Page 22 of Love’s Strongest Soldier

“Don’t be doing me like that. Savion asked me to help him out. I didn’t know you weren’t aware they were moving you.”

“Uh-huh, I bet you didn’t.” I playfully rolled my eyes and twirled one of my curls.

“I was calling to see if you wanted to get out. I know you haven’t been anywhere since you came back. I know how it feels to be locked away like a prisoner.”

“I do kind of need some fresh air. What do you have in mind?”

“We can go grab food. If it makes you feel any better, I can ask Savion if Ghost can stay behind, and we just use my detail.”

“Please do.” My mind drifted back to what almost happened between us.

“Okay. Be ready in about an hour. I’ll come pick you up.”

“Kay.”

I ended the call and shot straight up in bed. A break from Ghost was exactly what I needed. Maybe the time away from him would bring my common sense back since it seemed like I’d lost them along the way somehow.

Getting out the bed, I went over to the closet to find me something to put on. It was just dinner with my sister, so I didn’t have to worry about going all out with my outfit. Normally, I’d dress to impress whenever I went out with her in case I ran into my future husband while I was out, but lately, I hadn’t even really been thinking about a man.

There was a knock at my bedroom door. I poked my head out the closet to see Ghost had opened the door. “Who did you have to bribe to get out the house without me?”

I guessed whatever Sol said to Savion must’ve worked if Ghost was in here mugging me now.

“Just be lucky that you have a night off. Go out and enjoy yourself or something,” I told him and went back into the closet. I wasn’t certain what he did for fun, but I was sure he’d be able to find something for him to do.

“I just don’t think it’s a good idea.”

Grabbing this pink minidress, I exited the closet and tossed it onto the bed. “I will be fine. You know that I can handle myself; plus, I’ll be with Sol and her detail. I’ll be more than safe. Don’t worry your pretty little head about me.”

“Just watch your fucking back. Make sure you take some protection with you. Don’t trust them to protect you like I would.”

“Anything else, daddy?” I cracked a grin at the joke I just made. Ghost was standing in here telling me what to do, like he was my daddy and this was my first time going out with my friends.

“Don’t call me that.” He frowned.

“Aww, why not? Does it turn you on?”

“Keep fucking playing and your ass gon’ end up fucked,” was the only thing he said before leaving out the room and shutting the door behind him.

I stepped out the door, and Sol’s car was parked outside with a Tahoe directly behind her. It was nice that I was about to be riding in a car instead of a damn truck for the first time in a while. I understand that the truck Ghost drove was bulletproof, but I was sick and tired of riding in that shit. It was boring as fuck, and I missed the speed of my Lamborghini.

“Hey, girl,” I said soon as I got into the car.

“Hey!”

Sol sped away from the curb. I didn’t ask her where she was taking me; I was just excited to be getting away from the house. Before I left, Ghost had given me a key card so that I could get back into the apartment. He made it known that he wouldn’t go to sleep until I made it back and he knew I was safe.

Sol drove until we made it to this restaurant called Velvet & Vine. I’d eaten here one time before, but it was a business dinner. It was cool the last time that I came. It didn’t have a lot of stuff that stood out to me on the menu, but I was certain that I’d be able to find something that I’d want to eat.

We got out the car and Sol’s security climbed out their trucks. As we made our way to the door, these two guys were exiting. One of them held the door for us.

“Y’all beautiful as hell,” the one who held the door said.

“Thank you,” Sol spoke. I didn’t care to say thank you to his ass. If I said thank you, that was just going to open the door for him to think that he could hold a conversation with me.

He looked down at Sol’s finger and saw the massive rock on it, so he didn’t even bother to say anything to us. If he said something to me, I would just hit him with ASL and walk on into the restaurant. I didn’t have time for the foolishness.

We got into the restaurant and saw that there were a lot of people in there. That should’ve been expected on a Friday night like that.