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He pulled up to the big iron gate that looked anything but pleasant.
“Name,” a grumpy voice said when he pushed the button on the intercom.
“Kai. I’m here to see the family.”
“Hold, please.”
The gate opened a few seconds later.
He drove up the long driveway and parked in front of a huge fountain. It was just one of many extravagant things on the property. It was ridiculous, really.
He got out of the car and found a man waiting for him. He looked like a butler, but he wouldn’t be surprised if he carried a gun.
“Weapons?” the butler asked.
Kai shook his head and held out his arms to let him pat him down. The only thing he had on him was his phone. It would be enough. It had to be.
“Follow me, please.”
He was led through wide double doors, down a hall, and into a big open room with a lot of couches and a gold-coated fireplace. The couches were filled with people who looked like they were having a pleasant time. Their chatter ceased the second they saw him, though, and a well-dressed woman with long dark hair got up and herded the two kids who couldn’t have been older than six and four out of the room, giving Kai a look he wouldn’t forget. She was scared. Not of Kai, but, he assumed, of what she thought was about to happen there.
An older man with gray hair and a protruding belly got up, the rest following suit. Joseph Briggs. The head of the family and Abraham’s uncle.
He recognized a few of the others as well. One man stood out to him, though. He was the only one with brown curly hair and a darker skin tone. The rest of them were paler than their marble floors, all with varying shades of blond hair. The man stood off to the side by a window, arms crossed, and the tiniest of smiles on his lips as he watched.
Abraham had two siblings, Caleb and Phoebe. He’d met both of them before. They were standing on either side of Joseph in their expensive suits as if the clothes could somehow hide the ugliness inside them. They probably did to the world, but he got to see the unmasked version of them. He got to see the evil shining in their eyes.
“Have you come to die?” Joseph asked, his smug smile grating on Kai’s nerves.
Kai raised a brow at him.
“I’m here to set things straight,” he said, running his gaze across the people that made up the Briggs family. Most of them were looking at him with anger and scorn. One had the slightest bit of panic in her eyes though.
“I killed Abraham on Isaac’s orders.”
They all looked surprised, except for two of them.
“Isaac was hired to do it.”
“That motherfucker,” Caleb growled. “I knew we shouldn’t have gotten into business with him.”
Joseph stepped closer, making Kai tense up.
“Who hired him?”
Kai only needed to turn his head to look at the culprit. Phoebe straightened, eyes going wide.
“You’d better have some fucking proof of that,” Caleb snapped.
Phoebe gave Kai a smug smile that slid right off her face when he said, “Oh, I do. I have Isaac’s confession.”
Phoebe pulled a gun from the back of her suit pants, aiming it at Kai while she yelled, “He’s a fucking liar.”
“I’d be careful where you point that,” Kai said, dropping his gaze to the red dot on her chest.
“You motherfucker,” Phoebe hissed, lowering her gun.
Kai tilted his head to the side, brow raised.
