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Hey Smut Squad we are continuing the Dark Lane series with Book 2 Fatal Collision by Harleigh Beck. For our full book report on Book 1 Fatal Collision check out last weeks episode.
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SPEAKER_00Hello. We are back again with book two in the Darkland series, Midnight Chase by Harley Beck. I don't know how we timed it, but with luck, Harley announced that book three, titled Dark Pursuit, is set to be released June 30th, which is perfect timing because I am already desperate for this conclusion. Oh my god, yes.
SPEAKER_02And honestly, like when we started recording this, we didn't know when she was going to be doing it. So the fact that it happened in the last week is like, woo-hoo! We have some kind of magic. Hell yeah. Um, if you want a full recap of Fatal Conclusion, listen to last week's episode, but the super fast version. Fatal Collision. Forbidden Romance with Richie Rich Kane Ravencourt, aka Mr. Is that a gun in your pocket? Or are you just happy to see me? And it's me, Jessica. The sad girl from the wrong side of town. Uh Jessica breaks into Kane's founding family's home to seal some knick-knack paddywhack trinkets so that she can afford the care of her dying mother. Kane catches her, she pulls a gun on him, and Kane blows his mind. Get your head out of the gutter. Kane has never been degraded like that before, so he is in love. They dance around it for a bit, but they think they might give this little romance a try. They race some cars, we have some laughs, really up until the final chapter, when we find out the truth about Kane and his twin brother Casha's childhood and their current life situation under Daddy's thumb. And that is where book two starts.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's get into it. Spoilers ahead. Watch the check out. Sarah is out for a run. She's hurting her feelings, remembering all these moments from her when her mom wasn't dying.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um she gets home. There is an absolute rager at her house because her idiot brother, Chris, is a piece of shit.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, pretty much. Um, she goes into her room, she's going through her backpack, she finds some fancy dagger that she stole from that night at the Ravencourt's house party. It's got some Latin inscriptions on it. Her friends rain in summer. They're like, girl, let's just get out of this house, let's get out of this room. They convinced Jessica to come to a party at the cliffs. Um fun, but terrifying. The cliffs are the cliffs? Drunk kids at the cliffs. What could go wrong? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Uh Jessica, being kind of the low-key ho that she is, sits on her brother's friend's lap, Jackson, which I don't know, there always seems to be something with this Jackson dude. He snaps a pic of them together, shares it on his IG, he gives her his hoodie to wear. Like, girl, you gonna get in trouble. Yeah, honestly, she is so toxic, but kind of here for it. Well, it helps with this like push and pull, will they, won't they? Kind of romance, right? That's true. Um, then this idiot starts chatting up some other guy, Amari. He wants to race, and he tells her how her brother is looking for some help with the shipments.
SPEAKER_00Um, also like the boys just needing to race is like the girls just needing to dance. I just want to race.
SPEAKER_02I just could show everybody how cool I am at Dark Lights. And it's like, okay, how many people have died at these races? Yeah, how much money do these kids have? Right? Like these are low-key dangerous, but that's fine. And then Amari, being the jackass that he is, leans in and kisses her. Bro, you fucked.
SPEAKER_00Legit. Like, hope you weren't too attached to yo dick, because it's gonna be chopped the fuck off. 100%.
SPEAKER_02Kane is finally back home after the horror with the senator and his wife, and all the richy rich kids are out at a gala. Kane sees a photo of Jessica and Jackson's lap, and Avi, he sees red.
SPEAKER_00Like, he was just sexually assaulted, essentially. And this is what's sending him. Like, dude, you are a trained killer. Get killin'. What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01Trained killer.
SPEAKER_02And his friends see that Kane is like staring at these photos. They're like, what's with Kane? Like the guy who don't give a fuck. He's like, he got it bad. He calls Jessica, they admit that they missed each other. She tells him that she kissed someone else. Well, he kissed her, but she didn't stop it. She just wants him to be honest. I just want to start on the right foot. Jessica, I don't know, girl. I don't know. Uh, Beverly, the senator's wife, comes up and asks, like, yo, where's your brother at? And after realizing Kane isn't into her swamp donkey ass, she basically tells him, There's nothing you could do. I am powerful. I will fuck up your life.
SPEAKER_00This is so gross to me. Like the whole grooming, I it's just it's fucking foul. I hate it so much.
