The Chase II by Xyla Turner Read Free Book Online

not for the faint of heart.” I smiled at him.
    “Clearly.” He rubbed his temple with bended fingers. “So, since we are on the subject. Tell me your thoughts.”
    “Shoot,” I waved my hand towards him. “I can’t help myself, but I will surely try to help you.”
    “She’s hot for me, one minute and cold for me the next. It’s almost like it goes in cycles. Her friend tried to warn me about it, but my heart don’t listen. It wants what it wants. Anyway, what do you make of that?”
    Hmm, this was interesting.
    “Well, I’ll tell you this Tee. When I am hot and cold towards a guy, it was usually because I didn’t think I deserved him or I was trying to push him away, because there was something about me, that I wasn’t settled with. Sometimes I would fail at moving him. That’s when I’m hot for him. The other times, when he started to get close to me. Really finding out about me. I would get cold on him. It probably means, she wants you, but doesn’t want to want you. Like there is something that is hindering her from committing, but when you find out what that something is and you can deal with it, no matter what it is. Then you’re it for her. As crazy as Xavier might sound to you. He did that for me. If what you find out is as bad as I think, I will let him go. We will be done, but there probably won’t ever be another guy for me. That’s not just hormones that is just because that man proved to me that he loved me no matter what. In all my craziness and though I would cut him loose. He stole my heart and I doubt he’ll ever give it back.”
    He leaned back in his chair, contemplating on my words with his crooked finger to his chin and his upper lip tipped up in thought. A few seconds later, he nodded and said, “Ms. Fuller, I’m so glad that I met you. I think you just cracked my own unsolvable case.”
    I gathered my bag on the chair next to me and said, “Tee, glad I could be of service and please call me Xena.”
    He stood up. “Xena, wow. I hope that this is all a big misunderstanding, because this guy Xavier would be a fool to lose someone like you.”
    I laughed at his words. “Well, I do appreciate you taking this on. When should I expect to hear back from you?”
    “In the next two days. I will definitely have something. I don’t trust the phones, so do you mind coming back down here.”
    “No, no. I prefer coming to you. I don’t want anyone to know who I’m meeting with and I’ve been all over Brooklyn’s papers, so I’d rather keep this discreet.”
    “Well, that sounds good to me.” He led me towards the door. “So, I’ll see you Friday afternoon?”
    “Yes, see you then.”
    Walking back to my car, I looked around the college and the town. It was a nice quaint place. A great area to raise kids and settle down.
    Maybe one day.
    On my drive back, I called Milan to let her know that there would be no way I could face Xavier alone over the next two days, so if she could stage a sleepover at my house. It wasn’t done, but they’d need to speed it up. I called the manager of the project and told him, I’d be home around nine, so he and his guys had to get the place at least looking presentable. The good news was that, he said, they had finished the house yesterday morning and called Xavier to let him know. Of course, he didn’t let me know that.
    That man.
    I texted Xavier:
    - Hey X, Milan is having issues with her husband and stress from her job, so she’s going to stay with me for a couple of days at my house, since it’s finished.
    The phone rang almost immediately.
    It was him, of course.
    Damn.
    “What, now?”
    “Hello to you too.”
    “Xena.”
    I sighed, “Milan is staying with me for a couple of days, so I won’t see during that time.”
    “She doesn’t have any other friends?” He was not happy.
    “Xavier, I’m her closest friend. She’s the one I went to Italy with.”
    “Oh, I know exactly who she is. I just don’t.” He sighed. “Two