memories we built and our pictures were forever gone. I was angry because Kurt killed my family and at the fact I now had to take care of myself and Mason alone.
With everything that happened I couldn’t go back to school. Instead Black went down to the school and picked up my diploma. The only ones who knew where I was staying were my girls Paige and December. All hopes for moving to Cali and attending UCLA in the fall went out the window.
I couldn't believe my life changed for the worst. Every night I had nightmares about that night. I kept hearing Kurt screaming at my sister and then setting the house on fire. I would wake up drenched in sweat. I became paranoid and very afraid of everything.
Every time someone knocked on the front door I would get scared. I would think it was the police, or child protective services coming to take us away. I couldn’t risk losing someone else that I loved.
Immediately, I wanted love and affection. I was tired of the crying game. The tears weren’t going to bring my mother and my sisters back. I missed Dior and I wanted Dior there by my side to make my days that turned into nights feel safe. I needed him to take away the hurt and pain.
I was heartbroken to the core. While I was grieving the loss of my mother and sisters, somehow I began to notice Black. When Black came around I felt like I had something to look forward to. Besides, he was there for me every step of the way helping me heal.
Black owned the hottest nightclub in downtown Las Vegas. Black Diamonds was upscale and lavish. Only celebrities partied there. Black Diamonds catered to the hood celebrities too but we will get back to that later. Black used to hustle in the streets of Las Vegas and Henderson. He was born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. Once he reached a few millions he moved out here. He was twenty-five years old when he retired from the drug game.
When you’re in those streets, they own you and you have to give up something in order to walk away.
He was the plug and his team needed him and walking away wasn’t easy. Black passed his empire down to his son Landon when he was seventeen years old. Black was married before to a beautiful woman named Victoria. Ms. Donna would always talk about her around the house all the time. She made sure she expressed that Victoria was her favorite daughter-in-law. Until she cheated on Black. It broke Black’s heart, making him put a wall up and not trust women. He never had to worry about the street life or a woman being after his money, his mother would always say. She loved Black and his son Landon, the king of the West Coast.
Together they supplied the streets with the purest cocaine to ever touch the streets of Las Vegas and Henderson. Like father like son. Black provided him the blueprint to making them richer. Landon had the key to the city and with his father a well known old G, they were powerful and nothing could stop them.
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A New Day
Before I knew it I was eighteen. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I didn't have any job experience. I had a driver’s license but no car. I didn’t have any family or any way to take care of my five-year-old nephew and I half-assed did that. I loved him but I wasn't ready to be no mother. I will be honest; when I was fifteen years old I got pregnant by Dior. When I told my mother, she made me get an abortion. I didn’t try to protest because I was young and had my whole life ahead of me. I didn't know how to tell him so I kept it a secret. Dior’s father had died a few weeks before I found out I was pregnant and I knew if I told him it would have broken his heart. Dior always told me he didn't believe in abortions. He felt like babies were a blessing and if he