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Jahquel J.
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October 20 - October 23, 2025
“With my baby in your stomach, Anjo?” I raised my brow. She folded her arms. “And did. I wasn’t going to sit around being helpless and a victim anymore. Someone tried to take you from me, and I stood up for once. I know you’re used to running everything; however, we are going to listen to your doctors and rest. You cannot lead when your body is weak and hasn’t healed.” I went to say something else, and her ass balled my lips up gently and kissed me on the cheek. “Your queen has spoken,” my mother said, smiling at Anjo.
Even though I hadn’t been the biggest fan of the girl, my heart was shattered that she lost her life. I never wanted her to die, and she never deserved to die. The woman was risking her life to find another woman, and she ended up losing her own. Life wasn’t fair, and Berkeley had been on my mind. The sad part was that I didn’t get the chance to tell Quasim about her.
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“Me and Naheim’s shit was ours… it wasn’t their place to stand in and handle it. They’re my brothers, not my fucking muscle. I don’t need them to step into my life and fix things for me because I am a grown woman. When it comes to Capone and Cappadonna, they hold their marriages close and not many know what’s going on in their marriages. I respect it, and all I wanted was for them to do the same. Naheim didn’t need anything more done to him because he has suffered. I want everyone to leave that man alone… I’ve moved on and he has, too.”
I had gone so long without having genuine friendships that I wanted to keep them close to me and cherish them.
When it came to mine, I wasn’t going to have them feeling like they had to sacrifice anything for our children. I wanted them to be happy and fulfilled, too. Never questioning if they could have done more as mothers because they would already know.
Every time Skyler was around me, I could tell she wanted me to fuck her. She couldn’t hide that shit and even begged for it a few weeks ago when she and Stella came to stay the weekend with me at my house. Jeffie had experienced this ride before, and Skyler had never. I wasn’t going there with her because I knew me. I made that mistake with Jeffie and had to sit back and watch another man love her, and I couldn’t kill him. I was possessive and when I marked you with this cum, that meant you were mine.
A nigga had too much on his mind, and the first thing was my pregnant ass wife running around here like she was Lara Croft.
Kobe sat down on the couch and crossed his legs. “After the way they were trying to storm into my house and tried to kill me, Blair, and Syn… I couldn’t be too sure…” When I turned to look at my friend, his ass was signaling for Kobe to shut the fuck up, and he was too late because he had already said all that needed to be said. “What the fuck you mean, niggas tried to kill my wife?”
Just moments ago, Dr. Edward Mercer, the surgeon general, was arrested on-site in connection to the ongoing egg farming investigation and scandal. He’s also being connected to disturbing allegations tied to last year’s high-profile child pornography case involving Governor Johnson, who was ultimately acquitted.
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The warmth of love didn’t seem attainable, no matter how much we both prayed for it. We were two people wrapped in love, pain, and trust that you didn’t find twice in this lifetime. A trust that scared most people, but not us.
I did what I had to do, and now I was going to be punished while a bunch of sick white men got a slap on the wrist. That was what it was when it came to people like us. I became a cop because I wanted to make a difference, and I realized that I changed right with them. I tossed my morals out the door and continued to do things that weren’t right.
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The one with the golds went into his pocket and I quickly pulled my gun. “Get down on the fucking floor now! Suspect is pulling a gun!” Detective Hill looked at me in disbelief as she never reached for her gun. I held my gun, as the man lowered himself onto the floor and I cocked my gun back and Hill jumped in front of me. “He handed him a damn phone… it’s a fucking phone, Parker!”
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Zoya and Stevie were in tears as Menace stood straight ahead looking at the boy he raised that had the same face as him. He was proud of him, and he didn’t need to say any words, clap, or do the most to display that. I could see it in his eyes, and his wife did, too, because she held his hands and gave them a squeeze while Zoya was cheering with her sister on facetime.
“All rise. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is now in session, the Honorable Judge Case presiding.” A petite woman with black curly hair appeared and sat up on that bench and looked at those in front of her. Had I not known Zoya, I wouldn’t have known this was her sister.
Tookie: Can I see you? Want to make sure you’re good. I cut my eyes at my phone, knowing that when he eventually saw me, it would be the last thing that he saw.
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I would be lying if I wasn’t kicking my feet while hitting the tootsie roll behind Quasim being dead, and Blair back at square one. It felt good driving through the city and nobody fucking with me. Her little studio was for lease, and everything was going to be downhill for her. The only icing on the cake would be if her so-called family turned on her.
I was a flawed ass nigga, and I could admit that. I wasn’t the best man to her, and I did some shit that was fucked up. Still, she never had to worry about being taken care of. When I punched her in the mouth, at least she had a bathroom to clean her lip up in. Where was the thanks for the shit that I did do?
When we first got together and I used to slide up in her, the sex was different. Her face was dripped with ecstasy and love. Her hips moved different, her pussy was tighter, and she told me she needed me. Throughout the years, something changed. Pussy was good, but it wasn’t good like when we met. She stopped stroking my ego and there was fear in her eyes when I slid inside of her. Even the times when I didn’t take the shit from her.
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Lucia was jealous of any woman that she felt was prettier than her. Her entire career, she had been known as one of the guys. They didn’t see her as one of the women they drooled over. A sexy court clerk, a new, younger and beautiful detective, or a lawyer that breezed into the station.
“Tricking them women into being live cattle? Robbing them of their decency and rights? As a woman, you were alright collecting the money as long as it wasn’t you. See, Detective Parker, you are the kind of woman we call a pick me. As long as you’re great with the men, fuck the rest of us… then allowing Mercer to abuse a child.”
I watched as she wrapped her finger around the trigger of the gun, lifted it to her head, and looked at me. “It was easy being a pick me because no one ever picked m—” POW! I was frozen in place, sitting in the chair, staring at her after she had blown her brains out. My heart was beating out of control, but I couldn’t bring myself to move from the chair.
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“I don’t respond to cat calls out the window while driving on the highway, Gerald.” “Since when is telling your wife she’s beautiful a crime, Babycakes?” Zoya stopped looking in her phone. “I am not your wife, Gerald.” He pulled her up out the chair, sat down and pulled her onto his lap. She didn’t fight him on it as he got close to her ear. “Yet.” Zoya needed to stop playing because she knew she wanted this nigga. I knew one thing; she needed to give this nigga those chocolate fucking babies.

