You're My Little Secret 3

by Chenell Parker

  “Don’t get mad at me. You said you didn’t want to know,” he laughed.

  “I mean y’all facial expressions didn’t change so it must be another boy. If it was a girl y’all would have been smiling or something.”

  “No, I just told her to keep a straight face no matter what. She did better than I thought,” he smiled.

  “You make me sick. I knew you had to tell her something. Are you going to tell everybody else?”

  “Yeah, I’ll tell them if they want to know. If you change your mind, let me know. I’ll be happy to tell you too,” he offered.

  “No, I haven’t changed my mind. I still don’t want to know.”

  “Alright cool, let’s go get something to eat,” he replied.

  I looked down at my phone at yet another text message from Kevin. He’s been texting me from all kinds of crazy numbers trying to apologize. At first I brushed him off, but he started wearing me down after a while. There could never be anything romantic between us, but I was starting to miss our friendship. I knew that we could never be best friends again, but I at least wanted us to be cordial. He tried to cross the line a few times, but I always shut him down. When I told him that I was pregnant, he said that he wished he was the father like I would ever let that happen. I hadn’t had sex for months before I got back with Dominic, and I still didn’t get pregnant right away. Kevin has also been begging me to spend some time with him, but that will never happen either. I kept telling him that we would do lunch just to shut him up. I forgave him, but I will never forget that he put his hands on me no matter how many times he apologized, and I let that be known. I also couldn’t let Dominic find out that we were still talking. He would go crazy if he knew. He still doesn’t know about Kevin hitting me, and I pray that he or my brothers never find out.

  “You hear me talking to you Brooklyn?” Dominic asked pulling me from my thoughts.

  “No, what did you say?”

  “I asked if you will marry me,” he said.

  “You must be trying to go to jail. Being married to two women is against the law in Louisiana,” I laughed.

  “No, I’m talking about once my divorce is finalized,” he replied.

  “I don’t know Dominic. That’s kind of rushing it, don’t you think?”

  “I don’t think we’re rushing anything. I can’t see myself being with anybody else. I swear I thought about you the whole time during my wedding and the honeymoon. I don’t even know why I went through with that shit knowing how I felt about you. I don’t want to be with anybody else, and I’m not letting you be with anybody else either. You might as well marry me because you’re damn sure stuck with me,” he rambled.

  “I guess we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. You’re still married, so I don’t even want to talk about that right now.”

  “So what if I get divorced like next month or the month after. Would you marry me before the baby comes?” He asked.

  “In a heartbeat,” I replied honestly.

  “That’s what’s up,” he said as he leaned over to give me a kiss. “Girl you about to make me put a gun to Kennedi’s head and make her ass sign them papers.”

  I laughed, but I could tell he was serious. Dominic was my first everything, so it’s only right that he be my first and only husband one day.

  NADIA

  “What the hell happened to Kevin’s truck?” I asked Shannon when I walked into the house. Kevin had just traded in his old truck for a black on black Harley Davidson F-150. I hadn’t been over in a few weeks, but it was fine when I saw it before. Now the bumper is dented, and both of the headlights are cracked.

  “I don’t know, and he gets mad every time I ask him about it,” Shannon shrugged.

  “Where’s Kyle?” I asked. He called and begged me to come over, and I want to know why. I’ve been putting him off for the past two days, but I couldn’t hold him off any longer.

  “They’re upstairs talking. Kevin made me come down here, so there’s no telling what’s going on.”

  Without making too much noise, I made my way upstairs hoping to surprise my man. I told him that I wasn’t coming until tomorrow, and I was anxious to see the look on his face.

  “I thought it was Bryce at first until I saw her and Taylor sitting at the table with the kids,” I heard Kevin say.

  “You sure they didn’t see you?” Kyle asked him.

  “No, they didn’t, but I need to get my truck fixed before somebody figures it out. She hurt me, but I don’t know what made me do some stupid shit like that,” Kevin said.

