by Mia Newberry
David went to sleep that night the happiest man in the known universe. If anyone had told him there could be a better day coming, he would have refused to believe them. But there would be.
Chapter 6
When David woke the next morning, Jada was gone. He dropped his head back on the pillow and forced himself to look at the depression where her body had lay next to his to believe she had really been there. He sighed and told himself it was too good to be true and he’d better get back on with his life. He just knew the note explaining everything and how much fun she had had would be in the kitchen which would go on to leave a “two ships passing in the night” message and do please call her someday when you have the time.
He managed to get out of bed and looked for his bathrobe. It wasn’t in the closet. Where had he left it? Was he starting to get forgetful even at this early stage in life?
“Are you looking for this?” Jada called to him from the door to the bedroom. He turned and saw her wearing his robe. It was way too big on her and she was swallowed up inside the material. She looked beautiful in the morning, the way he knew she would. Jada carried two cups of coffee with her and sat them down on the nightstand. She let the robe fall to the floor and returned to her side of the bed, looking up at him with the bedroom eyes he remembered from last night.
“I decided to let you sleep,” she said. “So I found some coffee in the closet and made it for the both of us. I gave you some extra cream.”
David was back in the bed and on top of her in seconds. He kissed all over her, turning her to one side and making love to her once more, the way she liked. After he was finished and he knew she’d climaxed, he held her tight and kissed her hard back. Jada had tight muscles under her flesh and a very small amount of fat. She had just enough fat on her body to give it tone, but not so much as to slow down her dancing ability. He stayed inside her as long as he could, enjoying the sensations of her body. She pulled his hands over her breasts and pressed his fingers over her nipples, letting him feel them the best she could.
David kissed her hair and braids. He loved the way her natural hair felt on his face. He admired the patterns of the braids and finally risked touching her soft hair. Jada didn’t complain when he stroked her head, so David felt he was in safe territory. He brought one hand over her face and felt her sharp teeth on his finger as he gently bit her neck. He wanted to taste and experience all of her. David had loved her for so long it was difficult for him to experience reality.
“David,” she said to him. “You are going to have to stop. I’m not used to being treated so good.”
“That isn’t good enough of a reason,” he said to her, nipping her back again. She was wet again, very wet. He would need to show her the Jacuzzi he had in the solarium later. It would be nice to take a bath with her in it.
He found her one of his shirts to wear around the condominium later. They sipped coffee and had some breakfast on the table in the kitchen while looking at each other. Neither could believe what was happening. David was with the woman he’d longed for the better part of his life, Jada with a man who was ready to do anything he could to make her happy. It was the start of a story book romance and those always ended badly. But neither one of them wanted it to go anywhere but up.
He spent the morning on the couch with her in his arms. David had his robe on and Jada was curled in his embrace in a button-down shirt that was much too big for her. He looked at her braids again and wondered how long it took to make them. He asked her and she told him a long time and plenty of hours in the beautician’s chair. She had them done special just for the evening.
“I’d like to braid your hair,” he told her, kissing her neck again. “Naked in the bedroom. I’d do it just so I could kiss your head each time I finished the braid. Then I’d take you from behind again just to know your head was tossing the braids I made.”
“You’re going to have to stop doing that, David,” she told him again, bring over his hand to kiss it. “We will never leave this condo.”
“That wouldn’t be a bad thing,” he replied, sliding his hand between her legs. “I don’t think I can be any happier than today, having you all to myself.”
He felt her tears on his hands and rocked her gently. Jada drifted off to sleep in his arms again. She hadn’t had much sleep the evening before. It was good she got some in the daytime. David looked up from her at the keyboard on the end table. He really needed to see how the numbers were doing today. There was so much meaningless data running through these reports that it was next to impossible to find something that had value. But he knew he’d have to let her go if he reached over to retrieve it.
Here he was, one of the most successful men in the history of computer web sites and he was scared to disturb the women napping with him. All he wanted was to see her smile, to make her happy. It should be so easy to do, but he knew women were far too complex to take for granted. And there was so much to be done with that business. An hour massaging her back and making love to her was an hour gone he could’ve used to increase his revenue stream. But what good was it to have a valuable company when you went home to a cold can of beans and an empty bed? His bed had been empty for a long time and he wanted to see her waiting for him every night.
There was going to be plenty of adjustment. She had her dance classes and was working on graduate courses in physics. Some of their pillow talk had involved batteries, of all things. She knew quite a bit about ways to store electrical energy. She told him about all the new advances in power generation and storage. He doubted any other couple in the history of humanity had such a post-orgasmic discussion. When Jada talked about electrical power all he could think about was finding a nuclear plant and making love to her in front of one of those massive generators. He would like to do that. Take her inside the power generation facility at Hoover dam dressed in loose clothes. Slip her shorts down while they were hiding behind a big generator and enter her from the rear as she leaned against a dynamo. Make her cry his name while the dynamo hummed away. God, she was all he could think about.
