Crash Into Me by L.A. Fiore

Author:L.A. Fiore [Fiore, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Published: 2020-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

Zac and I were in a coffee house on the wrong side of Los Angeles, in a place that not even the worst of the worst seemed to want to frequent. According to Zac, how we’d been contacted had been unusual, as if Mitch Anderson was playing it safe and cautious. Perhaps that accounted for him looking like a homeless man. Though dressed as he was, nothing stood out, he absolutely blended. He had shifty eyes and telling quirks that suggested he did drugs and often. He wouldn’t talk until we bought him food and then he didn’t stop talking. Though it wasn’t clear if he was telling us the truth or just making shit up because I wouldn’t have been surprised if he pulled out a tinfoil hat.

I was on my fourth cup of coffee, but it wasn’t working. I was crashing. I’d gone too long on fumes.

“I don’t know what Jason’s background was, but he seemed more like a marketing man to me,” Mitch said, stabbing his pancake. “He could sell anything. Hell, he created Katrina.”

I leaned in. “What do you mean by that?”

“Her parents introduced her to him, and the next thing you know, she’s the hottest new face in Hollywood, and he’s elbows deep in all of it.”

“How do you know that?” Zac asked.

“Because I was there when she met him for the first time.”

Well, shit. It was Zac who asked, “You knew Katrina before she became the Katrina Dent?”

“Yeah, she wanted to be a teacher. She loved kids. One day, her parents called her home from school for a dinner party, and Jason was there. I don’t know. It all seemed kind of staged to me. Her parents looked nervous. I don’t know why that impression lingered all these years, but that’s how it felt. They didn’t hit it off, Katrina and Jason. Katrina returned to school with me, livid, and then the next thing I know, she’d dropped out of school, disappeared for a while, and when she made her reappearance, she was a Hollywood star.”

“Her parents pimped her out.” I was incredulous.

“Yep. They saw dollar signs. Almost overnight, they went from middle class to Hollywood elite.”

“Are you aware that Jason Benjamin is an alias?” Zac asked.

Mitch hadn’t known by the look he gave us, but said, “That really doesn’t surprise me. To say he was shady is an understatement.”

“You have any thoughts on Katrina Dent’s suicide?” Zac asked.

He put his fork down, looking thoughtful. “She reminded me of Marilyn Monroe. Pushed into the spotlight, not a place she wanted to be, but having others depending on her, she stayed at it for them, even though it was killing her slowly. It wasn’t a surprise she had a breakdown.”

“What breakdown?” I asked.

“I think it was in eighty-four, she spent almost a year in a private facility, a mental health break.”

“We hadn’t heard that.”

“You wouldn’t have. Only a handful knew. She told me.” Pain moved over his face. “You’d think that would’ve been the wakeup

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