Clarissa & The Grand Mafia

towards the skyscraper up ahead. I wa

and I was already l

eather. I wasn't sweating from stress but rather

ere two hefty bouncers. Their tight muscles flaunt out of the

oor. My phone rang one more time a

or. I couldn't have my p

tending to turn it off, but when I look

As much as I was desperate for an interview, I had to talk

my ear. "Hello, Pa!" I called, and a muffled

t my ear. "Pa?" I called out as

larry, it's your mother!" he said and the cal

thoughts racing like a runaway train, each one a

An overwhelming sense of fear choked me

ancer and there was no money to

interview. With all the strength in me, I das

n front of the house. Its shiny armor was elegant and I found my

really in

pening? I a

sitting comfortably on the sofa, and a

ot through his plain T-shirt as his car key dangled

oked away. He had a cold aura

I told you about," I overheard my father intr

has agreed to see through your mother's surger

h a rich man who would sponsor my Mom's treatment. When I hea

ving I would be marrying an old we

y Woodson seated before me, I

d at his alluring eyes. The hunger in them an

iant smile lit up my face. But as the say

nature, I had no idea wh

and I jolted to consciousness. I realized that I was still in th

cipation of Barry's return, my