Chapter 36

Seeing Sami and Gina happy with their beautiful newborn boy gave Keyla major baby fever. She wanted to stay longer to snuggle Samuel JR, but unfortunately duty called her and Lennox back to work. Thursday morning, they boarded a flight back to Santa Clara, California. WrestleMania was being held at the Levi Stadium and it was within the San Francisco Bay area. It was also where Roman's favorite football team, the San Francisco 49ers, played. Lennox searched through social media to catch glimpses of him, missing him more with each passing minute. In spite of everything, Lennox couldn't take the diamond ring off her finger, even though she was on a break from her relationship with Roman. It was too heartbreaking to think about Roman cheating on her the same way Danny had with Heidi. They had just reconciled and gotten engaged only for those whores to show their ugly faces accusing her new fiancé and Moxley of rape.

After a long talk with Keyla, both girls decided to give their men the benefit of the doubt considering everything the crazed fangirls had put them through. It was hard to picture Jon and Roman as rapists. Granted, Jon was capable of hurting anyone, man and woman, but Keyla honestly believed in the depth of her heart he would never take what wasn't offered to him. Maybe he did cheat on her with April and the whore called rape because she was ashamed of having sex with him. She didn't know. Roman, on the other hand, was a complete gentlemen and, the more Keyla watched the video of their rape confession, the more certain she was Heidi was lying. Heidi seemed distant in the video, quiet and not nearly as hysterical as April. Had she truly been raped, surely Heidi would've looked more terrified in the footage instead of stoic. Two things were certain: Roman and Jon were innocent as far as the rape charges went, but it was unknown if they slept with the fangirls.

"We have to talk to them." Lennox had concluded after the umpteenth time watching the video alongside Keyla. "There's two sides to every story. We need to hear what they have to say, to give them a chance to defend themselves. Sami's right, they need us to stand by them right now if we truly believe they're innocent. I don't know about you, but I'm standing by Roman through this. What about you?"

Keyla didn't know her answer yet, wanting to stand by Jon more than anything and believe he would never cheat on her. His past with women was against him though. In the Independents, Jon was a womanizer and used countless women for sex, even going as far as pushing them around on camera for his matches. Unfortunately, Keyla was there through the worst of it and had to endure everything he did because, technically, he was her boss. Coming to the WWE had changed him drastically and Roman had also been a great influence on him. He treated Keyla well and never hurt her, not intentionally, which made this extremely difficult for her to decide to either stand beside him or let him deal with the consequences on his own.

Landing at the San Francisco International Airport, the girls had a vehicle rental waiting for them since it was an hour drive to Santa Clara. Keyla let Lennox take the wheel, too much on her mind to focus on the road. She hadn't gotten any sleep since this whole ordeal happened Monday night and the fatigue was starting to set in deeply. Baron had texted her a couple times to ask if she was alright, checking on her, but Keyla didn't have the heart or mindset to respond to him. She knew he meant well by showing her the video and it wasn't done maliciously. There was no reason to be mad at Baron for simply telling her the truth – something Jon couldn't do. That was the pot calling the kettle black considering she hadn't told Jon about her and Baron's NXT fling yet. The difference was she planned on telling him after WrestleMania whereas she didn't know if Jon would've ever told her about kidnapping the whores with Roman.

A little over an hour later, they arrived in Santa Clara, which was painted and decked out in WrestleMania. San Francisco had been too, but not nearly as much since the event wasn't taking place in the actual city. The girls checked into their hotel room, showered and ordered something to eat, though neither had an appetite. Lennox turned the cell phone in her hand repeatedly while ignoring a movie Keyla put on the television, torn on whether she should call Roman or not. He had several appearances that day, including Axxess, but she had no idea what time they took place. Taking a chance, Lennox stepped out on the balcony and slid the door closed for privacy before pressing Roman's name and waited for him to answer or listen to his voicemail.

"Yeah?" Roman's groggy deep voice resonated through the speaker and into the caller's ear, not bothering to open his eyes.

Lennox felt the tears already swelling in her eyes and could tell she'd woken him up from a nap. It was a little after 1 PM, so his Axxess signing had either been that morning or not until later in the evening. "Roman…" She finally said his name and shut her eyes, clutching the phone against her cheek trembling.

