She couldn’t resist grabbing the low hanging fruit. She knew that they were trying to play nice and get back together, but truth was Ed had busted Delicia’s heart with his open affair with that bitch long before the thing with Bobby ever came up. So even though she loved Ed with all her heart, Delicia needed to hear him disavow that bitch.
“No, Delicia, especially not Sidney. She was just something to do. She’s not you, never could be you,” Ed said.
“Is that why you got me meeting you at some fish joint, instead of taking me someplace nice?”
Ed Weather had set up shop at Paradise Fish and Chicken, mostly because he liked the food. By then, he had heard about the hits at J.R.’s and Conversations and that Carter and Rain got hit at what they thought was a safe house. Ed had been in this game long enough to know that whoever the bandits were, they had hit Rain first and now they were going after her Captain’s, so Ed had beefed up his security.
There was one man outside Paradise Fish and Chicken wearing a uniform. He was from the security company and his job was to open the door for customers and act as a deterrent to robbery. Ed also had three of his men inside the restaurant in case shit got wild.
Now that Ed Weather had explained to her why they were meeting there, Delicia was good with it and now she had questions.
“What do you think is going on, Ed Baby?”
“I don’t know, and I can’t hear anything from anybody about what’s going on or what we gonna do,” Ed said and that worried him. Just then, one of the employees came out from the back of the restaurant.
“Phone for you, Ed,” he shouted and went back in the back.
“I’ll be right back,” he told Delicia, stood up and went to the back to take the call. He wondered who would be calling him on the store phone, but he had a good idea.
“Hello.”
“Hello, Ed,” Sidney said.
“What’s up, Sidney?”
“Wondering when I’m going to see you?”
“I’ll call you later.”
“You promise?”
“Yeah, I promise.”
“I know that you’re up there with Delicia.”
“And?”
“And I want you to know that I understand you’re doing what you have to do. It just hurts.”
“I know and I’m sorry, Sidney. I’ll get with you later and will talk about it,” Ed said even though it was the last thing he wanted to do.
Fuck her, yes. Talk to her about her feelings, not so much.
“You promise?”
“Yes.”
“You’re not just saying that to get me off the phone so you can get back to your precious Delicia, are you?”
“No, Sidney,” Ed said even though he was trying to do just that. “But I do gotta go. There’s a lot going on right now that I gotta deal with, so I’ll talk to you later.”
“Ed …”
“What?”
“I love you.”
“I know,” Ed said and ended the call.