“Just years of not liking each other, I guess,” she said. The way her breathing changed let me know that she wasn’t telling me the whole truth, but I let her have that. She didn’t know me and didn’t owe me anything. However, knowing Ocean and her messy ass ways, I knew it was more to it than that.
“I’m going to start cleaning,” Kairi said before she disappeared toward the back. I opened a banana and sat back, eating it while my thoughts ran away with me.
At some point, I could smell the scent of the cleaning products coming from my bathroom, and it was soothing.
I leaned my head back against my sofa and closed my eyes. A few minutes later, she returned to vacuum my living area. I lifted my head and opened one eye to watch her.
I cocked my head to the side to get a better view of her ass and chuckled, knowing what was going through my mind. Isuddenly had a burst of coughing. That was what my ass got for looking!
Kairi turned to look at me and tried to approach me, but I stopped her.
“I’m good,” I waved her off.
When I saw that worked and she went back to what she was doing, I quickly raised my hips to adjust my dick in my shorts.
It had been a hot minute since I’d been in the company of a female, and my dick wasn’t playing fair.
Eventually, Kairi finished what she was doing and got ready to leave.
“Your mama already paid me through Cash App, so I’m going now,” she said.
“Wait, when you here again?” I asked, and she turned to look at me.
“Next week.”
My head was shaking because I wasn’t accepting that shit.I then coughed again and cleared my throat.
“Nah, that’s not going to work for me,” I let her know. Kairi frowned, and her mouth fell.
“But your mama said I only needed to come once a week.”
I took a look around before I asked, “Is it my mama living here or me?”
“You but?—”
“But nothing. Girl, I know you see me about to die!” I said before I forced myself to cough hard as shit. I almost coughed up a fucking lung!
“I know you ain’t just gonna leave me like this and expect me to do everything myself?” I said, laying it on thick.
Shit, I wasn’t waiting a whole week to see her ass again, and there were too many eyes at the club. I knew if I even acted like I wanted to talk to her, all hell would break loose. Ocean had been going there all the fucking time now in hopes of running into me.So, I already knew what would happen if she saw us talking or me hanging around the bar.
She was a daddy’s girl and liked to use him to get what she wanted. I had a few run-ins with him already because of her crying to him that I wasn’t paying her any attention. That would just lead Orlando on my case, so it was easier to just play along with her than have them at my head.
The last time Ocean even thought I was trying to talk to another girl, her dad tried to push the wedding. As long as I played nice, Ocean was happy for me to take the lead for our wedding that was never going to happen.
But Kairi felt new to me—a secret that only I was privy to. A secret that fit into my world away from Ocean, Orlando, and The Society, and I wasn’t quite ready for her to go.
“In fact, I know you ain’t about to leave me hungry and shit like this. Girl, I’m practically disabled at this point. You mean as fuck.”
Kairi giggled, and it was cute—just like the rest of her.
“I bought you some soup. I was going to tell you.”
My eyes turned to slits.
“You bought it?” I asked, and she nodded. “What? You can’t cook? Make me find out my mama done hired a housekeeper who can’t cook.”
“Of course, I can, but I wasn’t sure if you wanted me in your kitchen like that, so I bought it,” she explained.
