Once she finally stopped asking me questions and got herself together, we were out of the door. It didn’t take long before we ended up at the dock. I could feel her eyes on me as I watched the boat be brought our way.
“North.”
“What’s up shorty?” I looked from the approaching boat over to her. “You like my surprise.”
The smile on her face was enough to let me know that I did good. “You did alright.”
“Hating ass. I did fucking magnificent, and you know it.”
She laughed just like I thought she would. It was shit like that Ommy brought out of me. She made me want to give her my all, and even then, I didn’t think that was enough. At first, I was in complete denial of what this was. I didn’t think I wanted what I wanted. Then I realized I was petrified of losing her after I almost lost her. I was a grown ass man admitting that the idea of losing this woman scared the fuck out of me. It wasn’t just this physical woman, but every fiber in her along with that. She had one of those magnetic ass states of being that had the ability to hook even the hardest of niggas. I would’ve been a damn fool to let that or her get away from me. This was my livelihood right in front of me and all I had to do was get out of my own way and be that nigga.
When we first boarded, we met the crew, then they put our bags into the suite while she and I explored the deck, then the space below where a dinner already awaited us.
“Okay, so maybe you did good.”She walked over to me and hugged my side after taking the entire scene in front of her. Not only was it decked out with dinner, but I also had a nice viewset up for us. Ommy was obsessed with the moon, so I requested that the captain give us a good view. It was almost like we were sailing in the direction of it.
“Maybe? Baby just say your man is the shit.” I Threw my arm around her shoulder. She really brought this out of me. It was all natural when it came to her.
Knoxx
Have you ever gone from chasing a motherfucker to helping them hide bodies and blowing their backs out? Life was real as fuck out here for a nigga like me and I had enough on my fucking plate, but one thing I wasn’t about to do was leave shorty in no jam. So, the moment she pulled the trigger I was thinking about how we were about to get that body out of her business. I mean I had already locked the door and was moving in her direction when she out of nowhere shrugged her shoulders and let that shit ride. Her face was blank and everything, which made it obvious that she had done this before. So, I had to know what was up, and about three moonlights later was when I finally caught up to her and she told me what it was.
Then one thing led to another and we ended up in her bed. Things happened. The messed-up thing is Luna made me want to know more about her. More about why she was the way she was and most if all how she came about. She didn’t talk though; it was like she seldomly allowed me to get a peek at who she was under this dark facade then she’d put that wall back up. We never talked for long, because the physical desires always took over leaving us both breathing hard as fuck minutes later. It was odd, because I found myself stuck in the middle of wanting more and telling myself to calm the fuck down and be grateful that the attachment in this was minimal. That was probably fucked up,but it was what it was, it had to be … right? Plus, I already had some other shit on my plate that I needed to handle.
I stared at the dashboard watching the time continuously blinking in front of me. I hated meeting people in my car, it always left me waiting on a motherfucker to pull up. Nobody was ever on time to car meetings; somebody was always caught in traffic.
While I waited for my meeting I pulled my phone out to message my sister. Me and shorty needed to talk, because she had been keeping to herself lately and I wasn’t feeling that at all. I dialed up her number then put the phone on speaker, before I dropped it in my lap.
“Good morning, Knox. How can I help you?” She sounded like she was somewhere moving around.
“You at the shop?”
“Where else would I be at this time of morning?” she countered with annoyance in her tone.
“Don’t get flippy with me. I got beef with you; it isn’t the other way around.”
She laughed. “Beef about what, Knoxx?”
I was about to get in her ass, but the sound of someone trying to get in the car with me stole my conversation. I looked up to see who it was, then hit the locks and focused back on my sister. “I’m in the city. I’ll be over there to see you in a few. I need to handle something right quickly.”
After I hung up on my sister, I focused on shorty who had just gotten in the car. This shit was becoming too much of a habit and she was too comfortable hitting my line. It wasn’t that I didn’t fuck with her because I did but her profession was a complication for me. I couldn’t go out like that and she knew it, but that didn’t stop her from beating down my line when she was in those nostalgic moods. She had made a choice and so had I. There wasn’t anything left between us.
“You’re a hard man to get in touch with.” Her voice filled my eardrums and the space around me.
“That’s because I told you what it was with us, Miranda. I’m not trying to be bothered wit?—”
“You say that, but I can see it in your eyes that you’re just as happy to see me as I am to see you. I miss you, Knoxx.”
“Don’t miss me, shorty.” I stared straight ahead because she was right. I did miss her. Just not enough to land myself in some mess behind her. I started fucking with Miranda after I was finished fully with Rae. I didn’t expect to feel her the way I did, and I damn sure didn’t expect to find out that she was the fiancé of the fucking DA and a fucking ADA herself. I stayed in the muddiest of fucking waters.
She laughed. “So, you don’t miss me?”
“Doesn’t matter if I miss you or not. This shit is bad for business. Now why am I here?” I needed to get straight to the point of this meeting before my ass ended up getting drunk off her in here.
“Regardless of how you feel about me I’m still very much in love with you. That’s why I’m here to tell you to take a break on the freights. Too much has come up missing and now there’s a special task force that has been assigned to looking into it. The next freight is going to be a set up off that south line going North. And before you ask it isn’t my case, it’s his and that’s why I don’t have all the information.”
I nodded my head. “Good looking out.”
She nodded, then seconds later she crawled out of my car and got into the back seat of her own. Miranda kind of snuck up on me and now I couldn’t get away from her. I couldn’t rid my life of her because she proved more useful every time I looked at her.
