The Black Diamond Trilogy

by Brittani Williams

  Deidra was sitting in the chair crying what seemed to be real tears. I prayed that she wouldn’t have a change of heart and rat me out. “I didn’t mean to cause any trouble Mica, I really didn’t. She was just going to use the bathroom and . . .”

  “Don’t worry about it, Deidra, I know you didn’t mean to. We’ll take care of it, okay.” Mica helped Deidra up to her feet.

  “You’re damn right we’ll take care of it. Come on, let’s get out of here and go find her.” Money walked toward the door and motioned with his hand for them to follow. I waited until I heard the sound of the cars pulling out of the driveway before I came out of the closet. I slowly opened the door and walked out into the living room. I pulled my cell phone out of my bag and dialed JB.

  “Hello?”

  “JB, it’s Diamond. I need your help, where are you?”

  “I’m at the office, what’s up?”

  “Money tried to kill me, him and Mica.”

  “What? Where are you?”

  “I’m going to come to you, I can’t risk them coming back and finding me.”

  “Okay, well, meet me at the office.”

  “I don’t want to do that either, I’m afraid he’s going to come there looking for me. Meet me at the warehouse. I’ll get a cab to bring me there.”

  “Cool, I’ll be there.”

  I hung up and ran out of the front door. I walked for blocks until I saw a cab riding by unoccupied and flagged it down. I sat low in the seat just in case they happened to drive by. We made it to the warehouse about twenty minutes after the cab picked me up. I jumped out of the car and paid the fare. JB was standing outside of the door when I got there.

  “What the hell happened?”

  “Money drove me to this house where they hit me over the head and tied me up. I thought they were going to kill me.”

  “Why were you with him in the first place? I told you I didn’t trust him.”

  “I thought he was a good dude but it was all a setup—everything from the beginning. From the moment he met you and got close to Black it was all in their plan.”

  “What plan?”

  “They wanted Black to go to jail then they were going to kill me and take over everything that we have.”

  “I should have known that muthafucker was up to something. I didn’t see how shiesty this nigga really was. Damn, this shit is all my fault.”

  “It’s not your fault. You didn’t know.”

  “Black’s not going to see it that way. I’m the one that brought him to his attention.”

  “Damn,” he yelled. He was angry and rightfully so. I think that he was more angry at himself than he actually was at Money.

  “We have to get rid of them, if not they won’t stop and Black will end up in jail for the rest of his life. We can’t let that happen, JB.”

  JB sat there staring into his hands as if he was trying to come up with a plan in his head. I hoped that he’d come up with a plan because I couldn’t think of anything to do to take care of them. I needed his help and I prayed that he would come through for Black and me. I shouldn’t have been so fast to jump in bed with Money. I should have listened to my heart and not let the lust win. Maybe then I would have been able to see through the facade and been able to protect myself. They could have killed me and left my baby an orphan. It was time that I started being smarter about what moves I made. I had to be certain that I didn’t miss anything anymore that could potentially have such a devastating effect on my life. Especially now that my life wasn’t just my own.

  JB assured me that he’d get Money by acting as if he didn’t know anything about what happened with me. He wanted me to hide out and he’d have everyone out in the streets looking for me, including Money. We still had to figure out how to get to Mica. Now that I knew where she stayed it shouldn’t be as hard as it was before. I went out of state to a house Black and I owned by the shore. I planned to stay there for a few weeks until things blew over back in Philly. I arrived at the house and everything was covered in white sheets just the way we’d left them. I hadn’t been there in months and every sheet was covered with dust. I took a deep breath and I stepped inside. I felt like for once I could rest. I went in my bag and pulled out a photo of Dior. I told the hospital that I would be gone for a few weeks but I’d call everyday. I said that there was a family emergency so that they wouldn’t report me to child services.

  After I cleaned up a bit I sat down on the sofa and lay my head back. I closed my eyes and thanked God that I was still here. He’d given me another chance and I wasn’t going to take it for granted any longer. I curled up with a blanket and the photo and tried to fall asleep.

  Chapter Fifty-one

  Diamond

  One Last Breath

  The ringing on the phone was extremely loud. I attributed that to the fact that it was so quiet in the house. I was losing my mind and I couldn’t wait to get back to my life, civilization, as I called it. I rolled out of bed and grabbed the phone off the nightstand.

  “Hello?”

  “It’s done, you can come back now.”

  “What’s done, JB?”

  “Money, I took care of him.”

  “What about Mica?”

  “I need your help for that, I need you to show me where she is.”

  “I can tell you, JB, I’d really rather stay away until everything is taken care of.”

  “I need your help, Diamond.”

  I sat quiet for a minute. Hearing that Money was dead and gone was like music to my ears. I felt like there was a weight lifted off my shoulders but I knew it wasn’t over. It couldn’t be over until Mica was with him. There was no way we could get Black out of jail with her still alive.

  “Okay, I’m coming home. I’ll be there later on today.”

  “Call me when you’re back in town, we can get busy as soon as you’re here.”

  “Okay.”

