“This woman always slamming my shit,” Cash grumbled.
I watched the Range Rover pull off. I could see Cash’s silhouette lean over and kiss Jasmine. Two cars down, Jelani was pulling out with Monica still animated in the passenger seat. The whole scene looked like bad ass kids getting collected at the end of a birthday party.
Fontaine waited until they were gone, then looked for Drea. She and Rochelle were at the valet station.
“You good?” he asked her.
“Rochelle’s gonna take me home,” Drea said, her eyes flicking between us. “I’m not tryna interrupt whatever you got going on here.”
Heat crept up my neck and I looked away, pretending to adjust my coat.
“Text me when you get home,” he said.
“Aight, big head,” she replied, smirking as the valet brought Rochelle’s car to the curb. “Thanks for handling those guys earlier, Nairobi.”
Fontaine turned to me. “What guys?”
“Nothing,” I said.
He gave me a look that said he was bringing it up later.
“Is this the part where your bossy ass tells me you’re taking me home?”
“Home? I’m taking you back to my place.”
He opened the passenger door and waited for me to get inbefore rounding to the driver’s side. My phone vibrated as he pulled off.
Jasmine
That was fun, let’s do it again after I get this baby out of me
(404) 777-8943
Money finna keep that ass on lock till your baby is good and grown
And I guess I was in a group chat now. I’d never really had girlfriends before—especially not the kind with their own language. The women I’d dealt with through the Agency were strictly professional, and fraternizing wasn’t in the contract killer handbook. Yet Jasmine had roped me into her circle like I already belonged there. That meant more than I expected it to.
“Had fun?” Fontaine’s voice brought me out of my thoughts.
I let out a small laugh. “It was cool… until you niggas decided to ruin it.”
“Jasmine knew Cash was gon’ find out eventually.”
“And the screen above the DJ booth?”
He gave me a non-committal shrug. “What did Drea mean about you handling some guys?”
I looked at him. “I said it was nothing.”
“That’s not what I asked.”
“These dudes were trying to get into our section and didn’t want to leave.” I shrugged. “I made sure they did.”
He shook his head. “This is why Cash wants her to have a detail.”
“I told her the same thing.”
“She’s as hardheaded as him.”
