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“I get that… I’m just saying. She got some shit she needs to get off her chest.”

“Anddddd,” I dragged out. “That right there is my cue. Drix if you riding with me back to the city, I suggest you bring yo’ ass.”

“Yo’ ass brought me up here, of course I’m riding back with you,” he fussed.

“Sincere, I’mma hit you up after I talk to Adele.”

“Yeah man.” He shrugged defeatedly. Preme could push and push until his arms got tired. Smoothing shit over with my mother wasn’t happening. And that was final.

CHAPTER 6

Talitha

Pulling my car into the empty parking lot, I threw it in park and scrolled through the contacts on the car screen.

“Gema,” I sang when the phone connected.

“Tali, why you calling me again?” she griped.

“I told you I was going to call when I got to my location.”

“Ummhmm. I thought you had a meeting with that fancy boss of yours.”

“Seminar, Gema.” I laughed. “We have a live seminar to attend today.”

“Same difference.”

“You packed and ready to go?”

“Well, Louise posed to be coming over to pack my stuff up for me. Litha round here talking ‘bout I need to stay another week.”

“What you tell her?”

“No.” She all but spat. “I done had enough of her and that man of hers.”

Gema called me last night and told me she was cutting her trip short by a few days. She claims she had saw and spent time with everybody and was ready to get back to her bed. I didn’t disagree. Outside of hanging with Rossi that one night, I had spent the last day and a half going over the information Mr.Pellegrin left me and Law. I offered to come pick her up but she told me they would bring her.

“Well, have them to bring you on back baby.”

“And I am. Bright and early in the morning,” she avowed.

“More than likely, I won’t be there when you get home but I’ll make sure Mrs. Jessie is there.”

“That’s fine by me. As long as I get to sleep inmybed tomorrow night.”

“You will, Gema. I’mma let you go, though. I need to get in this building and get logged in on the computer.”

“Go ahead with ya’ business. Call me later,” she sang before hanging up the phone.

On the drive over, Law had called me and told me he would be waiting on me to get there so after grabbing my bookbag off the back seat, I grabbed the tray of coffee and got out.

“I see you made it okay,” Law called over his shoulder when I walked into the space.

“Yeah. Surprisingly the traffic to get over here wasn’t bad either.”

This particular office was in the Sandy Springs area. When I pulled the address up on the GPS, I just knew it was going to take me a while to make it.

“It’s pretty calm around this time. Going back might be an issue though.”

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