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CHAPTER 46
 
“S
o what happens now?” Pilar wanted to know. It was a few days after Selah’s big announcement and she was still pissed off. Barron was chilling in a soft leather chair and Pilar was standing behind him massaging the thick knots in his shoulder muscles. “We’re just gonna let that bitch get away with this?”
Barron sighed. He put his head back and Pilar leaned over and kissed his lips. She darted her tongue out and slid it across his teeth.
“C’mon, now.” Barron turned away, then held her wrists and moved her hands away. “We said we wasn’t gonna go there anymore, right?”
Pilar smirked. “That’s what
you
said, Barron. Not me. I said we need to go there a whole lot more.”
She came around in front of him and sat on his lap. She felt his dick jump as she stroked his neck and let her fingers trail down his chest.
“Seriously,” she said. “You’re not gonna just let Mink get away with this, are you? I mean, it’s bad enough that she’s pocketing a hundred grand and her sidekick gets away with twenty-five. But that chick is a fraud, Barron. What’s going to happen if she comes after the trust fund? That’s a lot of money to throw out the window every year. Are you gonna let her get away with that too?” Pilar saw fire enter Barron’s eyes and she felt a spark of heat shoot up from his groin.
“Why can’t you just tell her to go away? DNA test or not, get rid of her ass.”
“It’s not that simple,” Barron explained, “and besides, there’s a chance that we might actually need her vote ... but I’m working on some things, and once I have my plans all lined up and in place, Mink is getting dropped.”
Pilar moved in on him and gobbled up his bottom lip, sucking it gently and stroking it with her warm tongue. “Hurry up and drop that bitch,” she whispered as she arched her back and gyrated her hips on his erection. She shivered as Barron gripped her waist and thrust up to meet the motion of her sweet round ass. “Drop that bitch hard.”
CHAPTER 47
 
N
ow that I had a bank card in my hand, shit was official and me and Bunni really busted loose. We had the run of the joint. We got the drivers to take us for a spin in all the whips, ran the cooks back and forth bringing shrimp and lobster up to our rooms, and we basically acted like the wild little Harlem guttersnipes that we were.
I couldn’t wait to get my ass back to New York! Yeah, Texas was real cool and all that, but I was feenin’ for the City That Never Sleeps. And even with the DNA proof staring at them in black and white from the lab, not everybody wanted to accept the fact that I was part of the family.
Me and cousin Pilar had had us a little showdown, and I was all for that shit because it was definitely overdue. She got up in my face and called me a gold-diggin’ piece of street meat, and I called her a string of foul bitches too.
“Oh shut the fuck up, you broke-ass trick!” I let loose on her like I had a gat under my tongue. “You just salty because you’re not
me
! But I tell you what, ain’t nobody stupid around here. That little kissin’-cousin thang you and Bump-Boy got going on is about to blow straight up, ya heard? You better keep diggin’ deep in his pocket stash while you can, stupaholic, because that dude is
never
gonna marry you.” I looked her up and down and then patted the round hump of my ass. “He might dig you out, but you really ain’t his type.”
 
Selah wanted me to stay in Texas and she just couldn’t stop telling me.
“I can’t believe you’re leaving me when I just got you back,” she cried as her mascara ran down her face.
I put my hand on hers. I had been so hyped over getting that hundred grand that I hadn’t really thought about how pulling up outta Dallas was gonna make her feel. It seemed like everybody had their own crazy reasons for wanting me to stay in Texas. Suge and Dane wanted me to stay so I could get down on their squad when it came time to cast some kinda upcoming stockholder vote. Jock wanted me to stay ’cause his horny ass was still tryna get up in Bunni’s funky stuff. But Selah wanted me to stay because she was convinced that I was her long-lost daughter, and based on that, she loved me.
“I’ma come back real soon,” I lied. “I promise I won’t be gone too long, and I’ll call you a lot too, okay?”
Selah looked a wreck. She’d gotten real clingy and mushy on me over the past few days. She wanted to know every damn thing that had jumped off in my life ever since kindergarten, and I wasn’t tryna drag up no old crazy memories of how I had lived with Jude, so I created some new scenarios and fed her a whole lotta bullshit that just made her cry even harder.
I tried to let Selah hug me as much as she wanted to. It wasn’t that I didn’t like being touched like that, I just wasn’t used to it. I hated to admit it, even to myself, but she was a damn good mark. While she had been busy all this time hoping I was her daughter, I had been busy puttin’ in work. Coming to Texas had been a bomb opportunity to turn some fast money, but now I was ready to break out so I could go on with the rest of my fun little life.
But for Selah, this
was
her life. She had spent so much energy feeling guilty about losing Sable and grieving over her daughter that it had become all she lived for. And now that she had found me, and especially since I was making moves to jet back to New York so soon, she looked real sad and lost.
I hated it for her, I really did. But I knew leaving was the best thing for all of us, and when she asked me if I wanted to go back to the hospital and see Viceroy one last time, I almost screamed out,
Hell the fuck no!
Because even though that man couldn’t talk or point his finger, the look in his good eye and the way those machines started beeping and lighting up as he stared up in my face told me that somewhere in that damaged head of his, Viceroy knew the truth about me. And I knew without a doubt that if he ever got better and had a chance to bust me out to Selah and the rest of the family, he damn sure would.
CHAPTER 48
 
