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  Immediately Kendu charged Mousey and plunged the knife in and out of his chest and stomach until he collapsed right there on the bathroom floor. Kendu cleaned his knife off at the sink before he slid it back in his pocket and exited the bathroom. He smoothly walked through the club like nothing had happened. He had to make his exit quickly due to all the blood on his shirt..

  “I’ma catch you later,” he whispered in Kiki’s ear, smacking her on the ass as he left the strip club. Once out in the parking lot, he jogged to his car and quickly fled the scene.

  When Kendu made it home he saw Diamond, Crystal, and Jessica all up sitting on the couch. “What’s wrong?” he asked.

  “Baby, go to your room.” Crystal watched Jessica head upstairs to her room.

  Once Jessica was out of earshot, Diamond spoke up. “It’s Perry. He’s been calling the house every thirty minutes.”

  Kendu took a seat next to Crystal on the couch. “What he said when he called?”

  “He’s not saying nothing,” Diamond said. “We can just hear him breathing on the other end.”

  “You sure know how to pick ’em,” Kendu joked.

  The news reporter came on TV, talking about another woman’s body was found behind a Taco Bell not too far from their house. The woman had been drowned, and her face badly cut up.

  “I know it’s him. I know it,” Diamond said, looking at the TV. “I’m about to leave,” She looked spooked. “I don’t want to bring trouble to this house, especially while y’all have the little one here.”

  “I wish that nigga would come here and try that crazy shit,” Kendu said, already thinking about what he would do to the man if that day ever came.

  His thoughts were shattered when he heard the house phone ringing. Kendu saw both Crystal and Diamond staring dead at him. He quickly got up and walked over to the phone. “Who the fuck is this?” he answered.

  No answer came back on the other end, just dead air.

  “Listen, you pussy, the least you can do is be a man and talk!” Kendu yelled into the receiver before hanging up. “Tomorrow I’m going over to his house and pay him a little visit.”

  “It’s not even worth it,” Diamond told him, not wanting him getting into any trouble over her and her problems.

  “Fuck that! I’m tired of playing with this clown!” Kendu huffed as he trotted upstairs.

  “Please try to calm him down. I don’t want him getting into any trouble.”

  “I’ll do my best,” Crystal said as she headed upstairs behind Kendu.

  Upstairs Kendu just turned on some soft music and lay across the bed in deep thought. He so badly wanted to kill Perry. Not just because he had been calling the house, but more importantly, because he had stolen Diamond away from him. Just the thought of someone else having sex with Diamond had him ready to kill.

  Crystal entered the room and sat on the bed next to him. “You all right?” she asked.

  Kendu sighed. “Yeah, I’m fine.”

  “He’ll stop calling.” She slid on top of Kendu’s back and began massaging him. “Don’t even worry about that nonsense.”

  Kendu hated when people who wasn’t built like that pretended to be. That’s what bothered him the most. He so badly wanted to go over to Perry’s house and beat the shit out of him, but Crystal and Diamond had talked him out of it.

  “I just don’t like that mufucka,” Kendu said as he got up and stripped out of his clothes.

  “Don’t even waste your energy thinking about that psychopath.” Crystal chuckled.

  “You right, baby,” Kendu then disappeared in the bathroom, so he could take a much-needed shower.

  Chapter 21

  Kendu pulled up in front of the spot. Today things just seemed a little different. There wasn’t a bunch of soldiers standing around outside, and the place seemed a little more quiet than usual. He took one last hit from his blunt before tossing it in the grass as he headed inside. He walked inside Dirty Black’s office and was shocked to see Amazon in a wheelchair.

  “Damn! You all right?” Kendu asked.

  Amazon smirked. “I’m fine. They must be crazy if they think this chair is going to stop me.”

  Kendu laughed, to try to hide the sadness in his face. “Where’s Dirty Black?”

  “You ain’t hear?” Amazon said, looking up at Kendu.

  “Hear what?”

  “He got locked up last night. Him and Action Jackson had a shootout in the middle of the street.”

  “Get the fuck outta here! They gave him bail?”

