Page 101 of Rum & Coke
I shrugged. “We both like the Dodgers.” Vinny would know differently, and hopefully, he’d realize something was wrong. I wasn’t sure how he could help me, but I had to try something.
“Go eat, take care of your son. I have work to do, but remember that tonight, you’re in there.” He pointed at the closed door.
“What’s in there?”
“My bedroom.”
That night, I was in his bed.
I tried to tell him Colton needed me, but that only lasted until Colt was asleep. Then I was ordered to strip, get down on my knees, and pleasure Sebastian in his brown walled room with a king-sized bed. At first, I hesitated, but then he wrapped his hand in my hair and forced me to lower my mouth onto his cock. The entire time I was on my knees, I thought about Sommer doing this exact thing. Why couldn’t it have been her? She was my friend, but she had done this before. I wanted to kick, scream, bite him, but I knew that if I did anything other than what he asked, he would hurt me. He hadn’t yet, but something told me he would, and I didn’t want to take that chance.
After Sebastian came in my mouth, he ordered me to get on the bed brown comforter on all fours. I did. I had no other choice. Maybe if Colton weren’t here, I’d try to run, but there was no way for me to leave with Colt, and I would die before I left without him. So, while Sebastian took me from behind, I closed my eyes and thought about Vinny, praying he would know what I’d said was a lie.
Once Sebastian was done, I cleaned myself up in the bathroom and I cried. I cried because this wasn’t how my life was supposed to be. I cried because my boss had raped me. And I cried because he hadn’t used a condom.
“We’ll always have the Dodgers.”
What the fuck?I stared at my phone in my hands, confused because we didn’t have the Dodgers.Ihad the Dodgers, and Tessa hated them. I replayed the short conversation over and over in my head.
“Look, Vinny. It was nice while it lasted—”
“While it lasted?”I’d yelled.“We barely got started.”
“I know. It was a mistake.”
“Bull-fucking-shit, Tessa. Just tell me what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry. We’ll always have the Dodgers.”
The more I thought about everything, the more my chest hurt—or I suppose it was my heart. But she was alive, and because of that, there was still hope. I needed Joss. I felt as though she was the only one who would be able to help me.
It took two days until I was able to track down Joss. Their undercover mission was over, and Gabe finally gave me Paul’s address. But when I arrived at the house, she asked me to go shopping with her.
“You want me to go shopping with you?” I asked as she walked to her car.
“Yes. Ride with me. I need to get Cat some clothes.”
When I’d arrived, Paul had mentioned something had happened to Cat, Joss and Seth’s … Well, she was Joss’s friend, but I wasn’t sure what Cat was to Seth because at Paul and Joss’s wedding only a few days ago, there seemed to be tension there.
“Oh, okay.” We got into her car, leaving Paul, Seth, and Cat behind.
“Gabe texted Paul you were on your way and you needed to speak with me privately?” she asked as she put the car into reverse and pulled out of the driveway.
I nodded. “Yeah, I guess it needs to be private, though I’m not sure.”
“What’s up?” We started down the road. I had no idea where we were going, but I told her everything as she drove us to her destination. “Local PD said she went on her own?” Joss asked.
“Yeah.” I bobbed my head. That was the only thing I knew for sure—though I felt it was a lie.
“And she called you and told you she was dumping you for her boss and moving in with the guy?”
“Yep.”
“Huh,” she breathed as though she was thinking everything over. “From what I could tell at the range and my wedding, she really liked you.”
“I thought so too. We’d just made it official the night before your wedding, and the night she went to the party, we had plans for me to stay the night.”
“And you’re sure he’s a drug dealer?”
