Take Money Mistress (16 page)

“Why did that mean lady hit you, mommy?”

“We had a misunderstanding. Everything will be okay.” Alexandria didn’t let on that she was nervous and worried about what Terrell would do if he found out she took the money.

While leaving out of Alexandria’s apartment complex, Juicy called Terrell to tell him what was going on, but he didn’t answer. She decided to do a little shopping and pick up groceries before heading home. Her husband and daughter weren’t home because they went camping for the weekend. She wanted to cook a good meal for them since they were to come home that evening.

Juicy returned home around five in the afternoon. It was dark throughout the house, not because it was dark outside, but the electricity was off. She didn’t think twice about it, but when she walked into the hallway where the breaker was, she almost shit on herself when she saw Terrell and a nigga that she saw at the party sitting in the dark.

“Terrell, what the fuck is you doing in my damn house?”

“Where is my money?”

“I found out that Lexxxie did take your shit. I asked her to give it back, but she said fuck no. If you need her address or where she work, I got you.”

Terrell walked over to Juicy with rage in his eyes and punched her in the mouth. She screamed out in pain. Terrell said, “Bitch, I told you that if
you
don’t have my shit by today, it’s not gon’ be pretty. Your time is up!”

“Look, Terrell, I got money in the bank. I’ll get it for you if you need it that bad.” Juicy had tears in her eyes as she feared what Terrell and his niggas would do.

Lewis and Steve walked over to Juicy. Lewis held Juicy down by her arms as Steve busted her in the head with the gun. She cried out and tried to scream so that somebody would come to her rescue. Steve hit her once more, and then she passed out.

“Handle that bitch!” Terrell ordered.

“What you want us to do with her?” Steve asked.

“I don’t give a fuck!”

“She’s too damn fine to be a thief,” Lewis said while standing Juicy’s unconscious body to her feet.

Steve ripped her dress off of her body and gaged her mouth with it just in case she woke up. “Get the car,” he said to Lewis.

“Alright.”

Terrell helped Steve over to the garage door with Juicy. Lewis pulled into the garage and once out of the car, he closed the garage door. He then popped the trunk as Lewis and Terrell stuffed Juicy into it. On their way down the street, they passed Juicy’s husband and her daughter.

Juicy woke up about ten minutes later, smelled fumes, and feared she was about to be set ablaze. She didn’t realize she was in a trunk until she noticed the movement of the car. She then realized the fumes were the smell of gas burning out of the tail pipe. She cried the entire time she was awake and knew she would never see her husband or daughter again. She knew she would never keep the promise to her husband to stop stripping. He so badly wanted her to quit, but she made way more money than he did. He promised that when the day came that his bank was bigger, he would let her sit at home and enjoy life. She knew after dealing with Terrell and thieving ass Alexandria, she would never do anything other than die.

Once the car came to a complete stop, Steve opened the trunk and let Juicy out. Juicy felt cold being that she didn’t have any clothes on. She felt a breeze dance across her body. She noticed a pier across the way and realized her fate. They walked her down to a pier and Steve checked the silencer on the gun. He then pointed it between her eyes and shot once. Juicy fell in the water and Steve dropped his gun in after her. They all ran back to the car pleased with what they had done.

“No matter what it takes, I’ll get that other bitch too. I don’t care how much fucking money she took, I won’t rest until I make her ass pay for that shit!” Terrell spoke with so much anger that spit flew from his mouth.

“I feel you, son,” Steve said, down for whatever Terrell needed him to do.

“Fucking right. I’m tired of bitches using pussy as a weapon and thinking a nigga ain’t gon’ fuck ‘em up. Greedy mufuckas make me sick!” Lewis added.

That night Cassidy, Juicy’s husband called her phone nonstop and got no answer. His first thought was that she was cheating and with another man, but he knew his wife would never step outside of their marriage. He couldn’t sleep when she didn’t call or come home. He called to make a missing person’s report, but the person had to be missing for twenty-four hours. He wasn’t actually sure when she went missing since he was camping with their daughter. So, he took matters into his own hands. He went by all of her friends and family houses for answers and nobody heard a thing.

