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    â€œAre you mad at me?” she blurted out.
    â€œWhy do you think that?”
    â€œI don’t know. You’ve been real quiet, and I figured Mackenzie must have told you about the accident.”
    â€œNo, she didn’t get into any details. Was she supposed to?”
    â€œI guess not. But Bruce and I were arguing right before the accident happened. It was all my fault, Jaylin, and I caused him to take his eyes off the road.”
    Yes, I was irritated. “What’s going on with you and Bruce? Mackenzie told me he made her get rid of Barbie, and I can’t believe you agreed to it. You know how much that dog meant to her, and to me.”
    â€œI know, but for some reason, Barbie got really, really mean. She didn’t like Bruce, and now I understand why. I got rid of her to keep down confusion. She started peeing all over the house, and I can’t tell you how many times I stepped in dog poop. She bit Bruce and tried to bite me too. Mackenzie was very upset, and I promised her that I would get her another dog. Bruce and I have been having problems for months, and he’s seeing Mercedes again. I stopped having sex with him and everything. We were arguing all of the time. When I asked him for a divorce, he slapped the living daylights out of me. We got into a huge fight, and the police were called to our house that night. At this point, I just want out of my marriage, Jaylin. All I care about is my babies, and he can do whatever.”
    â€œI’m sorry to hear that it didn’t work out. And you’re right.... At the end of the day, the kids are what truly matter.”
    Scorpio stretched her arm around my waist, holding me tight. She spoke softly. “Do you ever think about me? About that night we shared together? I know how much you love Nokea, but is there an ounce of love in your body still left for me?”
    I cleared my throat, for her questions deserved an honest answer. “Yes, I’ve thought about you a lot, and I still think about you. All of the time, I wonder what you’re doing, how things are coming along, and I often think about what if you and I were still together. I told you before that I still had love for you, but this thing between us is too, too complicated. Complicated because I am with my soul mate, and I intend to be with her for the rest of my life. I love Nokea too much, Scorpio, to settle for anything less.”
    â€œTrust me, you would be just as happy with me, as you are with her. I would love you so much more, and that is the sole reason why I can’t get ahead with any other man in my life. I’m not going to talk about this anymore, but I wanted you to know how much you mean to me and my family too.”
    Scorpio lay for a while, without talking. It wasn’t long before I heard her lightly snoring. She was resting well, but I couldn’t get a lick of sleep. It was obvious that she was never going to turn me loose, and I couldn’t quite understand how we kept finding ourselves right back in each other’s arms.
    She turned in her sleep. When the towel slid away from her naked body, I couldn’t help but admire it. I wanted to wake her up so badly, just so I could slide my dick into her. Instead of lying in bed with a hard-on and crazy thoughts, I got up and went downstairs to the casino. I stayed there for at least three hours, putting hundreds and hundreds of dollars into a Lucky 7 machine that was going up and down. The jackpot was over $4,000, and a black older lady sitting next to me kept telling me the machine was going to hit.
    â€œThat machine has been hot all day. How much money have you put in there?” she asked.
    â€œIt ain’t been too hot. I’ve probably already put at least a thousand dollars in it.”
    She laughed and kept playing her machine. I already had put so much money into mine, but I reached over and started playing hers. She said she had lost about $300, and it was