"Jackson, I'm fine. I got a little cut on my cheek that I had to get a few stitches but I'm fine really." I try to reassure him.
"Seriously? I don't even know why you're at the hospital and you want to tell me you're fine?" I can tell by the sounds in the background that he's most likely at the airport.
"Jackson, please calm down. I know you're worried, but I am okay. I was attacked this morning in my office. I didn't even realize that I got snagged by her ring but I was able to subdue her and security was there seconds after I did. I don't know why Sybil decided to flip her damn lid today but she did." I huff, making my way to the ER room, trying to follow the signs on the corners of the walls of the hall ways.
"This was that bitch Sybil!?" Jackson starts chuckling wickedly over the phone. "She must have just found out that she doesn't have a job at my company and she'd given her two weeks to DD corporation."
"Ah... That makes sense." I drawl out as I find the ER and walk out to the parking lot. "How did you find out about it?"
"David sent me a text saying he was taking you to the hospital at your request. I just got off my flight and saw this. I didn't know what had happened. I was about to take the next flight back home, let my lawyer deal with this shit here if you didn't answer me right now." Jacksons lets out a weighted breath, "I'm tempted to still do it. You're seriously okay? Let me see your face. Call me back on video, baby."
"Wait, let me do it once I've let David know I'm out."
I send David a text and wait until he's picked me up before I make the call to Jackson with video. He answers it and I see he's entering a car with Mr. Sawyer.
"Sawyer, you have someone you can send to meet with her? I'm not letting that bitch get away with assaulting Melita." Jackson asks before lifting the phone up to look at it. The second he sees the bandage over my cheek his eyes flare. I can see that Mr. Sawyer is making a phone call while Jackson takes my picture in.
"I'm heading to the police station to pick up the full report and they said they would tell me where to go in the courthouse to file a temporary restraining order and get the process started for pressing charges." David nods to me through the mirror letting me know that he understands where to go.
"That's fine. You can do that, but when you get to the courthouse there will be someone waiting to help you." Jackson says looking at Sawyer who nods.
"Yes, Ms. Xenos. Diana Kayton will be there. She's has black hair and is wearing..." Sawyer pauses and then responds, "a dark blue pants suit with a gold necklace." Jackson turns the phone back to focus on his face.
"Thank you, Mr. Sawyer." I respond and start telling Jackson what exactly happened today. We pulled up to the police station and I had to let Jackson go who was upset he was not here for me.
Honestly, I was upset he was not here either. Before I got out of the car though, David offered me a banana to help keep my blood sugar up.
"Thank you." I hopped out and took care of things there before making my way down the road to the court house where I met Mrs. Kayton. We were able to get the temporary restraining order taken care of and filed the necessary paperwork for the assault charges. Once the legalities were taken care of, Diana made sure I was okay. After thanking her and assuring her I was alright, I got into the car with David and gave one of the few people I could vent to about today without them freaking out about me.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Lirael. How are you doing?"
"I'm good. Little man has been chewing on everything, his back molars are coming in." She grumbles, "Other than that, I'm good. Ready for him to start school so I can go back to working full time instead of part time. I'm sick of being stuck in this house. Which reminds me.. Aren't you at work right now?"
I chuckle, "Yeah... about that. Do you care if I come over?"
"Be my guest darling! Come on over! Wait.. Right now?" I can hear her probably fretting about the state of her home, which has me chuckling to myself in my mind.
"Uh... yeah. I'm still in Dallas proper. Right down the road from Sarina's shop actually."
"Okay good. Are you in the apartment? Sarina mentioned that John rented the out the penthouse to you guys by pure coincidence." I can hear her moving around, probably trying to tidy her house up before I come over.
"No I'm leaving the courthouse but I'll explain that when I get there."
"THE COURTHOUSE?! BITCH DID YOU GET MARRIED AND NOT TELL ANYONE!?"
I have to pull the phone away from my ear and try to contain my laughter as even David stared at me wide eyed from the front seat at how loud she just yelled.
"No!" I sputter out between laughs and breathing to keep myself calm.
