Ellery frowned at the title because it was an odd way to phrase it. Something tingled at the base of her spine.
She hovered the arrow over the file and clicked.
A window opened to a video that looked to be filmed with an iPhone, grainy because it was dark in the room. Someone stepped into the shot and sat on a bed. He was a big guy, who wore scrub pants and had a broad, hairy, muscular chest. She squinted at the footage, trying to recognize the man and process the location, but she recognized neither. She turned up the volume but could only hear the rustle of movement in the background. The man on the bed crooked his finger to someone out of the shot. Another man, this one slightly built, stepped into the shot. The footage was blurry enough that she couldn’t tell much about the new guy, but his hair looked lighter beneath the baseball cap he wore. From what she could tell, he wore a dark sweatshirt. This guy immediately sank on his knees in front of the larger man. The man on the bed reached out and tenderly cupped the other man’s head while at the same time tugging the drawstrings of his scrubs. The man kneeling reached out and pulled the man’s pants down so that an enormous erection sprang loose.
Ellery gasped and covered her mouth with her hand.
“Take it all, baby,” the guy said, grabbing the kneeling man’s neck and pulling his head toward his jutting—
“Oh God,” Ellery said, slamming the computer shut. She shoved the computer across the bed and stared wide eyed at her reflection in the mirror of the dresser. Ellery looked as if she’d seen a ghost . . . or a video of one man giving another man a blow job.
Wait, she couldn’t leave the video open. She had to close it, or Josh would know she’d found the naughty file on his computer. God, just what had she found?
Was the guy kneeling Josh?
“No, it can’t be,” she whispered, pulling the laptop back so it sat in front of her.
Josh wasn’t gay. They’d had sex, and she would know if he were. Besides, Josh never wore ball caps. He said they were for guys who had bad hair, and she was certain the only sweatshirt he had was one from Harvard that his best friend from high school had sent him. No. That guy couldn’t be Josh. But was the bigger guy his friend Drew? He sort of looked like Josh’s study partner, but she couldn’t tell for certain.
She opened the computer, and the window popped back up. She clicked the video off and closed the browser. Part of her wanted to watch the entire video to see if she knew either of the guys. The other part of her wished she’d settled for getting into bed and reading. She’d listened to the devil on her shoulder, and this was what a gal got when she went snooping under the pretense of trying to please her boyfriend.
Gay porn?
Was it that big of a deal? She’d seen lesbian porn before, but that didn’t mean she was gay. She’d been curious, was all. Maybe that was what the video was for Josh? A curiosity. Or it could have been something someone sent him as a joke? Here’s what doctors have to do to get ahead. Pun intended. Or wait, what if the video was blackmail? Maybe someone had caught another student engaging in such behavior . . . but, no, was being gay and filming sex a blackmailable offense? Not in 2019.
Ellery jumped off the bed, shoved the computer back into Josh’s backpack, and zipped it closed.
Again, she saw herself in the mirror. She stood there looking like most men’s wet dream. Boobs spilling over the bustier, legs clad in the ridiculous and tacky fishnet hose. The mouth she’d painted red looked garish against the paleness of her shocked face. Panic rolled over her, threatening to smother her. Suddenly she couldn’t breathe.
“Holy shit, Elle,” she whispered, sucking in big gulps of air.
Ellery dashed toward her open suitcase, grabbed a fuzzy hoodie, and pulled it on. Then she riffled through her clothes and found a pair of baggy gym shorts and wriggled them over her fishnets. Shoving her feet into her UGGs, she grabbed a ponytail holder and her phone and slipped out onto the small private patio off their bedroom.
Outside the stars sparkled, unaware Ellery had just found gay porn on