“A Camaro? Like…” My voice trailed off.
“Yeah,” she said softly. That man loved herandhe listened.
“MoMo, I am so happy for you! I knew y’all would get it together, but can I ask you something?”
“What’s up?”
“I know that you knew that sending Chase over here was a risk. You don’t usually do shit like that at all. What made you do it this time?” After everything with Malcom, Mona had been super protective, and I knew she probably thought long and hard about giving Chase my location and then leaving me alone with him.
“What you told me that night y’all got stuck at his house during the fires,” she said, barely above a whisper. “You feelsafewith him, May. I just want you happy.” I paused, heart caught in my throat as I silently cursed her for choking me up. She was right. I feltsosafe with him, physically and emotionally. My eyes shot to him for a split second as he danced his was around my kitchen, cleaning like it was his absolute favorite thing in the world to do. Ugh, I couldn’t stand him.
“I am,” I whispered.
“I know,” she sighed dreamily. We finally said our goodbyes, and I put the phone down as my eyes wandered back to Chase. “So, how long do you plan on being here?” I inquired.
“Shit, as long as I can. I don’t have to report back for training camp until July, so as long as you’ll have me, I guess,” he said, and I just stared at him.
“Amaya, why the fuck you keep lookin’ at me like that?” He chuckled, finishing up with his chores.
“I just… might have missed you a little,” I laughed.
“Really?” he asked, walking over to me and pulling me up from my seat.
“Just a lil’ bit,” I teased, melting into his arms as he squeezed my ass and went in for a kiss.
“What I tell you about all that tough girl shit? You miss me or not, Toni?”
“Yes,” I whispered.
“I can’t hear you.”
“Don’t push it, Chase.”
“Oh, I’m definitely gon’ push it,” he said, scooping me up and carrying me back to my bedroom. Pushing was an understatement, that man pushed, pulled, and fucked me until I cried again and had me saying all kinds of shit that would have gotten my player card revoked for life. The worst part was that I couldn’t even care enough to be ashamed about it—I was on himbad.
A few weeks later.
“Okay, bitch, so when are you planning on telling me about Johnathan?” I blurted out to Joce as we went over some paperwork for our next case. I tried my best to be patient and let her come to me, but it had been weeks of her bouncing around, acting like that man wasn’t over there in her apartment, and I was bursting at the seams.
“What?” she asked, nearly falling out of her seat. “Youknowabout me and Jonathan?”
“Uh, yeah! Been knew! I walked in on you riding that man like a Kawasaki during that draft party… Amazing technique, by the way, but you should have let me know why your ass kept disappearing,” I teased, making her face turn bright red. “Honestly, I thought you were sleeping with Niko at first.”
“Well, I mean… I was,” she shrugged with a guilty smile on her face.
“Bitch what?!” I slapped my hands to my chest in shock.
“Yeah, I liked them both, so I dated them both… and fucked them both,” she said with a guilty grin stuck to her face. “Niko is cool, but he made it clear he wasn’t looking for anything serious. Jonathan let me know what he was on from the jump and that he wanted me… so, here we are.”
“Bitch! So, you were getting double the dick and ain’t told menothing?” I shrieked.
“I didn’t want to say or do anything to jeopardize the case! Meanwhileyouwere out there sleeping with the actual client! Iknewthere wasn’t a rose on the planet that could have had you sounding like you did that night I walked in there!” she teased.
“You know about Chase?!” I yelped.
“I mean, I had my suspicions, because I know you… you werewaytoo nice to that nigga. Then after everything kinda blew up, I knew for sure. Plus, Chase and Johnathan work out every morning since they’ve been here, and apparentlyallthat man does is talk about you!” she said with a smirk.
“Why didn’t you say anything?” I asked, playfully smacking her arm.