"Okay. Making sure... Oh shit.. I just woke Richie up from his nap. Alright, I'll see you you in about thirty minutes." Lirael hangs up and I shake my head at her.
"Where to Ms. Xenos?"
"Take me to McKinney, please David."
Lirael was in fact doing a mad dash around her house to pick it up and try and soothe Richie at the same time when I arrived.
"Here I'll take him." I hold my hands out and Lirael lets me take the guy. "Wow, Mr. You've gotten bigger since the last time I held you. You're growing up so big and strong just like your mommy and daddy!" I coo to him which makes him start to smile and blush.
"Momma dada." He says in his sweet little baby voice. His dark hair is messy and hazel eyes are sparkling at me. He's so adorable.
He points to some toys on the ground and grunts.
"You want to play with your toys?" He smiles again.
"Okay." I walk him over and sit down with him while Lirael gets us something to drink.
He's happily playing with the toys as she brings me an iced tea and we sit. "Now what happened to your face?"
"Aman just gave me stitches."
Lirael's jaw drops, "No he didn't. He's an oncologist."
I nod, "Yes he did. Here let me start from the beginning." I tell her how my day started with Jackson leaving right before my birthday and how I'm in bad mood when I get to the office.
"That bitch!" Lirael's reactions make me feel better and by the time I finish we're both giggling as she tells me more about how her and Aman met and their 'date'.
"Seriously? His cousin was doing his fiancé? Wow! The gall of those two!" I gasp when she tells me that they were going to use him being gay to further their affair, since his cousin was married already.
"Lirael? I'm home! Who's in the car outside?" Lance comes walking in from the garage and pauses.
"Melita? Hey, is that your Uher outside?" He asks waving hello as he scoops up his son from the floor and kisses him before setting him back down.
"No, that's David.. Jackson's driver..."
Lance pauses as he kisses Lirael's cheek, "What happened to your face?" He stands up straight and walks over lifting a brow.
Lirael chimes in, "A coworker of hers tried to assault her and snagged her ring on her cheekbone."
Lance shakes his head, and in a disappointed but sexy tone of voice tells me, "And here I thought you were a good girl, Mel." He grins as I scoff at him but can't help the flush and smile that spreads across my face at his audacious teasing.
"Lance! Stop teasing her." Lirael smacks his ass as she stands up, making him grin and wink at her.
"I will if you make me, Mistress." He walks upstairs, starting to undo his tie, making Lirael bite her lip.
Lirael gets a wicked grin on her face and now I'm flushing for a whole new reason. "I should probably get going. David's been waiting out there for a while now and I need to get something to eat."
"Nonsense!" Lirael waves me off, "invite him in. We're having a barbeque tonight anyways. You can help me finish getting things ready. You should invite Ethan too." She adds.
That makes me pause. "I don't think I should... Jackson would not really want me to..."
"Why not?" Lirael asks.
That's right... they don't know yet. "Um... You remember When we got together on Saturday? Well, Jackson was waiting for me at home. I was tipsy and one thing led to another and Ethan and him got into a fight. Like literal fists thrown in my foyer, fight."
Lirael's jaw drops open, "Oh wow. Okay. That's not good. Well darn it, so much for that idea." She mutters that last part.
"Why? What were you planning?" I ask her curious.
"Oh nothing really. I just noticed someone kept looking his way and they seemed to get along well enough. I wanted to see if sparks may happen."
My eyes widen, "Who?" I try to think back and who was single. "Ethan is not gay." I chuckle.
Lirael rolls her eyes, "Well, no shit. I was talking about Alyssa."
I blink slowly at her. Does it bother me? No.
"Is Alyssa ready for anything yet?"
Lirael shrugs, "Doesn't hurt to at least try. He seems like a pretty decent guy, even if he's completely Vanilla."
I grin, "Yes, he's definitely vanilla." I give it a thought.
"I'm going to leave my phone here while I go ask David to come inside." I wink at her, making her laugh and give me a thumbs up.
"It's safe with me." She chuckles.