Chapter 22 #2
“I thought that was you. How are you?” Noah asked as he approached.
“I’m good Noah, how are you?” I replied looking around to locate Rex. Seeing that he was flirting with an associate, I breathed a little easier.
“I’m good, beautiful,” he said, then let his eyes connect to both Chy and Star.
“Girls this is Noah, we have class together. Noah these are my sisters, LeStar and Cheyenne.”
“Hi Noah, nice to meet you,” they spoke in unison.
“Pleasure is all mine ladies,” he responded. “Well, I’m going to leave you guys to it, I just wanted to speak,” he said to me before he turned to walk away.
“Hey Noah!” Chy stopped him. “We’re stepping out for Tio’s birthday tomorrow night. We’ll be at Lust, you should come. Bring a date if you want to.”
He nodded in agreement at Chy’s request. “Aight, ‘preciate it. You ladies enjoy.”
Once he was out of earshot I turned to Cheyenne’s messy ass. “Are you crazy bitch? Why would you invite him to Rashad’s club?”
“Because bitch he’s fine as fuck and I want to look at him some more. Fuck Rashad.” All I could do was shake my head. She’s witnessed him cut up on her on several occasions, but she still tested the waters.
“I don’t know Chy, he had lingering eyes for Tio, and you know if JJ gets any type of ideas in his mind then he’s going to turn that club inside out,” Star spoke up.
“Well, they’re not here, so we have nothing to worry about.
Plus, what they don’t know won’t hurt them,” Chy said and shrugged as if it were that simple.
I dropped the subject right there because she had already extended the offer and he was long gone.
All I could do is pray that either he didn’t show up or if he did, he stayed the fuck out of our face because one thing for sure and two things for certain, Grim had eyes and ears everywhere.
Me and the girls spent another hour in the mall before we went ahead and headed out, with Star in tow.
With her husband being gone she didn’t want to be alone, so she opted to stay the night with me and the kids.
I wanted to spend time with Rae and Lae for the rest of the day because lately I had been on the move a lot.
Before we went home, I stopped at the grocery store to grab the stuff for us to make our own pizzas and some cookies.
By the time we finally pulled into the driveway it was dark out and Lae was fussy as hell.
She wasn’t used to being out all day and we were all probably overwhelmed.
I asked Star to get Rae’s bath done so I could get Lae bathed and fed then shower myself.
This was the time I missed Jawan the most. He made it so easy to get the girls down at night.
As if he knew he was on my mind, a FaceTime from him was coming through.
“What’s good baby?” he said as soon as the connection was made. “Hey Daddy’s baby,” he cooed to Lae who was latched on, feeding at the time.
“Hey baby,” I cooed to him.
“Where Rae?” he asked.
“Star was getting her bath done. We’re about to make pizzas and cookies when they finish up,” I answered.
“That’s what’s up,” he responded. “Aye, I’m sorry I’m not there to help you and shit. I know it’s a lot dealing with the girls alone.” Although it was a lot and I missed him, I knew he had to handle business and I didn’t want to make him feel bad for not being here with us.
“No, you’re good babe. I’m grateful your family has been here to help me out,” I told him trying to ease his mind.
“Yeah, I know but it’s not the same. I’m just trying to get all this shit knocked out, so I don’t have to leave y’all like this again.
” Lae was done eating now, so I pulled her off the boob to place her on my shoulder so she could burp.
Jawan let out a groan at the sight of my breast. “Damn Tio, you teasing a nigga. Lay her down and go in the bathroom right quick,” he suggested as he adjusted himself.
I let out a light giggle and got ready to answer him before Rae came flying in our room. “All done mommy!” she exclaimed as she jumped up on the bed. “Daddy!” she screeched when she saw Jawan on the phone and reached for it.
“You have to calm down Rae Rae, sissy is sleeping, okay?” I said before I handed her the phone, all she offered me was a head nod.
“When are you coming home daddy? Mommy and me and Lae miss you this much,” she dropped the phone and stretched her arms wide.
I heard her father laugh as I made my way out of my room and down to Lae’s.
I laid her in her crib and covered her small body with her blanket, then grabbed the baby monitor on the way out.
As I was making my way back into the room, Jarae was finishing up with her dad.
She hopped off the bed and rushed my legs with the phone extended up to me.
I smiled down at her and took the phone back right before she ran out of the room.
“Aight you’re alone, closed the door and lock it so you can show daddy something.” He laid back on the bed and got comfortable.
“No Jawan, Rae is waiting on me to make pizza and cookies with her,” I protested.
He sucked his teeth and groaned. “A nigga ain’t had no pussy in forever, just a few minutes baby. That’s all I need, I promise.”
