by Wahida Clark
Thanks UNC and Kisha from Pennsylvania.
2010 is my year. I am Wahida Clark, the “Official Queen” of Street Literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FRONT COVER IMAGE
WELCOME
“I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY KILLED HIM. I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT SHIT.”
DEDICATION
READING GROUP GUIDE
CHAPTER ONE: THE AFTERMATH
CHAPTER TWO: GBI
CHAPTER THREE: HOW IT ALL GOT STARTED
CHAPTER FOUR: WE MAKE MILLIONAIRES
CHAPTER FIVE: STAFF
CHAPTER SIX: WE DON’T GIVE REFUNDS
CHAPTER SEVEN: SHOW ME THE MONEY
CHAPTER EIGHT: A BAD HABIT
CHAPTER NINE: THE HOOKUP
CHAPTER TEN: THE NEXT LEVEL
CHAPTER ELEVEN: IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS
CHAPTER TWELVE: SHE SAW HIM
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: IT’S ON NOW
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: A SUICIDE MISSION
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: INTERTWINED
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: FLAMES
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE DECISION
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE TAKE AWAY
CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE END
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SIZZLING PRAISE FOR WAHIDA CLARK AND HER NOVELS
COPYRIGHT
Payback with Ya Life
Thug Lovin’
What’s Really Hood!
SIZZLING PRAISE FOR WAHIDA CLARK AND HER NOVELS
THUG LOVIN’
“Brutally honest.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Exciting… realistic characters… Clark provides another descriptive drama that once again pulls no punches or kicks with an in-your-face-and-groin realism.”
—Midwest Book Review
“FIVE STARS! Wahida Clark is an excellent storyteller… I was wrapped up in the read.”
—TheUrbanBookSource.com
“Explosive, hot, tempting… a rambunctious ride through the streets of LA that displays street sense from both sides of the relationship… Clark, the Queen of Thug Love Fiction, delivers a multifaceted urban tale filled with big money, big dreams, and big consequences.”
—Rawsistaz.com
“Fast-moving… full of the drama and tragedy of the ’hood… If you love the Thug series you will certainly enjoy this.”
—TheReviewBroads.com
PAYBACK WITH YA LIFE
“Wahida Clark has done it again… well-written… with believable characters [and] unexpected plot twists… I recommend Payback with Ya Life to all urban fiction fans.”
—ApoooBooks.com
THE GOLDEN HUSTLA
WAHIDA CLARK
NEW YORK BOSTON
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Wahida Clark
All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Grand Central Publishing
Hachette Book Group
237 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Visit our website at www.HachetteBookGroup.com.
www.twitter.com/grandcentralpub.
First eBook Edition: October 2010
Grand Central Publishing is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
The Grand Central Publishing name and logo is a trademark of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-446-58261-2