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“No, not yet.” I settled back on the couch. “I figured Alexander would do that for me, but I don’t know if he has yet. I didn’t ask the last time I chatted with Alexander.”
“Forgive me for saying this, but…none of this seems streamlined,” Sutton remarked. “Like, I don’t know. I expected a more…detailed plan, I guess.”
I laughed at that because she was right. “I did have a more streamlined plan for this. I had all the details down pat.” I glanced around the room. “Then all you guys showed up, and well…those plans changed. Now, I’m sort of winging it.”
Rylee’s eyes nearly bugged out of her head. “Winging it? You’re winging murder?”
I glanced over at Saxton. “Someone once told me that you needed to be able to…improvise if needed.” I tossed Saxton a wink, and the cocky jerk winked back.
“There’s improvising and then there’s winging it, Kincaid,” Hastings grumbled. “I don’t think killing someone should be…winged.”
“Look, I know what I’m doing,” I semi-lied. “Even if the circumstances have changed a bit, the killing part hasn’t. I still have a solid plan to kill Donovan, no matter if I have to or not.”
“Why the change of heart?” Saxton asked. “I thought killing one or all of them was the endgame.”
“It was,” I replied. “But that was before all this happened.” I gestured towards everyone in the room. “That was before so many people were involved.” I let out a deep breath. “You were protected and no one else mattered, but that’s not the case now.”
“What about your parents?” Sutton asked.
I looked over at her. “What do you mean?”
Her pretty face looked upset, and those green eyes of hers were swirling with compassion when she said, “Well, you’re the only one left, Kincaid. What would it do to your parents if they lost you, too? Sure, they’d do anything to keep you out of prison, but…what if something goes wrong and you get killed instead? What would losing both their children do to your parents?”
Her words weren’t anything that I haven’t already considered. My parents would be devastated. It would probably be something that they could never come back from. However, I hadn’t let myself think on that too much these past eight years. I hadn’t let myself think on anything that might cause me to change my mind about Apollo.
“It would ruin them,” I admitted. “But they’d understand it.”
“I have a letter that she’s written for them in the event the worst happened,” Saxton informed her. “It explains everything.”
I could feel Fox’s hand on my thigh, and it was comforting. “Like I said, everything’s been planned out in detail.” I smiled at everyone. “Then you people came along.”
Rylee smiled back. “And I’m glad we did.”
“So, now what?” Ross asked.
“I regroup,” I answered simply.
“What if they go to the governing panel first?” Hastings asked. “I mean, someone had to help them cover it up, right?”
She was right.
I just had to find out who our fourth player was.
