you going through this.”
She pulled away from him then wiped her face with her shirt.
“Jennifer, look at me. You can’t go on like this. You have to get away from this guy.”
“Are you going to help me out, Agent Pratt?”
“Yes, if I have to.”
“Why do you want to help me?”
“I don’t know. Why did you come to see me in the first place?”
“I guess I have feelings for you.”
He leaned into her and kissed her briefly.
She put her hand around his waist and held him close.
The door opened and Ken Clarkson walked in.
*****
“Nia, I don’t want to see you again. This shit ain’t right,” JoJo said. “Since when did you start having a conscience, nigga?” Nia said. Then she walked into her bedroom with the cordless phone and lay across the bed wearing a T-shirt and a red thong.
“I just don’t want to be caught up in the bullshit. I mean, I’m starting to get attached to you, and I don’t want to betray my friend.”
Nia laughed. “ Betray your friend ? We’ve been fucking for damn near a year, and you sure ain’t had no problem before.”
“I just don’t feel like seeing you right now.”
Nia rolled over in the bed. Now she was on her back. She put her hands between her legs. “Big Puss wants you, baby.”
JoJo chuckled. “Girl, you’re a nympho.”
“Nigga, and you’re a nympho.”
“You’re right. What kind of underwear do you have on?”
“I ain’t got on no underwear. I’m naked, lying in my bed, stroking my pussy, and wanting you inside me.” Nia laughed to herself.
“No underwear, huh?”
She burst out with laughter. “You freak, you know I got on underwear. I got on those red thongs you like.”
“You got your heels on, too?”
“No, but I can put them on.”
“Naw. I can’t do it right now,” JoJo said.
Nia sighed heavily. “So you’re really going to cut me off, huh?”
“No. I’m not in the mood for it.”
“Does it have anything to do with the money you lost?”
“How’d you find out about that shit?”
“Tommy’s been moping around here crying and shit.”
“Yeah, he lost a lot of money, a lot more than I did,” JoJo said.
“Yeah he told me that you and him almost got into it.”
“What did he say?”
“He said he put a gun to your head because you thought he was the reason y’all had lost the money.”
“Oh, so he’s bragging, huh?”
“Naw, he wasn’t bragging. He was actually crying about it. He said that he’d never had an altercation with you. Said you was like his brother, and that he didn’t like what went down between you two.”
“See what I mean, Nia? Shit like that makes me not want to be screwing behind my friend’s back.”
“I know, but I got my needs, JoJo.”
“I got my needs, too.”
“Let’s meet at the Holiday Inn downtown,”Nia said.
“How fast can you get there?” JoJo said.
She laughed. “Now that’s what the fuck I’m talking about.”
*****
Twin met with J-Black at Burger King . They sat in the back of the restaurant, in a booth. Nobody ordered food. J-Black had called and ordered Twin to either give him somebody to rob or become the next victim. J-Black had said he was desperate and needed money to pay probation fines.
“So what you got for me?”
“J, man, I don’t have anybody. If I knew of somebody I would definitely tell you.”
J-Black’s eyes tightened. “Listen, Twin, I don’t need to hear that bullshit, man. I need somebody to rob.”
“I don’t know of anybody. I’m telling you, man. If I knew of somebody I would tell you.”
“What about that fat-ass nigga that I robbed the last time? How is he doing?”
“He’s not doing too good, J. He lost a hundred grand.”
J-Black stood and raised his shirt, revealing a chrome 9mm handgun. “Hey, nigga, I need somebody to rob, so we’re going to your house so I can take all your shit.”
Twin saw the seriousness in J-Black’s eyes. The man had a reputation for being a killer in the street. He could think of only one other person worth
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