Page 43 of P.S. I'm Still Yours

I remember being woken up by her screaming the day she found out. I asked her what was going on, and she showed me the video going viral on YouTube.

It was recorded inside a club Kane rented out for one of his band member’s birthday party.

The video was recorded from the second-floor mezzanine, overlooking the bar area downstairs. No one knows who caught it on camera, but the tape shows Kane and his manager arguing next to a large door.

We couldn’t hear what they were saying because of the loud music playing, but Kane was obviously livid. Meanwhile, his manager seemed like he was going to shit himself.

Can’t blame him.

Kane’s a whooping six-foot-three now and much more imposing than he was at fifteen.

Halfway through the video, Kane gripped Joshua’s suit and yanked him closer to say something inches away from his face.

Joshua’s reply seemed to set him off because Kane went apeshit on him the next second, cocking his fist back and crashing it into Joshua’s jaw.

Joshua dropped to the ground like deadweight. I could tell the crowd was starting to notice as people began to gather around them. Kane wasn’t done, though. He pulled Joshua back to his feet and hit him again twice as hard.

The door behind them opened at the exact same time.

Little did Kane know it led to a set of cement stairs…

The force of Kane’s punch sent Joshua flying straight into the open door. The woman who opened it stepped aside, but Joshua didn’t manage to steady himself.

He fell down the stairs.

The music stopped abruptly, and gasps ran through the crowd as Kane stood there.

He seemed to be in shock because a guy with black hair and a muscular build ran to him and gave his shoulder a shake as if to bring him out of a trance—turns out it was his drummer, i.e. the guy Kane threw the party for.

His name is Oscar something.

People rushed toward the stairs to check on Joshua.

Then the screen went black.

There have been many rumors and theories going around. Articles have been popping up all over the internet, claiming to know why Kane flipped out that night.

One article said Kane has a crippling drug problem that causes episodes of blinding anger, another one said he’d broken up with his supermodel girlfriend, Tate Zimmer, a few minutes prior, and he just happened to take it out on his manager.

No one knows what really happened, but one thing’s for sure: this isn’t going to go away anytime soon.

Joshua’s been in the hospital since then with a concussion, broken ribs, and a spine injury, the latest being the most serious. The prognosis came early this week.

Joshua Caldwell will never walk again.

Translation: Kane’s career is over.

“Hadley?” Mom requests my attention.

I snap out of it, transported back into the car. “Sorry, what?”

“I said, isn’t it great? Going back to Golden Cove? I know how much you used to love the beach house as a kid.”

She’s right.

I did love the beach house.

But that was before Mr. Wilder’s accident.