The Millionairist

Copyright © 2010 by Janette Rucker.

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Contents

FROM THE AUTHOR:

THE MILLIONAIRST

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1

Alley Way

CHAPTER 2

Mama Drama

CHAPTER 3

Diamond in the Rough

CHAPTER 4

Badtimes All Around

CHAPTER 5

From Garbage Can to Mansion

CHAPTER 6

Who’s the Boss?

CHAPTER 7

Where Is The Love?

CHAPTER 8

Betrayal

CHAPTER 9

Family Affair

CHAPTER 10

The Gift

CHAPTER 11

The Awakening

CHAPTER 12

The Pre No!

CHAPTER 13

Fixing Time

CHAPTER 14

Enough!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I would like to thank God first, then my parents Robert and Janette Andrews, next my siblings Earl, Micheal Jerry and Linda my aunts and uncles, neices nephews sister in laws and brother in law and my cousins and my best friends Benita Andrews, Vernal (Itsy) Gibson and Wanda Dixon and Vivian Taylor, love you Ladies. More thanks to my church family. Special shout outs to Tia Andrews Sara Stewart and Rosie Lester for helping me type my books. Special thanks for my nephew Bendrea Andrews for making the covers much love Dre and also thanks to my friends and last but not least my husband Robert Rucker. I love you baby. JAR.

FROM THE AUTHOR:

First I’d like to give thanks to God for the will and the strength, time and patience to write another book. This one came from deep inside and I’m hoping that everyone that reads this will be, entertained by this book. And also enlightened by some of the messages I tried to weave into this tale. One was how Diamond/Diane found out that the business made her a millionairist, but having her family made her complete and it’s priceless. She learned she couldn’t put a price tag on a loving family. It is my wish; some people will get what I was trying to get across and to my husband Robert, my back bone and me being his rib that God took out. I thank you and I love you for allowing me to get my feelings out by writing this book.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL

Janette Carol Rucker

9-20-07

THE MILLIONAIRST

This story is about a young black woman who came from rags to riches left an infant to a strong struggling black family that had a lot of love but not much money. Diamond’s birth mother Lillie a young girl with trials of her own living in a nightmare of an abusive mother who decided Lillie was the reason of her unhappy life made her life hell but no way was Lillie going to make her daughter live through her horror so she gave Diamond a chance to live by giving her up. Diamond went from the garbage can to the mansion but still trying to find genuine love from a man that could deal with a successful black woman without his hands always in her pocket but his mind on her heart.

PROLOGUE

Later as Quenton and the girls entered the house it was an unfamiliar smell in the house, cooked food. As they looked around the house it was clean some things were moved around and Diane was in the kitchen cooking. Quenton looked up and pointed up and said Thank you! because he knew God had brought this woman to him. The girls were looking around happy because their room’s was clean. Diamond even washed the clothes. After eating a great meal of roast beef, potatoes and vegetables everyone left the table full and the girls went to help Diane with the dishes. Quenton went and called his father Ray. Hello. Ray said. Daddy, she can cook! Quenton yelled happily. Well then, the next phone call you make had better be to a Preacher, boy don’t let her get away.

She’s beautiful sweet, can cook, clean and she gave me her love what more can a man ask for Quenton thought, until he walked into the kitchen and saw Diane and his two girls laughing and washing dishes together. Watching his babies happy and bonding with this wonderful woman made him go to his room and shed a few tears. Quenton was a strong man and after so long trying to get his home together being the daddy, but those girls needed a mama and he had found her.

CHAPTER 1

Alley Way

It was a cold, dark night in a small town in Oregon. Lillie Morgan walked through the long alley and struggled with the pain that raked her body. The baby inside her was fighting to get out. Lillie at age fifteen years old was scared her small body caring the weigh of this baby and not having anyone to go to for help. Remembering back to the moment she woke up out of the small bed she slept on. Soak from her water that broke. Lillie put on a big tent dress, the one she wore a lot lately to hide her pregnancy from her mother Josie. Who was a young mother herself at thirty she felt Lillie was to blame for all her troubles. Josie told Lillie that she shouldn’t of had delivered her, but that did not stop her from having five additional children.

Lillie a small framed girl with light skin and brown eyes always wore her hair in a long braid. She was a shy, quiet girl, who at fifteen didn’t have any friends and wasn’t allowed to go to school. Lillie had responsibilities, she had to stay home and watch her younger sisters and brothers. Lillie had no social life . . . So how could she end up pregnant? She knew people would ask. Lillie thought she should have gone to the hospital. She knew if she went her mother would find out and would be angry at her. She didn’t want that, she figured she messed up her mother’s life enough; she couldn’t bring anymore trouble to her.

As Lillie walked through the alley a pain hit her so hard she backed up to the side of an old building. She pressed her back hard against the building taking the pressure off her feet slowly she slid down the wall to the ground. Sitting on the cold concrete the pains came more frequently. Lillie heard a noise; she looked across the alley and saw a big rat looking at her like she was an uninvited guest at his house. Lillie looked around and saw an empty beer bottle. She reached for it, grabbed it and threw it at the rodent and it ran away; Lillie was relieved because she wasn’t able to get up and run. As she sat there wondering what she was going to do next, she thought about how she got to this point.

