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ALICE.

"And that's the real story," Billy murmured as he closed his eyes and sighed.

Tommy closed his eyes and shook his head as he ran his hands over his face. "Jesus Christ, Bill," he mumbled. "I'm so fucking sorry for not being there for you like I should've been."

"It's not your fault," Billy whispered as he swallowed. "I promise."

Tommy stood up from his seat and walked behind Billy and I, and then began pacing the room. "I still should've been a real father to you," he said.

"The past is in the past, Dad," Billy murmured as he glanced to his left to look at his father and past me. "It's over and done with."

Tommy stayed silent for a few moments as he continued to pace back and forth while Mickey watched him nervously. He then halted in his tracks and slowly turned around to face us.

"Where's Sebastian Stan?"

——
SEBASTIAN.

After the breakfast buffet escapade had taken place, Chris, Anthony, and I proceeded to then go into my room. My room had become the bachelor pad I guess, but I wasn't complaining.

"Jesus. That poor kid," Chris sighed as he laid back on my bed. "I feel fucking horrible for him."

Anthony mumbled as he sat down in the chair on the right side of my bed, "I don't even know how to help him."

"That's because we can't," I murmured as I sat on the end of the bed. "We have filming next week, guys. What the Hell can we even do?"

The three of us sat in silence for a moment before Chris spoke up. "We could help get his face out of the media for a little while," Chris mumbled.

I raised an eyebrow. "How?"

Chris shook his head as he sat up. "It's a stupid idea, but we could perform some type of publicity stunt to help the kid out for a little bit," he said.

Anthony shook his head. "That won't work," he sighed. "We'd have to, like, do something extreme, even more extreme than the shit that's taken place recently."

Chris sighed as he laid back down. "Fuck," he whispered. "You're right."

I groaned as I rubbed my hands across my face. "We're useless," I moaned.

Anthony spoke up. "We're not useless," he began. "We're just not exactly useful in this situation."

"That's the same exact thing," I muttered back.

Anthony sighed as he shook his head. "At least you helped him back there," Anthony mumbled, referring to when the orange juice was poured on Billy's head. "Or at least you tried to help him."

"Yeah," I sighed. "I tried."

Chris murmured, "That's all we can do."

The three of us continued to have small talk for a while, just enjoying each other's company. We knew there was nothing we could really do- nothing that would matter at least. As much as it hurt me to admit, this was purely Billy's and Alice's business to handle, not mine. I desperately wanted to help in whatever way I could, believe me. But no amount of my help would ever diminish even one percent of what they were going through. I just hoped that they would make it through all of this bullshit unharmed.

Just as Chris was about to make another joke about Falcon's costume, he was interrupted by a sudden knock at my door.

Anthony raised his eyebrows at me. "Were you expecting anybody else besides us?" He asked as the three of us stood up cautiously from our seats.

I shook my head as I proceeded to walk to the door with the two men behind me. I looked through the peephole of my door to see Alice.

"It's Alice," I murmured as I glanced back at Anthony and Chris.

Anthony wiggled his eyebrows at me. "You know what that means," he said with a smirk.

Alice knocked on the door again. "Sebastian? I can hear you and whoever else is with you talking," she said. "And I really don't mean to intrude but this is really important."

I raised an eyebrow as I opened the door, only to be met by Alice giving me a pleading look.

"Alice?" I asked, trying to act surprised even though I had known she was there.

"And Billy," Billy remarked as he stepped into sight.

I glanced between the two of them before asking, "What's so important?"

Billy glanced at Chris and Anthony before replying, "It's better that we keep this in private."

Anthony crossed his arms over his chest. "Whatever you have to say to him, you can say to us," he responded.

Billy rolled his eyes in response. "Relax, Dipshit. It's shit my father wants to discuss," he sighed.

I raised an eyebrow as I glanced between him and Alice. "What exactly does your father want to, um, discuss?"

Alice interrupted Billy just as he was about to respond. "It's better if we go back to our room to talk," she murmured. "We have Mr. Redford and his lawyer waiting."

