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  Reese pounded away, loving all of the control he was having. He was able to get in deep as he wanted and when it felt like he was ready to bust he pulled out.

  “Nooooo, no, wait,” she begged. “Finish fucking me,” she pleaded.

  “Don’t move,” he commanded as he began to plant soft kisses on her neck, shoulders, all down her back. When he got to her ass he spread her cheeks and began licking her crack.

  Nina’s body, from the lips, to her toes, all the way up her back and tits caught fire.

  “What… are… you doing to me?” She shivered.

  Reese kept licking until he was about to cum, then he stood up and got back up into her pussy, while playing with her clit until she could hold out no more. She began cumming and shaking, trembling and screaming. He let loose at the same time, their bodies connecting as one.

  And that’s how Reese came into the picture.

  After he moved those ten keys and laid the pipe he was in. He got someone to drive her U-Haul to Georgia and the two of them rode in his truck. He stayed with her until she found an apartment and transportation. He was her knight in shining armor and the most important thing was he wanted nothing in return. Nina was finally off to starting her new life.

  As soon as she stepped foot onto Georgia soil, Nina took off running. She quickly discovered that as long as you had good credit, getting an apartment in Georgia was a cinch. It only took her two weeks. She and Reese went to a car auction and she walked away with a silver Volvo that looked nice, ran good and most of all it was paid for. She found a chic one-bedroom apartment in Decatur and was quite pleased.

  After Reese went back to New York she buckled down and began job hunting. She didn’t have a degree and the only skill she had was hustling. Fuck working at some fast-food joint, she constantly thought to herself. Telemarketing jobs were plentiful and didn’t require a résumé so that’s what her focus was on. She started calling around and setting up interviews. She learned that just about everything was sold over the phone. Magazines, vacation packages, security systems, furniture and even coupons… you name it they sold it. And it was all bullshit. Getting the consumer to buy stuff they didn’t need.

  She ended up accepting a gig selling magazines. It was a new company, the facility was new, she liked the atmosphere and she didn’t have to travel too far and battle that Georgia gridlock. After she got the job she felt accomplished and on her way to stability. She got settled in less than two months. All during those two months she called home and checked on her children every day. It was excrutiating to talk to them over the phone and not be able to see them. And her baby, she tried not to think about her because Jatana would always bring her to tears. She imagined her wondering why her mother, sister and uncle and auntie Michelle all of a sudden disappeared.

  She had a new cell number and told her mother and Jatana’s grandmother to give it to Jatana’s daddy, Supreme. He stayed into something so he would probably never get out of prison. He was bent on making her life on the outside a living hell. And on top of it all he still hadn’t bothered to call her yet. She knew he was pissed at her for moving out of state and he did keep true to his word. He promised her that she would not take his daughter so far away. He was determined to make her suffer. She couldn’t believe she used to be in love with such a vindictive nigga. Finally, after three months he sent her a message, to not worry about their baby, she was fine.

  Her brother Peedie was finally out of the hospital and doing well, despite being paralyzed from the waist down. He was convalescing and laying low with a woman he knew in Englishtown. The detectives assigned to his shooting kept asking about Darlene’s murder, but he told them nothing. And that was because Nina had told him nothing. Even if she did, Peedie would not violate the code. Nina vowed to herself that one day she would be honest with Peedie and tell him about Darlene’s betrayal and her death. But now was not the time, she decided. Not while Peedie was dealing with his paralysis and maintaining his sanity because of it. The last thing he had said to her was, “Live the life of a square while you’re down there and be safe. I love you, Sis.” That piece of advice Nina took with a tablespoon of salt and two grams of sugar. All she did was go to work and come home. Her plan was to add a lot more money to the stash she already had and buy a big house so that she could send for her children in a year. That was the plan. But so far, the plan was not coming together fast enough, and discouragement was quickly creeping in. After buying everything she would need for starting anew in Georgia and pinching to send money home to her mom for the kids, her stash was lowering somewhere around a little over a hundred grand. And she wasn’t going below the hundred for nothing in the world. Her job was paying the rent, car insurance, gas and providing food, but that’s it. Nina wasn’t saving anything or adding to her stash. Her dead-end job constantly reminded her of when she started hustling, why she never stopped.

  Hustle money was fast and it was huge. She knew that if she did a little something every now and again, she’d be able to stack in a week what it took her months to stack on a job. The hustle that flowed in her veins was starting to call out to her, so discreetly, Nina began to look for a come up.

  Reese started out visiting her two to three times a month and he had her wide open. She was in love with him but was noticing that lately he was only coming once a month. Today was her six-month anniversary living in Georgia and she was celebrating all by herself. She was in her living room getting comfortable preparing to watch a movie before she turned in for the night when she was startled by the sound of someone ringing her bell. Who in the hell is at my door? And at this hour of the night? Nina wondered as she headed to check it out. When she looked out she saw her knight in shining armor, Reese. She quickly opened the door while smiling from ear to ear and jumping into his arms.

  “Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes!” she said excitedly. “And you made it for our six-month anniversary.” She was busy raining kisses all over his face and lips. When she slid off him, Reese flashed his sexy smile. As soon as he stepped inside her apartment, Nina was all over him again. It had been a month since she had seen him and she was jonesing… bad.

