Page 50 of No, For An Answer
Nathan stares from the bed as Jesse continues to struggle in his retrains. I’ve never seen him look so pathetic. All I want to do is say what they did, out loud. But that would mean, I’d have to leave them for the cops to deal with and the way the justice system runs over here, there’s no guarantee they will be held responsible. So that’s not happening…
“Ashley, please, you don’t-”
“Don’t fucking beg her, Nathan!” Jesse shouts from the floor. “She’s a stupid fucking bitch and when I get out of these restraints, I’m going to fucking KILL HER!” I roll my eyes. He has no idea what he’s up against, and I can’t wait till he hears it.
“Anyway,” I begin, widening my eyes briefly in sarcasm. “I heard you both, the other day.” I speak calmly and collectively. “In your office.” I watch as the realisation hits Nathan, and I do everything possible to keep the smile from my face. “It’s no shocker though. I knew right from the beginning, Jesse, that you raped Maisy.” I turn my attention back to Jesse, the fear in his eyes gives him away. He might act unafraid, but in the words of Tony Montana,‘It’s all in the eyes chico.’“What I didn’t know… is that Nathan here helped you cover it upandthat he was sleeping with her too.”
“Ashley-” Nathan begins to speak but I cut him off quicker.
“I don’t want to hear your excuses, Nathan, so let’s skip that part, ok?”
“You’re fucking crazy.” Jesse leans up as much as he can and spits at my feet.
“I prefer the term psychotic,” I wink, before dropping my expression to stoic. “So,” I jump up from the chair and walk to the middle of the room, “don’t get any ideas. I have someone with me and if anything happens to me, he’ll kill you both.”
“What exactly do you want?” Nathan asks, a quiver lacing his words.
“Nothing,” I sniff. “I’ve also got someone else on standby to contact the police for me, if this doesn’t go to plan.” I laugh. I don’t, but they don’t need to know that. “But what I’m going to enjoy is watching you fuck Jesse’s throat with that huge cock of yours,”
“What?!” Nathan exclaims.
“Because I want Jesse here, to feel what it’s like to have someone do something to you… without your consent.” I point the gun in his direction.
“I’m not letting him do that to me!”
Funny how Jesse thinks he has a choice in the matter.
“Oh, but you are. Because I fucking said so.”
“Ashley please this is-”
“Nathan!” I cut him off. “This assholemadeyou lie for him. He fucking forced you to keep that secret,” I scream at him. Hoping my performance will work on him and he will take my side. See what it’s done to him. Trust me. “For the past year, you’ve had to live with the fact that my best friend killed herself because of him.”
“Maisy was… you knew her?” Jesse whispers.
“Oh… Shit, did I forget to… Never mind.” I flick my free hand. “Jesse couldn’t just let you fuck Fran could he, no, he just hadto rape someone and make you part of it.” Nathan freezes for a second.
My words are bleeding into his mind as he begins to listen. I’ve allowed this disgusting human to fuck me while I’ve been running around killing the people responsible for hurting the love of my life. And one of them was hiding in plain sight this whole time… It just fills me with absolute disgust.
“Nathan, don’t you fucking listen to her! She’s nuts!”
Jesse begins pulling at the restraints, but the more he moves the tighter they get. Slowly his face becomes redder. Growling as I stomp over to the knife, I tear it through the rope, slicing his throat free. His ankles and wrists still bound as he takes a heavy breath. I don’t want him dead, yet.
“Nathan, look at me,” I soften my voice, my eyes mimicking the action. Pretending to be sad. “He made you lie.” Trying to hold down the bile in my throat I take a step towards him. “I don’t blame you. I blamehimfor what he did. But if you don’t do what I tell you to do… Iwillkill you.”
“You can’t expect me to rape him, Ashley.”
“It’s not rape if he wants it. Right, Jesse?” I look down at him. “He’s been sucking his brother’s dick for God knows how long... I have her diary, Nathan. After this, we can blame all of this on him.”
I’m not sure if I have the patience to keep talking to him like I don’t want to pour petrol over his body and burn him alive after he kept Jesse’s secret, but I have to wait. I need Jesse to know what it’s like. To be used and fucked even when you don’t want it. Does that make me as bad as him? Probably. Do I give a fucking shit? No.
“Once this is all over, I’ll leave, and you can go about your life and enjoy your career.”
Never going to happen.
“Nathan, come on!” Jesse shouts as Nathan rises to his feet. “You can’t seriously be listening to this shit! Jesus fucking Christ.” Panic is settling into the room and the sounds coming from Jesse are glorious.
“Jesse, if you don’t shut up, I will kill your little sister. Amber is at the basketball court right now, no?” His head snaps to me, fear riddled eyes pierce into me and I fucking love it.
