Love Power And Loyalty: An Urban Fiction Romance (African American Urban Fiction Romance Short Stories) by Shantel Johnson

Author:Shantel Johnson [Johnson, Shantel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sensual Ink Publishing
Published: 2015-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Married to The Streets

Shantel Johnson

© 2015 Sensual Ink Publishing

Table of Contents

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

One.

I’m sick and tired of being treated like I’m not worth a dime. I’m really starting to give up on dating. I mean, what’s wrong with me? Why is it that I keep ending up in this situation? Why am I still single? I am a beautiful successful black woman who loves to cater to her man. What man doesn’t want that? Apparently not my last boyfriend, James. He only cared about himself and money. Besides, as handsome as that man was, he was dumber than ever. I felt like my IQ went down every time I was around him. It amazed me when he told me he had three degrees, and I was even more surprised when he told me his position at the bank.

“Terielle!” someone yelled but I was too lost in my thoughts to recognize the voice. When the person yelled my name a second time, I snapped back to reality. I blinked to see my friends sitting around the table staring at me. I had completely forgotten where I was.

“Girl, snap out of it,” Shae said. “You been down since your breakup. The boy wasn’t all that. Besides, you didn’t need him anyway.”

“That’s a lie! That boy was fine and he had money. You was stupid for letting him—,” Taylor started and then stopped once she saw the way my friends were looking at her. I laughed. Both of them were right. James was fine and he did have money but I didn’t need him. I would be just fine on my own.

“Look, T, you need to relax.” Nia said and then suggested. “We should have a girl’s night tonight.”

A girl’s night did sound great. Just me and my girls watching movies and eating ice cream. It’s been a long time since we did something like that, especially with so much going on with our lives.

“She needs to go out,” Shae responded, but that’s what I did not need to do. Their definition of going out was to some club with music or to a party or something like that. I would much rather take a long bath and curl up in bed with a good book.

“And I have the perfect place to go,” agreed Taylor.

“Oh hell no!” I exclaimed. “I don’t want to go anywhere that you suggest. The last time you picked we ended up almost getting shot.” The last time we followed Taylor’s suggestion we ended up on her boyfriend’s side of town. He lives in Lockwood Village, home of the city’s biggest crime rates and drug activity. Lockwood is nothing nice, that’s for sure.

“Leon had us and you know it. He wouldn’t have let anything happen to us,” she assured me but I wasn’t with it. “Fine, we don’t have to go to Lockwood, but we should get out. You don’t need to sit around in your feelings. You need a distraction. If you try to go home and relax, you just gon’ feel down and alone.

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