Hakeem & Tasia

K.C. Mills

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• Urban Books

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• Publié par: Sullivan Group Publishing, LLC
• Date de parution: 29 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781648541377
• Langue: English

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Hakeem & Tasia
A Brick City Love Story


K.C. Mills
© 2017
Published by Leo Sullivan Presents
www.leolsullivan.com


All rights reserved.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Unauthorized reproduction, in any manner, is prohibited.
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Synopsis

Acknowledgments


1. Hakeem

2. Tasia

3. Hakeem

4. Tasia

5. Hakeem

6. Tasia

7. Hakeem

8. Tasia

9. Hakeem

10. Rock

11. Hakeem

12. Tasia

13. Hakeem

14. Tasia

15. Hakeem

16. Tasia

17. Hakeem

18. Tasia

19. Hakeem


To Be Continued…

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Synopsis

Hakeem was an all American Ball player who had offers for a full ride to just about every Division 1 School across the country but when his parents died in a fatal car accident leaving him to care for himself and his twelve year old sister everting in his life changed. Seven years later Hakeem was a senior at Essex County College and his sister Kaliyah was about to graduate from high school and Hakeem had been supporting him and his sister by working for Simuel a local drug dealer.
With ball, school and being on the block Hakeem had very little time for anything that wasn’t a priority like making money and taking care of his sister so even though he wanted Tasia in his life he kept his distance. Hakeem didn’t want to bring her into his world and not be able to give her the time and attention he deserved especially now that Simuel was stepping down and offering his empire to Hakeem and his best friend and Jodie. Jodie and Hakeem began as runners and corner boys so for Simuel to respect them enough to allow them to take over for him was an offer that neither of them could refuse.
The two of them graciously accepted knowing that here would be fall out form people who had a lot more history with Simuel’s organization than they did. Running and empire would require a lot more time than running a block but Hakeem and Jodi are determined to make it work. Now if only they can keep things moving with Juice and Rock plotting against them from the inside since they felt like they should have been the obvious choice to run Simuels Empire. Rock and Juice had been right there by Simuel’s side living in his shadow so when Simuel named Jody and Hakeem as the next in line Juice and Rock began plotting to prove that Simuel made a huge mistake. Will Hakeem and Jodie be able to stay ahead of the gam or will rock and Juice catch them slipping and take over.
Taisa had been in love with Hakeem since freshman year when he came strolling in her Lit class taking the seat that she had already claimed but through the years they never seemed to be able to find their way to each other. Now months away from graduation a Tasia has an encounter which causing Hakeem to place Taisa under his protect. They start spending a lot of time together making it hard for them to deny their feelings but for as long as Tasia cold remember she has had dreams of being a fashion designer so before the ink is dry on her diploma Taisa plans on moving to New York to make that happen. Will she be able to give up any chance of a future with Hakeem to pursue her dream? Tasia knows that Hakeem will never leave the streets alone especially now that he has agreed to take over for Simuel so she has a tough choice to make which could lead to her losing the love of her life.
Acknowledgments



To my foundation, my husband Mark and my kids, Tamia, Samad and Jaden, you guys are A1! Your love and support make this possible!
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1

Hakeem

“Damn Keem, you gotta act like that?” I was getting to the point where the sound of Tierra’s voice was beginning to irritate the hell out of me.
“Act like what Tierra?” I said, hoping she would peep the hostility in my voice and keep it moving, but of course her dumb ass was so self-indulged that she couldn’t see past her own intentions.
“Like you don't see me,” she said, almost whining.
“I see your ass, how could I not when you prancing around in front of me like you don't have any damn sense. I know you see me out here trying to handle business.”
Everyone around us laughed, including her girls, but I wasn't fazed. Honestly, I wasn't actually trying to be funny. In fact, I was serious as hell and she knew it, because she backed down and turned her attention away from me back to her circle of ratchet sidekicks. Tierra was mad as hell, but I didn't care.
“Damn Keem, you didn’t have to play her thirsty ass like that,” Talen said through a laugh. He hated Tierra because she got with him and then ran right to his girl on some sneaky type shit, and told her everything that went down. Talen paid big for that fuck up, but he learned his lesson.
“Man she knows better. I’m not fucking with her like that, so I don’t know why she’s out her putting on a show for everybody.
“You’re cold Keem,” Talen said, laughing again before he turned back to our crew to finish the debate that they were having about basketball.
Not once did I look up from my phone to pay attention to Tierra's dumb ass. She knew I didn't rock with her like that, and the most she would ever be was some good head, but even that was wearing thin because she was starting to mistake that for a relationship. That was something I just didn't do since my break up with Janelle over two years ago, and everyone knew that–present company included–so I didn't know why Tierra constantly set herself up to get embarrassed.
I was focused on my phone trying to see what was good with my sister Kaliyah, because she should have been home over an hour ago and I hadn't heard from her yet, so if she didn't check in soon, I was heading home to make sure she was straight.
Money could wait–family first. Since our parents died when I was sixteen and Liyah was twelve, leaving just the two of us, I had to hold shit down. I was my sister’s mother, father, brother, best friend, and whatever else I needed to be to make sure she was good.
“Yo Keem, there goes Tasia," my man Jodie said, causing me to glance in the direction he pointed just long enough to see her fine ass walk into the corner store on Clinton Ave. She was fresh as hell, as always, rocking ripped distressed skinny jeans and a baby fit tee that was putting all of her God given gifts on display. I could feel my shit swell just from that quick glance, but I let my eyes fall back on my phone before I spoke, making sure there was no emotion attached to my words.
"You know I'm not messing with Tay like that." I didn't bother to look up because I knew Jodie's ass was watching me with that damn smirk.
See, Jodie was my peoples, down since elementary school, and even though none of my crew knew I was feeling Tasia, Jodie knew. He knew everything about me, the same way I knew all his dirt. Between the two of us, we had enough skeletons to cover the entire city of Newark, but best believe no one would ever know that shit except me and Jodie, and we vowed to take it to the grave.
"I don't know why she acts so damn brand new. She grew up around here getting free lunch out on the schoolyard just like the rest of us. Stuck up bitch,” Rally said, causing a few others to chime in and laugh.
Now satisfied since I received a response from Liyah, I slid my phone in my pocket and stepped to Rally so quickly that it caught him off guard. I forced him against the wall with my forearm pressing firmly on his throat, while slightly lifting him off the ground. I was 6’6 and 180 pounds of lean muscle because I played ball and worked out 24/7, while Rally was only about 5’4 and weighed about 120 pounds soaking wet.
"The fuck I tell yo ass ‘bout disrespecting women around me,” I said through clenched teeth. The look in my eyes likely made him want to shit himself, because everyone knew that was a sore spot with me. When I spoke everyone listened and they either respected me or feared me, but either way I was the type that commanded respect.
"My bad Keem, I wasn't thinking man,” Rally said, gripping my arm while struggling to breath.
It was a known fact, that I had mad respect for women, mostly coming from the fact that I had been and still was raising my lit