Take Money Mistress (2 page)

The following Sunday, Robert stood at the pulpit looking like a million bucks in an ivory white suit with an ivory handkerchief with gold accents. He preached on the powers of prayer and how God only blessed people who accepted
Him
as their Lord and Savior. There were fans waving, feet stomping, hands clamping, and a few people danced for the Lord. Even as a teen, Alexandria saw the power in the message that Robert delivered and was proud of him.

Right before Robert adjourned the church service, he called anybody that wanted to receive God’s blessing via prayer. Rebecca approached the pulpit and Alexandria could see Robert sweating from the second row where she sat. The church started clapping, and then Rebecca snatched the microphone out of his hands.

“Sister Rebecca!” Robert yelled.

Rebecca was a beautiful young woman. She had auburn hair down to her shoulder, which she wore in a bob. Her skin was the color of honey and her eyes were deep brown. Her body was curvy and she didn’t bother to hide it, not even for church. Her dress hugged her curves and her cleavage showed tastefully, but still not appropriate for church.

“
No, Pastor. I got this!” Rebecca looked into the congregation. “Brothers and sisters, I want to share with you what Pastor Robert Payne has been getting into, literally!” She put her hand on her hip and pointed to her two children sitting in the front row who didn’t pay her any attention. Robert stood there begging for the microphone. “Pastor Robert Payne is the father of my children. He paid me money to disappear and get rid of our son, if you know what I mean.” The church sighed in unison as they looked at each other as if they didn’t believe a word she said.

Rebecca was well known for being ‘loose’ at the church, but most of the members assumed that she had changed her life after being a member of the church for about thirteen years. When she first came to the church, she was troubled. The man she was in love with told her it was over and he married his girlfriend. She was heartbroken, wanted to kill herself, and Robert was there for her. It was all innocent in the beginning, but the more kindness Robert showed Rebecca, the more she wanted to show him how grateful she was. That was when a late night of Bible study turned into sex shared between the two.

Erica approached her, and said, “Now this is enough! You are going too far. Get out of here right now!”

Rebecca reached into her handbag and showed Erica some papers. She spoke into the microphone. “These are the results of the blood test because Robert felt I was trying to trap him, so he made me get them for both of my kids. This is a copy of the check that the pastor gave me for $5,000 to abort our baby and disappear, but I couldn’t do it. I loved him for so long. I came here last week to tell him that I never got rid of our son, and that I wanted him to be a father to our children.”

Robert found out far too late in Rebecca’s pregnancy with their daughter to abort the pregnancy because she stayed away from the church until after she was six months pregnant. When she turned up pregnant again, he felt it was a trap and wanted her to get an abortion right away, even though he knew it was an ungodly thing to do. He figured that since he already was sinning by sleeping with Rebecca for so long, he might as well have her get an abortion. He felt after she had it, he would secretly take care of their daughter, give her money to leave town, and things would go on as usual with his family and at the church.

Alexandria’s mouth was wide open as tears ran down her face, and she felt hurt take over her body. She couldn’t imagine her father being anything like Sister Rebecca described him. She couldn’t believe it. She took off running until she got to the office. She locked herself in there for about an hour until her mother convinced her to open the door. That was the day she hated Robert for herself, for her mother, and for having children by another woman. He made her question if God was really real. She wondered how a man of God could be such a hypocrite and a liar.

About a month later, her mother and father had gotten past his infidelities, but the church members thought it would be best for Robert to step down from his position until he faced the church’s board, who would determine if he would return to his position there. Just when Robert thought the storms had come to pass, two other women from the church spoke up about him having affairs with them. Erica once again looked past it, but not Alexandria. He was an embarrassment and she couldn’t stand the sight of him. When he was around, she locked herself in her bedroom and told her mother how dumb she was for sticking by a cheater’s side. She vowed that when she had a man, she would be the one to call the shots. She couldn’t imagine a man having her look like a fool by cheating with multiple women, let alone have babies outside of what they shared in front of family, the church, and God as being true love.

To get back at her parents, Alexandria started wilding out a little before her sixteenth birthday, which was on May 7, 2006. It was the first week of April when she stayed out all night getting drunk and partying. She snuck out of her bedroom window at nine at night and when she got home the next morning at five, she knew she could get away with that shit. Her parents were asleep, so she already had thoughts of doing the same shit the following weekend.

It was Sunday, and Alexandria was too busy watching the pianist, Timmy’s, fine ass instead of listening to the boring sermon that Pastor Jeremiah Thompson preached. He was nowhere as good as Robert and the whole church knew that. Alexandria had a crush on Timmy since he first came to the church two years prior. He played the piano and was a Jr. Pastor in training. When Timmy first came to the church, he had been arrested for drug dealing, but somehow, Robert talked him into giving his life to Christ. Then, he helped him get on his feet and helped him with his Bible studies. When Robert realized Timmy had a passion for the Word, he took him under his wing.

Timmy always smiled at Alexandria with deep, dark eyes. She wondered if he had a crush on her too. He was twenty years old, light skinned, hazel eyes, thick lips, and his body was muscular. He wore his hair cut low and sideburns were trimmed down to his chiseled chin. He was absolutely fine to Alexandria. She got wet just from the thought of him.

When the church choir stood up to sing
Silver and Gold
by Kirk Franklin and the Family, Timmy had his fingers dancing across those black and white keys oh so nicely. At that moment, Alexandria knew she wanted him to be her first. She kept her eyes on him so that when he looked in her direction, he could see that she was feeling the way he played the piano.

Timmy finally looked at her, and she waved her fan in his direction and yelled, “Play that piano, boy!” with a smile.