SPEAKER_02Okay, I know we like mentioned it before. Yeah. But do you realize that in Edge of Darkness, her name is Bitch Ass Bernadette, and we've got a bitch ass Beverly? What is it? We have Kane and Cade. Right? I know it's just Chris and Chris. It does something bad to my brain. Yeah. Like I'm weak. I can only do it. It takes me back to a really dark place. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Um, so Big Bro Chris, he's snooping through Jessica's phone, and he realizes that she's still talking to Kane. He throws a little tempy tantrum, and he's basically like, You're a poor street rat with no one but your fleas to mourn you. Like this guy does wow. Thanks. Sorry, thanks, Disney. Um, she brings up the like drug illegal shit that he's been doing, the shipments, that whole little chestnut, and they fight, and she's like, you know, I might have bigger problems than my little fling with Cade. Like, you know what? Or sorry, not Cade, Kane. Yes, uh, I'm not gonna see him anymore.
SPEAKER_00Honestly, if my brother ever had an opinion on anything I was doing in my life, I'd fucking crud and chop them in the throat. Like, you don't get to say shit about anything.
SPEAKER_02Uh so the next day, she's at school with the gals.
SPEAKER_00Okay, also, school. Uh yeah. How fucking old are these kids? Do we have a college? College. They go to college. Are we sure it's college? I really freaking hope so. Okay, because I couldn't remember, and then I was like, oh no. And a moment of unhappiness. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Where you're like, oh, what am I reading? Why does he have a gun? Um, no. Why are these 30-year-olds in high school? Yeah. College students, like, you know, so 20. Okay. Okay. Yeah. We'll lie. Maybe one of them is like the old returning student. Maybe they're 38. Okay. They're whatever. Don't even worry about it. They're in college. Kane shows up, and as they walk up to him, Rain, which the like bestie, who I kind of like love, and I really low-key want her to have a book, no big D. Uh, she's like, he's so hot, you should kiss him again. But she's talking about Amari, and she's doing it to make Kane jealous, which she was very successful at. Jessica agrees, like, Kane's like, hey, I want to spend the afternoon with you. And Jessica's like, well, okay. Like, she agrees. Obviously, you're done, Zoe Girl.
SPEAKER_01Like, he's 6'4. Why are you always lying? Right? You're not done. Yeah. Why you always lie? Yeah, like girl, come on.
unknownLike, he's 6'4.
SPEAKER_01He's rich. He has a Bugatti. Like, I'm not sure. He's really kin to guns. That's like his only downfall. It's fine. Downfall? Because she has guns.
SPEAKER_02So I know. You know, obviously, it's not a downfall. He brings Jessica to his special place, which is like a barn by the lake. And they go skinny dipping, which, like, I'm afraid of fish. Fish? Yeah, I'm afraid of it. Girl. No. No. I'm afraid of fish. Leeches. Picked up a fish and threw it at me. I'm also afraid of leeches.
SPEAKER_00If you're skinny dipping, you're getting a leech up your butthole for sure. That's what happens. Up your butthole? It's going right up your butthole.
SPEAKER_02Okay, well, speaking of, uh, finally we get onions. And so you should not. I don't know the rules about life, but I don't know if you should be cutting onions in a body of water. In a leech pond? In a leech pond.
SPEAKER_01There's gonna be leeches all the way up in you.
SPEAKER_00There's like animal runoff. Yeah, the like rust from like the old barn nails just like leeching into that water with the leeches.
SPEAKER_02So many leeches. But also, what a slow burn. Like, Harley, you made us wait a book and a half to see a pickle. Like, but also so good.
SPEAKER_00Then you gave me swamp pickle. Swamp pickle.
SPEAKER_03I don't want that swamp pickle.
SPEAKER_00You gave me soggy hot dog water pickle. I'll take what I can get, but right?
SPEAKER_02Oh, so will I. Six four? Yeah, I'm in. Yeah, give me a swamp pick. So after they have onions, she admits to cane. Like, just so you know, like, I'm a street rat. Like potentially.
SPEAKER_00It's so funny to me that like the first time they bang, she's like, Well, I guess I should tell you that I'm actually garbage.
SPEAKER_01Let me tell you about my shitty life.
SPEAKER_02And he's like, Hold my pocket. You want to talk about a shitty life? Yeah. She's like, my dad is the deadbeat. Um, I wish that he was out of the house, but like, you know, then I wouldn't have any parents and like the date that you caught me in your house. I was stealing to like take care of my family. Like, you don't know how hard it is, Amy. Try being my size. Um, she admits that she's been thinking about getting a job. I've been on the internet way too much today. Let me just say that. Um, she's thinking about getting a job at the local strip club. It pays well, and she will sell her pride to keep her family alive.