  Reese came up for air. “I need to talk to you, Nina.”

  “Well, whatever it is, it is going to have to wait until morning. Maybe I’ll be done with you by then.” She grabbed him gently by the back of his head and began to kiss him passionately while at the same time rubbing her hand up and down his dick. Reese had not planned to sleep with Nina tonight. He made this trip because he was on a mission. He had something important to tell her but she was making it hard for him to stay focused on the task at hand. He could tell that she was glad to see him and had been anticipating his visit. And it was obvious that she was not taking no for an answer.

  “Nina.” He interrupted her. His head was foggy and his dick was ready to put in work.

  “You don’t miss me, big daddy? It’s been a whole month.”

  “Of course I do. But that’s what I need to talk to you about.” He tried once again to do what he came there to do but she was making it hard.

  “Like I said, it’s going to have to wait because I’m gettin’ me some of this dick. Now act like you miss me and haven’t seen me in four weeks. As you see, I have been counting.”

  Damn, he said to himself. Then decided to go with the flow. “We do miss you, girl.” He was kissing all over her neck and had his hand up her pajama top feeling her breasts.

  “I miss you more.” She was breathing heavy and ready to fuck. “Wait a minute. Who is we?” Nina teased.

  “You know who we is.” He took Nina’s hand and slid it down the front of his jeans. “Me and him. And he said he is extremely glad to see you.”

  Nina giggled and ran her hand along the length of his dick. It was stiff and long, just the way she liked it. She slid her thumb back and forth across the head, playing in the pre-cum. “Mmm. I got a few words I need to say to this guy right now,” she purred. She got on her knees and gave hi
m some head.

  They then ended up fucking right there in the hallway but Nina was not done with him. She noticed that he started fixing his clothes. “Uh-uh, I know you don’t think you finished.” She was now pulling him towards her bedroom. They were walking backwards. Nina was tugging at Reese’s shirt and trying to unzip his pants all at once.

  “Wait. Hold up, Nina, we have to talk.”

  “Daddy, all I want to hear come out of your mouth are moans,” she whispered as she continued to get ready to get some more dick. “That was just round one.”

  They made it to the bedroom. She undressed him and Reese was now lying on his back, one hand behind his head the other rubbing his dick. Nina was standing over him holding on to the rail attached to the canopy bed. She was playing with her clit and on the verge of cumming.

  “Hold up, baby, not so fast. Let me finish you off.”

  Nina moved her hand to her breast and spread her legs. Reese climbed over to where she was and started licking her pussy. Nina grabbed on to his head to stabilize her trembling body. Reese kept licking until she pushed his head away. He then lay back down on his back, dick standing straight up. Nina squatted over him backwards, and eased all the way down on his pole, her hands around her ankles. Reese wrapped his hands around hers so she couldn’t move and began pumping up in her slowly. Each time he would slide all the way out of her and would go back in deeper. This drove Nina crazy.

  “Reese,” she moaned. “My spot. Keep hittin’ my spot.” He came out and went in deeper. When he felt her spot he hit it until he felt her pussy muscles strangling his dick, she started cumming, let go of her ankles and fell forward.

  Reese smiled as he hurriedly climbed on top of her limp body and started hitting it from the back until he went limp and fell beside her. She dozed off while Reese rose up and sat on the side of the bed. He lit a blunt and looked around the room. He got up and started packing all of his stuff. After he was done and fully dressed, he rubbed Nina’s back. “Baby, I came to talk to you about something.”

  Nina’s eyes popped open, and when she looked around at his stuff packed her face frowned up and she jumped out of the bed and threw on her robe. “Baby, what’s the matter? Where are you taking your stuff?”

  “Look, Nina. I care about you and I have been trying my damndest to make sure that I don’t cause you any unnecessary heartache.”

  He now had her undivided attention. This didn’t sound good. Nina backed up a little to brace herself for what was about to come out of Reese’s mouth. “Nina, I know it’s been a while since I have been down here. But it’s not just because I’m real busy.” An unsettling pause came over the room and with hesitation in his voice he took a deep breath and said, “I have a family.”

  Nina looked at Reese as if she did not know him.

  “What did you just say?”

  “I have a family, Nina.” He stood up and came towards her.

  She looked at him as if he had lost his mind.

  “You came all this fucking way to tell me you have a family? You could have called me and told me that shit over the phone,” Nina said, unable to mask her disappointment. She turned to walk away from him but he grabbed her arm and she quickly snatched away from him.

  “Nina. I respect you too much to call you on some damn phone and tell you something as sensitive as this. I owe you and respect you more than that.”

  “At least it would have been a littler easier and less embarrassing for me.” She felt as if she was just stabbed in the heart, and was hoping for him to tell her he was only joking. When he didn’t say anything she said, “Look, you don’t owe me anything, Reese. You helped me when I really needed you and I guess I paid all my debts in pussy. But hey, it was good while it lasted.” And she meant that. She was so caught up that she failed to see the signs. He didn’t move in with her, his visits started getting too far in between, shit, he was just too good to be true.

