Chapter 31
When morning came, he woke her with his mouth on hers, rolling her to her back to make love to her again.
Sailor was shocked to see Davon and Justin both downstairs waiting, Justin looking shellshocked and Davon looking pissed.
“You really had to…” Davon began as soon as he saw Geo.
“Check yourself,” Mig cut in. “You know the consequences of stealing from Geo.”
“She didn't even know!” Justin cried. “And she thought it was fake! Costume jewelry that someone lost in the sink!”
“Bullshit,” Geo snorted, sitting down at the table and smirking at Justin. “That’s why your dad started beggin’ for her life as soon as I walked in. He knew, and that meant she knew. They both knew. You got somin’ you wanna say, fool?” Geo asked Justin, his eyes dancing with madness.
Justin went red, looking down at his feet. “Thank you. Thank you for not killing her… or my dad.”
Sailor sat down hard, stunned. He hadn’t killed her?!?
“They’re both okay,” Justin went on, still not looking up. “She lost two fingers, and he lost one, but that’s all. Thank you for letting them live.”
Geo snorted again, then waved Sophia over. She brought food to the table immediately, smiling at Geo.
“Like I said, I fuckin’ own you now, Fool,” Geo told Justin, looking over his food and not at the awkward boy.
“Yeah,” Justin agreed softly. “I know.”
“Mig’s gonna have a new job for you, you’ll be workin’ with a new crew, too. Fee’ll send someone for ya sometime today. Mig, take him to the other room. What about you, Fool? You got som’in you wanna say?” Geo asked Davon as Justin left with Mig, his eyes huge.
“You know he cain’t handle what you’re fixin’ to throw him into,” Davon rumbled, pitching his voice low.
“You wanna take his place?”
Davon glanced at Sailor, then glowered at Geo.
“Didn’t fuckin’ think so,” Geo snorted, amused.
“He cain’t do…”
“Enough!” Geo yelled, irritated. “I wanna enjoy my fuckin’ breakfast! You cain’t shut up, you can get out! Find you a new fuckin’ job!”
Davon leaned back against the wall, turning to glare out the window. Geo ate, but he was upset now. Sailor picked at her food, still not having an appetite.
“Fuckin’ eat, Rue,” Geo demanded, looking over her plate.
She didn’t argue, taking another bite and moving food around on her plate. When he looked over his shoulder at Mig coming back in, she stood with her plate and took it to the sink.
Mig led Phoenix in and motioned to the wall next to Davon.
Phoenix grinned at Davon, but he looked away from the younger boy, looking bored and irritated.
Geo got up and offered Sailor a hand, and she took it, blushing. Leading her to the office, he let go of her hand and crossed his arms. She knew her time was up, so she sat down, opened the laptop, and waited for it to boot up.
Geo stepped in and tilted her face to him, kissing her before going back to the door. “I got shit to do, Rue. You need me, my number’s in that phone there. Mig’s too. Them fool’s’ll be here if you need food or som’in’ ta drink or some shit like that. You good? You gon’ have this shit done by tomorrah?”
“I’ll have it written soon, tested by tomorrow probably, barring any interference. Just make sure they leave me alone,” she told him, hoping that he would close the door and let her stay in the room alone.
He did not, grinning as he left and leaving the door open.
Davon came in and sat across the room, Phoenix following him and hovering nearby.
“What do we do?” Phoenix asked Davon quietly.
“Just stay quiet and make sure she don’t try ta run or shit, make sure she don’t need nothin’. We’re just here as her bodyguards.”
“Bodyguard? For her? Why, who’s tryna get at ‘r?”
“Less about people’ tryna get ‘r ‘n more about like, collateral damage ‘n shit. Also, we gotta keep ‘r here. Make sure she don’t run ‘n shit or try anythin’. Call the cops ‘r some stupid shit. If she…”
“You both need to be quiet and let me work,” Sailor called back to them.
Davon gave her a derisive snort, but said nothing, motioning Phoenix to sit down.
Sailor focused on what she was doing; it helped that she had lied to Geo. She had written these programs already and she knew they would work already. She hadn’t used them, not yet. They were in a series of thumb drives hidden in her closet in her room. She also already had other things she needed all ready, but she didn’t want Geo to know any of that. Instead, she rewrote two of them in a couple of short hours, then switched to one of the other computers and began setting up different things she was going to need.
She immediately felt Davon behind her, looking over her shoulder. “What are you doin’?” he demanded.
“What I was told,” she answered tersely.
“Answer the question, Say,” he demanded. “Tell me what you’re doing. ”
“Setting up the proxies so I can set up the offshores while I test those.”
“That was fuckin’ quick…”
“Yup. Leave me alone, please so I can do this.”
“How’d you get it done so quick? You’d already done it once, ain’t you? Why’d you tell ’m you…”
“Leave me alone, Day! Let me do this!”