I was putting my pajama set on as he was talking so I could join Star and Rae in the kitchen. “If you hurry up and bring your ass home then you could get as much pussy as you’d like,” I stated as a matter of fact.
“You think I ain’t been trying to hurry this shit up baby?” he asked in a frustrated tone. “I told you I’m trying to knock all this shit out so I ain’t gotta bring my ass back out here unless I want to.”
“I know that, and I understand that, but that also means that when you finish handling business, we can play as much as you want to,” I knew he wasn’t going to be happy about it, but I wanted him, not a toy or my hand.
“You’re not playing fair, Ma,” he whined.
“Yeah, well I agreed to two days not a week. Let me go get your child, call me in the morning?”
“You know I’ma call. I love y’all.”
“We love you more.” I hung up and went to save Rae’s hyper ass.
The final touch to tonight’s look was to apply a coat of my Pretty I had my face buried there but I could feel us moving so knew that we were moving towards VIP.
“I know, I missed you more girl,” he responded after kissing my exposed shoulder. “Get down baby, let me look at you.” I shook my head no. I didn’t want to let him go. He let out a low chuckle and kissed my shoulder again. “Get down baby, your ass out and I’ma have to kill one of these niggas.”
That statement made the decision for me. I didn’t want him to hurt anyone in here and I wanted to party still. Once I was on my feet, I fixed my dress then stood on my tip toes to kiss his lips and wrapped my arms loosely around his neck.
“You look good as fuck tonight baby. Why you wear this lil’ ass piece of shiny cloth when I’m not around?” His handsome face was frowned up as he spun me around.
“Shut up Jawan, you bought this.”
“I buy everything, that’s not the point though. Wear this shit when you go out with me, Ma. Unless you want another body added to your list,” he raised his brows.
Just the thought of him killing those men had my palms sweaty and my heart rate increasing.
When I made eye contact with him again, he had a stupid smirk on his face because he knew it bothered me that he could take a life so easily.
I rolled my eyes and turned to go get another drink when I ran into Noah.
“Always running into each other.” Noah smiled as he caught me from falling.
I returned the smile and also let out a small laugh because we were always running into one another. The thoughts of our first encounter were quickly interrupted when I was snatched away, and Noah was pushed on to his ass.
“Aye, my nigga, fuck is you holding on to my bitch like that for?” Jawan gritted.
Quickly trying to intervene, I put my hand on Jawan’s face to make him look at me, “No baby, he didn’t mean any harm. This is my friend from school.” I would have reached to help Noah stand but I was afraid of how Jawan might react to that.
“Friend?” he frowned deeper. “Naw, you got me fucked up. You got one fuckin’ friend and he damn sure ain’t it. The fuck you mean?”
Noah stood to his feet and dusted himself off while watching Jawan the entire time. “Look, my man I—”
“I ain’t ya fuckin’ man, my nigga,” Jawan cut him off.
Chuckling, Noah corrected himself. “Aight, Grim,” he sarcastically started, “I didn’t mean any disrespect. Tiomi and her girls invited me to the party, and I didn’t want to be rude and decline. There’s nothing going on with me and your wife.”
“Oh, I know that because ain’t either one of y’all stupid,” Jawan arrogantly responded.
“Just keep your fuckin’ hands and eyes off mine my mans.
” With me tucked under one of his arms he bumped into Noah and pushed us further into the VIP area.
I turned and mouthed ‘I’m sorry’ to Noah and he offered a head nod and a smirk as he went in the opposite direction.
Once Jawan took a seat he pulled me into his lap.
“Did you have to do all of that baby?”
“Tiomi don’t piss me off aight? I’m not about to discuss that clown ass nigga.
Niggas know better than to play in my face like that and you do, too.
Smiling and shit. I should have put one in his head right in front of your stupid ass,” he huffed.
As crazy as it may sound, I loved when his jealousy seeped out.
“Aww baby. You know I don’t want anybody but you,” I said as I kissed all over his face.
“Yeah, because you ain’t ready to die. I missed the fuck out of your pretty ass though baby,” he said before kissing my lips. “Let’s go to Shad’s office right quick.”
Shaking my head, no, I stood up. “No sir. We have all night for that.”
Jawan grabbed my hand, pulled me back down into his lap and bit my earlobe. “And I need all night. Let’s go.”
He stood to his feet and grabbed my hand and we started to move around the section, bidding everyone farewells. “But baby this is supposed to be my birthday party,” I whined.
“Girl fuck this party; I need to be inside of you like yesterday. These muhfuckas ain’t nobody. Them ones you took out my safe, I’ma fuck you right on top of them after you dance for me.”
I bit my bottom lip at the visual, Jawan was always on some kinky shit. “Well, in that case, lead the way.”