Joe's POV

I was sitting in the car with Shawnie and Drake, riding back from the photo shoot. Hell naw, I didn't run out. That man doesn't scare me. Plus I had a brief conversation with Shawnie. She said she would talk to him and to not let it get to me. That was pretty hard to do, because I wanted to rip his tongue out of his fucking mouth for talking to me like that. He doesn't know me and he doesn't know what I can do, or what I've done. He's pushing my buttons already and I don't even officially work for her yet. I wonder what he would do if I did. I think it's funny.

I was in the seat in the back of the truck and it was a little uncomfortable because she was on his lap and they were making out in front of my face. I kept trying not to look but they were literally directly in front of me.

She was straddling his lap and they were making out but it wasn't that casual makeout, it was a sloppy, nasty, should be in a room, makeout.

"I can't wait to get back to the hotel." Shawnie says, holding his face, smiling.

Oh wow! She finally came up for air.

"Really? What you wanna do?" He slaps her ass.

"You know what I wanna do." They start laughing and begin making out again.

I just roll my eyes. Ugh. I mean I understand being in love but they're disgustingly in love like, ugh. Do I really want to deal with this?

Shawnie looks up at me and I just look out the window, then a couple of seconds later, she climbs off of him. She sat sideways in the seat, leaning on the door. They both pick up their phones.

"Rub my feet." Shawnie says, putting her feet in his lap.

He doesn't put his phone down, he just starts rubbing her feet with his left hand.

"Baby..." Shawnie says, looking over at him.

"Yes, Mami?" Drake says, focused on his phone. I can see what he's looking at and he's scrolling on Instagram.

"I want the Tiffany yellow Diamond."

"How much is it?" He asks, not taking his eyes off of the phone.

"It's worth 30 million." She says and I almost choked on my spit.

"I'll see what I can do." He says nonchalantly.

Whhhhhaaaattthhheeeeefffuuuuccckkkk???? Is he serious?

"I love that you would try to get the necklace for me but it's priceless and it can't be sold." She rolls her eyes.

He laughs, "I said I'll see what I can do. You know I'll get you anything you want. I don't even know why you're acting like that. You don't have to test me."

"I know, but I gotta keep you on your toes." She jokes

"You keep me on my toes alright." He responds

They both laugh.

I was slightly disgusted at the way this relationship is working right now. Like, get a fucking room. Everybody doesn't want to see y'all making out and dry humping each other every 10 minutes. This shit is disgusting. But I also see how she works him and I think I know how he works her. He feeds off of the attention she gives him and she knows that. I can see he's controlling. Based on our conversation at the shoot, he's insecure and a bit of a narcissist. I can tell by the way he tried to intimidate me.

Things were quiet for a few minutes, then Shawnie spoke again.

"Baby..."

"Yes, Mami?" He answers without taking his eyes off of his phone again.

"When we get back, can we go to the beach?"

"Of course we can." He says, "Regular beach, or private beach?" He asks

"We can go to a regular beach. I just wanna relax and look at the water."

He looks at her. "Why are you talking like you've never been to the beach before?"

"Because I haven't. I did the photoshoot there when I was pregnant but I didn't get to relax. Being with Chris....."

He smacks his teeth. "Just gotta bring that man up..."

"No, I'm just saying, I was never able to just go to the beach and chill out. I mean, don't get me wrong, we've been to the beach. We just never made it past the parking lot. We had to stay in the car because people would notice."

"So private beach. I'm going to make that happen for you, Baby." He says

You could see it on her face that it made her sad. Maybe I was reading too much into this but it seems like she is very sad, maybe a little bit depressed but she's trying to cover it up. I may get that but I'm not gonna say anything about it because it's not my place. I'm just going to sit here and observe.

After we got back to the hotel, I said my goodbyes because they are going to be flying out later on. She told me she would be in touch in a few days.

So now I wait.

I'm observant. That's what I do. I like to sit and watch people and I like to get a good read on them before I become involved with them in any way. Today was a good day for me, and I say that because I don't like to be surprised. I don't like to get thrown into things and after today, I see a little bit of what I'm going to be dealing with. She already told me he doesn't like her being around anyone. He's already given off a bunch of red flags.

I just can't get over what happened the night we met. That's something I wanna get down to the bottom of because why would she just come out into the casino like that, knowing there's thousands of people down there. She had no security with her at all and to be honest, she was very bothered by whatever she was going through. I would like to know what triggered it. I get the feeling there's something going on. I also feel like I shouldn't get involved but what if she really doesn't have anyone to look out for her. What if it is exactly how she said it is. I can't ignore that.

I'm going to take the job.

