“Great!” I said. “I’ll call you and we’ll set it up. Love you!”
Then I shot Dane the mostHang up right now or I will murder youlook that I could muster.
“Goodbye, Chandra,” he said. “Can’t wait to meet you.” Then he hung up.
“Dane, you can’t just do that! Your entitlement is truly nauseating, you know that?”
“Is it?”
“Your cockiness is clashing with that suit.”
“Devi, they’re going to know. Soon. Even if your brother doesn’t spill, it’s already hitting the internet. You want them to meet me themselves as soon as possible, don’t you?”
“I guess,” I grumbled.
“Or would you rather they Google me and find the sex tape?”
Jesus.
Chaz found it. Who was to say that my parents or my brothers couldn’t find it?
They’d find the headlines, at least. My brother already found those.
God. This was gonna be fun.
“Tell me the truth,” I said. “Even if the video is floating around somewhere online and it doesn’t have your name on it… is your face on it? Are you recognizable on the video?”
“Yeah,” he said tightly. Obviously not his favorite subject. “My face is on it.”
Great.
Chaz said it was. I kinda hoped he was wrong.
I suddenly felt a tiny little wisp of what it must feel like to be Dane Davenport right now. The out of control feeling of knowing you were out there, your face was out there, on a sex tape, and there was very little you could do about it.
Not a good feeling.
“Where the hell are we going?” I asked him. We were heading over the Lions Gate Bridge, toward the West Vancouver exit, which I did not expect. We went to high school together in West Van. It wasn’t a comfortable reminder. “Are we almost there?”
“Yeah. Almost.”
Silence again.
Shit, I wanted to know more about that sex tape.
Why? It would only make me uncomfortable, right? Might only make me actually hate him more?
But how could Inotwant to know?
I tried to change the subject.
“Speaking of family,” I said. “Is Lex really related to you?”
“Yes. His mom and my mom are sisters. Why?”
“Katie says he’s funny. I figured there must be some mistake.”
Dane glanced at me, deadpan.
