Page 12 of Read the Room

“Oh, wow!” she said with wide eyes. “I did what I was told to do and left. I just assumed everything was good. Um, the other guy said his name was Juan.”

Her feet shifted for a moment.

“Tsireya, um Reya, she was on the room. Yeah, I always ask her to take my guests back regardless of who has the rooms because she’s the only bitch in there that I trust not to be on some grimy shit.”

Sully started to tap on the keyboard to pull up our employment records. In preparation for the setup, we turned selected cameras off as a precaution. That was the only reason we couldn’t verify by the camera feed.

“Tsireya Robinson. I got her address right here.”

“Bet! Joey, get her. Bring her to the spot. Sit on her until we get there,” I instructed.

He left after he got the address from Sully. GeGi stood there like she had something else to say. After a few beats of silence, she spoke.

“AK, um, I feel like you should know that Alexi is cheating on you.”

My brow arched. I snickered, not because I didn’t believe her, but because I felt like she’d just given me my way out of this relationship without feeling like a fuck boy. That apartment I planned to set up for her was a wrap.

“How you know this?”

“Well, I got a text from, Meka, who’s in Paris with her. The text had some pictures attached.” She pulled her phone out then began tapping on the screen. “I guess since I backed out of the trip, she thought it was a good idea to have Carlos drop in.”

She tittered as she shook her head.

“Carlos? Your kids’ father?” I asked for clarity. There was no way that she said old ass Carlos. This nigga was in his early fifties.

She didn’t respond as she handed me her phone. It was paused at the beginning of a video. By the time I pressed the play icon, Sully stood beside me. We watched my girl on her knees sucking GeGi’s babies’ daddy off. I almost lost my lunch when she dipped between his legs and ate his ass like it was an organic grocery store haul. When I peeked at Sully, his eyes were bucked.

“Yeah, she got me fucked up,” I commented about the video. I handed the phone back to GeGi. “Thank you for that. Good looking out.”

Her head went down in a small bow. Her eyes glazed over. “I thought I would be hurt, but I’m relieved. It was more of a reason to get the hell out of here so me and my babies could be happy. Thank you so much for everything, Sully and AK.”

“Nah, it ain’t shit. Thank you,” Sully responded. “Make sure you take care of yourself and your babies, Georgia Giovanni.”

She kissed her teeth at him using her government name. She hated her name, hence the nickname GeGi. Joey alreadyhad someone ready to take her back home.See, he’s a forward-thinking young man.

“What you gonna do about that shit?” Sully asked. “That shit is crazy. I’d straight murk Simone’s ass.”

He’d been with his son’s mother since he was twenty-two, and they had been married for the last four years.

I glanced over at him. “How about we take a quick trip across the pond? Bring Simone, so y’all can stay a little longer. I’m sure Mama Bee will watch the kid.”

Sully rubbed his hands together because he knew nothing good would come of this trip for Alexi, and he was right. My only thought on the plane ride there would be whether I would kill her there, wait until she got back to the states to kill her, or let her live in her own despair of broke bitch. Carlos wasn’t going to make it back to the states. That would be an additional gift for GeGi.Yeah, she fucked up.

A Quick Trip Across the Pond…

Sully, Simone, and I were on a flight to Paris, France the next morning. My stay would only be one day while Simone and Sully’s was for a week. Simone was so excited to go and suggested that I cut my losses and murk Alexi. One thing that I loved about my sister-in-law was that she was just as gutter as my bro Sully. She didn’t play about her family and had never liked Alexi. Much like Mama Bee, Simone had let Alexi know that shortly after meeting her. That should have been my reasonright there to let her go. The two women connected to me didn’t vibe with her.

I got a lot done the night before we left for Paris. I was able to get all of Alexi’s shit out of my house with the help of a service and took it to her mother’s house. She didn’t talk to her mama like that. In fact, her mother was blocked on her phone. I removed her access from my credit cards and took all my money out of the bank account with the exception of her four thousand dollars. I hoped the hotel already took their payment. Her flight was paid for in full.

By the time we got to the hotel in Paris, which was the same hotel that Alexi and her friends were at, I made sure to get a room on her floor. Alexi had been blowing my phone up since earlier. I guess she realized that her cards weren’t working any longer. My phone vibrated on the table in the living room of my suite.Speak of the whoring devil.

“What’s up, baby?”

“Lo’ak, something is wrong with my credit cards and bank account. Earlier, I went to purchase a bag that was a little over six thousand dollars,and all of my cards declined.”There was panic in her tone. She had already been here for a few days before I got here.

“Damn, six thousand dollars! You sure you just didn’t spend all your money? You’ve been there for a few days, and I know how you spend money, Alexi.”

Based on the money she got from me, she didn’t have the money to purchase a six-thousand-dollar bag.

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