“No, everything is—”
I got that feeling again and looked around the room. Instead of being confused as to what caused that tug in my gut, my eyes landed on the tall figure walking toward me looking good as hell in a suit. I knew my mouth was ajar and I couldn’t close it because that was the effect he always had on me.
“Porsha? You were saying?”
Jax didn’t even register anymore the closer City got to the table. And I knew by the scowl on his face that it wasCitywalking toward me and not Corey. His mouth was just as soft but the hard look in his eyes let me know he was pissed.
I sat in my seat and just waited to see what he was going to say when he got over here. I couldn’t even open my mouth to let Jax know his life was in danger.
“What’s good, P?”
Oh, this was bad. No Pretty, no baby, no nothing to soften whatever he was going to say. Just P, not even Porsha. He was going to make sure I felt his pain tonight and that thought shouldn’t have excited me as much as it did.Pussy was crying real tears at the thought.
“How are you?” Stupid thing to ask but my damn brain wasn’t functioning. The ability to form that sentence seemed to take everything I had in me. Corey was always a force but Coreymad? The lust rolling off of me would’ve had that man howling at the moon if he were a werewolf. I had to be a toxic bitch because this aggression was a turn on.
Corey’s eyes were fixed on Jax but I watched as he chuckled while he worked his jaw in annoyance. “How am I? That’s what we doing?”
“I’m sorry who is this?” Jax was trying to insert himself into this and he really needed not to.
A slow smirk crossed City’s face and I saw the predatory look that televised I was going to need a safe word later. “Yeah, P. Who am I?”
I was still silent so Jax spoke up again. “Is this your ex or something like that?”
“He definitely is not—”
“You got that shit right. At least I don’t have to snap out on you about that shit.”
“Are you really doing this right now Cor—City?”
“You got damn right I am. Corey ain’t in the building at gotdamn all. Tell this nigga who I am, P. Inquiring minds and all that.” City pulled out the chair that was to my right to ensure his back was to the door and no one could see what was going on. He unbuttoned his suit jacket smooth as hell before sitting his gun down on the pristine tablecloth.
To his credit Jax didn’t flinch, probably because this was Texas and guns were everywhere, but he didn’t know this man was ready to make him his next victim.
“Jax, this is a good friend of mine’s big brother, kinda like her adoptive father.”
“Oh, for real. That’s what I am?” City was nodding his head with a grin like he knew I was trying to be difficult.
Since I wasn’t about to play with my life any longer I tried to intervene. I reached over to touch his hand but that didn’t draw his eyes off of Jax immediately.
“C—”
His eyes finally drifted from Jax and on to me, the light in them brightening as soon as they landed on me. “That’s what I am to Lyrie, but what am I to you?”
“It looks like y’all need a minute and y’all got some shit that needs to be worked out.” Jax started to push back from the table and I had to wonder if he was really about to leave me. I mean yeah, I knew City was harmless, to me at least, but damn, he didn’t. He was really about to run out and save himself without a second thought.
Definitely wouldn’t be using his ass moving forward.
“You right about that, you wanna give us a minute to handle this?”
“City, you are taking this shit out of context.”
When he wrapped his fingers around the handle of his gun I looked at Jax. He looked surprised but amused at the situation when he should’ve feared for his damn life.
“This the nigga you can be seen with? He ain’t even up his shit when I pulled mine. You think a herb ass nigga like this gone protect you?”
“This is a business dinner, City. I was speaking with Jax about the packaging for the hair and some of the marketing materials that his company designed for me. This was something I was going to tell you bout when you got home from Atlanta but you overstayed your visit. We were just about to sign the contracts and I would’ve been happy to invite you along but I didn’t know you were going to be home today.”
“The invitation was extended to her spouse but she mentioned that you were out of town.”
