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Destiny? Jennifer decided to keep her cards close to her chest and see what more she could find out. “Well, I’m not sure I can help you, Pat. Going on with whom?”
    “Who else, girl? Nate.”
    “What makes you think something is going on?”
    “Well, for one thing, he didn’t come over last night. And don’t start in on me about sleeping with the pastor. I know it’s wrong but I can’t help it. You haven’t ever been with him so I don’t expect you to understand. But if you had, well, suffice it to say you’d know why I’ll never deny that man.”
    Oh, but I have…and I know. That’s why I’m keeping my friends close and heifahs like you closer! The truth was, Jennifer didn’t have female friends, per se. If a woman was older than twelve and younger than sixty, she was considered competition. As such, she was kept at a distance. Still, Jennifer knew how to play the game. Women couldn’t be friends, but sometimes they were unwitting accomplices. Now was one of those times.
    “Anyway, that’s not why I called,” Patricia continued. “I’m calling about what I saw this afternoon, when I stopped by the church during my lunch hour to drop off the flyers I did for the upcoming all-night prayer service.”
    “Well, do I have to pay admission to view this movie?” Jennifer impatiently exclaimed after Pat hesitated. “What did you see?”
    Patricia lowered her voice, even though she was alone in her car and sure no one else could hear her. “Well, first I saw Katherine and Simone out in the parking lot. It looked like they were arguing. But when they saw me pull up, they tried to act like they were just talking.”
    Jennifer stifled a sigh. “Is that all, Pat? A mother and daughter bickering isn’t the most unusual sight in the world.”
    “Maybe not,” Patricia continued in a conspiratorial tone. “But it’s who I saw afterward that makes this little tidbit interesting.”
    “Why? Who was it?” Having to pull this story out sentence by sentence was starting to get on Jennifer’s nerves.
    “Simone’s daughter, Destiny,” Patricia answered. “She was walking down the hall to Reverend’s office, and if you ask me, her skirt was a little short for church. I don’t care if she is a teenager. As soon as she got into the office, the door closed.”
    Both women were silent a moment, because both knew what could happen behind their pastor’s closed office door.
    Finally Jennifer recovered enough to find her voice. “About what time was this?” she asked.
    “I took a late lunch so it had to be around two. What do you think it means? Mama and daughter argue while granddaughter goes in to see the Reverend?”
    “Girl, who knows?” Jennifer said. She wasn’t ready to share her suspicions yet, but knew when the time was right, Patricia could be an ally.
    “Do you think there’s a chance that…”
    “A chance that what?” Jennifer asked, more forceful than she’d intended.
    “Never mind,” Patricia sighed. “I don’t want to even have an inappropriate thought about the man of God, much less voice it. You know the Word says, ‘Touch not God’s anointed and do his prophets no harm.’”
    Well, had you kept reading that Word, you slut, you’d also have read something about not screwing a man who wasn’t your husband. Jennifer quickly excluded herself from this scripture by reminding herself that hers and Nate’s was a “spiritual union” already, and as such was not sin.
    “That’s what it says,” Jennifer agreed. “Which is why we have to keep the man of God in our prayers.”
    After making plans to have lunch on Saturday, the two Gospel Truth members hung up their phones. Jennifer picked hers right back up. Because while she intended to keep the man of God in her prayers, she hoped the phone call she was about to make would also keep him in her bed.

7
Her Heart’s Desire
    “Look at that high-yellow heifah. She thinks she’s cute.”
    Destiny Noble held her head high and