  “Man, fuck her. She tried to play you for that nigga and you sitting here feeling bad about getting back at her. She’s alive, and nobody really got hurt. The bitch should be happy that I wasn’t the one behind the wheel,” Kyle said angrily.

  “I was mad, but I wasn’t thinking clearly. They had kids in the car man,” Kevin said arguing his point.

  It didn’t take long for me to realize what they were talking about. The damages to his truck made sense to me now. He’s the one who ran Brooklyn and Taylor off the road. If any of Brooklyn’s brothers or Dominic found out about any of this Kyle and Kevin were both dead men. Jaden’s crazy ass would see to that all by himself. I eased back down the stairs just as quietly as I had come up. I rejoined Shannon on the sofa and sent Kyle a text letting him know that I was downstairs. A few minutes later, he and Kevin were joining us in the living room.

  “What’s up wifey?” Kyle asked while taking a seat next to me. He gave me a peck on the lips and held my hand in his.

  “Who me?” I asked while pointing to myself.

  “Yeah you, who else would I be talking to?” He asked with a frown.

  “I don’t know. Maybe Tiffany is around here somewhere because you’ve never called me wifey before,” I replied.

  “I keep telling you that I don’t mess with that damn girl. We’re cool, but that’s about all there is to it. It’s all about us,” he said smiling.

  I knew he wanted something just by the way he was acting. Kyle wasn’t really the affectionate type unless he wanted sex. He was doing a damn good job trying to butter me up, so it had to be about more than that.

  “Okay, so what’s up? You’ve been calling me like crazy to come over here. I’m here now so tell me what’s going on,” I said getting right to the point.

  He looked from me to Shannon and then back to me again. I assumed that Shannon knew what was going on judging by the look on her face.

  “Damn, you just come right out with it, huh? But listen, I got some government checks that my boy printed up for me that I needed you and Shannon to handle. It’s a lot of them so y’all will have to hit up a few places to cash them all,” Kyle said.

  I knew there was a reason for him begging me to come over here, but this nigga really had me fucked up. It was one thing to play around with the little paychecks that they printed up, but I was not dealing with any government checks.

  “Y’all can count me out. I’m not trying to end up in the feds messing with the government. I’m trying to find me another job so I can stop doing this shit altogether. A one-time thing has turned into months,” I replied.

  “Girl that’s not even a federal crime. If you do this, I can promise that you won’t have to look for a job for at least six months. We can all walk away with a nice stash when it’s all over with,” Kyle informed me.

  “Yeah, but Shannon and I are taking all the risk while you and your brother get paid the same amount as we do. I don’t know about her, but I’m done playing the fool,” I said standing to my feet. A lot of things have weighed heavily on my mind lately, and my friendship with Candace is one of them. I’m taking my anger and hurt out on her just because the man I love is in love with her cousin. I know in my heart that Candace would never do me wrong. She even came to me like a woman and let me know what was going on before I heard it from anyone else. She had no control over Dominic, and I’m dead wrong for doing some of the things that I’m doing, especially f
ucking with Kyle.

  “Come upstairs and let me talk to you for a minute,” Kyle said while trying to pull me towards the stairs.

  “No, I have somewhere else to be,” I lied. I knew what kind of talking Kyle wanted to do. I’ll be butt ass naked with his face between my thighs as soon as the door closed. He knows how to make me change my mind and it works every time.

  “Come talk to me,” Kyle begged while practically dragging me upstairs. As soon as we got in the room, he closed and locked the door behind us. “I’m not changing my mind so you can save the sex session,” I insisted.

  “I just didn’t want to talk in front of Shannon. If you do this for me, I’ll give you more than just the usual half. You keep seventy-five percent of what you make and give me the rest,” he requested.

  “How about I keep all of it since I’m risking my freedom for it?”

  “That’s not an option. Without me, you wouldn’t even have the checks to cash. I’m doing something for you that I’m not even doing for Shannon, and she’s been down with us from day one,” he replied in a low tone.

