Page 51 of Ony If It's You
This must be his dad.
I hadn’t had the pleasure of meeting him quite yet.
“Hey, my babies, you two look so cute,” she gushed, pulling them then me into a hug. “Hey, baby.”
“Hey, this is my best friend, Celeste.” I pulled her up beside me. “Celeste, this is Ms. Phyllis.”
“Nice to meet you, honey.”
“Likewise,” Celeste said smiling.
“Oh, this is Jerry, JV’s dad. Jerry, this is Kehlani, JV’s wife.”
I felt really uncomfortable under his gaze. He was eyeing me like I was a piece of fucking meat after his woman introduced me as his damn daughter in law.
“Hmm, now I see why he’s going crazy,” Jerry said disgustingly.
My eyes narrowed into slits as I peered at him.
“Excuse me?”
“Well, we need to get going. I’ll see you guys later tonight,” Ms. Phyllis said before hurrying off.
Remembering that there was a car waiting for us, I pushed the exchange to the back of my mind and continued out of the hotel to the waiting car. When we were inside, I got the kids situated with their tablets and headphones before Celeste started her interrogation.
“Okay, bitch, spill it.”
Sighing dejectedly, I looked up while shaking my head.
“I really don’t even know where to start. Last night was a fucking trainwreck.”
“I thought everything was good.”
“Hell, I did too. Monday was… perfect. We went to the fight, he was fawning over me, loving on me, fucked me silly. Tuesdaywe all hung out until he had to go train, then last night I’m in the crowd before the fight and one of the hoes from DayLux pops up, basically tells me that I’m no different from any other woman that he’s slept with, he will always come back to them.”
“And I know you didn’t listen to her ass.” She scoffed and eyed me. “Lani!”
“What?” My eyes were wide as I looked to see where I was wrong. “She wasn’t lying.”
“How do you know that?”
“Because he didn’t deny it when I said something to him about it.”
Celeste angled her head to the side and gave me a knowing look. Celeste and I were vastly different when it came to how we dealt with things. One would think that she was the shoot first and ask questions later type of female, but she was actually the opposite. I was actually the former.
“So, he told you that he was just fucking you until he was tired, then he’s going back to them?”
“No, but?—”
“Kehlani, there is no but. That man had a life before you. You cannot hold that against him.”
“I’m not, but I’m not about to be approached by his past either.” I frowned.
“Right, but you tell him to fix that shit before we fix it for his ass, not cold shoulder his ass.”
“Fuck him. He called what we havean arrangement,” I pouted.
“So that’s why you’rereallymad.”
