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“Are you okay?” Kai asked, staring at me from the door.
I turned my back toward the room full of guns and weapons that could kill people in an instant. Even though Kai hadn’t answered my question about if Poison really did end lives, I could tell that I was right by the mere look on his face.
Poison killed people.
They really fucking killed people.
“Yes,” I lied. “I’m fine.”
Straightening my back and smoothing out his shirt that covered my body, I shifted from foot to foot. I’d thought that it was all some joke. I’d thought that … that it was a rumor that they had spread to keep people in line, so nobody would fuck with them.
Stupid me hadn’t thought it was true.
“Imani,” Kai said, touching my elbow.
But I walked past him and into the bedroom to gather my clothes and belongings. “I need to go home. My mom is going to be looking for me. And if she finds me hanging out with you, then she won’t let me see anyone ever again.”
The only damn time I could use Mom as an excuse and enjoy it.
Kai followed me into the room. “You’re not angry, are you?”
“No.”
“You’re angry,” he concluded, shaking his head. “I knew I shouldn’t have shown you.”
“I’m not angry,” I snapped.
Maybe I was a bit angry, but I also just needed some time.
When I had gotten involved with Poison, I had known exactly what I was getting myself into. I knew that they were bad news, I knew they did shit that I never wanted to know, and I knew that I would be putting myself in danger.
But Kai …
He seemed like the least dangerous and violent. Seeing his little secret hideout with all those guns and watching the way he had pulled one on Akio the other night… It wasn’t a bluff. He would’ve really shot Akio dead if he didn’t leave me alone.
I had been wrong about Kai this entire time.
Kai was the most dangerous third of Poison.
Especially because, most of the time, I couldn’t figure out what he was thinking.
“Can you please take me back to Landon’s to get my car?” I asked, gathering all my courage to glance up at him. I wasn’t nervous that he’d hurt me because after spending the night with him, I knew he wouldn’t. Instead, I was nervous because I didn’t know what he was capable of.
How many people had Poison killed over the years? How many people had disappeared from Redwood because of them? How dirty were their hands? What was the worst that they had done to someone? And what the hell were they doing with Jace Harbor?
After sighing through his nose, he grabbed my hand very softly and pulled me toward his bedroom door. Suddenly, he stopped, dropped it, and picked up a coat from the ground, holding it out for me to put my arms into.
“It’s cold outside,” he said. “You shouldn’t only be wearing my thin T-shirt.”
I stared at him for a couple moments, then sighed and shrugged into the oversize jacket, warmth spreading throughout my body. Kai twirled me around and grasped the zipper, zipping the jacket up slowly, his gaze following it.
Being this close to him, no matter what I had found out, made me suck in a breath.
When he zipped it all the way to the top, he kept moving his gaze further and further up my body—from my neck to my lips to my eyes. His brown eyes sparkled in the moonlight that flooded in through the window.
“Don’t hate me,” he whispered.
