The Ride

Chapter Eleven

Elena

The room was silent. Em stared at the phone, scrolling up to read the article and the photos attached to it.

Aubrey with another woman was the last thing I was expecting to see when I opened my phone. Granted, I knew you couldn't take everything you saw in the press for face value but it didn't look good. At all.

From what I could deduce, Aubrey and the guys were out to dinner and this Rosee Devine girl had joined them. However, while there were pictures of all of them together at the table there were also photos zoomed in of Aubrey and this woman sitting beside each other. One of her smiling hard as hell at him, one of both of them on their phones and another with her hand on his upper arm.

And seemingly to add more salt to it, the author of the article included photos of the woman posing in her underwear, showing off her hour glass shaped, voluptuous figure -labeling her as a "retired vixen".

Em handed my phone back to me and rubbed her hand over her face, still holding and nursing Madison with her other arm. With her face covered, she let out a deep sigh.

"Em what is this?" I asked, "what the hell is he doing having dinner with a porn star?"

Her response was muffled by sobbing. Tears rolled down her cheek as she shook her head. I could see it all over her face. She was confused and hurt. It was the same look she had been trying to hide from me all day.

"I need a minute, please."

"Em, call him now. He's got some explaining to-"

"Elena please just get out."

"I'll take Madison if you need me to-"

"Get out!" she shouted, scaring the hell out of me, "just go!"

I honored her request and left before things got any worse. Angelo must have overheard her, because he came running out of our room, almost knocking me over.

"What's going on? Why are y'all yelling?"

"Oh nothing," I replied, sarcastically, "it's just that your boy is out of the country gallivanting around with a pornstar and the whole world knows about it."

"The hell are you talking about?"

I could tell that he was genuinely confused. How was I the first person with this information and I had been half asleep?

I handed him my phone so he could see the same article I had showed Em.

"Aw shit," he rubbed the back of his neck, "Lena, this could be several different things. Okay? The media has a known history of making something out of nothing, especially when it comes to AG."

"I know that Angelo, but still- this looks terrible. Like babe look at the body language. This Rosee girl is way to comfortable with him. I don't care who says what, this isnt becoming of a married man. I'm a female. I'm not feeling all up on a man like that if I'm not into him."

"Okay but we also see that there are pictures of the whole crew there too," he pointed out, "so it's not a date like this article was trying to lead on."

"Say what you want. I can understand where you're getting at but it's a thing called a woman's intuition and I'm telling you now- how this looks doesn't sit well with my soul."

"And you're also very pregnant with my babies, so I don't want you worrying about this and getting wound up," he put his hands on my belly.

"Angelo, my sister is upset, yelling at me and crying- I cannot not be worried. But what I can do is take my phone," I grabbed it from him, "and cuss my stupid ass brother in law out-"