SPEAKER_00Well, you can do the strip club in last year's outfit, Jessica. Right? What are you gonna do? Last year's outfit, no manager. Where's that bikini from? Yeah, Walmart.
SPEAKER_02Take it off. Yeah, that's the point. Uh, but Kane will not allow it. Like, he's like, uh, I don't know if you were not the one in the lake like 10 minutes ago, but like now you're mine. Like, remember when I told you that I own this town and everyone in it? You are mine. Like, no girl mine gonna be at the strip club, which okay, fine. Yeah, she can't be a stripper, but she can have leeches up her butthole. Right. Kane starts to tell her, like, just so you know, like, my life is shit too, and then pretty much doesn't give any examples.
SPEAKER_00It's like that, like the emo sidebang, hair flip, where he's like, he just wouldn't understand me. That's what I'm picturing. Like the slow finger tuck behind the ear.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and she's like, Okay, you know what? Why don't you go cry about it in your Bugatti? Okay, sorry, dude. Your $1.8 million car. Like, fuck off. No problem. Um, she puts the moves on Kane and he comes in his pants.
SPEAKER_00This fucking guy, his pants are just constantly filled with king cum pants. He probably has to have like the inside of his pants custom made with that like bed liner, the like waterproof stuff, so it just like slips down the leg and into his boots. He's just filling his boots with gum.
SPEAKER_02Also, okay, it's like funny because we're assholes and we're like talking about this in a funny way, but also the power to just be like touched you, zing, and it's like, uh, I came. I was like, whoa, like Jessica looking good today. Are you sure I can't get a job at the strip club?
SPEAKER_00Because she is working out for me. Like, which, like, it's very funny to me, also, because like she had no one lusting after her. No. And then all of a sudden, the richest guy in the world is coming in his pants every time he's around her.
SPEAKER_02How can you do a thing where you read a book and then I have a dream about it, but I'm the main character in the book, and it all happens this way.
SPEAKER_00Do you know what happens?
SPEAKER_02Is there a drug for that?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, she probably ordered that like pheromone perfume that's always on TikTok and Instagram. Yes. That's what it is.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and it's just everyone now is walking by her and they're like, oh my god, it's me, Jessica. And they're like, ugh. Oh my god, wasn't that Jessica? But also, can you remind me to buy that pheromone purview? So after their whole little like lakeside combo, Kane takes Jessica home. Cash is like, yo, where you been? Where the fuck you been, loca? And Pops wants to see them. Kane is like, I am not taking Jessica to meet my dad. He is super unwell. Yeah. So I'm just gonna place her over here. You sit with my friends, we're gonna go chat with dad. And dad's like, how come you don't like uh bitch ass Beverly? You know, like she's attractive enough.
SPEAKER_00Like, I don't know. Maybe because she's a fucking rapist, Dad? Did you ever think about that? No, you only think about yourself. You only worried about business, business, business, maybe because she's a 50-year-old cougar and I'm a six-four young strapping lad that likes to cum in his pants. Did you ever think about that, Dad?
SPEAKER_02She doesn't like it and she puts me down for all this cum. And I am here to feel better about myself. Like, I don't know. Also, okay, because it like talks a lot about her having fake tits. And so I just picture this like real old skeletor who has like those really aggressive fake boobs where you're like, oh my god. 100%. She's got like the lipstick, but it's all over her teeth, and like you know, she has like the fucking lip wrinkles, and it's like, girl, why didn't she just age gracefully? Like it would have been fine.
SPEAKER_00Because she's raping people, yeah. That's what you get.
SPEAKER_02Also, like the sex, the way that she describes like what the brothers do to her is very aggressive for an old woman. I hate it. It is very aggressive, like and Kane's just over it. He's like, yo, this is like all the shit that you've been putting us through like for my whole fucking life. I'm done. And Pops is like, sucks the suck, baby duck. Like, I went through the same as you. Yeah. Uh, that doesn't make it better. Just because Oh, really?
SPEAKER_00Your life was shit. So you mean everyone who's had parents that have just like been through some shit and projected it onto their offspring, that's not okay. Uh what do you mean?
