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I looked up, scowling. “What the hell?”
Standing slowly, I walked to the screen as nothing but static hissed back at me. Realizing all the cords from the television ran down and under the locked door, I furrowed my brow and tipped my head to the side, realizing someone must be behind that locked door and currently had the box that controlled the feed on the television. And they’d probably turned it on via remote control.
I was only a foot from the television when the static stopped and replaced itself with a video, something homemade and probably done from a camera phone. The person standing in front of the screen was so close I could only see black for a moment as a voice said, “It’s on. We’re good to go.”
“Good,” another voice called from farther away. “Let’s get out of here. I think they’re coming.”
The person standing in front of the camera moved, and a bedroom appeared. It looked like a dorm room. Definitely a guy’s room from the décor with sports memorabilia and half-dressed women posted on the walls. I frowned at the screen, hearing a door shut in the background of the video, as if whoever had set up the camera was now gone.
I shook my head. Why the hell I was seeing this?
My phone alerted me to a new message. I glanced down to find Rush checking in, asking what was happening. So I answered him.
HENRY: Not sure what’s going on. Someone started a video. But nothing’s happening on it. It’s just showing an empty bedroom.
RUSH: Weird.
He was telling me. Abandoning the television, I returned to the main door of the room and tried to open it again. No luck.
Then, from behind me, I heard it. A laugh. But not just any laugh. Her laugh.
Stomach dropping, I came around slowly as Avery appeared in the bedroom on the screen, hand in hand with Reuben, who was chuckling as he kissed her and drew her toward the bed, which was where the camera focused all its attention.
God, she was pretty.
I was so busy gazing at her that it took me a second longer to realize exactly what was happening as Reuben coaxed Avery down onto the bed with him and slid his hand up her arm as he pressed his mouth to her throat.
“Shit.” I turned away and yanked on the fucking door handle with all my might.
Moans filled the room as the volume increased.
Motherfucker.
He wouldn’t do this do me. Reuben would not do this to me.
I kicked the door. I punched it. I squeezed my eyes shut and pressed my forehead against it.
Why would he do this? Why would he go this far? I’d never done anything to that bastard. But he’d taken her purposely to get at me. He constantly flaunted his relationship with her in my face to upset me. And now this…
This was unacceptable.
This was flat-out wrong.
And I didn’t even understand why.
“Fucker, fucker,” I gritted out, hoping to block the sounds. “I’m going to kill you. I’m going to fucking slaughter you for this, you worthless asshole. Your mama won’t even recognize you when I’m done with you.”
My phone alerted me to an incoming message. Remembering Rush, I dashed to it. Fumbling in my panic, I dropped the phone twice before sending my SOS.
HENRY: Come get me!!!!
RUSH: What’s happening?
HENRY: COME GET ME RIGHT FUCKING NOW!
I glanced toward the screen long enough to realize Reuben had Avery’s shirt off.
“Christ!” I whirled away, squeezing my eyes shut.
