The Best Woman's Secret

~Where?~

Ravens POV 🖤

1 Week Later

Knock Knock! I wake up with the sound of the door and groan. "I'm coming!" Knock Knock! "Wait!" I yell grabbing my robe and heading down. I peak through the window and see Jasmine standing there with bags of food. "Do you ever work?" I ask opening the door.

She lets herself in. "Of course I do. Just not everyday because I own my own company. Now, I'm hungry and I know you have only been indulging in wine all week. I have to make sure you eat." She says placing the food down on the counter and taking everything out.

I sit at the dining table and rub my hands through my hair. "Thanks Jas. Have you spoke to her or Mikayla?" I ask and she sighs and shakes her head no. "What do I do?"

"Raven, what exactly is it that you want from Dakota?" She asks and I look at her confused.

"What do you mean?"

She takes the seat next to me and grabs my hands. "Are you wanting to be with her or keep just stringing her along because you are confused about your feelings for her?" She asks.

"Jas I-I'm in love with Dakota." Her eyes widen and then she smiles sweetly. "And I should've said it that day but I froze. Why the hell did I freeze? I haven't talked to her in over a week and yet all I think about is her. How her voice sends me to bliss I just have to look at her as she talks. Or the way she looks at me as if I'm the only woman in the world Jas."

She nods. "I've seen it Ray. But what about you? What do you do for her?"

"I don't even really know. I hate when she doesn't talk to me Jas. It hurts so much."

"You know what? Fuck it, let's go!" And she gets up from the table and grabs her keys and then bag of food.

"Uh what are you doing? Are you going to make me starve now?" I say.

"Nope. Get up. What do you have under there?" She asks gesturing towards my robe.

"Um my underwear?" I question.

"Perfect." She says and she drags me out the house.

"Oh my god! Jasmine I'm naked!" I yell trying to run back in but she drags me to her car and puts me in the passenger seat. "Jas what the fuck are you doing?!"

She gets in the car and starts driving. "What's Dakotas address?" She asks and I try getting out the car. "Aye you're going to break my door!"

"Jas what the hell! You are insane. I can't go to Dakotas looking like this!" I gesture to me in a robe and my hair pinned up.

"You look like a sexy house wife. We're going. Either put it in and we surprise her or I call her." She says and I sigh and put it in the gps.

I bounce my foot up and down as we get closer to the condo and my chest beats out of my chest when I don't see her car. "See she's not here. We can go." I say.

She still pulls in as we see a moving truck and Mikayla's car. We walk in and see a good bit of furniture is gone that's most likely in the truck. "What's going on?"

"Mik? Mikayla!" I yell out panicking.

We hear heels coming from the hall way coming towards us to reveal Mikayla in a black dress and heels with her phone to her ear and tablet in hand. "So I'm going to need atleast the main ones by next week in the new house. Well I don't care how you get it there, Ms. Neil's wants her paintings priority before anything else!" She yells and then hangs up the phone. She stops her movements and her eyes go wide as she takes in my outfit choice and presence and I feel very exposed and cover myself in my arms. "What are you guys doing here?" She asks.

"She needs to talk to Dakota." Jasmine speaks for me as I look around. Where is she?

Mikayla looks worried. "Um she- shes not here, Raven." She says.

"When will she be back?" I ask.

She shrugs. "Maybe a year or two?"

"What?" Jasmine says. "Where'd she go?"

"Spain. Madrid to be specific. We've got a couple of clients there that want her work and she's already there while I'm here getting all her stuff moved there." She says.

"Ok so what's her new address we'll go." Jasmine says and I look at Mikayla who takes a breath.

"Oh well I can't do that. Dakota would actually fire me." She says and I frown at that.

"She ran away." I say as a statement and she looks me in my eyes and doesn't say anything but looks at me sympathetically. "But why?"

"That's something you'd have to ask her."

"She's not returning my calls. She texts to make sure I'm doing ok but they're vague." She sighs and shakes her head.

"I'm sorry Raven. I really am. I was rooting for you guys. But this is the time for me to act as the assistant I was hired to be versus her friend that genuinely just wants to see her happy. I'm sorry but I have to ask you to leave so that the guys can get everything out." She says reluctantly. We nod and hug and then leave.

I got a couple of stares from the movers and Jasmine told them off. "Fuck off! I see that wedding band on your finger asshole!" We get in the car and the tears start to fall. "I'm sorry Raven. Maybe she just wanted to give you time to figure yourself out. You're the one who told me and her that you were uncertain of your feelings at first. She probably didn't want to pressure you."

"So she leaves to go to fucking Spain without a fucking word?! I mean she texts me asking me how I'm doing and what, while she's drinking on tequila and doing gods know what?!" I take a breath. "You know what?" I scoff. "Fuck it. I don't need to be hopping from one relationship to another anyway. What was I thinking?" I chuckle to myself and turn on the radio and hear Megan Thee Stallion and turn it up.

"Ok this is going to be fun." Jasmine mumbles sarcastically.