asked. "I would say small but with our family and both crews, we are already looking at 200 people. I say we cap it at 500" I wait for her refusal. " Okay 500 is fair" shrugging her shoulders "Do you have any thoughts on our theme or style of wedding?" she asked "I'm open but I'd like to get married at Gesu". It is one of the only things I want " Of course. "Colors?" she asked while texting, I hadn't thought about colors I thought weddings were white.

Remi looks up from her text. " What's your favorite color?" she asked and without thinking I responded "Blue". "Aww Baby" that earns me a kiss. "Seriously, what colors?" she asked again "I don't have one, I usually like black but we can't have a black wedding?" Sure we can, she turned her phone to me and showed me a picture of a wedding with black decor, it's perfect.

"Estefania, Merci, and Lani along with two of my cousins will stand with me, you need to pick out your groomsmen." She tells me still texting on her phone. "You need to pick five more bridesmaids" "What, ten why" she asked. "Because I need to have my original crew stand with me, that's six, and I have four cousins that I grew up with," I explain. She stares at me for a long time, "Okay a wedding party of twenty-four people that includes Ria as the flower girl and whoever has a little boy to be our ring bearer.

"Rico, the Confidant of our crew has a son Rico Jr. He can be the ring bearer" and that wraps up our wedding party. Remi finishes a text" Okay all planned" Looking pleased with herself she sets the phone down. Did we really just plan our wedding in thirty minutes? I guess we did now all we have to do is let our family know.

Dinner has been enjoyable, we have our vibe back, and I need to make sure we are good " Baby If you want I will reach out to my previous .." I struggle for a word to describe the women I slept with more than a few times.." Mistresses, because you were married, they would be Mistresses" I nod "I can reach out to them" I rub her knee waiting for her to respond. 

Blowing smoke she shrugged her shoulders. "We don't have that type of time for you to do all that, I mean it's half of Miami" Ouch it really isn't that many women, double digits but not triple so not bad I think. "I'm just kidding" placing her hand over my hand.

"It's not like I have been a saint my whole life," She says and my breath hitches "I mean I wasn't out here slinging my kitty everywhere but you know-" I stop her "I don't want to hear that shit" the thought of her with someone else, I come out of my thoughts to Remi bent over laughing "Your face oh my god, Esteban" her stops herself from laughing when looking away. I know we are grown adults and she had a life before me but damn, the thought of another man being able to look me in the face that has had my wife. "Hey" I hear Remi's voice

"Esteban look at me" I turn my head, her hand on my cheek makes it hard for me to look away. Remi's eyes and tone are genuine "One of the things I wish you remembered about our first time meeting is that I told you my secret" 

The adoration and trust on her face sparks my emotions. "I wish I could remember the details" Honestly I would give anything to remember our flirting and our conversation. I don't and that thought causes me to feel regret. What I do remember is the feeling of being in her and inside her.

"What was the secret?" I asked these are things I want to know. " You asked me which one of the men in the room was my boyfriend and I said none. You asked me several questions as to why I was single and not pressed to be with anyone since I was young and as you put it most girls my age were thottin "

She shakes her head with amusement recalling our conversation.

"That's when I told you it was a secret, you kept pressing me, and before I knew it you had me hemmed up in a corner drinking Cristal, kissing me on my neck, and getting me heated. After the third bottle of Cristal you took my hand " She pauses and I feel her reliving the memory.

" You asked me if we could go somewhere private to continue our conversation, and I took your hand and we walked to the elevator to the penthouse." I am engrossed in the story, her filling the holes of our beginning.

"I didn't know who you were, but I asked if you were a part of Dante's organization, you told me no, so I felt it was okay to cross the line with you." she looks down looking at our hands that are now entwined, she inhales and slowly exhales before she continues our story.

"I believed you, I knew Dante from school and had never seen you with him, I had never seen you period, and assumed there was enough distance between our social circles for me to be with you." I wait and allow Remi to tell me at her own pace.

"I asked you if you remembered my name and you said Dominica, I could never forget" My eyes widen

"It was obvious when you approached me you had quite a bit to drink and then we went through three bottles of champagne and yet you seemed to be aware and fully present." the range of emotions plays over her face then she continues

"We started to kiss and it got intense. I had on a white jumpsuit and you turned me around and asked if you could unzip me, I said yes, the jumpsuit came off and you turned me to face you, your shirt was unbuttoned and I knew where it was headed"

"Before you kissed me again I asked if you wanted to know my secret I thought it would turn you off, but it did the opposite with you, your eyes filled with desire and the seduction began"

"You told me you were going to worship me, and you did. You touched and kissed every inch of my body for hours. And then you took my secret away, whispering in my ear that I was perfect, your dream girl, created just for you and you wished the night would last forever."

"I had never felt so wanted, so high so free to express the side of me that I wasn't allowed to show. You took away my inhibitions and I explored every inch of you, all the things I had dreamed of doing or fumbled with as an awkward co-ed, I felt comfortable enough to do to you. That night was like a dream, a fairy tale that I knew would have a happy ending, but it didn't"

I wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes "And what is the secret?" My question makes her turn her head away from me, I don't know what she would think would turn me off I thought about it

"I had never been with anyone" I heard what she said, and in my mind, I did the calculations. She was 23 years old when we met, I let out a breath of relief, I thought she was going to tell me she was a minor, cause I would never.

It is utterly irrelevant but I ask anyway "How did you manage-" I don't have to ask

"You've met my father, I can't remember a time when he didn't remind me that I was too precious for just any man or that I wasn't created to please the horny little boys at my school and in high school he let me know he didn't raise a loose girl, I would go to my husband the way my mother had come to him, pure."

"I wasn't allowed to date in high school not really and in college I felt awkward around guys, I had just recently gone through a glo-up when I met you, Merci and Lani had been on me to live life, I started the night I led you to the penthouse" It's silent between us, I hear the bands music drift from inside the lounge, I process everything.

It all made sense, the men who live the Culture have outdated and strict rules when it comes to their women. This is one of the reasons my father was against me marrying Tina, he thought I was stupid for making my plaything my wife.

"Thank you, my love, you have really given me everything, I will never risk what we have, trust me.