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Who the fuck died and made him in charge of who I wanted to be with? Menace kidnapped his fucking wife and fell in love with her. The nigga wasn’t qualified to set any rules on who could and couldn’t be together.
rather pull his toe nails off before he hugged anybody. Who was going to help with homework? Whenever Menace did make dinner, he made the same shit every night and then told us we could eat grass for being ungrateful.
“I tune people out and have been doing it since I was a child. It has always been easy for me to become lost in a book, especially when it’s a good book.” “What you reading?” “Block Wives of Atlanta by Sevyn McCray.”
Beans looked at Greene. “The fuck is up with your family and color names?”
“Sometimes losing people isn’t that bad. It propels us to where we need to be. People can hold us back without us even realizing the shit.”
I looked down at my engagement ring that I had just slid on my finger this morning. When I saw Landon walk into Tiny’s the other night, I quickly slipped it off my finger to avoid him seeing and asking questions I wasn’t ready to answer yet.
The amount of money he dropped to spend time with me when I was working at Case House was enough to be the president’s salary. He spared no expense to treat me well, and make sure that his loyalty was with me.
pinched her. “So, basically fuck me, my wife, and our baby?” I heard my brother’s voice behind me and saw him walking down toward us.
“Navy, I ain’t seen you in a minute.” Navy’s head shot up confused. “I’ve never been here.” Menace looked at her. “She said she gonna rob this fucking house, Wonder? We just letting anybody up in this bitch now, huh? Fuck security clearance and safety now, right?”
Menace snapped his fingers. “Yeah, I remember. How much for you to batch a bunch of content for my wife… you can stay in the guest suite and leave when you’re done.”
“Can’t smoke weed, Kora… I am pregnant,” Stevie shot back, and I walked away because I couldn’t stop laughing.
She side-eyed me. “When is your birthday?” “June fifteenth.” Navy nearly launched herself through the closed roof when I told her my birthday. “I’m June seventeenth… are you
“Nah, I like to do the spicy shit that you be reading about in books.” Navy sank down in the chair and covered her face. “Don, please.”
“Cry on my shoulder… burden me with your tears because I can tell it’s not something you do often. Allow me to hold you because you don’t want anyone else to hold you. Give me that.”
“Yeah.” “Mr. Caselli, you have a visitor that wants to come up. Shall I allow them up?” the front desk attendant asked. I could tell it was the new nigga who didn’t know the rules of calling my personal phone. “You be fucking me?” The man was too stunned to speak. He stammered, and if I was in front of him, he would have been sweating. “No… sir…I…” “The only people calling my phone this early be fucking me… that’s you?” “Oh goodness, no.” “I’m a bum?” Now I was fucking offended with him saying, oh goodness, like I was some bum. He should be honored to fuck me if I went that way. “No, sir… I’m
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“Not until we tal—” She watched me pick up the phone that was attached on the wall. “Send me security up here and walk her out through the front, too.”
“I was gonna walk over there later, anyway. You and Mommy stay inviting his annoying self.” Landon pinched my shoulder, knowing he wanted to pinch something else. “He ain’t that annoying.” “Daddy!” I busted out laughing because my father was always the life and comedian of the family.
She was a part of me now, and now I needed her Social Security number so I could add her to my health insurance. Needed them teeth strong, so when I slid her back onto this dick her teeth could take it.
“You said you hate your fucking brother and want him to die… shit fucked up.”
“Yeah, I know what friends be like… friends be breaking backs and shit. Don’t think I don’t know.” “I don’t fucking think you do. You married your victim.” “She wasn’t no fucking victim… just a thief.” He became offended that he met his wife while she was unknowingly robbing his ass in the process.
“I’m sore, like I just worked out for twenty straight hours.” “Yeah and would have been even more sore had we allowed you two nuts to walk to the Brooklyn Bridge.” Avril kissed Ro on the head. “Have a good day, Lovey. Call me when you get a chance?”
“Says the woman who married a billionaire and lives this life. Stevie, no offense, but this conversation coming from you means nothing. You are married to a billionaire with no prenuptial agreement. Well, you have one that protects you.” “You said that I’m stupid, Kennedy?” I paused and waited for the laugh, and one never came. “Stevie, that is not wha—”
You ever wanted something so bad that you were scared? Not because you knew it was a mistake, but because you didn’t want to hear the wrong thing. I didn’t want to hear that no word. I purposely made my annual GYN appointment with her, so that we could discuss this, and I was afraid.
wanted to scream because I had Landon three blinks away from crashing out, and then I had Antwan over here staring a hole in the side of my face. I was almost certain that Landon’s crash out wouldn’t be good.
She came around the counter, placing everything into the sink. “You hate my baby, Landon?” “Stevie, what?”
“Daddy will kill anybody that complain about you crying. You cry until your lungs hurt, Dennis.” My brother was leaned over a bassinet with his back turned.
“Who is Dennis?” “My fucking son. You don’t give a fuck about your nephew?” he asked, and I shook my head because all these fucking names had me confused.
Stevie was Wanda. Menace was Mitchell. Now I had to deal with Dennis. Who the fuck was Dennis, and why were they calling this baby that? “I thought he was a junior.” “He is.” “Never mind… I don’t care.” Corleon did this soft bounce thing while he held the baby. “I can’t wait to have another one.”
“I’ve always respected you. May not like you very much, but the respect has always been there. These few days, I learned a lot about what it takes to be you. Shit not easy and you wear that shit like it’s nothing. I’m sorry if I was ever selfish and spoiled to the fact that I didn’t know what it took for me to have that penthouse and cars.”
“At twenty-five, I was doing shit I had no business doing. Proud of the man you become…” he cleared his throat, “have become,” he corrected himself. I looked at the phone and walked closer toward the pool. “Mens, you sick?” “You wishing death on me, Don?”
He snorted. “Why you hate my son, Don?” “Menace, the fuck you chatting about?” He sighed into the phone, as I sat on the edge of a lounge chair. “Dennis told me he felt some kind of way.” I held the phone away from my ear. “Who the fuck is Dennis?”
I was
“God cover him and help him overcome the things he doesn’t speak about. Let him know that my intentions are pure and the love I’m feeling is real. Amen.”
“You came, though.” He slapped his arm like there was a bug on him. “Don, I’m really starting to feel like you want me to kill you… gotta be the reason. You wanna die, right?”
“Advil started helping with the baby.” I closed my eyes. “Her name is Avril, Menace… Avril.” He acted like it was news to him. “She don’t ever correct me… been calling her that for a week now.” “Cause she has learned how to deal with you.”
