“I don’t know if I ever told you my first name. It’s Drew.”
I waited for him to continue.
“So, did you bring the money?”
I nodded. “Did you bring the video file?” I asked, blinking like a wide-eyed ingenue.
Drew smirked. “Of course not, that wasn’t the deal. The deal was that you bring the money and then we go back to my place, and if you make me happy, I’ll let you watch me delete it.”
“You’ll let me delete the only copy?”
Drew’s smirk only widened. “Of course.”
God, he had to think I was the dumbest bitch out there. As if a guy like him would stop at ten grand and one night of rape. Tonight would only be the beginning. Still, I had to play along. I slid the envelope of cash Brody had given me across the table.
“What do you need the money for?”
He grinned widely and shoved it into his pocket. “None of your business. You’re not my girlfriend… are you?” Drew said.
I blinked at his odd phrasing. It almost sounded like a question.
“How did you get a hold of it? Did you ask Daddy Sinclair for it?”
I shook my head. “I withdrew it from my mom’s card.”
Drew nodded. “I told you that would be a good way. I bet the Sinclairs won’t even notice. That kind of money is chump change for them.”
“Still, stealing ten thousand dollars isn’t something I can do every day, is it? They’d eventually find out.”
“What are you saying?”
“I’m saying that I can’t get more money for you, no matter how much you blackmail me or threaten to release the tape.”
Drew narrowed his eyes at me. “Why are you talking like that?”
“Talking like what?”
“Easy, Selena. Distract him. You’re flying too close to the sun, sweetheart.”
“You know that the video you have, the one of me and the men at The Cove… it was the worst night of my life,” I said quickly, hating that I had to say anything real to him.
“It looked like you were having plenty of fun.”
“They drugged me and raped me. They left lasting scars. I had no idea they’d filmed it, too. Did the police find the tape? Was it evidence from the crime scene?”
Drew shook his head. “My buddy gave me a copy, a week before the rest of the shit went down at that place.”
“Oh, so it’s not official evidence? I thought you said that the investigating officers watched it.”
Drew shook his head. “I lied, obviously. If that were true, don’t you think the police would have wanted to question you?”
I shrugged. “I guess. I don’t know. It’s hard to trust the cops.”
Drew nodded. “Most of them are on the take. Not like me. I mean, this aside, I’m a good guy. I follow the law, I protect the public. I carry out my orders and follow rules.”
“Not counting extorting me for ten grand and threatening me with a sex tape made against my will, right?”
Drew was silent for a long moment.
