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  “Daddyyyyy!” Kayla said running past me and beating me to him.

  “Come here lil’ mama,” Floyd said with the biggest smile on his face.

  He picked her up in the air and pulled her down kissing her lips as I finally reached within arm’s reach. Floyd held Kayla with one arm and pulled me close with the other. He kissed me long and passionately, just the way I had envisioned in my head.

  “Fine ass,” he mumbled as we broke the kiss.

  The way he looked at me made me know he was still madly in love.

  “You smell good. What are you wearing?” I said as I took him in from head to toe.

  Floyd was always sexy as hell to me. The way he dressed and just his whole swag was everything. He never went a week without a haircut, he never had a scuff in his shoes, and he always smelled so good. Even after living with him I was still so impressed by the way he took care of himself.

  “That’s that Creed, baby, you know how I do it,” Floyd said.

  “You miss me?” I said as we walked towards the house.

  “I can show you better than I can tell you,” he replied, slapping me on my ass in front of our neighbors.

  “Welcome home Floyd!” I heard my neighbor Teresa called out from her porch.

  “Thank you, baby, thank you. How you doing?” Floyd returned.

  “I’m doing good. How about you? I know you feeling great!” she went on.

  “Hell yeah, it’s a beautiful thang.”

  “You having a party or something to celebrate?”

  By now I had the front door open waiting for him. I didn’t trust Teresa like that so I stood there waiting on Floyd to cut the conversation short but he didn’t.

  “Naw, no party. I’m tryna stay low key. You feel me?”

  “I hear that. You know you gotta…”

  “Okay!” I snapped so Floyd would get the message, and he did.

  He cut the conversation short and brought his ass inside.

  Floyd

  My baby Tan was jealous as hell, but I didn’t know why. She was fine as hell with nothing to be insecure about. She wore a lot of Brazilian weave, lashes, and a little makeup but when she took all that off, she was still truly beautiful to anybody with eyes. Her mocha brown skin was smooth as a baby’s ass, and her 5’5 frame was thick in all the right places, just like I liked it. The beauty mole on the top right side of her lip still mesmerized my eyes to this day.

  As soon as my daughter was out of the room I snuck up behind her and wrapped my arms around her, kissing her neck and rubbing my hard wood across her backside.

  “You got some weed? I need to smoke,” I said rubbing between her legs.

  “Stop before Kayla comes back,” she giggled.

  Kayla came back moments later with some pictures she’d drawn and wanted to show me.

  “Let me see baby,” I said as she handed me the pictures.

  The first picture was three stick figures that I assumed was me, Tan, and Kayla. “Awe that’s beautiful baby. That is truly beautiful.”

  The second picture was four stick figures and the one she added was tiny like a baby.

  “Who is this supposed to be?” I asked pointing to the smallest stick figure.

  Kayla’s shoulders got tight and her eyes got big. Her mama snatched the pictures out of my hand.

  “She wants a brother,” Tan replied.

  I pointed at her and smiled.

  “You got it lil’ mama. Just make sure when you go to bed tonight you stay sleep.”

  There were still a lot of people I hadn’t seen but I put it off to spend time with my family. I made some calls throughout the day and talked to a few people, but I was trying to chill. Lucci came by the house to pick up his car. He wanted to take me to the bar where M Easy was working but I had to tell him we could do it tomorrow. It was Friday but Saturday was usually my club and bar hopping day anyway.

  So later that evening, after we’d ordered some pizza and put Kayla to bed, we finally got the chance to chill, just the two of us. I was sitting on our big, comfy couch in the living room smoking on a fat blunt watching the ten o’clock news and just tripping on all the crime in the city. I passed Tan the blunt as she sipped on some Hennessy. I wasn’t a big drinker so I had a couple sips of the Hennessy and was done with it.

  “It feel good as hell to be home don’t it?” Tan said.

  “Hell yeah. I’m so glad I’m out that muthafucka. I ain’t never going back. I swear on my mama.”

  “Don’t say that. You always putting something on yo’ mama.”

