“Roxane’s Revenge: The Hidden Story Behind the Hitman”

“She didn’t just raise a hitman, she raised a legacy of vengeance.”

If you’ve read My Lover, The Hitman, then you already know that D’vone Smith is haunted.
But what many readers don’t know is that the woman who shaped him, his mother, Roxane, was a storm of secrets, scars, and strategy.

She never got her own spotlight in the book because, by the time Aryikah meets D’vone, Roxane had already passed from cancer. Her name is spoken, her influence felt, but her full story? That’s what I want to share with you today.

🌱 Born into Poison

Roxane was born in 1973 to Barbadian immigrants, Irene and Edward, in southern Florida. They worked as seasonal migrant laborers at a major agricultural company called Phreshley Picked for U.
It wasn’t just any job, it was survival. Until it wasn’t.

Years of exposure to pesticides and dangerous chemicals eventually led to tragedy: both parents died of cancer when Roxane was just 13. Even Roxane herself was born with a slight hand deformity, likely the result of the same toxic environment her mother worked in during pregnancy.

She was orphaned, traumatized, and placed into foster care, where abuse and instability followed.

She was sexually assaulted by the very man (Jacquesto Garcia) who managed the fields that stole her childhood.

Roxane became hardened. She stopped dreaming and started plotting.

Alone but determined, Roxane made a silent vow: Phreshley Picked for U would pay !!!
But how do you take down a giant when you’re a teenager with nothing?

At 14, she made her first power move: seducing a much older drug dealer. She didn’t want love, she wanted knowledge, access, and power. She got all three.

At 15, she became a mother. At 16, she became a widow. And from there, she became something else entirely.

🖤 Mother, Mentor, Menace

 Her son was all she had. Roxane didn't raise D’vone like most mothers.
She raised him like a soldier, she built him into a blade.

She built wealth and skills through criminal enterprise, but her ultimate mission remained revenge. One name still haunted her: Jacquesto Garcia, a powerful figure linked to the agricultural company who had assaulted her when she was just a girl, and killed her parents.

Cancer took her out before she could finish her mission. She left her entire estate to D’vone, including a ledger of names. A list of people tied to the company that destroyed her family. Executives. Scientists. Politicians. Even other traffickers who had once worked for Phreshley Picked for U in secret.

She called it “unfinished business.”
He called it his inheritance.

💔 Why I Didn't Tell You All This in the Book...

Because My Lover, The Hitman is Aryikah’s story, too.
And sometimes, the past is so powerful, it risks overtaking the present.

But make no mistake—Roxane is the fire that lit D’vone’s path.
Everything he does… he does in her shadow.

And now, after falling in love with Aryikah, he finds himself questioning:
Is it possible to honor the woman who birthed you…
without becoming the thing she raised you to be?

That’s the real heart of this story.
And maybe one day… Roxane will get a book of her own.

Would you read it?

Drop a comment or DM me at @EricaStrawberryWrites if you want Roxane’s story. Because I’ve got the chapters ready. And trust me…
her story is wild.