FOREPLAY.
A little taste before the main course.
The Women of Saint Bellamy is divided into three parts:
Sunset. Midnight. 2 A.M.
Because every woman is a different version of herself depending on what time it is.
At Sunset, everybody still has sense.
At Midnight, that starts changing.
By 2 AM, we’re all just living with our decisions.
Below is a taste from each section of stories.
Choose your trouble.
Story Snippets.
Sunset: SELF-SERVED
My Friday nights were sacred.
And no, I’m not talking about the kind of self-care your favorite Instagram baddie posts with a candle from Bath & Body Works, a face mask, and a caption about protecting her peace.
That was Sunday behavior. Friday was for pleasing me. Period.
Let me tell y’all something. Women will spend three hours getting ready for a man who brings absolutely nothing to the table but audacity and bad communication skills.
Fresh hair. Fresh nails. The expensive perfume. The matching set.
All that effort for somebody who still thinks “wyd” is a complete sentence.
Meanwhile, when it’s just us, we’ll throw on an old T-shirt with a mystery stain and call it self-love.
Girl, please. Make it make sense. Why are we saving the good stuff for people who haven’t earned it?
Why are we waiting for somebody else to make us feel desired, special, beautiful, or seen?
Half the men out here are operating on confidence they do not qualify for. And women are out here looking like a million dollars but acting like they need permission to please themselves.
Couldn’t be me. I’m a firm believer that if you’re going to romanticize anybody, start with yourself.
Wear the pretty thing. Spray the expensive perfume. Order the good takeout. Light the candle. Put on the playlist. Be obsessed with your own life for a minute.
Honestly, this is the conversation we should be having at brunch instead of spending forty-five minutes discussing a man who can’t even spell “definitely.”
Just saying.
Midnight: WHAT THE GROWN DO
Trey guided me around a marble column and down a dimly lit hallway where soft jazz drifted from hidden speakers. At the end of the hall, the mansion’s private elevator waited with its doors already open.
“Have I told you how damn good you look in that dress?” he asked quietly, his eyes taking a slow trip down every curve God gave me as the doors slid shut.
Lord. The elevator suddenly felt about three sizes too small. Too much Trey. Too much cologne.
When the elevator opened on the third floor, the air was thicker. Heavier. Low moans and soft sounds carried down the hall. Some doors were cracked open, others shut tight. Every step carried the weight of sex and possibility.
I caught sight of a couple tucked in a shadowed corner; he lifted her top and sucked her breasts while she threw her head back. When we walked past, his eyes caught mine and he winked without breaking rhythm.
My chest tightened. My breath shortened.
Everything I thought I knew about lifestyle parties was complete bullshit. This wasn’t awkward. Wasn’t a bunch of desperate people doing weird shit in a dark room.
This was sexy, intentional, and confidence with expensive taste. Nobody looked ashamed, nervous, or worried about who was watching. Just people enjoying exactly what they wanted. And somehow that was the hottest part.
I could feel my own arousal building with every step. Then I stopped. Completely. Directly in front of a set of double doors marked THEATRE.
For a second, I forgot how to breathe. Inside looked like somebody had reached into the filthiest fantasy I’d ever had and brought it to life.
On a small raised stage bathed in red light, a redbone beauty with long dark hair was on her knees, lips stretched wide as she bobbed between two thick ***, spit glistening across her chin and dripping down her neck. She wasn't just ***; she was worshipping, moaning around them like it was the best thing she'd ever tasted.
Before I could blink, one of the men helped her up, bent her over at the waist, and slid deep inside her from behind. She gasped, mouth falling open, and immediately wrapped her lips back around the other man's ***, never missing a beat.
Nine people sat in plush leather theatre chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the stage. Men and women alike, some fully dressed, others half-naked, a few completely naked, openly handling themselves and each other as they watched.
I'd never seen anything like it in my life.
And instead of being horrified…Instead of wanting to leave…Every nerve ending in my body screamed the same thing.
I wanted in.
Trey stood behind me, his body heat radiating against my back, his palm warm and heavy on my thigh. He slid the side of my dress up slowly, his fingertips grazing bare skin.
"You smell so damn good," he whispered against my ear. "Do you like what you see?"
I couldn't even fake coyness. My *** was a waterfall. And from the hard weight pressing against the small of my back, Trey was just as ready. I couldn’t believe my best friend had offered her husband to me on a silver platter. And even more unbelievable, I was actually hungry for him.
When his hands gripped my breasts through my dress and squeezed, I had to brace myself on the doorframe to keep my knees from weakening.
"Where can I have you?" I asked, my voice raw and low.
2 AM: AIRPOD AFFAIR
Let me tell you something about my dog ass husband.
Kevin is the kind of fine that makes you do stupid shit. Dimples that make you wet; six feet of chocolate with a body that had no business being that constructed on a man who doesn't even exercise regularly. He also rolls the tightest blunt in Saint Bellamy and he's got a pipe that women all over this city have been spreading rumors about. Half those rumors are true. All of that is the reason I married him.
The other reason I married him is that I am equally as reckless as he is, and I needed someone who could keep up.
Now. Before I tell you what happened the night of Velvet Nights, I need to back up because this story doesn't start in our bedroom. It starts in a strip club parking lot with me and Q, *** in the back of my G-Wagon, while my husband was inside that strip club getting his *** *** then *** the same stripper bitch he'd been eyeing all night.
Equally reckless. Told you.