Simple but nonetheless unique, Jay Bromley, is an ordinary girl with your regular struggles. But being from a town where everyone knows everyone doesn't negate them. In most cases it puts them on a stage with a direct spotlight. Never completing her degree and after becoming a single mother, Jay is determined not to let her dreams escape her reality. After suffering a terrible loss she embarks on a new journey and sets her sights on New York City. What she thinks is a fresh start ends up twisting her life into something she couldn't have came up with if she wanted too. Focusing on her dreams and making a life for her family of two becomes more of a challenge than she hoped. Making her begin to question, if it was worth the trouble at all.
Kane "Killa" Miller wasn't your average black man from the city. Raised in a military family he traveled a lot growing up, spoke four different languages, and had a masters degree in Botany. After his father retired, his parents and his brother, Deuce, moved back home to Harlem. Although he went to church every Sunday as a child, there was only reason he got the name Killa. He was ruthless when he needed to be. Anybody that crossed him never got to live long enough to gloat about it. If you stood in his way you were a problem, and there was only one way he knew to solve a problem; permanently. But what happens when a man with no weakness, finally finds his Achilles heel?
These two beings couldn't live any further on the ends of the spectrum and when their worlds collide, nothing could prepare them for the aftermath. Life, love...death? Choosing to live, choosing to love or choosing both could always lead to your destruction. It's human nature to grasp them close to at least make it worth it in the end, right? No one said it was easy but it had to be worth it.
"Mama, I can't just leave Abir." I admitted, telling her exactly why I couldn't do this.
Not only would she be snatching me away from my family and friends but she was taking me away from the person I'd loved for five going on six years.
I couldn't just walk away from him.
"Baby.." She trailed off, sighing deeply.
"I know you love Abir." She stood to her feet to stop packing for a moment and pulled me into her.
"But I promise you, there will be other boys. Right now you have to do what's best for you and that's coming with your daddy and I to give you a better life."
"Better life for who? You?!" I screamed out, becoming even more angry at her choice of words.
As if my feelings were robotic and I could just turn them on and off for any and every person.
"My feelings just don't matter to y'all at all, huh?" I asked, crying harder than before now.
"Speak to your mother with some respect, Giselle." My father spat to me and I shook my head, watching as they stood there looking at me like some dumb teenager.
This wasn't puppy love for me. I didn't spend 5 years building something, just to walk away from it for their dreams.
I couldn't do it.
Sinner. Book #1