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“He’s taking part in it, isn’t he?” I gritted my teeth and glared through the windshield. “I can’t fucking believe this. I should’ve known because he’s such a fucking pervert but …” I ran my hand through my hair again. “Fuck. Skylar was really in the ring?”
“That’s how she met your father, I believe.”
Bile rose in my throat. “Bro, I’m about to fucking puke. The fuck is wrong with him?”
Avery rubbed the lines on his forehead. “As soon as I found out that the mob was involved, I tried to stop it because I knew something like this was bound to happen to one of my students.”
“Can’t we go to the police?”
“No.”
I shook my head. “I know you can’t because of your relations to the mob, but I can.”
“You don’t get it,” Avery said. “The police chief is in on it too. This town has gone to shit.”
So many emotions ran through my body—anger, confusion, hurt. I fucking hated Redwood with a passion and wanted to see it burn, just like the fucking rest of the students here, like João and Poison. How could people be so fucking terrible?
“What can we do?” I asked. “This isn’t fair.”
“It gets worse, Blaise,” Callan Avery said, staring through the windshield emptily. He clenched his sharp jaw and shook his head, veins pressing against the backs of his hands from his harsh grip. “Where’s Vera?”
“She’s at work,” I said, shaking my head and wondering why he was asking about her, especially after he told me all this. Couldn’t he give me, like, five fucking minutes to process this all? “How can this get any worse?”
“Because your mother found out that your father was cheating again.”
Fuck.
Avery let out a low breath. “And she hired the mob to kill Skylar.”
“That fucking bitch has known the truth this entire fucking time?!”
“Your mother tried to hire the mob to kill Vera’s mother years ago too, when she found your father and her mother together in their bed. But the boss refused because Vera’s father did work for them every now and then.”
So, it was true. Vera’s mother and my father really had been together.
My brows furrowed. If they didn’t kill Vera’s mother because her husband was in the mob, then why would the mob kill Skylar, who was in the sex trafficking ring that the mob basically fucking conducted?
“It doesn’t make sense,” I whispered to myself.
“Where does Vera work?” Avery asked, turning on the car.
“Why do you keep asking about her, like you haven’t been telling me all of Redwood’s secrets? This doesn’t make any sense. Why would the mob kill Skylar if they needed her to be part of their trafficking—”
“Because your mother promised them that Vera would take Skylar’s place.”
ChapterSeventy-Six
VERA
“Why don’t you put away those last few books from the cart, and then you can head home for the night?” Sue offered, glancing around at the library, which had been much quieter than usual tonight. “I can close up.”
I placed a couple more returned books on the cart. “Are you sure, Sue? I can—”
“Go home once you’re finished, sweetheart. It’s quiet tonight, and I’m sure you have much better things to do on a Saturday night than I do.” She laughed softly to herself. “I remember when my sister and I were your age.”
“I bet you both were rebels,” I said, smiling back at her.
Sue blushed. “Oh, stop it.”