When Jada woke up from her nap, David was still wearing his robe and looking at charts on the big screen in front of him. He swore to himself once or twice quietly, not wanting to wake her or let her see the angry side of him. But he still held her hand while manipulating the portable keyboard with the other one. He felt her fingers tighten around his and brought her hand up to his mouth again, kissing her fingers one by one.
“You don’t sound very happy,” she told him.
“I was until I turned on the computer,” he said. “Someone had figured out how we are making the company so successful and they’re trying to duplicate our methods. Let the bastards try, they can put in all the work they want, they’ll never be able to reproduce the years I spent coming up with this method.” He turned to her and ran a finger down her stomach. “But you shouldn’t see me like this.”
“I need to see every part of you, David,” she told him. For some reason he still got an electrical jolt every time she said his name. “Don’t hide anything. You want me to be around all the time, we’re going to have to make some changes.”
“I know,” he said, putting down the keyboard and pulling her tight body to him. “I know as little about your world as you do mine. Do I get introduced to your dance students Monday as your boyfriend?”
“Only if you take me to a board meeting as your paramour,” she laughed.
He got up and walked across the room to get her another drink. He needed one too. She looked at the screen for a bit.
“Can you show me how you navigate through these charts?” she said while he was in the kitchen. “Maybe I can help you.”
David knew she had already helped him find his soul, but whether or not she could find the right relationships in a profit and loss statement was something different. Still, he knew she was a bright young woman that had many skills, besides making him climax. He took the glasses over to her and showed her how to move through
the different levels. There wasn’t much of a problem in having her mess it up since the drives were constantly being backed-up. Jada put one leg over his as she lay back on his chest and worked with the keyboard. David would gently coach her and tell her if she was in the right section or not. Every now and then she would lean her head back and kiss him on the lips.
They stayed on the couch for two hours. Jada would scan from one chart to another and note something. Then she would find another bit of data that interested her and move to it. David watched her eyes flare in excitement the same way he remembered her watch a Go game on a table. He still had the one set-up and he hoped she could play him this evening. His erection seemed under control, but watching her half-naked form fly through the charts on his big screen on the wall was making him hard. She had to feel him up against her. An answer came when she dropped one hand down, went under his robe and gave his cock a slight squeeze. She had several charts up at the moment and held on to him idly as she looked at the data.
“You have a lot coming in,” she told him, removing her hand from his manhood to use it on the keyboard. She traced one finger up the shaft as she took her hand off his cock. “But you could put it to better use. I don’t see much in the way of hard assets on these reports. Do you have any equipment at all?”
“We have the servers,” he said to her. “They have to be pretty tough to process the level of data they get.”
“I saw those,” she said, returning her hand to his cock. He felt her grip it good and hard. “I would like to think you have more hard assets than just some rental spots in a big office building.”
“There is quite a bit on this report you don’t see,” he said to Jada as she put the keyboard back on the coffee table. She kept her hand around his member and began stroking him.
Jada dropped to her knees on the floor, undoing the tie to his robe and spreading it apart so she could have better access. She continued stroking him, looking up with love to David. By now his head was leaning back and he would have told her the passwords to his bank account just so she would continue stroking him. She gently blew on his cock and watched it swell. He wasn’t too big, as she found out last night, but he was big enough for her. Jada had never been a size queen and couldn’t understand the attraction.
“The cash flow report is a better indicator of what is happening with the company only a routine basis-oh!- than you will see on most reports,” he said, while she slowly grabbed him and worked his cock with both hands. “Christ, Jada that feels so good. You need to look at the monthly and semi-annual flow to get-Oh sweet God I am going to cum!”
He shot his load and she let it drip down her body. David looked down to see the milky fluid all over her. She kissed the head of his cock and a final bit squirted out on her lips. She looked up at him, parted her mouth and the small trickle of fluid flowed down her face.
“Is there any way you can show me those reports?” she asked him while the results of his climax oozed down her chest. Jada let his flaccid member drop and went to get a towel from the bathroom. She returned with a hot, wet towel and cleaned the love juice off both of them. Then she sat down next to David and kissed his ear.
“Can I tell you something?” he said to her. She nodded.
“No woman has ever done that to me before,” he told her.
“Seriously?” she said. “You’ve never had a blow job before?”
“Never. I seem to have missed out on a lot.”
“I’ll try to see you make up for it all,” she said cuddling up to him again. “I can’t believe you saved so much for me.”
“You were worth every drop,” he told her. “I haven’t regretted a thing.”
They spent the evening talking about financial investments and future income streams. David had found the part of him that was missing and so had Jada. She could talk about elementary atomic particles and he would listen in rapture. He would talk about the first few years of his company and how his nervousness with women had caused him to hit on an idea for engineers and computer programmers to meet members of the opposite sex.
