Page 13 of The Road to You
What the hell is going on?“Euri, I told you that I wasn’t ready to have sex. I thought you understood that.”
He turned his body toward me. “I didn’t say that I wanted you to have sex with me. What I asked is that you spend the night with me. If you’re not ready to have sex, I do respect that. I’m confused why you are so resistant to spend the night. You’ll stay at my house until the wee hours of the morning. I see you dozing off, Bruq. Your ass will jolt out of your sleep, wake Casper up, and leave. That shit is suspect to me,” he said with a lifted corner lip. “Tell me something.”
I felt backed into a corner. My anxiety rose. “I don’t know what to tell you. I’m just not ready. If you can’t understand that, then maybe we should rethink our relationship.”
He tittered quietly. “Oh, you want to rethink our relationship?” He picked his phone up before he shifted his body back to the front. He tapped on his phone screen. “Is this the reason that you don’t want to spend the night?”
He handed the phone to me. With tight eyes, I took the phone from him. I wasn’t sure what I was watching until I did. My eyes widened before a single tear fell. “Where did you get this?”
Chapter 5
Euri
Earlier The Same Night…
“Yeah, something is up. So, you think she’s on some funny shit? Most of the time, when you feel like it’s some funny shit, it is,” Aaron pointed out.
We were at a popular bar-lounge-type place where we met once a week to chill. My relationship with my brothers was important. My parents pounded it into our heads that our relationship needed to be solid. They wouldn’t accept it any other way. I wouldn’t know what to do without my siblings.
I took a sip from my cup. “Man, I don’t think she’s on some funny shit like talking to another nigga. I just got to figure the shit out. Her ass doesn’t mind coming over to spend hours at my house. She got her favorite foods to cook and snacks to eat there. She just never wants to spend the damn night.”
My relationship with Bruqlyn would be perfect if she wasn’t on some weird shit about spending the night. It wasn’t even about the sex. I just wanted to lay in bed with my girl. She couldn’t say she had an issue being that close to me because we’d laid together on the couch. We fell asleep one time, but she jolted up like we were in a haunted house or something. I told her to bring in her night clothes and take a shower, but her ass refused.We had been together for almost two months, and I’d asked at least six times.
Derrick sucked his teeth. “Why don’t you just have a damn real conversation? It’s not like you to tiptoe around shit. You must really like sis.”
“I’m not tiptoeing around shit. We jumped in this thing real fast, and we’re still learning each other,” I rationalized. “I have to give her time. Hell, I still don’t know the underlying reason her ass prefers to live in her vehicle instead of a regular place. She makes more than enough money for an apartment,” I told them.
The fact was that I was willing to be patient with her because I saw her as my forever. I was sure that we had a lot of things to work through. A nigga just needed her to be more open.
“How’s the new contract going?” Derrick asked. “I drove over there the other day out of curiosity. You got those niggas working hard. I saw you up there doing your teaching shit too.”
For our townhomes contract, we hired sixty extra workers. Of the sixty, fifteen of them were from the college. I took time twice a week to be on site to work with them and show them vital in the field techniques. “It’s going good as hell. We’re actually ahead of schedule. Kara did a good job collaborating with the agency to pick the right staff. There are a few that she wants to hire permanently.”
My brothers always told me how proud they were of me. When I got shot, that shit was enough for my young ass, added to the fact that my mother was on my ass. My brothers were different beasts. Both had been shot before but took that shit. They got their get back in the worst way.
They each had businesses separately and jointly that were extremely successful as well. Their strip clubs brought in the most revenue. That was where that dumb bitch Cece?—
“Hey, fellas.”
My head dropped back.God, why!I barely thought of the bitch, and there her stupid ass was. She had been on one since it came out publicly that Bruqlyn and I were in a relationship. She hadn’t said shit to my baby because she knew better at that point. Her ass had been making stupid ass posts on social media like I was a social media kind of nigga. Yeah, I had pages, but I was hardly on them.
“What’s up, Cece and herd?” Derrick greeted. When Cece started to get extra with her posts about my baby and me, he handled it as he should have. He fired her from his strip club where she worked as a bottle girl.
My brothers always stood ten toes down when it mattered. Bruqlyn was their sis and my woman. Disrespect to her was considered disrespect to us. It was almost time for her to meet my parents. Karla’s loud ass told my mama about Bruqlyn. My mother wanted to have a family dinner to meet her.
Cece walked into my view. “Why so quiet, Euri? I’m surprised you’re not with your lil’ girlfriend. Y’all are usually up each other’s ass. I didn’t see you in the gym with her this morning.”
My jaw tightened. “Bitch, it sounds like you’re out here stalking my woman on some creep shit. That makes me feel like I need to take protective measures to keep her safe.” I glared at her with fire in my eyes. “Is that what the fuck I need to do?”
“Nobody’s stalking that bi—girl. She’s not that important for someone to have to stalk her damn ass. You’re the only one that thinks her ass is worth more than her bum ass is.” Her brows dipped deep between her eyes. She was a fucking joke.
I didn’t address her until I finished my drink. “Nah, I don’t think she’s better than everyone. I know for sure that she is. That’s why a nigga like me chose her. You wish it was you, sweetheart. It will never be. Hos are for fun, not for commitment.”
For a split second, hurt flickered in her eyes before anger took its place. “Nigga, fuck you. You ain’t shit, and that ugly bitch ain’t shit. I’d rather be a ho for life than ugly.”
Aaron shook his head with a chuckle. “Cece, you’re really stretching it now. My sis ugly? Nah, you got to be talking about another Bruqlyn. Now, you’re dead on the money with that ho for life thing. With how hard you ho, a few religions would have to team together to get that thing up out of you.”
This nigga!Derrick and I burst into laughter. “I’m not sure even that shit will work. She would have to be taken up in the rapture, downloaded as a new person, then placed back on Earth as a new bitch,” Derrick joked.
