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Akio nodded. “They don’t have any plans that I know of yet, but I will let you know. I don’t want Imani to get in the middle of this. All she’s trying to do is get out of Redwood. If she can get through the rest of this year alive, then she’ll be safe.”
“Why are you fucking doing this?” I asked.
“Because I don’t want Imani to get hurt.”
“Why?”
“Because I care about her.”
“Do you like her?”
“As a friend,” Akio said. “Nothing more, Kai. I swear. I like someone else.”
“Who?” I pressed because if he withheld any information on his parents wanting to hurt Imani, then I would hurt the person who he cared about the most. Living in Redwood wasn’t all fun and games. It was blackmail like this.
And I didn’t give a fuck about playing along.
As long as Imani was safe.
Akio shook his head. “Nobody. You don’t even know—”
“Who?” I asked, hand behind my back and clutching my gun to let him know that I was serious.
Akio might carry a gun, but he didn’t use it and wasn’t comfortable using it the way that I was. If he was, he would’ve killed that guard who had tried to kill Imani.
“Nicole,” Akio said, shielding his face from me. “Okay? I like Nicole.”
I let my gun go and scrunched my nose. “The cheerleader?”
“Yes, the cheerleader.”
My lips curled into a smile, and I laughed. I couldn’t stop myself. Akio and Nicole, huh? That was not what I had expected in the slightest. Nicole would never ever like someone like Akio. All she did was flirt with the football team and cry to her police chief daddy.
“If you withhold any information about your parents, I’ll torture Nicole in front of you.” I glanced down at the blood by his feet, then back up at him. “And you know that I’m not fucking around. Get me information, Akio.”
