A Little More Sin

by Parish Sherman

  "Go wake your sister up and tell her you going with me" he said as he went to the kitchen.

  Sin took Quesha out to breakfast then they went to Princess Cuts in San Francisco. They walked in the store and Sin pulled Malika's three-carat yellow diamond ring out and went straight to the ring section.

  Quesha looked around at the other stuff. "Excuse me, ma'am. May I see these earrings?" she asked an Asian saleslady. The girl came over and pulled the half-carat diamond studs out.

  Sin got a white saleslady's attention. She walked over, looking unenthused. She evidently didn't know who Sin was or that he spent so much money in the store, or that he and the store manager, Joseph were on a first name basis.

  "May I please see this ring?" he asked. The lady pulled out the ring. It had a huge yellow diamond in the center surrounded by four regular diamonds. "How many carats are the diamonds?"

  "The yellow diamond is five-carats. It has a princess cut. The other diamonds are all 1½-carat baguettes. The yellow diamond is raised a sixteenth of an inch higher than the other diamonds, and they are all set in platinum. The band is also platinum," she said.

  "Now the big question. How much is this beautiful ring?" he asked.

  ''One hundred thousand dollars."

  "Damn! If I propose to someone with this ring do you think she'd say yes?" he asked.

  "Hell, if she doesn't, you come back, because I sure as hell would!" she said.

  Sin smiled and the woman almost melted. "Tell Joseph an old friend of his is out here," Sin said as he gave her the platinum American Express.

  Quesha came walking over with the look that Sin knew meant she wanted something. "Daddy, I saw these banging earrings over there. May I please have them?" she asked.

  "Yes, princess. Tell them you want four other pair for your sisters and Ebony too," he said. Quesha hurried back over to the saleslady.

  Joseph Giraud came out of the office area. The pale 4-11 blue eyed white man looked like a racist, but that was the furthest thing from the truth. The only color Joseph took preference to, was green.

  "Sin, welcome home. A few days after that unfortunate incident, Shaunté came in and told me about it firsthand." he said as he clasped Sin's hand.

  "Joseph, I came in here to get an engagement ring. Hook me up, 'cause I ain't trying to spend 100 racks," Sin said.

  "I'll tell you what. Give me 90,000," Joseph said.

  "Well you need to catch the chick with my credit card. Oh, and that's my daughter over there, put her stuff on the bill too. I want that ring sized the same as this one," Sin said as he gave Joseph Malika's ring.

  Once Sin got his card and Malika's ring, Joseph told him to come back and pick the new ring up at 12. Sin looked at his watch and saw it was 10. He and Quesha left. Sin thought about Tia. He knew she worked Saturdays so he called her.

  "This is Tiara Evans," she answered.

  "What's up, Ms. Evans?" he asked.

  "Sin?"

  "No other."

  "Oh, are you home?" she asked.

  "No, not for a couple more weeks. I'm calling to tell you that my little brother, BG that you met is about to drop a gift off for you."

  "What's his real name again? I'll have security to let him come up."

  "It's David. Look, Tia, I'll call you later. They calling lock down," he said.

  "Sin, take care of yourself. I'm going to try to come see you this coming Friday."

  "Aight, baby," he said and hung up.

  Sin pulled up to Bank of America's Western Regional offices and parked right in front. "I'll be right back, baby," he said to Quesha. "And don't drive off!"

  "Wrong daughter, Daddy," she said.

  Sin walked up to the door and pushed the call button. A middle-aged white guard stepped up. "I'm here to see Tiara Evans," Sin said. The guard let him in.

  Sin entered the elevator and went to the 21st floor. When the doors opened, Tia was standing there. She saw Sin and dropped her purse and jumped into his arms. Sin wasn't expecting this type of reaction. He sat Tia down.

  "Oh, I didn't know you were out!" she said and hugged him again, pressing her body tightly against him.

  Sin's dick started getting hard. "Damn, you miss me or what?" he asked.

  "It feels like you missed me too," she said as she backed away and looked down.

  "I can't stay long. My daughter's in the car. Damn, you look good!"

  "So do you. Look how big your arms got," she said as she backed away a little further. Tia felt her juices flowing. She wanted Sin in a bad way. He could have already had her in her hot tub if he would have been persistent against her playing hard to get, because for real that's all it was, playing.

