Page 79 of Only for Me
"You're gonna have to let that go. You can't keep making the rookies pay for the sins of our past."
He shrugged. "We'll see how I feel after Friday. Last year they were tapping out by midnight. Three of them were done before we gifted the private suites and two spent the night bent over toilets."
"You already booked the VIP?"
"Yeah, it's done."
"Aight we'll see how this goes."
I opened my car door and dropped into the seat. "Let me head out. I have to meet Van before she drops me."
"Good luck with that. Her pretty ass don't fucking play. She sent me a bill for ten stacks just because I was on a call for the first ten minutes I was supposed to be meeting with her."
I chuckled, knowing he wasn't lying, which was why I needed to be up out of here. Hopefully traffic wouldn't be backed up because I wasn't trying to let Vanessa hit my pockets like that.
When I steppedoff the elevator onto the fourth floor and walked into the office of Pinnacle PR, Vanessa was waiting on me. She was pretty as hell with her cocoa skin, diamond shaped eyes, and wide lips. She was one of those women who always had every detail of her appearance in place and looked like a high fashion model instead of a publicist. Tall as hell too so she had the height to go with it. With heels on, she was only a few inches shorter than me.
I did a quick scan of her slim build and she was dressed classy like always, in clothes I knew cost a lot of fucking money because she used my connection with Kameron Tyler to get free shit sent to her after they offered me a brand deal with their black label line two years ago.
Her clothes weren't the problem today though. The serious look on her face was the issue and the way she had her hands on her hips while standing in the lobby waiting on me was what had me checking my wrist for the time.
"The fuck you scowling at me for? I'm ten minutes early."
"My office, let's go. We have a problem." She turned on her high ass heels and walked away. I shook my head at how she was always bossing up on me. This was one reason why she andI would never work. Our personalities were too similar and we would be at war with who was in charge or I would be fucking some softness into her pretty ass. Either way, I valued her role with my career too much to cross that line, so as sexy and beautiful as she was, that was a no go for me.
Even though she was acting like I needed to run behind her pretty ass, I took my time. When I stepped into her office, she shoved a tablet at me and pointed to the screen.
"You need to see this."
I accepted the tablet, glanced at the device, and felt my stomach drop. There was an article pulled up from Baller Alert with multiple pictures on its homepage up under the headline…
Mystery Solved: Omiri Hayes Baby Mama Has Been Identified.
Fuck…
I was confused as hell because the very first image was of me and Makari a couple months back at the pharmacy the night I found out about Avi. It showed me grabbing her arm, but that wasn't the worst of them.
The next picture was me and Makari at the Super Bowl after party where we met last year. I would recognize that damn dress anywhere because of how good she looked wearing it. One of the pictures showed us talking at the bar, leaning in close with my arm around her, then there was one of us leaving together with her tucked at my side and her arm around my waist.
There wasn't much to it if viewed out of context but pulling all the images together, it created a timeline that confirmed the headline. Makari and I had a kid.
"Where the fuck did these come from?" I growled, swiping through more images.
"I don't know but someone did some digging. That's last year and the pharmacy is…"
"March…" I finished for her.
"Is that what the movie thing was about? You took your kid to the movies?"
I glared at Vanessa who was looking at me, royally pissed.
"What the hell does it matter?"
"It matters for everything that's important. You've known you had a kid since March, Omiri, or hell, since before then as far as I know." She threw her hands up.
"I just found out in March. That night at the pharmacy."
"Then why am I finding out like this from Baller Alert?"
