Page 61 of Finessed By A Hood White Boy

Frustration got the best of me and the tears began to flow.

“Calm down,” Julia whispered before hugging me.

“This wasn’t intentional on her behalf. It’s obvious that this is a revenge porn tactic.” Julia spoke up.

“Revenge porn? How the hell would you know that?” Trenton scoffed.

“Other than being an employee, Ava is actually a good friend of mine. That’s how I know, asshole.”

“Julia, language.” Mrs. Whitmore interjected.

I didn’t want to bring any type of heat to their family or their business. Hell, knowing Rob, that wasn’t the only degrading trick he had up his sleeve. This man had videos of us together and just me by myself.

“I’m sorry about this, I truly am. Um…I think I’ma just clear my office and resign. I don’t know what else could take place, and I don’t want to have your company in the crossfire. I’m so sorry.”

I stormed out of the office with the pictures in hand. I grabbed my daughter and rushed out to my car. Rob had me fucked up, and I wasn’t about to let this shit slide. I knew I would have to be prepared for a fight, though. A fight I didn’t plan to lose.

“Ava! Ava, hold up!” I heard Ethan yelling behind me as I strapped Savannah in her seat.

“I have to go!” I cried. “That muthafucka thinks he has the power to ruin any and everything good in my life. He knows exactly how much this job means to me. He’s trying to tear my world apart because he thinks that’s the only way I’ll come back to his triflin’ ass!” I was heated.

“Amore, listen to me. Chill and breath.” His calm tone helped me to relax a bit.

His thumbs swiped against my face, gently removing the tears that fell.

“First off, I’m not about to let you resign. Even if they wanted to fire you, you already know how I’m coming. That’s some fuck shit he pulled, and I promise you I’ma handle it. Look at me.” He held my face. “Stop allowing that muthafucka to get under your skin. Do you hear me?”

The color of his eyes were changing. I knew then that he was trying to keep both of us calm at the same time. I nodded my head to acknowledge what he said.

“I hear you, but I think I need to take some time off until I get this shit under control.”

“If that’s what you want to do, I got you. But I don’t want to see you cryin’ over that muthafucka ever again. Is that understood?” He held my chin.

I wasn’t crying over Rob; that stopped a long time ago. I cried because I made it so easy for him to alter my feelings. He had too much control over my emotions when I shouldn’t have allowed him to.

“Amore, I said, is that understood?”

“Yes.” I sniffed.

“Good girl.” He kissed my forehead. “Now, do me a favor. Take this card and go treat you and Savannah to something nice.” He slid a black card in the crease of my cleavage.

“I have two meetings to sit through. See if your sister can watch baby girl for the night. Let her know I’ll have Ace come through to drop off some cash.” He messed around with his key ring.

“When I get home, I want you waiting for me in my bed. No clothes. And I want your hair in a ponytail. Alright?” He placed his house key in my hand.

“Okay.” I smiled.

He pulled me close and placed the softest kiss on my lips. Although my adrenaline was still pumping, it’s crazy how Ethan managed to give me a sense of peace. That’s exactly what he was…my peace.

I knew I should’ve headed straight to the mall to enjoy myself at Ethan's expense. Instead, when I got in my car, my hard headed ass traveled in the opposite direction. Like I said, Rob had me fuck up to pull some shit like that. He was interfering with my livelihood like I didn’t have a daughter to take care of. His daughter at that. I called Aja and told her everything that popped off. She insisted that I dropped Savannah off with our mom, then swing through to pick her up. Our mother wasn’t available, so she told me to just pick her up and we’d go from there. Once I picked Aja up, my adrenaline intensified. It was going to be two against one. With my sister by my side, I felt invincible. When I pulled up to the house I once called home, I took a few moments to take in every emotion that circulated through my body.

“Let’s go rock this nigga world.” Aja got ready to hop out.

“No, wait, I'm going in by myself.” I stopped her. “If you hear anything, then come.”

“Hell no, we need to run up on this nigga and really have him seeing double. He’s long overdue for that kinda ass whoopin.”

“Aja,” I sighed. “Stay here with Vannah. If you hear anything, then come, okay.”