My Hustler’s Keeper by Larissa Read Free Book Online Page B

has my on edge.
    “Hello Joe.”
    “Sit down Mary,” he says, as I enter the visiting room.
    Shaking with fear I did just that.
    “I’ma keep it real with you Mary. The reason I’m here is because I need you and your girl toy Stephanie to help me take Keisha out. I would take the three of them out but I will need Henry and Harmony in the future,” he says with no sympathy.
    “Why would you kill your wife?”
    “So we can finally be together. I have everything taken care of. Juno and Frankie will help. I just need you and Stephanie,” he answers back, stroking my cheeks.
    “Stephanie will not agree to it.”
    “Yes she will. She loves you. She’ll do anything to protect you.”
    “When do you want it done?” I reply back, smiling.
    This is the day I have been praying for and my prayers are finally being answered. We are about to finally be together, without having to hide it from the world and from Keisha and her brothers. I knew Joe hated Tone and Twan with a passion. And killing their sister would set a big example.
    “When do we do it?” I ask again.
    “A week after you get released. It’s planned to go down on Harmony’s birthday,” he says, before giving me more details.
    “Why on my queen’s birthday?”
    “This will be a gift she’ll never forget,” he answers, standing up to leave.
    “I love you Joe.”
    “Prove it. Prove you love me. Prove your love to me by doing what I just explained to you,” he tells me.
    “I will, I promise you that.”
    The day of my release Stephanie comes to pick me up. Upon getting into her Honda, I explain the visit I had with Joe.
    “So he’s going to start a fight with her, then you’re going to come in and kill her?” she asks, starting up the car.
    “That’s the plan.”
    “So where do I come in at?”
    “I’m not sure Stephanie.”
    “We just have to pray this don’t back fire.”
    “That I know.”
    The night of Harmony’s fifteenth birthday, the plan for Keisha’s death went into full effect. I watched as Keisha yelled at Joe. And when I saw his jaw clench, I knew it was time. I pulled the gun out of my jacket and pulled the trigger, putting two shots into her chest. Keisha was gone and never coming back. Joe called Stephanie and made her take her body to Frankie so that he could trash it.
    Well, that was the plan. I never knew whether she did it or not, seeing how close she and Keisha had got. And to be honest, I didn’t care. I now had the best of both worlds. I was about to marry Harmony as soon as she turned twenty-eight. I still had Joe by my side, and Stephanie too for that matter.
    Loyalty gets you a long way in life. I did everything I had to do for this man. Yet, I’m starting to think it wasn’t good enough.
    At one point I considered myself to be on top of the world, and the luckiest girl to ever walk the face of this earth. I had played my cards right when it came to Joe. I took the time for him, and I even killed his wife for him. I did everything to make Joe happy. But it is now time for me to finally have my happily ever after.
    I never picture that this life I have worked so hard for would be ruined; thrown away like spoiled milk, and washed away like water touching the sand all because of one person—Sincere Knight.
    That nigga just couldn’t keep his dick in his pants long enough for me to get my happily ever after that I deserve. He has to go.
    I just have to get more proof of him and Harmony being together. And when I do his ass is history and she will finally be mine. Or just like her mother she is going to die. Because if I can’t have her then that means I can’t have Joe, and I am not going to lose either of them, especially not to Sincere.
    “Malik,” I speak to my brother. Coming out of my thoughts.
    “Is Joe mad at me?” he asks, looking into my eyes with a worried look. 
    “Why would you ask that?”
    “I saw the way he looked at me. I’m not trying to die.”
    “You’re not going to die Malik. Joe