Smooth Operator by Risque

The book Smooth Operator is a black urban street novel by author of the Sweetest Taboo, Risque.  While reading I noticed that the book's chapters are separated by which characters life it is explaining.  It switches back and forth from New york discussing a strong and extremely arrogant woman, named Payton surprising her husband, Lyfe by bringing another women into their bedroom as a surprise to lure him into a trap so he would be grateful to her.  Chapter two also takes place in New York, but the character discussed this time is a very beautiful and curvacious woman, Arri having a nightmare where she recalled having a romantic evening filled with passion with the man of her dreams in a very expensive hotel suite.  They make love in a hot tub, and the man asks her to marry him.  Right when she accepted his hand in marriage and begins to make love to him again they are rudely interrupted by a woman busting down the door.  The woman was emotional and distraught, and had a handgun that she pointed and shot the man with.  She then told Arri that she could never marry him because he was HER husband, and now he' dead.  Chapter three had a title page before the chapter page that said, "I never intended.....".  Chapter three is titled California.  It is about Lyfe and Payton at a prestigious dinner for the firm they work for.  Payton is the owner of the business, and she hired her husband Lyfe, an ex-drug dealer to hold a position slightly less than partner.  The get into a huge fight during the dinner because Payton informs Lyfe that she planned a trip for him to entertain a potential business associate back in New York, so he would be gone for a month while she stays and runs things in California.  Lyfe is reluctant and feels horribly disrespected because she demands he do things because she is the business owner, and has no respect for his position as being her husband.  She told him that she gave him a three some the other night to ensure that he would be pleased to do whatever he is told.  They ended the night with him attempting to put her in her place and leaving her at the dinner party to entertain the guests herself.
This is a summary of chapters 1-3.