  Reese stood there feeling like shit. “Nina, you know that ain’t right. You know I got mad love for you, and it’s because of those feelings I knew I had to be honest with you. My conscience wouldn’t have it any other way.” He could have kept enjoying the best of both worlds. But from past experience he knew that eventually somebody would have found out.

  Shit, the way I’m feeling you, fuck your conscience. You could have kept that honesty shit to yourself. Nina looked at him with disgust and hurt in her eyes as the tears began to trickle down her cheeks. “Well if you are done being honest, I guess you have a plane to catch.” She proceeded to walk to the door.

  Reese was right behind her. He grabbed her by the arm and pulled her close to him. Nina wanted to resist but his strong arms felt too good wrapped around her. She took a minute to enjoy what she knew would be their last embrace. She thought about all of the contentment and joy he had brought to her. How he was there when she needed someone the most. Then she finally got the strength to break away. “Go, Reese. Don’t make this harder than it already is.” She put her head down and turned to open the door, refusing to look at him. “Go.” Her voice trembled.

  “Nina, don’t be like that.” Reese tried to plead with her.

  “Please, Reese. If you meant any of what you said about how you feel about me, you would just leave.” With that, he walked out of her house and out of her life. She closed the door, slid down on the floor and cried.

  CHAPTER TWO

  GBI

  A year and a half later…

  Congratulations, Bob! You did it! Are you sitting down?” Alexis Greenspan shouted in excitement. She could feel Bob’s adrenaline rush through the phone.

  “Oh God, Alexis. Did I really do it?” Bob could barely contain his breathing.

  “You did it, Bob Tokowski! You have just won your fair share of one million dollars of American Eagle gold coins! One million!” Alexis screamed out. “I told you to hang in there, Bob! The road was rocky, but you did it! Your perseverance paid off. Again, congratulations to ya, Bob! You deserve it! You finally hit the big time.”

  Bob was now crying tears of joy. “Thank… you. Alexis. Oh my God. Thank you.”

  “Now, Bob, I need you to grab your pencil and paper. You must write down this claim number. Go ahead, Bob, grab a pen and a pad.” Alexis could hear Bob piddling around in the background. She heard glass crash, a moan and then a thud. Then there was an eerie silence.

  “Bob! Bob?” Nina heard her own voice call out.

  Click. Agent Houser turned off the recorder. Houser had been lead investigator for the Georgia Bureau of Investigations for the past seventeen years. He had two more years until retirement. Houser reminded you of an older version of the white detective Crockett on Miami Vice. The cool swagger, loose linen trousers, flowery Florida short-sleeved button-up with a few of the top buttons left open. Everyone was beginning to think that in his mind maybe he thought he was the actor. However, at this point in his career he was very ready to retire. His impetigo was spreading and pus was oozing out of the skin infection on his legs. But he told himself it would all be over soon. Retirement, here I come!

  The bright side of his gloomy lining was that he lucked up and got an interview with Nina Coles, aka Alexis Greenspan, aka Kelly Kennedy. She was one of the top salespeople at WMM advertising, aka We Make Millionaires. All of law enforcement knew that this was one of the biggest and hardest-to-penetrate fraudulent telemarketing firms in the state of Georgia. The firm knew all too well how to operate in that gray area.

  Houser had screamed at his team, “Screw the FBI! We can do just as good a job as they can.” He pulled one of the oldest tricks in the book. He sent Nina Coles what appeared to be an official certified-looking letter explaining that she had inherited some money, to the lovely tune of $250,000. The letter stated that she would have to come and get processed to see if she was eligible to claim it. That is how he got her to come down.

  Hell, in her mind she was 99 percent sure that it was a fake document. But she wanted an excuse to go in late to work.
Plus, what if it wasn’t a fake? When she pulled up to the bureau’s fictitious office they had set up down the street, Houser flashed his badge, introduced himself and told her to follow him. She did. To the bureau’s main office.

  “Why are we at the GBI?” Nina’s curiosity was piqued.

  “We have to make sure that you are claiming what’s rightfully yours,” Houser simply stated.

  As they walked past the front desk and down the long, bright, white corridor, Nina got suspicious. “Are you sure I’m here to claim some kind of inheritance?”

  Houser smiled. “Depends on how you look at it.”

  “How I look at it? What does that mean? Don’t have me down here on no bullshit! I got better things to do with my time,” she spat.

  Houser pulled out his keys and unlocked his office door. He moved to the side and motioned for Nina to step inside. “Please have a seat, Ms. Coles. Would you like a cup of coffee? Tea? Bottled water?”

  “No. I just want you to tell me what this is really all about.” Nina was growing agitated. There was obviously no inheritance.

  Houser sat his six-foot-one, two-hundred-pound frame behind his desk. He lifted his spectacles off his nose and rubbed its bridge. He then leaned back into the chair, resting his hands behind his head. Nina cringed at the patches of impetigo on his chin and elbows. He obviously picked up on her discomfort because he hastily sat up, resting his arms on the chair’s armrests. He hit the intercom button on his phone. “Doris, tell Parker and Radcliff to bring the WMM file.”