It was around eight at night when the strippers poured into the club. Her car was at home, so he wondered if she caught a ride with another stripper. He went inside to see if anybody heard or seen anything. Since George and Mystical didn’t know what was going on, Mystical went to the dressing room and called all of the girls out. George knew something had to be up because Juicy rarely was late to work and often was the first to arrive.

“Ladies, I’m Cassidy, Julisa, I mean, Juicy’s husband. She didn’t come home last night and nobody has heard from her.” He burst into tears. “Have any of you heard from her? Have you seen anything? I just want my wife to come home with me and our daughter.” He cried more.

None of the strippers knew anything, but Alexandria had a lump in her throat as she feared Terrell had everything to do with Juicy going missing. She didn’t speak up because she wasn’t sure. She felt bad for Cassidy and their daughter, but she was too arrogant to see that she had fucked up in a bad way. Alexandria was so scared that she was shaking.

“Lexxxie, I know you and my wife have become real close. Have you talked to her?”

“Not since Saturday,” she lied. “We did a little shopping.”

“Oh God! That means that she could’ve been missing since then. I gotta find my wife,” Cassidy said while storming past everyone to leave out of the club.

Alexandria had a bad feeling in her stomach that he would never find her. She played with the idea of confessing and telling what she knew, but she feared it would make her look like the bad person for lying. She grew close with Juicy and couldn’t believe her taking shit caused her and her family pain.

That night when Alexandria was on the stage, she stripped as usual, but she had so much on her mind that she didn’t hear the music playing or the crowd applauding. She saw them and saw their mouths moving, but she couldn’t hear a thing. Her fear made her deaf as she feared Terrell would come after her next.

Chapter Twenty-One

A few weeks after Juicy turned up missing, Alexandria finally had her girls over to her house to spend time together. She missed them so much and they always promised that when they had free time, they would stop by to see her.

It was hard for Sofia to do so because Kenny’s basketball season was already in session and she traveled on the road with him a lot. Kenny paid for her to take online courses to get a bachelor’s in business since she wanted to start a business. She wasn’t sure of what kind of business, so she focused on her studies in the meantime.

Liz was doing the housewife shit and loved every moment of it. She lived in a big house, wore fancy clothes, expensive jewelry, and drove a nice car. She didn’t have a want in the world, so she felt like she was on top of the world.

“Bitch, I still can’t believe your ass strips. Do you ever feel nasty with all eyes on you?” Liz asked.

“Only when it’s a real old mafucka, but when he throws those dollars at me, I forget all about that shit.” Alexandria and Liz high fived.

“Y’all a mess!” Sofia shook her head. “What’s for dinner?”

“I made homemade chicken enchiladas, refried beans, and yellow rice. I made margaritas too. Y’all ready for a glass or y’all want to wait for dinner? It will be ready in like ten minutes.”

“I’ll take a glass now,” Sofia said.

“I’ll pass,” Liz stated.

“What the fuck? I’ve never known your ass to pass up on a drink. It’s free too. Are you sick?” Alexandria asked.

“Kinda. I ain’t want to tell y’all until after I was three months, but I’m pregnant.”

“Get the fuck outta here!” Alexandria yelled.

“For real.”

Alexandria and Sofia rushed over to the couch where Liz sat and hugged her. Sofia rubbed her small belly and couldn’t feel a thing. “I’m so happy for you. Are you happy?”

“I am. We both are. I’ll be three months in another two weeks.”

“Really, you know that’s my birthday. May seventh, I’ll be twenty,” Alexandria said with a smile. “But, I am so happy for you, bitch!”

“Thank you both, I guess we should do something for your birthday,” Liz replied.

