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Ana lay on the couch, sleeping, with a plate of brigadeiros on her lap and chocolate all over her mouth. I turned off the TV and grabbed the half-eaten plate from her, then set it on the table. Picking up my phone, I cursed under my breath.
No new messages.
Three entire hours of nothing.
Something wasn’t right. My stomach tightened. I hoped João’s mom was okay.
I opened our Discord chat and typed to the guys.
Me: Is everything okay?
Me: Where are you guys?
I paced around the house, picking up all the dirty clothes and putting them into the hamper, deciding to clean up a bit to help keep myself calm. But my stomach was in knots, and I kept tugging on my hair. I just … I wanted to make sure they were okay.
As annoyed with them as I was, I hated being left in the dark like this.
João wasn’t okay right now, and if something happened to his mother, he would go off the fucking rails and burn this town to the ground. I tapped through the channels on Discord and stared at my messages. Kai was the only person out of the three who was online at the moment, and still, he didn’t message me back. Maybe that was because I had been a bitch to him lately.
Me: Please, let me know what’s going on.
Me: I’m nervous.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the front door. Ana stirred on the couch, turning onto her side and smearing chocolate on the torn black sofa. I hurried over to the door before they could knock again and wake her.
Looking out the window, I saw Kai standing outside with his hands stuffed into the pockets of his oversized black cargo pants. I pulled open the door and wrapped him into a long hug, thanking whoever it was watching us that he was okay.
Unlike João, he didn’t hesitate to wrap his arms around me. I closed my eyes and breathed in his scent, remembering the way I’d felt in his arms the other night after we slept together. He had held me so tightly to him, his body shaping against mine.
“You’re here,” I whispered, glancing up at him. “Is everything okay?”
Kai glanced into the room. “Is Ana around?”
After hiking my thumb back to the couch, I stepped to the side to let him into the room. He shook the snow off his gray sweatshirt and stepped into the house, glancing at Ana sleeping soundly in the living room. Instead of answering my questions, he walked over to her and scooped her into his arms.
“Kai,” she said sleepily, smiling up at him with her eyes closed.
“Go back to sleep, Ana. I’m taking you to your bedroom.”
“Okay,” she whispered, her small and quiet snores filling the living room again.
He disappeared down the hallway and into a back bedroom for a couple moments. I waited impatiently in the living room, gathering the clothes and throwing them into the washer they had in the kitchen, pressing the on button and watching it fill with water.
God, I was so nervous.
If Kai didn’t want to talk in front of Ana, then that meant something bad had happened.
Something really bad.
“You’re doing their laundry,” Kai said, leaning against the kitchen counter, one shoulder against the wall. He moved closer to me and looked down. “And you cleaned up?”
I rubbed my hands together. “I didn’t know what else to do. I couldn’t just sit around.”
Kai gently grasped my jaw. “You’re a good girl, Imani Abara.”
My breath caught in my throat as I stared up into his dark, hooded eyes. All those fears of being with three men who killed people ruthlessly suddenly started to dissipate. They might have been rough with others, but to me … they were soft and vulnerable guys who needed a bit of love.
