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cup.
     “Yeah, it is a brief wave here and there, but at least I
know you are alive and kicking.”
    He pulled a stool from under the kitchen island and sat
down. “You know what I’m talking about.  We don’t hang out anymore after work
either.  We haven’t had lunch together in months.”
    Taylor took an apple from the fruit bowl on counter and bit
into it.  The juice from the fruit dribbled down her lips and chin.  Dillon’s reaction
was silent as she licked her lips lapping up the sweetness of the apple’s
nectar.  Her long hair, braided in a ponytail, and tucked under the white
sports band around her head, showed the natural beauty of her face that was
void of makeup.  The short black sports bra exposed a flat stomach glistening
with sweat from the run. And the black spandex shorts emphasized her full
hips.  Those luscious hips that he desired to bare his children one day.
    She was talking, but his ears were not tuning into what she
was saying.  He was enthralled in her body and thinking what he wanted to do to
her.  Rumor around the office was she and Mario Infante were forming a close
bond, but she denied it whenever he asked her questions about the two of them
in the beginning, and dropped the subject as they drifted further apart.
    “Dillon, are you listening to me?”
    He snapped to reality when her voice penetrated his ears.
“Huh…yeah, I heard what you said.  So you want to go to a movie tonight.  Just
the two of us to get caught up on what’s been going on lately?”
    She bit the apple again tossing the remains in the garbage. 
“I can’t.  I have plans this evening.”
    “Oh. Did you meet a new man and waiting to see how things
shake out before you spring him on me?”
    She rolled her eyes at him.  “Look nosy. My cousin Selma is
having a baby shower.  It’s going to be a night out with the girls.  I haven’t
had a girl’s night in a long time.  In fact,” she said checking her watch. “I
have appointments starting at noon.  I need to shower and get changed.”
    “I remember Selma.  She was always at your parent’s house
when I would come over as a kid.”
    “She hung out with me and Sabrina all the time. Well she is
married and expecting a baby soon.”
    “Good for her.  Hey, I can be your chauffeur today,” he
piped with excitement.
    She pulled the headband off her head looking at him
strangely.  “I can handle it.  Besides my manicure and pedicure, I have a hair
appointment, and that can take hours.”
    “I don’t mind waiting.  I haven’t seen Sabrina in ages.  It
will be fun to catch up with her too.”
    She frowned. “Dillon, seriously, you don’t have anything
better to do than cart me around to my appointments?”
    “I don’t have any plans today.  How cool will I look to the
women as they watch me wait patiently for you to be finished?  They’ll wish
they had a man so content with waiting patiently for their woman.”
    She curled her eyebrows. “Dillon, I don’t know where to
begin with that, but I will say you make a good visual but with the wrong
woman.  You should help Kelly with planning the wedding since you have free
time today.  I’m sure she would appreciate the help without her asking you.”
    “I don’t want to do that.”
    “Man, get with the program.  This wedding is going to
happen, and you are a major part of it.  Warm those dang cold feet and get your
act together.”
    “Why do we have to get married?  Why can’t we continue to
live together and omit the legal documents?  This is Kelly’s dream, not mine.”
    “You proposed!”
    “I did that because she was pregnant.  She isn’t pregnant
anymore.”
    Taylor paced the kitchen. “Is there someone else, Dillon?”
    “What?”
    “Are you seeing another woman and that is why you don’t want
to get married now?”
    He dropped his chin to his chest.  She threw her hands in
the air. “Dillon! Is the silence a way of saying there is?  Have you been
intimate with