He showed her the Jacuzzi later in the evening. They relaxed in it watching TV and he washed her back. She washed him too, but he got to have her sit on the edge where he could soap her up before taking her into the water. Jada told him it was the first time anyone had bathed her since she was a little girl and she couldn’t wait for him to do it again.
“Do you know tomorrow is Monday?” she said to him after he’d brought her some wine in a goblet. She took a sip of it and then let him try some.
“Which means we go back to our real lives,” he told her. “I don’t want to keep doing that. I’ve had enough of the other reality. I would like this one to last.”
David embraced her in the hot waters of the Jacuzzi. He had turned on the bubbles so she could feel them all over her. She had leaned back in his arms again and he was gently touching her hair. She sighed as he nuzzled her neck.
“God,” he said,” I do love your hair. It’s so beautiful. It’s so, so nappy, I just love it.”
He felt Jada stiffen up in his arms. She pushed him back and slid to the other side of the Jacuzzi, rising up in the water looking at him with fire in her eyes. David realized he had just crossed a line of some sort and would pay dearly for his mistake.
“David,” she said, her eyes flaring. “You are never to use that word around me again, do you understand?”
Now there are many things bad in this world, but one of them is a naked black woman with enormous breasts standing up to her waist in a tub of hot water with foam boiling around her. David would later reflect that nothing had killed his erection faster than seeing the woman he was deeply in love with angry. Jada put her arms on her hips and looked into his eyes with a laser beam that burned into his brain. He had two choices before him and neither was very good. But if he did nothing, he would lose her for sure and he couldn’t allow that to happen.
“I said something wrong to you,” he stated, trying not to seem too meek. Show too much submission and she would look down on him. Show nothing and she would think him to be using her. He needed to find a way to make things right between them this very instant and bring back the love. “I want you to tell me what it was and make sure I don’t do it again. Jada, we come from different places. I’ll continue to make mistakes if you don’t help me avoid them.”
He saw her anger decrease by a fraction. It wasn’t much, but it was headed in the right direction. Her eyes softened a bit and her breathing slowed down. The fire in her eyes dimmed somewhat. He had to let her speak.
“There are things you are never to speak of, do you understand?” she began. “There are words you are forbidden to ever use around me, is this clear? David, I love you, but I will not tolerate certain things being said around me. Is this understood?” He nodded and prayed it would be enough.
It wasn’t.
She lowered herself back into the water and continued to look at him with a level of anger that would not go away. He had to be careful. This was going to happen sooner or later.
“I will give you a list right now,” she told him. “There are some words I am going to say to you that will never be repeated, no matter how angry you may be with me in the future. Listen closely because this is very important. Never forget this moment.”
And she told him every hateful racial term she could think of. Every foul word she had ever encountered used against a black person in general and a black woman in particular. David could see the pain it sent through her saying them and he felt the agony it caused her to say them. Some things are left unwritten even if they were experienced.
And then Jada was quiet. So was David. He wanted to go to her and feel her body next to him, know the anger was gone, was seeping away. But he couldn’t do it. He didn’t want her to think him a weakling eager to gain favor with her for sex. He loved her and was afraid anything he did at that very moment could ruin it all. They were coming down from a beautiful weekend, w
hy had he been so stupid to say that to her? Inside, he was working himself over with a cane, calling himself every kind of fool imaginable. He knew how proud she was. This was the woman he wanted to have children with. But the wrong word would destroy everything.
“Jada,” he said very slowly. “I will never use any of those words to you and any children we are going to have.”
Her eyes went wide again at the word “children” and she waded through the water to David, grabbing his face and planting kisses all over it. He felt her anger drain into the water and seep away. But it could always come back and he was going to remember this moment for the rest of his life. He had found the word she needed to hear from him, the one which showed he was ready for a commitment. She needed to know he meant everything and the gods had smiled upon David with his choice of words.
“Children,” she said kissing all over his neck. She repeated the word again as she mounted him for the final time that evening and let him inside her. David held onto her and let Jada control the love-making this time. He had gone very close to the edge with one stupid word and nearly lost her. He would remember it always.
They dried off and David turned off the tub’s controls. He took her hand and walked naked with her back to the bedroom. He told her he would take her home in the morning and would call her first thing in the evening. By the time they fell asleep, they had already planned out their life together.
Chapter 7
Two days later, Jada was spotted at her dance school being let out of David’s SUV. The other instructors at the school were pressed to the window when they saw the size of the vehicle she was stepping out of. They craned their necks to see who was driving behind the smoked glass. It was only when she walked around the to the driver’s side and David put the window down to give her a good-bye kiss that they were able to see. It had been two whole days since they had been together before he picked her up from the apartment, so she was running a little late that evening. He almost had to call in sick when David saw her in the tight-fitting dance outfit.