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Jessica Cage
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August 16 - August 20, 2024
The idea of making new friendships as an adult sounded as appealing as detangling my hair with a fine-toothed comb.
“Light of the moon, heat of the flame, bring me the one whose soul knows my name,”
“You called?” the deep voice spoke from the corner where the apparent intruder stood. “Oh, hell no!” I bolted for the door, titties flopping with each step.
“Do not praise God when looking at my dick,” he ordered. “Oh, my… devil?” I frowned and forced my eyes away from his member to look up at him. “Whoever is responsible, they did a good job.”
People pleasing only hurts the one doing the pleasing.
“Authors are studious creatures. The best ones really do their research.
One thing I’d learned in my thirty-something years was to listen to my damn instincts.
“I’m not delusional. I’m darkness, and if you’re not careful, I’ll devour you.”
“Well, slavery was a thing. My family lost all knowledge of where we’re from.
It was okay to be lost in the newness of it all.
“Rayna, you’re in a world you don’t understand with beings who have abilities unlike anything you can fathom. You must be more careful.”
I’m a black woman in the world that tells me every damn day that no matter how impressive I am, I’m unwanted. If I step outside of my race, I’m a traitor to my people. But then I’m finding more and more often that the black men, the men who should want me, who should uplift me, don’t. Not the way I am. They’re stuck on having women be submissive, but they give us nothing to submit to.
I know there are men out there who still want love and appreciate a good woman. I know there are men who aren’t threatened by their partner’s success. It’s just harder to find them. Just gotta dig through the muck of men fighting to hold on to a relationship type that no longer has a place in our world.”
“I’m your soulmate. You can’t keep the secret forever.”
How far can a relationship go when you’re not from my world and I’m not from yours?”
“You’re mine, and I want to take my time with what’s mine. I want to savor you, learn you, be everything you need me to be. Please, let me take my time with you.”