Goldie

I was scared as hell in Theodore's house. I know we caught him off guard and had him out numbered, especially since we came with guns, but I'm still scared of him retaliating. I know he said he'll be cordial with us but after what happened between all of us, there's still bad blood and I can't put anything past him or his family at this point.

As soon as we got back to our parents' house, we all went to our separate corners and didn't speak to each other because there's nothing to be said. We went to Theodore's house for a sole purpose and we accomplished that purpose, with much persuasion on Marquis's end. It took a lot to convince him to put his feelings aside and just meet up with Theodore so we could discuss business and I'm actually surprised he was able to hold himself together for the little meeting. It's just a wonder what he'll be like in the future.

I walked into my old bedroom that I had cleaned up since being back home. I moved out of my parents' house a few years ago and I hadn't been back since. I had been on my own since I moved out and my room hadn't been touched since I left. So after we killed out parents, I had to do something with my room since I'm going to be staying here for now. I had to clean it and move things around to make it more comfortable for myself, even though this is the last place I want to be. If it was up to me, I'd be living far away from my family and alone. I really wouldn't have anything to do with my family but at this point in time, they're my lifeline and I need the money.

I locked the door behind myself and plopped down in my bed, not feeling good about that whole encounter with Theodore. I know Precious and Marquis will be pissed if they find out I'm doing this but I'm gonna have to keep it a secret for now. I need to reach out to Theodore because I miss him and I miss what we had. I know I'm partially to blame since I wasn't completely truthful with him but he has to understand where I'm coming from. I can't just go telling my family business to everyone, just like he can't. Because he didn't tell me about the shit he does until the very end of our relationship.

Hoping he hadn't changed his number, I pulled my phone out of my purse and called him. Damn. I really hope he picks up the phone and doesn't just ignore me. I mean, he has to have feelings for me still because I still have feelings for him. His feelings just can't disappear because of one altercation between our families.

"What?" he answered.

"Prince...," I trailed off. I really wasn't expecting him to answer so I was caught off guard when I heard his voice.

"Why are you calling my phone?"

"Because I wanted to talk to you one on one, without my siblings around."

"Why?"

"I just wanted to talk to you, damn. Prince, I don't know why it's so much animosity between the two of us. I know I wasn't completely truthful to you but you weren't completely truthful to me either. You had me thinking you were just running a club but you're out doing other shit. The both of us were in bad positions and couldn't just outright say what our families do so just give me a break. I'm not a bad person, and you know this. I was just trying to protect my family the same way you're trying to protect yours."

"Okay."

I sighed. "But do you understand where I'm coming from though? Like, you really can't be mad at me for what happened. I can't control my brother either because he's a grown ass man. I'll admit, he was wrong to try fighting you in your own house and for disrespecting Princess and I checked him about it. And I'm sorry about just walking into your house today and having a gun around Princess, tha--"

"Aye, shut the fuck up," he cut me off, making me scrunch up my face.

"Excuse me, what?"

"You heard me. Shut the fuck up discussing business over the phone. You were raised in the same type of family I was raised in and you know better than to be talking shit like this over the phone because anybody can be listening. If you want to talk to me then you're gonna have to do it in person."

I sighed. "Okay. When and where can we meet then?"

"Meet me at my club in an hour. Don't bring your family, don't bring no weapons and don't be on no goofy shit either. Come there alone and ready to talk to me."

"Okay. I'll see you soon."

I held the phone up to my ear and waited on him to respond but he didn't. All I heard was the dial tone. Damn. I was really hoping he'd say something else to at least show me he still had feelings for me but I guess not. Maybe I just need to give up hope on our relationship, because based on our families, I don't think anything good will come out of the two of us seeing each other but that doesn't mean I have to lose hope in our relationship. I actually did love Theodore. We both loved each other and we fell in love with each other quickly but that doesn't mean our love wasn't real.

I ended the call and climbed out of my bed so I could change clothes. I wanted to look good if I was going to see Theodore. I walked into my closet and looked at the small amount of clothes I had. Most of my clothes were from years ago before I moved out. I had a few clothes but nothing good enough to see Theodore in, so I was gonna have to suck up my feelings and go into my Mama's room for something to wear. I know she has expensive taste and she dressed nicely, so I'm sure I'll be able to find something in her room.

I quietly walked out of my room and stood in the hallway so I could hear what Precious and Marquis were doing. I heard them go into their bedrooms but I couldn't hear them now that I'm standing in the hallway, so I made my way down the hallway to my parent's old bedroom. I really hope Precious hasn't raided her closet yet because I really need a cute outfit for tonight. I grabbed the doorknob and quietly twisted it as I pushed the door open. Their bedroom looked like it had been touched. Matthew's side looked like it was touched and I know Marquis did it. But it didn't look like Mama's side had been touched yet.

I quietly closed the door behind myself and made sure to lock it so nobody could come in here on me. I made my way across the room to Mama's closet and pulled the doors open. Damn. I really hit the jackpot. Mama had Gucci, Fendi, Chanel and Louis Vuitton bags sitting around the closet like she had just went shopping and hadn't taken the stuff she bought out of the bags yet. Most of her clothes still had the tags on them and her jewelry was just shining.

