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My eyes widened. “You want me to … to steal their ideas and make it for you?”
“It’s fucking crazy, I know. I didn’t even want to get you involved in it in the first place, but we’re not prepared for what’s to come. You know that the rich will slaughter the poor, will walk all over us and put the blame on us. They’ll split the town up, so kids in the slums won’t get a proper education anymore. They’ll leave us homeless. You saw it when you lived here. I know you did.”
“Kai …” I whispered, completely taken aback. “You’re asking me to make you weapons.”
“Not for me,” Kai said. “To level the playing field.”
I paced around the room and shook my head, unable to believe that this was even happening. I couldn’t do that at all. As much as I wanted the poor to succeed, I couldn’t steal ideas and hardware from my internship. He was asking too much.
Seemingly knowing that I wouldn’t agree, Kai grabbed my hands. “Dad wanted this.”
“Dad?” I asked, brows furrowed. “My dad or yours?”
“Our dad.”
My lips curled into a smile, and I found myself laughing. “What the fuck, Kai? What are you even saying? My dad … isn’t …”
“Yes, he was. He didn’t want you to know that he had another family, that he had gotten another woman pregnant before he met your mother. He didn’t want you to see him in a bad light.”
I shook my head, unable to believe this. “You’re not serious, are you?”
“I’m not lying. I have a DNA test to prove it.” Kai walked around me to grab Dad’s handgun and placed it in my hands. “That’s why I have this. That’s why I’m telling you this and pleading with you to help me. A rich motherfucker killed our father and got away with it. They do this shit all the time and never get punished for it. It’s time that stops. It’s time we fight back.”
“Kai,” I whispered, the gun trembling in my hand. “That’s why you … you’ve been so protective of me?”
“You’re the only family I have left,” he said. “My mother overdosed three months after Dad died. The rich rip families apart and leave us with nothing. Nothing, Allie. And your mother … is in the same boat as Jace’s mother, isn’t she? She might die, too, and if she does, you know that nobody will give a fuck.”
Tears welled up in my eyes.
As much as I hated to think about it or believe it, Kai was speaking nothing but the truth. We needed to fight back, more than just releasing tapes of sexual assault or masturbating to illegal porn. We needed to make a damn impact before anyone else died.
