Page 13 of If I Gave You My Heart
I found the shit funny as fuck because who the fuck was even robbing houses anymore?
"It's not funnyyyy…" Talia whined and even did a little stomp to stress the brat shit she was on.
I didn't even go into my room yet because I already didn't have shit. Somebody taking the nothing that I already brought pissed me the fuck off, but I was big on protecting my peace. Certain things in life we had no control over. This home invasion was definitely one of them.
The only thing Talia and I could have done to prevent this was to be vigilant by setting up a Ring camera.
"Well, stop moping and just put on something from your suitcase. It's good that we went shopping out there. We gotta get some security for this house," I instructed before shaking my head and then exiting her room.
I had to see what damage was done to my shit. If they took the damn clothes out of Talia's closet with the damn hangers, I knew they had done me dirty. I probably made the job easier for whoever had done this because I didn't even unpack one of my suitcases. I turned the knob to my bedroom, and when I did, I could see that by the cracked closet door, like Talia, I was cleaned out as well.
The long dresser in the room that held a sixty-inch plasma on it was bare. I didn't even bother to go through my drawers because most of them were pulled open. When I looked at the nightstand, I saw that the necklace I had placed there was gone.
"Fuck…" I hissed under my breath.
I had no business not having it on me at all times or at least somewhere safe. I shrugged off my worry when I realized I was no longer a part of The Heart Mirage. Only the top assassin of each initiated class, if any, was given this unique necklace. It symbolized hard work and top skill and also let other assassins know you were at the top of the top. You were a Supreme when given a necklace, and it was rare that the title be given. That symbol dangling on the neck alone would have a muthafucker second-guessing trying something. Now that the hunter was the one being hunted, I didn't see the importance of the necklace besides the emotional value it held to me. It was a show of something that I had worked hard for.
"I'm about to call the police."
"Don't do that!" I quickly turned around and said before Talia could even make the call.
She just stared at me with her cell phone in her hand. I had told her everything that had happened to Edward, but I never disclosed that I now had a bounty on my head.
"The police cannot come here because The Heart Mirage is looking for me."
I plopped down on the naked mattress, and she came and sat next to me. The muthafuckas even took the sheets off the damn bed.
"Why are they looking for you, Ny?" she asked.
For the next thirty minutes, I explained to Talia exactly how contracts were given out with the agency and what happened if any contract was not fulfilled.
"So, the same damn people that taught you are now looking for you?"
"Yes."
"Well, damn… well, you are definitely paying for us to get everything back since I can't call the police and use my home insurance policy."
I smiled before hugging her. I thought that her scary ass would have kicked me to the damn curb once she found out that there was a bounty on my head.
"I intended to anyway. Let's make a day of it."
Shopping was tiring as hell, so I already knew that it would take us all day to get clothes, and then we had to get furniture as well.
"Let's start with a furniture store because they will have to deliver anything we get. That couch you had was ugly as fuck anyway," I teased.
"Whatttt?" she dragged. "I loved my purple couch."
I laughed because Talia's style was so off the wall that it was insane. I was going to give her a crash course in home décor.
"Let's take my car since we just put a whole bunch of miles on yours."
"Is ya car even still here?"
Because I always parked in the driveway, we hadn't opened the garage doors as of yet.
"My shit better still be!" Talia took off, running toward the stairs. "Whew! Thank you, God!" I could hear the relief in her tone as she yelled from the lower level.
I was relieved as fuck, too, because it was one less thing that I had to replace. I made my way downstairs so I could back out of the driveway so that she could pull her car out. Once I parked my Jeep in the garage, I got into her car and headed to start our long day.