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Chris's POV

I was currently at Jasmine's house, and we were sitting in the kitchen talking. She was upset at me because I was bothered by this whole Vegas weekend. She doesn't feel like it should've bothered me the way it did but I was a little hurt that she would let him do that on camera knowing how the media is. She doesn't control his actions, but she controls hers and I felt like she could've done something. I felt that I was stooping down to his level by bringing Jasmine and pulling up on them. It was petty of me and I shouldn't have let myself get so upset about it. I paid for it though. I get an eye full seeing them kissing and shit. That's what my ass get.

"Chris, all I'm saying is you're starting to seem like you're falling back into your old ways. She is married." Jasmine says shit and it kind of triggers me.

"How am I falling back into my old ways? I'm upset. How does that compare to my old ways? I've come a long fucking way and I'm not gonna let anybody take that from me. I don't do half of the shit that I used to do." I say, "I could've said some fuck shit on camera, I couldn't made a scene, I could've fucked up that whole red carpet, but I didn't. I kept my fucking mouth closed. They barely even knew I was there." I snapped at her. She is fucking trippin.

"You have to remember, I saw what happened after she had the baby and the way you acted was ridiculous. When she did that interview you had every right to be upset but you didn't have a right to go over there and pull that gun out on that man. You're lucky you're not in jail. You're not gonna be talking to me, or in a relationship with me, while you're still chasing behind this woman, and using me to make her jealous. I'm not doing that. It's either me or nothing." She says

"You and I are not together so it doesn't matter if I decide to chase after her or not. You don't have a say in shit I do in my life. You wanna be my girl so bad but you don't want to understand certain things about me. You're obsessed with wanting to meet her for whatever fucking reason. It's weird." I wave her off.

"I'm not obsessed with wanting to meet her, I just know that's the mother of your child and your ex fiancé. It would be stupid of me to think that I can have anything with you when I haven't met her first. If we were actually going to be together, she would wanna know who her daughter is around. That's my only reasoning. Nothing else." She explains

"Aight well, you're not around my daughter and you're not gonna be around her anytime soon. So I drop it." I say

She looks at me surprised, but she doesn't say anything.

"I gotta go meet Ammika." I stand up, ready to bolt out of there.

"So you're just going to run out when we're having a serious conversation?" She asks

"I said you're not gonna be my daughter anytime soon and you stood there. Looking stupid. As far as I'm concerned, the conversation was over."

"Wow Chris." She says in disbelief.

"Look, I'm supposed to be meeting my baby mama. I'm not gonna sit here and hold a pointless conversation with you about us being together and you don't want me to see my kids."

"I never said anything like that....Okay, it's clear that you're upset. I'm just gonna let you go and I'll leave you alone. Call me later if you're up to it." She kisses me on my cheek, then leaves the kitchen.

I grab my keys and I head to Ammika and Aeko.

I met her at this restaurant in Venice, called Felix Trattoria. I didn't really want to deal with paparazzi and everything but knowing her, she wanted to be seen with me. This was actually her first time back in LA since all of the nonsense happened with Shawnie. I had gone over to Germany to visit once but that didn't go so well.

Once I finally got inside of the restaurant from being mobbed by the fucking paparazzi and some fans, I found her table and I took a seat, instantly reaching for Aeko.

"I see you still have no concern for anyone else's time." She says

"Did you see the crowd I had to walk through to get in the fucking door? My damn security could barely walk through. Don't start with this bullshit. I want us to have a nice fucking lunch, and have a nice fucking time, without no fucking arguing." I say pissed off.

"You're in a bad mood." She says

"What do you expect, Ammika? I just sat down and you are already coming at me sideways. I just left my girls house and she's acting like a fucking bitch. I'm not about to deal with y'all motherfuckers talking to me like y'all crazy and acting like you are the only motherfuckers on the planet." I snap

"I don't have anything to do with where you just came from but I'm going to apologize for my comment that I made when you sat down, so I'm sorry. Let's not ruin today."

"Okay." I smile at my son. "I missed you."

"Daddy," he says, playing with my chain. "I wanna go with you."

"Yeah, speaking of that, I was thinking maybe I can take him to Disneyland or something since y'all are here for a few days."

"Yeah, we can do that." She says

"No, just him. I want him to meet his sister and have them spend some time together." I say

"Is that bitch going to be there?"

"Now why do you have to go there? Don't be disrespectful. I don't know if she's going to be there because I haven't asked her about it yet, but regardless if she goes or not, Gen is gonna be there."

"Why is it okay for her to go and I can't?" She asks and I think she's just fucking with me because I know she knows they don't get along.

"Because I don't fuck with you like that and you know that. And if she does go, I don't want you and her to get into it because y'all don't like each other." I say

"I don't mind if you take him but I just wanna make sure there's no shit. We have a really quiet life back home and I don't want any of the craziness surrounding you to affect him."

"I assure you everything will be fine. I'm gonna have my security around at all times and if she goes I'm sure she'll have her security as well."

She scuffs and shakes her head. "I don't understand why she needs her own security anyway. She is nobody. People don't even like her."

