The Governor’s Wife, His beautiful ruin
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE ALFRED COLE CAUGHT IN COMPROMISING PHOTOS WITH UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN
Below the headline were the photos.
Alfred. Shirtless. In bed. A woman beside him, her face blurred out for legal reasons probably, her red dress discarded on the floor beside the bed in a crumpled heap. His hand on her bare shoulder. Her mouth near his neck. The intimacy unmistakable, undeniable, the kind of intimacy you couldn’t explain away with words about being set up or taken out of context.
I scrolled down.
Another photo. Him leaning over her, grinning, his hair messy, his expression loose in a way I hadn’t seen in years, the kind of expression he used to give me before he stopped pretending to c