  "So how's the wife and kids?" she asked.

  "They're good. The kids are growing too fast. Look Tia, fuck the beating around the bush. What I gotta do, to taste you?" he asked.

  "I'm tempted to take you in my office and let you have your way. If you're serious, be at my house tomorrow night at 7:30," she said.

  Sin looked at her in surprise. He couldn't believe she conceded. "You really going to give me some?" he asked.

  "Eat you a pound of oysters, pop a Red Bull, or take some ecstasy, because you're going to have your work cut out," she said while pointing down to her crotch. "Nothing that wasn't battery powered has been in here in two months."

  "What happened to the little white boy?"

  "You just said it, little!" she said and spread her thumb and forefinger three inches apart.

  "Oh, you ready for some of this Mandingo, huh?"

  "Shut up!" she said and playfully pushed him.

  Sin pulled her to him and they kissed. Tia slipped her tongue in his mouth. He slipped his hands in her sweatpants and squeezed her butt.

  "Come downstairs and meet my little girl. Well her ass ain't little no more," he said. They got on the elevator and Sin and Tia kissed all the way down 21 floors.

  Chapter Nineteen

  Play The Hand Dealt

  Sin went back home and got Malik and Simina, and let Simina drive them around in the Navigator. The first place Sin went was to look at an apartment. It was not too far from where he and Malika stayed when they were younger. It was a two-bedroom apartment in a secure building. It fit what he needed it for. The rent was a thousand dollars a month.

  Sin went and got five postal money orders, which totaled five-thousand dollars. He went back to the apartment and told the manager if he let him move in right away he would pay the two-thousand dollar security deposit and the rent up for ten months right then. He agreed, and Sin gave him the money orders and seven-thousand cash.

  Their next stop was to Reed Brothers Security where Sin purchased a safe that was so big they would have to remove the apartment's front door and closet door to fit it into the closet in the spare bedroom.

  Their last stop was to the mall. They went into the furniture store and Sin bought furniture for the whole apartment. They went to Circuit City and got all the electronics. They then hit Super K-Mart and got everything else the spot would need.

  "What I'm going to be doing is giving you money to go in that apartment and count, and lock in the safe. The only two people that know about that apartment are me and you. I don't want anyone else knowing about it. You and me are the only ones that know the combination, and have keys to the spot. Under no circumstances do you fuck with that money. I'm going to give you 500 every week, and if you be cool I'll take you and buy you a car on your next birthday," he said.

  "Okay, dad. Don't even sweat that. I got you," Simina said.

  "I'm serious. No one goes in that muthafucka but us."

  After Sin dropped the kids off at home he went to the club to go over the books. Time slipped away and before he knew it, it was 3:00. His cell rang and he saw the house number on the caller ID.

  "Hello?"

  "Sin, you know that we have to hurry up and get to your mama's house," Malika said.

  "Baby, I'm at the club. Just bring me something to wear."


  "I'm going to drop the kids off then come there."

  "Aight," he said and hung up.

  When Malika got there, it was 3:45. She was in a yellow Tracy Reese original. The dress was a halter that was sexy and classy. On her feet were yellow beaded Jimmy Choo's. She was absolutely beautiful.

  She handed Sin a bag and he went in his private bathroom and showered. When he finished, he put on the beige silk boxers and came out. Malika helped him lotion down. He took the outfit out of the garment bag and nodded. He slipped on the beige button up, then the tan Hugo Boss suit, the tan tie, and his tan gator boots. He kept on the same jewelry minus the chain. That he put on Malika.

  Malika had on her left ring finger the half-carat diamond solitaire that Sin bought her for her fifteenth birthday. On the right ring finger was the three-carat yellow diamond. On her wrists were the diamond tennis bracelet and her Cartier watch. She had another tennis bracelet on her ankle.

  "You look beautiful, mami," he told her.

  "You looking pretty dapper yourself, papi."

  Malika slipped on her tinted lensed Cartier frames, and Sin slipped on his Hugo Boss clear lenses. He handed Malika his gun and they left.

  When Sin pulled up at his mother's, there were two extra-long Hummer Limos parked out front, and the kids were all outside. Sin tied the red bow around the Benz and went in.

  "Boy, when you get out?'' Sin's Aunt Barbara asked.