  “Not yet,” Amazon said, shaking his head. “They got all kinds of charges they trying to stick to him. Come to find out, we all been under surveillance for the past year, according to his lawyer. So, as of today, we are officially retired.”

  “You can’t be serious,” Kendu said, not believing what he was hearing. All this time he thought Dirty Black was untouchable. Now, hearing that he was locked up came as a shock to him.

  “Yup.” Amazon smiled. “As of today you are a free man.” He extended his hand.

  Kendu quickly shook it. “It was a pleasure working with you.”

  “The pleasure was all mine,” Amazon said, handing him a black plastic bag full of money. “My advice to you is, leave town sooner than later, and make sure you don’t spend all that in one place.”

  Before Kendu could reply, he heard his cell phone ringing. “Hello,” he answered.

  “Hey, baby. Are you busy?” Crystal asked.

  “No, baby. Why? What’s up?”

  “My car has been making a funny noise. Can you take it to the mechanic and get it looked at for me please?”

  “No problem, baby. I’m on my way.”

  “I’m outta here.” Amazon gave Kendu dap. “I’ll see you at the top,” he said, rolling out of Kendu’s sight.

  “Damn!” Kendu said out loud as he took in all the info he had just received. He couldn’t believe how everything just came crumbling down so fast.

  Kendu hopped in his car and headed home. After driving for about fifteen minutes, he decided to take heed to what Amazon had just told him and leave town. As he slowed down for the yellow light, he noticed a white man in a black Taurus that seemed to be following him. “Who the fuck is this?” he thought out loud as he tried to ditch the white guy, taking a few back streets.

  After ten minutes of playing hide-and-seek, he thought he’d finally succeeded in ditching the white man when he no longer saw the Taurus in his rearview mirror.

  “Yeah, it’s definitely time to leave,” he thought out loud as he pulled up in his driveway. He stepped inside his house and saw Diamond sitting on the couch looking sexy. “Hey.”

  “Hey. What’s up?” Kendu said as the two slapped five. “Where’s Crystal?”

  “Her and Jessica went to the supermarket,” Diamond told him. “I let her use my car ’cause she said something was wrong with hers.”

  “Yeah, I’m suppose to take it to the mechanic, so he can take a look at it. But first I need to talk to you about something.”

  Kendu poured two drinks and handed one to Diamond.

  “What’s on your mind?” Diamond asked as the two stood in the kitchen.

  “Shit is starting to get hot. I think it’s best if me and Crystal leave town.”

  “When?”

  “Tonight.”

  “So I guess this means I’m never going to see you again, huh?”

  “I mean, we will always be friends.” Deep down Kendu did still love Diamond, but she had made the decision to leave, not him.

  “I love you,” Diamond said, moving in closer to him.

  “I love you too.”

  Their lips connected.

  “This ain’t right,” Kendu weakly protested as he tried to push Diamond away.

  “I’m your wife,” she said. “And I’m about to remind you just why you married me.” Diamond pushed Kendu’s back up against the refrigerator then slowly slid down to her knees.

  Kendu was getting ready t
o protest again, but when he felt her soft lips on his penis, his words quickly got lost in his throat. “Damn!” he moaned, guiding her head with his hand.

  Diamond grabbed Kendu’s ass and forced him deeper into her mouth. She missed how he used to fill her mouth up.

  Kendu pushed Diamond’s head away and lifted her up, carrying her over to the counter, knocking down whatever was sitting on top as he laid her down gently. He lifted Diamond’s sun dress, pushed her thong to the side, and kissed on her magic button.

  “You missed your pussy, daddy?”

  “Yes,” Kendu said in a whisper. He slowly licked and sucked all over Diamond’s clit. He buried his face in between her legs, working his tongue like a rattlesnake, forcing her to come for him.

  “I need to feel my dick.” Diamond slid off the counter and turned around. She placed her hands on the counter, arching her back and cocking her ass up in the air, so Kendu could enter her from behind.

  “Ahhh!” she moaned as soon as she felt Kendu enter her walls. With each stroke Diamond made sure she threw her ass back, matching Kendu stroke for stroke.

