Cenise was shocked. She felt numb on the inside. This would be the second time that she had been violated in some way by Suef. Tears crept from the corners of her eyes. A sobbing Cenise dropped her head into her lap. The person who she thought was her first love turned out to be nothing more than part of a scheme to hurt her sister.

* * *

“I want that gutta bitch and her little sister delivered to me,” Suef spoke solemnly to Abdul and Trenton. The expression on his face was like stone. Wearing nothing but a pair of basketball shorts, he sat slumped down in a red leather overstuffed chair. It crushed him to deliver the news to his grandmother that one of his cousins had been murdered. He could still hear her cries to the Lord playing over and over in his head.

Black, known to his family as Rico, was Suef’s baby cousin. He looked up to Suef, wanting to be just like him. He constantly pestered Suef to get down with his team. Suef would give Black jobs that kept him out of harm’s way, like setting up Cenise. It was the last thing that Suef thought would get his little cousin killed.

“That bitch agreed to meet Rico just so they could kill him.” Suef looked at Trenton and Abdul, who were standing before him like soldiers at attention. “I don’t care what has to be done or who has to be paid, but I want that low-life, grimy, slut Arnessa and her sniveling rat sister dead. Go, and don’t come back without results.”

As the pair exited the room, Rellie walked in carrying the glass of Courvoisier that Suef had requested. “You’re gonna have to eat something,” she said, handing him the glass. “You can’t keep consuming liquor without eating. This is like your fifth or six glass.”

Suef turned the glass up and gulped it down. “Bring me another one.”

“I’m not. You need to pull yourself together. I’m not one those people who are afraid to say I told you so when something goes wrong. I told you that they would figure out that you set that girl up, and yet you continued to toy with them.”

“I wasn’t toying with them. We were gonna snatch Cenise up and hold her, or at least follow her back to wherever they staying. The little bitch didn’t stay but a few minutes. That’s how I know she only came to set him up.”

“That plan didn’t work now, did it?” Rellie snapped.

“What perfect plan do you suggest?”

“I suggest you let me handle it. I’ll bring them bitches out of hiding.”