  Sin's mother, Jackie turned quickly and saw her baby boy standing there and screamed, "My baby! My baby's home!" Sin hurried to his mother and hugged and kissed her on the cheek.

  "Granny, come look at what my daddy bought you," Quesha said as she took her grandmother's hand and led her to the door.

  "Oh, baby, thank you!" she said and kissed Sin on the cheek.

  He dropped the keys in her hand, and as they went down the stairs, Tracy and her fiancé were pulling up. This bitch's outta pocket, Sin thought.

  Shaunté and her male friend came next. Sin stood there stunned. He couldn't believe either one of them had the nerve to do some shit like that. Shaunté walked up and handed Simina her baby sister. Tracy and her dude walked up next. Sin was going to check them both.

  Just then Yvette pulled up in her new BMW X5 truck.

  Simara jumped out of the truck before it came to a complete stop. "Daddy!" she screamed and ran to Sin.

  "Hey, 'Mara," Sin said and kissed her.

  "Happy birthday, Grandma!" she said and hugged Jackie.

  When Tracy walked up she knew Sin was mad. They all went back in the house and Sin pulled her to the side. "You outta pocket for bringing ol' boy over here! Since you wanna play foul, we gon' play foul. Quesha's going to come live with me," he said.

  "Nigga, you crazy! My baby ain't fixing to be raised by one of your bitches," Tracy said.

  "She's going to live with me and Malika. The next nigga ain't going to raise my daughter."

  "But he can raise your son?"

  "Malik's our son. Quesha's my daughter. This ain't up for debate. I told you what's up and that's that," he said and walked away.

  Sin caught Shaunté in the kitchen. "Bitch, I ought to slap the shit outta you! How the fuck you just gon' bring the next nigga to my mama's house?" he asked.

  "Sin, I already told you if you put your hands on me again I was going to kill you. Now if you think I'm playing, try me!" Shaunté calmly said.

  Sin snatched Shaunté by her shirt and slammed her against the refrigerator. "Hoe, don't you ever threaten me again!"

  "Let me go! You just mad because I ain't chasing behind you no more," she said.

  Sin let her go and said, "Girl, if I didn't love you I'd fuck your pretty face, up." He then walked out the kitchen and went and sat next to Malika.

  "Baby, you know I've loved you for fifteen years. You are smart as hell, you're beautiful, you got a banging body, the sex is straight fire, and the way we do our thing is unbelievable. What I'm trying to say is, baby you gonna marry a nigga or what?" he whispered in her ear as he pulled the box out of his pocket and opened it.

  Malika gasped and screamed. Everybody in the house came to see what was wrong. All the females gasped at the sight of the ring. Tracy unconsciously looked at the ring her fiancé, Steve bought her. It was no where as lovely as Malika's. Tracy's ring was a clear five-carat emerald cut solitaire.

  Malika had tears in her eyes. She pulled Sin's face to her and kissed him. When she pulled away, she was smiling. "Nigga, that was a ghetto-ass proposal. What the hell is, Baby, you gonna marry a nigga or what, Sin?" she asked.

  "Tell him girl!" Sha's mother, Sin's Aunt Barbara said.

  "I love that ghetto shit though. Yeah, nigga, I'll marry your ass!" she said.

  Sin took the little half-carat off her finger and put the new ring on it. He then kissed her.

  Mario and Charmaine, June and LaToya, Sha and Tenesha, and his brother, Brian and his baby mama, Sanaa came in. Everybody went outside, got in the Limos, and went to Spenger's in Berkeley.

  Sin really didn't want to go to Berkeley because of the war. Sha and June had their boys go there to make sure that the other side didn't catch them slipping. So far everyone has been respecting the code of leaving one's family out the beef, unless they were in it. Sin's mother actually lived three blocks from 61st Street, on, 63rd.

  When Davy walked in, Ebony's eyes lit up. Sin caught them making eyes at each other. He pulled Davy out of the banquet room. "Look, nigga, you been running too wild. I want you to go get your shit from Lisa's. You moving to Dublin with me. I'm only going to tell you this once, and if you violate, I'm killing you. Don't be fucking around with my daughter."

  Davy frowned at Sin and said, "Nigga, that's like my sister! Man, if you thinking like that, fuck you! I don't want to mess with you no more. On no level, business or otherwise."