His eyes snapped wide open at the sound of Lennox's unsteady voice and Roman sat upright in bed, swinging his long legs to the side to plant his feet on the floor. "Baby girl, that you?" Relief coursed through him, his heart instantly clenching painfully in his chest as she started crying. "Damn Lennox, I'm so sorry. Please tell me you're okay."

"N-No…" It was the truth; she was far from being alright. "W-We need to talk…if you're not too busy…"

"No, I'm good for a couple hours. Had my signing at Axxess this morning and was taking a catnap. What room are you in?"

Lennox knew Keyla would kill her if she gave away their room number to Roman. "It's better that I come to you. Tell me your room number and I'll be there."

"We didn't do it, Lennox." Roman could hear the hesitation in her voice and glanced up when Dean walked through the door, holding his hand up in a one second gesture. "Keyla has to talk to him."

"I know, but I'm not forcing her to do something she's not ready for. I'm not worried about them right now. They'll work it out in their own way, but we need to focus on us." Lennox walked back into the room, glad Roman was agreeing with her and committed Roman's room number to memory. "Be there soon." She whispered, hanging up not wanting to disturb a soundly sleeping Keyla.

Jotting down a quick note, Lennox left it on the nightstand and left the room to go see Roman.

"Lennox is coming up here?" Jon asked as soon as Roman ended the call, getting the confirmed nod from his Samoan friend. "Keyla's with her, I know she is. Why does she have to be so goddamn stubborn?"

As much as Roman wanted to blame Dean for this fiasco and his engagement ending before it had a chance to flourish, he was too relieved Lennox was actually talking to him to rub salt in the wound. "Give her time. She'll come around and talk to you. You gotta give her space though, bro. Shit, I need to freshen up before Lennox gets here." He rushed into the bathroom, shutting the door to start brushing his hair.

"Prima donna!" Jon called out, chuckling when a second later the bathroom door opened and he was flipped the bird. "Yeah, right back at you, man."

Deciding not to be a third wheel when it came to Lennox and Roman's talk, Jon went to his room shutting the door before collapsing on the bed. All he could do was stare up at the ceiling, wishing Keyla would talk to him. Even if she wanted to end things and call him every name in the book, it was better than this silent treatment. He wanted to go out there as soon as Lennox arrived and demand what room number Keyla was in, but knew that wouldn't go over well with Roman. The Samoan was right, as much as Jon hated admitting it; he had to be patient and wait for Keyla to come to him.

If she ever did.

"You lied to me again!"

Jon felt like he'd been sucker punched in the stomach while watching the video of April and Heidi talking about the kidnapping and accusing both of rape. Keyla was on a rampage, yelling and cursing at him, throwing pillows and anything else she could get her hands on. He had to duck a couple times to avoid shoes and even a lamp tossed at his head, not wanting a concussion before his big match at WrestleMania. Before Jon could finish watching the video, he had to set the phone down on the bed and stopped Keyla by wrapping his arms around her from behind, letting her struggle against him with her arms locked at her sides.

"Darlin', you have to calm down and listen to me…"

"No – NO! Listen to what? How it happened, why it happened? I DON'T CARE! Let go of me!" Keyla shouted, fighting against him with every ounce of energy inside of her and did her best to break free of his strong hold. "You fucked her! ADMIT IT!"

Jon growled in her ear, hating to hear that accusation because he was innocent. "No I didn't." He kept his voice steady and low, a slight grit to it. "You have to believe me and listen. I'll tell you everything…"

"NO! I don't want to hear anything you have to say! Let me go, I'm leaving! I need to get out of here and away from you!" Keyla cried, tears streaming down her face by now and felt Jon whip her around, his mouth crashing down on hers.

The only way Jon could see this working in his favor and getting her to see reason was screwing Keyla into submission. He didn't want to do it this way, but she refused to listen to his side of the story. There was a chance she could bite his tongue and dick off; Jon would gladly take any punishment she gave him if it meant getting her to listen for more than 3 seconds. Keyla continued to struggle, shoving against him even as her back met the bed with Jon hovering over her. Eventually, her struggles ceased and she reciprocated the kiss, tearing at the beater he had on to expose his muscular chest. Jon groaned, enjoying the animalistic side of his woman and growled as her nails scraped down his chest, leaving deep red indent lines embedded in his skin.

