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JOÃO
An hour after the game, I stood with Jace, Landon, and Kai in Landon’s basement, waiting for the girls to show up because fiery Imani was bound to run in here with that mouth of hers, shouting about how we shouldn’t have done that.
On cue, the basement door swung open, and a furious Imani barreled down the stairs. “What the hell was that?!” she screamed at me.
I leaned against the wall with a cigarette between my lips.
“Are you guys dumb?!” She shoved me, her hands against my chest. “You are the stupidest fucking people I’ve met!”
I grasped her hands and shoved them off. “Don’t push me.”
Because her hands felt too good on me.
Imani continued to scream at all three of us now. “What’s wrong with you guys?! You can be thrown in jail. You can’t just send out a video to everyone around! Then throw a head into a football game?! Are you serious?!”
“Relax, Imani,” I said, knowing that she wouldn’t be able to handle this.
She always acted tough, but she would never do shit like this.
“Nobody is going to jail,” Landon continued, taking the pack of cigarettes from me and lighting one up. He puffed on it once and blew out a puff of smoke, slumping down on the couch and sighing. “Nothing will happen.”
“You don’t know that!” Imani continued.
Kai placed a hand on her shoulder and glanced at Allie for the quickest second, probably to make sure she was okay. Jace moved closer to Allie and brought her to the couch beside Landon, smoking.
“We’ve done this before,” Kai said, trying to soothe Imani, though he usually wasn’t one with many words. But with Imani, he had changed, and I didn’t like it. “We know how to clean shit up and hide the evidence. Don’t make a big deal out of it.”
Imani widened her eyes, shook her head, and backed away. “All three of you are insane.” She looked at Allie and Nicole. “Why aren’t you both freaking out more?! We just saw our principal’s head in the middle of the football field.”
Instead of freaking out like I’d thought she would, Allie blew out a long breath and shrugged her shoulders. She looked tired, and I didn’t blame her. Her principal had jerked off to her and her stepbrother fucking in the boys’ locker room.
“You guys can’t just—”
“Calm the fuck down!” I shouted, tired of hearing Imani’s mouth run, fury laced in my words. I put out my cigarette. “You know what we did when you got involved with us. I gave you a chance to leave. You didn’t. So, sit down and keep your mouth shut before someone hears you screaming at us for what happened.”
Imani marched right up to me and smacked me right across the face, leaving a big fat red handprint on my cheek. I clenched my jaw and narrowed my eyes at her as she muttered something under her breath.
“You want to say that a little louder?” I asked her, annoyed as fuck now because we had done exactly what she wanted—we had cut off his dick and killed the man. “Because you’re one more mistake away from me teaching you a fucking lesson on how to behave, Imani.”
Imani turned on her heel, walked to the other side of the room, and sat against the wall. “Fuck you, João. I hate you.”
When the room went quiet, Nicole turned to Jace. “Well …” She cleared her throat and adjusted herself in the seat beside Allie.
Allie sat up taller and narrowed her eyes at Nicole.
“My dad is going to blame you for letting those files leak,” Nicole said to Jace. “I know he will. He knows that you were the only person in my house the weekend all the files got stolen.”
Allie looked up at Jace and frowned. “Is that true?”
Jace tensed. “Allie, you know that I went—”
Allie shook her head and looked back at Nicole. “He’ll blame Jace?”
Nicole nodded, brows furrowed. “I know he will. He hates him.”
Landon waved his hand dismissively. “Don’t worry about the police chief. We’re taking care of him next. He’s the only person standing in the way of Redwood’s fall. All the other police officers don’t know shit about all the blackmail your father has been doing throughout the years.”
Nicole teetered back and forth on the sofa, toying with the ends of her skirt. “And me?”
