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Kai waved his cigarette in the air. “I’m not going back to class, Vaughn. Don’t even try.”
After I stood there for a few moments, not knowing what to say, Kai looked over his shoulder at me.
“What’re you doing, skipping class?” he asked, holding out a cigarette for me to puff on.
I ignored his offer and sat next to him. “I need to talk to you about Jace.”
“We don’t talk about jobs or clients.” Kai tossed the cigarette on the step in front of him and stomped it out. “You know that, Allie. I can’t give up shit about him, or he doesn’t pay.”
Snow drifted down around us, my breath coming out as a white fog, looking like I was smoking with one of Poison’s finest. “I don’t need information on him. I just need you to cut off communication with him, stop giving him drugs. It’s going to ruin his chances of getting to the NFL, if he gets addicted.”
Kai paused for a moment. “I thought you hated him after what he did to you. Why do you care about what happens to him from his own senseless decisions?”
I pressed my lips together and glanced down at the slush by my feet, watching it melt as I stomped on it. I shrugged. “I don’t know,” I whispered. “Just, please, don’t give him any more shit.”
The front door opened, and João walked out of the building, zippering up his coat. I swallowed hard and stood up before João could ask any questions. I didn’t particularly like the man, but I could tolerate Kai.
“What’s going on here?” João asked.
“Nothing,” I said quickly.
Kai stood up next to me and stuffed his hands into his pockets. “If he pays up, he gets what he wants, Allie. We can’t do anything for you.”
After staring between him and João, I excused myself to go back into the building, wishing that I could’ve convinced him otherwise but I couldn’t get through to Kai with João there. João was the boss, made the decisions, and told them what to do and when to do it. He was intimidating, to say the absolute least.
I hurried into the building and up the stairs, needing to get back to class so I wouldn’t seem suspicious.
But as I was passing the restrooms, Jace walked out of the men’s room and grabbed my upper arm. “We need to talk.”
