We pull up to the entrance of the Ritz Carlton, Preston outs the car in park and hops out, he opens the back door to grab his jacket and asked was I ready, I grabbed my new YSL purse and tell him to grab my jacket from the back. He comes around and opens the door and helps me out and into my jacket. I absolutely loved the way he treated me because of him, I knew chivalry wasn't dead.
He put his hand on my back and guided me into the entrance. I was so nervous, I would be meeting his friends for the first time, some of his work partners. Just the whole nine and I wasn't prepared by any means. I guess he could tell because after he was finished talking to the host, he asked was I okay. I lied and told him yeah. When the elevator arrived, we hopped on and he pulled me close to him, he said "Jai, it's okay, don't be nervous. I know given the circumstances but they know who you are. Just relax."
I inhaled and then exhaled and put in my poker face. The elevator comes to a stop and we hop off. As we got closer to the room I could hear music playing. I was happy because I knew no one would pay attention to us as we walked inside, I was wrong. As soon as we walked in, the DJ picks up the mic and practically yells "the man of the hour has just arrived, ladies and gentleman... Mr.Preston Davis." Preston began to wave and hug people as we walked thru to our table.
He pulled out my seat as I sat down, and then he sat next to me. "See Jai was that so bad?" I smiled and told him no. "Good, now relax and enjoy the party" he said. A few people begin to walk over, a tall dark skin guy with dreads and his date walked over. I knew who the girl was, we had a few run ins in college, I wonder if she remembered me. I picked up my champagne and turned my head.
"My boy" the talk dark skin guy said to Preston. "Drew, my guy." I watched as Preston dapped Drew up. Drew was Preston's best friend and I was finally able to put a name to a face. Drew looked very familiar to me but I couldn't put my finger on it. "Drew, this is Ceejai and this is his his girlfriend Jor.." Jordan immediately interrupts Preston and says "oh you don't have to introduce us, I know Ceejai from our college days." "Is that right" Preston ask. "That's right." I say in monotone.
I reach out my hand towards Drew, "it's nice to meet you." Drew shakes my hand, "nice to meet you too" he says. "Ceejai, how do you and Jordan know one another?" "We went to Howard together, we were both accepted in the pre-law program. Jordan what are you doing now a days" I ask. "I'm actually on maternity leave, we just had our first baby, a little girl." "Awww, super cute." I say, she then follows up by asking me do I want to see some pictures.
Jordan and I step off to the side, while she shows me pictures of Paris. Jordan then looks at me and says "bitch if you blow my cover, thats my entire career." "Your cover? I been working this case for a year Jordan, they didn't tell me you was to." "The other guys (code for C725, I'll explain later) dropped in and asked me to cover you, they told me that I couldn't tell you anything about my part in the case, just to play my part until everything went down." "Jordan, who the fuck are you investigating, because you've gotten very close to Drew."
"Girl I know, I wasn't planning on having a baby, any of this, I been trying to figure out how to keep Drew out of this, I can't get close enough to the Big G for nothing."
"Jordan, listen, Preston can't go down for this, they have a meeting tomorrow night at 10 pm at the Sparkle Deluxe Club. We can set up the details later. One last thing, Preston doesn't know that I'm a FBI Narcotics detective, and he doesn't need to know."
"Drew doesn't know either Ceejai, he thinks I work at a fucking bank. A bank." we both chuckled, "he doesn't know I can kill in. 15 different ways in less that 5 mins." We both got quiet. Jordan looks at me and says "I love him." I hugged her and said "I do too."
The guys interrupted us, "come on baby, I want to introduce you to a few more people" Preston said, I smiled and grabbed his hand. Drew and Jordan followed us as we walked the room. I noticed Big G and his entourage had just arrived. Jordan and I made eye contact and we both knew to be ready for whatever.
Big G operated one of the biggest drug operations in the south. He was really plugged in. Him and the crew were making money. I was honestly enjoying the luxury of it. Preston really got me everything I wanted. He truly spoiled me.
