“Steel gon’ take her home.”
Her stubborn ass started shaking her head. “That’s not how this works. We don’t?—”
Mariah grabbed her arm, silencing her annoying ass for once.
“It’s cool, Farrah,” she said, her eyes on Steel.
You’d have to be blind to miss the interest in her eyes. Farrah’s jaw dropped, but she recovered quickly. “You sure?”
Mariah nodded. “Positive.”
I held out my hand.
“What?” she asked.
“Your valet ticket.”
She wanted to argue, but I silenced her with a look. She dug in the little bag and pulled it out.
“One of my guys will bring it home. You riding with me.”
She sucked her teeth but, for once, she didn’t say anything. I took the ticket then signaled for a few of the men I had around the club. Steel went to retrieve his car from valet, and I sent Will to get Farrah’s. I was about to ask if anyone had seen anything strange when Farrah walked up to me, Mariah right behind her.
“We need to run to the ladies’ room,” she announced.
“My guys are tied up. Can it wait a minute?”
“Did you see what we drank? No, it can’t wait. We can go?—”
The look I gave her cut her off. She sighed but cut off her suggestion.
“I got ‘em, Boss. I don’t have anything to report, anyway,” Jarell said.
I nodded and watched as he led them down the stairs and toward the restrooms. I turned back to the three men standing in front of me.
“What about the rest of y’all? Anybody see anything funny?”
“Just niggas checking out your girl. Nothing crazy,” Guy volunteered.
Cardo nodded. “I saw that. But I also saw a chick taking a couple of pics of y’all.”
“You talk to her?”
“Yeah. Made her go outside and dial the number she sent them to. I didn’t even bother you with that shit because it was Samaria.”
I shook my head. “This bitch got spies?”
He chuckled. “Looks like.”
Yeah, I was going to have to deal with her ass. “She still here?”
“Nah. I scared the shit out of her. She ran as soon as I let her go. But I got her driver’s license in case you thought anything crazy was up.”
“Good.”
I talked to them for a couple of minutes until our bottle girl approached again, her smile much wider now that Farrah and Mariah were gone.
“Can I get you anything else?” she asked suggestively.
