The Black Sheep - Part 2: Greed by Tiana Laveen

Author:Tiana Laveen [Laveen, Tiana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lion's Den
Published: 2025-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

Roman looked at his phone and slid it on the floor beside him. Grandpa had hurled more threats, but this time, put a little bit more funk on it. He went back to working on Mama’s sink. After a few minutes, he’d managed to contain the leak. She’d need a couple of parts, he figured he’d swing by the hardware store and grab them, but he would handle that in a bit. The most pressing matter was stopping the seepage. Toby approached him, a little green ball in his mouth. Roman smiled at the tiny dog, rubbed his head, took the ball and hurled it into the living room. Toby went after it as fast as his little legs could carry him. He got up, washed his hands, then downed a cup of water. When he had his mind right, he picked up his phone and re-read Daddy’s email. Off he went down the hall towards Mama’s bedroom.

The door was closed. He wondered if it was locked, too. He looked at it for a second and couldn’t recall too many times entering that dwelling without knocking first. Daddy had drilled that into him, and his brothers. When he got a little older, he realized it was because the lock never worked quite right on it, and they were probably in there doing things that would make him go blind if he saw it in action. He chuckled at the thought of it and opened the door. There in the middle of the room with the wooden walls that mama refused to part with, was a big, canopied bed. It had about a million pink and white pillows on it. In the corner was a case full of old dolls, only these didn’t look creepy.

Perhaps because Mama had them dressed in bright clothes and turned towards the window—not making direct eye contact. On the walls were photos when he and his brothers were children, all the way into their high school years. There was her wedding photo with his stepfather, Ronald, too, and Mama’s strawberry pie that had gotten first place in the local paper about ten or so years ago. As he neared the area Daddy mentioned in his email, he suddenly felt a heavy weight on his soul. His face dripped sweat, and his brain went white. He clung to a pole of the bed, his imagination getting the better of him. Toby suddenly appeared, the ball in his mouth again.

He pet the dog in a halfhearted way, removed the moist ball from his mouth, and threw it, but only this time, perhaps because he was still holding onto the bed and trying to make out what was happening to him, it hit the door frame instead, then rolled onto the ground, right back towards him. Toby looked mighty underwhelmed and disappointed. He, on the other hand, was in awe. He removed his phone from his pant pocket once again, and read his father’s email.

Roman,

Thank you for the money in my bank account.

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