The man in apartment 65

Chapter 11

Abel:
I walked into my penthouse, dropped my bag in the foyer and kicked off my shoes before continuing inside.

When I walked past the living room, I noticed the extra blankets on the couch, two wine glasses and two plates sitting on the coffee table.

"What the hell?" I mumbled to myself as I continued into the apartment and past the kitchen where there were two bowls and two spoons left on the counter. "Fuck no."

I stormed through the rest of the penthouse enraged and made my way to Jada's bedroom.

I was fully prepared to walk in there and see her laid up with some nigga but instead she was in bed, curled up next to Ally sleeping.

I sat on the edge of the bed and nudged Jada until her eyes fluttered open.

"Really?" I asked. "Without me?"

"Good morning to you too."

"You couldn't wait for me?"

"I was going to but I changed my mind."  She smiled sleepily as she pulled Ally closer to her. "Now hush, my girlfriend and I are trying to sleep."

"Jada get up."

"Ugh, fine."

She got up and put her robe on before following me out to the living room.

"So how did this happen?"

"I saw her at the Alexander Wang fitting and she asked if she could come over and I told her we could have a girls night." She wrapped her arms around me. "And she said she wants to stay with us."

"Yeah but she's said that before."

"Well this time I think she's serious. She broke up with her boyfriend already."

"Ooh shit, for real?"

"Yeah, she was really upset about it."

"Did they break up because of us?"

"No, she said-

"Good morning."

We both turned and saw Ally walking down the hall in a her bra and panties.

"Good morning." I smiled at her as she approached us. "It looks like you and Jada had a great time last night."

"We did, we spent some time just getting to know each other."

"I bet y'all did." I smirked as I walked over to the couch and they both followed me. "So Jada was tellin' me you and Isiah broke up?"

"His name is Elijah but yeah we did...". She sighed heavily and looked down at her hands in her lap. "It's over."

"Jada can you give us a minute?"

She nodded as she got up and walked back down the hall to her room.

"Hey." I gently grabbed her chin to make her look at me. "Did he hurt you?"

"Physically? No."

"But emotionally?"

She nodded as she took a deep shaky breath, clearly on the verge of tears so I pulled her into my lap to comfort her.

"Do you wanna talk about it?"

"You don't mind?"

"Not at all."

"Okay...well Eli and I have been on and off for a few years, and honestly it just seems like every time we get back together, things get worse. He wanted to move here with and we agreed we'd wait until he got a job here but then a few days ago he suddenly changed his mind and tried to gaslight me into supporting him financially."