After the ladies ate, emptying the entire pan of enchiladas, and drank two pitchers of margaritas, they went back into the living room to get comfortable.

“Um, I got something to tell y’all,” Alexandria started.

“What?” Liz’s eyes were wide.

“What’s going on?” Sofia asked.

“Well, I fucked up, I think.”

“You fucked up, you think? How the fuck you fuck up and you ain’t sure about it?” Liz grilled her.

“Bitch, I ain’t sure. Well, let me start from the beginning. This girl, Juicy, and I stripped for some hustlers a few weeks back, I stole the nigga shit, and she went missing. Before she went missing, she came at me about giving the money back, but I wasn’t trying to fuck with it.”

Sofia looked like she wanted to cry. “Are you fucking with us? That is a big fuck up. Drug dealers kill people over stealing from them.”

“There are two things you don’t do to a hustler, you don’t snitch on his ass and you don’t fuck with his money. Some niggas will kill you for ten dollars,” Liz informed Alexandria and Sofia.

“How much did you take?” Sofia wondered out loud.

“A little over seven G’s.”

“Oh my God! You better give it back right now. This is too risky, Alexandria!” Sofia warned.

“He don’t know my real name, he don’t know where I live at, or where I work. I ain’t sweating that shit.”

“Bitch, you got that nigga money and that shit ain’t hard to find,” Liz told Alexandria.

“I’m sorry to say, but Alexandria, until you handle this shit, I can’t come back here. I love my life too much to dodge bullets,” Sofia told her.

Alexandria’s finger was pointed at Liz. “You fuck with this one and she’s with a notorious drug dealer. You don’t think mafuckas want to kill him?”

Liz stood to her feet. “Why the fuck would you say something like that? That taking money shit changed you and when you chill out from taking shit that don’t belong to you, maybe I’ll fuck with you.”

“I know you ain’t mad at me! You’re living the life I lived when I was with Curtis. It seems to me that you want my life. Are you mad ‘cause you want to be me?”

Liz walked over to Alexandria, smacked her in the face, and her and Sofia left without looking back.

“Stupid, bitch!” Alexandria yelled toward the door at Liz.
I should have smacked that bitch back, pregnant or not
, Alexandria thought.

She sat on the couch feeling like fuck her friends. She didn’t realize that Liz and Sofia were so mad at her that they meant that they wouldn’t fuck with her. She couldn’t see that her fucking up may have caused her the friendships she had with her friends for more than five years. She brushed the thought off that Juicy could be dead because of her taking shit from the wrong nigga.

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A week later, Alexandria found herself being followed multiple times, but the first time she felt someone following her in the grocery store, she brushed it off. She thought she was paranoid. When she felt she was being followed again, she was more aware of her surroundings.

At the grocery store, Lewis followed Alexandria, but that night that she stripped for them, he was so fucked up and high that he couldn’t remember if it was her or not. He was at the store with his girlfriend and when he spotted Alexandria, he thought it was her, but wasn’t sure. Every time she walked down an aisle, he walked outside of the aisle closer to the cash register.

“What the fuck are you doing? I know you ain’t checking for a bitch while I’m with you!” Tamera, Lewis’ girlfriend, said.

He huffed, “I’m trying to see if that’s the bitch Terrell need me to handle. It’s business, so calm the fuck down!”

“Why you lying? I knew I should have stayed my black ass in New York with my family instead of chasing behind your ass down in this stupid ass place because I hate Maryland!”

“Take your ass back then, ‘cause I ain’t lying. But, if you keep on talking that shit to me, I’ll fuck around and send your ass back to New York in a body bag. Keep playing!”

Tamera looked him up and down with evil eyes. “You talk a lot of shit, you know that!”

“Fuck you.”

“Yeah, okay.” She smiled at him and then leaned in to give Lewis a kiss.

Their love was strange, but that shit turned them on. Lewis grabbed her ass and pulled her into a kiss. “Love you. You love me?”