I walked right up to the bags and looked inside of them. There was a Chanel purse in one of the bags so I grabbed that bag for myself, then I went on to the Gucci bag and frowned once I saw the jumpsuit inside. It was cute but too much to just be meeting up with Theodore, so I started looking at the stuff she had hanging in her closet. It was a lot to look at since most of it was just over the top clothes, so I just settled on a pair of jeans and a Versace blouse, which both still had the tag on them. I then went to her shoes and immediately spotted the red bottoms she just recently got. I've had my eyes on these for months, so I grabbed the heels, picked up some jewelry and ran out of her room just as quickly as I had snuck in.

"Going somewhere?"

Before I could even make it to my room, I abruptly stopped in my tracks and turned to marquis. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me. Don't play dumb now little girl. Where are you going and why do you have Mama's stuff?"

"I'm going out."

"Where and with who? 'Cause I know you ain't about to hang out with that nigga Prince."

"For your information, I'm not. I actually have to finalize some things with my classes so I'm going up to campus to speak with one of my professors, since you want to know so much," I lied. "Do you need to know the exact coordinates of where I'm going and my professors social security number too?"

Marquis sighed. "Nah, I'm good. I'll figure it out my damn self, but don't let me hold you up. You can leave."

"I didn't know I needed permission," I said as I began walking back to my room.

"Well now that Pops isn't around, somebody has to check you to make sure you ain't out here embarrassing the family again."

"Like you?"

"Nah, I've never been an embarrassment. Mama and Pops adorned me and wished all of their children were like me. You're the fuck up."

"I'm the fuck up, but you were kissing Matthew's ass all of your life. At least I was able to speak out against them and give us some freedom, but you were too scared to even do that. All you wanted to do was be up under Matthew and now that he isn't here, you have to be assert your authority on me because you don't have anybody else to control. Newsflash Marquis, we're on the same level now and I don't take orders from you, Precious or anybody else and I don't need anybody controlling me. I got rid of your father because he was controlling me, don't make me do the same to you," I warned him as I walked into my bedroom.

My heart was beating fast by the time I made it back to my bedroom. I was more than sure Marquis would be beating my door down to start an argument with me about what I just said but he never came back to my door, thankfully. I made sure to lock my door just in case he got some ideas though. I can't run the risk of him thinking I'm doing anything behind his back. He'll flip if he thinks I'm doing something behind my back.

After taking a shower and getting dressed in the clothes I took from Mama's closet, I made my way across the city to Theodore's club so I could meet up with him. I climbed out of my car, sighing. I really hope Theodore will hear me out and not be so close minded like he can normally be since he's so stubborn.

I walked into Theodore' club and immediately felt feelings of nostalgia rush over me. I haven't danced or been in here in months and it kind of felt good being back. I saw many of the girls I used to work with, the old bouncers and the way the club was set up was exactly the same. Nothing changed since I've been gone.

"Goldie, it's so good to see you're back."

I turned around and was greeted by Tone, Theodore's driver and one of the bouncers at the club. I slightly smiled. "Well, I'm not technically back."

"What do you mean? The club just hasn't been the same without you. You know, we don't get your normal clients coming in and don't tell nobody I told you this, but Beauty only has a few months left here."

I scrunched up my face. "Why? What's going on?"

"She's old as fuck," he whispered, making me laugh. "And the old bitch is washed up. Ain't nobody coming in here to see her like they used to because she don't move the same either. She's wrinkled and fat."

My eyes widened. "Tone! Don't say that! She is getting up there though. How old is she know?"

Tone shrugged his shoulders. "Hell if I know. The bitch probably older than me and my old ass is pushing 40. You let these bitches run you out of this club or something? Is that why you ain't here?"

I sighed, shaking my head. "No, that's not the reason I'm not here anymore. I've moved on to bigger and better."

"Where?" he chuckled. "'Cause if you ain't here, where you gon' be and make the same kind of money you made here? Ain't no other clubs in the city hitting like this one, so where you working at now?"

"I'm not dancing anymore."

Tone smirked. "Oh, you one of them stripper turned college bitches like Mocha, right?"

I rolled my eyes. "Never," I replied. "I can't even believe you'd compare me to that bitch. Unlike her, I'm actually in a real school and I wasn't trying to make a career out of stripping. I own a business now."

His eyes widened. "Oh, really? You working with Prince?"

"Nope. It's actually a family business. Prince isn't involved in my business."

"So what are you doing here then? 'Cause Prince told me you'd be stopping by and if you aren't dancing or tryna talk to him on a business tip, then I might not be able to let you back to his office. You know how Prince feels about guests showing up without a purpose because his time is extremely valuable. I can't send you back if you're going to waste his time."

I frowned. "Seriously Tone? How long have you known me? You know I'm not like these others broads out here just looking to waste Prince's time. Now, let me go back to his office Tone, damn. My fuckin' time is valuable too."

