and slower, until he came to a sudden stop, like a car that had run out of gas.
But if he thought Trina was going to cuddle with him and all was forgiven, he was mistaken. When he tried to pull her closer to him, she tried to move away from him. “Get away from me, Reno,” she said with some anger in her voice. “Your ass not gonna fuck me and think that’s gonna give me amnesia.”
But Reno laughed. He knew his wife. And when he held her tighter, he knew she was going to give in. But not before resisting again.
“Quit Reno! I’m not playing with your ass,” she said. “Get away from me!”
“Not on your life,” Reno said, and pulled her even tighter into his arms.
And it was enough. She was too tired, and still too sleepy. She’d kick his ass later that morning.
And within minutes, they both were sound asleep.
But a couple hours later, after Trina had already gotten up for work and was just getting out of the shower, Reno was awakened from a deep sleep by the sound of his ringing cell phone.
He reached over to the nightstand where his phone rested, and he fumbled for it. It fell to the floor before he was able to retrieve it and answer it.
“Daddy?”
It was Sophia. “Yeah?”
“Can you come and get me?”
At first Reno was puzzled. Come and get her? What time was it? Had he overslept!
He looked at the time on his cell phone. 6:43 a.m., it said. He hadn’t overslept at all! He quickly placed the phone back to his ear with a frown of confusion on his face. “Come and get you from where?” he asked her.
And Sophie didn’t hesitate.
“Jail,” she said.
CHAPTER FOUR
Reno threw the covers off of his naked body and jumped out of bed as if he had just been electrocuted. Trina was coming into their bedroom from their bathroom drying off from her long, hot shower, and she was surprised by his fast movement too.
“What’s happened?” she asked.
“In jail?” Reno asked into the phone.
Trina’s heart dropped. “Who’s in jail? Dommi?”
“What did they get you for?” Reno asked his daughter over the phone.
“For being in a club. They raided the place.”
Reno’s natural instinct was to ask her all sorts of questions, but he didn’t. He hated cops and hated jail cells even more. He didn’t want her to be there a second longer than she had to be.
“Reno, who is it?” Trina was asking. “Who’s been arrested?” By now she was at his side.
But Reno’s entire focus was on their daughter. “You said come and get you,” he said over the phone. “Are they letting you go?”
“Yes, sir. If you come and get me.”
“You’re here in Vegas, right?”
“Right.”
“I’m on my way,” he said. “And baby,” he added to his only daughter, “you know the drill.”
She knew it. No conversations with cops. No confessions to cellmates. She knew it. “Yes, sir,” she said. And Reno ended the call.
“Reno, who is it?” Trina asked, putting on her underwear. “Is it Dommi?”
“No,” Reno said, putting back on his clothes.
“Then who?” Trina asked.
Reno stopped doing what he was doing, and exhaled. Somehow when it involved his baby girl, his blood pressure went through the roof. It was as if he couldn’t take it. “It’s Sophie,” he said. “It’s Lexie,” he added. Lexie was his nickname for Sophia. He was the only one who called her that.
And Trina was stunned too. “Sophie? In jail? Sophie’s in jail? But that can’t be, Reno. She’s home in bed!”
“What you think I’m making it up?” he snapped at Trina.
“Don’t you talk to me like that!”
Reno calmed back down. He knew she was right. “Sorry, babe.”
Trina began getting dressed, too, in the outfit she had laid out for her workday. “Did she have security with her?” she asked as she dressed.
“Why would she be calling me if she had security? Wouldn’t they be calling me?”
“Stop answering my question with a question!” Trina barked at him.
“No,” he said. “She apparently snuck out of the house while your ass was sleeping.”
“And your ass was working,” said Trina.
“She has no security with her, okay? She’s in jail and no fucker notified me. She has nobody with her!”
“Good Lord, what happened?” Trina asked.
“She said something about the cops raiding a club she was at and I guess they snatched all the underage kids.”
“Don’t her ass know if she gets a record they won’t accept her in Helmhurst either! What’s wrong with her?”
“That’s exactly what I’m