  "Man, who the fuck you talking to? I'll beat your muthafuckin' ass, fool!" Sin said as his temper rose.

  Malika couldn't hear what was going on across the room, but she saw Sin looking like he was going to do something to Davy. She got up, and went over to them. She didn't want Davy to have any drama with Sin. Davy was like a son to her, and he worshipped Sin.

  "Man, I ain't scared of you! You outta pocket for even saying some shit like that to me!" Davy said like he wanted to get down.

  "What's up with ya'll?" Malika asked as she got between them.

  "This nigga gon' tell me he want me to come live with ya'll, then say I bet' not be fucking around with 'Mina or he gon' kill me. I ain't never looked at 'Mina no other way than being my sister!" Davy said looking at Sin crazy.

  "First off, you better watch your mouth! You ain't grown! Second, Sin, you wrong! Davy keeps them little niggas away from our baby. Ya'll need to squash that shit," Malika said.

  "Yeah, whateva'. Nigga, you think you hard, huh? We gon' see how hard you are next time you get in trouble at school or get outta line," Sin said as he walked away.

  Malika gave Davy her house keys and told him, "Go get you a set of keys made, then go get your stuff."

  Davy looked into the banquet room and mean mugged Sin again then left. Malika came back in and sat next to Sin. She took his hand. "The girls wanna have a ladies night. Is that all right with you?" she asked.

  "Where ya'll going?" he asked.

  "More than likely we'll just get a suite somewhere and get drunk and talk shit all night."

  "Bro, let her go. We can go have a guys night," Mario said.

  "Aight, it's cool," Sin said.

  Sin found out that Malika, Simone, Cynthia, Charmaine, Tracy, and Sonia were going. When they got back to Sin's mom's house, everybody made plans on where they were going to meet. Sin took the kids home.

  "Shamika, Ebony, and Jasmine are staying the night," Malika told him as they changed clothes.

  Sin just looked at her.

  "Sin, if you don't want me to go, I won't," she said as she walked up to him in her underwear.

  "Nah, go on and do your than
g, baby," he said as he put his arms around her and grabbed her cheeks. "Can I see if the pussy's any different since we're engaged now?" he asked.

  "Baby, it's too many kids up in here right now."

  When Mario and Charmaine came back, Sin had just finished packing his overnight bag.

  "Mario, don't be giving my money to none of them bum-ass stripper bitches!" Charmaine warned him.

  Sin and Malika kissed, then he got in the Range Rover and Mario pulled off. Sin fired up the weed as Mario told him the plan. "I'm fuckin' Geneva tonight. Her potna, Elaina wants to see you about something," he said.

  "Hook it up," Sin said half-heartedly.

  "Call the fellas and see if they all wanna go to Reno. We can leave by 7 and get there by 10:30."

  Sin called Sha, who was with it, Hash was with it, June Bug was with it, and Hasahn was with it.

  At 7, Sin and Elaina were in the car with Mario. Hash and some chick named Debra were in the car with Hasahn and his kids mother, Marie. June and Jae, who came down for the weekend, were in his Suburban, along with Sha and Teesa.

  "So, I finally get to spend some time with you," Elaina said.

  Sin had to admit that she was fine as hell and had a cold body. "Yeah for sure, baby. So what you trying to do?" he asked her.

  "I'm trying to get a room with a hot tub, take my clothes off, and what happens after that, just happens," she said.

  "I'm feeling that. So you gotta man?" he asked.

  "Yes, but tonight you're my man," she said as she got closer to Sin.

  "Is that right?" he asked.

  "For sure, boo," she said as she rubbed his chest. "I know you have a woman. So let's leave what happens in Reno, in Reno!"

  "I ain't got no problem with that. So what you cut (mixed) with?" he asked.

  Elaina started laughing. "Why can't I be Mexican?"

  "Too much ass."

  "I'm Dominican," she said as she got even closer. "Look up front," she whispered.

  Sin saw that Geneva's head was in Mario's lap, bobbing up and down. Sin smiled and looked at Elaina.

  "Don't even think about it!" she said as she licked Sin's neck as she grabbed his dick.

  When they finally got to Reno, Elaina put the suite in her name and she rushed Sin upstairs. They walked into the plush suite and she went and filled the hot tub. Sin rolled them a couple blunts.