  I hung up the phone and looked around the room. I wasn’t sure if I was ready to face her again. I hadn’t done such a good job the first time I tried to kill her. I kept thinking back to that night and how she managed to slip away. I kept blaming myself for all of the trouble that Black was going through. I blamed myself for everything. I hadn’t been able to do one thing right with my life. From the outside looking in it seemed that I had everything and that I was always lucky. But my life was in shambles. I was never happy regardless of how much money I had and it took me this long to figure it out. It took me to almost lose everything to appreciate the one thing that I always had. I always had life and I’d always had good sense, I just chose not to use it.

  I gathered up my things and packed them in the car. I was on my way back to Philly and back to snatch my life back. Once I got back home, I called JB as he’d instructed. He came over to the house immediately. I heard the knock at the door and hurried to go answer it.

  “Hey, come in, I just have to grab a couple of things.” I walked away from the door after I answered it. JB followed me into the house after closing the door behind him.

  “So that was pretty quick, I didn’t expect you to get home so fast.”

  “Well, I want to get this over with, I need to see my man walk out of that prison.”

  “That’s not going to happen.”

  “What do you mean . . .” I turned around to find JB standing there pointing a gun at me. What the hell was going on? “What’s going on, JB?”

  “I’m sorry you got caught up in this, Diamond, but this is the way that it has to be.”

  “What do you mean?”

  “I mean, I wish that I could keep you alive but I know you’ll never go along with this. I thought that we could be together but then you started fucking Money. Why did you go and do that, Diamond?”

  “How did you know about that?” Tears started to form in my eyes. I never expected JB to be the one out to get me.

  “He told me. We were working together to get rid of Black; you were supposed to be with me but you went and fucked him lik
e a whore.” He was yelling and waving the gun around. I was standing still, crying.

  “Please, JB, don’t do this, we can be together, we just have to go get rid of Mica, remember.”

  “That bitch is already dead. I took care of her and her man.”

  “How are you going to get what you want without me? Black is going to get out of prison now that she’s dead.”

  He stared at me. He hadn’t thought that far. He’d killed the only witness keeping Black in jail so unless he planned on killing him too his plan would never work.

  “Fuck Black,” he yelled. “You think I’m scared of him, I will kill that muthafucker so fast.”

  “I didn’t say you were scared of him, I said that we can be together. You and me can do this.” I was trying to get his confidence. I was still crying but I was trying to mask it, but it wasn’t working out like I thought it would.

  “Do you think I’m stupid? You actually think you can fool me? I’m not an asshole, Diamond. I know that you’re only saying this so I can let you go.”

  “I mean it, I mean every word, JB. We can be together.”

  “I don’t want you now, I know that you’re a fucking whore. You cheated on Black with Money and Black hadn’t even done shit to you. I know your kind and there’s no way this shit would work now.”

  “Yes, it can work, you just have to give it a chance.” I moved close to him and tried to win him over by looking in his eyes. He wouldn’t look at me, only backing away the closer that I got. “Please give us a chance.”

  I saw a shadow behind him but I didn’t want to focus on it. That shadow turned out to be Tommy. He put his finger up to his mouth as to say be quiet. JB was starting to warm up to me. I could tell because he wasn’t backing away any longer.

  “I’m sorry for what I did, I didn’t know that you wanted to be with me.”

  “You’re not sorry, you were willing to throw it all away for some dick,” he began to yell again.

  “I am sorry, I wish that it was you.”

  He turned to look at me again. Just then Tommy’s shoes made a sound. JB turned around with his gun drawn. Tommy shot him twice before he had a chance to shoot back. I dropped down to the ground and burst into a hysterical cry. Tommy walked over to me and pulled me up from the floor. I grabbed hold of him and continued to cry. He walked me over to the couch where I sat down. He dialed the police on the house phone and reported the shooting.

  “What are you doing, Tommy, you’re going to go to jail!” I tried to grab the phone out of his hand.

  “Look, take this gun. You’re going to say that you shot him after he burst into your house and tried to attack you. Everything will be fine, I promise.”

  I’d heard that line too many times in the past few weeks. For once I wanted to believe it. I shook my head and agreed to tell the story to the police. The sirens and red and blue lights were flashing within ten minutes. The cops ran in with their guns drawn. I was still sitting on the sofa with the gun in my hand. Tommy had left out of the back door before they’d arrived.

  “Ma’am, are you hurt?”

  “No, I’m not hurt.”

  “Drop the gun, please.”

  I obeyed. I sat the gun down on the floor. The officer ran over and kicked the gun over. Another officer reached down to check JB’s pulse and looked up, shaking his head, confirming that he had no pulse. I was in a daze. I still wasn’t grasping what had happened. The cops left me on the sofa while they began marking the scene. I was taken down to the police station where I gave them the story of what happened at the house. I stayed for a few hours before they released me. I couldn’t even sleep when I got home. I got up in the middle of the night and went over to Kiki’s house.

  Instead of giving me words of wisdom, she gave me comfort. I fell asleep in her bed finally after an hour or so. She lay next to me holding my hand. The day had been such a traumatic day and I still didn’t know what was to come. I was still afraid. I didn’t know who to trust. The person that Black trusted the least had been the one to save my life. Everything was so out of control. At that point, I didn’t know if they could ever be the same.

