I was doing my best to get her out of my system. A little like how I did my best to get Claire’s death out of my mind.
Not forget, no… never forget.
Claire would always be there and part of my heart would always belong to her because she was my first love. Thinking of her always made me think back to how we met. How I met her father. Jack, the man I’d avoided for the last few years because I couldn’t face him. I wasn’t able to take care of his daughter the way I said I would.
And, I really wasn’t doing myself any favors by thinking about that now.
It didn’t do anyone any favors. I just thought you couldn’t put a leash on something your heart wanted. Didn’t matter what it was.
Right now I couldn’t explain to anyone what it was doing to me to stand back and watch while I essentially lost Jia to Armand.
Yes, I may have lost her all by myself with the secrets and lies. However, losing her to a guy I knew she wouldn’t be happy with enraged me. The same way it enraged me to see him driving away last night with two hookers in the back seat of his car.
The mother fucking asshole couldn’t have even picked the women up from somewhere else, he had to do it right in the open for the guys to see.
That was just one thing. The next was seeing him making out with Maria, the waitress, in that same car at lunch time. He’d driven off with her too.
Again I’d watched. All I could do was hope his fucking dick either fell off or someone chopped it off.
My phone buzzed in my back pocket cutting into my thoughts. I pulled it out to answer it, frowning deeply when I saw it was Giovanni.
“Yes boss?” I answered, not bothering to hide the disdain in my tone.
“Smart ass. I can hear the rudeness in your voice. Stupid prick,” he answered in his gruff voice that rose an octave supposedly to show me who wasboss.
I had to try extra hard to hold my tongue and stop myself from putting this asshole in his place.
“What can I do for you boss?” I decided to say instead.
“There’s trouble by the roulette table in section six. Jia is there, go check it out. If it looks like something that won’t ease off, get security. I just want someone to check first.”
“Sure.”
“Xander, make sure that’s the only thing you check out. Don’t let me have to remind you to stay away from my daughter.”
“Yes,Sir,” I answered rolling my eyes and hung up before he could say another word.
Yes, I’d received the fucking message loud and clear. Stay away from Jia.
I was.
I got to section six and saw the commotion.
She was there trying her best to stop these two guys from arguing. They were two marine type guys who I could tell straightaway were drunk.
They seemed to be arguing over a woman.
“Fucking asshole. It was your fault she left me,” the tallest one shouted. “You had to go and tell her I slept with her sister.”
“But you did,” the other guy snapped back.
The tall one threw a punch and hit him. I didn’t care about the guys. Who I cared about was Jia.
The guy stumbled right back into her and the force knocked her over, sending her crashing into the table nearby.
I went to her but pressed the button for security.
The two guys started to fight. Throwing punches. The tall one really gave everything he had.