F
inally! We was up in the air celebrating like a mutha! I was so hyped that I coulda flown that plane back to New York my damn self. I had a Coach wallet full of dough, a bank account that was loaded, and nothing but fun new opportunities stretched out in front of me for as far as I could see.
Bunni was lifted too. We had smoked some chronic with Dane before we got in the limo to come to the airport, and right now we were sitting in the first-class cabin in extra-wide seats as Bunni ran them lil flight attendants back and forth with all her fifty thousand requests.
“So check it out. This is how you should do it, Mink.” She batted her false eyelashes and counted off on her fingers. “You got a hundred grand, right? Okay, the first thing you need to do is throw that nine grand on your warrants so they don’t toss your ass under the jail. After that, we should go in half and half and get us a little weight—maybe fifteen to twenty g’s worth—and flip it a couple of times. Not in my building, ’cause that fool Punchie is probably still gunning for you, but maybe somewhere uptown. I got a few places in mind.”
She snapped her fingers and the waitress brought her another shot of Hen-Hen on the rocks.
“After that, you gotta put Gutta’s twenty-five racks to the side for when he gets outta jail, and you better find him a new apartment and get his shit outta storage too! That nigga don’t play when it comes to his cream, so we definitely gotta sit on that money and don’t touch it this time or we could end up dead. But that still leaves us a whole lot more cash to play with!”
“Damn right! Maybe we should take a vacation,” I said with my eyes lighting up. “We should take Peaches with us too.”
“Yeah! Yeah! Let’s take our asses to Jamaica! We gon’ eat summa dat good roti and smoke some trees and get one a dem long-dick island boyz. Wha’ you know about dat shit mon?”
“You so stupid!” I howled. “Jamaicans don’t sound nuthin’ like that!”
“Whateva.” Bunni waved her hand. “However they sound, I want me one that ain’t never left the island. Not one of those dreads that be running around in New York!”
“Well, wherever we go, our asses still gotta shop!” I giggled and took another sip of my drink. “I mean, how we gonna look busting up in Club Wood flossin’ some ancient shit? I need new gear from my wig to my shoes, baby. I feel like hitting a few hot parties when we get home too. You know I wanna make the rounds styling all my new shit so them hater-bitches sitting on your front stoop can faint!”
“Hell yeah!” Bunni screamed all loud and made the flight attendants look at us like we was crazy. “Let’s do that shit, girl! ’Cause ain’t no party like a New York party, and a New York party don’t stop!”
CHAPTER 49
 
B
arron rode in the backseat of the limousine holding his crying mother in his arms. They had just dropped Mink and Bunni off at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and Selah was so broken down by the departure of this lost-and-found daughter of hers that it made Barron hate Mink even more. He glanced back at his brother Dane, who was sitting in the row behind them.
“Is she all right?” Dane whispered, and reached over the seat to pat his mother’s shoulder.
Barron shook his head real quick. Hell no, she wasn’t all right. How the hell could she be okay when that little Harlem bandit had run up in her world and pulled a stickup on her heart?
Barron was fuming, and he swore that no matter what happened with the board’s vote at Dominion Oil, Mink wasn’t getting another dime of his family’s fortune. He was busy pulling together the threads of a scheme in his head when his cell phone buzzed and he reached to answer it.
He frowned when he glanced at the caller ID, then he turned slightly away from his mother and barked into the phone, “Hello?”
The wimpy-ass voice on the other end brought out the beast in him, and Barron had a satisfying flashback of drilling his fist into this idiot’s grill and breaking his fuckin’ nose.
“Um, yes, Mr. Dominion?”
“What do you want?”
“Um, hi. This is Kelvin Merchant at Exclusively DNA... . I’m sorry to bother you, but I just got a report back that I thought you might be interested in. And you know, after what happened the last time we met, I just don’t want to take any chances or mess anything up again.”
“Man, what the hell are you talking about?”
“I’m talking about a lab report. We had another specimen come in this week from a young lady in Philadelphia. I was asked to run tests on her sample and compare the results to your sister Sable’s DNA.”
“Yeah, okay? And?”
“Well the results just came back, and I know you probably don’t wanna hear this but ... umm ... we’ve got another match.”
 
To Be Continued ...
Discussion Questions
 
1.
Mink LaRue is a beautiful and cunning con artist who is all about getting her hands on some quick money. Can she handle the shrewdness and power of the Dominion family? Or is she in over her head?
2.
What kind of doubts and suspicions would you have had if someone like Mink showed up at your door on a crazy misadventure?
3.
What kind of friend is “Bowlegged” Bunni? Was taking her to Texas a good idea?
4.
Barron was cool on Mink immediately. Do you think he would have responded to her in this manner if she wasn’t so sexy and he wasn’t battling such an intense erotic attraction to her?
5.
Pilar is digging for gold. In your opinion, are her and Barron “kissing cousins” or are the traditional family barriers irrelevant because Barron is adopted?
6.
What did you think about the shower scene between Barron and Pilar? Was Barron wrong for getting it on with Carla while Pilar was hiding in the bathroom? Should Pilar have come out and let Carla know she was there?
7.
Uncle Suge is a skirt-chaser. What do you think are his true intentions toward Mink? Does their relationship violate any taboo family boundaries?
8.
Selah is obviously guilty because of her role in losing Sable. Do you think her guilt is clouding her judgment when it comes to Mink being her daughter?
9.
Jock witnessed a tragic event in the pool house. Will Mink finding out about it come back to bite him?
10.
Viceroy Dominion is still in and out of consciousness while his family and the financial empire he built is facing a state of chaos. What do you think he was saying with his eyes when Mink looked down on him in that hospital room?

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