  I jerked my head back.

  “My mama don’t even like you, shut up,” I teased as she passed the blunt back.

  “Fuck yo’ mama; she ain’t gotta like me. She ain’t paying none of my bills.”

  I snatched her ass up in a choke hold before she knew what happened.

  “Don’t talk shit about my mama,” I warned as she laughed and fought me off.

  “Stop playing,” she giggled.

  “I ain’t playing; don’t talk about my mama,” I repeated as I relaxed back into the sofa.

  “What you gon’ do?” she sassed with her lips curled.

  “What I’ma do? What I’ma do, huh?” I said as I slid closer, eying her body as she sat now wearing stretch shorts and T-shirt.

  I scooped her thick ass up and carried her to the bedroom while she laughed hysterically. I laid Tan down and lifted one of her legs in the air, stroking it slowly as I kissed on her inner thigh, making my way to that fat pussy. Damn, I missed her ass. I slid off her shorts and saw she wasn’t wearing anything underneath. I kissed her pussy lips. As soon as my lips connected with her pussy my dick got so hard I just went crazy on it, sucking her like a vacuum and gripping her fat ass. I could tell by the way she was holding on to the back of my head for dear life she was already about to cum. I flipped her over on her stomach and grabbed her Jell-O soft booty and squeezed it with both hands. Welcome home my nigga, I said to myself before I drove my brick hard bone in her soft, dripping wet goodies. I spread her legs as far apart as I could before I pinned her down with my palm and went to work on that body. I spanked her ass like she’d just got expelled from school as I pushed deeper inside her.

  “Yes! OH GOD! Do that shit!” Tan screamed in pleasure.

  That turned me on even more as I leaned in and sucked on her shoulder blade and the small of her back. Before I knew it, I had my forearm around her neck in a choke hold fucking her like my life was on the line. I spread her legs further with my thighs as I dug deeper. It felt so good to be home and I mean my real home, right between those thighs.

  Chapter 2

  Floyd

  The next morning I was all about handling my business. I didn’t have a parole or probation that kept me on a leash so I was free to do as I pleased as long as I played it smart. I took some money out of the stash I left Tan before I went away. I’d left her with sixty thousand in all and she hadn’t spent anything that I hadn’t given her permission to spend. I came home to a $30,000 dollar safety net which wasn’t bad considering I was gone for two years. The house we lived in and my truck were the only thing I’d purchased in all my years of hustling that had any real value besides a few pieces of jewelry.

  My money paid the mortgage on the house the whole time I was gone which is the main reason I was only left with $30,000. After grabbing some cash I grabbed the keys to my ‘09 Hummer that had been stashed in the garage most of the two years I’d been away. I made sure my brother came and drove it every once in a while, but he warned that gas prices had gotten so ridiculous that I might wanna get rid of the Hummer. I pulled out of the driveway headed to meet up with my guy Kanye. He was the plug that kept us all with credit cards and card numbers to hustle. Shortly after, I arrived at his place in Southfield.

  He was glad to see me back home and ready to get back to the money. I gave him $2500 in cash and he gave me five cards and ten card numbers. The physical credit cards had anything from a $500 to a $5000 spending limit. I would owe him some money when I was done but this would get my feet wet and back in the game. I always had a goal in mind that I didn’t think was too ambitious to accomplish. I wanted to stack up $150,000 and open up a club. I knew the liquor license was the most expensive part so that’s why I needed at least $150,000 if I was ever gonna stop hustling.

  Leaving Kanye, I got called from an unsaved number. At the time, there was a lot of people I still needed to catch up with so I quickly answered.

  “Hello?”

  “What up sexy?” I heard a familiar voice say.

  “What up, who dis?”

  “You know my number nigga don’t play with me.”

  It was my boo Ashley and I was happy to hear her voice but she was in violation already.

  “Girl, you can’t be calling my phone like that. What’s wrong wichu?” I snapped.

  “Nigga you ain’t been to see me. Whatchu want me to do? I waited all damn day to hear from you.”

