AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“You have another woman here?” she hissed. “Are you shitting me?”
It was wrong that I had the urge to smirk, wasn’t it? But I wasn’t feeling so charitable toward this woman who’d had from him what I never would. Which was unreasonable of me, sure, but I’d own that.
“Go, Camila,” he ordered.
“Who is she? Huh? Let me see her.” She leaned far to the side, zeroing right in on me. “Wait, I know you.” Her eyes blazed at me. “Inaya Rose.”
Kaiser took a step forward. “I told you to leave. Got no idea why you’re still here.”
“You’re seeing someone?” she practically screeched at him. “You’re actually seeing someone? I can’t believe you!”
Damn, a smirk wasreallytugging at my mouth right now.
“You have ten seconds to get in your car and leave,” he clipped. “If you don’t, I’ll call the police and have you bodily removed. Makes no difference to me how this goes down. One. Two. Three …”
Camila ranted, calling him everything from a cheating bastard to a cold-hearted motherfucker, but by the time he said the word ‘Nine’ she must have jumped into her car, because I heard a door slam shut. Then she was speeding away in a screech of tires.
Kaiser sighed, shaking his head.
“Well, she seems nice,” said Judy.
I threw her a look. “Let’s go.”
Kaiser turned sideways, allowing us and the dogs to brush past him. Avoiding that hard gray gaze of his, I helped Judy into the front passenger seat and then urged the dogs onto the back row. I grabbed the door handle for the driver’s—
“Inaya.”
I stilled. Hearing Kaiser’s voice say—no, rumble—my name … it did things to me. Especially when he hadn’t called me by my stage name, ‘Inaya Rose,’ like most people did. Onlymy friends and family referred to me as simply Inaya. He was neither of those things to me, so there shouldn’t have been so much intimacy curled around every gritty, raspy syllable.Bold bastard.
I raised a questioning brow at him.
“You owe me again,” he said.
I owed him shit, but he didn’t know that. He had no clue that Judy had just played him like a fiddle. “You can’t do things out of the goodness of your heart?”
“I’m a ray of asshole-ness, remember?”
I recognized my own words being thrown in my face.Me and my big mouth. “What do you want from me this time?”
“I’ll let you know soon enough.” With that, he retreated into the house.
Grinding my teeth, I hopped into the driver’s seat and fired a glare at Judy. “You cannot be believed. Dizzy spell, my ass.” I switched on the engine.
She lifted her chin. “A grams has gotta do what a grams has gotta do. You know, he didn’t seem very happy to find someone leaning against the wall near his gates looking close to fainting, and I think he probably would have told me to move my ass somewhere else. But when I said that my granddaughter Inaya was coming to pick me up, he invited me inside just like that.” She cast me a smug smile. “He wanted to see you.”
“You actually acted like you were going to faint?” Driving forward, I shook my head. “God, you have no shame. None.”
“I used to. Lost it somewhere along the way.”
“Well you need to find it, because that cannothappen again. I mean it.”
She flapped a reassuring hand. “Don’t you worry, I won’t do anything else. The next move needs to be his.”
I felt my brows draw together. “There won’tbeany moves.” What in the fresh hell went through her head? “What you just did wasn’t a move either. It was—”
“Sneaky. I like sneaky. It gets a job done.”
“And what exactly have you ‘done’ other than interrupt his day?”
