Full Figured 11 by Treasure Hernandez

Author:Treasure Hernandez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty-three

The knock on the door had Janiyah on edge. The morning seemed to drag as she continued to lay in the bed.

“Who’s at the door?” Janiyah asked herself as she placed her feet in her slippers. She grabbed the robe that was on the hanger on her door and rushed out of her room.

Janiyah wasn’t used to people banging at her door at 7:45 a.m., and she prayed it wasn’t the police telling her the worst. When she got to the door, she looked through the peephole and saw Mother Shirley wearing an all-black Baby Phat velour sweat suit.

I pray she is well, Janiyah said as she opened the door.

“Good morning, Janiyah.” Mother Shirley greeted her with a hug.

“Is everything all right?” Janiyah guided Mother Shirley into the house.

Mother Shirley made herself comfortable on the couch. Janiyah didn’t notice the tan, tattered leather bag she was carrying until she placed the ugly thing on her coffee table. Janiyah watched carefully as Mother Shirley unsnapped the bag, removed a stack of bills, and placed them on the counter.

“Seventy-five thousand dollars.” Mother Shirley had a big smile on her face.

Janiyah was flabbergasted. She couldn’t believe that Mother Shirley was able to get her hands on that type of money before the banks even opened. She picked up a stack of bills and then quickly dropped them like they were hot potatoes. “Mother Shirley, I appreciate what you’re doing—”

“Good.” Mother Shirley reached over the table and put the stack of bills back into the bag. “My son and I have thought everything out. Today and tomorrow, you’ll make your runs to the banks, just like you would have on Friday. This bag of money will already be at the church. You’ll meet Montez there, give him the money, we get our youth pastor back, and life will go on.”

“Mother Shirley, that sounds too simple.” Janiyah wasn’t convinced that Mother Shirley had thought this through.

“It is simple.” Mother Shirley sounded like she’d been insulted. Her mood tensed up, and she had that deep, angry look on her face that pierced Janiyah’s soul. “I know you don’t understand it now, but this is what I’m allowed to say. My son and his boys at the feds have been trying to catch Montez for a few years. They were hoping that they’d be able to get him for good with an attempted murder last year, but Montez’s family is throwing their money around. Montez’s lawyers and his mother’s friends at the sheriff’s office are doing everything possible to keep Montez from paying for his crimes.”

“But what does this have to do with Gun being kidnapped?” Janiyah was losing patience. She didn’t want to go off on Mother Shirley because she still wanted to ask how she was able to come up with seventy-five thousand dollars so fast. She’d never held onto that much money in life, yet Mother Shirley walked around with them like they were crumpled dollar bills.

“The feds want to track how Montez is spending this money,” Mother Shirley answered.

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