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“Where are you taking me?” Imani said from the backseat, staring into the rearview mirror at me.
Full lips pressed together, plucked eyebrows arched in an angry glare, and skin glowing under the setting sun, she was like the rest of the Redwood rich when in the presence of someone from the slums.
And it fucking disgusted me.
I tightened my hand around the steering wheel and stared through the windshield at the red light. Wherever the fuck Landon had gone, fuck, he’d better have needed it because I didn’t want to deal with her. Soon, like all the girls at Redwood, she’d be nagging and complaining because the car didn’t have heated seats or some shit.
“Are you both going to ignore me?”
Kai glanced over at me from the passenger seat.
“We’re going to show you what Redwood is really like,” I said.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” she asked, pink tongue flicking against her white teeth.
“It means, you shut the fuck up until we tell you that you can talk,” I snapped.
Landon must’ve loved getting his dick hard for her too much because I didn’t know what kind of self-respecting person would ever want to deal with a girl like her, who had grown up on the other side of town. I couldn’t stand any one of them, except Jace Harbor—at times. He knew what went on with wealthy families and didn’t like it either.
Kai glanced over at me, tightness in his mouth that told me he didn’t like this.
Well, fuck, neither did I.
But Kai had other reasons.
“Do you think this is a good idea?” Kai said, glancing into the rearview mirror at Imani, who flared her nostrils at us now and crossed her arms over her chest, inadvertently pressing her small breasts together. He shook his head. “I don’t think she knows anything.”
“I don’t,” Imani chirped from the backseat.
“She doesn’t need to know anything,” I growled.
Imani didn’t need to know anything because she was valuable to influential people. She could be shaped, molded, changed from the good-girl star student to a dirty little slut who would do anything for us. Not only could we use that against her, but also against all these people in this town.
Nobody was safe from us. We would burn this town down.
“How’s your sister?” Imani asked suddenly, breaking the silence and staring at me through the mirror with those intense brown eyes.
Unable to stop myself, I tightened my grip on the steering wheel. “I already told you, that’s none of your business.”
Before she could push it any longer, Kai’s phone buzzed. He held it up to his ear and didn’t say a word—very like Kai. I continued driving out of the wealthy and toward the ghetto. Kai looked over at me and nodded.
“Akio said he wants to meet,” Kai said, pulling the phone away slightly.
Slamming my foot down on the brakes, I stopped the car with a skrrt.
Imani flew forward in her seat, the seat belt digging into her collarbone, and then smacked me on the back of the fucking head. “What the fuck was that? You could’ve killed us.”
“We’re going to see Akio.”
Kai cleared his throat, phone still pressed to his ear. “Actually, he’s only going to meet if it’s with me and me alone.”
I parked the car in the middle of the road and held out my hand. “Give me the phone.”
“He’s serious about thi—”
“Give me the fucking phone, Kai.”