Tone held a stern frown on his face but eventually smiled. "Yeah, I know you ain't like these bitches. I was just giving you a hard time but when you coming back to the crew? I know you ain't down with the club scene no more but I miss seeing you around and I think Prince does too," he rambled as he walked me to the back where Prince's office was. "Shit ain't been the same since you stopped coming around, even Prince done changed. Nigga be acting all quiet and sad and in his feelings and shit now that you ain't around to keep him mellowed out."

I sighed but part of me felt all right on the inside, knowing he actually had feelings for me and was missing me the same way I was missing him. I'm sure he won't admit how he's feeling but at least I know he still has some type of feelings for me. "Look, I know this is kind of personal Tone, but do you know what he's been doing around here? You know, like with the other girls."

"I'm not supposed to say because I'm not supposed to be watching Prince that closely."

"But I know you do because it's your job. Why are you acting like this?"

"Why you questioning me so much? It's apart of my job description to look after Prince and follow behind him but it's not in my job description to relay his personal life to anyone aside from him...but I'll make an exception to you. I'll only tell you a little bit though. I haven't seen him fucking around with any other bitches since you haven't been around. I'mma be honest, whatever happened between the two of y'all really fucked him up. He comes out to make his rounds around the club but he isn't out drinking, smoking or just having a good time like he used to. Most of the time, he's in his office by himself. You really hurt my nigga."

I sighed. Maybe Theodore was just hiding his feelings. "Well I didn't mean to. Things just happened and we ended up breaking up but honestly, I didn't want to and I don't think he did either but shit just happened."

"Maybe Tone can play match maker for y'all."

"I think we're too far gone for that," I chuckled as we approached Theodore's office. I was nervous as soon as we stepped foot in front of his office but I wasn't going to let my nervousness show on the outside. "But I do appreciate the effort though. Thank you."

"It's no big deal Goldie. You know you was my favorite stripper."

I rolled my eyes even though I couldn't help but laugh. "I don't know if you're being genuine or throwing shade, so I don't know if I should say thank you or smack you across the face."

"You fine, so I might just let you do both."

I rolled my eyes, turning my back on him. "Goodbye Tone!"

"Alright, goodbye gorgeous," he laughed as he walked away from me.

I took a deep breath and turned to his office door. I was beyond nervous but I gotta do what I gotta do since I came all the way across the city just to see him. I knocked on the door and it immediately opened up. Beauty walked out of Prince's office with a smirk on her face and her shirt in her hands. She was only wearing a bra and panties, which pissed me off. Was Tone just lying to me about Prince staying low key to get me in my feelings? Because based on what I'm seeing, it doesn't look like he's trying to stay low key. It looks like he's back to his old ways.

Beauty stepped in front of me. "I can't believe you actually showed your face around here again. I thought you would've had a little bit more decency about yourself to let this fling go you had with Prince. I mean, what more needs to be done to get you to stay away from him? I already had him before you got him, I was fucking him while y'all were together and I'm really fucking him now that you're not around anymore. And we can't forget about the little stunt you pulled on Banga the night I came to your apartment. You don't think I knew it was you that hit him in the head with a pot?"

"I figured you knew since you went running like a little ass bitch the moment he hit the ground. And I find it funny that you're taking pride in sleeping with a man that you knew was in a relationship. It's nothing good about being a sideline. Side chicks don't win sweetie, ever."

Beauty smirked. "Then why was I just with your man then sweetie?"

I shrugged my shoulders, stepping closer to her so we were chest to chest. "I don't know. Maybe because you're an old nasty whore. You need to stop sleeping with your boss."

"Oh, why? I'll be just like you then. Bitch, don't play the victim now. We all already know why you always got the most shifts and never showed up to most of them. It's because you were screwing Prince and he was paying you for the shifts you never showed up to and you were repaying him by getting on your knees for him."

I smirked. "Yeah, you're completely right but you wanna know what's so funny?"

"What?" she asked, folding her arms across her chest.

"You and all the rest of these bum bitches around here were on your knees for Prince but you never got any extra shifts, and money nor were any of y'all his girlfriend. So, I guess I won."

"You might have won this battle but you sure haven't won the war. Watch your back bitch."

I frowned. "You do the same whore." She shoved past me and I stepped into Prince's office and saw that he was sitting on the edge of his desk, more thank likely listening to our conversation. "P-Prince, I didn't know you'd be sitting here."

"Why? It's my office, why wouldn't I be sitting here?"

I closed the door behind myself. "Did you hear that?"

"Every single word."

"So, you were fucking her?"

He slightly shrugged his shoulders. "Yeah, I probably slid up in her a few times. Why?"

"When we were together?"

"Maybe, maybe not."

I sighed. Damn. He was really cheating on me when we were together. Well, that shows why he's been so emotionless. He probably never cared about me and probably only moved me in with him to keep my mouth closed about his lifestyle. "Seriously? I was faithful to you throughout our entire relationship."

"I doubt it. You were up here stripping most days so it's not telling what you were doing."

"You know how I felt about you though."

"I did."

"So how could you cheat on me? I thought you said I was the best you ever had. How could you do this to me?"

