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“What the fuck was that, Alexa?”
Alexa hung her head. She had no good answer, no excuse for screaming at Victoria in court the way she had. “How badly did I derail the case?”
“I don’t know yet,” Jared said tersely. “The good news is that it’s just as likely to derail them as it is us, but we have yet to see which way it will fall.”
Alexa knew that she had to confess. It would be worse if Jared found out about this from the other side in court. But she didn’t know where to start.
“You didn’t talk to her while you were in the cell together, did you? Please, tell me you didn’t dig yourself any deeper into this hole than you already are.”
“Um. Well, we didn’t talk all that much.”
Jared cast her a suspicious glare. “What aren’t you telling me?”
“Well… we may have… fucked.”
Jared slammed on the brakes just in time, narrowly avoiding colliding with the car in front of them.
He turned around fully in his seat to stare at Alexa. “You did WHAT?”
Alexa hung her head. “I know. It was a bad idea.”
“A bad—you could say—whatwere you—?”
Alexa let him splutter himself into silence. Cars were honking at them, and after a few moments, Jared noticed. He put the car back into gear and started driving again, his hands clenched tightly around the steering wheel.
“Was it consensual?” he asked in a clipped tone.
“What the fuck—of course it was consensual, Jared! Are you calling me a fucking rapist?”
“I had to make sure,” he said calmly. “If we’re going to be facing sexual assault charges…”
“That won’t happen. Besides, even if it did, we could file those same charges right back. We were both… participating enthusiastically. Very enthusiastically, actually.”
“Ugh, that’s enough! I donotneed to know any more than that. Now, I need you to walk me through everything that was said. And please, leave out the gory details?”
Alexa sighed and did as she was told to the best of her ability to remember. She skipped over the whole hot-angry-sex thing, coming to the end where the police officer had had to pull them apart.
Jared groaned. “All it’s going to take is one of the officers who heard the story from him going to the press, and your reputation is done for. I’ll have to get a gag order in place, and fast. Now, where am I taking you?”
Alexa realized with a start that she actually had no idea. She couldn’t go home, that was for sure. Home was Victoria’s house, and she and Victoria… Well, it wouldn’t be a good idea for them to be around each other right now. Probably not a good idea ever.
On the other hand, she wasn’t exactly eager to return to her family home with her tail between her legs, confessing just how badly she had fucked up. They would find out, of course, but she didn’t want to be subject to their rightfully judgmental stares when she was desperately trying to process what had happened.
Of course, she had known the whole thing was going to be a shitshow—there had been no avoiding that—but the forewarning didn’t make it suck any less to be in it right now.
“Alexa? Location?”
“Right. Um. I guess I’ll just get a hotel. I could google somewhere…”
“No need. I stayed in the State Star a few months back. Very classy. Very private. You’ll like it there.”
“Perfect.” Alexa could use some privacy right now. All arousal was long forgotten. Right now, she just wanted somewhere she could cry in private.
Maybe later, once crying in her hotel room alone became too much to bear, she would call Daniella. It didn’t matter what time it was. Daniella would be there with words of comfort and some delicious home-cooked meal she had whipped up on short notice.
For now, though, Alexa needed space to sort through her muddled thoughts.
Jared dropped her off at the hotel. “Do you want me to come in with you?”