  “You know I had to spend the day with Tan. Stop acting stupid,” I said.

  Me and Ashley stayed in touch while I was gone. She even tried to send me a little money every now and then but just like everyone else, I never let her come visit me. I had a different reason I kept Ashley away. I didn’t want her to think things were going to change when I got out. She was my low key and that’s all she would ever be.

  “Whatever, so where you at now?” she asked.

  “You know I’m taking care of my business girl.”

  “So when I’ma see you?”

  “Come to Buddy’s tonight. I gotta go holla at M Easy so I’ll be there tonight.”

  “Okay, I’ll come up there but if I don’t leave with you it’s gonna be a problem,” she warned.

  “See, the
re you go starting shit already. Listen, Ashley, I’m ‘bout to lock your number in and I’ma call you when I’m headed to the bar but don’t call my phone unless you know I’m outside.”

  “What time you going to the bar?”

  “I don’t know, just look out for my call.”

  “You don’t even sound like you miss me.”

  “I do baby but I just got out. You know shit is still kinda hectic. I’ma see you tonight and I’ma beat that pussy up too.”

  When I said that her whole attitude changed. I could tell she was smiling ear to ear.

  “Okay, I’ll be waiting for your call.”

  Tanjanisha

  Saturday afternoon, after cleaning up the house, I went to see my son. They’d been calling me all morning telling me how my baby wouldn’t stop crying. This wasn’t the first time Abriel and Christy kept my son overnight so I didn’t know why he was whining so much. As soon as I came in I could see that both Abriel and Christy were aggravated. My son was just lying in the bed sleep, not bothering anybody.

  “He still been crying?” I said after I checked on him.

  “No, he went to sleep but his ass kept me up all night,” Christy said.

  My sister Christy was twenty-one and still hadn’t found a real job. She lived with Abriel rent free and had been babysitting for extra money since she was sixteen so I was expecting her to help out the most knowing Abriel had to work.

  “Well, you getting paid so I don’t wanna hear nothing from you Christy foreal,” I said rolling my eyes.

  “He did keep me up all night. I’m just saying.”

  “Well, that’s what I’m paying you for.”

  She put her hand on her hips.

  “That’s not why I’m doing it. I’m trying to look out for you and my nephew. That little money you giving me I could get that from one of my niggas.”

  Oh yeah, I forgot that’s the other way her ass kept some money in her pocket, by juggling niggas, usually drug dealers.

  “Then why don’t you do it for free?” I said and waited for her response. “I thought so,” I said when she took too long.

  Abriel jumped in.

  “Seriously Tan, you know I don’t mind keeping him, but you know it’s gonna be a lot for us. Shit, neither one of us have kids so this is gonna take some getting used to. I just want you to give me a real time frame of how long your son is gonna be over here.”

  Abriel was twenty-eight and by now had realized she couldn’t have kids. Christy had already had a couple of abortions but they were always more than willing to help with me with Kayla since she was born. I think they were more aggravated by the circumstances surrounding Joshua more than anything.

  “I don’t know yet, Abriel, it’s only been like twenty-four hours. I’ll know something by next week,” I told her.

  “Okay,” she replied and we changed the subject. “Big Mama wants to come over so I’m going to get her in a minute.”

  My mom died in a car accident when I was only ten years old so my grandmother, Big Mama as we liked to call her, raised us. Christy’s dad was around somewhere but he wasn’t in her life, but me and Abriel’s dad lived in Atlanta.

  “Okay, I’ll come back ‘cause I gotta leave in a minute to take care of something.”

  Just then my phone rang with a call I was expecting.

  “Hello?” I answered.

  “Yeah, where you at?” Kari asked.

  “I’m at my sister’s house but I’m headed your way now.”

  “Okay, hurry up ‘cause I wanna see you.”

  “Don’t start that shit. I’m not even in the mood.”

  I hung up before he could say anything else. I saw my sisters standing by watching me suspiciously.

  “Who was that?” Christy’s nosey ass asked me.

  “Don’t worry about it. Mind your business.”

