The Essence of You
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Ongoing, First published Jan 13, 2018
Mature
Jasmine Green has been unlucky in love for as long as she can remember.  When she is dumped unceremoniously by text three years ago, she decides to only focus on friends, work, and law school.  While on her first girls' trip to Essence Fest, she bumps into Montana Keyes, a handsome, charming, NBA player with the Knicks.  There is instant chemistry between them and they enjoy a passion-filled weekend.  She is content to leave their weekend as a pleasant memory while he promises a future.  Although she finds herself drawn to him and wants to see what could happen, past hurts resurface.  Can she trust herself enough to take a chance on love?

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   Montana focused on my lips. "Like, I said, I'm in front of you right now."
  "Oh, so you trying to tell me you still want to be with me?" 
   "What do you think?" He leaned to kiss me slowly and the moment his lips touched mine I was lost in emotion and I welcomed his kiss. We kissed heavily for a while as the ocean continued to wave around us. Montana then began to use his tongue and had moved on top of me in between my legs. It was almost like we were naked since his pants were thin and I could feel his hard length directly against my center. I had both hands rubbing the back of his head enjoying the kiss and the passion he could evoke from me. He ran his hand up my bare thigh toward my apex and toyed with the edge of my thin fabric. Then reality dawned that soon he would be inside of me and I wouldn't be able to leave him again.
      I pushed him off of me before I succumbed to my need for him. "Please, stop. It's me and not you, okay? You have done nothing wrong but I can't do this. " 
    "Damn it, Jasmine!" He cursed in frustration. "Why are you such a coward?"
     I flinched at his anger and quickly got up and took off running in my bare feet back to my suite. I could hear his footsteps behind me and I only ran faster. I couldn't let him catch me...
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