Page 41 of Ride or Dies

“Just answer the damn question,” Levi snapped. “You two are fucking, right?”

“We’re together,” Becca said, glowering at all three of us. “And before you ask—yeah, Randall and I were together while he was still ‘officially’ with Evelyn.”

“I thought you said there was no truth to the rumors that he cheated on Evie,” Mason said.

“You read my article.” Becca shifted her weight from one foot to the other, clearly nervous now.

“We did,” I said. “What I want to know—one of the things, anyway—is who your source is. Who told you that Evie was staying at the Thunder Riders clubhouse?”

“Oh, I didn’t know that,” Becca said, her eyes glowing like I’d just given her the best present ever. “I just knew that one of you kissed her and said she was fucking you. Since I didn’t know which one, I figured I’d let the readers decide.”

“You told her about that,” Levi said, glaring at Randall.

“Of course I did,” Randall said. “You were kissing my girlfriend.”

“Ex-girlfriend,” Becca chimed in. “She’s your ex, Randy.”

“Of course,” he said, giving Becca the sort of condescending smile that made me want to hit him.

Well, everything about him made me want to hit him, but that was another strike against him.

“Evie didn’t say that you were the person she caught Randall with,” Mason said suddenly. “Does that mean Randall was cheating on you too, or were you on a break or something?”

“She didn’t catch Randy with anyone,” Becca said. “She just said that for shock value. She found one of the love letters he wrote to me and decided she’d make this huge announcement about him being a cheater.”

Becca was talking to Mason, so he and Levi were watching her, but I was watching Randall and I saw the guilt flash across his face. Yeah, he’d been fucking someone else. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was using Becca the way he’d used Evie to make himself look good. Hell, he could’ve even been using that other woman too.

“He’s the reason you’ve been printing all those rumors about Evie,” Levi said. “You were jealous that she got to be with him.”

“He was always going to leave her for me,” Becca said. “He just had to wait for the right time, when it wouldn’t mess up his career.”

“Oh, so it’s a Romeo and Juliet kind of thing,” I said. “In case you forgot, that didn’t end well for either one of them.”

“Look, we wanted to be together, and now we are,” Randall said. “Evelyn’s with…whoever. It’s all water under the bridge, right? We can all go our separate ways now?”

“Hell no,” Levi said. “First, Becca’s going to take down that story, and she’s going to leave Evie alone from here on out. You got your man. Leave her alone.”

Judging by the stubborn set to Becca’s jaw, I doubted she’d agree to it.

“You stop with the threatening letters and harassment, and we won’t tell the cops that you’re the ones who broke into her mom’s house,” Mason said. “That’s how all of this is going to go away.”

“What letters?” Becca asked.

Randall gave her a sheepish look. “I may have written some threatening letters, but nothing was ever going to happen to her. I just wanted her to need more security at events.” His eyes darted to us. “With the letters, I could charge a venue more, claiming to need extra security, but pocket the extra since I knew she wasn’t actually in danger.”

“And breaking into her mom’s house? Was that just some other trick?” Levi asked.

Randall shook his head, his eyes wide. “I didn’t break into anything.”

“Me either,” Becca said. “My idiot boyfriend might have been toeing the line legally speaking, but I never crossed it. I wrote about her, and yeah, some of it was…embellished, but I wasn’t about to do something illegal.”

“All right,” Levi said. “Prove to us where you were when the break-in happened and we’ll believe you.”

“When was it?” Becca asked, crossing the room to get her phone from her purse. Once I told her the date, she pulled up something on her phone and then handed the phone to me.

It was a video with a time stamp right at the time the break-in had happened. A video that clearly showed both Randall and Becca, together in this hotel room. Together and very occupied with each other.

I handed the phone to Mason but spoke to the couple. “Okay, so the two of you were fucking then. Have you been spying on her at other times? Doing anything else to scare her or get revenge or something?”

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