She's Feisty - R.E. Cooper (romantic books to read TXT) 📗

It was a rather dark and rather gloomy night. In the poorer parts of the city, most of the lights were off at this hour. There was the occasional gun shot in the distance, but none close enough to feel alarmed. There was a blonde woman walking alone, at night, in the city, heading back to her expensive car, wearing her expensive clothes, and walking in her expensive shoes. This woman practically had a sign saying I’m beautiful and rich and alone, so do your worst! The blonde woman continued to walk down the street when she felt someone's eyes watching her. Sighing, she turned onto an alley and stopped. She took off her Christian Louboutin So Kate black pumps and set them down. 

Then she turned around and came face to face with her follower. He had raiven brown like hair, but it was dark. His skin was tan and he had a well built form. Without her seven inch heels on, her short 5’2” body was towered over by this man. She stared up into his sharp aqua blue eyes with her honey brown ones. 

“Ma’am, I don’t want to hurt you. But I won't hesitate if I have to. I just want your wallet, and your keys.” The man said this to the woman as he showed her the gun he had in his jacket pocket. She sighed, reaching into her purse and handing her the wallet and keys like he asked. As he walked away she shouted out. “You won’t get much with that I’m afraid sir!” “What are you talking about?” He spun around, facing her. She whispered, “well I don’t keep cash on me. And those credit cards aren’t much use to you without my pin numbers. Which you failed to ask me for. And whilst you may have my keys, you’ll also need a fingerprint to unlock my car. So I’m afraid it won’t be of much use to you. Even if you did manage to get into my car without setting off the alarms, which immediately reports where and when the alarms went off to the manufacturer of the car, it can be tracked with my phone.” The man just stared at her disbelieving. 

The woman put her shoes back on and grabbed her wallet and keys from the man. Pressing her body against him seductively she whispered, “follow me and you’ll get something much more worth your time.” The man followed her willingly, entranced by the beautiful women. When she stopped in front of a shiny gray Lambourghini Sian the women told the man to get in. 

Ten minutes later they stopped in front of a Diner. The man has been there plenty of times before, but it didn’t seem like the kinda place women like this would go to, let alone know of. “Uhm, are you sure you’ve got the right place lady?” The woman nodded and kept walking. 

They went in and ordered a table for two. She ordered a chocolate ice cream oreo milkshake, and he ordered a beer. After the waitress left there was an uncomfortable silence between the two. Then the man spoke up, “listen ma’am, I really don’t know what’s going on here, care to enlighten me? Oh and what’s your name lady?” The woman scoffed, “how old are you? Do I really seem that much older than you, seriously? Is it the clothes and shoes? Should I curl my hair next time, god! Phew, anyway my name is Grace Tuco, so don’t call me ma’am or lady. It makes me feel old.” “Uh, Grace, I’m Salvatore Santos. And for your information I’m 20.” “Ahh well I’m 21, so I’m not much older than you after all then huh?”

The waitress came back to take their order. “Sorry sir I totally forgot to ask you and your girlfriend earlier. But do you mind if I can see some Id?” “Oh he’s not my boyfriend.” She’s not my girlfriend.” They said simultaneously. The waitress just giggled. Grace showed her Id and the waitress nodded approvingly. Then Salvatore pulled out his and the waitress nodded to him as well. Once they ordered food the waitress left them in peace once again. 

“I’m assuming that was a fake Id?” “Yes as a matter of fact it was. By the way, this could be considered a date if you think about it.” “Hmm I guess it could.” 

With that Grace and Savatore enjoyed that wonderful night together. And many many more after. After knowing each other for a month, they started dating. After dating for a month, Salvatore told Grace he was in a gang. After dating for three additional months, they got married. After being married for four months, Grace quit her job and became a stay at home wife, and helper of the gang. After being married for a year, Salvatore became the new leader of his gang, called The Serpents. After being married for two years, The Serpents became the most fearsome and notorious gang in most of the country. After being married for three years Grace got pregnant with a baby girl. Seven months into Grace's pregnancy, her baby started to kick in sharp quick strong movements. One day Grace showed it to Salvatore and he started calling the baby his Black Mamba. Exactly four years and six months after Grace and Salvatore had met for the first time, they had a beautiful baby girl. They named that girl Melany Veratrosa Santos Tuco a.k.a. The Black Mamba. 

