Brooklyn Bombshells: Part 2

“Fine. She lives.” Mona removed herself from the table, bit her tongue, and made her exit from the warehouse.

She didn’t like their decision and felt it was going to come back to bite them.

Chapter Thirty-Nine

April

The sun was brighter than it had been in months. Winter was finally over. The spring breeze was gentle and the days were longer. It was goodbye to the snow and ice, the slush and the cold. The trees and flowers were blossoming, and things were changing with Chanel and Pyro. Today was a new day for Chanel, an exciting day. Mateo was being released from the facility.

Finally! Chanel was over-the-moon excited.

Pyro sat in the living room waiting for Chanel. He wanted to have a talk with her before she left to pick Mateo up. Something was bothering him, and he couldn’t shake it.

Mateo woul

d be released from the facility in a few hours, and his expenses totaled in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. But Pyro felt it was worth it. Mateo was healthy and alive, and the last thing Pyro wanted was drama with his partner.

Pyro assumed Chanel was going to tell Mateo the truth about them. It was a daunting thought. He felt that they should tell Mateo together. He wanted Mateo to understand that it wasn’t planned—that things just happened with Chanel. He wasn’t a predator. He wasn’t trying to stab his friend in the back and fuck his girl. No. He wanted to explain to Mateo that he loved Chanel too. Deeply. He was tired of sneaking around, but he wanted Mateo to be fully healthy when the truth about them came out.

Chanel came out of her bedroom looking stunning in a blue spring dress and heels. Her hair was long and flowing, and she looked radiant this morning. She was all smiles and in a very good mood. She looked at Pyro and said to him, “Ohmygod, I’m so nervous right now.”

“Why?”

“I mean, it’s been months—nearly a year since it happened, and finally, he’s coming back to me a healthy and whole man. I can’t wait to walk with him out of that facility,” she said.

“I’m excited too.”

Pyro’s eyes lingered on Chanel’s sexiness and her curvy figure. She was alluring, and the only thing he could think about was being with her again. It almost felt as if Mateo’s coming home was a problem for him.

“Do you want me to come with you?” he asked her.

“No. I’m fine, Pyro. I can pick Mateo up alone. And I want to have some quality time with him so we can talk,” she said.

“Chanel, before you leave. Can we talk?”

“Yeah. Of course,” she replied.

“Look, I wanted to be there with you when you tell Mateo about us.”

Chanel looked surprised by his words. “About us? Are you serious? No. I don’t plan on telling him about us, Pyro.”

“I thought you wanted to.”

“And why would I do that?”

“I just thought that with him coming back to you that you may not want to keep any secrets from him.”

“Like you’ve come clean to Mecca?”

Pyro smirked. “I just figured you’d want transparency, that’s all.”

“Pyro, I don’t ever plan on ever telling Mateo about us. Never. I love him too much to hurt him like that. And I want to be with him. So no, there will be no confession. What we had together will stay between us. I plan on taking our secret to my grave and I hope you feel the same way.” Chanel was annoyed that Pyro was trying to control how she handled her business with her man.

The revelation floored him.

Pyro was in love with Chanel and he thought that she was in love with him too. In fact, he felt that if it came to it, he would leave Mecca for her and she would follow suit and leave Mateo for him.

“So, are we good, Pyro? You’re not going to feel some kind of way with me and Mateo?” she asked him.