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  Sighing, Aries just laid back on the bed and stared up at the ceiling. She couldn't believe the outcome of her day so far. Every time she started to feel a little bad about cussing Carol out, she remembered all the slick talk and bullshit she had taken from her quietly without saying anything. Kevin was a mama's boy who loved running to Carol about any and everything.

  She was to the point where she wanted to tell him to marry her ass then. Checking her phone, she realized he still hadn't taken the time out to call her. Aries already knew the deal, though. He had to pacify his mother first then after he was done with her, he would blow her phone up.

  Turning her phone off, Aries put it on Choppa's nightstand. She waited for over an hour for him to come back in the room but he never did. Finally feeling the stress from the day's events coming down on her, Aries closed her eyes and let sleep consume her.

  Seven

  Treasure walked out of the house with a very tired Eternity in her arms. She made her way to Lorenzo’s truck and opened the back door so she could strap Eternity in her car seat.

  “What's up, Princess?” Lorenzo asked his daughter.

  “Hi, daddy,” Eternity mumbled.

  He turned around in his seat and looked at her before looking at Treasure. Once she had her buckled in, she shut the door and climbed in the front seat.

  “What's wrong with her?” he asked.

  “She didn't want to go to bed last night and thought she could stay up late so I'm letting her know this is what happens to little girls who don't like to go to bed,” Treasure told him.

  “How we supposed to have family day and you got my baby too sleepy to do anything?”

  Almost every weekend, Treasure and Lorenzo came together to have a family day for Eternity’s sake. Having a broken family was never in either of their plans but they always did things as a family to try and make her childhood as normal as they possibly could. Whether it was just going to the movies or out to get some ice cream, when Eternity wanted her parents together, they did it without any complaints.

  “Renzo, please, you know after this little power nap she takes in the car, she'll be full of energy and down for whatever,” Treasure told him.

  Lorenzo glanced in his rearview mirror at Eternity who was already on her way to sleep. If he wasn't happy about anything else in this world, he was happy he had his princess. She was one of the only people in this world that loved him regardless and didn't see the wrong in him. Her mom used to be the same way, then things changed.

  He looked to his right at Treasure who was scrolling through her phone, most likely being nosey on Facebook. Every time he looked at her, he was reminded of why he fell in love with her in the first place. Treasure was with him from the very beginning. She was with him before the money, the cars, the hoes, and way before his come up. She was the first and only girl he had ever fallen in love with.

  “Hellooooo!” Treasure said as she waved her hand in front of his face.

  “Damn, what?” he laughed.

  “I asked you a question and you act like you can't hear me. That's what.”

  “My bad, I really didn't hear you, though,” Lorenzo told her.

  “Where your mind at?” Treasure asked.

  “That don't even matter. What’s up? What you ask me?”

  Treasure rolled her eyes. “Anyway, I asked you what was up with you and that Symone bitch.”

  “Who?” Treasure reached over and hit him in his head, Lorenzo reached up to block her hit and almost swerved. “Girl, what the hell is wrong with you? You trynna kill us?” Lorenzo asked.

  “You know I hate when you play with me,” Treasure told him. “So are you fucking that bitch or what?”

  “Man, what would make your crazy ass think I'm fucking that girl?”

  “A girl knows when a bitch is fucking her baby daddy. She be all on Facebook sending subliminal messages and shit. Oh, and don't let me post any pictures of you and Eternity, the bitch really gets petty. She be quick to like or comment.”

  Treasure never understood why females always went out of their way to let her know whenever they were fucking her baby daddy. She and Lorenzo weren't together and hadn't been for over three years so he was free to do whatever he pleased. She didn't keep tabs on Lorenzo nor did she clock his every move. As long as he did what he was supposed to do for Eternity, she had nothing to say. Every now and then when he started slipping, she had no problems jumping down his throat. Just because they fucked every once in a blue moon didn't mean she wanted him but that was something these bitches didn't understand.

  “Well, since we asking questions and shit, who you fucking?” Lorenzo asked.