SPEAKER_02I don't have any children, but I don't think so. Like, I don't know. Sometimes I think about putting shit onto my dogs and be like, suck it up. I went through it, but I don't know.
SPEAKER_00You know, they already eat off the floor, man. It can't get any worse for them. They shit outside.
SPEAKER_01People have to watch. Well, when I was kid, I had to shit outside too, and everybody watched me.
SPEAKER_02So what do you want to do about it? Right? And he's like, you know, if you don't fall in line, I've got all this shit on you. So, you know, this shit's gonna get really bad. Yeah. He kicks other twin out. He's like, the good one could go. Spare parts, you stay right here. Take it out. And Pops is like, if you say no to Beverly again, I'm gonna lock your mother up. She's gonna lose her mind. And like lock her up. He's like, I'm gonna lock her in a dark room and just keep her essentially like she's gonna be a shell, but she's gonna be good for one thing. And the dad does not nice stuff to his wife, which is like, your dad's fuck. Kill him. Yeah, kill him. You'll kill her. Just kill her. Right. And but I also I'm really hoping that we find out in book three. I think Beverly has something on the dad. Like, I I feel like it has to be more than like, hey, is the senator also like maybe it's because we don't really know what the dad does for a job. Maybe Secret society stuff. That's all he does all day? Oh, probably. He's just it's friends with a senator. They're probably doing secret society. You don't think he's like letting I don't know. What do you write on your taxes?
SPEAKER_00Secret society stuff.
SPEAKER_02I don't know what to make of any of this, and be like, just write secret society. They'll know what it means. Like, what are you like you know? So maybe the dad's in some kind of business where it's like, if you don't do this, we're not gonna build, I don't know, your shopping mall or whatever the fuck. But also, I like I hope that the dad has also done like something really bad, like something really bad in his past that like Beverly's been covering up.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. He's like selling his children. It it doesn't matter what he did in the past, what he's doing now is fucking horrendous. Yeah, but the dad went through it too. I think he's lying. I think he's talking smack. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, anyways, it's gross and I hate it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, facts. Um Kane goes into the route, like after he's done talking to his dad, he's like, okay, whatever, shut your dumb face. I don't even care. Like, obviously, there's nothing I could do about it. So what the fuck? Like, I have no words. I what do you want? What do you want? Fuck off, you win.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02He low key like claims her in front of his friends, which again, this is the guy who he hasn't had a girlfriend, he hasn't anything, so like, hmm, love it. And after she like you dirty. She tries to sneak out of the house after they have their little moment, and just as she does, Kane catches her and he tries to kiss her. Okay, remember how I said before that voyeurism was like my thing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Whatever this trope is, because strangely I've encountered it. Deceit. Because I'm dating a twin. Dating. Married. I've been dating him for a minute. Um but his twin is a girl. Before the last second that Kane goes to kiss her, she realizes something is off because it's cash. She stops him. Kane sees this, and obviously he's gonna rock his brother's shit. Like it's on like Donkey Kong. So, whatever the fuck, this like twins testing each other when you like realize that it's not that person. I don't know what that fucking microtrope is called, but I love it, and it would never work with me because my brother's twin is a girl.
SPEAKER_01So your brother's twin. My husband's twin. Your brother's cousin, brother, uncle, daddy's twin. What is going on with my brain today? I don't know. Are you okay?
SPEAKER_02No, I'm getting way too excited talking about this, and it's causing my brain to melt out my life. You're short circuiting. Yeah, I am. That's how much I love this. So you're okay. So my brother's twin. Strangely, I do have a brother who's a twin, but his twin is a boy. So it doesn't work there, and I shouldn't be kissing my brother, so you know.
SPEAKER_01We need to move on. It's getting crazy. It's getting a lot worse before it's getting better. Anyways.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay. Cash tries to kiss her. She realizes it's not cash. Cain sees this, he gets mad, he takes the shit out of the brother.
SPEAKER_01And she realizes that Cash.
SPEAKER_02I know, it's it got crazy there for a minute. We're good. I've had some tea. It's gonna calm me. Okay, good. She realizes that Cash changed his shirt to look more like Kane.
SPEAKER_00If that's all it takes testing her for you to like, I'm wearing a different shirt. Girl, you fucking dumb. Right? But also not really, because she knew. So I guess she's smart.
SPEAKER_02Cash is like, she she's passed, man. She passed. And apparently other people have not passed, which is like Which is crazy. Um he's like, you know, he's like, just so you know, I wasn't actually gonna kiss you. Yeah, right. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_00Also, side note, is she gonna sleep with both twins? She's a dirty swamp rat from the bad side of town. Hell yeah. She's gonna sleep with both. Right?
