Page 46 of Roman Blake
I nodded, lookin’ right at her. “I’ll be behind you.”
“I’m fine,” she said, tired. “I can drive myself home, Roman.”
“I ain’t say you couldn’t,” I answered. “I said I’ll be behind you.”
She looked up at me, eyes a mix of pissed and annoyed.
“You not gon’ stop, huh?” she asked.
I shook my head once. “Nope.”
She sucked her teeth, turned to Charlee and April. “Text me when y’all in the house.”
“We will,” April said. “And girl… just let him trail you. I’m sleepy.”
Charlee laughed. “Right. I don’t got the energy to watch you argue in a parkin’ lot all night.”
Melissa cut her eyes at them, then looked back at me.
“Whatever,” she mumbled. “Just don’t ride my ass. I hate that.”
I almost smiled. “Drive right, and I won’t have to.”
She clutched her keys tighter, turned, and headed toward her car.
I watched her the whole way.
Didn’t say nothin’ else.
She got in, started the engine, pulled out.
I went to my truck, slid in, and fell in line a few cars back as she hit the street.
Was it extra? Yeah. Was it overkill? Maybe, but I didn’t give a fuck.
When said and done she was gonna know one thing for sure, even when she tried to move like she was the only one in control, I was still there watchin’.
Hoverin’ that line between protectin’ and possessive.
If she wanted to call it crazy, that was fine.
I’d call it exactly what it was.
Me refusin’ to be another ghost in her life.
And the deeper I got, the less I cared how it looked.
‘Cause no matter how far she tried to push me, I already knew,
I wasn’t lettin’ Melissa go without a fight.
Roman had pissed me off once again.
But there I was… waking up with him beside me. Again.
When he trailed me home from the lounge last night, he walked me up to my door like always. We fussed on the porch because he wanted to walk through my house and “make sure ain’t nobody in here,” like I didn’t live in a gated community with guards and cameras.
“Melissa, stop playin’ with me,” he’d said, hand on the doorknob. “You want me to stand outside while you go in alone when it’s dark as fuck out here, or you gon’ let me do what I do?”
