Page 13 of Read the Room

She huffed.“I have two credit cards that both have limits over five-hundred thousand dollars! There’s no way I spent that much money.”

“You mean I have two credit cards. You don’t have shit,” I said coolly. “I told you not to use those fuckin’ credit cards, so I shut those shits off.”

At the time that I was on the phone with her, I texted to get confirmation of whether she was in her room with that nigga. I wanted to get this shit over with. I had a flight to catch the next day.

“Why the hell would you do that! I didn’t think you were serious! Even with that, I don’t have any money in my damn account,”she ranted.

I shrugged my shoulders like she could see me.“Well, shit! I don’t know what to tell you. You might want to change your flight and head home. I hope you have enough money to pay that hotel bill because those folks over there will lock you up for not paying that shit.”

I smiled when I got the conformation that she was in her room with that nigga. I texted Sully to come to my room so we could get this shit going. I felt his enthusiasm in his text response about what was about to go down potentially.

“Are you fuckin’ serious, Lo’ak! I’m in Paris, not Miami or some shit! I’m out of the damn country!”

Aww, she was mad, mad. I wish I could have cared about her anger, but I simply didn’t have the fucks.

“I’m not sure why you didn’t think to budget better. I told you not to use those credit cards, but you love thinking that I’m playing with your ass. This will be one of the best lessons for you, Alexi, to understand that the money I put in your account is a privilege for your do-nothing ass.”

“Lo’ak Jordan, I promise you that if you don’t put money in my account or turn on one of these credit cards, we are done! You will not do this to me! Are you serious right now?”

Look at her making demands like I took her damn money.

“Aww, you promise?”I repeated myself after she said an unbelievable excuse me.

“Excuse me?” she asked incredulously.

“Alexi, don’t threaten me like your pussy has that much damn power. It doesn’t, lil baby. You played with it,and now,you can figure out how to get out of it.”

My disconnection from the line interrupted her foul language. Seconds later, Sully and Simone were in my suite. Simone’s stupid ass had been practicing her French accent the entire way here. She wanted to be the one to go to the door as the staff member.

“Y’all ready?”

Alexi’s room was eight rooms down from my suite. The closer Sully, Simone, and I got to her room, you could hear her yelling. You could also hear other females voices as well as a male who referenced her as baby. I chuckled when I heard Carlos tell herfuck my bitch ass.

Simone stepped to the side of the door, cleared her throat then knocked. With her best French accent, she said, “Miss Simons, may I have a word about your card on file, mademoiselle? It is very urgent.”

There was shuffling behind the door before Alexi’s voice could be heard. Seconds later, she opened the door widely.Snap!Yeah, I had my camera out to take a snapshot of her expression when she saw me. When her brain caught up to the bullshit that she was in, she tried to close the door in my face. Stupidity still lived there.

“Aye, Alexi, why the crass reception?” I asked as I walked into the room.

Snap!Another photo for the books at Carlos’s expression.

“Carlos, my man, I didn’t expect to see you here. Who you here with?” I looked around. “Where’s GeGi?”

Alexi stepped forward. “Baby, what are you doing here?” She went into her best character of trifling bitch. With a fake ass smile, she said, “Is that why you were being an asshole on the phone? You were here to surprise me?”

Meka and Carmela sat on the couch in the suite next to each other with snarky smirks on their faces. It seemed more and more like Alexi’s friend group didn’t care for her. Regina George was about to be banned from the table. Her ass had on sweats.

“Nah, I asked Carlos what you doing here?” He sat there like his ass didn’t speak English. I glared at every person in the room. “No one has an answer?”

Alexi again decided to be the spokesperson when she really should have shut up.

“He’s here with Meka, baby.” She shifted her body in Meka’s direction. “Tell him, Meka.”

Meka’s smirk widened. “Yeah, no. He’s not here with me,” she said with a giggle. “I came here alone, and I’ve been here alone.” She pointed at Carmela. “Mela, this you?”

“Oh, no. He is not here with me, best friend,” Mela responded. “I came here alone just like you. Alexi, he gotta be here for you.”

Her bright face and wide eyes showed all of her shock that her little friends didn’t have her back. Oh, the mutiny.

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