Ghost
The following night
I wasn’t sure exactly what Luxe wanted me to go to her house and get, but she gave me detailed instructions on how to get to it.
I waited until it was late to head over to her house.
After they destroyed her place, no one had been back there, but I didn’t know what I was getting, so I didn’t want to try and move it during the daytime.
Pulling up to the house, I got out the car and headed up to the front door. Savion had sent someone over to replace all the windows and the front door. I was having someone to come over and clean the place up for me later on.
Luxe was mad as fuck about them tearing up her house like that. I was so ready for all this mess to be over with. She wasn’t cooperating like she should. I knew Luxe knew something about all this but didn’t want to tell us.
Stepping over the broken glass on the floor, I went upstairs to the third bedroom and opened the door.
On her instructions, I had to go into the closet and push the clothes to the side.
After I did that, I found the tiny button on top of the shelf and pressed it.
The back of the closet swung in like a door, displaying an entire room.
Soon as I stepped into the room, the lights flipped on.
This damn girl had an entire room filled with jewelry, inside cases. Most of it looked like one of a kind, so I know she had to have been acquiring most of this stuff off the black market.
Exiting the room, I went into her bedroom and grabbed a couple of her duffel bags to put the jewelry in.
I placed all the jewelry inside the bags.
How much stuff she had in here, I just knew it was worth millions of dollars.
Now I saw why she was so worried about them getting it.
If they got their hands on this shit, they would’ve been set for life.
Zipping up the bags, I grabbed them both and left out of the closet.
I closed the door back on the closet in case the people would come back, so they wouldn’t find the secret room, and then left out of the house.
Luxe didn’t ask for anything else here, and I wasn’t wasting any time going through anything else in the house.
It was already going on one in the morning, and I was moving around her house like a thief in the night.
After placing the bags in the trunk, I hopped into the driver’s seat and sped out of there.
When I made it back to the house, I grabbed the bags and headed inside.
Luxe was locked in the bedroom when I snuck off.
I wasn’t worried about leaving her because I left some men outside the door to watch her.
They had instructions to guard her with their lives, and if anything was to happen to her, they might as well had killed themselves because I was gon’ torture the shit out of them.
Had she not asked me to personally go get her collection, I would’ve have never left her.
“You’re dismissed,” I said as I approached them. They looked in my direction and nodded before stepping away from the door.
Using my key, I unlocked the door and entered the apartment.
It was dark soon as I stepped through the door, so I assumed Luxe was still sleeping.
I didn’t want to wake her to let her know that I’d collected her things, so I set the bags on the floor at her door and went straight into my bedroom to take a shower so that I could go to sleep.
I’d been in the shower for the last forty minutes and then got out and wrapped my towel around me. The shower lasted a bit longer than I intended, but the shit was relaxing. I just knew soon as I touched that bed, I was gon’ be knocked the fuck out.
When I exited the bathroom, I found Luxe standing in my doorway. She was wearing this leopard print two-piece pajama shorts set. Her silk black scarf was wrapped neatly around her head. Luxe’s eyes wandered my frame. Her lips slightly parted as her eyes came back to my face.
“I wanted to thank you for getting my stuff.”
“That was a lot of jewelry, Luxe.”
“I know. I’ve been collecting for years.”
That shit probably cost more than my net worth.
“You’re welcome.”
Luxe closed in on me. Her soft hands pressed against my damp chest. “You’re really willing to do anything for me, huh?”
“It’s all part of the job.”
“You sure about that?” Her hands glided up my chest and stopped at my shoulders. “I got a feeling that it’s a bit more than that.”
“And what makes you think that?”
“I see how you’ve been looking at me. I think you have a lil crush on me.”
She was the one to talk when she had her hands all over me, not the other way around. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that she was the one crushing.
“If I had crush on you, I would’ve been acted on that shit by now,” I confidently made known.
Luxe snickered. “Not really, because you’re too young for me. I told you that you’re just a baby.” She patted my face with the tip of her fingers and stepped away from me. Gripping her by the wrist, I pinned her ass against the wall. Her chest glided against me as it heaved.
“What I told you ’bout calling me a baby? I’m a grown-ass man.”
She gazed deeply into my eyes. Her face lifted toward mine, but before she could kiss me, my phone rang. Releasing her, I removed it from my pocket and saw that it was Savion calling. Swiping the screen, I placed the phone to my ear.
“Yeah?”
“We got a hit. I’m flying out to check the shit out. I’ll let you know what I have.”
My eyes cut in Luxe’s direction.
“Okay,” was the only thing I said before I heard beeping in my ear.
“What?”
“Nothing,” I told her, not wanting to get her hopes up. If Savion came back with some information, then and only then I’d tell her.