“Pshhh. You tryna pull some shit, Say, I know you. Wha’s your angle?”
“Leave me alone or I’ll tell Geo you bothered me!”
“You think I’m scared ‘a him? I showed you plenty that I ain’t. What’s that exactly you doin’ right there?”
“Runnin’ proxies, seriously, Day, leave me alone! Let me get this done!”
“How are you even online, none of these are…”
“Are you seriously asking ME that, asshat? Fuck off, Day.”
“As long as you’s online ’n shit, how ‘bout you turn on that screen there ‘n put us on some Netflix or somethin’?” Phoenix asked.
“We ain’t here ta watch TV, we ain’t gettin’ paid for that shit,” Davon growled. “You keep up that shit and I’ll call you off this. Send you home and tell the boss why. He won’t bring ya back, he don’t give second chances. You gotta keep your head in this.”
“Can you two take it outside? For fucks sake! Let me work!”
“Nah. It’s time ta eat, Sailor. Come on, Geo said you couldn’t skip food.”
“I need to finish this first, I can’t just pause it. Just back off… Go see what’s for lunch or something. Come on, let me fucking work! Let me have this done for him before he gets home tonight!”
Davon went still, then made an angry noise. “This is you tryna impress ‘m now?!? Since when? You what? You have fuckin’ feelin’s for him?”
“Leave it!” she hissed angrily .
Davon leaned closer, putting an arm on either side of the desk to put his mouth on her temple. “This you tellin’ me you don’t want out no more?” he asked in a whisper. “This you sayin’ you’s where you wanna be?”
“Leave it, Day,” she growled, trying to shrug him off.
“Nah, Say. What about Austin? You still want that shit?”
“Davon! Let me work!”
“How ‘bout you make some dumb fuckin’ excuse about how you don’t feel good? I take you up to that bedroom ‘n you show me how you like it, Say?” he purred into her jaw.
“Day, you need to back off! He has cameras everywhere, here included! All the rooms too! He’s probably watching right now!” she whispered quickly, trying not to look around for cameras.
“You think I’m fuckin’ gullible?” he asked with a sneer.
“I’m NOT joking, Day! I’ve seen him watch live feeds and videos! He’s shown me videos of me in the bedrooms when I don’t sleep, yelling at me for not sleeping! I promise you, he has cameras everywhere! Please back off, I don’t want him to kill you! Please!”
Davon backed off quickly, barely stopping himself from looking around. “Aight, Say, but you better be doin’ what you say you are. We’ll find out real quick if you ain’t ‘n you tryna pull some shit.”
Sailor only sighed, ignoring him as she returned to the zone.
Twenty minutes later, the door opened, making her flinch back and jerk so hard that her chair almost tipped.
“Wha’s wrong?” Geo demanded. “Wha’s goin’ on?”
“N-nothing?” she stammered, confused.
“Why was he all up in your shit like somethin’ was up? You up to some shit?”
“No? I started the testing phase and started working on something else. He was asking about it is all.”
“Tell me what you doin’,” Geo demanded, leaning over the computer she was working on .
“Setting up P.O. boxes,” she sighed. “And offshore’s.”
“You need ta be online for that,” Geo scowled.
“She’s been online all morning,” Phoenix offered. “Like, right off. First thing she did.”
“How?” Geo demanded, looking at Mig. “Thought you had a password on that?”
Sailor smirked and turned back to her work.
“Nah, Rue. Answers,” Geo demanded, spinning her chair to face him. “What kinda shit you up to?”
“I told you! Do you want me to do this or not? Come on, I just need five more minutes to finish this, okay?”
“You fuck with me, Rue, I’m’a welt that bottom. Check me.”
“I got it. Five minutes, okay? Then I’ll eat, promise,” she told him, turning back to her work before it timed out.
“Why ain’t you fools brought her somethin’ ta eat?” Geo demanded of Davon.
“I told her to take a break and go eat in the dining room,” Davon scowled. “She said she needed to finish this first. We were all gonna go eat in there.”
“I told you fuckin’ noon! It’s almost 2!”
“She said she hadda finish it!”
“N’ I told you she hadda fuckin’ eat! Who you fuckin’ work for, fool? Me or Rue?”
Davon huffed. “C’mon, Say! It’s time ta fuckin’ eat!”
“Nah, go GET her som’in’ if she says she has ta finish! It ain’t fuckin’ hard, Fool!”
Davon growled and stormed out of the room and Geo leaned over Sailor almost exactly like Davon had. He even had his cheek on her temple the same way.
“Were you on your way home already or did you come racing here?” Sailor asked distractedly.
“Don’t you worry on it,” Geo grumped.
“There, done,” she sighed, closing it out.
“What was that?” Geo asked, irritated that she closed it before explaining it .
“An account, one of five I opened today to shuffle money into once I started this. Are you going to back up so I can get up?” she asked, trying to shrug him off as well.