I felt warmfuzzies again. Of course he’d protect his sister with his freedom.
“It happened tomy friend, Robin, in high school. A guy she’d only just started dating releaseda video of them having sex. Honestly, if it happened to her now, I’d probablybe in prison, too, but back then, I was too young to fully understand all ofit. My dad stepped in to handle some of it as well, so it was out of my hands abit.” He frowned. “She dropped out senior year.”
“Oh my god,that’s awful.”
“Not the worstpart, though.”
I scrunched upmy face in horror. “How could it get any worse?”
“What theauthorities first thought was revenge porn turned out to be video of himsexually assaulting her. What they discovered in the investigation was thathe’d drugged and raped two other girls earlier that same year.”
“Oh my god.” Ibit back tears. “I can’t even imagine.”
“Yeah, it wasbad.”
“Wait, your dadgot involved? You told your dad?” I squeaked.
“No way in hell.Louisa told my mom because she was worried, and that’s how Dad got involved,”he said. “Mom’s the math teacher at the high school.”
“Yourhighschool?”
“Only one intown,” he confirmed. “We come from a small town in Montana, not quite a one-stoplight kind of thing, but close.”
“Whoa, what wasthat like?”
“Complicated.”He chuckled. “Especially, considering Dad’s the principal of the same school.”
“Oh my god,” Ibreathed out. “Did your dad have to…?
“Watch thevideo?”
“Yeah.”
He grimaced.“No. He refused.”
“Did you?”
“Fuck, no.” Hefrowned. “I figured she’d been through enough with half the school seeing it. Iwasn’t gonna add to the pile.”
Oh my god, thisman wassucha good man. No thought to how it might affect him, justthat it would hurt her if he saw it.
I nodded, unableto form words right at that moment.
“Mom didthough,” Huck continued, “and she said it scarred her for life.”
I bit my lip.“My friend, Sierra, works for the FBI and her main job is finding missing kidsand putting pedophiles away. She has to watch more kiddie porn than anyoneshould be forced to, so I totally understand that.”
“Tough gig.”
“The toughest.”I nodded. “Did he get off?”
“No fucking way.Dad got him expelled, arrested, and put away. Cyrus had his full ride to TexasA&M revoked and his life was pretty much ruined. Don’t really give a shit.”
“Cyrustotallysounds like a creepo name.”
Huck shrugged.“Don’t know a whole lotta Cyruses, so can’t speak to that.”
I sighed. “Whathappened to Robin?”