Being marked by Keyla didn't bother Jon because he left his own on her, just in areas nobody else could see. By the time WrestleMania rolled around, they would be gone since he had no other matches scheduled for the rest of the week. Smackdown! was taped before Raw began earlier that night, so first thing in the morning they all had to hop a flight to San Francisco in order to make it to Santa Clara. Pushing everything else out of his mind except the woman currently pinned beneath him, Jon broke the kiss reluctantly and began his exploration of her neck while tearing her own shirt down the middle. However, the next set of words out of her mouth made Jon feel like he'd been doused with icy water.

"Did you do the same thing to April to make her submit to you?"

It was brutal and effectively killed the mood. Jon hopped off of Keyla instantly, electric blues wide and could see the pure taciturnity in her normally molten gold eyes. All he saw was burning hurt and sorrow combined with resentment for trying to screw her into submission. As she stormed out of the hotel room, Jon wanted to stop her, but couldn't get that haunted look of her eyes out of his head.

Roman opened the door the second he heard the inevitable knock and opened it to a crying Lennox staring back at him. He wanted to reach out and pull her into his arms, but didn't know where they stood. It took a lot of effort and courage on her part to come to him instead of the other way around, so Roman would give her all the space and time she needed. At least Lennox didn't run away from him and he knew where she was for the past 2 days, having already called to congratulate Sami and Gina on their beautiful healthy baby boy's arrival into the world.

"I-I know you didn't do it." Lennox sniffled out, cutting to the chase and walked past Roman into the room, not seeing Jon anywhere in sight. Good, they needed time alone to talk and figure everything out. "I'm not talking about the kidnapping part either because I know you did that."

"Baby girl…"

"I'm going to stand by your side through this." Lennox set her luggage down she had in her hand by the bed and kicked her shoes off, taking her jacket off to toss it to the side. "And we ARE getting through this because I love you too much to let an obsessed whore come between us and ruin what we have."

Roman didn't expect to hear any of this come out of Lennox's mouth, but he'd be lying if he said he didn't enjoy it. "I should've told you the truth when you asked about it." He confessed in a low soft tone, taking a chance to walk up behind her and planted his hands on her hips, pulling her back against his strong chest to bury his nose in her hair. "Lying to you was a mistake and I swear it won't happen again."

"Damn right it was." Lennox muttered, doing her best not to react to Roman being this close to her, but it'd been 2 days of no contact and she was dying to be in his arms again, to feel his lips against hers. "Now you're going to sit down and tell me everything – and I mean EVERYTHING – that happened last weekend. I want to know all the details, what you said to her – all of it. If we plan on fighting these allegations, you have to come clean about everything, Roman."

Whatever she wanted to do, he was on board; Roman had nothing to hide and hadn't touched Heidi besides carrying her into the warehouse they kept the women hostage. Doing as his beautiful fiancée requested, Roman sat on the bed with her and spilled the entire plan, making it clear he hadn't come up with it. Jon had. He was hesitant about going through with it, but the suspension angered him and blinded the rational thinking part of his brain. Lennox understood his anger and frustration at the situation because she felt the same way, which is why she went along with Keyla's cockamamie idea to befriend the crazed fangirls in order to keep them at arm's length. Obviously that hadn't worked and they were both suspended for their troubles.

"Let's make a pact right here and now. We'll never – EVER – go along with our best friends' ideas again." Lennox stated once Roman finished his explanation on all that happened with Heidi, believing the entire story. It was far more believable than the video April and Heidi made accusing him and Jon of rape. "I believe you, Roman. And I love you."

Roman rested his forehead against hers, finally doing what he wanted ever since opening the door to let her inside. He pulled her in his arms to straddle his lap and captured her mouth with his, thankful Lennox had come back to him again. That was twice he almost lost her – there would NOT be a third unless it was over his dead Samoan body.

"Agreed. I love you too." He rumbled against her mouth, feeling her fingers slide through his thick black tresses and lead her down on the bed, both desperately needing to make up for the past 2 days being apart.