Off Her Rockers (Loving All Wrong #3.5) Read Online Free PDF Page B

Whatever. Am just glad everything is out. Mostly upset about how she crucified Davi.
Saskia: How’s he taking it?
Alina: Not well. Being spiteful. Provoking Xavi.
Saskia: And Xavi?
Alina: IDK. He’s all kinds of understanding easy on the outside. But I don’t trust it. Am not sure he trusts me.
Saskia: Smart boy.
Alina: Suck my dick!
Saskia: LMAO
Alina: On a serious note: Davi wants Jacob here. U r gonna have 2 break it 2 JK.
Saskia: Figured. Think he did 2. He was there when Manda played d interview 4 me. He took Jacob left b4 it was even finished. He knows his time is up.
Alina: Sorry, Kia.
Saskia: It’s OK. I just have 2 brace myself 4 his mood swings assholism until our baby gets here alive well this time…hopefully.
Alina: Baby JK will make it into this world alive perfectly healthy. C’mon, adult JK is a massive pain in the ass, did you expect baby JK to be anything but?
Saskia: True dat. Got2go. TTYL.
     
Sighing, I closed out of Whatsapp. I wished she were closer than an hour’s plane ride away so I could hug her, and have her hopefully hug me back. Because Lord knows, I needed one.
Tucking my phone away, I flipped on my side again to watch Xavier and was surprised to find him texting on his phone.
With his fingers still typing and his attention trained on his phone screen, he said, “Get dressed. We got a meeting in an hour.”
“ We ? A meeting?” I asked. “With who?”
“Your boss.”
“Lion? Why?”
He tapped away on his phone screen for another ninety seconds, leaving me waiting for an answer. Setting the phone aside, he sat up, strong, muscular thighs straddling the lounge chair. “You like what you’re doing right now?”
“You mean modeling?”
He nodded.
I laughed, relaxing a little. “Honestly, I’m only keeping up my end of a bargain. A few years ago I went to Lion and asked him to sign my friends—Ice Steam. He said he couldn’t but if he got someone to sign them, I’d have to sign a contract with him…”
Xavier nodded. “Figured. Noticed your lack of enthusiasm re your job.”
“So what’s this meeting with Lion about?”
“Buying you outta the contract.”
What ? Bracing up on my elbows, I fixed him with a displeased look, though he was hiding behind his aviators. “I’m sorry, what?”
“You don’t like it, so…buying you outta it.”
“And Lion agreed to a meeting with you on this?”
“Think he’d agree to anything to get you in his office,” he replied with a little half-smile. “Said he’s been ringing you for weeks now to no avail.”
“Well, that explains it,” I mused to myself. To Xavier, “You can’t just decide to make life decisions for me, Xavi. It doesn’t work that way.”
Removing his aviators, he ran his fingers through his hair and his hot gray green penetrated my very soul. “Lemme be honest with you about why I’m doing this: Want you where I can see you. Shit’s shaky right now. Trust’s fragile. Modeling means you gonna be all over the world for days at a time, sometimes weeks. Davi’s gonna try doing anything to get you back and—”
“You don’t trust that I won’t give in to him,” I finished for him, the words gritted through my teeth.
“Chino—”
“So, you basically want a doll you can prop up in your corner. Your own little toy no else can play with but yo—”
“Yeah, Chino, that’s right,” he bit out. “Want no one else playing with you. Want you in my corner. Wanna own you, for myself. How does that make me the bad guy?”
Arrggh! “I don’t like your honesty.” I stood and flounced off into the apartment.
He was right behind me, following. “If you don’t like your job, what’s the big deal?”
Yeah. What’s the big deal, Alina ? You’re being a little theatrical, don’t you think? “You scheduled a meeting with my boss to make a career choice for me without consulting me first. We haven’t even been together six months and already you wanna start ruling my life?”
“Not tryna rule your life. Just