Page 52 of 10,000 Hours With A Rich Menace

“Nah… I could tell.”

His phone rang and he looked at it before excusing himself, leaving me alone in here with his parents. I looked around and took in everything inside here. As creeped out as I was before, this felt like love.

Menace brought me to his comfort, somewhere not many people probably visited, and I felt honored that he showed me this.

Scared at first, but very honored.

Menace

“Jeffie,I don’t give a fuck what he called you crying about. When my eyes land on that man, I’m handling my business. I’m feeling like he knew about the shit that went on and I’m never wrong.”

“Understandable. Ryan has been with us for so long. I would hate to even thin?—”

“Which is why you handle everything else but that side of things. Too much shit hasn’t been adding up, and I purposely told Beans to let that nigga handle transport. I know for a fact if Beans would have handled it, none of this would have happened.”

She sighed. “Well, how is the date? Where did you end up taking her?”

“Cemetery. We’re having lunch in my parents’ mausoleum.”

The line grew quiet.

“Maverick, I’m waiting for you to laugh.”

I paced around a tombstone as I held the phone to my ear. “Ain’t shit funny… my parents being dead is funny to you, Jefferina?”

“Now you know that’s not what I mean. Why would you take her there… Kora told me she gave you some advice.”

“All you both do is talk about me… I’m so worried… he’s gonna die lonely… he’s too handsome, rich, funny, smart, and got a fire ass dick game to be lonely.”

“Maverick, you know damn well we never said no shit like that,” Jeffie laughed into the phone. “Well, what does she think about it?”

“She tried to run because she thought I was going to kill her.”

“Can’t say that I blame her, Maverick. Is the date at least going well… Kora told me that you went and bought her a bunch of Legos… that was very nice of you.”

“Kora sure runs her mouth… huh?”

“It’s been a minute, and I had to put her onto everything going on with me. She sent me flowers this morning. I love her so much.”

“You good?”

“Yes… I have my days… I’ll be back to the house tomorrow. I just needed some time to decompress and unwind. Since Bali we didn’t get to do as much relaxing, Core wants to take me away with him. Says I need a true breath.”

“He’s not wrong. Real life happened to the both of you. Stop trying to rush back to work and rest. Turquoise been handling shit… other than her walking around with booty shorts on, she been straight. She fucking Beans, Jeffie?”

Jeffie had a miscarriage, and it was some shit I never experienced before. She had always been my rock, the one that keeps going no matter what. Witnessing her break down and hold onto me while she was hurting fucked me up. Core had some business in a country not too far away, so he was able to hop on a flight and be there in a few hours.

“Work helps me feel centered, Maverick. I don’t like sitting around and feeling helpless about this, and her name is Greene, Maverick. You call that girl everything but her actual name… Idon’t think so. I do know he has a crush on her, and she might have one on him.”

“Hmm.”

“Anyway, you need to talk to her about the heir… don’t keep her in the dark,” she reminded me, and I looked at the phone. “Don’t you think about hanging up on m?—”

I ended the call and slipped my phone back into my pocket, going back inside. Slipping my sneakers off, I sat back down and watched as she was on her phone.

“Who is Tony?”

Wonder lifted her eyes up from her screen and stared at me. “An ex-boyfriend.”

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