Nevaeh by Hope Moss (best business books of all time txt) 📖

dripping in one from the cut on her forehead. One of her teeth is loose, and her lip is split. She can't stop the bleeding from the cut on her head, she opens the bathroom cabinet and spots the sleeping pills given to her after her miscarriage. She pulls them down just wanting to end it all.
"Mommy, are you okay?Mommy please open the door." she hears Justin at her bathroom door. He rattles the knob. "Mommy please let me in, I'm scared."
She goes to the door, "Sweetie you know you to big to be in the bathroom with Mommy," with each word it hurts more.
"But I'm scared Mommy" he rattles the door again.
"Justin, baby listen to me, You have to get in bed before your dad gets back okay."
At first she only hears silence, "Okay Mommy."
She hears him run off, then the bedroom door closing. She hurries out the bathroom to lock her bedroom door before he decides to come back. She picks up the phone
"Key" she whispers
"Mara?, What's wrong, What that nigga done did now? I told you that Mr. Nice Guy shit wasn't gonna last., I don't know why you stay with his trifling ass anyway. You too dam good for him. You need to take your kids and leave."
"Key please!!!"
"What Mara" she screams at her friend, Key is not really mad at Tamara, but she's tired and wishes her girl would open her eyes.
"Key, can you come get us please, I can't take no mo Key. I just wanna die Key. I can't take this.I'm so tired of hurting" she sobs into the phone.
"I'm on my way" Once she hangs up with Tamara, she calls her brother.
"Who dis"
"I know that better not be no ho" she hears in the background.
"Shut your ass up" Trell tells whoever he has in his bed. "Who dis?
"Trell it's two in the morning, I'm telling you if that's a ho I'm kick both of yall asses"
"LaTrell I need you" she cries into the phone.
"Key is that you? Key what's wrong."He's already putting on his clothes. "Key talk to me baby"
"Who the hell is Key and why the fuck you calling her baby"
"Trell tell that hoe shut up for I whip her ass"
"Girl shut up, as a matter of fact, get the fuck out!" he is already heading out his front door, he's not used to getting calls like this. He starts his car heading for Key's house and she hasn't told him what was wrong yet.
"Trell I'm on my way to Tamara's house, meet me there."
'What's wrong with Ma?" He had always had a crush on Tamar, but she was his sister's friend and too young, by the time she was old enough, she was involved with Jason's punk ass. He never liked Jason from day one. Dude always was too cocky.
"I don't know, she called me talking bout killing herself."
"What? I'll see you there in a minute." He hangs up the phone and hits the gas. He arrives at Tamara's house in forty-five minutes. He see's LaKresha's car in the driveway. He knocks on the door, no one answers. He hears raised voices coming from the back of the house. He gently knocks on the closed door.From inside the room the hears Key.
"Your leaving this time, I can't believe this shit" Key is crying. What The Fuck he wonders. He knocks a little louder then opens the door. It goes totally silent.
Tamara and LaKresha both take a deep breath when they see Trell, They both thought it was Jason. LaTrell gets a look at Tamara face.
"What the fuck happened to your face?"
"Trell, Jason did this shit!!!" Key tells him throwing clothing in a bag.
"What!!!!!!! Where his punk ass at? I got something for him, He wanna hit females huh? Where he at Ma?" He's pacing her bedroom too angry to be still
"Trell calm down" Key walks over to him and touches his arm, he shakes her loose. Dam Key thinks, I should have called my Mom and Dad. She knew Trell always had a crush on Tamara. She wasn't really thinking when she called she was just scared and not knowing what she was gonna face when she got here, she wanted to have protection. She had always kept the beatings from Trell, cause he didn't play when it came to his people and Tamara was family. They didn't even tell him when Tamara lost the baby because of Jason.
"Trell please calm down, just help me get Mara and the kids out of here?"
"Where are the kids?
"Sleeping, Could you pack them up?" He leaves to do as she asks.
Tamara still has not said one word, The cut on her forehead has clotted and dried, her left eye is completely shut.
"Tamara, We have to leave okay, you can't stay here, Tamara?" she hugs her friend, her tear mingling with Tamara's
Tamara just nods. Key gives a sigh of relief.
They pack her and the kids in the car. "Where is my Daddy? Where are we going?"
Tamara still isn't talking so Key tells them they are all having a sleep over. They head over to the McDaniels resident because they know Tamar's mother won't be any help. They drop the kids off briefly explaining to their parents what happened. They head to the ER. While Tamara is getting stitches in her forehead, Key fills her brother in on everything.
"Why the hell didn't you tell me Key" he yells.
"Please Sir, You have to keep it down this is a hospital" Trell just looks at her. He sits back down. "Key you of all people know how I feel about Tamara."
