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“Hell, if I know. But shit. He’s locked up Steph. You can’t throw him a bone?”

“No,” she says drolly and I give her a look. “Fine. One letter is all I’m committing to.”

Standing from the chair, I pat my back pocket to make sure I’m not leaving anything in her office. “Better than nothin’ and it means my job here is done.”

I am already to the office door when she asks, “So, what are you going to do about Diamond, Blue?”

“Nothing to do. She gets what she wants apparently.”

Chapter 32

The sparkles off the face of her watch only brings memories from the first time that I saw her.

Shiny and captivating.

Too good for me.

She had always been too good for me but I just didn’t know why.

In my mind I wanted to protect her from my world. Little did I know that she was the force that would change it forever.

Thinking over what Steph and Redd, said, I have to acknowledge that I may be acting stubborn. With everything I know, there was no way that I could miss how amazing Racquelle is. She pulled off something no one else could just because she’s her.

No one could have infiltrated my operation so thoroughly. No one could have taken Lafayette so brutally.

It’s becauseit’s herthat she came out on top.

What drew me to her that night was not the bling of her outfit, though it certainly was the first thing I noticed. It was that energy of hers.

How bold she was.

How unafraid and unapologetic she was.

When she saw what she wanted she went for it.

Did she not show me that the first night she met me challenge for challenge?

She could have walked away when I teased her with my knife. I was completely ready for her to say, hell nah, and kick my ass out. But she was game.

Never scared.

Fuck and that I loved.

Loved it.

Love.

She never backed down. Even in my house, she took everything I had to give and still came out stronger on the other side. Why the fuck would I want to let her go? How could I not fall hard for her and hoard her to myself?

I asked the questions.

I did.

But was my goal to know her secrets or just to know her?

Fuck.

I toss her watch on the bed and get my snakes out. Letting them out onto the floor, I remove the tattered pieces of that first outfit I cut up from the back rock they always hangout on.