Fatal Kiss Of The Vampire Chapter 291-295

Chapter 291: Could You Fight Him?

William had had about ten million followers, but when the news that he had gotten married hit social media, that number jumped to thirty million. Some of his followers had questions, but most just wanted to wish him well. Overnight, he had gone from star to superstar. He looked out his front window and found a line-up of paparazzi.

William had no idea who had caught them at the church, but he assumed that it was one of these scumbags.

On social media, William was shocked to find pictures of him and Kylie in the car outside the church, and of them walking from the car to the house. More than anything, it was shocking to him because he hadn’t realized that his notoriety was such that paparazzi would even bother spying on him.

William began to read the comments below the pictures, and he began to get angry.

After a few minutes, another picture appeared. In this one, Kylie was looking out the window of his home. It was frightening. He doubted it would be very long before Ethan appeared at his door with all of his guards at his back. If Ethan even saw the news, William knew that he would be dead meat.

He called up to Kylie. “Have you seen what’s happening on social media?”

Kylie was still asleep, but his yelling woke her up, and she got up, yelling, “I’m up already! Give me a minute!”

As soon as Kylie was fully awake, William barged in. He thrust his phone into her face so that she could see it. “Do you see this?” he cried. “This is all your fault. I didn’t want to take you to church, but you insisted. And that was where the paparazzi first spotted us, so you are responsible for everything, so you have a duty to make everything right.

“You have some power in the entertainment industry,” he continued. “Your director is practically a God. Go to him. Ask him for help. Do whatever it is that you need to do in order to make this go away!”

“It is impossible,” Kylie sighed. “I am too popular. You are too popular. By now, the pictures have gone viral. There is no stopping them.”

William frowned. “Are you happy now?” he wondered. “Did you make this happen as revenge on me for me not agreeing to marry you?”

“Oh, fuck off!” Kylie hissed. “Now that I see what a Nancy Boy you are, I’m glad that you didn’t agree to marry me. Now go find your hand, you little bitch!”

Before William could reply, Kylie turned around and marched off in the direction of her room. Before she reached the stairs, though, she turned around and glared at him. “Everything in my body is screaming to run for the door so that I can get out of here as fast as possible,” she said, “but we are trapped. If we are going to survive, we need to learn to get together. Think about it. I am going to have a nap.”

Watching her proudly turn away, as if her shit didn’t stink, made William furious – but he kept his anger in check. Even if he couldn’t stand the messenger, the message spoke the truth. In order to survive, they’d need to learn to get along.

Just as William sat down, his phone rang. He looked at the caller ID and saw that the call was coming from Ethan.

The phone rang again.

William winced in horror, and his body began to feel numb. He held the phone slightly away from himself as if it were a grenade or a hot potato. It rang again, and he winced.

The phone rang again, and he accepted the call. “Ethan,” he said. “Good morning. What can I do for you?”

“Nothing,” Ethan replied, cool as a cucumber. “I’d like to visit you today; at your second house.”

“My house is a mess,” William laughed uncomfortably. “I should come and visit you at…”

“How would you get out?” Ethan wondered. “Your house is walled in by paparazzi. With my guards, I will be able to forge a path.”

“O… O… Okay,” William stammered. “I’ll see you… when you get here…”

As soon as the conversation was over, William jumped up and ran up to Kylie’s room. He knocked on the door twice and opened the door without waiting to be invited in. Kylie was in bed, but she wasn’t asleep yet, and as William barged in, she rolled over to face him. “What the fuck is this all about?” she hissed.

“Never mind that!” William said. “Ethan is on his way over!”

When Kylie heard these words, she froze. This was the worst possible outcome she could have imagined. Not only did Ethan know where she was, but she had no way to escape. Suddenly her face went red, and she began to hyperventilate. “What are we going to do?”

“I don’t know,” William replied, “but we are running out of time!”

“Could you fight him?” Kylie wondered.

William laughed. “I could not,” he replied. “You were right to call me a Nancy Boy, and even if I could fight him, he would still have his guards to deal with. Our only option is for you to apologize to him, explain everything to him, and go back with him. If you do this, nothing bad will happen, and you can try to get away again another time!

