“How did you get back together?” Diamond asked.
“It was because of you, Diamond.”
Her eyes widened in surprise. “Me?”
Sex Piston stiffened beside her ma at her pops words. After everything she had done, it was because of Diamond that they had stayed together?
“After you saw me at the club with that woman and didn’t talk to me, your mom and I talked. She couldn’t understand the change in you toward me. You went from being a daddy’s girl to not wanting to sit at the dinner table with me, so yeah, she knew something was wrong.”
“How did you know?”
“One of my men saw you running from the back of the club. When I got home I could tell from the way you treated me that you had seen. I didn’t know what to say to you, and your mother finally made me tell her. It was the worst day of my life, confessing I had cheated on her and had been for a long time. The thing was, she had known all along and that was another reason she’d had a problem with the club. We talked all day and night, Diamond, and worked it all out, but I paid for that day for years. It destroyed my relationship with you and your mother wouldn’t marry me for a long time. I had lost her trust; it took all these years to get it back, but I lost my little girl forever.
“Diamond, go after Knox, make him talk to you.” Her father looked at her with watery eyes.
“But you loved mom, Knox doesn’t even care about me.”
“He ever give you a nickname? Even when you were messing around?” Her father turned red at his question.
“No.”
“Not once?” he pressed.
“No, he always called me Diamond.”
“Do you know why we called you Diamond?” her pops asked Diamond, his voice gruff.
“No.”
“Because the second we saw you, we knew you were going to be the most precious thing in the world to us. Our precious jewel, our little Diamond.”
Sex Piston was wondering why they couldn’t have thought of something like that when they named her fucking Norma.
Diamond burst into tears, her arms going around her father, making Sex Piston feel guilty about being jealous over a name. Even though it was a freaking ugly name.
“If Knox hasn’t called you anything else, then he knows what he’s got, probably just too stubborn to admit it. Go talk to him, sweetheart.”
“Maybe I’ll go see him tomorrow,” Diamond prevaricated, like she always did.
“Fuck that. Get off your ass, I’ll take you.” Diamond stood up, seeing her mother and sister behind the swing when Sex Piston couldn’t stay silent any longer.
“Go ahead, Diamond. What have you got to lose?” her pops urged Diamond.
“My dignity?”
“Dignity isn’t going to keep your ass warm tonight, move it.” Sex Piston took Diamond’s hand, dragging her inside the house. They were almost out the door when Sex Piston changed her mind and turned toward her bedroom.
“You can’t go on a manhunt wearing that shit you got on.” She went to her closet and pulled out a pair of jeans and jerked a top off the hanger. “Get dressed.”
Diamond was wearing the dark blue suit she’d obviously been in all day, and for once, she agreed with her without an argument. Her sister put on the jeans and pulled on the top. Diamond’s breasts were larger than hers and the top was low cut. The globes of her breasts were displayed to their best advantage.
“Do you have another top I could borrow? This one is too tight.” Sex Piston watched Diamond look at herself in her mirror. The top looked great on her. Knox wasn’t going to resist a woman who had tits like hers.
Sex Piston closed the closet door with a pair of high-heeled boots in her hand. She handed them to Diamond. “Put them on, and no I don’t have a bigger top. That’s the largest one I have,” she lied.
Diamond sat down on the side of the bed, putting the boots on. When she was done Sex Piston pushed her down at her dressing table and took down her hair, styling the thick mass until it was curled and fluffy.
“Now you’re done. Let’s go.”
“Sex Piston, I think I’m going to wait until I’ve thought this over a little more.”
“Think over what?” Crazy Bitch asked, coming out of the kitchen with Killyama and T.A.
“Damn, I forgot we were supposed to watch Stud’s kids tonight while they had their meeting,” Sex Piston said, coming to a halt.
“Stud has kids?” Diamond asked.
“Yeah, three kids from hell. Is Fat Louise here?” Sex Piston asked, thinking fast, not wanting Diamond to volunteer to babysit anytime soon. Her movie choices would give the girls nightmares