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HOW TO DEAL WITH SUBWAY RATS
“He must have a man outside.Even though we disguised you as best we could, Gordon Saxon figured out you were back.” Kai paced the apartment, the wide-paneled wood floors unable to buffer the scrapes of his heels. “Where did we go wrong? No one is involved in this—literally no one. And I didn’t fucking leak anything.”
I shook my head, Kai’s phone hanging loosely in my hand. “We were idiots to think otherwise. This man has more power than the FBI. More men than the … the president. It was a matter of time.”
“He’s not going to get you.” Kai dug his fingers into his hair, a motion thatbangeda vision of Theo into my mind doing the exact same thing.
Theo…
The answer was obvious. “I have to go.”
“No.Nope.You were right before. We need to loop in Chenko.”
“It’s too late.”
“They can go in your place. I’m sure we could get a warrant, harboring two fugitives. Yeah … yes, we can do this. That text!” Kai pointed to his phone at my thigh. “Gordon admitted to having his sons, two of the Most Wanted. It’s enough for any judge.”
Again, I shook my head. “He’d kill them first before ever handing them over to the police.”
Kai paused mid-reach for his cell. “You can’t be serious. He wouldn’t kill his sons rather than…”
“He’d still have one left. Ward. That’s all he needs to run an empire.”
I handed over the phone. Kai said, “Jeez. That’s cold.”
“I’ve never had any deep conversations with the Saxon brothers’ sire, but I doubt that description even comes close to what he actually is.”
“Either way, you’re not going. This has gone too far. This man has put a fuckinghiton you for falling in love with Sax. You cannot dip a pinky toe near his moat. Understand?”
“I’m going to grab a shower.”
“There’ve been points in the past where you—wait, what?”
“You heard me.” I peeled off my shirt on the way to the exposed industrial shower in the far-right corner, separated by the rest of the apartment with a single fogged-over glass panel.
“You’re ignoring what I’m saying. That never bodes well. For either of us,” Kai said.
“Your thinking cap is to carve paths in your floorboards. Mine is to take a hot shower and go over my options.”
I didn’t have to look back to know Kai crossed his arms before saying, “You’ve already made your decision, haven’t you?”
My only answer was the creak of the pipes as I turned on the water.
“I’ll call Chenko the instant you put your head under that spray,” he warned.
“No you won’t.” I stepped out of my shorts, then underwear, and got in the shower, massaging my neck as the stream melted against my face.
“Yes, I—oh, comeon, Scar.”
Eyes closed, I smiled.
“Since when did you become a fucking pick-pocket?”
I spun so the water cascaded down the back of my head. “You learn a lot in the underground.”
“Where is it? Where’s my phone, you asshole?”