“If Ethan still wants to fight me,” William concluded, “then I will finally tell him that I am gay. Everyone knows that a true man would ever hit a faggot. It’s even worse than hitting a girl…”

Kylie embraced him and said, “We will get through this.”

They were still holding each other when Ethan began to pound on the door outside.

Under the protection of two expensive black cars, the Knight XV stopped in front of the house, and Ricky Peck, the lead bodyguard, opened the car door for his employer. As the door opened, a pair of shiny high-end men’s leather shoes appeared, followed by long muscular legs.

Chapter 292: You’re Scaring Me

It was from Ethan. He stood up straight, and then he fastened the buttons on his suit. He looked towards the house and then back at Ricky. The entire property from the curb up to the front porch was littered with paparazzi. “Spread out,” he said. “You know what to do.”

“Yes, sir!” Ricky replied. With the slightest wave of his hand, he summoned his crew, and within minutes they had destroyed all of the equipment that the reporters had brought with them. The reporters cursed and swore, and when they realized it would do no good, they began to skulk away.

Two of the guards joined Ethan as he approached the house; one on either side of him and, when he reached the door, he rapped his knuckles upon it seven times. When William heard him at the door, he urgently rushed downstairs, and when he opened the door, he pretended to be surprised. “Wow!” he said. “Ethan, it is good to see you!”

In a cold and controlled tone of voice, Ethan looked at William emotionlessly and said, “Where’s Kylie?”

William bit his lower lip and, with a shaky hand, pointed at the ceiling above his head. “Upstairs,” he replied.

Without giving William a second thought, Ethan walked upstairs. Before he made it more than a few steps, though, William called after him. “Ethan,” he shouted, “this is all a misunderstanding. You know how women can get sometimes. Maybe she is on her period or something. Please don’t blame her…”

Hearing this, Ethan turned back for the briefest of seconds to glare at William, and then he carried on his way towards Kylie. Although Ethan had been wearing a poker face when he came to the door, William now noticed that his eyes were as cold as ice. Obviously, he was both irritated by the news on the internet, as well as deeply worried about Kylie.

Kylie was sitting at a vanity table and rubbing cream into her hands when Ethan walked in unannounced. “Hello,” she said nonchalantly as she stood up and turned to face him. At first, she wasn’t afraid of him, but when she saw the dangerous look in his eyes, she flinched away from him. “I don’t know why you’re here…” she added. “William and I haven’t prepared anything to eat yet. If you want to hang around, though, you are more than welcome to stay for dinner!”

Ethan scowled at Kylie and looked her over from top to bottom. Kylie was wearing a men’s shirt with the bottom knotted around her waist. She wore hot pants that left nothing to the imagination; a camel toe protruded where her legs met, and she seemed completely unashamed. Her feet were bare, and she was wiggling her toes anxiously.

Just then, William entered the room, and Ethan asked him why Kylie was wearing his clothes, but William looked at him with confusion in his eyes and said, “I don’t know. She wasn’t wearing them when I saw her last…”

Not wanting to get into any more trouble than he was already in, William turned and scurried away. After he left, Ethan shut the door, and Kylie trembled. She was afraid, and she stepped backward but, before she could actually escape him, he threw her unto the bed. Scowling, she snapped at him: “Ethan, you’re a very violent man! You’re scaring me…”

Ethan leaned forward and smiled. “So what?”

Kylie smelled the man’s familiar sexy scent, and her heart began to beat faster. Her eyes, though, they were turning cold. “I’m your nephew’s girlfriend,” she hissed. “Stay away!”

“I don’t care,” Ethan said as he began to press his body down on hers.

Kylie tilted her head to avoid his kiss. “You could have practically any single woman that you want,” she cried. “Leave me alone, please.”

Ethan sneered as his charming fingers played with the buttons on Kylie’s shirt. It annoyed him to see her wearing William’s shirt. “I want you!” he moaned.

“You’re really a masochist,” Kylie shouted as she struggled to get away.

William’s shirt was large on Kylie’s body. Her shoulders and ample bosoms were almost completely exposed. “Your body is angelic,” Ethan sighed. In his eyes, she was being shy and playing cute. It had been a long time since he’d been with her, and it took nothing more than the sight of her to turn him on.

