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“So we could have been caught.”
Hunter scoffed. “Please. You don’t give a crap about getting caught.”
“I give a crap about killing people.”
Hunter frowned. “You didn’t start that fire.”
Gabriel didn’t say anything, just tossed the ball at the basket again. It swished through.
Hunter caught it and passed it back. “They were going to leave that girl in there. If she had died, it still wouldn’t have been your fault.”
“Keep your goddamn voice down.” Gabriel cast a glance at the doors, but they were still alone.
“You saved her life! I can’t believe you ”
Gabriel got in his face and hit him in the chest with the ball.
“Leave it.”
Hunter stared at him, and for half a second, Gabriel wondered if he was going to back down, the way Nick or Chris would.
Or if he was going to fight back, the way he had behind the mall.
But then Hunter smiled and took the ball. “You’re afraid.”
“Of you?” Gabriel raised his eyebrows. “Fat chance, you ”
“No.” Hunter backed off, dribbling the ball as he went. “Of yourself. You pick a fight every time someone might figure you out.” He threw the ball at the basket from some distance down the court a solid three-pointer. It went right in. “You think I don’t wonder if I could have saved my dad and my uncle, if I’d been stronger?“
Gabriel didn’t look at him. That vise grip had his chest again, but it was an entirely different feeling from math class. “You didn’t kill them, Hunter.”
“We can talk blame all day. What difference does it make?”
It shouldn’t make a difference. But it did.
Hunter threw another basket. “My dad used to say, ‘If you can’t fix what you did wrong, at least try to make something else right.’”
He was talking about house fires.
But Gabriel thought of Layne.
He fished his cell phone out of his pocket to check the time.
JV basketball practice would still be going on, so she was probably in the school somewhere.
“Got a date?” said Hunter.
“Maybe.” He shoved the phone into his pocket and grabbed his bag.
“That’s it? No comment?”
“No comment.” Gabriel swung around and hit him in the chest. “And I am not afraid.”
“Liar.”
Gabriel made a disgusted sound and turned for the door.
“So, later,” Hunter called. “If there’s a fire you in or out?”