SPEAKER_02Which we'll talk about this at the end of this episode, but I'm like, is this gonna happen in book three? Like, is that what's gonna happen? We'll we'll come back to it. So she tells Cain, like, yo, even though you're identical, I could tell that it wasn't you because Casha's eyes are sad. Oh my god. I'd be sad if someone went around telling people that I had sad eyes.
SPEAKER_00If anyone said that, it would be over for me. That's you want to see sad? That's your 13th. And then I jump, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Fuck.
SPEAKER_02I thought it was gonna ask it. Your eyes kind of look sad today and then done. Whoa. Uh I bet your winged eyeliner, I don't know. Um realizing that his girl wants him over a carbon copy of him, it makes Kane very frisky. And so he carries her up to his room. Thankfully, it doesn't juiz in his pants. And guess what? He brings to this mattress party a gun. Also, why do you guys I get that he's a killer, but like, I don't know. You guys gun safety, my guy. This is why you have the problems that you have. Gun safety. Also, take that gun and go kill your dad.
SPEAKER_00Like, what do we talk about? You have a list, man. Your life would be so much better without a few people in it, and you have the means to do something.
SPEAKER_02Write the list for you. Tranquilla.
SPEAKER_00You just gotta do it. Tranquilla.
SPEAKER_02Uh so obviously he's gonna give her the onion.
SPEAKER_00Okay, but like be so fucking for real. He is not lasting long enough to have sex with a gun in his possession. It's like in his peripherals, and he's like, Oh, yeah. We all know how much this guy likes guns.
SPEAKER_02He's got like a picture at the head of the like bed. It's like a picture of a gun. Yeah, just a glock on his nightstand. The gun picture. Right? Guns and ammo. That's his like porn. Love it. Um, Jessica wakes up the next day in Cain's bed. She tries to sneak out. Younger sister Lily catches her and is like, yo, like asking all these deets about the relationship. She's like, hey, Kane never brings anyone home. He doesn't spend the night anywhere. And Kane is just in the kitchen cooking them breakfast. He went to the other side of town, got coffee for her from her favorite coffee shop. It's so sweet. It's so sweet. And so, like, Lily starts telling Jessica all the funny stories about Kane when he was a kid. Like, it just mmm. I love it. I love it. And Cash tells him, like, hey, I I like sorry, man. You kicked my ass. Like, that's great. But I just need to make sure that Jessica was actually like in it for you. Right. And Kane goes and like checks on his mom. She's got more bruises on her neck. Pops may need to get pushed down the fucking stairs.
SPEAKER_00Pops may need to get his dick chopped off. I hate him.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah. So afterwards, Jessica goes back home. She's hanging with her friends. Kane's friends are like coming to like check on her at the coffee shop. It's great. Kane, him and the boys are at some secret society shit. They're wearing cloaks, they got masks, they're in the secret chamber. The meeting begins. They bring in these four dudes and they tell them, like, these men are close to you. One of these, you know, you're not gonna want to kill them, blah, blah, blah. Kane doesn't even wait for them to finish. Pop pop. Pulls the trigger. No, he didn't know any of these people. It's just another fucking test of their loyalty.
SPEAKER_00Okay, but also, like, if you're willing to just kill randos in your little cloak and mask, like, like it's nothing. Right. Change the change the trajectory trajectory of your life. Yes. Kill your dad. Kill your dad. Kill the state.
SPEAKER_02Your dad's there. Just kill the prime minister of Malaysia. Just do it.
SPEAKER_00Relax. Just do it.
SPEAKER_02Thanks. Now I need to watch Zoolander, you bitch. Also, do you low-key notice that we see like at least one or two Zoolander references? Like every episode.
SPEAKER_00I notice it now that you pointed it out, and I'm very self-conscious of it now.
