All black.
LA hat low.
Prada shades on.
Jewelry shining, but he wasn’t doing too much.
He looked… off.
Not in a bad way.
Just not how he usually carried himself.
He wasn’t laughing, wasn’t entertaining women, just sitting there like he was somewhere else mentally.
I stopped paying attention to my date.
“Give me a second,” I told him, already standing up.
He tried to grab my hand. “Where you going?”
“Bathroom. I’ll be right back.”
I made my way over to Vaughn, sliding into his section like I was invited.
He looked up at me.
“Alana.”
“Vaughn.” I smiled, but I was studying him. “You’ve been missing.”
“I’ve been working.”
I leaned in closer. “Yeah? Or have you been busy posting other bitches’ businesses?”
He smirked just a little. “You watching my page now?”
“I see what I see.”
He leaned back, looking at me through his shades. “It ain’t what you think.”
“Then what is it?”
“A deal.” He said it like it wasn’t nothing.
I tilted my head. “You don’t do nothing just to do it. So, what is it really?”
He didn’t answer that. Just looked at me for a second too long, then took a drink of his glass of cognac.
That told me everything I needed to know.
“If you say so,” he said, dryly.
I stood there, not leaving.
“Come on,” he said as he stood up.
I looked at him. “Where?”