Chapter 17

"Why would I lie about something so special?" she said.

I rolled my eyes. "You know as well as I do that I didn’t cum inside you," I said. "Do you expect me to believe it’s more likely that some one-off sperm swam up and impregnated you rather one of the probably half-dozen or more guys you fucked around the same time?"

"There was only you," she said.

"Drop the act," I said sternly. "I mean it. Are you so fucked up that you forget I heard you on the phone? Who were you talking to? Your boyfriend? Your pimp?"

"That’s so unfair," she said.

"Okay," I said, frustrated with her stubbornness. "I’m not dealing with this until you start being honest. So here’s what we’re going to do."

I laid out a plan that I came up with on the fly. I’d take Nicole to the Hooker House. I could keep an eye on her via the video, and Alix at a minimum would be there to help, too. That