“You were fucking there when…”
“No. I wasn’t there, asshole. She found the cameras in the house that night. She demanded that I find out where the server was and have the footage. I found them, but I didn’t delete them. I just told her I did. I made sure I saved them in case you ever fucking needed them,” Peter blasted Jayson’s way.
Lana couldn’t believe the words that came out of Peter’s mouth. They had solid proof Ashe had raped Jayson in his own home.
They really had proof of everything. But there were a few things that made little sense to her.
How did Ashe have all this power? It couldn’t be her stepfather, could it?
She felt like they were missing a few pieces of the puzzle. Like the girl that she had set Peter up with to get those photos.
“Peter, the girl that you found in bed with you the morning that you woke up, had you ever seen her before or knew anything about her?” Lana asked, biting her lower lip.
“No. Not really. I knew she was associated with Ashe in a way, but not much else. I just assumed she was a relative of Ashe’s.” Peter shrugged as he looked over at Lana.
“Was this the only time you’ve had that kind of situation with Ashe?” Sgt. Bueller asked, as Peter tried to lean back in his chair, drained from everything that he just revealed.
“No. After the girl, there was the whole Jayson fiasco. After that, when Lana’s friends stood up to Ashe and Jayson told her to fuck off again, she lost her shit. I would just make up shit about where they were or them being together to get her off my ass.”
Lana studied Peter again. He seemed relaxed more now that the truth was out, but at the same time he still felt tense with everything.
Lana wondered if he realized Ashe had set a trap for him. She wondered if she could get Jayson to realize the same thing about his best friend.
“Peter, do you realize that she did to you first, what she did to Jayson? You were drugged, roofied. You said there were pictures of you and this girl. Do any of these pictures show actual penetration, or just you two in bed together?” Lana asked, leaning forward, clasping her hands together.
She waited for what she had said to sink into both men’s heads. The realization that the one person who both men couldn’t stand having used Peter.
“Just pictures. Her on top of me. Me on top of her. Us sleeping.”
“None showing actual intercourse?” Sgt. Brewer asked again, emphasizing the intercourse part.
“No.”
“Do you still have the photos?” Rocky asked, picking up Peter’s phone to go through everything.
“Yeah. They should be in there. If I try to back out or stall, she’ll send them to me as a reminder that I’m her bitch boy.” Peter sneered her way.
Lana watched as Rocky went through Peter’s phone looking for the pictures he kept talking about. When she found it, Lana could see the change in her expression.
When Rocky looked up at her and nodded, she reached out for the phone to look at the photos herself. When she looked at them, she noticed right away that both of them were out of it.
“They were both drugged. Look at how her eyes are dilated and groggy looking. Her eyes look the same as Peter’s in this picture. No way in either picture to tell if there was intercourse or not,” Lana announced to the whole room as she continued to study the photos in Peter’s phone that Ashe used to control him.
CHAPTER
TWENTY-SIX
Lana handed Jayson the phone so that he could see what she was seeing. He didn’t know what to think anymore.
Part of him wanted to hate his former best friend with every fiber in his being. Yet, the part that was winning out, all because of Lana’s approach to everything so far, was to forgive him because he was just as much of a victim of Ashe’s bullshit as he was.
He wasn’t sure what to do at this point. Right now, that couldn’t be the shit that took over his mind.
Right now, what needed to be at the forefront of his thoughts, aside from his children and Lana, was the missing girls that still needed to be found before they had another body. Looking at the photos, though, made him wonder about the missing girls and the girl that Ashe had framed Peter with.
Could there be a connection between the two? He didn’t want to think that he could have had a relationship with someone who would traffic girls like that, but thinking about his past now, some things that Peter had said made him think about things Ashe used to say about other girls.
“Lana, would the SA work with a woman or someone outside of their race if they thought it would be beneficial to get theirfoot into the door, or would they just take out the competition and take over their territory?” Jayson asked, continuing to look at the photo of Peter with the underage girl.