"It's pretty simple, actually."

I frowned. "You know what, if you're going to be a dick then I'm just gonna leave."

"Bye."

I turned around and started walking towards the door. I really wanted to turn around and smack him in the face, kick him in the balls,or do something that would make him hurt as much as it hurt finding out he was cheating on me, so I stopped in my tracks and turned back around so I was facing him. "You know, you're really a piece of fucking shit. I fuckin' hate you!"

Theodore chuckled. "I'm a piece of shit but you came in my crib with a gun around my daughter!"

"I never even used it. I wouldn't hurt Princess."

"But your brother would, wouldn't he?"

"Maybe but that's not me. I wouldn't hurt her."

"Fuck you Goldie for bringing that nigga in my house."

"Fuck you too!"

"Fuck me?" he chuckled. "For what? I wasn't nothing but a real nigga to you the entire time we were together."

I frowned. "Fuck you for fucking being alive and coming into my life and fucking it up. How were you real to me when you were fucking Beauty behind my back the entire time?"

"Are you dense? I was never fuckin' her behind your back! I haven't even fucked her in like two years! She's constantly coming in here trying to fuck me, taking off her clothes and giving me private shows but I can't fuck her. I don't touch her or any bitches anymore. I can't fuck any of these bitches around here anymore."

"Why? Why can't you just stick your dick in bitches like you did to me? You can take advantage of them too!"

"Because you fucked me up!"

"How?"

"Because I can't stop thinking about you! Every time these bitches are in here trying to seduce me, I keep thinking about you. Every time I see you, I wish shit was different between the two of us because I can't stop these feelings I have for you. I fuckin' love you Goldie, so damn much girl."

"I love you too Prince," I said, stepping closer to him. I stepped in front of him and wrapped my arms around his neck. "I miss you so much. I'm constantly thinking about you every chance I get. I swear I didn't mean to come into your house this morning the way we did but I knew it would be the only way to get your attention."

He sighed as he leaned up against his desk, never wrapping his arms around me. "I miss you a lot too but you know this won't work, especially with our families constantly trying to dictate our lives."

"So then we won't tell them," I said as I pushed my body closer to his. "Do you love me a lot?"

"You already know I do."

"Then what's the issue?"

"You know they don't want us to be together. Your parents would kill you and me."

"My parents are dead," I informed him. "They're out of the picture now, so is Imani and so is Banga. Fuck all of them."

Theodore scrunched up his face. "How'd they all die? The fuck did you do?"

"Nothing," I frowned, looking down but he lifted my face up.

"Nah, you did something. Tell me what happened and tell me why you got so many bruises on your arms and why you got a cut under your lip. The fuck you been doing?"

"It was my father. He locked me up in the basement for five days and had these big bitches beat my ass every single day to try to convince me to join our family business. I was completely against it because I knew he'd want to hurt you if I did and I don't agree with the things he does so I held out for as long as I could, then he bought Banga down to the basement and I think he did it on purpose. Banga hurt me and took advantage of me and nobody in my family did anything to help me so Marquis and I devised a plan to get rid of all of them by poisoning them with potassium chloride," I rambled because part of me felt obligated to tell him the truth. He might not be able to do anything to help the situation now that it's over but I just wanted him to know what was happening to me when we weren't together.

"Why did you call me or something?"

I sighed. "Because I knew how you'd react. You wouldn't want to talk to me."

"I could've helped you."

"But you would've been too stubborn to even pick up the phone, but it's fine. I'm a grown woman and I handled it all on my own."

"Where are the bodies?"

"I got rid of them," I assured him. "Trust me, I've seen my Dad do it plenty of times to know how it goes down. I disposed of the bodies and there was no one around to know what happened to them."

"What's gonna be your alibi? Because if some cops show up, you can't just act like you don't know what happened to your parents."

"I'm gonna say that we had a dinner planned for them and they never showed up."

"Sounds good as a start but you're gonna need more. The cops are gonna ask why y'all never went looking for them or why y'all didn't put out an Amber Alert and file a report with them."

"My parents go missing all the time because they just up and go on trips, truthfully. We'll just say we thought they went on another one of their elaborate trips and took Imani with them, that's why it took us so long to file a missing person's report."

"Good and what about the bodies?"

"Chopped up and burned. The police will never be able to find them and the house was cleaned from top to bottom."

Prince nodded his head. "Good, good."

"Back to us," I smiled, trying to pull him close to me but he wouldn't budge. "Prince, please. What about us?"

"You know we can't be together."

"Why? I wanna be with you and you wanna be with me. The only thing stopping us before was my family and now that they're gone, we can be together."

"What about my family though? You know they gon' have a lot of shit to say. I wanna be with you but I'm not trying to ruin my family because of it."

I sighed, removing my arms from around his neck. "So what are we gonna do then? Are we gonna keep our relationship a secret then?"

"I respect you too much to do that."

