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In a quiet car ride, Frankee sits alone in the backseat and feels the emptiness behind the peace, growing tired of hiding from happiness. With time before returning home, she asks her driver Bryan to stop at Sweets Bakery, then quickly rushes inside despite his insistence on proper addresses and his concerns.","Stay  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright 2016 © Ivy Symone  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by  \ncopyright law.  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author ’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely  \ncoincidental.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAcknowledgments  \nI have to begin by thanking every single one of my readers. You guys are awesome! You motivate me. Keep me moving forward. Thank you! I’d also like to recognize all of the other authors that have personally reached out to me showing their support and giving me praise. It means so much tome.  \nI’d like to specifically shout out Mona, Novia, and Alisa Denay. These ladies are a part of my daily life. I wake with them, I take them on the ride to drop my kids off and pick them up for school, I eat with them, and I go to bed on they asses! True sisters from afar that keep me uplifted. I love you ladies and I thank you!  \nKimberly Artis…Girl! You get your own section. You, my friend, are the best. I can talk to you about anything and you get me! Not too many people do. So whenever someone comes into my life that do, it’s like you’rein a category of your own. Also, you stay in my behind. This book right here, wouldn’t have been completed if it weren’t for you. You’ve been riding with me during the whole development of this story. And you were always constantly asking, “What are you doing with Stay?”, “Where’s Stay?”,“When are you putting Stay out?”, “Are you gonna ever finish Stay?”, and last but not least, “What’s Zino ass doing?”. I thank you for that. You have been a true friend. Glad you came into my life when you did.  \nYolanda Morgan, Carmen Johnson (Tempis J), Tureko Straughter, Toni McKay and Delores Miles…Thank you ladies for rocking with me and being there for me always. You guys don’t know it, but you’re my little circle of support that reminds me I got this. You all believe in me and not only that, you show love for Ada. Nasi, Victorious, and Tisha…wonderful ladies that I’ve gotten to know that show me lots of love and support. I truly appreciate it.  \nCan’t leave my nigga out…Tremayne Johnson. I think you’re awesome. And as usual, thank you for everything that you’ve been for me and everything that you are. I fucks with you!  \nMy MAC ladies Geneva Mitchell and Tiffany Hawkins…\\#hoeshit.  \nMy family—Brenda Lockett, Ebony Woods, India Bradford, Dion Swanson, Keith Swanson, Harrah Kirby, and Harold Kirby, Jr—that gotta deal with my funky moods…So!!!  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nChapter 1  \nAlone in the backseat of the car, Frankee noticed how peaceful and quiet it was, the same peace and quiet that had become of her life. But it was the quiet that bothered her, the quiet of emptiness that resonated in her soul. It was a reminder that in spite of the life she was living, happiness was playing a wicked game of hide and seek; and Frankee was tired of playing. Something had to give.  \nFrankee glanced at the time displayed on her phone. There was time to spare before she was due back home. 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