I’m on cloud nine. Emily is in my bed. I don’t know if she wore me out or I wore her out. The girl has stamina, that’s for damn sure. I’d carried her to the bathroom knowing she might be tender. It didn't take her but a soft smile to get me into the tub with her. The next thing I knew, the girl was on top of me with my cock inside of her.

Emily can be such a conundrum at times. She goes after so many things in her life that she thinks she needs, but when it comes to other things, she can shy away easily. That’s why I know when the sun comes to a full rise and she wakes, I might have a whole other Emily on my hands. One that’s in a panic about what we did.

Not only that, the mention of a condom was never brought up, and I know the first time she was in my condo, she was snooping to see if I had any. I don’t. There was no need. Who jacks off with a fucking condom on?

I’d bet my life all those years ago after I’d shut her down that she vowed to herself that she was done with me. I mean, she was barely a teenage girl telling me that she loved me, and one day she wanted me to be her husband and wouldn’t be happy if I took some other girl to prom. Hell, she never came back to the Silverstein estate after that. I don’t think she knows how much that not only hurt me, but it killed my mom too.

I was still a teenage boy confused as fuck. I’d made promises to myself years before that I wasn’t going to be like a lot of the men that run in the circles of our world. I wanted what my parents had. I wasn’t chasing after any girl. There was no prom date in mind.

The idea of the woman who would be my wife one day was still fuzzy in my mind. Until Emily started to grow up. Of course, that all came after I fucking broke her heart, but what the hell was I supposed to tell her back then? To me, she was still the young girl I was extremely protective of.

I suppose maybe in the back of my mind there were some signs. I’d always remember her birthday or events happening in her life. I’d go out of my way to celebrate in some way with her. Besides my parents, school, and Asher, she was always at the forefront of my mind for as long as I could remember. Then it all began to change.