“Holy shit, Leo, have you tapped that?”
Gross. I pointed at the mouthwatering porn star on the screen. “That man is not the same one I have working for me.”
“Yes, he so is.” Brian leered at the screen. “And wait until I let everyone know that—”
“You don’t say a goddamn word to anyone, Bri,” I cautioned him. “Or you can kiss your loan goodbye.”
“What?” he yelled at me. Ostensibly he was in town to see his folks, but in reality, he was there to hit me up for money. I had agreed, but I could take my patronage away just as easily.
“You heard me,” I assured him. “If Charlie wants to put up drywall now instead of screw hot men, who are we to blow his cover?”
“You’re kidding, right? This is huge!” He turned to look up at me. “Leo, everybody’s been wondering what the hell happened to him. I mean, he was just—he was Chaz Ryder, and then Rough Love came out four years ago and—”
“What’s Rough Love?”
“Lemme show you.”
“No,” I ordered, closing my laptop fast so he had to pull his hands free before I snapped it shut on his fingers. “Just tell me.”
He looked up at me, and I took a few steps back so he wouldn’t get a crick in his neck trying to hold my gaze. I wasn’t so tall, six-three, but when he was sitting with his head tilted back, it had to be annoying.
“Bri?”
He shrugged. “I’ve seen it, like, I dunno, a hundred times by now, and at first it was hot, and it still kind of is, and definitely if your kink goes to rape, to the fantasy of it I mean, it’s fuckin’ amazing. But the last time I watched it, I started to see what people mean in the online forums and chat rooms and stuff.”
“I’m not following.”
Quick breath. “Well, it starts out like it’s real, you know, like some guy invited Chaz Ryder, big porn star, out on a date, and they’re coming home, probably back to this guy’s place, and then suddenly they’re in this big empty room with ten other guys.”
My stomach did a quick twist into a knot.
“And then Chaz starts looking around, and at first, he’s laughing, but then his face changes, and you can tell he’s getting pissed, you know? And then he starts yelling at Doran Lear, who everyone knows is his producer, and finally he starts screaming that no matter what, he’s not doing a gangbang, won’t ever do one no matter what Doran says.”
I could feel the hair start to rise on the back of my neck.
“And then they grab him.” He grinned at me and waggled his eyebrows, and I had a terrible urge to sink my fist into my friend’s face. “Fuck, Leo, it’s so hot. I mean, he’s struggling and screaming and yelling, and when they tear off his clothes and put the ball gag in his mouth, I mean—you should see him, he’s so… he’s gold all over. I mean—fuck. And he has the most perfectly round little ass you have ever seen in your life, I mean, it’s beautiful, and when they start fucking him…. I’ll bet you a million guys have come watching that shit.”
I was ready to throw up.
“You should see him, he’s crying, and there’s tears, but the gag’s in, right, so all he can do is take it, and they take turns, but you can see the condoms and the lube, you know? I mean, it’s not like—I mean, it couldn’t be real.”
But he didn’t sound completely convinced.
“One guy tried to bareback him, and you see these, like, huge guys come in and pull this idiot out of there, but then one of the bodyguards—and this guy’s dick is, like, massive.” He emphasized the word for me, touching his fingertips and thumbs together to give me an idea of the girth of the man’s cock. “Like a bat, you know? Well, that guy ends up fucking Chaz too.”
I took a few steps away from my friend, whom I had gone to high school with and played football with, because I really didn’t want to hurt him.
“I mean, it’s classic rape fantasy, classic gangbang, but the thing is… they didn’t tie him down. Usually they tie the guy up or use spreader bars or lock him in a swing or—”
“Go on,” I cut him off sharply.
“This was different. They didn’t even want to put any marks on him. They only held him, and everybody’s smiling and laughing the whole time, egging each other on, and we’ve all been watching Chaz bottom and top for years so it couldn’t have been anything but another film, right?”
I knew though, even without seeing it, that it was not.
“I mean, it couldn’t be real, and come to find out later that the guy who Chaz went there with, who was supposedly taking him somewhere for a big surprise, that guy was his boyfriend in real life. And that guy, Owen something, he fucked Chaz in the movie too.”