"So what are we gonna do then? Because I want to be with you and I'm willing to risk everything to do that," I said as I slid my hand into his. "We can keep it a secret for as long as we possibly can. It'll be just like old times, you know when I was coming in giving you private shows after hours because I thought you were cute and you were too scared to touch your newest employee. Then I eventually broke you down and you taught me some new things, you know, the kinky stuff you like me to do," I smirked. "If we could keep it a secret for eight months before, then I'm more than sure we'll be able to keep it a secret for now."

He sighed as he tightened his grip on my hand. "You sure you wanna do this? Ion like sneaking around."

"If it's the only way I'll be able to see you then yes."

Prince's tight frown finally turned into the smile I had been waiting on. He kept my hands intertwined in his as he pushed me away from him, but only slightly. He used this as his opportunity to gaze at me, look me up and down, take in what he had been missing out on for over a month.

"Go lock the door baby," he instructed and I obeyed him.

I raced over to the door and as soon as I got back to Prince, he grabbed me by the waist and laid me back on his desk. I was laying on top of papers, pens and whatever else he had spread across the desk but I didn't care at this point. All I wanted was to be as close to Prince as I possible could be, even if that mean getting it in, in the middle of the day on top of his cluttered desk.

I held my screams back when he started pushing himself inside of me. He didn't even bother taking my panties off, he just pushed them to the side and fit into me like a glove. My back slammed up against the desk each time he thrust into me and I think he was getting some enjoyment out of this. He smiled at me every time he was in me balls deep because I was taking it. I wanted to scream or moan or do something but I knew I had to be quiet if we were trying to keep things on the low.

"You like that shit?"

"Yes Daddy," I moaned, bringing my arms up around his neck.

"Good. Hold on then."

Before I could even respond, he reached under me and picked me up so my legs were wrapped around his waist while he continued thrusting inside of me. I threw my head back, meeting his stroke with my own. I bounced up and down on him, riding him until we both reached our climaxes but that didn't stop us. We just kept going because at this point, I knew the two of us wanted each other more than we could even imagine.

Milan

It had been weeks of being handcuffed to the pipes under the bathroom sink. Teddy and Victoria would occasionally give me a few sips of water or they'd give me dry oatmeal, but never any real food. And they even stopped coming in every hour to harass me like they used to do. I've had nothing but time to think while I was in the bathroom, so I can honestly say, I think the two of them are seeing each other again because they don't have time to bother me anymore. They're so preoccupied with each other that they don't even pay attention to me.

But they started paying attention to me when Teddy had to leave for California to do something with his team out there. Victoria finally let me out of the bathroom after being handcuffed for over a month and she even let me eat real food. Now, here I am, sitting at the island in the kitchen while she watches me scarf down every piece of food in sight.

Victoria turned her nose up at me. "Just disgusting," she shook her head. "I figured you would've known how to eat with manners."

I pulled the cold piece of steak away from my mouth and looked up at this old, wrinkly bitch. "Well you try being held against your will with barely any food or water for over a month and let's see how you react when you see food."

"Nothing like you sweetie. I'm civilized."

"Sure," I sarcastically replied.

"You know, you've got a lot to say for someone that can easily be dug back upstairs. I was giving you food to keep you barely hanging on for life. It wasn't because I cared, because I could give less than a fuck about you. I was keeping you alive for a reason. And trust me sweetie, you can go right back tot he bathroom you came from if you wanna keep running your damn mouth."

I rolled my eyes, unphased by her comment. She knows she can't drag me back up the steps without Teddy's help and since he's in California, I wont be going back upstairs to that bathroom any time soon. "So what was the reason for you keeping me alive? Because the way I see it, I could go to the police and tell them exactly what you and Teddy did to me and the two of you will be going down for years."

"Shut up Mulan. My reasoning behind not letting you just die off is pretty simple. Teddy and I have a plan which will virtually exclude you from our family, meaning all ties to my family are caught off. And I'll even put it in words you'll be able to understand, you won't be living here, you won't be in communication with anyone in my family especially Teddy and my son, you won't come around my family, you won't be living in Georgia and I won't have to see your pathetic, miserable face ever again in my life. Do you understand that?"

I frowned. "No I don't."

"Well, why not? I thought I simplified it enough for a woman of your educational deficits."

"What makes you think I'm just going to up and leave and stop talking to your family? You can't force me to leave and neither can Teddy. And if the two of you think handcuffing me up in a bathroom is going to do anything, it's going to make me rat you all out to the police. So, unless you're speaking to me with some rational options, I don't want to hear it."

Victoria smirked. "Of, you're going to hear everything I have to say sweetie, whether you like it or not. Your ass is gonna listen to me but you're really going to listen to Teddy."

"How? He's not even here. And I though big, bad Victoria could do everything on her own. I didn't know Victoria needed Teddy to be around to amen everything she does. Oh, or Victoria must be a fruad and must be putting on this tough act to make is seem like she has balls."

"Baby, I don't have balls but my man does," she smirked. "You should be thankful Teddy is going to be here to make things more rational, because if it were up to me, you'd be floating in the Savannah River right now so instead of constantly running that big ass mouth of yours to Teddy, you should be thanking him. He's the one who came up with this plan to spare your life for the time being."