I glanced back at Anthony and Chris before hesitantly stepping out of my room, putting my hands in my pockets as I did so.

"If you need me for anything, just call," Anthony murmured as he and Chris proceeded to walk out my room. The two then walked to Chris' room and watched us as they closed his door.

Billy, Alice, and I stood in silence for a few moments before Billy clapped his hands together. "Let's go," he sighed as he turned around and began walking towards the elevator.

**

Upon entering Alice's and Billy's room, I was greeted with the Tommy Redford, along with his lawyer who looked around ten or more years older than he was.

"Hi," Tommy greeted as he walked over to me and held out his hand for me to take. "I'm Tommy Redford."

"I'm Sebastian Stan," I mumbled as I shook his hand. I internally slapped myself for introducing myself by my full name like Tommy had. Why the fuck did I feel the need to do that? I'm not as known as he is; I'm not Elon Musk or Steve Jobs.

"I already know who you are," Tommy mumbled with a smile as he pulled away from our handshake. He then turned around and walked to sit upon the couch in the seat beside his lawyer.

Wait. Did Tommy Redford just say he knows who I fucking am?

"This is Mickey, one of the lawyers on my team," Tommy said as he flashed me a smile.

Alice and Billy smiled as they took their seats across from Mickey and Tommy, leaving me standing awkwardly in the room while I softly waved at Mickey, who responded with a gentle wave as well.

"Please! Take a seat," Tommy exclaimed as he motioned for me to sit in the chair that was in between the end of the couch and Billy's chair, facing towards both of the seating areas.

I awkwardly took my seat in the chair Tommy had selected for me to sit in, casting a nervous smile at Alice as I did so.

"The reason I wanted you here is because of your involvement with all of," Tommy began as he waved his hand through the air, "this."

"Ok," I nervously sighed as I trained my eyes on his forehead, feeling slightly overpowered by the way he held himself.

"You see," Tommy started. "If we're being honest here, and maybe it's because I've been focused on my business for so long, I didn't really know who you were until after the kidnapping situation with my son and his, uh, friend happened."

Moment: Ruined.

"I saw the TMZ article that was released about you and Alice after I had done my research on this whole shitshow," Tommy remarked as he clasped his hands together and intertwined his fingers. "And from what I can tell, you're the reason Alice was found in the first place," he said.

"It was a coincidence," Billy mumbled, causing me to snap my head in his direction with raised eyebrows. Billy softly smiled in response.

"I understand that," Tommy mumbled as he cast a glance at Billy. "And I'm not blaming you, Sebastian."

My heartbeat started to slowly decrease back to its original state thank God.

"Whether Austin had found Alice or not, the article about my son and the sex tape would've been released either way," Tommy sighed as he closed his eyes. "But the media sees it differently."

I didn't entirely know how to respond, which caused me to stutter as I spoke. "I-I'm sorry," I mumbled, which came out more as a question.

Billy chuckled in response. "Dad, stop being so fucking scary. You're scaring him," he chuckled as he motioned towards me.

Tommy raised an eyebrow at Billy. "What? I'm having a conversation with him, Billy. What am I doing wrong?"

Billy raised his eyebrows as a goofy grin overcame his face. "Look at him," Billy exclaimed as he looked between his father and I. "He's having a mental breakdown right now," he laughed.

Tommy shook his head and sighed as he glanced at me, and then he rested his gaze on Billy. "Billiam, as the cool kids of your generation would say, chill," he mumbled, causing Billy to shake his head and sigh as he leaned over into his lap while rubbing his hands over his face.

I chuckled at Tommy's comment along with Alice.

Tommy motioned towards me as he raised his eyebrows at Billy with a goofy grin on his face. "See, Bill? He's fine," he stated.

Billy raised his head from his lap and sighed as he leaned back into his seat. "I fucking hate you," he whispered with a wide smile.