SPEAKER_02Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to point out your faults because I see them as treasures. Okay. Thank you. Um, Jessica is like, they go out that night, they're at a street race. Kane is spiraling because he's waiting for Jessica. Cash basically tells Kane, like, just so you know, like you love her, but also you gotta watch the fuck out. Dad is going to use her against you. Like, especially when he knows, like, to the extent that you care about her. Obviously. Put that in the back of your head. Like, yeah, bring your pipe and smoke it. Right? What the fuck are you talking about? Chris is there. He goes up to Kane and he's like, let's race. If I win, I'll back the fuck, or you back the fuck off. If you win, you still back the fuck off. Avi, they race. Avi Kane fucking wins. He's driving fucking Bugatti. I don't understand why you keep racing this vehicle. Because he's a fucking idiot. Brad boy from the bad side of town. Right? Kane comes to offer Chris money and he's like, how much money for you to like piss off? Like, you know, what'll it take? Like a million bucks?
SPEAKER_00Like what? Which I don't know. I feel a certain way about the like money in exchange for the girl thing. It's not a good way. It's not a good way. I don't like it.
SPEAKER_02I don't love it, but I like, I don't know, bro. You got a lot of problems in your life. Maybe you won't have to be like down here racing all the time. She likes it. Selling drags. And like, oh yeah, he's a rat boy. Like, I it's not great. She would be pissed if she found out, but he offered you a mill. I don't know. Just take it and be like, let's see what kind of fucking problems I can fix.
SPEAKER_00Exactly.
SPEAKER_02Kane's back home after the race. Chris doesn't take the money. He just fucks off because he's mad. And Pops calls him into the office. Something is missing. It's a founding family dagger. And wouldn't you know it? The fucking security footage was erased. And Kane was the one who fucking eras it because he didn't want Pops to see Kane Jizz in his pants for Jessica pulling a gun on him. Smart.
SPEAKER_00That's so embarrassing.
SPEAKER_02But also, Kane is like, I don't think Jessica has it. Like her the contents of her bag fell out, and I didn't see no dagger. So and then later that night, Kane's. Your favorite. My fave. Kane's in his room. He's having a little snoozy. Someone comes in. No, it's like he comes steps out of the shower. He's unsuspecting. He's like caught off guard. Jessica's wearing a wearing a fucking mask, and she pulls a gun on him. And he goes, That's what he does. Oh my lord. Who doesn't see you there, Jessica?
SPEAKER_01Like, where's thought did Mickey Mills come from? What did she use the door? What did we get here? I don't know.
SPEAKER_02And Savi onions. He's seen a gun. He's like, oh my god, I just laid the picture down. We just showered like a week's worth of cum off my body. And here you bring a gun. You know how I feel about this. Yeah. Afterwards, she admits to him that she loves him.
SPEAKER_00That's a bold statement, Jessica. Bold statement.
SPEAKER_02That's a bold statement to put out there, not knowing that there's a return. Because he doesn't say it back. That's true. He feels it in his heart, but he doesn't say any words.
SPEAKER_00That he shows it with the fluids, but he can't show it with his words.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. That's that's a fucking spicy pepperoni to fucking put out there with nothing coming back. So I don't know. I was like really watching that and I was like, mmm, girl. Because she doesn't even say anything. She doesn't even feel a certain kind of way. I would be like, Well, you don't love me back?
unknownLike, what?
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I'd be crazy.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah. Like, you think me breaking into your room was nuts? Hold my pocket. Let's see where we're gonna go. Like, there's no way I would fucking stop with that. And she's just like, oh, okay, that's fine. Like, so I don't should know that I love you. And obviously, he asked her like 500 million times to say it. And I'd be like, uh, why don't you say it the fuck back? But like, whatever. That's fine. After this, a couple days later, Jessica is at the hospital. Mom's dying. Of course, her drunk piece of shit, dad, ain't there. Of course. Sidebar. I really hope that we get a little bit more of a backstory for dad in book three because, like, where are you at?
SPEAKER_00You just I hope the only story we get for dad is just him getting the shit kicked out of him in the back alley of a pub.
SPEAKER_02Damn. Damn. But okay. Yeah, okay. Maybe. That you know what?
SPEAKER_00I don't have dad issues if you're if you're wondering.
SPEAKER_02No, no, no, no. Dads are cool. That's that's a healthy response. Uh Jessica finds out, like, she goes and apologizes to the nurse, which also this is like insane that this nurse has just been like risking her job and like hiding the payments for a while. And she's like, Thank you so much. Like, you know, I'm working to get some money. I'm starting a strip club real soon here. Things are cooking. And she's like, What are you like, what are you talking about? She's like, What are you talking about? And she's like, Kane Ravencourt paid for your mom's care like weeks ago.
