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I looked up at Rowdy, who was already staring down at me, watching carefully for my reaction, but I didn’t give him one. Instead, I moved away from him over to the sink while being careful not to stand too close to Ruen.
Why wasn’t she leaving?
I risked a glance her way and found her watching Rowdy, a mocking sneer on her lips. As if she felt me watching, I saw the minute shift of her gaze my way—long enough to see me mouth, “Please don’t.”
Her lips twisted wryly before she finally straightened and started to leave. At the door, she paused with one foot over the threshold as she looked over her shoulder at me. “I guess this means you won’t be sleeping over?”
Before I could tell her no, we both heard the unmistakable sound of a gun being cocked.
Ruen laughed like we didn’t both know Rowdy wouldn’t hesitate to kill her before calmly leaving with a dainty wave of her fingers.
My gaze flew to the mirror in time to see Rowdy tucking his gun back inside his waist.
“Is it really that serious?”
“Hell yeah. I didn’t write my name all over that pussy for nothing.” He jerked his chin toward the sink to get me going. “Wash your hands so we can go.”
“Okay.” He pressed a kiss to the top of my head, and I tried not to simper like a love-sick fool.
I wasn’t in love. Not yet. But I was a fool.
I dried my hands and then moisturized them because there was nothing cute about ashy knuckles, and then we left the bathroom together, hand in hand.
Rowdy might not have cared about the dirty looks thrown our way, but I did. I knew he must have threatened to shoot the women waiting if they came inside, which was why the line had become twice as long as it was before. It felt like I was doing the walk of shame as the women turned up their noses at me. One high-fived me though.
They probably all heard me taking that dick.
“Wait.” I stopped in my tracks when Rowdy attempted to pull me toward the exit. “I need to let Demi know that I’m leaving so she doesn’t worry.”
Rowdy scowled, but he didn’t argue as he followed me back to the VIP area, where Mylah, Chrissy, and Zoey stood on the couches, shaking their asses like they were being paid for it. I couldn’t help smiling at their antics and would have joined them if Rowdy hadn’t chosen that moment to rest his arm around my shoulder, keeping me by his side.
“Don’t even think about it,” he whispered in my ear. “Now, say what you got to say, and let’s go.”
“Whatever.”
I searched the section for Demi but didn’t see her or Kingsley. My gaze roamed the surrounding area until I found them standing a few feet away near the glass half-wall overlooking the dance floor. I escaped from underneath Rowdy’s arm and approached them with caution since it looked like they were having a private conversation.
“Demi, I’m just saying,” I overhead Kingsley say. “You my girl and all, but you know he’s the reason I had to start getting my hair done across town.” She fluttered her lashes while patting her weave. “That dick was too damn good to say no to.”
I didn’t have to question if Kingsley had meant Rowdy.
“Keep it real, Kiki, and I will do the same,” Demi retorted with her back to me. “That man wanted you even less after he had you than he did before you forced yourself on him. You basically begged for the dick, and now you’re stuck in la-la land, hoping that man even remembers you.”
“At least I had the guts to go for what I wanted, unlike you, who let aWhitegirl steal her man.”
“What does Harper being White have to do with anything, Kingsley?”
“It’s just so cliché.”
“That would be true if Roc had been mine, but he wasn’t, no more than he was Harper’s. He’s for the streets, and that’s where I left him. My worth transcended anything he could offer me, and I knew it. Can you say the same, Kingsley?”
Rather than answer her, Kingsley chose that moment to notice me. “Uh…can I help you?”
“You can’t even help yourself, so no.”
Her hackles visibly rose as she attempted to step around Demi, who promptly placed herself between us. “Excuse me, bitch?”
Ignoring her, I shifted my attention to Demi. “Look, I didn’t mean to eavesdrop. I just came to let you know I was leaving.”