"So what's the plan?"

"You need to wait until Teddy gets here."

"And how long will that be? Because if I'm not mistaken, he's in California."

"Well you're very mistaken because he's not in California. His plane just landed a couple of hours ago and he had to make a stop somewhere so he should be here any minute and hopefully he comes to his senses and just offs your ass like I suggested he do over a month ago. You don't deserve anything good coming for you."

"And neither do you. You tied me up for over a month and fed me try ass oats to try to compensate for food. I always figured Theodore was just over exaggerating when he said you used to feed him oats and when he told me about how evil and wicked you are and I should've believed him. You're so cold-hearted and bitter, it's a wonder Teddy didn't leave you sooner than he did. I wouldn't even be talking to you and now I can see why your children don't. You're such a miserable ass bitch."

Victoria smiled as she shrugged her shoulders. "Thank you. I take pride in making your life a living hell."

"You need to get a life."

"I have one."

"That doesn't involve trying to ruin my life, because unlike you, I was contempt with my life until you moved your old ass up into the house I share with my husband. You broke us up by weaseling into our relationship and all the stress you put me under caused me to lose my baby. You broke up my family."

Victoria shrugged her shoulders. "Oh, well. You lose 'em the same way you get 'em."

"I never stole Teddy away from you! He came into my arms because you were mistreating him."

"Teddy is a grown man and if he can't take being checked then he doesn't need to be in a relationship with me, but guess what? Teddy and I are back together and even better than ever."

"And I hope he cheats on you again, for the second time? Or has it been more than twice?"

Victoria shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know, I can't remember but since you're keeping tabs on me and what was going in my relationship, why don't you tell me the number of times you cheated on Teddy with my son? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? What's the number."

"Probably over a hundred times," I smiled because I knew it would get under her skin. Victoria was trying to keep calm on the outside but I knew she was pissed on the inside. "And I should've fucked him in your bed too, but don't worry, because just like you and Teddy, me and Theodore will be back together and even better than ever," I mocked her. I hate how she always thinks she's better than everybody else. "You won't be able to stop us."

"Oh, darling, Theodore has moved on and it's about time you do the same thing. And of course I wouldn't let your filthy ass on my five hundred dollar sheets. You're too much of a slut to just go throwing away five hundred dollars like that. But I'm sure you tried to fuck my ex-fiancee on them, didn't you?"

I scrunched up my face. "No. I didn't even like him like that," I told her. I didn't even reach out to Jayvion, somehow, he got my number and reached out to me about finding out what was going on with Teddy and Victoria. Around that same time, I had lost my baby so I was furious and just met up with him one day and started telling him everything that was going on, from the two of them going out for dinner every night, sleeping in the same bed every night and spending majority of the day together. "I was only telling him about what you were doing with my husband."

"Why?" she folded her arms and I could tell I had her pissed off, exactly how I wanted her to be.

"Well, my reasoning's are pretty simple," I mocked her. "I wanted you away from my husband and out of my house. You created this wall between Teddy and I and ruined our relationship, all because you were too cheap to stay in a hotel. But looking back on it, I don't even think you were being cheap. I think you just wanted to come down here and torment me by seducing Teddy because he'll do just about anything you tell him to do so I spilled every last drop of tea I had on you to Jayvion. I never had sex with him nor did we do anything besides talking but he did give me a cute little Chanel bag of yours filled with cash in exchange for me to spill everything I knew about you," I smirked. "I think it was about ten grand in the purse. How much of a dent did it put in your bank account?"

"No dent," she yawned, looking at her finger nails. "Quite frankly, I didn't even know the money was gone so it didn't even scratch my account and if you're getting wet off of ten grand, baby you can keep it because it's more where that came from. And you can keep the cheap ass bag too. I already got a new one and guess who bought it for me?"

"Who?" I rolled my eyes because I knew it was Teddy. I remember seeing him come in a few weeks ago with purses for her.

"Your loving husband," she said as I heard the front door open. "Oh and I think that's your loving husband right now. Teddy, baby! We're in the kitchen, darling!"

I rolled my eyes. With the two of them together, I knew I was about to hear some crazy shit so I finished off the last few pieces of my steak before preparing myself for when Teddy came into the kitchen. He walked into the kitchen with two duffle bags in his hands and an all grey Nike sweatsuit. Teddy was looking good, he always did, but I knew our relationship was over and now that he's back with Victoria, he's really off limits. She's so territorial, it's a wonder she's even letting me look at him for this long without bugging out.

"You can stop ogling my man any day now darling," Victoria said as she shoved past me on purpose. She walked right up to Teddy, grabbed the back of his hand and pulled him down to kiss her. I honestly wanted to throw up at the sight of her kissing my husband but I held my throw up down and my need to pounce on this miserable ass bitch. Victoria pulled away from Teddy and stood beside him with her arms folded and a smirk on her face. "You're still looking. You must have liked the show."

"I was disgusted the entire time," I informed her which just made her and Teddy shrug their shoulders.