"That's exactly why I didn't tell you."
"I'ma kill him Key"
'I been wanting to"
"But, I'm going to Key, I swear." Key see's tears rolling down her brother's face and thinks "Dam! He must really love my girl." The last time she had seen her brother cry was when they were younger and she fell out a tree and he thought she was dead. She pulls him into her arms.
"What do Dwayne and Vernon have to say about this."
Key sucks her teeth,"They say that it's Tamara's business, and that she's gonna go back anyway, Punk asses just scared of losing their jobs."
"I'ma whip they ass too. I don't believe this shit."
Hours later Tamara is released, They head over to the McDaniels house, Mrs. McDaniels sets Tamara up in Key's old bedroom. The kids are in Trell's old room.She leaves Tamara sleeping and joins her family, she is crying and her husband pulls her into his arms.
"How could he do that to that baby?"
"Mary, she's gonna be okay, We'll be here for her."
Tamara sleeps off and on for two days, her mind is still foggy,Key and Trell have been keeping the kids busy. JJ is still asking for his father. Her Mom and Jason were blowing up her phone so she cut it off. She heard Jason and Mr. Mc Daniels arguing one day. She realized this wasn't fair of her to be burdening them with her problems. but she had no where else to go, expect back to Jason. She had called her Mom, to see if she could come back home, her Mom told her "No, I don't know what you did, but you need to fix things." She didn't know why that shocked her. She even asked her brothers if they could stay with one of them. They told her they had families of their own. They didn't have room for her and the kids, besides Jason had been crying to them how much he missed her and wanted her and his kids back.
"I'm going back home Key"
"What, are you crazy?"
"I can't stay here, This is not fair to your Mom and Dad."
"They don't mind, This is what families do for each other."
"They should not have to deal with this," They had been living with the McDaniels for five months. They had celebrated Tasha's birthday, Thanksgiving, Justin's birthday, in December, Christmas,and JJ's birthday in February. It was time to make a move. She felt stronger know. Jason had actually started going to Anger Management Classes and he wanted to go to marriage counseling.
"Key he's changed"
"How many times have you heard that?"
"It's different this time"
"Did you talk to Trell and my parents?"
"Not yet, I'll tell them tonight."
"Dam Tamara, What this nigga dick made of gold? You want him to kill you? I can't stand around and watch this shit I'm out!" She gets her purse and storms out, passing Trell on his way in.
"Key, Where you going? What's wrong?" he grabs her arm
"Let me go Trell, I can't stay here and watch this." she pulls free from her brother.
"What?"
"She's going back Trell, She's going back to that nigga after all he did."
"You lying"
"Go talk to her yourself." she gets in her car and Trell heads in the house. He goes for the stairs two at a time. Tamara is in her room packing. He storms into the room.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"I'm going home Trell it's time." she stuffs more clothing into the suitcase. He throws the case against the wall.
"You can't go back there."
"I have to, I can't stay here."
"Move in with me."
"Boy you crazy."
"I'm serious, I have a three-bedroom house I'm buying in Laplace. Move in with me". The last couple of months, she and Trell had gotten close. He even confessed to having a crush on her when they were younger.
'I can't Trell,come on boy, I'd be cramping your style all the females I've heard about you with." She tries joking her way out of it. Truth be told she had started catching feelings for him too. He was patient, he even encouraged her to go back to school, said he would even help, his garage was doing good. Trell was a mechanic and with the money his parents had gave him when he graduated he had went into partnership with his bestfriend Brandon. Last year he had closed on his first house. She had loved hearing from Key about how well Trell was doing. She had a crush on him growing up, but thought all he ever saw was another kid sister, that's how he treated her and he always had a different girl. If only one of them had said something years ago.
"Trell I love you for the thought, I also love you for being here for me." she goes to kiss him on the cheek, he turns his head and their lips touch. She pulls back and touches her lips. He grabs her and kisses her again, The kiss was like nothing she had ever felt. Her body felt like pure liquid. She starts pulling at his clothing.
"Where are the kids?"
"Out with your parents"
"Good"
Tamara and Trell make love for the first time. Afterwards they are in each others arms marveling at what they had just shared.
"Okay finish packing, when the kids get here we can hit the road."
"What?"
"You are coming home with me right."
"No Trell I'm still going back to Jason."
"What, After what just happened?"
"Trell my kids need their Dad, I have to at least try."
He starts to put on his clothes. "You are not going back to him, That's final!!!!!!!!"
"My God, You sound just like him" she starts to throw on her clothing also.
He stops, she realizes what she's just said. "Oh my God Trell baby, I didn't mean that, she reaches for him" He avoids her touch and keeps dressing.He then walks out of the room, minutes