"The locks will be changed and your stuff will be in a nice little bonfire in the backyard by the time you get your Barbie home, Ty.
So try me, and you'll regret it."
Tyrese looked at Sarah, who was still outside, then back at his fiancée.
Lela felt her disgust-o-meter rise ten levels when he checked up on his lover who was sitting nonchalantly in the car, filing her nails.
The same car she had paid for. She realized she would have to charge the car to the game since she had been stupid enough to put the title in his name.
She pushed a strand of her jet-black curly weave away from her face. Even seven years his senior, she emitted beauty from her head down to her French-pedicured toes. She was not anyone's second pickings by any stretch of the imagination, and it was time Tyrese learned what toast tasted like without her butter.
Ty walked out of The Fat Cherry with Lela and Tonya right behind him. He went straight to his freshly detailed Chevy Caprice.
Thanks to Lela, it was sitting on 22-inch chrome wheels. He opened the passenger's door while Lela and Sarah watched his every move.
He then reached over Sarah's lap, unlocked the glove compartment, and pulled out a fat envelope. He handed Lela three crisp onehundreddollar bills and removed her house keys and spare jeep keys from his keychain, handing them to her, also.
With attitude, Lela snatched her money and keys from his hand.
As she got into the passenger side of Tonya's car, she yelled, "I'll have your clothes ready for you in the driveway."
***
After Lela and Tonya pulled off, Tyrese handed Sarah a dollar.
"Catch the bus home," he said with urgency. "I'll hit you up later."
"What?" Sarah asked, certain she had heard him wrong.
"You know my crazy baby momma I been telling you about?" he lied.
"Yeah."
"Well, that's her."
"She said she was your fiancée, Ty. And what was that about her having your clothes ready?"
"I told you she was crazy. She's always saying stuff like that just to run off any girl I'm with. She knew when she saw you I had a good thing. I told her I was feeling you."
Before kissing Sarah's forehead, Ty made sure Lela was nowhere in sight.
"Look, she was just flipping out because I forgot it was my weekend to pick up my daughter. I need to get over to her mom's place ASAP so her mother can go to work."