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“Kaiden! Now!”

He finally listened and went and got his sister. Once they were back in his room, I closed his door and walked back down to the living room.

“What happened?”

Kyenna sat her purse down on the end table. She was making herself comfortable enough to stay for a conversation.

“Can you sit down, Averie?”

“Kyenna, you’re really starting to piss me off.”

“Averie, sit down. Please.”

“Is this about Q?”

Her face didn’t change, but she did shift. If I hadn’t been paying attention, I would’ve missed it. I stopped breathing for a second.

“Where is he?”

“I need to tell you some things first.”

“No! You need to answer the question I just asked you.”

Kyenna crossed her legs and fiddled with her French-manicured nails.

Kyenna!”

“Q was involved in Rah’s murder,” she blurted.

The words didn’t make sense. I had to laugh to stop myself to stop from being upset. It wasn’t shit funny. My brain was rejecting what she had said.

“What?”

“I found old distribution records. Q had money tied into King Distribution through D12. Rah was trying to dismantle parts of the operation before he died, and Q had millions tied into it.”

“What the hell does that have to do with him killing Rah?”

“I didn’t say he pulled the trigger.”

“You just said he was involved in the murder.”

“He was.”

“No…there is no way Q would do anything like that. That’s not him.”

“Averie-”

“I just talked to that man today. He was in this house. You’re not about to walk your ass in here and say some shit like that without explaining yourself.”

“Well, I’m trying to,” Kyenna said.

“Then explain,” I said, flopping on the sofa across from her.

She reached into her purse and pulled out folded copies and placed them on the table between us. I didn’t touch them.

“I don’t give a damn about paperwork right now. Tell me what you know.”

“In short, Q funded routes for King Distribution. Rah was ready to shut the routes down. He pissed a lot of the investors off, so they decided to end Rah’s life. Your boy, Q, had his boys sit on our compound and wait for Rah to get home to ambush him.”