Tommy flashed him a smirk before looking back to me. His face got more serious as his eyes bore into mine. "As I was saying before my son so kindly interrupted me," he began. "The media sees everything differently, even though they don't know the whole story. Certain news outlets fill in the missing pieces that they think are the truth, but in reality they're just a big fucking lie," he said.

"I agree," I whispered as I nodded my head.

"So," Mickey jutted in. "We were hoping that you would accept our offer of making a rather 'mind blowing' statement, if you don't mind me calling it that," he said while holding up air quotes, causing me to raise an eyebrow.

"What kind of, um, 'mind blowing' statement are we talking about?" I cautiously asked as I looked between Tommy and his lawyer.

Tommy smirked as he began to speak. "The media thinks that Alice and Billy both collectively hate you for ruining their escape plan," he murmured.

"Which I still kinda do," Billy jutted in, causing his father to snap his gaze to him and shake his head, causing Billy to slide down in his seat a little ways as he held his hands up in surrender. "Just speaking the truth."

Tommy ran a hand over his face before he continued. "We think it would be a rather bold statement for the three of you to be seen doing something, rather it be going out and shopping, drinking, shooting fucking heroin- doesn't matter. But it would work," he said. "As long as the three of you act like you're friends, it would take some of the edge off of the situation at hand and raise new questions as to why you guys are all, um, 'hanging out.'"

"How would it take some of the edge off?" I asked as I raised an eyebrow.

Tommy smirked at me. "Because it would put new questions in people's minds, meaning that they won't be focusing on what we're uncovering as time goes on," he murmured.

I adjusted myself in my seat as I cast a nervous glance to both Alice and Billy. "Ok?" I sighed.

Billy leaned forward in his seat with a smirk. "So, what do you say, Pal?" He asked darkly. "You up for it?"

——-
OLIVER.

"Fuck," Amy, or maybe Melissa, moaned as I began to fuck her faster. I was fucking her on my bed in the doggy style position, which gave me perfect access to my tv as I continued to watch the screen.

I slammed into her repeatedly as I watched the screen, moaning as I watched the pornography in front of me become more heated.

"Baby," I groaned as I grabbed her ass. "You're so fucking tight." Listen, I wasn't even really focused, and it wasn't even good sex.

"Oliver!" She screamed, causing me to roll my eyes as I pulled her hips back relentlessly as I met her hips with mine. "Jesus Christ," she moaned, her walls contracting against my cock as her release neared. "Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!"

I raised my eyebrows as I listened to her scream, completely taken aback by her way of, um, expressing her oncoming orgasm.

"Yeah," I mumbled as I tried my best to get into it. "So good," I murmured as I glanced to my left before training my eyes back on the screen. "So good."

"Say my name, Baby! Say my fucking name," she screamed, resulting in me plastering a nervous look on my face.

What the fuck is her name? What the fuck is her name?

"Ah," I fake moaned as I took one hand away from her hips and grabbed the tv remote from beside me. I skipped forward in the video a little ways, wanting to skip past the boring parts. I hadn't seen it yet, but I knew it was good. At least, that's what I'd been told. And I had the complete unedited version too, meaning I had every single fucking hour of footage that bored the living fuck out of me.

I continued to skip forward in the video as I felt Amy's, or Melissa's- maybe Carrie's- pussy tighten around my dick as she continued to scream. After a few more moments of fucking whoever the Hell I was fucking, I found the good shit.

"Oh," I moaned as intense sex played in front of me on the tv screen. The two were still in bed, don't get me wrong, but they were fucking hardcore in the doggy style position- Just like I was! Except they both looked like they enjoyed it. Now I was beginning to enjoy it.

"Fuck," I groaned as I began slamming into her faster, resulting in her screaming my name repeatedly as her orgasm overcame her.

"Just like that, Baby! Fuck!" She screamed as her legs became weak while burying her face into the bed covers.

I continued to moan as I watched Billy Redford fuck the living Hell out of Alice's pussy while still fucking her from behind. It was honestly very hot sex, and just as my release was about to near, my phone rang.

"Fuck," I whispered as I paused the video while reaching over to grab my iPhone from beside me. I answered the phone while still being inside of whoever the Hell this girl was. But hey, plans don't make themselves.

