No Love for the Wicked by Tiana Laveen

Author:Tiana Laveen [Laveen, Tiana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Tiana Laveen
Published: 2021-02-15T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

When a Man Loves a Woman

Rule 13: Never accept no for an answer.

“You will tell me one day how you give grown men nightmares. Finish your story.” Angelo encouraged Andrea to complete her tale. He was determined to get the facts from her later. There was no way he was going to let that shit slide, but for now, it could go on the back burner with the leftover string beans.

“I’m not telling you anything. Trade secrets.” She stuck out her tongue in a teasing gesture. “Anyway, yeah, back to what I was saying. Where was I?”

“The lady who stole from your job.”

“Yes, that’s right. It was some rich White chick I had to put in her place.” She snorted. “She’d only got spoken to by security, a slap on the wrist. They even laughed with her about it. She said it was a misunderstanding, and that I was jumping to conclusions. I’d seen her shove the shoes in her bag. Wasn’t no damn misunderstanding. Police were called but they refused to come out. That didn’t sit right with me. I witnessed plenty of Black people be accused of stealing, and the police were always called and came, Angelo, even if it wasn’t true. Always some clerk thinkin’ all Black people steal. Had things been fair, she would’ve been detained until they arrived. So, she flaunted it, right? She kept coming into the store a few times in the following weeks, taunting me, laughing. She would constantly call me a nigger when she’d walk past, and other shit, too. It was like she became obsessed with me. One day, I’d had enough.”

“What did you do, beautiful? I really want to know.”

“She headed out the store, and I followed right after her, making sure she didn’t see me. I didn’t even know why I did that, but I was enraged. I decided I was going to get her and get her good, so I picked up a brick that was lyin’ on the side of the street, and when no one was looking, I bashed her in the back of the head with all my might!” The woman’s eyes turned to inky slits. Sinister. Dreadful. Wicked. “She dropped to the ground, passed out cold. I took off. She lived. I heard about it later, and of course I feigned surprise. I did the ‘poor lady’ thing and everything. She’d never seen it coming, and after that day I never saw her again. It’s probably the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

He scratched the skin by his eye, curing an itch. It seemed to him that she was telling the truth. “So, we’ve got petty theft, vandalism, and aggravated assault. The first two aren’t worth shit. But that last one? That’s a doozy. I’m proud of ya. Not bad.” They both burst out laughing. “All right then. About my father…” He took a drag of the cigarette. “Ya asked about my father.” She nodded. “He was the best at what he did.

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