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“Ah.” Kai smiled wryly at Diesel. “Because he didn’t want Briggs’ family on his ass.”
“They’re too powerful for him to handle,” Nic added.
“So, are we supposed to go up against Isaac or Briggs’ family?” Texas asked.
“We expose Isaac,” Steel said. His gaze clashed with Kai’s, the determination swirling in those depths making his heart flutter. “Let Briggs’ family take care of him.”
He liked the sound of that. Two birds one stone, as Isaac so eloquently had put it. Get the heat off his back and get rid of Isaac. Win-win.
“You’re forgetting that Kai did kill Briggs,” Nic said. “They might not be so forgiving of that.”
Kai blew out a breath.
Damn. Nic was right.
“But Kai didn’t plan to kill him. Isaac set him up,” Steel said.
He thrust his lip out in a pout and muttered, “All that means is that I’m stupid.”
“We need to figure something out and soon,” Ares said, running his gaze over all the people in the room until he settled on Kai. “Because I doubt Isaac and the others are gonna delay their revenge too much longer.”
Steel
He could tell that Kai felt defeated. He’d told Steel that all he wanted was for this threat to be gone so they could be together. As much as he wanted to tell Kai that he’d run and hide with him, he knew it wasn’t a real option for either of them. Not unless they couldn’t do something about the threat, and they ended up putting everyone they cared about in danger. Only then would they go.
“I should’ve killed him,” Kai muttered.
He was sitting on the couch, legs folded under him and a sullen look on his face. Steel sat down next to him and put a hand on his thigh.
“Killed who?”
Kai looked up, something unreadable in his eyes.
“Isaac. I had him. I could’ve pulled the trigger.”
Steel’s heart was hammering so fast and hard that he felt like he might pass out at any second.
“Why didn’t you?”
“You,” Kai said in a whisper.
“Me?”
Kai nodded. “It would’ve been an assassination. Not self-defense. That’s not what I want. I’m done with that. I’ve taken enough lives.”
He wasn’t sure he’d ever felt anything like the warmth that spread through him at hearing Kai’s admission.
“I’m proud of you.”
Kai snapped his head up and gave him a strange look.
“Are you sick or something?”
Steel’s bark of laughter only made Kai frown harder at him.
“No. I’m not sick,” he said and pressed a quick kiss to Kai’s lips.
Kai rolled his eyes, so he kissed him again, just because he could. Kai loved him. He felt high from that knowledge.
