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KAI
Wiping Carter’s blood from my hands, I walked with Landon from the warehouse where we had taken care of Carter tonight to João’s place. We didn’t kill Carter, but we had taught him a lesson in not fucking with Allie or Jace anymore.
Though I doubted that he’d actually listen.
“Where the fuck is João?” Landon asked, nodding to the empty driveway.
I furrowed my brows and shrugged. “Hospital?”
“Then, why’s the light on in the living room?”
Pulling up my hood to stop the windchill from freezing off my ears, I followed Landon across the yard to the front door. Landon glanced in the windows and pounded the side of his fist against the door.
Vera Rodriguez answered the door, her hair pulled into a high ponytail and dark bags under her eyes. Dressed in fluffy, long pajama pants and a Redwood Academy sweatshirt, Vera tilted her head and yawned. “What do you want?”
“Where’s João?”
“I was going to ask you guys that. He left me here with Ana, like, six hours ago.” She glanced over her shoulder at Ana, who was passed out on the couch with chocolate all over her lips and cartoons blasting on the TV. “I need to go.”
“He didn’t say where he was going?” Landon asked.
“No,” Vera said. “Can you watch her? I have a test tomorrow and need to study.”
“Yeah, we have to study too,” Landon said.
Vera rolled her eyes and padded back into the house. “Since when do you study?”
“We don’t,” I said, cutting into the conversation and stepping into the house. “We need to find João, though. Was he doing anything when he left?”
“I don’t know. He was dressed in a nice suit.”
“A suit?” Landon and I asked at the same time.
“He almost looked like he was going on a date,” Vera said.
Landon and I looked at each other, and he arched a brow. I shrugged my shoulders, not really believing that João would dress in a suit or go out on a date with anyone. He didn’t care about impressing anyone, especially not Imani.
“You think he’s out with Imani?” Landon asked.
“I don’t know,” I said, pulling out a wad of cash from my wallet and handing it to Vera. “Get back home and study. We’ll watch Ana.”
Vera thanked me, pulled on her coat, and hurried out the door while slinging her backpack over her shoulders. She ran across the street through the snowstorm, shielding her face from the harsh wind, and stepped into her house.
I shut the door and slumped down on a seat at the kitchen table.
Landon sat on the couch, phone on the coffee table, head resting against the back of the sofa, and eyes closed. “Why wouldn’t either of them tell us they were going out together tonight?”
“He probably didn’t want us to get pissed off.”
“Get pissed off?” Landon asked, glancing over at me. “You get pissed about Imani being with someone else?”
Though Imani might’ve had a thing with Landon and they might’ve been a couple and exchanged I love yous, that didn’t mean that I didn’t feel something for her too. I had spent a couple nights with her alone, and nothing had ever felt better.
Even if they were my best friends, I could still be jealous.
“Does it matter?” I asked, pulling my computer out of my backpack and opening it up on the kitchen table. After typing in my password, I opened the screens that I had been looking through before we visited Jace earlier.
After Nicole had accused me of stealing her father’s files, I had dived back into them and found shit that didn’t quite make sense. Like why Principal Vaughn of Redwood Academy had constant communication and a signed agreement with Nicole’s police chief father.
