Fallen Crest Public(127)

I glanced at Logan, who nodded. His thumb hit a button. The video was gone. With that done, I texted Nate and then nodded to Ethan. Without hesitation, Ethan took off the case, pulled the chip out and tossed the case to Logan. Then he left the room.
“Hey!” Parker cried out again. “What the hell?”
Kate frowned. “What’s going on?”
I waited a minute. They needed a head start. “That was Ethan destroying your USB drive.”
“What—”
“I knew we shouldn’t have trusted these guys. You’re an idiot, Kate,” Parker snapped as she started for the door.
“It’s already gone,” I stopped her. “It’s pointless to go after him.”
“You’re such an *.”
She had no idea. “There’s more to come, some of it you’ll want to see.”
Kate grabbed the camcorder from Logan and started searching through it. We waited, and her eyes widened the more she searched.
Logan grinned. “It’s gone.”
“You wiped everything.”
“You’re the dumb bitch who handed it over.”
“Not to you,” she seethed. “To Mason. I trusted him.”
He rolled his eyes and laughed. “I don’t even feel bad for you. You’re so stupid.”
She jerked back. “Mase?”
There it was again. She still didn’t believe it. “I agree with my brother.”
It was at that moment that she started to get it. I watched as each piece of the puzzle began to fit into place and she stumbled back a step. When she ran into the pool table behind her, she choked out, “It’s on my computer. It’s in my email. You’re going to regret this.”
I lifted my phone. “Both of those are gone. Say goodbye to your email.”
My phone beeped.
“What’s that?”
Parker whispered from behind her, “Oh no.”
Logan began laughing. “You guys are so screwed. Getting it, Park? Did you get a text, too?”
Kate whipped around. Parker had gone pale, and she showed her phone to Kate. “It’s Nate.”
“Nate?”
“Yeah, Nate, you f*ckheads.” Logan shook his head. “He might be injured, but he’s not out of action. He hasn’t been the whole time. We knew about your plans for Sam. You wanted to drug her, have him make a sex tape with her?”
“Oh my god.” Kate lifted stricken eyes to me. “You knew?”
Logan started to say it, but I shook my head. I needed to do this. Everything was cold inside of me. I’d been hiding it for the past week. They should’ve known better. Smarter people would’ve, but Kate wasn’t sane. She was desperate so I used that to pull her back in. She saw what she wanted, but she couldn’t mistake it this time. I let her see my loathing. I let her see the cold calculation and when she did, she began shaking. The blood drained from her face, and I knew she was going over everything in her head. I waited and when she gasped, I knew she remembered.
“You should’ve listened to me that day.”
“No.” She shook her head. “No. You dumped her for me.”
“Did I?”
“You—”
“She hasn’t been in school since we attacked her,” Parker said.
Kate’s mouth clamped shut and she began to turn away. “No, no, no, no … No. It can’t be.”
Parker growled. “It is. Get with the program. They played us. They all played us. Nate just sent me a text. It’s done between me and him.”
“What did you do?” Kate turned back to me. She cried out, “What did you do?!”
“Nate sent me a text just now, too.” I would spell it all out for her. “He went to your home, Kate. I told him how to get in. Your dad’s at the VFW, and your mom’s working a double shift tonight.”