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“But I talked myself out of it. My eyes must’ve been lying to me, I thought—because nowaywould you’d actually be flirting with my daughter. Because she’snineteen,and surely, my best friend would never stab me in the back like that, right? And that’s why I trusted you to have her over at your place. Holy fuck, Rust. If I had any idea what you were planning to do, I never would’ve allowed that.”
“Hey, that wasn’t myidea,” I said defensively. “I told you I didn’t think it was a good idea, remember? None of this would’ve happened if you’d trusted her instead of wanting me to spy on her.”
“Oh, so it’smyfault?” he countered.
“I’m not saying it’s your fault …”
“Nah. Don’t even try to pin this on me. Because you didn’t tell mewhyit wasn’t a good idea to have Izzy over—instead you made up some bullshit excuse about your neighbor kid needing the job. If you’d been honest and said,‘You know what, Johnny, I kinda wanna fuck your teenage daughter, so maybe I shouldn’t have her over at my place’—guess what? I wouldn’t have pushed so hard for it.”
I scoffed. “Oh yeah. That would’ve gone over brilliantly.”
“It would’ve gone over better thanthis,don’t you think?” he countered. He pulled up a chair for me and offered me to sit. “So go ahead, tell me. How and when did it start? I want every last detail, Rust.”
“I don’t see how that would help,” I muttered.
But Johnny didn’t need my version of events; he was already piecing together the story together himself. “Minka! Oh my God. I just remembered when I called you, and you told me Izzy left your place already. But when I called Izzy, I could’ve sworn I heard Minka bark. Izzy was still with you, wasn’t she?”
There wasn’t any point in lying about it now. “Yeah,” I said.
“You were already fucking her then, weren’t you?”
I shook my head. “No. Look. I’m not gonna lie to you—”
“More than you already have, you mean?”
“—I was attracted to her. She’s an amazing woman.”
“Woman? She’snineteen,fuckhead.”
“Woman, Johnny. She might be nineteen but she’s still an adult. And yeah, the age difference made things even harder on me—”
“Oh, I bet. Having to fuck a nineteen-year-old,” he said sarcastically. “And all that bullshit at the bar in Minnesota, with the boys yukking it up about you and this nineteen-year-old girl you’re fucking.Ugh,I should’ve known! And that’s the worst part—because part of me did know! I had this awful, ugly little feeling in the dead center of my heart. Iknewit was Isabelle they were talking about. But still,I couldn’t let myself believe you’d actually fuck my daughter. I refused to believe it, Rust. You know why? Because Itrustedyou.” He leered at me and angrily shook his head. “Meanwhile, you and all your teammates were in on the joke, that you’re boning my daughter,ha ha.”
“That’s not true. No one was laughing at you. They don’t even know who Isabelle is.” I paused. “Only Cale figured it out.”
“Because Cale’s the kid who looks at OnlyFans,” Johnny said, putting the final piece of the puzzle into place. “My God.” He held his head in his hands. “Why didn’t you tell me? Wasn’t that the whole point of Izzy watching your dog in the first place? So you could tell me what she was up to?”
“I didn’t know about her OnlyFans until that very night. Cale told me when you went to grab a round. That’s when I found out.”
“And yet you didn’t think to tell me?!” he yelled. “Gee, I wonder why? Is it because you were fucking her already?”
“I wasn’t fucking her. Listen, bud, I found out about her OnlyFans at the bar that night. It shocked the hell out of me, and I wantedto tell you—”
“But youdidn’t, Rust. Because you were already fucking her. And you can’t even be honest about it now. You’re still lying to my face.”
“I’m not lying. I wasn’tfucking her. You want the truth? Yeah, I’d kissed her, but nothing else. I told her we couldn’t do anything more. But we were texting each other when I was on the road. I knew it was wrong, but—”
“But you kept doing it. And you didn’t tell me. And you didn’t tell me about her OnlyFans, either.”
“Look, I was tryingto tell you, but you were talking all sorts of shit about these ‘internet porn whores’ and how disappointed their fathers must be—”
“And I amextremelydisappointed, by the way.”
I reared back. “You know, you should really cut her a break. She’s an amazing girl.”
“My kid is posting her body on the internet for money, Rust. And don’t even try to tell me it’s different because she doesn’t post nudes. I’ve heard that whole song and dance already, and it doesn’t make a difference to me. At the end of the day, nude or not nude, it’s the same shit. She’s selling her body.”
“Did you ever stop and thinkwhyshe might be doing it?”