“Nonsense!” Kylie snapped. “I am no angel. I promise you that!”

Ethan opened her shirt, and as he took her left breast in his right hand, he asked her, “Are you sure that you aren’t in love with me anymore?”

“Yes,” Kylie replied. “I’m sure. Don’t worry about that! I know my own mind!”

Kylie couldn’t move at all. Ethan had her hands pinned to her sides with his legs.

“If you aren’t in love with me,” Ethan replied, “prove it to me!”

“Proved it?” Kylie frowned. “How?”

Ethan leaned over and licked her right nipple. “Your body will show me the truth of how you feel,” Ethan said.

Suddenly, Kylie began to cry. As much as her mind did not want to be with him, her body was already beginning to respond to him. Her nipples had gone hard. Her mouth cried out for his mouth. She could feel her pussy moistening up, hungry for his cock, and she felt pleasant tingles running up and down her body as he increased his ministrations. “No,” she cried.

Kylie opened up her mouth to Ethan, and he kissed her. He pushed his tongue into her mouth and sucked her tongue into his mouth – and she welcomed it. All the while, her brain continued to scream, No, no, no, no! – But all that came out of her mouth was grunts and moans.

Kylie closed her eyes and tried her best to adjust her breathing. Her neck began to turn pink, and small goosebumps broke out all over her arms and legs; and after only a few more minutes, she thrust her hips up and began to dry hump the erection that bulged inside of Ethan’s jeans. Already, she had lost control of her body.

In response, Ethan began to chuckle, which caused the spell that he’d woven over Kylie to break – and in order to distract herself, she began to think about the video. Every movement in the video that she recalled was like a sharp knife that stabbed into her heart, and the pain of it replaced any pleasure that she’d been feeling.

When Ethan noticed that Kylie’s passion was waning, he stopped what he was doing and frowned. He looked her in the eyes and asked her, “Do I really not turn you on anymore? Could it be that you really don’t love me?”

Kylie opened her ocean-blue eyes and said, “Ethan, it is as you say. I do not love you. You’ll only embarrass yourself if you continue.”

When Ethan realized that Kylie meant what she’d said, he rolled off of her and stood up beside the bed. His chest felt tight, and it was hard to breathe. “What a joke,” he hissed. “You will never do better than me!”

Ethan stomped across the room to the door, opened it and exited, and slammed the door behind him.

Chapter 293: Do You See It?

Kylie watched through the window with William by her side as Ethan stormed out of the building. It was a sad sight, and tears welled up in Kylie’s eyes. Even though she hadn’t wanted to be with him sexually, it had never been her intention to make him angry or hurt his feelings.

Ethan signaled to his men that they were leaving, and then he climbed into his own car – and then he was gone. “Did you really send him away?” William asked her nervously. “Please, tell me everything that happened…”

“It was nothing,” Kylie replied, and when William looked up, he noticed that Kylie was no longer crying and. In fact, she was actually smiling. He found this incredibly curious, and he asked her why she was smiling. “If it was me that Ethan had dumped,” he exclaimed, “I would be ruined.”

“Pish posh,” Kylie replied. “Ethan never dumped me. I dumped him!”

Hearing this, William was nearly speechless. “What about the rumors on Instagram?” he wondered.

Kylie looked at William casually and said, “Give it time. They will be forgotten soon enough. As long as I don’t respond, people will lose interest.”

Kylie tied her hair into a casual bun and took off her clothes. She had only dressed the way that she had in order to make Ethan angry, and it had worked. Now though, there was no reason not to put her regular clothes back on. William watched nonchalantly as she undressed and redressed. It was the first time that he has seen her naked, and he was trying desperately not to make a big deal out of it. Once she was fully clothed, he looked her in the eyes and said, “I have done a favor for you, so you should do one for me.”

Since he had just seen her naked, Kylie automatically assumed that the favor would be sexual, and she scowled at him. “I am not going to FUCK you!” she hissed.

Hearing this, William’s whole face turned red, and he said, “No, no, no. It is nothing like that. You don’t have to do this for me, but I was hoping you might be my girlfriend until I find a real one. I am not good with the ladies but, if they see me with you, they will be jealous, and they will all want to be with me!”