  “I don’t care. I’m not feeling this anymore Kyle. If you wouldn’t gamble so damn much, you could chill out too.” Kyle has a terrible gambling habit that he refuses to own up to. He would stay and play all day and night whenever he went to the casino.

  “Please baby, I promise this is the last time,” he said while walking over to me. When he slipped his hand underneath my dress, the words that I wanted to say were lodged in my throat. He worked his fingers in and out of me until I almost felt like I was too weak to stand.

  “Stop,” I weakly protested even though I didn’t want him to. In one quick motion, Kyle had my underwear off with my leg resting comfortably in the crook of his arm. I gasped from shock and pleasure when I felt him dip his tongue inside my moist opening. He was licking and sucking so fast that I lost my balance and ended up falling to the floor. Kyle never stopped licking, and he went down to the floor right along with me.

  “Are you going to help me out?” Kyle asked when he finally came up for air. I didn’t answer so he flipped me over and positioned me on all fours.

  “Answer me,” he instructed as he slipped inside of me and started stroking me slowly. I wanted to answer, but he was hitting my spot just the way I liked it.

  “Answer me,” he said again, but this time with more force and harder strokes. He had a hand full of my hair pulling me back into him with force.

  “Yes!” I screamed out in pleasure with just the right amount of pain. At this moment, I would have said anything just for him to keep going.

  “I love you,” Kyle admitted right before he released his load and collapsed on top of me. I don’t know if he meant it, but it felt good to hear.

  ****

  Two days later Shannon and I were on our mission. We’d already hit up four check cashing spots in New Orleans, and we were on our third one not too far from their house in Slidell. Kevin and Kyle met us to collect the money after each transaction just in case something went wrong. I’ve been keeping up with how much money I’m supposed to have and it’s almost up to twenty-five thousand dollars. After this last stop, I would walk away with thirty thousand dollars, and I’m done.

  “Alright, let’s do this. We have one more after this and then we’re done,” Shannon said while getting out of the car.

  “I thought this was our last one,” I said with a frown on my face.

  “No, Kyle said he wants us to go to the one in the strip mall near the house,” she informed me. She’s been texting with Kevin, and he tells her whatever moves Kyle wants us to make next. Kyle is a greedy bastard, and he’s never satisfied with anything that he has. He has enough money to chill out for a while, but he still wants more. I’ve been over there for the past few days, and we’ve been getting along great. He’s been paying me so much attention until he’s almost suffocating me. I love the affection, but it’s times like these that he makes me sick.

  “Well, I don’t care what Kyle says, I’m done after this,” I swore.

  “Please just do one more for me. I don’t want Kevin to get pissed off. You know how he is when he’s mad,” Shannon said pitifully.

  I really felt sorry for her because she doesn’t have anyone else in her corner. Kevin is all that she knows, and he treats her like shit. If Brooklyn had wanted him, he would have left Shannon a long time ago.

  “I don’t know Shannon. We should just leave it alone after this and try again in a few days. Kyle is being too greedy,” I told her.

  “Please Nadia, just do this for me,” she begged.

  “Alright, but I’m only doing this because I don’t want to be the cause of Kevin putting his hands on you,” I admitted.

  “Let’s do these last two and be done with it,” she replied.

  After getting the cash from the first spot, we handed the men the cash and went to our last stop for the day. The place is fairly new so no one will know or recognize us here. That’s a good thing and made our task that much easier. The clerk is a very young white girl so it would be like taking candy from a baby. After checking our identification, which was fake, she smiled and politely started counting out the cash. I’m happy that we’re almost done and more than ready to go home. Shannon and I were all smiles until two uniformed cops walked through the doors a few minutes later. I looked outside and spotted a total of three police cars in the parking lot along with my car, but Kyle and Kevin were nowhere to be found. They followed us here, and now they’re gone.

