start a family.”
“ I know sweetie, but opportunities like this don’t come up every day. I couldn’t tell them no, I love my job.”
She worked as a manager overseeing three call centers for a southern based major telecommunications company. She had twelve supervisors reporting directly to her, but five hundred employees in her division. She traveled extensively visiting the different sites.
And yes there were more fights due to dudes getting caught dating more than one woman in the department or some Facebook shit. And the customers that called in daily were enough to make her want to pull her hair out, but she loved her job.
“ So you’re saying that you’re going to continue to work after we get married?” Bernard asked.
“ Yeah.”
“ For how long?”
Bryce shrugged. “I don’t know three years or so.” She really wanted to put off having kids for another six years; she wasn’t in the mood to become a mother.
“ Four years!” Bernard exploded and several patrons glanced in their direction. He leaned in closer. “Four years?” he hissed.
“ My salary would help a lot if you want to move into that new sub-division. You know the houses there start at five hundred.”
“ It’s not about the money, Bryce, you know that. We don’t have to move there. My house has enough room both of us and a kid or two. I love you and I’m sure I did since the first time our parents stuck us in the playpen together. But I knew it for sure during preschool, when you would give me your apple every day at lunch; because you said it looked like my hair. I had always dreamt of marrying you and you having my babies. Look at me,” he begged. Bryce hesitantly met his gaze, and she cursed herself for hurting him when she saw the love in his eyes. “I love you and I’ll do whatever you want to do. Let’s talk about this after we get back from our honeymoon, okay?”
Bryce broke his gaze and looked at her engagement ring. She had him return the two caret ring he had surprised her with for her birthday. She had given Bernard explicit details on what she wanted. A four caret, pear shaped, platinum ring. And he had gotten it for her, just like she wanted.
“ Okay,” she whispered.
The ride to her home was silent. Bernard didn’t want to say anything to piss off his fiancée any more than she already was. And Bryce was thinking about the best way she could tell Bernard that she wanted out of the soon to be catastrophe called their wedding.
By an unspoken agreement, Bernard was going to stay over. He had just as many clothes at her house than he had at his own. Bernard finished showering before she did and was already in bed by the time she got out. He was sitting in bed, bare chested with the covers around his waist.
She joined him in bed. He turned out the lights, just like he always did.
“ Three weeks baby. And we’ll be man and wife.”
“ I know,” she said weakly.
He tweaked her nipples, just like he always did.
Then sucked them for two minutes, just like he always did, she knew because she was so bored that she timed him one time.
He stuck his finger in her pussy and twirled it around, just like he always did.
He rolled on top of her, parted her legs, and poked at her with his dick, trying to find her hole and disgusted with him, she grabbed it and placed it at the entrance of her hole, just like she always did.
She closed her eyes, uttered a few moans, while he did his version of making love and he shouted and came, then went into the bathroom and washed off, just like he always did.
Bryce lay in the empty bed, sexually unfulfilled, just like she always did.
The next morning while they were eating breakfast and watching the Today Show , Bryce decided that it was a good time to talk to Bernard.
She sat across from him at the small table in the breakfast nook. He was focused on his iPad; she knew he was scouring the Internet for the latest news. He was a news junkie. “Bernard?”
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Jan (ILT) J. C.; Gerardi Greenburg