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make a better life for yourself.”
    Lexi’s eyes got big. She didn’t know anyone that had gone to college. “College? You think I could go to college?”
    “ You gotta have an education in this life, baby girl. Streets smarts will get you a few places here and there, but book smarts will take you places you never been. You need both of those to be the total package. I already got your college fund put aside for you.”
    When Bank Roll said things like that, Lexi was determined to remain a straight A student. School was easy to her, and she liked going there to learn. She wanted to be everything he thought she should be. When he told her he grew up in Mississippi and hadn’t gone to school past the sixth grade because he had to work, she was determined to learn all the things he seemed to wish he had learned.
    She wanted to show him she could be the best. She wanted to be well rounded and be the baddest bitch Bank Roll ever had. She listened intently as he shared one of his stories for what was probably the thousandth time.
    “ I was just about your age when I first came here to Cali. Uncle Willie taught me to play pool and we’d run game night after night. I ran numbers for Uncle Po and watched my big brother, Pootie, run his women. My granddaddy had a juke joint down south where everyone went to hustle some way or another and have fun. We come from a long line of hustlers. I watched them all and studied each of their crafts. I loved the way my brother had women selling their bodies with only sweet words and empty promises. Those bitches would do anything he said, they worshipped the ground he walked on. I learned finesse from him. Of course, when I got here I dabbled here and there, and found my way when I got my first bottom bitch. A few years later, I started getting some of this drug money.”
    “ You’re so smart.”
    “ I got street smarts, but you gonna be a shining star. You got that potential, baby girl. I’m going to be so proud to see you walk across that stage when you graduate high school.”
    “ I’ll graduate top of my class, daddy. You just watch and see.”
    “ I know you will. We gonna go somewhere special when you do.” Bank Roll knew she would have been the most loyal bottom bitch he ever had, but he had bigger plans for her.
    “ I’m so lucky to have you. I’m gonna go above and beyond what you need from me.” Lexi’s eyes sparkled.
    “ You remind me so much of Betty Sue,” Bank Roll said in almost a whisper.
    “ Who is she?” Lexi couldn’t recall hearing the name before.
    He sighed heavily. He removed his wallet from his pocket and took out a worn, black and white picture. He handed it to Lexi. She studied the beautiful, chocolate woman in the picture. Her smile was so wide and bright. Her hair was long and straight. She had her arm around a much younger Bank Roll’s neck, and he looked so happy. Lexi felt a small twinge of jealousy rise in her. Of all the women she had ever seen swoon over Bank Roll, the woman in the picture seemed more threatening than all of them.
    “ She was the first, and only, woman to break old Bank Roll’s heart. That was a tough lesson for me, but I needed it and I’m glad I got it out of the way early.”
    Bank Roll had a faraway look in his eyes. He met Betty Sue almost a year after he had touched down in Oakland. They were at a bar celebrating his fourteenth birthday and he felt like the man. When he heard her order a drink, he knew she was from down south. Bank Roll drank with his uncles and brother like he was a grown man. When they saw him checking her out, they dared him to go talk to her. He smoothly walked over to the beauty at the bar and asked her name. They talked and he learned she was from Tennessee. She had had stopped in Oakland to visit her sister before she headed to Los Angeles to be a star. She wanted to be on the big screen and everybody back home told her she had the looks to make it. By the end of the night, Bank Roll had