to face Ryker and Asher and have her say.
“Why the fuck would you do that?” Ryker asks, fists clenched at his sides.
“She deserves to know the truth.”
“I never thought I’d see the day Stone would be led around by the dick by some chick,” Asher says, still rubbing at his face like a pussy.
“Watch the way you talk about Isla.” I step toward him, my fist clenched, ready to haul off if he refers to her as a chick again.
“Everyone relax.” Lincoln comes in between the two of us, pushing at each of our chests. “He probably did it to earn her trust and work toward the end goal.”
He’s only partially right.
“There’s something else you guys should know.” I step back and Lincoln’s hand falls from my chest. “I’m the one who leaked the tape.”
All three of them start shooting expletives my way. I raise my hand to get them to shut the hell up.
“Isla knows. I told her last month.”
“What the fuck, man?” Ryker says, pushing a hand through his hair.
“I heard about what Asher did—obviously, since it was part of the game—and you left your phone behind in the locker room after track practice.” I sigh and put my hands on my hips. “I swiped it and sent it out.”
Lincoln actually looks pleased to hear this information. I’ve probably solved a decade-long mystery that’s bothered him. “I was able to tell the original video came from Ryker’s phone, but I couldn’t find anything beyond that.”
“Well, now you know.” I look in Asher’s direction. “I apologize, even though I know you didn’t give two shits that it came out.”
He chuckles, probably remembering how even more girls wanted to sleep with him after the video made its rounds.
Isn’t that how it always is, though? The guy gets a pat on the back and the girl gets branded a slut. This world is a special kind of fucked up, I swear.
They’re all quiet for a second.
“I guess this means things are going well with Isla?” Lincoln asks.
“You’d guess right.”
“Any word from Dick the Prick?” Asher asks.
I shake my head. “Nothing. He’s too quiet and I don’t like it.” I make a mental note to drop in on him tomorrow morning. “What about you, Linc? You find anything I can use?”
I know the answer before he opens his mouth. He always gets this look on his face when he can’t find what he’s looking for. I’m pretty sure it pisses him off to think that a hacker of his level isn’t able to get what he needs.
“Let me know if that changes. I’m out.”
I stalk over to the elevator, hearing the television come off pause and the show start up again.
The doors open up and I step inside, adjusting my dick in my pants. Watching Isla haul off on those two pricks was hot. I can’t wait to show her what I thought of it.
Early the next morning, I head out to my father’s estate. It’s near the area where Isla’s parents live and it’s also where I grew up. Unfortunately, I don’t feel a warm sensation in my chest at the prospect of returning to my childhood home. Just the sick nauseating feeling that accompanies the dread of stepping through those doors.
I opted to drive myself today, so I park my Lamborghini and head straight through the soaring double-door entry into the home and stalk down the main hallway.
Beatrice, who runs the estate for my father, appears from out of one of the rooms and steps into my path, halting my progress.
“Where is he?” I ask.
Her eyes look a little panicked. “Is he expecting you, sir?”
“No.” I move to step around her, but she tries to block my path.
“Let me make sure he’s able to see you, sir. It’s still very early.”
Precisely why I’m here. No one expects to catch someone at noon.
“I’ll find him.” This time I do manage to make it around Beatrice, but she follows behind me, trying to keep pace.
“Now is really not a good time, Garrin.”
“It’s never a good time to spend any time with a man like him,” I say over my shoulder.
Just before I reach the study doors, Beatrice falls back in defeat. Part of me feels badly because she’ll probably catch shit from my dad for letting me barge in. But the other part of me doesn’t care. She stood idle and watched on all those years while he was cruel to me, and she never once intervened. So fuck her.
I push both