A Few Minutes Later....

Shantelle saw Darnell getting out of his car and walking towards Starbucks....

"Here he comes y'all. Get in position." She said as she turned the recorder on in her bra and Josh and Kecia moved to the next table, turned the recorder on their cell phones, turned their phones downward and waited.

When Darnell came in, he immediately saw Shantelle and smiled like it was his lucky day.

"Will you look at this smug ass muthafucka?" Josh mumbled to his wife...

"Bae! Shhh..." Takecia whispered.

"Hello love! Thank you for coming!" Darnell greeted Shantelle, grabbing her hand and kissing it.

"Hi Darnell." Shantelle replied, forcing a phony smile on her face.

At that moment, Josh's face turned red and it took everything in him not to beat Darnell's ass. How dare this bastard kiss his cousin's wife's hand.

"Whatever you do bae, please remain calm." Takecia wrote on a napkin.

"I'm good." Joshua wrote back.

" I am rather famished are you hungry?" Darnell asked.

"No...I'm good." She said flatly.

"Well I'm gonna grab something to eat. I'll be right back." Darnell said as he made his way to the counter.

As Darnell was ordering his food, she looked over at Joshua and noticed the pissed off look he had on his face.

"Please be cool. I got this." She mouthed to him.

"Aight." He mouthed back, his face still stern.

When Darnell returned, he sat down and began eating his coffee cake and drinking his hot caramel apple spice that he had ordered.

"So my love, what do you want to know about my criminal past?" He asked.

"You mentioned that you were part of a botched home invasion. That makes me nervous and since I want to be comfortable with you not only bring my groceries, but in general, I want to know about that." She said.

"Did this muthafucka just call her my love? I should blast his ass!!" Joshua wrote on the napkin.

"Chill!!!" Kecia wrote back.

"Well it's nothing much really. I was young and not in a good headspace at that time. Me and a buddy of mine needed money and we happened upon this nice home in this quiet neighborhood. It looked like the occupants were pretty well to do, so we staked it out for a few days, before we made our move." Darnell explained.

"Go on."  She said, flatly.

"Well, anyway the day we decided to make our move, we saw the driver pull off, so we assumed that no one was home. So my buddy went around back and I was on the side. He got in the back door and opened the window and let me in. So when we got in, we was casing the place. They had electronics, jewelry and all sorts of high end merchandise. The house was enormous." Darnell said.

"Really? Where was it?" Shantelle asked, curious to know more.

"I believe it was 36 Star Lake Drive. It was like a mini-mansion." Darnell recalled, nonchalantly.

At that moment, Joshua's eyes were wide, and his face turned red, he shook his head and he began to tremble in rage. He was struggling to control himself, but he was beside himself with anger.

Takecia noticed her husband's anger and wrote a note...

"What's wrong?" She wrote.

"That's Auntie Pat's house!!!" He wrote back.

"What?! Are you kidding?!" She wrote.

"I see, what happened next?" Shantelle asked.

"Well as we're putting stuff in garbage bags, this older lady comes out of the kitchen and starts screaming and swearing at us to get out and that this was her son's house. We told her to shut up and she started hitting us and scratching us. My buddy got pissed and punched her in the face. She was a tough old bird so she punched him back hard, busting his lip and knocking out a few of his teeth. She didn't stop there, she continued to beat him, until I intervened." Darnell recalled.

"You intervened? What did you do?" Shantelle asked.

"Well I'm not proud of this, but I stabbed her repeatedly. But she kept going. She kept attacking. She didn't stop until...." He said.

"Until what?" She asked.

"I slashed her throat. She fought until her last breath. There was blood everywhere." Darnell said, seemingly unbothered.

"Did y'all worry about being caught?" Shantelle asked.

"No, someone somewhere liked us because they still don't know who did it." He replied, shrugging his shoulders.

"I guess." Shantelle replied calmly. But inwardly she was seething with rage and furious anger. She couldn't believe that she was sitting face-to-face with a thief and a murderer. This phony Cassanova had murdered her mother-in-law in cold blood and didn't feel any type of remorse about it. But he although he didn't know it, but he was going to pay in ways unimaginable.

"So tell me about you, how long have you been married to that uncivilized and violent caveman, who thought it was ok to assault me unprovoked?" Darnell smirked.

