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quick second she saw fear in her eyes, but it was abruptly subdued by defiance.
    â€œI hope you are doing something productive with your life like your roommate.”
    Keisha looked at Nikki with intense fury. Step-by-step Nikki slowly dismissed herself. This was a family affair and she didn’t want to be a part of it or this family.
    â€œWhy the hell are you here? And how did you know where to find me?”
    â€œYou will not speak to me in that tone!” He stood directly in front of her and she took a couple of steps back. “Your mother is in the hospital worried about you. She needs you there with her.”
    â€œYou took your head out your mistress’s lap to come up for air but not long enough to realize that your wife needed you too?”
    He slapped her face and she stumbled backward; luckily the car was there to break her fall.
    As a child Keisha had witnessed her father putting his hands on her mother, the same way he had just put his hand on her. Realizing what he just did, he ran over to her but her stare was cold.
    He held his head down in shame and turned his back to her. Tears welled up in his eyes. He was disappointed in himself. He had come to make things right with her, not worse. The army had taught him how to control his anger and how to be a man but he allowed his anger to get the best of him. She lashed out at him like a snake with a venomous tongue. Her cold words melted the ice around his heart and he felt her pain. He was no longer the iron man. Tears were now running down his face.
    She knew he was now weak and she tore him to shreds with her words. “Where were you when my mother needed you?”
    â€œI got reactivated in the army! When they call you have to go.”
    â€œThe same old army excuse. Why didn’t you die in the army?” she said with gritted teeth. She was heartless and cold.
    He turned to face his daughter in disbelief. He fell to his knees, sobbing. “That was a long time ago and I am a better man now! I am a better man,” he stated, pounding the ground with his fist, expressing his grief.
    â€œIf you consider killing people making you a better man, you are so deranged. You should have died in the army because you are dead to me!”
    She walked past him drowning in his sorrow. She didn’t have a soft spot for him. She wasn’t touched by his performance. She stormed inside, instantly turning her fury on Nikki. “You and your damn goody-goody attitude. Do you have to parade that fact that you’re going to school every chance you get?”
    â€œHe asked and I—”
    â€œTry keeping your damn mouth shut next time.” Keisha could cut down a tree with one lash from her tongue. Her father wasn’t a role model himself. She caught him having an affair with his secretary but instead of ending it or admitting his fault, he would buy her silence with money, expensive presents, and shopping sprees with his mistress. She carried the guilt of betraying her mother throughout her young years. She despised her father and every man. She vowed to herself never to let them do to her what her father did to her mother. Her mother was also a weak woman who never stood up for herself. Keisha was disappointed in her mother for staying with her father and not divorcing his self-righteous ass. She also promised herself she would never be as weak as her mother.

Chapter 5
    It was ten p.m. when Keisha finally finished perfecting herself. Keisha sprayed her Chanel perfume in the air, then turned around in a circle so each drop would hit her body softly. Keisha had a job to do and she had all the right skills for the position. Her uncle had promised her $5,000 and she wanted every penny of it, but she got a bigger thrill from thinking about her conquest tonight. She had the skills and the experience, but also a few extra qualities that would come in handy. Bling’s show was scheduled to begin at twelve-thirty a.m. but she also