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you’re a free agent. I don’t know why it’s so hard for
you to see that we belong together”.
    “Because we don’t Jake, and I’m not a free agent. I’m happy. I
love Darrin. I want to be with Darrin. I’m going to marry Darrin. What we had
is in the past. Yes, we had some wonderful times together and yes I love you,
but I’m in love with Darrin”.
    “You’re in love with Darrin but you made love to me the other
night”.
    “What we made was lust not love. And yes it was wrong. I was
wrong. We were wrong. That doesn’t negate the fact that I belong to someone
else”.
    “So, I’m just supposed to forget what happened? Forget the
fact that the part of me that has been missing all this time is now back.
Forget the one person that I’ve ever truly loved. Forget the fact that when our
bodies touch we make magic. I’m just supposed to forget everything and let it
be over just like that”.
          He placed his hand
around my waist to pull me close to him. I knew that if I looked into his eyes
it was over. I backed away from him and walked over to my desk.
    “I can’t do this with you Jake and I really am sorry. I know
what it’s like to be betrayed and hurt and lied to and I’m just not willing to
do that to Darrin. He doesn’t deserve that. He’s been nothing but loyal to me
this whole time and he deserves my loyalty. But wait, sidebar, why did you wire
all that money to my dad? We never even signed any paperwork”.
    “Kammie, I’m willing to do whatever it takes to be with you.
Plus, y’all do a good job. I was gonna sign whether you came to meet with me or
not. I’m glad that you did though”, he smirked.
    “Jake look, I love you, I do. I will always love you, but,
you’re gonna have to respect the fact that I’m with Darrin and this is not
gonna work. Period. Thanks for stopping by. It was good seeing you. Bye”.
    “Just like that”?
    “Just like that”.
    “At least let me take you to dinner”
    “I don’t know. I’ll call you later”
    “Naw, Kam. You not gonna do me like that. It’s just dinner. I
promise I won’t try anything. I’ll even pay”.
    “You were gonna do that anyway”, I said smiling, “Ain’t
nothin’ changed. Let’s do Bone Fish .
No, you can’t pick me up. I’ll meet you there at eight”.

 
          I regretted
agreeing to go to dinner with him, but I was willing to do whatever I had to do
for him to leave me alone. Sometimes, you can have all the good intentions in
the world and still get the crappy end of the stick. I had to come up with
something to tell Darrin so that I could go to dinner with Jake, who he only
knew to be a childhood friend and nothing else. I had been keeping too much
away from Darrin so I decided to just tell him the truth. I told him that Jake
was in town on a business trip and he wanted to take me to dinner. Yeah, it
wasn’t the whole truth, but, close enough. I seemed to have left out the part
about me being the business that Jake was attending to. Darrin was cool with
the dinner thing so as I promised, I met Jake at Bone Fish Grill at eight.

 
          Jake was a very
punctual person so it didn’t surprise me when I saw him standing at the door as
I pulled up. I laughed at myself for letting him sucker me into having dinner
with him. Still, he promised not to do anything so it was worth a try. Plus, I
like food and good company and I was pleased to have both. Jake was a real
gentleman that night. He didn’t make any sexual references, or talk about us
being in a relationship. He was being really casual, which caused me to be
suspicious because, I knew him better than he knew himself and I knew that he
was up to something. I didn’t want any confusion with Darrin and I so I ended
the night early. We said our goodbyes and I made him promise to respect my
union and just be a friend. He agreed, which again was way too easy for Jake,
but, I took it as he gave it to me and went on about my way.