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All I wanted to do was scream at him that I didn’t hate him. He looked so vulnerable right now. But I couldn’t get myself to say a single damn word. My lips were glued shut, and my heart was pounding inside my chest so hard that I thought I would have a damn heart attack.
With his finger, he pushed a curl off my forehead. “I need you.”
My breath caught in my throat. “What?” I whispered.
Landon and João had never and would never admit something like that so freely. Hearing Kai say that took me by the utmost surprise. I stared at him through wide eyes, wondering if I had even heard him clearly.
“Don’t hate me,” he said again, grasping my chin. “Because I need you.”
“You need me?”
“More than you think I do,” he said.
I grabbed his hand on my chin and frowned. “When was the last time you killed?”
Kai grimaced and clenched his jaw. “Don’t do this.”
“When?” I asked.
Instead of responding to me, Kai glanced down at his feet, dropped his hand from my chin, and grabbed his keys. “I don’t want to get you involved in all our shit. We haven’t even brought you into half the fucked up shit we deal with, Imani. You want to go home, so let’s go.”
Staring at his departing figure down the hallway, I clenched my jaw and followed him out into the cold, sliding on the back of his bike. I didn’t understand why none of these boys wanted me involved in any of their shit anymore.
In the beginning, it had been fine.
Suddenly, it wasn’t.
I wrapped my arms around Kai from behind as he whizzed down Redwood’s streets toward Landon’s place. His muscles were flexed more than they usually were, and he stayed quiet the entire time.
Thoughts raced through my mind, and my stomach was in knots.
When he parked out front, I stayed on the back of his bike and hugged him closer to me. “I need you too, Kai,” I said, then slid off the bike and walked back to my car. When I slid into the driver’s seat and shut the door, I watched him speed off into the night. “I fucking need you too.”
