Chapter 40

Kathy and Stan showed up a little before 9:30 and Tanner and Stan left for their golf game shortly after. Tanner told me before they left they'd be playing eighteen holes and not to expect them back before four as they'd eat lunch at the clubhouse after nine holes and drink afterward. He made reservations for the four of us at the Bombay Club at 6:30.

When they left, Kathy asked if I still had the video my blackmailer sent.

"I'm going to be so ashamed if you see it," I said. "I'm so disgusted with myself."

"If you want me to guess if Tanner can forgive you. I have to know what we're looking at," Kathy responded.

I pulled out my phone and pulled up the text with the movie in it, starting it. I couldn't look at her if she watched it. "Oh, my," she said a couple times during the movie. Finally, it ended and my shame was complete.

She didn't say anything for a while and finally I ask