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“What? You don’t wanna sleep with me?”
Steel’s exasperated sigh was like music to Kai’s ears.
“Remind me again why I’m doing this?” Steel muttered to himself.
“Because you’re a good guy?”
Steel’s eyes clashed with his, his gaze searing.
Fuck. If he kept looking into that bluish-gray, he might just melt into a puddle of lust.
Kai cleared his throat and tore his gaze away from Steel.
“Do you have a phone I can use?”
Steel gave him a withering look.
“No.”
Kai pressed his lips together for a second before saying, “I need to warn Nic. Uh, Hawk. You know him as Hawk. He’s a King.”
“What makes you think whoever you’re running from won’t be tracing that call?”
“Um, because it’s from a phone they don’t know and I’m calling Nic’s husband?”
Steel looked like he was about to argue with him, but then he dropped his head back with a loud sigh and dug a phone out of his jacket pocket. The second it was in Kai’s hands, he dialed Elijah’s number.
Steel stayed where he was, staring Kai down. He was probably waiting to monitor Kai’s conversation, but he was shit out of luck unless he knew sign language.
He put the phone on the counter up against a vase with fake flowers so he could use both hands to sign.
Elijah’s face appeared on his screen and from his ruffled appearance, he’d definitely been asleep.
“Hi,” Kai signed, not at all surprised when all Elijah did was glare at him. “I fucked up. Big surprise.”
Elijah groaned and then he was moving, the phone switching between showing Elijah’s chest and the ceiling. A few seconds later, Nic’s face appeared next to Elijah’s. He had sleep lines across one cheek and was rubbing the heels of his hands into his eyes.
“What?” Nic signed.
They’d gotten into the habit of only using ASL over the phone for Elijah’s sake. It had taken him a while to learn between jobs, but he was pretty confident in his signing abilities now.
“Isaac put a hit on me.”
Nic’s eyes went wide, and he cursed. Kai glanced up at Steel when the man shifted. There was a slight bit of confusion flashing across the man’s face, but other than that, he kept his expression blank.
“How the fuck did that happen?” Nic asked while signing, though the only two words he signed were ‘fuck’ and ‘happen.’
“I killed someone I shouldn’t.”
At that, they both groaned.
“Hey now, there’s no need for that,” Kai said, acting affronted. He wasn’t. Not in the least. He was a dumbass, and they all knew it.
“I knew this would happen,” Nic signed.
Kai rolled his eyes at that. “Sure.”
He didn’t sign the next part, knowing Nic would prefer Elijah didn’t hear it. He pretended to scratch his nose so his hand would be covering his mouth and making it impossible for Elijah to read his lips.
