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Fuck.
Kai had spotted me.
I had tried so hard to hide from them, stayed behind car after car on the way over to Nicole’s place, and had even driven about a half-mile behind them when there weren’t any cars between us.
I swallowed hard and focused on the road in front of me, my stomach in tight knots.
These past few days, they had been so serious about me staying away from this particular job, so much so that I desperately wanted to know what they were up to. If only I could’ve hidden myself better because now, they were going to explode on me.
And not in the good kind of way.
I didn’t care that he was about to chew my ass out for snooping, but … I didn’t want Landon to find out, too, and be disappointed in me. I just wanted to help them out. They’d taken me this far into Redwood’s bullshit, and they might’ve played a hand in Jace hurting Allie.
It wasn’t cool to me that, suddenly, I couldn’t come.
“Are you okay?” Akio asked, furrowing his brows and staring at me in confusion. “You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
“Not a ghost,” I said, taking another drive by Nicole’s house. “But maybe my death …”
If they had already seen me, what did it matter if we staked out the place for the next few minutes, right? Nobody was going to find out that we might’ve been stalking the Poison boys to get some information on Jace and his shitty life choices.
“Fuck it,” I mumbled to myself, parking the car across the street and cutting all the lights. I pulled out a pair of binoculars that I had in my car when I used to stalk Jace Harbor after he hurt Allie the first time. I had never trusted that bastard and needed to know why he would break it off after confessing his love to her.
And this bitch Nicole was always the damn problem.
“Why do you have binoculars in your—”
“Bird-watching, Akio,” I snapped, zooming in so I could see more clearly. “AKA none of your business.” I nodded to the glove compartment. “There is another pair in there for you, if you want to snoop. I know you like her, so you might as well see how big of a bitch she is.”
I knew that I really shouldn’t be rude to him about who he liked, but I still couldn’t really understand his fascination with her. Out of all the girls in Redwood who would love to be with someone like him, who had both brains and cash, he liked her.
“Why do you care that I like her so much?” Akio asked, putting the binoculars to his face.
“Because friends don’t let friends make bad decisions,” I said.
“You let Allie fall for Jace again.”
Cutting my eyes to him, I gave him the finger behind his back. “That’s different.”
Back to spying, I leaned closer to the passenger window. But no matter the angle I got, I really couldn’t see into the house. We were both too far away and not in a good place to look into any of the first-floor windows. And if we were, most were covered with thick curtains.
After pulling the key from the ignition, I nodded to Akio. “Come on.”
“Come on?” he asked.
I snuck out of the car and shut the door quietly behind me, sprinting across the street and slipping between Nicole’s house and her hedges. Akio stared at me with wide eyes from the passenger door, then cursed out loud and ran after me.
“What are we doing?” he asked. “We can’t stalk someone. It’s against the law!”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” I said, waving him off. “There is a better place to see into her house around the back.”
“How do you know this?!” Akio asked, hurrying after me. “It’s Poison, isn’t it?”
Stopping on my heel, I whirled around and poked a finger into his chest. “No, it’s not Poison. I’ve done this, far before I ever met them, so stop thinking that I’m such a good girl, and let’s have fun, snooping on Jace Harbor and the girl you like … and Poison.”
After Akio finally got over the initial shock and relaxed, he followed me around the back. We pressed our bodies flat against the house and inched closer to the back door that led to the pool. They had curtains to cover the glass, but I doubted the police chief let Nicole close them.