Joshua, at this point, was boiling mad. He wanted to rip this guy's vocal cords out and wrap them around his worthless neck. But he was gonna leave that for Joe to do. Not only that, who the fuck was this asshole to talk shit about his family? He couldn't wait to get down on this fool.

Takecia took note of the expression on her husband's face and silently made gestures for him to remain calm and not blow his cover.

Joshua nodded in the affirmative, acknowledging his wife's request.

"First of all, my husband's name is Joe, not uncivilized caveman. Second, we have been married a little over a year and third, you did provoke him by not only setting boundaries, but also disrespecting him in our home! As it relates to me, there's nothing much to tell except that I am Mrs. Joe Anoa'i, a happily married housewife! Does that answer your question?" Shantelle replied.

"Well I guess it does. But I do have one more question." Darnell said.

"And what's that?" She asked.

"Can we have dinner together? I really am intrigued by you and despite everything, would like to get to know you better?" Darnell said.

Shantelle blinked in disbelief. He just didn't get it. She was not interested in any means. As she looked over at Joshua, she saw him and Takecia nod their heads in approval to accept the invitation.

"Well okay we can. Where do you want to meet and when?" Shantelle asked.

"Well since today is Tuesday, how about this Friday evening at Jackson's Steakhouse on Palafox at let's say...7pm?"

"Ok that's fine. I'll meet you there." She said.

"Splendid! I'm looking forward to seeing you again. Well I must be off, I'll see you Friday." Darnell said with a smile.

And with that, Darnell got up, disposed of his garbage and left. But not before blowing a kiss and winking at Shantelle, causing her to be repulsed by the gesture.

After Darnell left, Shantelle looked at Josh and Takecia and shook her head. The trio also turned off their respective recording devices as they had all the information they needed.

"What?" Takecia asked.

"Are y'all serious? Have dinner with him? Y'all must really want Joe to kill me!" Shantelle cried in a panic.

"Nah it's cool. He thinks he's gonna have dinner with you, but he's not though." Joshua said.

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"Well, when he shows up at Jackson's Steakhouse, myself, Jon and Solo will be there to "greet"him and "escort" him to his "dinner date" with Big Uce." Joshua explained with a wicked smile.

Takecia was nodding her head in approval, also with a wicked grin on her face.

"Oh ok." Shantelle said.

"So your work is done, baby girl. So now just leave the rest to us. You just put this muthafucka right in the palm of Big Uce hands." Josh said.

"Ok so what next?" Shantelle asked.

"Well we got some shopping to do and a long day ahead of us, so let's get it!" Joshua said, as the trio left and headed to the mall.

Several Hours Later....

Joe was in the foulest of moods. The emergency at one of his construction sites, was several workers were injured after a beam from the building fell. Luckily no one was seriously injured, but needed medical attention. As a result, would not only have to pay out thousands in workman's compensation wages but this was going to cause the construction to be delayed by several weeks. If there was one thing that Joe despised was delays, he took pride in completing projects on time and of the highest quality. He was also pissed that his meeting was rescheduled because his business connection missed their flight from London due to a storm and would not arrive until Thursday. After having such a bad day, he just wanted to go home to his wife and have a quiet dinner and evening with her.

When he arrived home, he walked in the house and called her name...

"Shantelle? Baby, are you here?" He called out with no response.

After he realized she wasn't home, his foul mood increased 100 fold.

"Where the FUCK is she?! It's 6pm and she ain't here!!! Now I'm really mad!!!!" Joe growled to himself.

Usually when he came home, there was a hot 3 course meal waiting for him. But today, there was nothing, which made him even angrier. He stormed into the kitchen and looked in the refrigerator. He pulled out turkey ham, some bread and American cheese and made himself a sandwich. As he sat at the table to his sandwich, he took one bite of the sandwich before throwing it against the wall, roaring in rage.

He sat there at the table, staring at the wall, his anger now at a fever pitch. So many negative thoughts were bouncing around in his head. And it was those negative thoughts that made him pull his gun out and start cleaning it.

At that moment, Joe began to talk to himself......

"Aight let me find out some shit! Y'all fucking play with me if y'all want to! I'm gone spill blood and brain matter!" He growled.

TBC
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