  “Just be cool,” Shannon whispered to me. My heart was beating fast, and my palms were sweating like crazy. I’d never been to jail a day in my life, and I don’t want to go now.

  “Good afternoon ladies, we need to speak with you for a minute,” one of the officers said. The tears were rolling down my cheeks before I even turned around to face them.

  “What’s the problem officer?” Shannon asked.

  “We need to see some valid identification for both of you,” one of the officers said. Shannon and I just looked at each other because we knew that we were busted.

  The young clerk put the money away and smirked as she folded her arms across her chest. I had underestimated her, and I was about to pay for such a stupid mistake. She spotted our fake ID’s and hit the silent alarm alerting the police. Kevin and Kyle must have left once they saw what was going on. My first mind was telling me not to come here, but like a fool I didn’t listen. After not being able to produce a valid form of identification, Shannon and I were handcuffed and placed in the back of the patrol car. She seemed to be fine, but I was a nervous wreck when they read us our rights. I have no family here, and I’m hoping that Kyle will come to my rescue since I did all of this for him. If not, Candace is the next best thing to family that I have. She had no idea that I had betrayed her, and I could never let her find out after this.

  KENNEDI

  Dominic and I are scheduled to go to court tomorrow morning, and I’m mentally preparing myself for that drama. The lawyer that my mother hired seems to not care if I stay married or not. She’s just like my mother and is encouraging me to sign the divorce papers if the price is right. I’m now four months pregnant and doing well considering my past mishaps. I’ve been seeing a high-risk doctor twice a month because of my previous miscarriages. My doctor was baffled, wondering why I’d never gone to a high-risk doctor before considering all that I’d been through. It’s just my luck to be having a successful pregnancy, but no husband to share it with. I’m even beginning to form a little baby bump that I could do without. Dominic and his mother want to be here for me, but I’m too angry and hurt to allow them to. My mother would die before she let that happen, so that stopped me as well. She’s determined to keep them out of my baby’s life no matter how she goes about doing it. Tiffany ended up telling my father about my pregnancy when she ran into him a few weeks ago. He called me a few days later, but I never answered for him. He said that Dominic would leave me one day, and I didn’t wan
t to give him the satisfaction of knowing that he was right. Besides, I still hadn’t forgiven him for telling Dominic all of my business. Because of him I almost lost him before we even got married.

  “So how are you going to say you got all of this information?” Scott asked me. We were sitting in my living room on my sofa watching TV and eating Chinese food.

  He gave me some information that would hopefully work in my favor when we go to court. Dominic is a slick bastard, but he’s not slick enough. He’s been using his business account for all of his purchases and repaying it with his personal account. If it wasn’t for Scott putting me down on what he was doing, I would have never known.

  “I don’t know, but I promise that your name will never come up,” I assured him. I looked over the statement again and smiled to myself. I couldn’t wait to show the judge how he’s been supporting his side bitch while we’re still married. He had purchases from MAC, Victoria Secret, and a million other places that only a female would frequent.

  “It’s messed up how he’s letting another woman come in and break up his marriage. You really don’t deserve that. You should have given me a chance when I asked,” Scott smirked.

  Scott is and always has been a sweetheart, but he’s just not the one for me. I actually met him a few months before I met Dominic, and we went out a few times. Nothing ever came of it and probably never will. I was shocked to learn that he and Dominic were friends, and he worked for his company. I never even told Dominic about me knowing him and neither did Scott. It was crazy for him to think that I would pass up the boss to date one of the employees. Scott’s money isn’t nearly enough for me to live off of and be happy. I would never hurt his feelings by telling him that though.

  “You know I appreciate you Scott, but we can’t go there,” I replied. Even if I wanted to go there, it wouldn’t be with his broke ass.

  “I don’t see why not. Dominic is doing him. He’s in love with Brooklyn and everybody can see that,” he said. He’s trying to get to me, but I’m trying hard to keep my cool.