After their daughter Melany was born, everyone of any importance in the gang was given a new code name, which they would pick out as a type of serpent. There were on average a total of 25 people in the Serpents, but they had eyes and ears everywhere. They had men stationed everywhere, hospitals, stores, safe houses, the government, politics, and the police force. The Serpents also developed special code words, to keep the police and other gangs from finding out important information.

 I, Melany Verantrosa Santos Tuco, have never been to jail. Lie.

The First time I went to "jail" was actually a complete mistake. I had just finished my last day in 8th grade and was walking home from school. I went into a department store to buy myself some candy. I was choosing between skittles and sour patch kids at the check out when the bell to the door rang and three large men walked into view. The biggest put up a gun to my head and yelled at the cashier in front of me "call the cops and I blew her brains out! Okay, I want you to take all the money out of the cash register and put it in this bag. Don't forget any money you might have in that room back there!" I wasn't moving a muscle. I wasn't scared, but I could feel the gun against my head move as the man shook. 

I could tell he'd never done this before and I was worried he would actually shoot me if I made any sudden movements. The other two men were stuffing bottles of alcohol into bags, along with gum, food, anything that looked expensive. Once the man at the cash register emptied out all the money he held up his hands and said in a shaky voice, "that's the last of it, I swear." The big man just nodded and handed the bag of cash to one of the other guys. Then he grabbed my arm with my free arm and pulled me out the door, still at gunpoint.

He shoved me in the back of a rusty older car. The two smaller men sat on either side of me, while the biggest one sat in the passenger seat, while he told the man in the driver's seat to go. Once they got onto the road they all let out a deep breath. Little me couldn't help it and I started to giggle. They all looked at me, even the driver through his mirror, and snarled. "I can't - help - it." I said between giggles. "That was a shit show you guys pulled in there. I- I haha wow. You guys must be new at this." I managed to control my giggles while the biggest one said, "you've got some balls, kid. What would you have done differently, huh?"  

I smiled, a huge award winning smile and rattled off a list. "First of all, I would have parked on the side of the building, not the front. If someone walking by were to see some guy wearing a mask in a car just sitting, they would have called the cops. Also, did you use a fake license plate? Because you can't just take it off and have nothing there, a cop will pull you over for that. And if you used the real one, well lets just say this car better not belong to any of you. Next time, one of you should go and stand behind the counter and watch the cashier with the money, 9 times out of 10, there is a button on the register they can click that notifies the police."

Once I finished they stared at me for a second before the guy on my left said,'' how do you know all this huh kid?" "My dad is Salvatore Santos, from the Serpents. By the way driver dude, I suggest you step on it, the po-po just pulled onto this road." He looked in the mirror and saw three cop cars, and whispered under his breath, "shit. This fucking kid could have done this better than us." The cops were gaining on us, and I decided to help these guys out a little bit. "Driver dude, turn left after this red building." "Are you a crazy kid? That alleyway has a gate in front of it, and even if it wasn't there, this car can't fit." "Yes it can, just do it. That gate hasn't been cleaned in nine years. It'll break, just go." 

The driver guy swore, and turned onto the alley. All the guys gasped as the car broke through the gates. and fit the alley just perfectly. Good thing it wasn't garbage day I thought. "Where to now kid?" "Keep going straight. You'll be able to go straight through to another road. The turn left on it." Once we turned onto the street I told him, "okay. See Burkin Street? Turn right, and as soon as you turn right, turn left onto a small side road. Careful on that road though, it's a bit bumpy and twisty." Some of the guys actually hit their heads on the top of the car as it bounced down the road. 

I looked behind us and saw only one cop car left, and it was barley in sight. I sighed and said "one to go." "What?" "There's only one cop car left to lose." I replied to the guy on my right. "Okay now you're going to turn into the driveway of the big black brick house." They looked at