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“I gave her my word that this would be handled,” I tell them. They both shift their gazes to mine.
“You did?”
“Yeah. It’s complicated,” I tell them. Demon nods as if he understands, but he doesn’t. Raven just looks up at me and smiles before walking away and heading inside.
“What’s goin’ on, Cross?”
“That guy traded her for drugs. Traded her right into the traffickin’ ring.”
“Fuckin’ hell,” Drake curses.
“Yeah.”
“So we kill the motherfucker. Simple as that,” Drake says.
“It’s not that simple,” I tell him.
“Why not?” Demon asks.
“He’s my half-brother.”
“Fuck. What the fuck?” Drake yells. I agree. What the fuck, indeed.
“And you didn’t know about this shit?”
“No. I don’t talk to him. Never really have. I only found Raven at his house when my mom asked me to check in on him.”
“You don’t talk to her either, though.” I nod my head.
“Yeah, I know. It’s fucked up.”
“What do you wanna do here?” Demon asks. I shrug. I don’t fucking know what to do. I tug my hand through my hair before Drake pulls his phone out. Then he passes it to me. There’s live footage of the basement. Luke is tied to a chair in the middle of the room, and Raven, my Raven, sits in the corner with her knees pulled to her chest, tugging at her hair. She’s like a caged animal waiting to snap.
“Fuck,” I mumble.
“She wants him dead?”
“Wouldn’t you? He fuckin’ traded her into that hell.”
“And you don’t want him dead?”
“It’s not that. I don’t fuckin’ know what to do, brother. I mean, he deserves to die for what he did to her, what he put her through. Any other person and I would have let her slit his goddamn throat on the spot.”
“But he’s blood,” Drake adds.
“Not so much. I don’t look at him as family.”
“Then what’s the issue?”
“Can I fuckin’ live with her knowin’ what I know?” I ask them.
“That’s a tough decision, Cross. One you gotta make on your own. Who means more to you?” Fuck. This is harder than I thought it would be. I look back down at the phone and look at her. I watch her rock in the corner, and I know she means more to me than him. She always has. From the first day I laid eyes on her. I knew there was something special in that girl. Something I wanted.
“I need her,” I mumble under my breath.
“There’s your answer.”
Chapter Sixteen
