When you love someone

18

Tommy

"Rhian I promise you I'm not in the mood right now, please go bother somebody else because I'm not about to deal with yo shit" I said then hung up right after.

Wasn't Nobody tryna deal with him today, or ever.

I sat in my office and continued to go through my schedule. It was all over the place and if I didn't get it organized now it would be a mess later.

"Hey Tommy" I heard someone say outside my door.

I looked up and saw Korry, he was the companies provider when it came to needing diamonds, gems, gold, etc. And yes they were very real, so of course we had to get the best person to find them for us.

He stood there with a mocha brown suit on made by So'lana and shoes to match that slightly resembled the color of his skin. I stared at his fresh line up and beard shape up, then my eyes traveled to his shoulder length locs that were in a neat low bun. That man looked good as fuck.

"Hey Korry, what's up?"

"I just dropped off 10 pounds of emerald and cushion diamonds"

"Ok, thank you"

"Aye you good?"

"Um, he yeah I'm fine I just got a lot on my mind you know"

"Yeah I know that feeling"

He walked into the office and his cologne traveled through the room, I damn near moaned at the scent.

"Go to yo contacts" he said and I immediately did it.

He outstretched his hand and I gave him my phone and watched as started typing.

"If you still got a lot on yo mind let me know, maybe we can do something" he said said handing me my phone back.

"Ok, sure"

"Imma see you later" he said walking out and closing the door behind him leaving me sitting there with a stupid ass smile on my face.

Not even 3 minutes I heard I light knock on my door. I didn't have anyone scheduled to see right now so I had no idea who that would be.

"Come in" I said still focused on my MacBook.

"Tommy" I hear and my body goes cold.

I looked up and saw Ashly. I had been keeping tabs her making sure she was no where near So'lana because I'd be damned if she hurt her again. After a while I just left it alone but obviously I shouldn't have.

"What the fuck is you doing here?" I said in a very aggressive tone.

"I been tryna reach out to Lana but she got me blocked on everything" she said standing there looking bummy as hell.

I noticed a small scar on her cheek that she didn't have before, Lana must have did that.

"Look I don't know why you tryna find her and I really don't care but you got about 5 seconds to get fuck out of Houston."

"I am leaving Houston, but I wanted to apologize to her before I do"

"For what? The damage is done. You think an apology is gonna get rid of all that trauma she has because of you??" I said getting even more frustrated.

"I know it won't, I just need her to know that I know what I did. Please"

"Go sit in the lobby and don't go anywhere else"

I said closing my office door. So'lana was doing good so why come now? I sat in my chair sliding my hand down my waves feeling the stress build up inside me, I had a bad habit of letting stressful situations consume me. My office was on the 3rd floor so I could see every single car in the parking lot, but one car in particular caught my eye. The only person that was coming in and out of that parking spot with a 2019 all black Mercedes was So'Lana, so that meant she was here.

"Shit" I said under my breath

I speed walked through the hallway trying to get to the lobby. It was the first floor and I was praying So'lana didn't make it there before me. I stood in the elevator fidgeting with my fingers until the doors opened, I was too late. I looked and saw her standing there with a blank expression staring at Ashly. Usually I could easily read her but this time I couldn't.

"What are you doing here? Tommy what is she doing here?" She asked looking up at me.

"Um, I'm about to leave Houston and I wanted to apologize to you" She said standing up making Lana step back "So'lana I'm so sorry bro, I know I can't fix what I did but just needed you to know how sorry I am."

"Ok" she said then just walked off.

I looked at Ashly and just rolled my eyes and followed behind Lana tryna catch up with her. She finally stopped in her office holding her hand over chest breathing heavy, I didn't know what a panic attack looked liked but if I had to guess it would be this.

"I- I cant-" she struggled to say.

"Hey hey cm'ere you're ok, it's ok babe" I said bringing her close to me.

Her body shook against mine and I just held her tight because that's all I could do right now.

"Why the fuck would she come back? I was doing fine I almost basically forgot about her and she just had to come back." She said looking up at me with glossy eyes.

"I don't know, but she's gone now"

She placed her head back on my chest while I rubbed her back and we stood there like that for a while until she calmed down.

"You feel better?" I asked holding her face

She nodded and I grabbed some tissue dabbing the corners of her eyes making sure I didn't mess up her lash extensions.

"Let's close for the day, you're gonna need a break for a while"

"I don't know what I'd do with out you" she said making me smile down at her.

"Shit I don't even wanna imagine that" I said making us both laugh.

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"I don't know how I'm gonna tell Priah about this" she said biting into her Chick-fil-A fry.

"What you mean?"

"She's told me about her past, and I just don't want her to do some crazy shit because it's possible she will"

"You needa tell her Lana, you had a whole panic attack because of Ashly. If it were my partner I'd want to know"

"You're right" she said sighing

"You ready to go back home?" I asked making her nod because it was already passed 9 and Priah was starting to blow up her phone.

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