Company

Chapter 18

The pool party grew in people, women ran across the plush backyard half-naked and wet. Food and drinks were passed around like it was nothing. As the sky grew dark lights throughout the backyard turned on the glow sticks that Tae through in the pool begun to light up the pool in a rainbow of multiple neon colors. Some of the women collected them and placed them around their necks, ankles, and wrists.

Drake pulled himself from the party, he had been mingling with friends, family, and models all day. Women clung to him while some he knew, others he only knew through social media. He sat on his balcony that was attached to his master bedroom. It overlooked the whole backyard he watched as his friends enjoyed themselves. This was why he did what he did to have these kinds of perks supplying his friends and family that believed in him since day one with these experiences.

He sipped from his cup as he scanned the yard for a specific female. He stopped as he found her sitting on top of the outside bar drinking from a double-stacked styrofoam cup. His cousin Ryan, a tall 6'3 olive-colored man with dark features- hair and eye color, his nose was long and slender he rocked a shaped up 5 o'clock shadow and had narrowed eyes. He stood next to her he was pointing at other women throughout the yard probably telling her about them who they were. A dark brown woman with her hair braided straight back wearing a white string bikini that made her skin popped against it leaned in between Tae's legs with her back to her looking at the activities of the pool party. Drake watched as the random woman was comfortably leaned in between her legs.

His mind began to wonder and a smile crept on his face, but was quickly cut short with how much he didn't know about her, sure he knew the basics, where she was from, her parents, her business ventures, and who she worked for, but he didn't know of her past relationships. She never talked about ex's or of men she dealt with. Drake was clueless when it came to this information.

Drake picked up his phone from the table that was placed next to him he pulled up Google and typed in La'Shauntae Heckard. She was a public figure she was known throughout the high fashion and urban fashion world she worked with The Game and had fans that looked to her and her style, even some of his fans flocked to her, sure there had to be something on her. This was something he'd never done before he never thought to "Google" a women's name or anybody at that but there was something missing, something he didn't know of her.

He hit search and articles popped up mostly were about him and her together he scrolled passed them he expected to see those first but he wasn't concerned about them, as he scrolled further down, articles about Supreme, her modeling, interviews she did with urban magazines like 'Fader' and 'Dazed' popped up, links to Karmaloop showed and her working for the rapper The Game but that was it. Nothing out of the ordinary. Drake squeezed his bottom lip in between his thumb and index finger, he looked back up over the yard. The sound of Beyoncé's song Flawless filled the yard Tae was in full effect her arms were in the air as her shoulder bounced she sung along as if nobody was around her. Drake looked back at his phone then hit google Images at the top of the small screen. Drake's eyes squinted as his nose flared his jaw clenched at the multiple images that his eyes scrolled across.

Multiple photos of Tae with women that Drake knew all too well, some he didn't know but they were definitely his type. The 1st photo was of her and a well-known stripper by the name of Maliah Michel, a woman who was attached to Drake, earlier in his career, he had a few dates with her, but it didn't work out. It showed Tae leading Maliah with their fingers interwoven from a night club, they both wore a comfortable smile as their heads looked down to avoid the bright lights. Drake looked at another photo this time it was of a familiar light skin Puerto Rican women who became known throughout reality tv as the hot-headed Erica Mena, who was now engaged to rapper Bow Wow. The setting of the photo was courtside at a Nets basketball game. Tae's hand rested on Erica's thigh as her arm was wrapped around the back of Tae's chair, as Tae leaned into her telling her something, Erica's face lit up showing a smile. The next photo was of Tae and Dollicia Bryan another women Drake was linked too earlier in his career, Drake even posted a photo of her on his Instagram. More women came up. Lira Galore, Shaye G, Iesha Mari, Draya Michele, Roxanne Montana, Spyda, and Blac Chyna with the exception of 3, all these women were apart of Drake's past these were past flings of his and clearly, they were also past flings of Tae's as well. Most of these women became popular because Drake mentioned their name in songs.

Drake searched the rest of the images, photos of Tae sitting with one at a fashion show, some in clubs, others courtside at basketball games, some looked to be personal pics that were probably loaded to a Twitter or IG account, Holding hands, hugging, smiling. Drake couldn't understand how close he was connected to Tea yet had no clue who she was, how did he miss her? Over-look her? She was clearly with some of the women he also once dealt with. How did he not know her? Drake also noticed that there were no men that came up, no other rappers that were connected to her, no athletes, nothing.

It was all women. Women that she and Drake once took a liking too. Drake looked up from his phone and looked down at Tae still sitting on the bar, he now realized why the girl leaning in between her legs felt so comfortable and why Tae felt comfortable for her to be there. He also realized that Tae had been rejecting men all day, hell she had been rejecting men at clubs, during OVO Fest, she had been rejecting men the whole time in Drake's presence and probably before he came around, not because she felt committed to Drake but because she truly wasn't interested. She wasn't looking at any other men. He would catch her here and there looking and entertaining other women on a dominant level but he thought nothing of it. Whenever Tae entered a room of women she always stood out her presence was stronger and bigger than other women, she always took control. Drake couldn't wrap his mind around the fact that he never as much as noticed her. When they literally laid with the same women in the same industry.