"She does need security based solely on the fact that people don't like her. And she is somebody, she does a lot of things and on top of all of that she is married to Drake. I forgot you're jealous of her too.." I shake my head.

I think it's hilarious that Shawnie doesn't do anything to these bitches, but they are so bothered by her. I kinda like that shit though. The fact that she doesn't have to do anything but walk into a room and people just hate her because of it. All because she was with me.

"No. I just don't understand why everyone makes a big deal about her. Like she's actually done something. Like she's not even a model and she's getting all these modeling jobs and endorsements and stuff, I just don't like it."

"You're jealous." I say confirming my first comment about her being jealous. "Listen, you could've used your little status and got some modeling gigs as well. And you're right she's not a model but apparently people want to see her model shit. And like I said, she's married to Drake. Shit is just gonna fall in her lap. You can't be jealous of that. this is the life she created."

"Because of you." She says

"Yeah, because of me. And people know who you are because of me too."

"She took you and everything from me. I still feel strongly about the shit that she's done to me." I just look at her like she's crazy.

"I think you're in denial. She didn't do anything to you, everything that you feel that was done to you, I did. You just want someone other than me to blame. She didn't even know you existed and I don't understand why you don't get that. I didn't tell her anything about you or Diamond. I feel like if Diamond can let shit slide and be cool with her, you can too. You don't realize more was done to Diamond than it was to you." I explain

"Whatever. I don't like her. How's Diamond anyway?" Ammika asks and I look at her like she's crazy again.

"Don't ask about her, you don't care." I say

"I don't. I'm just trying to see why the girl is obsessed with me. She wants everything I have." I just laugh. What the fuck is wrong with this girl?

"You think that?" I am so confused with her take on things, and how she thinks things went down. All of her anger should be directed towards me but it's not. This shit doesn't make any sense to me.

"Yeah. First it was my place, then when I got pregnant, she wanted to get pregnant...."

I cut her off, "You really think people care about what you do?"

"I know she does."

"She ain't thinking about you. Why do you have a problem with every woman in my life?" I ask

"Because I feel like before Shawnie, we were good." She says, "She came in and messed everything up."

"But I wasn't even with you when I met her. I was with Diamond. Did you forget about that part?"

"Anyway, are we ordering?" She dismisses my comment.

"Ammika, if you wanna fuck me again, just say that." I laugh

She doesn't say anything.

"So all of this really is about you wanting me back?" I ask

"I think I was robbed of that opportunity." She admits

I sigh and pick up my menu. I don't even have a response for her. I don't wanna leave her hanging or anything but I know she wants to get back with me. I just didn't think she was so hell bent on it.

"That's what you're gonna do? You're gonna shove the menu in my face?" She says

"I don't know what to say about that. Are you going to let me take him or not?"

"Yeah...you can." She says

"Cool." I say

"So...what about us?"

"Us? There is no us. We were just fucking. But anything more than that is out of the question because of how you acted the whole time that I was with her. If you wanted me you should've held a conversation with me and we could've gone from there but you decided to put all types of crazy stories in the media and talk shit about me. You fucked up that opportunity when you did all that. If you wanted me, you should've said something. "

"I'm saying it now."

"Nah..." I shook my head from side to side. "That's dead."

The rest of the lunch was awkward as hell. She was looking for me to say I wanted to mess with her again and I just wasn't going to lie to her. I don't want anything to do with her. That ship has sailed.

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Shawnie's POV

It's now Friday, I got Joe's information back and everything came back clean, which I figured it would. Absolutely nothing alarming. I called him and let him know that I was going to fly him out and that his first assignment will be on Saturday. It wasn't really an official thing, it's just that I made plans and I wanted to see how he worked in the environment we were going to be in, without having all the training that Aubrey was about to put him through. Plus there was going to be other security there. I'm sure he will fall right in. I have faith in Joe.

I purchased an suv for him which would be his work car but also for personal use when he wasn't working. I would have him follow the same routine as all the other guys, meaning he would be with me at all times, so I got him a room at the hotel I was staying at as well.

We discussed pay and I drew up contacts for him to sign. The amount we discussed is between him and I. I made sure I told him not to tell Aubrey because the amount was slightly more than Aubrey and I talked about. He wanted to pay Joe 4500 a month, and I said okay, but I told Joe I'm paying 6. I wanna make sure there's no way Aubrey can get in and screw this up.

Joe seems to not really care for Aubrey now. That's probably because of the incident at the magazine shoot. Joe was very upset. I told him to let it go and to ignore him. He's trying to scare him off. Aubrey doesn't want me to have Joe for obvious reasons. But like I said, I talked to Joe, and we have an understanding. I explained to him things are going on that I don't like and I feel I need someone looking after me. He's all for it and he told me I don't have to worry about anything.

Let's see how he does.

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