♤Adrian♤ Once Astrid and Joan finished whatever it was they were all about — the wedding — Astrid and I got home and went our separate ways. I walked into my bedroom, shut the door, and undressed quickly. Grabbing my laptop from the nightstand, I sat on the bed and opened it. I still had some digging to do on Derrick before meeting with him. I’d had one of my men fix a fake meeting with him to discuss “goods.” Obviously, after he disappeared from Astrid's life nine or ten years ago, he went into drug trafficking. Now, suddenly, he reappears — needing a new place to stay after being on the wanted list in California. He moves back to Brooklyn, and well… Maya lets him in. Unknown to her, she’s harboring a hard-core criminal. And not just that. He tried abusing his own daughter. Th