"Oliver," Austin yelled into the phone, causing me to yank the phone away from my ear for a moment so I could regain my hearing back.

"Yes, Austin?" I asked. "Is it something important?"

"New plan," he said without hesitation.

I rolled my eyes as the girl muffled into the sheets for me to keep going.

"Ok," I sighed into the phone as I closed my eyes.

Austin then explained his new plan, causing my eyes to snap open as I smirked darkly.

"That's perfect," I murmured before I began to chuckle. "Way better than what was planned before."

"So, just pick one of them and do what you need to do. Ok? I don't care anymore since I'll probably be locked up for life because of the Kellan bullshit," Austin spoke hurriedly, causing me to snicker.

"Relax, Austin," I sighed as I closed my eyes and leaned my head back. "I'll let Annie know which one I choose to fuck with," I murmured.

"Thank you," he sighed before hanging up the phone, causing me to throw my phone back down on the bed.

"Who was that?" The girl asked as she turned her head back to glance at me.

"Just a business friend," I murmured as I smirked at her. I then slowly pulled myself out of her pussy, causing her to whimper, before slamming myself back inside, causing me to moan in ecstasy.

I pressed the play button on the video and continued to fuck this girl to it, and as I neared my release, I stopped.

"Why'd you stop?" She whined as she looked back at me.

"Because, Darling," I murmured. "I need you to answer a question for me."

"What's the question?" She sighed in annoyance.

I smirked. "Right or left?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

She raised an eyebrow at me in confusion. "Left?"

I chuckled as I went back to fucking her. "I was hoping you'd pick left," I mumbled as I neared my release once again.

"What was that even for?" She moaned.

I chuckled. "Just business inquiries," I responded. I felt my cock twitch within her, causing me to lowly moan at my release that was about to overcome me.

I held back my release until I saw what I needed to see on the screen, causing me to pause the video as I pulled out of Melissa or whoever she is as my release shook my body.

My eyes remained on the face that would become my priority as long as everything went to plan. They were orgasming, and so was I, so it was easy to imagine I was having sex with them currently. And that was all apart of the plan, the new plan I should say, but I'll get into that later.

Because I had had Amy, Melissa, or Carrie choose my "victim" for me, I was now at ease with not having to go back and forth in my head with which one of them to choose. And Amy had chosen nicely, but also she chose the one person that would be a bit of a challenge to seduce. But hey, I'm America's favorite playboy. It won't be too hard.

"You need to go," I sighed as I slightly nudged her forward, causing her to snap her head towards me.

"What?" She snapped.

I began shuffling out of bed while motioning towards the door leading out of my bedroom. "You need to go," I said again, this time being more insistent.

"O-Ok," she mumbled confusedly as she began pulling her clothes on. "But why?"

"Business," I murmured as I began leading her out of my bedroom. I was still entirely naked, but who the Hell cares? It's my house.

"Ok," she mumbled as I opened the front door for her. "Will I see you again?"

"Probably not, Melissa," I said as I began closing the door.

"My name's Hail-"

"Goodbye!" I yelled as I slammed the door. I began walking back towards my bedroom while smirking to myself, having the entirety of what I needed to do wafting around my mind.

I chuckled as I threw myself back onto my bed and laid on my back. I closed my eyes and sighed before abruptly sitting up and rubbing a hand through my dyed white hair. I opened my eyes and smirked as I trailed my hand down my chest and towards my cock as my eyes rested on her.

"Alice Hartsfield," I murmured before closing my eyes in pleasure as my hand began rubbing my cock.

"I cannot wait to meet you."

hi i feel like everything in this chapter was rushed and idk if i like it. then again i keep comparing everything to Chapter 12 bc it's my favorite and nothing lives up to it— except for possibly the next chapter or the one after that- haven't decided.

anyway,

tHe SUSPENSE ThO

OK BUT oliver is my favorite villain of the book ?? i have so much planned ?? sUsPeNsE ??