Page 87 of River Wild

“Did you just … come?”

“I’m so sorry.”

The video ends, and Brad is doubled over with laughter.

“Dude, it was even better the second time around! It was like a fucking second, and you were blowing your load!”

“You fucking filmed me having sex with your ex-girlfriend?” I growl. My vision is going hazy with anger.

“Brad, you said we’d get back together if I did this for you.”

My head turns to Chloe, stunned at what just came out of her mouth.

“Sure, babe. Sure.”

“So, we’re back together?”

“I said so, didn’t I?” he snaps dismissively.

“What the fuck is wrong with you?” I bark at Brad. “You blackmailed her into doing this?” I swing around to look at Chloe. “Why would you do this? You can do better than this jerkwad.”

“I love him,” she whines, pouting.

“You heard the girl,” Brad says smugly, answering for her. He puts his hand in his pocket and pulls out a little bag of white powder.

Cocaine.

“Here, babe, go do a line. You deserve it after that.”

He tosses the bag to her, and she eagerly catches it. Scurrying away over to her dressing table, she tips the powder out and starts drawing out lines.

She’s a cokehead.

I should’ve known.

I should’ve fucking known all of this was too good to be true.

Good things don’t happen to me.

“You’re fucked up. Both of you,” I spit the words at him.

“Maybe I am. But I’ll never be as fucked up as you. How was it, watching your mom blow my uncle away?”

“Fuck you.” I stomp to the door.

“Look at it this way … I was doing you a favor. You got to fuck the hottest girl in school. I know it was only for a couple of seconds”—he laughs—“but it still counts. And, now, you won’t be known just as the son of a cop killer. You’ll also be known as the one-pump chump.”

I turn back and storm toward him. He actually steps back, and that makes me laugh.

Fucking pussy.

I grab his phone from his hand, throw it on the floor, and stamp my foot on it.

“What the fuck?” he yells. “You’ll pay for that, asshole! That was a brand-new phone! And, if you think that got rid of the video, think again. ’Cause I already sent it to everyone who goes to our school.”

“What?”

“You heard me.”