  Kendu grabbed a handful of Diamond’s hair as he thrust in and out of her love tunnel, until finally exploding inside of her. He quickly pulled up his pants and walked over to the couch and flopped down.

  “We shouldn’t’ve done that.” Kendu was mad at himself for what they’d just done. He thought he was stronger than that.

  “Why not, baby?” Diamond asked, taking the seat next to him.

  “Because I’m with someone. And that’s not right. You didn’t like it when it was being done to you, right?”

  “Fuck that bitch!” Diamond spat. “It’s always been us against the world.” She wanted her husband back and didn’t care what she had to do to make it happen. “I have the right to still fuck you. You are still my husband, remember?”

  “It’s not just that simple.” Kendu got up and left Diamond sitting in the house alone.

  He hopped in Crystal’s car and headed towards the mechanic shop. He couldn’t believe what he’d just done. He had tried his hardest to resist Diamond’s touch, but for some reason, he just couldn’t.

  The way Diamond was talking before he’d left, he wasn’t sure that she wouldn’t tell Crystal what they’d just done. “Fuck!” He was mad at himself for being so weak. Now for the rest of the day that incident was going to be on his mind.

  “Fuck!” Big Time cursed as he pulled up into the small mechanic shop. He had caught a flat tire on his way to meet up with Action Jackson. “Ayo’, papi,” he called out to the Spanish mechanic. “I need you take care of this flat for me and make it snappy.” Big Time handed the man a hundred-dollar bill. As he waited he pulled out his cell phone and called up one of his honeys.

  Kendu pulled into the empty spot in the small mechanic shop. He threw the car in park and had to do a quick double-take. He knew that wasn’t who he thought it was.

  After taking a better look, he couldn’t believe his eyes. There Big Time stood all alone with his back turned to him on the phone. He reached for his waistline, but then he remembered leaving his gun on the counter while him and Diamond was getting busy, having sex. “Shit!”

  Kendu reached in his pocket and removed his knife, and smoothly hopped out the car. He ran up on Big Time from behind and quickly plunged his knife in and out of his back repeatedly, until the man crumbled to the ground.

  Just as Kendu was about to stab Big Time in the neck, he felt some cold steel being pressed to the back of his head.

  “Put the knife down now!” the voice behind him ordered.

  Kendu quickly did as he was told. Once the knife was out of his hand, the man behind him roughly tossed him to ground and handcuffed him. When Kendu looked up, he saw the same white guy who had been following him earlier in the day. Come to find out, the man following him was a cop. The white guy tossed Kendu in the back of his car and slammed the door.

  “Fuck!” Kendu sat in the back of the cop car feeling stupid, but good at the same time. He had finally got his revenge on Big Time.

  Seconds later he watched as an ambulance came and picked up Big Time and rushed him to the hospital.

  Crystal made it back home and saw Diamond sitting on the couch. “Kendu didn’t get back yet?” she asked, as her and Jessica struggled bringing all the groceries inside.

  “Nah, not yet,” Diamond answered, grabbing a couple of bags.

  Crystal looked at the clock on the wall. It was 9:16 P.M. After going to the supermarket, she’d decided to take Jessica to see a movie, and she just knew that by the time she got back Kendu would have been home. “How long has he been gone for?”

  “A few hours.” Diamond went back to watching TV. “He should’ve been back by now though.”

  Crystal pulled out her cell phone and dialed his number, only to get the answering machine. “Something ain’t right,” she said out loud.

  While Kendu sat in the holding cell waiting to get processed, he saw Action Jackson sitting in the cell across from him, and Amazon in the cell next to Action Jackson.

  “I’ma kill you, muthafucka!” Action Jackson yelled from his cell, leaning up against the bars.

  “You better go ask ya man Big Time what happened to him.” Kendu laughed loudly.

  “You caught that nigga?” Amazon yelled out from his cell.

  “You know I did! I made him pay for what he did to you.”

  “My nigga.” Amazon smiled. That was the best news he’d received all day.

  “When I catch you, I’ma put you in a wheelchair, just like I did your friend!” Action Jackson yelled.