Kylie looked skeptical, but William continued: “When you were dressing, I took a picture of your back while you still had my shirt on. I posted it to my Instagram and tagged you in it. Do you see it? Now you have to agree!”

Kylie frowned as she pulled up her Instagram account and saw that what he’d said was true, and already people had begun to comment. People were liking and sharing. Already, the damn thing had gone viral.

Kylie began to read the comments out loud, one after the other: “Are Kylie and William going to get married? Congrats, Kylie! You have found your Prince Charming! Wow! William has finally found someone to love! She sure does look good in his shirt! I bet she looks better without it, though! This can’t be true… William is too fat for Kylie!”

When William heard Kylie read that last comment, he frowned, and he asked Kylie if it was true: “Do people really think that I’m fat?”

Kylie just chucked and shrugged her shoulders. “It’s just the internet,” she said. “Don’t take it too seriously. One minute it loves you, the next it doesn’t – and life goes on. Anyways, I’m going to be filming a reality show in Hamorna tomorrow. You can stay alone here.”

Kylie was about to leave, but William pulled her back. He looked her in the eyes and warned her in a serious tone of voice: “Kylie, I remember that Ethan is stubborn. If you turn him down, he’ll never forgive you; and he always gets what he wants.”

Kylie just shrugged. “Who cares?”

***

Lucas was waiting for Kylie outside of William’s house, and as soon as she got into his car, he said, “Kylie, what have you done?! Why couldn’t you have kept your relationship with William private? What do you think Ethan will do when he hears about it?”

Kylie leaned back in the chair, closed her eyes, and made a conscious effort to ignore Lucas. Seeing what she was doing, Lucas sighed. “Never mind,” he said. “You will find out what Ethan is capable of soon enough.”

Lucas dropped Kylie off at the Garcia Entertainment building in time for the shareholder’s meeting that had been scheduled. Although Khloe was no longer with them, it was Kylie’s intention to carry on; business as usual. Furthermore, she had a speech that she intended to give, and she didn’t want to let anything stand in her way.

By the time Kylie walked into the board room, everyone else was already seated and ready to go. Before she started her presentation, she took stock of the expressions on everyone’s faces. Some seemed pleased to see her taking the initiative while others looked angry or confused. These people had seen Laurence and Khloe as their leaders and were worried about how things would go with Kylie at the helm.

Kylie walked to her chair, cleared her throat, and said, “I would like to thank everyone for coming. Things have not been good around here, but I do have two important things to announce. The first thing I need to clear up immediately is the question of who is in charge here. I own 25% stock of Garcia Entertainment. Thus, I am unequivocally in charge.”

Hearing this, everyone cheered and clapped their hands; some were more enthusiastic than others, though, and Kylie took note of who did not seem pleased. They would need to be observed, she realized. “My second announcement,” Kylie announced, “is that I have decided to name Laurence Finch as the CEO of Garcia Entertainment.”

Everyone looked at each other in confusion over Kylie’s second announcement. Even the people who fully supported Laurence could not figure out how having him CEO could benefit her. One brave soul raised his hand and said, “I am surprised to hear this. Is it a good idea to bring in an outsider for such a lofty position?”

Kylie smiled, and she said, “I have always considered this to be a family business. Laurence is my father. Thus, by blood, he is an insider. Furthermore, he has held this position before and done well.”

Laurence had been standing outside the boardroom door while Kylie made her big announcements. Khloe had no direct descendants and was unmarried. Her stocks went to Kylie, which gave her automatic control over Garcia Entertainment.

Kylie called for him, and he casually walked in. Seeing him, the board members stood up and welcomed him with cheers and more clapping. It had been a long time since he’d held a position of power, and many people were happy to have him back. One by one, his true friends said things like, “President Laurence, you’re finally back!” and, “President Laurence, we’ve waited for ages for you to return!”

Others had already sat back down, and we’re beginning to look bored. They were not openly defiant, but they were sending a clear signal; they did not care for the direction that things were suddenly going.

