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dénouement
Denouement
Next to drop flowers onto the casket was Livia.
Livia’s mother, walked together to throw their flowers.
The few times my father’s assistant, Palmer, had his young d...
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“You’re my gain—will always be my gain.”
“I need to call and check on Sadik.”
“You think it’s okay for you to stay at Bilan’s house?”
“This is a family matter. We always come together: you know that. Everybody knows that!
Tiffany didn’t have the type of relationship with my mother to provide her comfort.
“Let’s get one fuckin’ thing straight. You were before Bilan, not during.
“By you simply keeping your fuckin’ mouth shut and not taunting her.”
“Man, nobody was bothering that lil’ girl!”
“I’ll have Rory ship you a pair in every fuckin’ color. See you back in Jersey, Tiff.”
Palmer, my father’s most
trusted ally, was dead....
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The law didn’t catch up to Palmer. The stress of the game did.
“Into town. One of the security guys
“Palmer’s gone, and Sadik does his own thing. Danny has promised his protection, but he’s no Ellis.
In Earl Ellis’ world, it’s eat or get eaten. I don’t want to be prey. I don’t want my family to be prey.”
“But he can make me gag!”
“That’ll never be me,” Taaliba claimed. “What?” “Acquiescing to a control freak.”
“How’s Danny, Leeb?”
“Who else are you seeing?”
Try having your OB/GYN being the man who tests your lover and several of his lovers before you. If that ain’t some mind-control, I don’t know what is!”
It’s an animal…a wolf. Maybe a goat.
A goral. I hadn’t seen one since my middle school days.
goral’s
My eyes swung over to Sadik’s crib, and I knew where I’d find his father.
his father did the same beneath him, on the floor. S.Q.E, the first lay on his side,
“That lil’ Nena is always loud. Young Diane is a mouthy one, too.
No matter how well I’d been at acclimating to the Ellis family, those secondary affairs were hard realities to digest.
“This is Bilan’s home. You greet my woman first.”
“I’m trying to get married this year!”
Sadik stopped well before the landing, his head falling to the side, mutedly questioning her. “I used the same transportation as the family, remember!”
NeNe.” Without
“I had to use the bathroom.”
I empathized with the abrasion against her soul from his scolding.
“Right there to your left.”
“Bilan,” Sadik started. I shook my head. “It’s okay, Deek. She may really need to go,”
“Besides, she’s dripping syrup.”
“I said, once again you’re
somewhere I belong and you don’t.”
“And once again, I’m granting yo...
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But I didn’t know she was pregnant, and that fact was still troubling.
“It wasn’t her fault. She didn’t know I’d be expecting my period this week, Sadik.”
“You love me.”
“I want you in love with me.
Helple...
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“For your soul.”
“Hell. No,” he repeated. “Bilan, that’s my body. It’s been branded by me and my child. You think I’m going to spend a moment giving a fuck about a scar and pooch? That shit is mine; all of it.”