  “You is my business,” she teased.

  I knew they probably knew who it was but I didn’t care. I just didn’t want to talk about it anymore. I kissed Joshua on the cheek and left out a couple minutes later. I met up with Kari the same place we usually met up, at his cousin’s house that didn’t know me or Floyd. I backed in the driveway to hide my license plate as I saw Kari coming out the front door. He slid in the passenger side and kissed my cheek.

  “Stop!” I complained.

  “Why you acting like that? I miss you, baby. You been acting real funky lately.”

  “Kari just give me the money so I can pay Christy, unless you gonna watch him yourself.”

  “Naw, you know I can’t be stuck like that. I gotta move around and handle my business.”

  I swear it was never my intentions to have a baby with this nigga Kari, or even sleep with him in the first place. Two years is a long time to be without anyone in your life or in your bed. I tried to be strong, and I was for the first six or seven months. I didn’t talk to any guys or give out my phone number. Kari was the only guy I had around me. He was always there making sure I didn’t need anything, helping me with Kayla and even keeping me company sometimes when I began to feel lonely.

  Him being one of Floyd’s closest friends, I didn’t think anyting of it at first, but Kari had been so sweet to me I should’ve known he was catching feelings. One thing led to another and before I knew it, the loneliness got the best of me. Me and Kari slept together several times but that’s been over a long time now. When I found out I was pregnant, my whole world crumbled. I knew the easy thing to do would’ve been to just get an abortion, but I’d been strongly against abortions all my life. Big Mama raised us that way so I didn’t know how Christy could do it.

  “Just give me the money so I can go, boy,” I said.

  “Boy? Ain’t no boys over here,” he said going in his pocket. “You might as well tell him. It ain’t like you can hide my son forever.”

  Kari didn’t care about Floyd finding out the truth. He actually encouraged it because in his mind, it would break me and Floyd up and open up the opportunity for him to be with me. I couldn’t believe he wanted to be in a real relationship with one of his closest friend’s girl. Even before we slept together I never felt like Kari was Floyd’s true friend. That title belongs to M Easy. Maybe that’s why I didn’t mind going through with it. Whatever the reason, what’s done is done so now I had to try and work this out and hold on to my man.

  “You let me worry about Floyd. All you need to be worried about is taking care of your son and spending some time with him.”

  “I wanna spend some time with both of y’all. How can I make that happen?” Kari said handing me three hundred dollars.

  “Kari, get that out of your head. I keep telling you I’m not fucking with you like that no more. Floyd is home now. You know if he hadn’t went away that shit would’ve never happened. I can’t believe you still tryna go there!” I yelled getting irritated.

  “I can’t help how I feel, Tan. It is what it is,” he shrugged.

  “Look, I appreciate you not running out on your kid and everything, but this is the end of the road as far as me and you go. I love my man and that’s who I’m gonna be with regardless.”

  Kari got an attitude and opened the car door to leave.

  “Thank you for the money,” I said as he slammed my car door without responding.

  Saleena

  I took Floyd Jr. to his grandma’s house so Floyd could stop by and see him without me having to look at his face. I had plans with my boyfriend Camron for the evening. Just a simple dinner and a movie, but our schedules hadn’t allowed for us to spend much time together lately so I was really looking forward to it. He picked me up from home around six and we rode to Benihana, one of our favorite spots for dinner. I ordered my favorite white wine, knowing I didn’t have to drive, and we relaxed and enjoyed one another.

  “So your baby daddy is finally home?” Carmon said with a smile.

  I rolled my eyes.

  “Don’t remind me. Leave that fool wherever he at.”

  “Did he try to push up on you when he stopped by?”

  “Of course not,” I assured him.

  Camron and I had only been together for a year now but things were going really smoothly. He could be a little insecure about other men sometimes but he was a real sweetheart and he treated me the way I deserved to be treated. He was a manager for a furniture chain store and was in charge of all the Metro Detroit locations. He made good money and we were planning our first big trip out of town together to Hawaii. I was so excited about that trip.