Laurence walked around the table and took a seat beside Kylie. He looked calm when he addressed the board members. He said, “Thank you for your warm welcome. I want everyone to know right from the get-go that, although I’m the executive of the company, Kylie always has the final say. So, if you don’t like something that I have implemented after you have spoken to me about it – if a satisfactory resolution has not been found – you are certainly free to bring it to Kylie.”

The board members were shocked to see Kylie and Laurence getting along so well. As far as they knew, the two had always been mortal enemies.

Once the announcements had been made, it was business as usual. Finances were discussed. Statistics were analyzed. Past goals were reviewed and reset, and they were just about done when the accountant stood up nervously and said, “I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Kylie, you have only achieved 53% of your projected sales from last month.”

“Then I failed,” Kylie said as she nodded. “I promised that, if I failed, I would step down as president.”

Laurence looked to Kylie curiously.

Kylie smiled as she looked back at him. “The office is yours!” she said. “I will work for hand in hand with you, but you will be the head of Garcia Entertainment.”

Lucas had been standing at the doorway, and when he heard what Kylie had said, he began to clap. It was a slow clap, but as it was picked up by the other board members, it quickly turned into a full out applause.

Chapter 294: Get Control Of Yourself

As the front line workers began to learn about what had happened in the boardroom, they began to feel distraught. Lilly tried to convince them that they didn’t need to worry and that they could trust Kylie to keep their best interests in mind. Unfortunately, though, they were driven more by fear than by hope, and their worries became complaints.

Many of these employees were already disgruntled. They’d sighed on expecting to be employed immediately and, the longer it took to get work, the unhappier they were with Garcia entertainment. There was talk among them to quit or stage a walkout.

Eventually, this all back to Kylie, and she said, “Fuck ’em. If they don’t want to be with us, offer them three thousand dollars, and we will consider their contracts null and void. If they don’t want to work with me, then I don’t want to work with them.

The next day, Lilly took Kylie’s offer to the disgruntled actors and actresses. Unfortunately, many of the people who would have liked to leave were afraid that it was a trap. They worried that if they took the bait, Kylie would have them blackballed from the industry. In the end, only one man stepped forward, and as he took the check, he said, “Please tell Kylie that I am sorry. If I didn’t need the money, I would stick it out.”

When the other actors and actresses saw that it was safe to accept the money, they stepped forward one at a time. Some were angry, but most were respectful. They accepted the money and wished Garcia Entertainment the best of luck.

Kylie looked up as Elizabeth and Lily walked into her office. She sighed and asked them if they’d received their payout yet.

“I want to stay.”Elizabeth replied shyly, “and Lily wants to as well.”

Lily laughed, and she said, “I have a man who supports me anyway. Even if Kylie doesn’t pay me for the next year, I’ll be okay.”

Kylie laughed along with Lily, and once everyone was gone, she looked at Elizabeth and said, “Pack your things and come to Hamorna with me tomorrow.”

“Why?” Elizabeth wondered.

Lily laughed, and she said, “Don’t be dumb. Kylie is going to take you to work with her, and she is going to make you popular.”

Hearing this, Elizabeth burst into tears of joy. “Thank you so much, Kylie!”

Kylie waved her hands and said, “It is no big deal.”

Elizabeth looked at Lily and said, “You are such a lucky dog!”

Fannie gave the accounts book back to Kylie to sign her name on, and when she was done, she said, “Kylie, I’ve seen your Instagram. What’s happening? Do you know how envious I was when you were with Ethan? I’ve never had anything like that before!”

“Don’t lie to my face,” Kylie laughed. “I know that you love Nate.”

Fanny’s face turned red, and she looked at the ground shyly. “I know that I can’t hide anything from you!” she said. “I’m afraid, though. I have heard that if there is a man who has never fallen in love before, he can turn into a monster once love finds him.”

Kylie frowned and she said, “That may be true, but I am not with Ethan or William. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet! Ethan’s heart belongs to Dora, and William is single.

“Some days, I worry that I will die alone,” Kylie admitted. “A spinster. I once thought that Ethan and I would be together forever, but it wasn’t to be.”

Fannie shook her head, and she said, “That man must be out of his mind.”

Kylie’s heart tightened as she thought about what her friend had said. Ethan had a way of breaking through her defenses, but he was a monster, a liar, a cheat, and a cad.

