A woman knows what a woman knows. When Amara awoke in the middle of the night, Titus wasn’t in bed. He wasn’t downstairs. He wasn’t home. He didn’t make his way back to bed until 4:30 AM. Titus made up some cockamamie story that he went for a drive to think through a case like he used to do in Birmingham. Special Alert; a woman knows when her mate is lying. She knows.
Cousin Natasha rolled up flanked by her goons and broke up Peters and Stephanie’s love shack romp. She wasn’t there for tea, crumpets or a movie. Cuz Natasha told Peter he had one week to deliver on all of the Banks’ property (including Thelma’s Place) or else. No matter how bad you think you are; there is always some else pulling the real strings. In Peter’s case, it was his daddy. And Daddy Peters was just about out of patience.
Damian moved Stephanie’s game piece to the top of Amara’s criminal game board telling her to focus more on the real power behind the throne. Damian, you might be c-r-a-z-y. But do you really want the Carlisle and Lancaster family after you? Tread lightly, son.
Momma Carlisle ran down the Peters’ family sordid history to her daughter. She told Stephanie Greg’s bark was merely a purr compared to Daddy Peters’ roar. And that Stephanie might have Greg just where she wants him. But if she is letting Greg sample her chocolate goodies, she had damn well better make sure that she is the one controlling the flames of that fire! That ladies and gents is reel being real. That is a life lesson for us all. And we should trust Momma Carlisle because she knows of what she speaks! Can we get that story backdrop, please.
Ignacio DeSantos (Matt Cedeño debuted) arrived at Bella’s door in stead of Valentina. One look at Ignacio and Bella and Inez were ready to pull straws to decide who would get the first crack at that. Ignacio informed Bella that he was there because before Valentina would fully invest in Bella True, Valentina had to first make sure Bella could go the distance. And Ignacio was there to make that determination. So, for now, they were offering her a provisional contract. A disappointed, Bella collected herself and said no problem. I got this. In 48 hours, she created her own mini, fun, chic, fashion show that dazzled Mr. DeSantos! Salud Bella!
Titus played right into Damian’s hands and confronted him for all the parking garage’s cameras to see. Not at Amara’s job, Titus. Not at the job. That was all the ammunition the crazy peeper needed. He paid two men from the Banks to rough him up real good to set Titus up. Titus was arrested for the aggravated assault of an Assistant U.S. District Attorney. Peeper watched it all smirking. Titus and his Juris Doctor spent the night in jail locked up like a caged animal. But while he was sleeping on that hard azz mattress, Titus had a revelation. Damian’s crazy could only be fought one way, with crazy. Yas!
Momma Carlisle and her chinchilla had just about enough of Rondell and her let’s save the world shenanigans. Rondell was too close to having enough signatures to block Peters. Irene had tried to scare some sense into Rondell by sending those men to the restaurant. To her credit, Irene did go to Evan with one final pitch for him to talk Rondell down. But when Evan locked arms with his family, she said enough is enough. She was ready to shut it down. Mother and daughter were on it.
Rondell had a “petition party” at Thelma’s Place. Food for signatures. That was pretty smart. Desiree Jackson (we can’t say anything else about Ms. Jackson because we don’t want to be accused of slut shamming). Lol. But let’s just say we could call her Ms. Jackson because she appeared to be na-. Anyway, Rondell wasn’t happy that Desiree was pushing up on Kent. After the party, Kent rightly accused Rondell of running hot and cold with him. Well, when Kent said, “You are the only one I want,” things between Rondell and Kent were turnt up all the way HOT. Rondell took Kent to her upper room. And their brown bodies talked to each other all night long.
And all that afterglow evaporated, the morning after when Rondell saw that it was being reported that 60% of the signatures they had gotten were from people who didn’t live in the district.
Stephanie with a drink in hand smugly announced to herself that “A Girl from the Banks is no match for a B*tch from Buckhead.”
Now sis, Steph you know we STAN you but that “b*itch” and the one who deserves the accolades is Momma Carlisle…..just saying….
Until next week.
I AM KP Smith
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