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“Tell me again,” Adrian said, as he stared at Dimitri with his frustratingly calm expression leaning against his muscle car next to Dimitri’s in the parking lot.
“I have told you three times already, brat,” Dimitri shouted at him in frustration, shivering in the freezing air of the full darkness.
“Then tell me a fourth time, bratishka,” his brother said firmly. “I need to know every detail. My people are already looking for the Cat but if I cannot prove he has broken a law then there is nothing I will be able to do. Tell it again!”
Dimitri took a deep breath, staring up at the black sky. Issac had already been alone with the Cat for an hour. God knew what the Italian Capo was doing to him, or even wanted with him. “Issac and I were in the library,” he began again, begrudgingly.
“Doing what,” Adrian asked and ignored Dimitri’s scowl.
“I was asking him about bruises on his neck,” Dimitri admitted, still angry at himself for not pressing harder for who had made them. “I… Issac said he had gotten them in a one-night stand last night. Never was going to see the guy again. That it was just to blow off steam.”
“I don’t need to be convinced about his one-night stand, bratishka,” Adrian pointed out. “You asked about the marks, he gave you the answer that they were from meaningless sex. Then what?”
“I tried to invite him to the charity event Saturday that Papa wants us to go to,” Dimitri said, pacing between the cars. “But he turned me down before I could ask. I started to convince him that it was a good networking opportunity when two girls came up and told Issac someone was looking for him.”
“You know those girls?”
“D?, they are in our program,” Dimitri said, waving a hand dismissively. “They said someone was looking for Issac. Issac said that it had to be a different Issac. They said the guy had Issac’s school ID and that he found it in a coffee shop.” He glared at Adrian. “Issac doesn’t go to coffee shops! He never drinks coffee unless I buy it for him. The Cat lied about where he got the ID. Issac had it yesterday and today it had gone missing. The Cat stole it from him!”
“Why would the Cat,” Adrian said, calm and even, “one of the most dangerous Italian Capos, who has more resources at his disposal and specializes in finding and hunting men who don’t want to be found, need to steal a school ID to locate a nobody like Issac?”
Dimitri bristled at Adrian calling Issac a nobody. He wanted to shout that Issac wasn’t a nobody, that he was special and important, and he may not have a name for himself yet but would one day. He instead kicked a rock and watched it skitter into the darkness. “I don’t know,” he said bitterly. “But it doesn’t change the fact that he did have it and used it to lure Issac out of the library.”
“Maybe,” Adrian said. “What did Issac do when he heard about his ID?”
“He went pale and ran out of the library,” Dimitri said. “I followed after him but the Cat already had his hands all over him.”
“And was Issac doing anything,” Adrian asked. “Pushing him away? Trying to get him off? Yelling at him maybe?”
“No,” Dimitri admitted bitterly. “But I couldn’t see his face.”
“You don’t need to see someone’s face to read their body language, bratishka.” A scowl lifted Adrian’s lips as he narrowed his eyes at Dimitri. “We have taught you better than that. Did Issac want the Cat to get off of him?”
“He- he was probably too scared,” Dimitri snapped, not looking at him. “The Cat is dangerous. You’ve told me that so many times before.”
“The Cat is dangerous,” Adrian agreed. “But Issac didn’t do anything to stop the Cat from touching him and went with him into the car.”
“He only did that because the Cat threatened me,” Dimitri argued. “Issac doesn’t know how dangerous he is! He’s just a regular guy.”
“Which is it, Dimitri,” Adrian said firmly. “Is Issac so scared of the Cat that he didn’t dare try to get away from him, or does he not know how dangerous the man is? You can’t have it both ways.”
Dimitri swore and swung to hit the window of his car in frustration.
Adrian caught him and pulled him back into a full nelson, keeping him from breaking his car or his hand. “Dimitri,” he said softly into his ear, his fingers interlocking behind Dimitri’s head. “It sounds to me like Issac met the Cat while out and the two of them had sex.” He paused as Dimitri’s breath hitched. “Issac probably dropped his ID wherever they hooked up and he probably did think it was going to be a one-night stand. Seems like the Cat enjoyed it enough that he wanted to see Issac again, so he brought his ID back to him and they’ve gone off to figure it out.”
He let go and Dimitri sagged forward, holding himself up against the car as his vision blurred.
“I’ll make sure Issac is okay, but I can’t go starting a war over this. They are both adults and Issac isn’t one of ours.” He sighed and gripped his brother’s shoulder. “Look, no one likes watching someone they care about like you do get with someone else. It hurts like hell. But you can’t let it cloud your judgment and ruin the friendship the two of you have. Just… text him later, d?? Make sure he got home okay.”
Dimitri flinched, blinking away the blurring in his vision. “I… I don’t have his number.”
Adrian’s hand tightened. “You don’t have his number,” he repeated, then sighed as he threw his hands towards to the heavens. “??m?, spasi syna.”
“Don’t bring Mama into this,” Dimitri said defensively, turning back to his brother. “He won’t give it out and blocks his caller ID if he calls you. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him with a cell phone.”
Adrian’s face darkened. “No on prosto ‘obychnyy’ paren’,” he muttered more to himself that Dimitri then waved a hand at him. “Go home. Practice not making that face when you think about this so you can talk to him like a normal person tomorrow instead of a lovestruck idiot. I’ll be home when I can.”