SPEAKER_00I didn't even say a word. It's like getting kicked right in the feelings, Dick. Yeah. That is there's something like a grand gesture without it being like Guess what I did for you? For yeah, like I without clout. Like it just does something for me, you know?
SPEAKER_02Because he cares. He likes my voice. That's that's your voice. Yeah. Just the fucking grand gesture, yeah. Cause he's in the hospital. He's like, you know, just by Jessica's side. Like, there's obviously nothing that he can do. But he is still trying, he's like losing it. The doctor's like, yo, man, like it's too late. Like, we can't operate. There's nothing. It we can just make her comfortable. And he's like, I will buy and sell this fucking hospital. Like, did you see me drive the Bugatti in here?
SPEAKER_00Also, like, come on, my dude. They're medical professionals. I think they know what they're talking about.
unknownRight?
SPEAKER_00Like, like, okay, do it. Buy the hospital. Do it. She's still gonna die. Buy the hospital. Right.
SPEAKER_02Well, and it's like, bro, if only she had bought that pheromone perfume a few months earlier, and you had come and done this a year ago, like, yeah, things would be different. But unfortunately, here's where the fuck we're at. Exactly. I'm sorry. And Kane's Pops calls him and he's like, hey, uh, just so that you know, if you don't do what the senator and his wife say, I'm gonna give him your little sister.
SPEAKER_00Oh, like what the fuck is wrong with this guy? These are your children, you sick, twisted bitch.
SPEAKER_02That's why I'm really, really hoping that the dad has something crazy because it doesn't excuse, but I would appreciate a reason. You know, like just like just just explain to me why you're so fucking evil. Please don't let it just be evil because that's crazy.
SPEAKER_00I think it's just evil.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. It yeah, right. And Kane then they kind of like, you know, they have a little bit more of a moment. She explains like everything that's going on and everything that's happening with like her family, with her brother, with whatever. And Kane asks her to be his girlfriend. Are you sure they're in college? They're in college. Why? Just weird. It's weird. It is like low-key weird. And of course, like, because now he's her boyfriend, he's gonna take her to Dark Lanes. He's gonna teach her how to race, he's gonna show her how to drive, and she's gonna drive her boyfriend's car. Um, bitch, that is a million-dollar fucking car. You better teach her how to drive. Don't even let her drive that. Just buy her a different car. And be like, here you go, here's a civic.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Also, they're children. What's happening in this town? Where the fuck are the cops?
SPEAKER_02I know, right? Like, you know where people are going and racing. Just go hang out there. Yeah. Just go hang out there.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02After the little driving lesson, King goes back home. Pops is like, hey man, come into the fucking dining room. Like, what's up? And the senator and his wife are there. Yeah, of course they are. And then we find out that they have been drugging his drinks. Like, so a lot of this stuff, it was straight up not consensual, but also it's not even stuff where his mind was even like present in it. And they've been doing this for a whole long ass time. And again, it's really edge of darkness. This is the same fucking shit that was happening to Kane. And bitch ass Beverly, she leads a fucked up Kane away. And again, his mind is like mixing up her and Jessica, and then she gives him fucking Viagra and she rapes him.
SPEAKER_00Like, I felt so much rage reading this.
SPEAKER_02I hate it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it made me want to go full chad and punch a hole in the fucking wall.
SPEAKER_02Do we also know? Really important. Do we know what color Beverly's hair is? Because this women who do this in books always tend to have uh reddish um kind of hair. She has it been mentioned what color her hair is. I don't know. Because I don't know if I can take it again. Because also, like, what the fuck was the senator's wife name in Hunting Adeline? She had fucking red hair and she was doing this kind of crazy ass shit. And then we had fucking Beverly and we had Bernadette. Like, it just can you please just tell me that she's like blonde or brunette or something? Like well, maybe she's bald. Bald. You know? Could she be bald?
SPEAKER_03I would take a bald female Dylan.
unknownRight?