"You gotta be lying," he said as he dropped the two duffle bags on the floor and they hid the floor with a loud thud. I wonder what they have in here. "I see you looking at the duffle bags and yes, they're yours. I know Victoria only touched on the plan with you so I'm only going to give you an overview of what's about to happen because it's going to change my life, Victoria's and mainly yours. There's five million dollars cash in the duffle bags and it can all be yours if you sign the divorce papers, leave your phone and any electronics with me and if you leave the state. I don't know where you can go nor do I care about where you're going but you're gonna have to get the hell out of Georgia. I don't want you around me any longer and I don't need you corrupting my family any longer either, so are you cool with the plan?"

Five million dollars just to leave this jackass and his puppet? Of course I'll take the money. "How long will I have to be gone?"

"Forever," Victoria butted in. "We don't want to see or hear from you ever again, so what's your decision? Because I really hope you take the money. I don't feel like offing your ass today and dumping your body in the river."

"Victoria's right. I'm risking a lot doing this for you and I'm trying to make this transaction as clean as possible so I think it'll be in your best interest to just take the money and go."

"What about my family? I just can't leave them."

"You can and you will or you won't get the money, simple as that," Victoria replied, making me roll my eyes.

"Well, I need some time to think about this," I told them. Leaving sounded wonderful but I can't just up and leave my family. I'm an only child so my parents will notice if I'm gone. And based on how they're explaining this to me, I think I'm supposed to just disappear. Five million dollars sounds great but not at the expense of losing my family and my entire life. And I can't just leave Theodore either. He and I have so much unfinished business together, that I couldn't leave him either. "Can I sleep on it for a day or two?"

"Fuck no!" Victoria yelled. "Teddy, go get the chainsaw for this bitch!"

Teddy sighed. "Wait, we gotta give her a chance to think this through. I'll give you 48 hours to think about a decision but after 48 hours, you're either getting the money and getting on the first flight out of here or we're taking you to the shed in the backyard with the chainsaw. The options are simple, all you have to do is make the right choice and you'll be living a life of luxury. But you know we can't let you go right?"

I scrunched up my face. "What? Why? If I decide to leave, I want to tell my parents I'm leaving."

"Get it through your thick skull dummy. You're supposed to disappear, meaning, you don't tell anybody you're leaving or where you're going. All you have to worry about is vanishing and never being seen again. And nobody cares about your damn parents no ways. And as much as you like to bull shit around, they'll be dead by the time we get a decision from you so you don't even have to worry about seeing them," Victoria told me before turning back to Teddy. "It's time baby."

I scrunched up my face. "Time for what?"

Before I knew it, Teddy had came behind me with a warm rag in his hands and pressed it up against my mouth and nose. I was struggling beneath him to get him off of me or to get the rag off of my face but it was no use when Victoria grabbed on to my arms to restrain me. I don't know what they put in the rag, but almost instantly, I felt the pressure of the rag being shoved against my face loosen, as well as Victoria's grip on my body. My body soon became limp, lifeless and I couldn't move. All I could see was darkness.

Lindsey

Lindsey: I'm outside. Come out.

Adonis: I'm coming.

I stood on the porch of Adonis' house and banged on the door as hard as I could. I sent him the text about Jazmine messing around on Aubrey weeks ago and he still hasn't responded to my message. I figured, by now, he would've responded and we would've been able to come up with a plan to break the two of them up but I haven't even gotten a response from him, which is weird.

The door swung open, revealing Adonis' baby mama, who's name I never cared to remember. My family would call her by her name occasionally but I'd mainly hear Adonis calling her Baby Mama or some other degrading name, so that's what I plan on calling her too.

"What the hell are you doing at my house?"

I smiled. "Well, it's good to see you too Baby Mama and if I'm not mistaken, this is Adonis' house."

"No, this is my house now. Adonis and are are living together and working on our relationship for our son. We're even talking about getting married."

"And that's great for you," I sarcastically replied, rolling my eyes. I didn't need to know her life story, because quite frankly, I don't care. "Where's my cousin at? I need to talk to him."

She smirked. "Oh, the cousin you're trying to sleep with? He's upstairs asleep in our bedroom. We had such wild sex last night and this morning that he just passed right out. You know, that's what a real woman can do for him that's not his cousin. Instead of being worried about my man and sabotaging somebody else's relationship because you're so bitter and miserable, why don't you focus on finding a father for your son. I'm sure he's gonna need one since it's been...how many years of you bouncing from dick to dick with no success?"

"The same amount of years it took you to finally settle down with Adonis after he's cheated on you...how many times after bouncing from girl to girl? And you need to stop worrying about what I have going on in my life and focus on your own. This is the first time in weeks Adonis has seen his son. You aren't winning bitch."

"And neither are you hoe. It might be weeks but your son hasn't seen his father all of his life. And I'm focused on my life, maybe you need to get one to focus on. You know, there are plenty of men in Atlanta and none of them are your cousin. Look," she said as she stepped out of the house and stood right in front of me. "I'm not gonna go back and forth with you, because unlike you, I have a man waiting on me upstairs. I'm just gonna make a few things clear for you baby girl. Don't bring your ass to my house again uninvited. Matter of fact, don't even bring your nasty, hoe ass over here again because you're not wanted. Don't text my man's phone again because every single last message you send to him is going to be deleted like it has been in the past because I have control over his phone and what he does. Face it, you can't sleep with your cousin so move the hell on with your life."