As a young girl of five, she had a sister named Rainy who was three and a baby brother named Billy. They all lived in a nice big home with their Grandmother Dorothy Morgan. She was a full figured middle age woman with brown skin, short hair that she would always have styled up, when she wasn’t wearing one of her big pretty church hat on Sundays. Dorothy was a Christian woman who had two daughters, Teresa who was eighteen and just getting out of high school and getting ready for college. Teresa was a medium framed woman. She wore her hair in a long weave. Teresa had brown skin and was beautiful as well as smart. Then there was Josie, Lillie’s mother. Josie was twenty years old, and was like her sister brown skin with a drop-dead figure. She had naturally long hair, she was beautiful, but she wasn’t very smart Josie dropped out of school early after getting pregnant with Lillie, then Rainy came and then Billy. Dorothy was trying to help her daughter, but she was getting tired. She felt she had raised her daughters and they both were grown now and she wanted to live her life. Her husband their father had died ten years back and now she was ready to start dating again. Dorothy was only forty years old and still in her prime but now her daughter Josie was messing up her plans. Dorothy loved her grandchildren, but this was not what she looked forward to in her later years to keep raising kids. What made matters worst was the fact that Josie didn’t stop at one she brought two more.

One night Lillie over heard her mother and her Sister Teresa arguing. Why don’t you keep your legs closed! Mama can’t keep taking care of all those babies you keep bringing home! Teresa Yelled! Mine yo business, you just mad cause you can’t get no man! Josie yelled back. Teresa stopped, looked at her sister who she knew just didn’t get it and told her sister, Josie you got three kids, you didn’t finish school, you’re out all night leaving the kids for me or mama to watch. When you are here you don’t even take care of them then. You’re drunk you smell like sex and then you go to bed wake up and do it again! You need to wake up, because we’re all getting tired of your shit! So what are you going to do about it Teresa! This ain’t your house. Why don’t you just leave and give us another room! Josie said and walked out of the house. She didn’t come back for two days. Lillie listen as Aunt Teresa would talk to her mother and tell her that she has to put Josie out. Dorothy would always say she couldn’t do that but then little Danny came two years later. Then after Josie had Keith that was it for Dorothy she had to kick her out, she hated to do it, but she wasn’t going to put her life on hold as Josie kept running the streets and dropping babies off for her to raise. Why you putting us out where we gonna live, those are your grandchildren and you gonna just put them out on the streets what about me, I’m your daughter! Josie cried. I tried baby, but I can’t do this anymore, if you’re grown enough to keep having kids then your grown enough to start taking care of them. So Josie moved out, she and her five children moved in this poor section of the town into a small three-bedroom house. Josie had a friend of hers help her get on welfare and get food stamps. Josie was upset, she was living in this old house instead of that big beautiful house, her mother had. It had five bedrooms and a full and completed basement with a huge backyard and now she was cramped into this shack with all these kids.

CHAPTER 2

Mama Drama

Josie thought about her life and how she wanted to be a fashion model. When she was a freshman in school. She was a cheerleader and very popular and very excited when the quarterback on the varsity football team chose her. Josie thought she was all that. When she went to the prom with him she felt so special hanging with him. When he asked her to go all the way with him, her first thought was NO, but then she didn’t want to lose him because he told her if she didn’t he would find someone else that would so she did. Nine months later here came Lillie. Josie had already dropped out of school when her so-called boyfriend went out of state to college. His family made sure that she knew the baby was her problem. After that Josie gave up. She had a baby, no man, no school, and no future. It was then she felt, in her mind that it was Lillie who ruined her life. Lillie was never shown any love: no hugs or kisses, only yelling, cursing and hitting. Early in her life Lillie went through this abuse day in and day out.

After moving to the small house with Josie, Lillie shut down. She had no spirit. She would only talk in whispers afraid she would say something wrong and be slapped. Lillie always hung her head low and wouldn’t look anybody in their eyes, in fear of being hurt her Grand mama and Aunt Teresa were the only ones that were nice to her and her sibling. They would take them to church, parks and even out to eat. At Dorothy’s house the children had food and clothes, but when they moved in that house with Josie they went without. Josie would take the food stamps and only give Lillie half to buy food. Lillie was only twelve at the time but she had to buy the food, clean the house, and wash what little clothes they had, it was terrible. They wouldn’t have a lot to eat and sometime Lillie didn’t get to eat at all. She was skin and bones. Josie would sleep all day then get up at night, then she would go out and bring strange men home. Lillie’s job was to keep the children in their room and keep them quiet. Lillie was a slave and Josie worked her and made her life horrible. Josie felt Lillie ruined her life, so Lillie was going to stay home and take care of hers. That’s why Josie didn’t allow Lillie to go to school. Josie told the people at the school that Lillie was mentally retarded and because Lillie wouldn’t speak up, they believed her. Lillie remembered how she would try to stretch the food stamps as far as she could; but there were five of them. Josie usually never ate at home and she did the same at her mother’s: sleep all day, and be gone at night. Only this time she could bring men home. She couldn’t at her mama’s house. Josie was so messed up. She had so many men in her life to the point she didn’t really know who the father of her last three children was. Josie thought she was using them by getting their money, but couldn’t see she was the one being used. She always had to have a man in her life to keep her hair and nails done and with the latest clothes and the most stylish tightest outfits. When she went out at night to the clubs or casinos, she was always looking good. If she didn’t come with a man she surly was going to leave with one. Josie spent their money and when she ran out of theirs, she spent any other money she could get. Even if it meant selling her food stamps leaving only a small amount for the house. Most of the time the little bit she left didn’t go very far.

One occasion while Lillie fixed the plates, her sister and three brothers, sat at the table in their small kitchen. Lillie laid out five plates, and was able to give the kids each one drumstick, three spoons full of corn and a few pieces of fried potatoes. Lillie had only a few potatoes on her plate and there was no meat left. The other kids looked