Page 65 of The Echo of Forever
Sometimes planschange and require priorities to shift with them.
“Millicent, why the fuck do you keep calling me?” Jayden barked into the phone as he walked into his secret apartment, completely unaware of my presence. “Stop being a bitch about it. I’ve been giving you what you wanted.”
From the lounge chair in the corner of his living room, I kept my eye on his every move. He went from the fridge to the counter with a bottle of water.
It wasn’t dark enough for him to be this careless, yet he continued to fuss into the phone and call the woman all kinds of bitches until she said something that stopped all movement.
Mmm.
“What the fuck did you just say?”
He chuckled, and I tipped my head.
“Forever has nothing to do with anything. Leave her out of our arrangement.”
I smiled and decided to make myself known.
“Funny, because Forever has everything to do with everything in my world.”
The little bitch jumped and dropped his phone.
“You should check to see if the line is still connected before I say what I have to say.”
His eyes were slightly bucked as I stood and began to approach. I never thought a man with so much power at his fingertips could bethisscary when mommy wasn’t around.
I looked down at his phone, which was flipped right side up.
“Damn. Your screen is fucked.”
He let out a sputtering breath as our eyes met.
“Why areyouinmyhome uninvited?”
I shrugged.
“Got bored of waiting around for the action and decided to take matters into my own hands. How should I display your body when I’m done?”
It was hard to keep a straight face with him trembling in front of me like this.
This muthafucka was terrified.
“Killing me would be a mistake,” he said, standing straighter once he remembered who his mother was.
What a little bitch.
“Killing you would be my second greatest accomplishment,” I mused, leaning into the counter. “Had I come to end your life, you’d be dead already…” I waved my hand. “That’s neither here nor there. Don’t you want to know why I’ve sought you out, if not for your life?”
Jayden carefully moved around the island until he reached the spot where I’d found a gun sticking beneath the slab of marble countertop.
“Why’s that?” he asked, quickly reaching for it, only to find the handgun gone.
His eyes met mine, and I sighed, a bit of irritation slipping through my playful mask.
I really didn’t like this nigga, and it was taking everything in me not to dead him right here.
But the plans changed after his mother’s secret meetings were exposed.
Myprioritiesshifted.
