Risking Fate(110)
“You’re goin’ to tell us about Amy?” Miranda cocked her eyebrow and I shook my head as I looked down at the table.
I heard Conner’s voice and looked at him. “Oh great, thanks a lot Ty. I’m tryin’ to help you out and you throw me under the fuckin’ bus.”
I set my hands down flat on the table. “Dude, I didn’t mean it. She tricked me into saying something.”
Conner ran his hands through his hair. “It doesn’t matter. There ain’t nothin’ goin’ on between us. I’m not even sittin’ here to talk about that. I think you both need to hear the truth.”
Miranda looked confused, but from the look on her brother’s face, I knew exactly what he meant. “Fuck.”
“What Ty? What is going on now? You two and your secrets are really pissing me off.”
Conner put his hands down and looked at his sister. “I’m goin’ to start from the beginning so you don’t think I kept anything from you. Don’t open your pretty little mouth until I’m finished, you got it?”
Miranda shrugged. “Whatever!”
“The night that all this shit started with Heather, you were right, I knew about it. I was the person Ty called when he needed advice and I am the one who convinced him to lie to you. It was all my idea for him to move on and forget it ever happened, even though I knew he couldn’t do it forever.” Miranda started to talk, but he held up his hand. “You see, when I saw Ty that night, he wasn’t right. When he told me he was drugged, I knew that he was telling me the truth. You didn’t see him that night, Randa. He was tore up somethin’ fierce. The whole time he kept sayin’ that he never touched her, so I suggested that she set it all up. I knew Heather didn’t know who I was, so I asked Amy to set us up. She knew all along that I only wanted answers, but that girl loves you like you’re her sister and she wanted to be able to fix things.”
“You told Amy?” Miranda looked genuinely hurt.
“I had to. Just shut up, please.” He shook his head before continuing. Miranda refused to look my way and I hated reliving the events in my head. “I knew I had to get her to trust me if I ever wanted to find out if Ty was telling the truth. Nothing against you, Bro, but either way I wanted answers. Just so you know, I never doubted you for a second. I’ve cheated on my fair share of women and I never left any of the other women’s beds so tore up.” He looked back at Miranda, who was already crying silently to herself. “Heather took the bait right away. Within a week, she was calling me all damn day, wanting to hang out. I took things slow, making her think I wanted something real. Since she thought I was living out of a motel, it was always her idea to go there, but one night I finally got her to take me to her place.”
“Jesus Christ, Conner, you slept with her too?” Miranda stood up and walked over to put Jake in his chair. She immediately began pacing around the room crying. I rushed to her side, but she pushed me away. “Why are you telling me this? Do you have feelin’s for her? She’s never comin’ here. I don’t want her near my family…”
“Will you calm down. I ain’t got feelin’s for that slut.”
I removed my hands from my face and watched my wife walk back to the table. I was shocked that Conner had gone through with his plan and actually bedded the enemy. He really had taken one for the team. “Please get this story over with. If I have to move in with my parents a day before my daughter’s birthday party, I am really going to kick your ass.”
“You two need to just chill and hear me out. After I had spent the night there a few times, she started leaving me alone in the house. Every time she showered or ran to the store, I snooped around. I found her camera first that had even more pictures then she gave you, but what I did see was this.” He pulled the camera out of his back pocket and slid it across the table. “I know you don’t want to look, but I think you need to see the one’s she didn’t show you.”
I flipped through the pictures. Each one was like a knife being stabbed into my heart, until I came across the ones where two people were trying to pose me in different positions and I was clearly not awake. “Son of a bitch. I knew it.”
Miranda, who seemed scared to death of the camera, yanked it out of my hand. She began staring at the one I left on the screen. Sure enough as she flipped through it was obvious that I wasn’t conscious. There were even pictures of Heather laughing while trying to pose. She finally sat the camera down between us and looked to Conner.