  “Nigga, please. This kitty cat on reclusive,” Treasure quoted Nicki Minaj.

  “Yea, it better be and don't let me find out different,” Lorenzo told her.

  Treasure laughed even though she knew he was serious. She wasn't about to pay Lorenzo any mind. Her being celibate was a choice she’d made because of her, it had nothing to do with him. She just hadn't found anyone she felt deserved to have her like that.

  ___

  After taking Eternity to go see The Good Dinosaur, she was geeked up and talking their ears off. She was talking about all the other movies she couldn't wait to see.

  “I need some gas real quick,” Lorenzo said as he pulled into the gas station.

  “Mommy, can I get some juice?” Eternity asked.

  “All that sugar you just had, I'm not dealing with this tonight. You're going home with your daddy,” Treasure told her.

  “Shut the hell up and get me a Swisher,” he said, handing her the money.

  Treasure tried to get out of the truck but of course, Eternity wanted to go with her. After getting her out of the car, they made their way into the gas station. Instead of getting just a juice and a Swisher Sweet, they ended up getting all types of snacks.

  “You think daddy gonna be mad we spent all his money?” Treasure asked Eternity.

  “No,” Eternity laughed.

  “Hey, pretty girls!” Treasure heard as they were walking back to Lorenzo’s truck.

  She looked to her left and was greeted with Benji’s sexy smile as he was damn near hanging out his car. Treasure put a smile on her face as she walked over to his truck where he was smiling like he had just won the lotto.

  “Hey, beautiful,” he spoke to Eternity.

  “Hi, you my mommy friend?” Eternity asked.

  “Only if you say it's okay,” Benji told her. “Is it okay if I be your mommy’s friend, pretty girl? I promise to be nice and share my cookies with her.”

  That caused both Eternity and Treasure to laugh but Eternity thought that was the funniest thing she had ever heard. “You can be her friend,” Eternity told him.

  “Okay, well what about you? Can I be your friend, too?” Benji asked.

  Eternity looked at Treasure to see what she had to say about it but Treasure just shrugged her shoulders and smiled, letting Eternity know that it was completely up to her.

  “Yes, I'm Eternity.”

  “I'm Benji. How old are you, pretty girl?”

  “Three!” Eternity said while holding up three fingers.

  “Treasure, fuck is you doing! Bring your ass on, man!” Lorenzo yelled as he walked over to her.

  “Damn, I'm coming! Take all that bass out your voice because it's not necessary,” Treasure snapped.

  “Daddy! That mommy friend Benji!” Eternity said as Lorenzo picked her up.

  Treasure watched as Lorenzo and Benji exchanged looks that didn't look too pleasant. It seemed as if the two knew each other and had some underlying beef or something of the sort.

  “Come on,” Lorenzo told her through gritted teeth.

  Treasure looked at him as if he had lost his mind. “Umm, okay. I'll call you later but let me go because this nigga bugging.”

  Benji watched Treasure as she walked away and shook his head. He knew all about her baby daddy and the situation they had going on but he never w
ould've guessed Renzo of all people was her baby daddy. He licked his lips as he watched the sway of her hips. Her baby daddy was really about to hate his guts because he was about to make Treasure his lady.

  Eight

  Choppa sat on his couch with his feet up watching movies. He looked to his left at Aries who was typing her life away on her laptop. He watched her for a while before picking up her pen and throwing it at her.

  “Stop,” Aries whined.

  “When you taking yo ass home?” Choppa asked

  It had been a total of three days since her blow up at Kevin’s parents’ house and she hadn't seen him since. Aries stopped by the house for a minute while Kevin was at work and grabbed some stuff for herself but she hadn't been back to the house since that day.

  Aries looked up from her laptop to see if Choppa was playing or if he was serious. He had a look on his face that was unreadable and it confused Aries because every time she tried to go home, he would catch an attitude with her and leave her in the house stranded. Now here he was asking her when she was going home.

  “I'll go now,” she said as she closed her laptop.

