“What the fuck?” I croaked as I sat up, seeing she was dressed and crying. “Did you just come in?”
It wasn’t until she ran over to the bed to sit next to me with her hands clenched tightly in her lap that I saw the terror in her eyes. “I think I’m in trouble,” she said while staring at the door like she was expecting someone to come barreling through.
“What do you mean? For what?”I take one nap and look what happens.“Did you leave the apartment?” Coby only nodded. “Why? Where did you go?” The questions just kept pouring out until I saw her eyes becoming glossy.
“Shaun texted me.”
I may have turned to ice after hearing that. “What did he want?”
“He wanted to know where I was so we could talk.”
I shot to my feet. “Please tell me you told that fool to kiss your ass.”
Coby only looked up at me with such hopelessness. “He’s my brother, Hunter.”
Biting my tongue, I turned away under the guise of pacing to keep from telling my best friend that the bitch was not herbrother. Roshaun didn’t give a fuck about her. It may be true, but I knew Coby wasn’t ready to hear it.
She knew Roshaun had sold her to Ocean and still wouldn’t let his ass go.
What would it take?
Coby wouldn’t even let herself believe the truth about her inheritance and that Roshaun had obviously stolen it. I knew her brother was the only thing she had left of her parents, but it was time for her to wake the fuck up.
“Tell me what happened,” I gently demanded.
And so Coby did.
By the time she finished vomiting all the drama that had happened right under my nose, I knew two things for sure.
One, I was so fired as Coby’s bodyguard.
Two, she wasn’t telling me everything.
Ocean wasn’t a hothead who only thought with his fists. I seriously doubted that Coby talking to her brother would have driven Ocean to smash his fist…through a window. The rage it would have taken to fuel that much power…
“Is Ocean okay?”
Coby shook her head. “I think he broke his hand. Abel took him to get it checked.”
“That’s not good.” A broken hand would weaken him, but I’d be a damn fool to think it would render Ocean completely incapable.
“No,” Coby agreed. “And Ocean had his goons take Roshaun, but I don’t know where.”
I kept my face blank as I nodded. Coby didn’t seem to notice how little I cared anyway as she exhaled and placed her face in her hands. She shook her head mournfully. “He probably thinks I betrayed him. I don’t think he’s ever going to forgive me.”
I just barely kept from rolling my eyes. “Roshaun will get over it.”
Coby slowly lowered her hands and looked at me like I was daft. “I was talking about Ocean.”
Exhaling, I grabbed my phone from the table and dialed his number. It rang until the voicemail picked up. Swallowing my pride, I tried twice more. When my back-to-back calls went ignored, I sent a text.
This is why I don’t do relationships.
Too. Fucking. Complicated.
“Well, if he doesn’t, fuck him too,” I said, pissed at Ocean myself now.
Coby nodded absently while typing on her phone. I snuck a peek and saw Ocean’s name saved as ‘Hubby’ at the top of the thread she was texting. “Yeah, fuck him,” she mumbled.
