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KAI
“You’re fucking shoving your elbow into my bandage,” Landon said between clenched teeth at João.
We sat in the back of Jace Harbor’s father’s car, more so in the trunk, so we could sneak into the police chief’s neighborhood.
I tightened my hand around the black ski mask and glanced to the front of the car when Jace stopped.
“Jace Harbor …”
The guard at the neighborhood gates flashed his light into the car to look into the backseat. I ducked my head and hoped that he wouldn’t search the trunk, but from what I had researched, this security guard barely got off his ass, so we should be good.
“Who are you here to see?”
“Who I come to see here every time, Jack,” Jace said. “Nicole.”
From the way he had said her name, I could tell that he really didn’t want to be here. After what had happened with Allie last night, I heard that he had nearly drunk himself into an early grave. If it wasn’t for his friend Jamal helping him out, I doubted he would’ve even woken up.
No matter how much Jace Harbor wanted Allie to think that he didn’t love her still, he did.
He fucking did.
Just like I liked Imani.
I glanced up behind the very last row of seats to see the security guard scanning Jace’s license. He opened the gates for Jace, and Jace rolled up my window as soon as he could. I pulled out my laptop and tapped through a couple screens, hacking into the cameras posted on every street corner in this neighborhood and shutting them down.
Then, I texted Jace.
Me: Cameras are down.
Jace pulled over to the curb near some large shrubs and popped the trunk. João hopped out first and slid into the passenger seat, and then I jumped out and helped Landon out of the trunk, opening the backseat and handing him his ski mask.
When we all sat in the car, João lit a cigarette and took two puffs. “Last chance to turn back, Harbor.”
Jace tightened his grip on the steering wheel and continued to drive. I glanced into the rearview mirror to see a car about a half-mile down the road that had been following behind us now for the past two miles. Nobody else had noticed it yet, except me.
And if it was anyone other than Imani, I would’ve told Jace to take a couple circles around the neighborhood to lose them. But even after we had warned Imani to stay away from this business because it was risky, she couldn’t.
I’d punish her for it later.
Jace pulled into Nicole’s driveway.
“Huh?” João asked. “Still in?”
“We’re going through with it.” Jace yanked the key out of the ignition. “Get me what I need.”
After Jace hopped out of the car and walked to the front door, I pulled the ski mask over my face and secured my laptop in the trunk. Based on what I had read about the police chief’s security system, once Jace disabled it, we would have ten minutes, max, unless Jace put it off completely.
But I doubted he knew how to do that.
“Hey, Jacey,” Nicole said, pulling the door open in a silky robe. “I was just freshening up.”
Jace stepped into the house. “You look good.”
Yet again, the words didn’t match his tone.
When the door closed, João glanced into the backseat. “You think he’ll actually be able to disable the security system? He’s not as tech savvy as you.”
“He’ll do it.” I quietly opened the back door and stepped out of the car. “Come on. We won’t have much time once he does.”
I grabbed all the essentials I needed for sneaking into the police chief’s office, which was most likely locked, even in a secure house like his. I walked with Landon and João to the front door. Jace stood in the kitchen, downing a glass of wine faster than I had seen anyone drink.
He poured two more glasses, then fumbled with the security system in the hallway. When he pulled away, he glanced out the front door at us and curtly nodded, as if to give us the go-ahead, and then he walked back into the living room with a glass of wine for him and a glass of wine for Nicole.
João opened the front door, the house staying quiet, and snuck in with Landon right behind him. I glanced over my shoulder and back at the street, spotting Imani and Akio driving slowly by Nicole’s house and looking at me.
Her brown eyes widened slightly when she saw me staring back. I balled my hands into fists, wondering why the fuck he was with her, and vowed to myself that the first thing I’d do when I saw her pretty face again was bound every part of her body until she became immobile and punish her for following us and getting involved.
