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Jase pushed from the chair, clenching his hands as he began to pace. I eased to stand, following his angry movements.
“The video is on a very well-known porn site. You’re tied up. You look asleep. He undresses you, and—”
“He doesn’t rape me.”
Jase stopped, going silent. My head shook, not able to stop as I refused to allow the words to be true.
“He didn’t rape me, Jase, I would have known. I would have…he didn’t rape me.”
“Kody, I watched the video.”
My throat nearly closed as tears burned my eyes. Still, my head shook. “It’s not true. I would know. I…I would have known!”
“You were unconscious the entire time. It wasn’t a long video.”
That look. His secret…Had he thought I remembered? That I knew?
“Rush watched it? He knows?”
Jase’s shook his head repeatedly, almost more as a reflex, but finally nodded. “He thought it was just another video. He saw some of it. He actually thought he might have…dated you at some point. He couldn’t put it together at first.”
“Dated me? Oh, God.”
Burying my head in my hands, I couldn’t stop myself from spinning. I was on the verge of throwing up. Heat was pouring from my body, and the room was beginning to feel too small. I pushed back the hair from my face, trying to catch my breath.
“Fuck, you’re pale. Come sit down.”
I stepped back from Jase’s arm as he reached for me. “I’m fine. I just need air. I need to process this.”
“Process it while sitting.” Jase stepped in, pulling me into his side as he led me to the sofa. “It was too soon to tell you. I should have waited and just deleted it when you were asleep.”
“And hid it from me?”
“I’m starting to think it might have been the better alternative.”
“Never.”
He helped me sit, taking a spot next to me. “I know. Honesty is key with us. It’s why I’m about to tell you what I’m going to do. And yes, I said going. This is not up for debate. I’m doing this and you can either support the decision or do what you feel is best.”
There was such trust on Jase’s face as he peered over at me. Apprehension, but something deeper. Something more.
“What are you going to do?”
“Something insanely illegal. Something risky.”
I made sure my voice was low as I leaned in closer to him. “Are you going to kill again?”
“Damn right I am, but I’m not referring to that. I’m going to wipe the entire site. It’s the safest way so that it’s not just your video. There may be others David posted as well. I was looking into this. With red rooms, most try to get as much as they can with each victim. Videos like yours, the actual torture, organ harvesting. It’s common. If I wipe the site, with him dead, they’ll never return. It’s the best I can do.”
My head lowered as I licked my lips. My mouth was so dry. Just the admission that he would kill again should have had me terrified. I wasn’t. I suddenly felt nothing. Nothing but…rage. Satisfaction. A part of me was dead inside with the news—numbed out from the constant blows I kept undergoing. Murder wasn’t okay, but I didn’t care so much about that now that I was seeing exactly what these people were capable of. They’d taken everything from me, including my life, twice. I was done being their victim. Done with people hurting me and others. It wasn’t right, but if Jase could somehow put a stop to it while being safe…wasn’t it worth it?
“Wipe it. Wipe every single site in the world for all I care. I’m at the end of my rope. You have the skills needed to take them down, and the only reason they’re still at it is because of me. I should have never got between you and them.”
“Kody—”
“Don’t. I did. We both know I did. Even if it wasn’t intentional, I distracted you. I take a lot of your time, physically and mentally. Not anymore. They come first until they’re gone. I don’t care how you do it, or who you do it to. Do what you must.” I leaned in, meeting his eyes as my lips hovered just short of his. “I know nothing.”
Chapter 33
