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“Nothing.”
Everyone except Johnny erupted in shouts of displeasure.
He didn’t have to say a word for me to know he didn’t agree with my decision. If someone had asked him—I had no doubt he’d leave right now and go massacre everyone on the Holloway property.
I waited until the table quieted before saying, “Nothing until we know for sure. I can’t be sure that piece of shit wasn’t lying to me today. He said her name and I forgot where I was and what we were doing. All I knew was what he’d said and what I wanted to do to a goddamn name.”
“But you said he’d been looking right at you. You said he had no tells,” Maverick, one of the twins, said.
I shrugged.
“It doesn’t matter. I wanted him to be telling the truth because I want a chance to take from them what they took from me. But when I look back on it, I can’t be sure that he wasn’t forcing that stare. We need to make sure.”
I looked every member of my team in the eye to make sure they understood it wasn’t just a suggestion—it was an order.
The twins, my sister, Einstein, Johnny.
Once I received nods from all of them, I looked at Johnny.
“Aric and Lily’s funeral,” I began, bringing up that day we’d sat in the shadows, watching to see if it was true. If Johnny’s cousin Joseph had really killed them both before Kieran had gotten him. “Kieran lost it. He wouldn’t have if she hadn’t—”
“He could’ve faked it,” Johnny said, cutting me off. “Or it could’ve been because of Aric. Everyone knew they were like brothers.”
I lifted a brow. “You gonna lose your shit the way he did if someone kills me, Johnny?”
The bastard smirked. “I might consider shedding a tear.”
“But you can’t know that until it happens,” Einstein said, giving Johnny a meaningful look.
Einstein was a genius. If she didn’t know something, she had ways of finding it out that Google couldn’t dream of. She was my hacker.
She was also the only person who had ever touched Johnny’s cold, dead heart.
And from the way Johnny’s face was suddenly an unreadable mask again, I knew he wasn’t considering what she’d just said—he was considering what would happen if he had to watch Einstein be lowered into the ground.
I knocked my knuckles
on the table to get his attention. “That’s what I mean. No ruthless killer like Kieran Hayes is going to do what he did that day over his best friend. You’re made of stone, Johnny? That guy is made of fucking steel. And you watched him break that day. Lily was in that casket. You know it. I know it.”
Of anyone at the table, I knew it.
That rage from earlier threatened to consume me again, but I forced it down.
It had been nearly four years—and about half that since I’d wanted to make every member of the Holloway Gang pay for what they’d done. But in that moment, it was as if no time had passed.
I couldn’t trust myself to walk away from the table and not go unleash hell on all of them.
But if I did that?
Well . . . retaliation was a very real thing in our world, and I wasn’t willing to lose another person from this table. I wasn’t willing to lose another member of my family—blood or not.
“I’m with Johnny.”
I glanced up, my eyebrows raised at the other twin’s words. “Come again?”
“I think Nightshade could’ve been faking it.”
My head was already shaking. “No. N—”
