Payback With Ya Life (25 page)

“Yeah, I miss you. I need to see my people,” she whined. “You gotta see the twins’ bedroom and I need to see my niece. You know she gonna help me with the twins, right?”

Kyra laughed. “Let her help, ’cause I ain’t having none no time soon that she can play house with.”

“Yeah right.” Just then Tasha’s phone beeped. “Hold on, Kyra, let me take this call.”

“Girl, just call me back.”

“No, Kyra, hold on.” Tasha didn’t want her to hang up.

Kyra sucked her teeth. “Girl, go ’head.”

“Hello. Hey, Nana.” It was Trae’s mother. “I’m fine, thank you. How’s Pop Pop?” Trae magically appeared in the doorway.

“How long you gonna be on the phone?”

“It’s your mom,” she mouthed.

“Give me the phone.”

Tasha rolled her eyes at him. “Nana, here’s your rude son. I love you too.” Tasha covered the mouthpiece. “I think something’s wrong,” she whispered before passing Trae the phone.

“Hey, Ma. Everything aiight?” Trae was silent as Tasha watched his facial expressions. When he ran his hand over his head she knew something wasn’t right. “Ma, calm down. Put Daddy on the phone.”

“What’s the matter?” Tasha was now up and standing in front of Trae.

“Dad, what happened?” Tasha watched as the tears rolled slowly down his cheeks.

When he hung up, Tasha asked, “Baby, what’s the matter?”

“We gotta go back to New York.”

About the Author

WAHIDA CLARK was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. This Trenton native owned and operated L.M. Clark Printers & Publishers Inc., a printing and publishing company in Trenton. She decided to write fiction while incarcerated at a women’s federal prison camp in Lexington, Kentucky.

She was crowned the “Queen of Thug Love Fiction” by Nikki Turner, a mogul in urban fiction. Her
Essence
best-selling novels include
Thugs and the Women Who Love Them
,
Every Thug Needs a Lady
,
Payback Is a Mutha
, and her latest and highly anticipated
Thug Matrimony
. In June Wahida was released from the federal prison camp in Alderson, West Virginia, and is now back in New Jersey, where she is hard at work on her next book.