The Banks Sisters 3 by Nikki Turner

Author:Nikki Turner [Turner, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-01-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

The Shake Down

Tallhya was left alone in the room. She used the time away from her abductors to pray. One after the other, she prayed to God, Me-Ma, Ginger, and Bunny. It was the same prayer each time: Please help me!

She even asked (via prayer) for help from her no-earthly-good mother. Maybe the woman who gave birth to her would be a better mother from the grave than she was in real life. One thing for sure, Tallhya surmised, was that reaching out to her mother, whether she was in Heaven or Hell, couldn’t make her situation any worse than it already was. Like Me-Ma used to say, “Closed mouths don’t get fed.”

To the best of her knowledge, it had been about two hours since Flashlight and his partner were last in the room. She couldn’t be sure, because she didn’t have a watch, and of course she didn’t have a phone.

After praying, Tallhya used the time trying to utilize meditation techniques she’d learned from a psychologist while in the crazy hospital. It was useless. Each method required her to do two things: (1) Take deep breaths and (2) Clear her mind completely of all thoughts.

The first one was easy enough, but she didn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell of clearing her mind. She was way too nervous for that shit, and there was no logical grounds to relax and clear her mind.

The small room was pin-drop quiet. For some reason, Tallhya’s mind kept going back to when she was in that seedy hotel after the bank robbery. She was destitute of not only money, but of hope as well. She’d spent the few pennies she’d gotten from the robbery on the hotel room and food. She wasn’t sure if the bank’s cameras had captured a good image of her and if the police were hot on her trail. She’d only had six minutes on her prepaid phone, and with nowhere else to turn, Tallhya had cried out to God. Lo and behold, He had not only showed up, but He showed out! In what seemed like the blink of an eye, God had changed her life significantly.

Tallhya kept reminding herself that this was no different. If He thought that she was worth saving then, why would God allow her to be thrown to the wolves now?

Deep in thought, Tallhya began hearing voices. Was she hallucinating? What were audible hallucinations without images called? Crazy. Was God trying to speak to her, or was her mind playing tricks on her?

Turned out that it was neither. The voices manifested from the devils outside the room where their captive was tied up. Prince (AKA Flashlight), and his partner Abe (AKA Mean-Mug), weighed their options.

Sitting on a ratty sofa, Prince expressed his concerns. “I don’t think it’s the right move, trying to shake that nigga Wolfe down.”

Prince and Abe had been friends since the sandbox and had always been tighter than fish pussy. They were like peanut butter and jelly, different but complimenting each other.

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