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She wasn’t fine.

She just didn’t have the energy to make a decision.

It wasn’t my place to say that, though.

“What I need from you,” he started, but I shook my head.

He didn’t even have to say it.

“Consider his ass delivered,” I told him. “I saw the security cameras.”

Blue blinked, and shook his head, probably clearing away whatever visual that brought to mind. “Hold nothing back. Use any and every resource, every connection.”

“Understood.”

Putting his hands to my shoulders, Blue looked me right in the eyes. “I want him whole.”

I raised my eyebrows, confused. “After what this motherfucker did?”

Blue shook his head. “Let me rephrase that,” he offered, dropping his hands. “I want himalive. Whatever happens after that is for Tati to decide.”

I nodded, understanding. “Did she say anything?” I asked. “Not that she needs to. Like I said, he’s all over the cameras.”

“Which I don’t understand,” Blue said, crossing his arms and leaning back against the wall. “Does he think we won’t come for him?”

I sighed. “I’ve been wondering the same thing. He was drunk when he got over here, and I don’t think it was planned, but… you would think he knew better than to give in to some shit like this. And if he knows better but still did it anyway, he has to believe he’s going to be shielded from the consequences.”

Blue nodded. “Yeah. We need to find out who his financial clients are, probably some corrupt politician or something.Fuck.I can’t believe I didn’t—” He stopped, shaking his head as he tried to calm whatever was happening in his mind.

He pushed off from the wall, swiping a hand over his head. “Her pops… he died in the hospital, not on the scene. I talked to him,” Blue explained. “I promised him, that I wouldn’t let anything happen to her. I’ve been talking to Ozzy about security—hiredsecurity. I hadn’t brought it up to Tati yet ’cause I knew she wasn’t gonna like it, but with the shit we’re doing… we can’t just be out here with nobody on our back. I thought we had time.”

I nodded.

Theydidneed real security, especially now that they were dipping into the drug business—legal or not. I’d even considered bringing it up to them myself, but had held off, not wanting anything in the way of what I needed to do first.

“This shit isn’t your fault,” I told him.

“It’s Kev’s fault,” Blue agreed. “He did what he did. There’re no excuses for that, and he’s gonna get his. But if I’d done what IknewI should’ve done. Thenthis?Wouldn’t have happened to my fuckingsister. She’s… how am I gonna explain this to Carmen?”

He scrubbed a hand over his face, staring at nothing for a moment before he shook his head. “I’m gonna go back in here and see what she needs. Whatever fucking secret society black ops shit you gotta do, get it done. I want my hand around his neck in the next twenty-four hours.”

I shook my head. “It won’t take that long.”

“You were right to contact me.”

“I don’t need your validation. I know I was right to call,” I countered, then immediately tamped down my misplaced frustration. The shrewdness of the decision hadn’t made it any easier to be sitting across from Alicia again, when I still hadn’t processed my feelings from the last “run in”.

But at least this time I was fully lucid.

When I’d left Tati’s house and hadn’t found Kev at any of the first obvious places —his house,Bottoms Up, his mother’s house,Club Allure, or his office, I’d made the call to Alicia.

It probably wouldn’t have taken more than a few hours to find him on my own, but I didn’t want to spend a few hours doing that—I wanted his assnow. With everything at her disposal, Alicia could make that happen.

I didn’t have the patience to allow my pride to keep me from asking for her help.

Especially when I considered what had, so far, been left unsaid.

“This shit is my fault,” I told her, speaking aloud the thought that had been plaguing my mind since the door of Tati’s bedroom. I’d come to Alicia’s estate and had spent the last hour waiting for an update from the team she put on it.

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