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After Allie convinced me that she was okay—I knew that she wasn’t but that she needed to clear her head—I texted Mom that I’d be hanging out with Akio today and drove to Landon’s house. João’s car and Kai’s bike were parked out front.
I slid up behind the black Mercedes with tinted windows and pulled the key out of the ignition, rushing up to the back door to the basement and banging my fist against it. “Open up! I know you guys are in there.”
A couple moments later, Kai opened the door with his hair a mess and his eyes tired, as if he had just woken up. He wiped them and stepped out of the way for me to walk down the stairs. I marched down to the basement to see Landon and João sitting up on the couch, yawning.
“What the fuck, Imani?” João said. “It’s nine in the morning on a Saturday.”
“Yeah, it is, and I’ve been up since last night.” I crossed my arms and narrowed my eyes at each one of them.
“So, you decided to bother us?” João asked.
“What are you guys doing with Jace Harbor?” I asked, anger rushing through my veins at the thought of them being involved with the way that Jace had acted toward Allie yesterday. If they’d had any-fucking-thing to do with it, I swore to God that they wouldn’t get any pussy for days.
Weeks maybe.
They might be the guys I was fucking, but Allie was my best friend.
“Nothing,” João said.
I glanced over at Kai, who refused to look at me, then at Landon, who looked away after we made eye contact. Something was up with them, and I needed to find out what it was because I refused to let Allie get in the middle of this.
“What happened?” I asked, making my voice sterner so they’d take me seriously.
But they were Poison. They faced people far more dangerous than me. They wouldn’t admit to anything even if I pulled a gun on them and tortured them for days. Their lips were sealed the fuck shut.
And I loathed that.
Another moment passed, and I decided to take a different approach.
I sat beside Landon, curled up into his lap, and pushed some hair out of his face. “Can you please tell me what happened? Allie’s hurt.”
“Allie?” Kai asked, sitting up and suddenly interested. “What happened to her?”
“Jace Harbor happened,” I said, confused at his sudden reaction to my best friend.
Kai clenched his jaw and cursed Jace under his breath. Jealousy bubbled inside of me, the more I studied him.
What the hell was that? Why is he acting like this about Allie? He is supposed to get pissed off when someone hurts me.
Angry, I turned back to Landon. “Please, Landon. I’m not going to tell anyone.”
The look in Landon’s eyes told me that he desperately wanted to tell me everything that was going on. But instead, he placed his callous hand on my thigh, squeezed lightly, and tore his gaze away. “I can’t. It’s too dangerous.”
“Please,” I pleaded, batting my lashes.
“No.”
Pissed off now, I scrambled off him, stood back up, and placed my hands on my hips. “I don’t understand you guys. First, you want me to be part of Poison; you get me deep in your shit and make me watch you kick the life out of two people, and now, you won’t tell me why you’re working with Jace.”
“We’re not working with Jace,” João said.
“You’re a terrible liar, João,” I said, nostrils flaring.
“We’re not.”
“Then, you wouldn’t mind if I—”