  “Shut the fuck up!” a heavy-set C.O. yelled as he unlocked Kendu’s cell and handcuffed him. “Y’all animals, save that bullshit for when y’all get to Rikers Island.”

  Action Jackson yelled at the C.O., “Fuck you too, you fat muthafucka!”

  The C.O. smiled as he chained Kendu and placed him on the bus headed to Rikers Island. He then cuffed Action Jackson and placed him on the same bus on purpose.

  “You a dead man!” Action Jackson yelled from the back of the bus. “I’m popping off as soon as they let us off the bus!”

  Kendu ignored Action Jackson’s threats, closing his eyes and trying to get some rest during the ride. He would deal with the man when they got off the bus.

  Two days had passed, and Crystal still hadn’t heard from Kendu. Ever since she and Kendu got together, he had never just disappeared for this long without calling. For the last forty-eight hours she had been up and awake, waiting for him to walk through the front door.

  “If I don’t hear from him in the next ten minutes, I’m going to start calling up the hospitals.” She looked over at Diamond, who also looked worried.

  Before Crystal could say another word, the house phone rang. “I know that’s him,” she said as she ran to the phone. “Hello?” she answered excitedly.

  The only thing that could be heard was a man breathing on the other line.

  Crystal immediately hung the phone up.

  When the phone rang again, Crystal picked it up. “Listen, muthafucka, stop calling my house. You coward!”

  “Baby, it’s me,” Kendu said.

  “Baby?” Crystal yelled. “Is that you?”

  “Yeah, it’s me,” Kendu replied.

  “Where the fuck have you been? You had me scared to death,” she said, worry in her voice.

  “In jail. It’s a long story, but I just came back from court, and these crackers tryin’-a pin all kind of shit on me.”

  “Did they give you bail?”

  “Yeah. Seventy thousand. I need you to bring that money down here and get me out of here right now,” he told her, not wanting to spend another second in the nasty jail.

  “I’m on my way, daddy.”

  Crystal quickly ran upstairs to Kendu’s safe, punched in the combination, and took out $90,000 just in case. She quickly tossed the money in her Louis Vuitton bag and headed back downstairs. “Can you keep an
eye on Jessica for me until I get back?”

  “Of course, I will.” Diamond watched Crystal hurry out the door. Inside she felt bad that another woman was loving her husband the way she was supposed to love him. She had made a big mistake by leaving Kendu, and now she was paying for it.

  Perry sat outside of Kendu’s house staked out like he’d been doing every night. He wanted to kill Diamond so bad, his hand began to shake uncontrollably. He’d never wanted to kill a person more than he wanted to kill Diamond right now.

  As he sat parked across the street he saw Crystal storm out of the house and hop in Diamond’s car and zoom out of the driveway. Perry didn’t know what was going on, but he knew he was tired of waiting. It was time for him to make a move. He hopped out of his car and walked over and popped the trunk. The first thing he did was remove his blue mechanic suit and put it on over his clothes. Once Perry zipped up his suit, he immediately felt invincible. He grabbed his duffel bag from out the trunk, headed towards the front door, and knocked lightly.

  When Diamond heard someone knock on the door, she immediately thought it was Crystal. “She must’ve forgot something.” She hopped up and ran to the door. She opened the door, and almost shit on herself when she saw who was on the other side.

  Perry pushed his way inside the house before Diamond got a chance to close the door. “You thought you was going to get away from me, didn’t you?” Perry growled as he slapped Diamond down to the floor. “Think you just going to steal my money then just run off into the sunset with the next nigga? I don’t think so.”

  Diamond tried to crawl to the kitchen, but a sharp kick to her stomach stopped her dead in her tracks.

  “Fuck you think you going?”

  “Please, Perry, you don’t have to do this,” she begged.

  Perry ignored her plea as he roughly sat her in a chair and duct-taped her hands and feet so she couldn’t move.

  Upstairs Jessica sat in her room watching TV, but when she heard a loud commotion downstairs, she quickly ran to the top of the stairs to see what was going on. From the top of the stairs she watched as a man in a blue jumpsuit roughly slammed Diamond onto a chair and began to quickly tape up her hands and feet so she couldn’t move.