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Chapter 28 - Downfall

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Chapter 28 – Downfall

Tori's POV

A bit of a long one today, but some good drama coming up.

I couldn't believe what I had just seen on TV. Ace Decade, the man who singlehandedly crushed my hopes of being a pop star, was now under indictment.

When Jade told me of her rather obsessive quest to get back at him, I initially thought that she was trying to do the impossible. That it was a waste of time and possibly a dangerous one. But I think I had forgotten how dangerous she once was. Though I did find her obsessive nature of it to be a bit disturbing.

She had laid out the details of what she found and how she found it. I had to admit she had certainly dug up dirt on the man. She even gave the evidence to Mark Strickson, who obviously got back at Ace by turning himself into authorities and revealing Ace's crimes.

I felt a bit faint as the sheer enormity of it all sunk in, so I sat down in one of the plush leather chairs in the empty conference room I happened to be in.

My god, Jade didn't just knock him down a few pegs, she knocked him down to the bottom one.

It took me about 5 minutes to recover my senses and quickly returned to the mailroom. I was in a daze the rest of the work day, which fortunately was less than an hour.

I hadn't texted Jade back from earlier, but I knew I would see her as soon as I got home.

Upon walking in the apartment, I saw something I hadn't seen in a long time. It was a grin on Jade's face.

"So did I do good Vega?"

"Jade he was indicted and that D-Gold, the rapper, he was pissed." I said with an astonished look.

"You need to remember some of the biggest names in the music industry, were people he managed. I'll be most of them are pissed. He's in serious shit. I did it for you."

I then started to choke up with emotion. He had ruined me and now Jade had ruined him, for me no less. "I...I..don't know what to say."

Jade shrugged. "How about Fuck him, let's make dinner, I'm hungry." Jade said as she turned and walked into the kitchen.

After changing, cleaning up and recomposing myself, I joined Jade who was already starting to make the salad for tonight's dinner.

During the making of dinner, we chatted about Jade's therapy and how she was coming along. In retrospect, I should have changed the subject. In our talk, Jade admitted, one of the hardest things to wrestle with, was simply the fact she had been so completely fooled and essentially conditioned to accept Beck.

"I thought I was so strong, so independent and loving him simply required certain sacrifices. I truly believed he loved me and that deep down he was a good person. I actually though that. I was nothing more than a marionette dancing on stage."

I paused and turned to her. "But you cut your strings."

"No I didn't." Bellowed Jade as she unexpectedly exploded. "I had run into that casting agent and afterward having Dr. Cortez explain it all to me and even then, I didn't want to believe I had been a brainless fool. Part of me still clung on to the image of Beck still being a loving person. Tori I had to be beaten and savagely raped for nearly 3 hours for me to get it through my thick skull he....."