  “I was just playing,” Choppa said. Aries ignored him and continued to gather her stuff. Choppa had enough of her nonsense when she tried to get up off the couch. “I said I was just playing. Damn, chill out.”

  He grabbed her and pulled her down onto his lap. He took her laptop and placed it on the couch next to them before turning her around so that she was facing him. Aries had her head turned, refusing to look at him.

  “So what, you mad now? I find that very funny for somebody who didn't even want to be here in the first place,” Choppa told her.

  “Stop being an asshole, Brandon. I need you to realize that me being here with you is not going to fix shit between me and him,” Aries told him.

  “Fuck is there to fix? You wanna be with a nigga that's going to continue to allow his people to disrespect you and already made it clear that the only reason he wanna be with you is because he need a bitch to take the place of his mama?” Choppa snapped.

  Aries cut her eyes at him before trying to get off his lap. She wasn't going to admit that she felt the sting of his words.

  Choppa wrapped his arms around her waist so she couldn't move. He meant everything he said but he didn't mean for it to come out like that. “Okay, I’m an asshole. I got it but I don’t wanna fight with you right now,” Choppa said as he lightly grabbed her chin and turned her face towards him. “You mad at me?” he asked.

  Aries rolled her eyes at him and tried to move her face out of his hand but that's when he grabbed the back of her head and brought her face to his. Choppa kissed her lips softly and when she went to protest, he shoved his tongue in her mouth and instantly, she melted. Choppa let his hands find their way to her ass and gave it a gentle squeeze.

  Aries let out a small moan as she felt his fingers traveling up her smooth skin under her shirt. Choppa could hear his phone vibrating on the glass table but he ignored it, for he felt like he had more important things to take care of. When Choppa broke the kiss to take her shirt off, Aries came back to her senses.

  “We can't,” she said just above a whisper.

  “Shut the fuck up,” Choppa said in a low growl as he laid her on the couch.

  Once again, Choppa's phone started vibrating but just like last time, he chose to ignore it. That's number two, it ring again I gotta answer that bitch, he thought as he pulled Aries’ yoga shorts down. He licked his lips and grinned at the sight he was greeted with.

  “Little nasty ass ain't even have no panties on,” he smiled.

  Aries hid her face in embarrassment as Choppa spread her legs apart and stuck his middle finger in her opening.

  “Gooootdamn.” He shook his head at how tight and wet she was.

  “Oh shit,” Aries moaned when he started working his finger inside of her.

  “Yea, you ready,” he said as he pulled his finger out.

  Choppa stood up and slid his shorts off. When Aries saw his dick, she damn near jumped off the couch and ran. She had only been with one other man in her life and in no way, shape or form was Kevin working with what Choppa was working with or even came close to it.

  Just as he was getting ready to dive in, his phone started vibrating again.

  “What the fuuuck!” Choppa yelled as he snatched his phone off the table. “What, muthafucka, what? Fuck you blowing my shit up for?” he yelled into the phone.

  “Aye, bitch! I don't know what the fuck you doing and I don’t give a fuck, either. Just know that there's no honor among thieves. Get to the fucking spot!” Benji yelled before hanging up.

  Even though he was talking in code, Choppa understood exactly what his brother was trying to say. Either something came up missing or someone was blatantly caught red-handed stealing from them. Either way, he had to go.

  He looked over at Aries and let out a breath of frustration. Just by the look on his face, she could tell something was wrong. He shook his head and grabbed his clothes and hers too, handing them to her.

  “You okay?” she asked as she got dressed.

  “Nah, I'll be back though. Don't wait up,” he said.

  Aries didn't ask any more questions as she watched him quickly get dressed and rush out the door.

  ___

  After stopping by his real house to change his clothes and grab his weapons of choice, Choppa finally made his way to he and his brother’s meet spot which was an old warehouse that got closed down. It was off a country road and no traffic ever came through there so they figured it would be the perfect spot. Choppa walked in with his attitude on full display. He was pissed off and he wanted everyone to know it. He was seconds away from being buried in Aries’ tight pussy, just to be called in to handle some bullshit.