When Kylie returned to William’s house, she was surprised to see that there were guards doing security rounds along with the property’s parameter. They hadn’t been there when she’d left, but they looked like they meant business. As soon as she set her sights on the house, one of the guards approached her. “Are you Kylie Finch?” he wondered.

“Yes,” Kylie replied. “Is something wrong?”

“Nothing you need to worry about,” the guard replied. “Go on in.”

“Thank you,” Kylie replied as she walked away from him.

Inside, William was doing the dishes. When Kylie walked in, he turned to face her and asked her what she wanted for dinner. Kylie said that she’d like pizza but, first, she was curious about the guards. “What is that all about?” she wondered.

William sighed, and he said, “I hardly ever stay here, so I never needed a security team before. Now, between Ethan and the paparazzi, I just don’t feel safe when I’m here. Never mind that, though. “The anniversary of my father’s death is just around the corner. Are you free? Would you come to the ceremonial with me?”

“Is this your plan to introduce me to your parents?” Kylie wondered with a cheeky look on her face. “Because I am still not your girlfriend, and not even as a lark!”

“If you don’t want to meet my parents,” William replied, “you don’t have too… If I don’t, though, it may be more awkward than you realize.”

Without replying, Kylie picked up the phone and dialed the number of a pizza place that she knew of. The phone rang three times, someone answered, and then she was put on hold. Kylie frowned and decided to go to her room while she waited. She was in a fairly good mood and excited about having pizza, but she knew something was wrong the moment she walked into her room. Her Hello Kitty Suitcase was on the bed, and she had not brought it with her here. By all accounts, it should have still been under the bed that she’d shared with Ethan.

Kylie approached the suitcase with trepidation, and when she got to the bed, she popped it open. Inside, she found all of her belongings that she’d kept with Ethan. Of course, she knew that she and Ethan were through, but the fact that he’d brought this over made everything feel so final.

Kylie raised her head and tried not to cry. “Get control of yourself,” she whispered. “You are stronger than this.”

Suddenly a voice came from her phone: “Amazing Pizza, can I help you?”

“No!” Kylie screamed, right before she disconnected the call. “I need a bath,” she cried.

Kylie lay in the bath with her eyes closed. The room was utterly silent, and she found that she was able to shelf her troubles, if for only this moment. As she relaxed, she didn’t have to think about how Ethan had schemed his way into her life, repeatedly, or how she might not be safe because of him.

Kylie took her phone out and found her last conversation with Stars. He had told her that he had fallen in love with a married woman. She had been in a good place then but, now, Kylie believed she was no less miserable than he was.

Chapter 295: I Shouldn’t Watching This

Stephen was preparing a medical paper when he received an Instant Message from Kylie. “Hi,” it said.

Viewing the message, Stephen stopped for a second and wrote: “Whatever you need, I am here for you.”

Kylie: “I need a shoulder to cry on.”

Stephen frowned as his heart ached for this girl. “That is not a problem,” he replied. “Anything that I can do for you, I will do.”

Kylie: “Liar. You aren’t even in the same country as I am. How can you give me your shoulder to cry on?”

“Look up into the sky, and you will see me,” Stephen wrote. “We are both looking up at the same stars. If we look up at the same time, we are practically standing side by side.”

Kylie opened her window and looked up. The stars were shining in the night, but the pure cold moon made her feel sad. “The moon that you see must be different from the one that I see,” Kylie wrote. “The sky is so vast, and when I look up into it, I feel alone…”

Suddenly a voice message popped up on her phone. It was from Stephen and, when she played it, she heard his voice for the first time. “You are not alone,” Stephen said.

Kylie couldn’t help but smile when she heard his voice. It was something she’d wanted to hear for a long time. She was just about to reply to him when William knocked on the bathroom door. “Kylie,” he said. “I know you didn’t order pizza, so I ordered it. Anyways, it is here, and it is hot. You should get out and come down.

“Thanks!” Kylie replied. “I’ll be down in a minute.”

The smell of fresh pizza hut Kylie’s nose as she walked down the stairs, and her mouth began to water. “Wow,” she said. “It smells so good, and I am very hungry!”

