Under Control.

23. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳?

"How was your day hun?" Rachel asked cheerful, she assumed everything was perfectly fine now. They were seeing Bonnie weekly, being more open. Karishma's mother was keeping her daughter on a leash. She had an amazing weekend at her seminar, surprisingly Hunter had taken great care of Hailey and everything. He wasn't one for household maintenance but he had done a pretty decent job. Which was honestly a surprise, she had assumed he would mess up sooner or later.

"Good, yours?" He replied wearily helping her with the dishes. Their daughter was in another room, occupied with cartoons. Rachel limited her screen-time but luckily she was in a good mood so allowed her daughter to go past her usual schedule. Whenever she was in a good mood, it meant everyone could be in a good mood. Whenever she wasn't, it just wouldn't be a great time for everyone.

"Good."

There was silence except cluttering of dishes and utensils against the counter here and there.

"In fact, very good." Rachel murmured joyfully not being able to hold it in.

"More followers?" He raised an eyebrow.

"No but I will be reaching 200k soon, also thinking of starting a YouTube channel. Everyone is like lifewithrach.com deserves more content than just a word written blog and insta content. They enjoy my insta content too. I've been doing IGTV here and there but YouTube seems like the next step especially with my large following on Instagram."

Hunter could only clear his throat. "That's great but I don't think it's a good idea to be showing Hailey off like that. She's just a kid you know..."

"Hunter?! My followers think Hailey is adorable. They love Hailey, they're not pedophiles or anything like that."

"We discussed this when she was born. I don't want you to show too much of a her life. Writing about your journey as a mother was wholesome but now you want to stuff a camera in her face? She is just a kid, only six; she doesn't know about your followers. I'd rather not have my daughter being displayed all over the Internet until she is old enough to approve of it."

Rachel could only put the dish towel down. Crossing her arms, she sneered at her husband. "Just because you don't like the camera doesn't mean she doesn't. Hailey loves being taken pictures, she interacts with my followers on insta live and so much more. She is smarter than you think. If you don't want to be in my blogs, vlogs... that's fine but Hailey is my daughter and lifewithrach.com wouldn't be anything without my journey into motherhood."

"I get that, but no. Hailey will not be all over your vlogs—"

"You're such a hypocrite Hunter!"

"Why's that? For wanting a more private life for my little girl?"

"You always talk about how much you don't like the camera. You don't even allow me to take pictures with you or of you for my blog but you have sex tapes, you have all those naked pictures on the beach and lousy hotel room mirrors with under aged girls. You're far more disgusting. A private life huh?"

Hunter then realized she knew about it. Clearly she was doing a great job at looking through his stuff when he wasn't around. That sex tape was something that he and Karishma had decided to do out of fun. They had their book of bucket lists and that happened to be one of them. He had always wanted to do that. He had done so many of his wants and wishlist with Karishma. There was nothing more to it. They just wanted to see how they looked having sex. They just wanted to be able to watch it whenever they missed each other. It was better than any other porno, this was them and it was theirs. Frankly Rachel had violated their privacy.

"She is twenty-three, that's far from underage. I met her when she was twenty, there was nothing illegal and no one underage." He replied calmly, Karishma had taken a while to get to college because her parents were still saving as much as they could when she had received her acceptance letter to Hofstra University. He remembered her telling him that, she worked for a year before coming abroad. He admired her being a hard worker. He was also a firm believer that there was no certain age to ever to go college, people were allowed to go at their own timing. "...and stop yelling Hailey is here..."

Composing herself, Rachel was infuriated but none the less, she didn't want her daughter to be alarmed by their insignificant arguments.

Mumbling incoherent words, Rachel felt tears tumble down her cheeks. They came down so quickly and unexpected. She never wanted to show Hunter her weak side or give him the pleasure of knowing he was hurting her. This really hurt. It hurt to watch them... she never thought she would. Curiosity got the best of her and she played it until the end. She thought it wouldn't phase her but it did. Pictures that was fine but watching them— live in action. Rachel realized something.

"You love her?"

Hunter could only clear his throat.

"It's not a question, I know you do. You never do that with me. You never whisper those things in my ear when we're together. You nev—" Rachel couldn't say it. Quickly wiping her tears away, she looked distraught.

"I will do whatever I want to do with my daughter. She will be in my vlogs." She added after realizing Hunter wouldn't say anything. Instead he just stared at her emotionless. He couldn't even lie at this point. That video had been very clear about how he felt about Karishma. It was just very clear.

"Rachel?" He called when she was about to walk away.

"Yes?"

She was expecting an apology, anything. Assurance. 'I love you not her' 'she means nothing to me' 'she was just a hookup'

"Revenge porn is a crime. If you pull the stunt, you did reaching out for Karishma's mother. I will personally accompany her with my lawyer to press charges against you."

"You wouldn't—" Rachel laughed out loud.

"I spoke to Hubert, our family lawyer. He said there's a New York legislation that ensures victims of nonconsensual release of intimate images are charged and subjects abusers to jail time. You'd be looking at 6 months to two years."

"You'd do that to me?"

"What did you expect me to do if you blackmailing her with our images. I'm also affected, I have my job and reputation on the line. You're pushing me to take measures that I don't even want to."

"This doesn't affect you, you're just protecting her!" Rachel hissed.

"I'm not, I'm only looking out for myself."

"Right yeah, great." She said taking her cars keys off the counter. Hunter didn't chase after her. She needed time to cool down otherwise she'd have an outburst in front of their daughter. He knew how easily Rachel could succumb to her emotions and less of her rational thoughts.

"Hailey, we're going to visit grandma for a few!!!"

"Yayyyy!!!" Their daughter squealed with excitement.

Hunter only rolled his eyes, reaching for the whiskey. She was so childish, any fight had her running to her mother's house. Frankly he was annoyed with the whole situation and he didn't regret threatening her.

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