Alexandria wasn’t sure if he heard her over the loud singing, but she knew it wouldn’t be long before he had his hands on her body just like the way he played the keys on the piano.

Chapter Two

Alexandria waited after church to have a word with Timmy. He shook a lot of people’s hands and smiled, showing off his pretty teeth. When it was her turn to shake his hand, she made sure he stared into her eyes.

“You are so good with that piano, Timmy!”

“Thank you, Sister Alexandria.” He smiled at her.

“My pleasure.”

Timmy walked past her to shake Megan’s hand and Alexandria could see that he found her attractive. His smile was wide and he never took his eyes off of her. She was about five feet six, maybe an inch or two shorter than Alexandria. She was a little darker in complexion, but a lot of people were darker than her because Erica was a Creole woman with very light skin and hair thick, long, and dark brown like an Indian. Alexandria wasn’t as light as her mother, but she definitely was a red bone.

“Hi, Timmy!” Megan sung.

“Hi, there! Good to see you on this fine Sunday,” Timmy said with a smile.

“Absolutely!” Megan returned the smile.

Megan stared at Timmy as if she could picture herself giving her life to him. She could see herself being his wife and mother of his children. Timmy saw the same. Megan was the wife type in his eyes and every time he saw her, he wanted to know her just a little more.

Alexandria was disgusted by their obvious flirting. She was jealous and wished he looked at her the same way. She was sure that Timmy wouldn’t mind having Megan on his arm because she was a pretty girl and three years older than her.
If I don’t think fast, Timmy and Megan will be on their way down the aisle and popping out little crumb snatchers
, Alexandria thought. She walked over to Timmy and excused herself.

“I’m sorry, Megan, but I wanted to ask Timmy if he could give me piano lessons soon.”

“Oh, how cute!” Megan smiled at Alexandria.

“I didn’t know you were interested in the piano. Pastor Payne never spoke of it,” Timmy chimed in.

“I wasn’t at first, but God works in mysterious ways!” Alexandria said elated to finally have his attention.

“Amen!” Megan added in a sugary-sweet voice that made Alexandria want to smack her straight across her face.

“Amen. So, when are you free?” Timmy asked.

“Just take my number and we can discuss it later today,” Alexandria insisted while pulling a pen from her small leather purse. She reached for his hand and pulled it close. Then, wrote her number on his palm and winked at him.

At that moment, she knew Timmy saw her as more than the pastor’s daughter. He smiled at her with the same attraction he depicted toward Megan.

“Hello,” Alexandria answered her cell phone later that day.

“
Can I speak to Alexandria?” Timmy requested.

“
This is she.” She tried to muffle her happiness by having a straight to the point tone.

“
Oh my! I thought you were First Lady Erica. You sound much older on the phone.”

“
Really? I hope that’s a good thing.”

“
I don’t know, Alexandria. Some other guy might get the wrong idea and see you as a grown woman on the phone.” He paused and gathered his thoughts because he was attracted to her sexy, seductive voice. As soon as she answered the phone, he knew he would be in trouble talking to her. He cleared his throat. “And, we definitely don’t want that.” His tone sounded a little nervous.

Alexandria laughed. “Wow, we are just talking about piano lessons. You’re acting like I’d asked you to come to my house, take me into your arms, and do me.” She pictured that he would do some shit like that.

“
Are your parents home? I respect your father, Alexandria, so I have to go.” Timmy almost hung up.

“
Please, don’t hang up! I was just playing. But no, my parents aren’t home.”

“
Do you really want to learn the piano or are you playing games? I can sense that something else is going on in that pretty little head of yours.”

“
Oh, so you think I’m pretty?”

“
Of course, you are a beautiful young lady.”

“
I find you to be sexy.”

“
I really have to go.”

“
If I told you that I had a crush on you ever since we’ve met and want to experience sex with you for the first time, would you agree?”

He coughed vigorously. “Excuse me?”

“
You heard me, so I will not repeat myself.” Her tone was seductive.

“
Look, I don’t know if you are serious or not, but I know what’s at stake. You are the Pastor’s daughter, my boss’ daughter. I cannot entertain whatever this is any further.” Then, he hung up.

Alexandria felt a little pissed, but definitely not defeated. When she saw Timmy at the evening service, he looked nervous when he caught her staring. Alexandria wouldn’t give up that easy. She was a spoiled preacher’s daughter and always got what she wanted. After service was over, she snuck out the door without being noticed. She tried to open Timmy’s passenger side door to surprise him by waiting for him in his car, but it was locked. So, she went into her purse and sent him a text message.

Meet me outside by your ride
. After she pressed send, she wondered how long it would take him to come outside or if he would be too chicken to follow through.

Busy, girl. Go home
! He texted her back.

What the fuck
, was the thought that crept into her mind. She almost was turned on when she realized he would be hard to get.
Nothing makes me more excited than a challenge
, she thought.

Boy, you better bring yourself outside before I start doing sexual things to myself in your car
. After she hit send, she hoped that he would wonder if he locked the door or not.

What in the world is up with this girl
? Timmy thought. He knew she would be nothing but trouble and wished he never offered to exchange numbers.

Moments later, Timmy walked outside and had a disturbed look on his face as if he wanted to choke Alexandria. “Look, Alexandria! I do not like this game you are playing. You need to take that mess somewhere else!” His tone was stern and almost scary as he pointed his finger in her face. She didn’t say a word as she let her hand slide down to his dick. It instantly got hard. He stared at her, looking embarrassed that she gave him an erection. He turned to walk back into the church, but his hard dick stopped him. It stuck out and was on the verge of bursting through his pants. The church doors swung open, so Timmy quickly put his Bible over his dick and changed the subject. “So, I can start teaching you to play tomorrow,” Timmy said in a chipper tone.