“Take a piece!” William commanded. “Take four, if you’d like. I ordered enough to feed a small army. And besides, we need to get some meat on your bones. You are too skinny!” Kylie smiled as she chose a slice, and as she chewed, her eyes closed in satisfaction.

“I like it!” Kylie laughed. “But do you really think that I’m too skinny? The other day, the director said that I was too fat!”

“You are definitely not fat!” William said. “Anyways, since you are going back to Hamorna TV station tomorrow, I wondered if you could bring me back some information.”

Kylie was stunned by his request, and she said, “I am not going to be a spy for you!”

“Please,” William begged. “Just tell me who the guests on Trailblazer will be. If you did, I would owe you big time!”

“Fine,” Kylie agreed, “I’ll see what I can do.”

After dinner, William and Kylie cleaned up dinner together. It was just a few napkins and the leftover pizza. When Kylie picked up the boxes, she noticed that the boxes were insulated, which she found more than a bit curious. As she moved the boxes into the kitchen, she asked William where the pizza had come from. “It was good,” she said. “I’d like to go there with Fannie sometime. She loves pizza as much as I do.”

William thought about it for a second, furrowed his brow, and said, “It’s just a small shop. It’s hard to find.”

Obviously, this answer did not satisfy Kylie’s curiosity. “No matter how small it is,” she said, “it must have a name.”

William frowned, and he said, “I admit it; I didn’t order the pizza myself actually. I’ll find the name for you, though.”

William washed his hands, grabbed his phone, and walked out of the room. After a few minutes, he came back into the kitchen and said, “I’m sorry, Kylie. The number I have is wrong.”

Kylie shrugged. “It’s no big deal,” she laughed. “It doesn’t matter.”

William didn’t know it, but Kylie already knew why he was acting so weird and what was up with the pizza boxes.

Once dinner had been cleaned up, William and Kylie said goodnight to each other and went off to their respective rooms.

***

It was a long night for Kylie. Sleep was elusive, and whenever she was even half asleep, she was woken by nightmares. In one, she was being eaten alive by the board members at Garcia Entertainment. In another, she was being assaulted by a shadow man. When she woke up, screaming, she reached for Ethan, but he wasn’t there.

At around three o’clock in the morning, she opened her phone and found the video. At first, she was going to turn her phone off again, but instead, she put on her headphones and pressed play. The film was disturbing but compelling. Even though she was heartbroken and this was only making things worse, she watched the video over and over again until she had every one of Ethan’s lines memorized.

She found it curious, though, that even though Dora was completely naked, Ethan was still almost completely clothed. Of course, she knew that, for a man, it was easy enough to slip his cock through the fly of his pants and forage ahead, which is what she assumed that he was doing.

Ethan was the kind of man though that liked to go wild when he fucked a girl. The man in the video, he behaved like a perfect gentleman. Finally, though, he did take off his belt, and when he spoke, it was clearly Ethan’s voice that she heard. “I’m going to fuck you now,” he said.

Kylie closed her eyes and took a deep breath. I shouldn’t be watching this, she thought to herself. Just as she was about to turn it off, though, she noticed something that she’d missed. Ethan had a mole on his neck, but the man in the video did not. What does this mean? She asked herself.

Kylie’s heart was beating fast. If the man in the video wasn’t Ethan, it had certainly been meant to fool people into thinking that it was him. Throughout the film, the man’s face wasn’t seen; not even once, and Kylie realized right away that Ethan’s voice had been dubbed into the film.

“It’s not Ethan in the video,” she said out loud. She was shocked. Dora had obviously worked very hard on this, hoping to use it as a wedge to destroy her relationship with Ethan, and, so far, it had worked! Dora was a film & television producer. It was a piece of cake for her to edit a video to her specifications… “I should have seen this sooner!” she cried.

As Kylie recovered from the shock, she forced herself to stay calm. This discovery was a big deal, but it did not clear up enough to let Ethan off the hook. He may not have been fucking Dora, but he certainly hadn’t been true to her.

Kylie got out of bed and dialed Fannie’s number. Fannie didn’t answer on the first or second ring, but the third time was the charm. In a groggy voice, Fannie asked, “Who is it, and what do you want?”