My phone vibrates, it's a text message from Breeze, "we need to talk." I roll my eyes, and take a sip of my champagne, "what the fuck does he want to talk about" I say to myself. I didn't even open the message, he wasn't about to fuck up my night, when I knew in the back of my head, that's literally what he did. I was the type of person who wanted to go ahead and discuss shit when it was brought up, I felt like I needed to explain my peace, cause you're not about it play me.
I followed Preston while my mind continued to wonder... "Jai, baby come on. Where's your mind" Preston asked as he reached out for my hand. Of course I lied, "baby my feet are killing me, I need my flats. Give me the keys?" "Uh uh, Jai, you're not walking to the car by yourself. I'll go get them. They're in the trunk or back seat?" "Back seat." I say and smiled.
I had to admit, Preston was everything I was looking for in a man. He treated me like a Queen, never disrespected me or called me out of my name. He never raised his hand towards me, he would actually sit down and talk to me when we had a disagreement, we rarely argued because he's not the type to argue. When I would get out of place, he knew exactly what to do to check me. But I was so torn between the two, him and Breeze.
Breeze was not it by any means but it was just something about him, when we started dating we really clicked. Then everything just went from sugar to shit. I unlocked my phone to reply to Breeze, "talk about what?" He immediately replied, "Us." "You know I love you, and I miss you. You out here ignoring me and this shit killing me." Damn the nigga wanna double text me now. I chuckle to myself. "Breeze please, but we can talk." As I'm sending the message, I see Pres walking back into the ballroom.
I quickly slipped on my sandals, *ting ting ting, everyone in the ballroom quickly refocused our attention on Big G, it was time for the toast. I started recording on my phone because I wasn't able to pay attention, my mind was all over the place. Pres grabbed me by my waist and I smiled. He made sure, everyone knew that I was there with him. After the toast was made, we clinked our glasses together. Big G moved his way through the crowd right over to us.
"If it isn't Mr.Bandz himself" Big G said as he walked up to Preston to dap him up. I stood off to the side as I watched both men show one another love. Big G looked at me, "this you?" As he pointed at me while asking Preston, "My bad G, yeah this my girl Ceejai."
I bout choked on my champagne, this man ain't never introduced me as "his girl." "Nice to meet you Ceejai, I'm Gavin but everybody calls me G." He leaned in to give me a hug, I was super uncomfortable but played along, I don't know if G was happy to see me or turned on or what but I felt his dick on my thigh, and baby when I say dick that's exactly what I mean.
My clit jumped. "It's very nice to meet you G" I said as I smiled and blushed. He licked his lips and smirked, I knew exactly what he was doing, undressing me with his eyes and I allowed him to. "Yo Pres, come here for a sec" Drew said from across the room, while signaling Preston to come over. "Jai, G, I'll be right back, y'all get acquainted" and he walked off.
"Ceejai is it?"
"Yes, most people call me Jai."
"Do you mind if I call you Jai?" He asked.
"Not at all." I said as I cater-cornered my body. I needed G to get a good look, I needed his kind to be intrigued, if I could intrigued him, the more information I would get. I noticed as his eyes focused on my hips and ass.
"How old are you Ceejai, if you don't mind me asking."
"29, I'll be 30 in a few months."
"With a body like this, you mean to tell me you're almost 30? Any kids?"
"No kids."
"You want one?"
"Huh?"
"You heard me right."
"I do some day, when I'm married." This man was flirting hard with me, coming on to me strong.
"What's your number Ceejai, maybe we can talk sometimes."
"Gavin, I don't mean any harm but I'm with Preston, I don't want to disrespect him."
"I won't tell if you don't." He said with a smirk.
"Ummm, okay fine." I gave him my number, I knew I needed to get close for work but I didn't want to hurt Preston. I was determined to tell him. We exchanged numbers.
"Excuse me for a minute Gavin, I need to go powder my nose."
"You're excused."
