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I opened her door for her to get in, before standing there in the doorway just looking at her. I didn’t give a fuck that she wastrying to be right, I wasn’t. She was about to give me a fucking kiss.

“Malik, I got?—”

“Then gimme a kiss goodbye and you can go, shorty.” I chuckled at my own childishness.

She side eyed me, before turning to me. “You’re wrong, so wrong.”

What started out like an innocent peck evaded that innocence, when she started sucking my tongue and my hand found her neck. Innocence didn’t live in this moment, and it took everything in me not to carry her ass back into my house in that un-innocent moment.

I stoodon the ground with a pair of binoculars to my face watching the trains come into the city right on time. My connect with city imports knew exactly what she was talking about, because it wasn’t a minute later. I saw the four that I was looking for. Then as well like clockwork they were stopped, and I saw Gram and Markus running up to them. We weren’t robbing the freight like other’s did in the city. My plan was much bigger than that. My plan to make Zero and I the city’s only viable connect required I destroy any other pipeline, and that included Lorenzo’s. I had no beef with him, but I wanted his money, and his territory which meant one of us had to go.

Then a few seconds later I heard the trains emergency breaks being lifted, and my phone vibrated in my pocket. It was moving again to its intended destination without any more deterrence. Pulling the binoculars from my face, I pulled my phone out of my pocket, seeing that I had two messages. One was from Gram telling me that it was done and the other was from my babyasking me if we were still on for tonight. She didn’t know she was my baby, but she was.

I let her know we were then hopped in my car to go handle a little more business before I met her at the parlor. My appointment had rescheduled which gave me some free time and space to get this expansion started.

My first stop was at Wally’s to talk to my brother. I knew he’d be there because this was where he always was. This place was his fucking life minus the busted ass burgers. When I walked into the office the Waitress Sweetie was leaving and fixing the lipstick on her lips. I knew shorty had those big ass lips for something, and I hoped he utilized them well.

“Monitor the new nigga. Phase one has begun.” I rubbed my hands together and took a seat in the chair in front of him.

“And that is?”

“Create a fucking desert.” Excitement entered my body when I thought about where this was going. In the streets you didn’t ask the next nigga for space, you took that shit. Asking for shit would get you nowhere because niggas were greedy. They’d drill the same oil hole and keep collecting , not giving a damn if others were ashy.

He nodded his head.

“You figured out Amia yet?”

As if I had asked him the most stressful question of all his eyes went red and he put his fist to his face. “Hell nah, and this spoiled shit is working my nerves. I offered her a job here, but shorty don’t wanna work unless it’s taking her clothes off on a pole and none of those joints will hire her because the nigga she popped in the head with her shoe was the fucking owner.”

“She always been a firecracker.”

“A broke ass firecracker that acts just like her mama. I ain’t never trying to see her out here down bad, but what the fuck am I supposed to do? Asha is supposed to be on her way out here thisweekend or one of these fucking weekends. Maybe she’ll take her. If she doesn’t, I told her that she’s either gonna work here or be homeless.”

I looked away from him at the camera monitors when a familiar face stole my sight. “Nope you’re fucking st—” I hopped up and walked out the office without even finishing my sentence.

I’d never seen this nigga in person, but I knew his face from his driver’s license and shit where I had Marbles pull his file. Laying eyes on him in here with a bitch ducked off while I was trying to secure baby girl was like god had bestowed a gift to my had. She said this nigga was a mama’s boy, I doubt that, because if this old bitch was his mama that was fucking nasty. I pulled my phone out to get a video for baby girl. The nigga literally had his tongue down this old bitch’s throat, then when he pulled back, he was looking dead at my camera. These iPhones had some clear ass cameras because I’d caught that ass in 4k.Ree was definitely mine now.

Chapter 4

Blow

TAREE

Iwoke up to a video and three messages from Malik this morning. The message was odd. I had to read it a few times.

Malik: Good morning, bae. I was gonna show u this last night, but you canceled on a nigga.

Malik: After this ion wanna hea no more shit. We go together real fuk’n bad.

Malik: Call me when u get up or I’ma show up.

Then when I pressed play on the video it felt like my eyes momentarily jumped from my skull. It was like the eyes off one of those cartoons when Tom thought he had Jerry or Goofy when he saw his girlfriend. Yeah, that shit. My mouth became dry from the fact that I had it open for so long. Like I was really fucking stuck. The video showed Hadees tonguing down his mother in an open bar. It was the nastiest shit I had ever seen in my life, and I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t even began to gatherthe words that wanted to come out of my mouth, because I was stuck, and this nigga was in my bathroom brushing his teeth thinking I was about to let him eat something. Shit, from the looks of it he had been eating something else dated. Then it hit me all this time he had been with his mama, really with his mama. Just the thought had me about to throw up in my freaking mouth, because here I was ducking dick, and here he was on a whole other wavelength.

“You ready for me, baby?” he asked announcing his presence in my bedroom.

“Yeah, right after you tell me what the hell this is!” I held my phone up for him to get a clear view of.

He squinted his eyes for a few before they mirrored the horror that mine had a few moments earlier.

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