  “Why the fuck we always waiting on you to show up somewhere?” Benji asked when Choppa got in.

  “Man, shut the fuck up! I'm not with the shit right now. Just tell me what the fuck going on so I can get back to doing what the fuck I was doing,” Choppa spat.

  Benji walked away from everyone else and Choppa followed behind him. They walked off into a corner in the warehouse where no one could hear them talking.

  “The money was low when it got to Letter C. Niggas say it was five stacks low to be exact,” Benji said.

  “Was the count right before it was handed off?” Choppa asked.

  Benji nodded his head. “Coop said they quadruple counted that shit before they gave it to him. I'm not the smartest apple in the bunch but I know when shit ain't adding up right,” Benji told his brother.

  Benji and Choppa gave all their trap houses letters. They knew who was specifically supposed to be in charge of what and their duties never changed unless they gave the orders for a switch up. They knew the times all pickups and drop offs were supposed to happen.

  “I'm with you, brother. Let’s handle this,” Choppa said. “I know niggas not out here trying to lose they lives for no funky ass five thousand dollars,” he mumbled.

  Everyone sat there watching the King brothers, waiting to see what was going to happen. No one knew what this sudden meeting was about but they knew it couldn't have been good. When they saw Benji fall back and let Choppa take the lead, they knew it was about to be some shit. Most people only saw the funny, charming side of Choppa. They didn't know he had a completely different side to him. He didn't get the name Choppa for no reason.

  “Coop, Walt, and Lucas stand up,” Choppa said.

  All three men stood up without hesitation.

  “Lucas, what time did Walt drop off the money?” Choppa asked as he pulled out his gun.

  “7:05,” Lucas answered.

  “Walt, how much money did you give Lucas?” Choppa questioned him.

  “40 bands, like I was supposed to,” Walt said with a little hesitation in his voice.

  Choppa looked back at his brother and they exchanged knowing looks. Choppa nodded his head.

  “Alright, Coo
p and Lu have a seat,” Choppa said as he walked around the table.

  Choppa didn't even get halfway around the table before he shot Walt in the head, dropping him right where he stood. He wasn't Benji and he damn sure wasn't his father. Solo had been telling Walt for years his ways were going to catch up to him. He was an ex-addict who still liked to dibble and dabble every now and then and most importantly, he was a thief.

  Everyone but Walt, for specific reasons, knew that Coop was now supposed to give 45 stacks to drop at Letter C. This was a test to see if Walt could stay loyal, and he couldn't. The only reason he was still down was because of their father but Solo was no longer running shit.

  “That's what the fuck happens to muthafuckas who thinks it's okay to steal from a King!” Choppa yelled. “Just in case any of you dumb ass niggas wants to get any ideas.”

  Nobody said anything as they all eyed Walt’s dead body. Benji shook his head at his little brother. He was a wild little fucker but he loved him nonetheless.

  “Everybody get the fuck up out of here,” Benji said, dismissing everyone.

  When everyone was gone, he called the cleanup crew to come handle Walt. He walked over to Choppa who was pacing back and forth.

  “Well, that went nice. You sure do handle things well,” he said.

  “Man, fuck you! You don't need me for shit else, right? You about to give a nigga blue balls and shit,” Choppa said as he walked towards the door.

  “Nigga, gone. Aries ain't fucking with you. You just talking shit.” Benji waved him off.

  Choppa took his finger and ran it under his brother’s nose. “You smell that?”

  “What the fuck, bitch!” Benji said while slapping his brother’s hand. “I don't smell shit.”

  “Exactly, my girl’s pussy is just that good. Now if you don't mind, I'm about to go knock that shit out the frame.” Choppa smiled as he ran to his truck.

  Nine

  Treasure walked to the door and opened it with a smile on her face. Benji walked in and wrapped her small frame up in his arms. She let out a fit of giggles as he buried his face in her neck.