  Chapter Fifty-two

  Black

  Home Sweet Home

  Finally, I was going home. I told Ms. Baker not to tell Diamond, I wanted to keep it a surprise. I hadn’t seen her since the day that they dragged me out of the courtroom. I never wanted her to run up here and see me in this cage nor did I want my child witnessing that. I wasn’t allowed visitors and letters still hadn’t been enough. I missed her and I wanted to get home to feel her again. I’d heard how things were on the streets and I couldn’t believe how JB turned on me. Jealousy and envy will make people do some strange things and that was definitely true with that situation.

  What went wrong? Niggas were trying to kill me, my girl, and take my spot. When this shit first started JB was the main one, saying that he had my back no matter what happened and it turned out that he had more than my back in mind. I would have never thought that he’d turn on me. I would have thought Tommy would have been the one. When the Kemp shit started he was sure that Kemp wasn’t alive. I guess it made sense now that he had so much confidence because he knew damn well he wasn’t alive. He knew because it was him and that nigga Money all the time. Tommy made it his business to get word to me and I owed it to him for saving Diamond’s life.

  Tommy picked me up from the bus where they’d left me. I looked like shit and there wasn’t any way I was going to show my face to her looking the way that I did. Tommy got out of the car and walked over to me. I stuck my hand out to shake his. Instead of shaking my hand he hugged me, which caught me completely off guard.

  “It’s good to see you, man.”

  “Thanks so much for all that you’ve done.”

  “No problem, man, I told you I was here for you.

  “I need you to do me a favor before you take me home. I need to get a haircut and get some gear. I can’t go home like this.”

  “Already got that shit lined up, got some jeans and shit in the back for you. Nigga, I know you too well.” He laughed.

  “My man, thanks!” I gave him dap.

  We drove down to the barbershop where I got a fresh haircut, then he drove me over to his house so I could shower. I felt like new money when I got out of there. I was ready to go home. We pulled up in front of the house and I was more nervous then I’d ever been. I felt like I was going on a job interview or some shit. I didn’t know what to say to her. I hoped that it would come natural. Tommy pulled out as I made it up to the door. I knocked lightly. It was strange knocking on my own door but I almost felt like a stranger visiting for the first time.

  “Coming,” she yelled as she neared the door. My heart was pounding a mile a minute. I couldn’t wait to see her face. She opened the door and stood still as a statue. Tears came out of her eyes before she moved out of the door to wrap her arms around me. “How did you get out? Why didn’t they tell me?” She cried and smiled at the same time.

  “I wanted to surprise you, I missed the hell out of you.” I grabbed hold of the sides of her face to bring her into a kiss. I wanted to make love to her at that moment and I would have if I could.

  “The baby’s inside, come on in so you can see her.”

  We walked into the house. I dropped my bag near the door and followed her upstairs toward the baby’s room. She was asleep but as beautiful as a porcelain doll. I didn’t want to wake her so I didn’t reach in to pick her up. I just stood there looking at her, then looking at Diamond.

  “Why are you looking at me like that?”

  “Because I never would have imagined you being a mother. I’m sorry I couldn’t be there for you.”

  “It doesn’t matter, you’re here now and everything is going to be okay.”

  I believed it. I was focused and there wasn’t anything that was going to mess this up. We’d come too far for that. I pulled her out of the room and into the bedroom. I couldn’t wait another minute to t
ouch her. She smiled as I moved closer to grab hold of her. She helped me by taking off her clothes. I stared at her body and it was perfect, just as I’d left it. I’d heard about her and Money but I didn’t care. I knew that everything she did was to get me out of jail and I couldn’t let that affect me.

  She lay on top of the bed as I undressed. I wasn’t even fully naked before I opened her legs, got on my knees, and met her clit with my lips. It was as sweet as honey and I was savoring every drop. She was moaning as I continued to fuck her with my tongue. She used her hips to grind harder against it. I stuck two fingers inside of her pussy as I used my other hand to slide my boxers off. My dick was as hard as a brick and after months of jacking off I could finally feel her wrapped around it.

  I got up from the floor and slid my dick inside of her. She gasped for air as if she wasn’t expecting it. I pulled her legs up around my neck and fucked her like a racehorse for the next half hour. I erupted all inside of her and fell down on her like I’d lost every bit of my energy right along with the cum that was now running out of her.

  She got up from under me and headed to the bathroom. I was still laying across the bed when she turned on the shower. For once I felt like I didn’t want to hurry out of the house. I wasn’t thinking about work but instead I was thinking about her. I got up off of the bed and jumped in the shower with her.

  “You really do miss me, huh?” She giggled just before facing me then going down to her knees and taking my dick into her warm mouth. I grabbed onto the side of the wall and let out a sigh similar to the one that she’d let out earlier. Her lips wrapped around my dick with the water pouring all over her turned me on more than I’d ever been with her. It wasn’t long before I bent her over and fucked her for another fifteen minutes. Finally, I allowed her to shower. She kissed me before leaving me in there alone. I washed up before jumping out and getting dressed again. She was downstairs in the kitchen making the baby a bottle.