I pushed her back so she was out of my face but I guess I pushed her too hard or something. Her back slammed up against her front door and she almost fell down from how hard I shoved her but I remained still on the other end of the porch. "Back the hell up out of my face bitch. Nobody gives a damn about your mediocre ass relationship. I'll give it a month because you're back across the city in the projects, stripping to make ends meet. You're pathetic and you nee--"

This bitch didn't even let me finish speaking before decking me in the mouth. By now, my lip was busted and all I could see was red so I just attacked the girl but she was hitting me with the same amount of hits I was getting her with. Adonis sure knew how to pick the crazy bitches that can't control themselves. All I did was came over here to try to talk to my cousin, but she just had to go running her mouth about something she knows nothing about. And here I am, fighting this wack ass bitch.

Baby Mama couldn't fight though. It's like she was purposely letting me win this fight and I don't know why but I was gonna take that as my opportunity to whoop her ass the way Adonis should have years ago. I climbed on top of her and just started pounding her face in since she wasn't doing anything to block her face. She wasn't even trying to block her body. The dumb bitch doesn't even know how to defend herself properly. She was just laying on the ground, taking every last punch I was giving her.

I continuously swung my arm back, bashing her over and over again in the face. I clawed at her face and arms with my long nails, making her bleed. There was blood all over the both of us now. I was only bleeding from my busted lip but almost every inch of her body was bleeding now and I couldn't help but to smile. This stupid ass bitch shouldn't be talking shit if she can't defend herself, but I'm not going to kill the girl today. I swung my arm back to fuck her shit up one last time but somebody caught a hold of my arm.

I looked back at the female police officer holding my arms and she immediately pulled me off of Baby Mama and tossed me on the ground as if I was weight less. I looked out at the street and noticed the three police cars that had surrounded their house and I knew no neighbors had to have called the police on me. This bitch must have set me up! I tried to stand up so I could get to my car because all I wanted to do was leave at this point but one of the officers shoved me back down on the ground.

"Stay down ma'am!" he yelled, applying pressure to my shoulders so I couldn't get up.

I laid in the middle of the grass with a frown on my face as I watched the officers help Baby Mama off of the ground. She was still bleeding but she was smiling at me when she saw me looking. She must have set me up then since she has control over Adonis' phone. She knew I was coming over and probably called the police in advance, that's why she wasn't fighting me back. She wanted to make it seem like I attacked her, which isn't true. I was merely defending myself since she's the one who put her hands on me first.

"Ma'am, we're gong to lift you up but you need to come down to the station with us."

I scrunched up my face. "For what? I didn't even do anything! She started hitting me first!"

The officers never responded to me. They just flipped me over so I was on my stomach, pulled my arms behind my back so they could handcuff me and pulled me off of the ground. They didn't even pull me up all of the way. My Steve Madden heels were dragging across the pavement, scuffing them up.

"You're scuffing up my damn shoes!" I yelled, trying to break free from their grasp but that's when other officers ran up to try to restrain me. "I don't need y'all touching me! Just let me the fuck go! I didn't even do shit!"

"Shut up!" the female officer yelled in my face, getting spit all over me.

I scrunched up my face. "No! You shut the fuck up bitch! That bitter ass bitch purposely made me come to her house and provoked me. I didn't even do shit to her!"

The officers stopped dragging me in the female officer stood in front of me. "Are you insulting an officer of the law?"

I smirked. "No, ma'am, I'm not."

She looked me up and down with a frown on her face. "Good. You better shut your damn mouth because you're about to get yourself into a load of trouble," she warned me as she turned to the other officer that was dragging me to the police car. "Officer Hernandez, read her, her rights. We can't have another one of these Reed's getting off again."

I couldn't help but to laugh as the officer read me my rights. Of course they're trying to pin something on me that I didn't even do because of my last name. "You all will be hearing from my lawyer very soon."

"Not where you're going."

The officers threw me into the back of the police car and slammed the doors closed on me. I laid in the back of the car and watched on as Adonis finally emerged from the house. He looked at me for a brief second but didn't even bother trying to help me. He went straight up to his Baby Mama to help her out and I could see her smiling at me from all the way across the yard.

"Fuck!" I yelled.

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How was this chapter? How do you guys feel about Goldie's relationship with her siblings? Will they all be able to work together? How do you guys feel about Goldie and Theodore admitting their feelings for each other? Will they be able to keep their relationship a secret? What do you guys think will happen when their families find out they're seeing each other again? How do you guys feel about Milan? Is she in the wrong? Are Victoria and Teddy wrong for the way they're treating her? Should Milan have to give up her life because Victoria and Teddy want her out of their lives? How do you guys feel about Lindsey and Adonis' baby mama? Was it a set up? Will Lindsey get out? Is Lindsey getting what she deserves?

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