It had been a month since Lexi had submitted herself to me completely. If there were any doubts in my mind before, they were long gone.

I was more certain than I had ever been that she was the one for me. We’d become closer than I ever dreamed we would in a very short time, which means something after knowing one another for so long.

Even after finding out about my dark side, she didn’t freak out. Instead, she embraced it and wanted to be a part of what I was into. She loved and supported me unconditionally. She was going to be by my side no matter what and that’s something that is nearly impossible to find these days.

For the most part, life was falling into place. It wasn’t yet perfect, but it was definitely moving in that direction. There was only one thing that was keeping me from being completely happy and his name was Kade Nichols.

The fact that he was able to walk around every day pretending to be some great person pissed me off. He was the scum of the earth and I made it my mission to get my revenge on him. Not only for me but for every person he’s ever hurt.

Slowly but surely, I started to gather evidence that I knew would be good enough to put him away. In order to do that, I had no choice but to tell Lexi what I’d been up to. I figured she would tell me to leave it alone, especially with all the connections Kade has in law enforcement, but she was actually all for it.

“I’ll do anything to take that motherfucker down!”

Those were her exact words and they were like music to my ears. That evening, I sat down with her and we compiled a list of everything he had done to her. We started with the phone call asking her to go out to a club with him.

I made a note of how she went to the bathroom and had a new drink waiting for her when she came back. We included how she soon got woozy and passed out, only to wake up all alone in a strange hotel room.

When it came time to talk about what took place in the hotel, Lexi froze up. It was hard for her to talk about. It was probably made even harder by the fact that the two of us were dating. Instead of recounting everything, she gave me a very condensed version before grabbing her purse and sitting it on the table in front of me.

“Pretty much everything you need to know is inside this purse,” she said as a tear rolled down her cheek.

She opened her purse and started pulling out Polaroid pictures of her in a number of vulnerable positions. In the photos, it is clear that she was out of it and had no idea of where she was. There wouldn’t be any way he could claim that she knew what she was doing and was a willing participant. That was especially important since many people believe him to be untouchable when it comes to the law.

If those photos weren’t enough, she also kept a letter that he wrote that threatened to post the pictures all over the web if he didn’t get what he wanted from Lexi’s sister. I’m sure the note was covered in his fingerprints and it wouldn’t be hard to have a handwriting analysis done to prove he had written it.

I also went into great detail about how I was driving around looking for Lexi, only to find Kade dragging her into a parking lot against her will. I documented how it appeared he was on some type of drug as I pulled him off her.

“This is really good,” I said to Lexi. “Is there anything else I should include in here?”

“Yes, actually. You might want to call my sister. She has a couple of recent stories herself.”

I grabbed my phone and gave her a call. Sarabelle shocked me with the stories she had to tell. On the night of the gala, she was walking alone in the gardens when she walked in on Kade and a married woman. The woman got freaked out because she had been caught cheating and took off.

Kade thought that Sarabelle should take her place and ended up attacking her. She said that he probably would have raped her if it wasn’t for Christian showing up.

Just to prove that Kade is a psycho who never gives up, she told me of another time when he broke into her house and was waiting for her inside her bedroom. She had no clue how long he had been in there but she came in one night to find him sitting in the pitch black room. Again, had it not been for her boyfriend coming to her aid, he probably would have raped.

Sarabelle was all too happy to come by so she could go over everything I wrote down and sign her name to the packet that would be turned over to the detectives at the Scarsdale Police Department.

Not long after, we got word that Kade had been brought to the precinct for questioning where he, or rather his lawyer, denied the information as unfounded bogus claims.

Within a couple weeks, we were getting phone calls from detectives asking if we could come in and give statements. I’m so proud of the girls for how they handled everything. They could have buckled under the pressure but they didn’t. They stood firm for what was right.

It took a couple months of investigating but Kade was eventually arrested after the grand jury decided there was plenty of information to prosecute the case. While Kade posted bond until his trial, Lexi and I decided to lay low.

We weren’t scared of him or anything, but we didn’t want to get caught up saying something to the media that got twisted and used to help him get off on a technicality.

We truly had him by the balls. I did everything the right way. Although I didn’t want to, I wouldn’t have felt good handling things in a way that were any less than entirely fair. I didn’t plant evidence or do anything else to make him look bad. He’d done enough of that on his own.

The trial moved quickly and relatively quietly. Kade took a plea deal so he’d only have to spend a few years in prison. The way his attorney had all of his records sealed pissed me off. The world deserved to know what he had done.

What better chance for me to show off my dark side?

I was sick and tired of always having to be the good guy so I passed a significant amount of cash to someone who was able to photocopy the case files. I then paid someone else to take those files and leak them all over the media.

When word started getting out about Kade, the amount of press coverage it got was amazing. Women like Nancy Grace made disgusted faces whenever his name came up on their television shows.

Potential business partners backed off and distanced themselves from his name as quickly as they could. He was like a virus and I was glad that I could do my part to make sure his name and public image were irreparably tarnished so when he got out of prison, he’d continue to pay for the mistakes he made.