SPEAKER_02Like, and that's why she's so angry, is because she's bald. Like, come on. Yeah, maybe. He wakes up the next morning after Beverly's done all this horrific shit to him. She's still hanging out there and she's like, hey, uh, you know, like I'm with you now. Like this little arrangement that we have, this is gonna continue. Forget about that falls trash. And you know, if you if you don't continue with our arrangement, I'm gonna tell Jessica that you cheated on her. And last night I recorded that. And Kate so much. He's like, fine, like, whatever, I'll fucking take whatever happens. Like it that sucks, but like I'll explain it to her. And she's like, okay, well, then I'll say that you raped me and that you hurt me. And she like picks up an object and he's like, Oh my god, fine, fine, fine, fine. Like, whatever. Fuck. I have no fucking choice in this. It's so sad. Which is so fucking evil. Because she's like, I'll tell your dad, I'll tell the senator, like, we will essentially like. I'll tell your dad. You'll I'll tell your dad. Well, I've literally been essaying you for like God knows how long, but I'm gonna tell your dad. Tell your dad. Well, and I think she like kind of is alluding to the like, if I say that you raped me, you'll go to jail. And then I hate it so much. Worse things will happen to you. Yeah. Okay. She did this to us in the last room. Uh-huh. We get it's an enjoyable book. You know, we've got some Viagra, we've got some drugging. Yeah. The mom is dying. We've been having a good time so far. Free times. We get to the last chapter. Jessica's at Darklane. She's with her friends. She's like, Oh my god, my boyfriend's gonna be here. He's been like teaching me how to drive his car. Like, woo! And she sees Kane and she's like, Oh my god, there he is. And he is leaning over the hood of his car. He's talking to some girl and like leaning over her, like hands on both sides. Oh, yeah, he's got her caged in. Yeah, she's laughing, he's not making any eye contact with Jessica, and she's like, Okay, like, bitch, I told you that I loved you. And she goes up and she's like, What the hell? And he's like, Okay, street rat. Like, just get the fuck out of here. And he's like, Um, I thought literally yesterday you asked me to be your girlfriend. Like, I thought that like meant something. Like, why'd you ask me then? And he's like, Okay, like bye. Don't want to talk to you, like, nice. Okay, get the fuck out of here. And obviously, she's like heartbroken, she's been falling for him, and then she just runs away. Yeah, and then Harley just leaves it. It just leaves it, that's just done, it's just done, and it's like, I don't, I don't even know. Like, it's not the cliffhanger in book one had us fucking screaming. Like, it was like, whoa, obviously, second time around, we saw the fucking signs, we were just blind for sure the first time. We were blinded by the 6-4, okay? We were blinded. Second time it was like, okay, that was so frickin' obvious. I don't know what the fuck, cliffhanger plot, whatever the fuck you want to call this. This one ruined my fucking life. Like, I I don't know why I felt this one so emotionally.
SPEAKER_00The like because it was such a fucking slow burn to them, like admitting their feelings. And they're in love. And they're in love. And he doesn't want to be with the girl on the car, but she's doing it to protect her.
SPEAKER_02To protect her.
SPEAKER_00But also broke that.
SPEAKER_02You have literally broken her heart. What the fuck are you gonna do to get out of this? Number one.
SPEAKER_00It doesn't even matter. Next book is just gonna be she gets in his car and hits him with it in the end. That's how that's how book three is gonna start and finish. Also, just like a paragraph.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I get into the car, I rev it up, I go as fast as I can, plow right through him, and then I feel better. Like it's therapy. Like, because that's the thing. It's like he can't even just go to her and say, Hey, just a heads up, I was like doing that to protect you. He has a lot of splaining to do. Like, he's got this whole other fucking horrific past that's been happening, but also he has to solve those problems. Like, he can't just be like, hey, just to FYI, uh, the senator's wife has been raping me.
SPEAKER_00Um I mean, in that type of society where I was trained at 10 years old to kill people.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00That's where the finish with guns comes from.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um not cutting out of this one, King.
SPEAKER_02Like, uh man, I don't know. And so then, like, literally just rereading this this past week and realizing that in two weeks we get to find out what the fuck happens. Oh, it's gonna get so bad. It feels good. Thank God. Because literally we've been sitting with this for months, because this book came out months ago, and I've been lost in a box of my own emotions since. Ever since, yeah. Ever since. Like, uh, and that's book two. Yeah, and that's book two, and that's book two. Didn't you have a good time? I had a great time. Oh, good, good. Yeah, well, thanks again, guys, for listening. We are active on all the socials. You can see all the weird stuff that we're up to. Keep an eye on our Insta. We have got some really exciting things coming up with some authors, some giveaways, a few other little things here. Uh, if you have any book recommendations, questions, comments, if somebody has that artwork that we requested, if you have any weird things that we've asked for in the last little bit, if your name is Jessica, we are still looking for that Jessica. Hit us up at smut syndicate at gmail.com or you can use the text feature in the bottom of the show notes. Live, laugh, mortal trash.