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“You’re fucking sure that he knows?” I asked Kai, staring at him through my rearview mirror.
Landon sat beside me, clutching his side and grunting about the wound by his ribs that seemed to be getting worse by the fucking day.
“Yeah,” Kai said. “Nicole’s father knows his files have been taken.”
Jace Harbor pulled up his driveway and parked his car beside me. Allie sat in his passenger seat, eyes wide.
Kai glanced over at her, then back at me. “It’s fine that she’s here. She’s not going to ask any questions.”
After stepping out of the car, Jace nodded to me. We got out of the car and walked to the front door, not wanting to say this aloud anywhere out here. I didn’t know who the fuck was listening in on us.
Jace opened Allie’s door and grabbed her hand, leading her inside the house. He held the door open and locked it behind us. “What do you want?” he asked me.
Allie rocked back on her heels, standing behind Jace and staring between the three of us. She crossed her arms and glanced at Kai. “Before you leave, I need to talk to you,” she said to him, then disappeared into the living room.
“You have a problem,” I said to Jace.
“Me?” Jace asked.
“Nicole’s father found out about the missing evidence,” Landon said, crossing his arms over his chest. “He doesn’t know who did it, but he knows that it was sometime between Friday night and Tuesday morning.”
Jace tensed and glanced into the living room, where Allie sat on the couch on her phone.
“Since it wasn’t only your mother’s case that was stolen, he can’t pinpoint who it was. It could literally be anyone. Nicole has so many people over at her house all the time. The cheerleaders, football players, even some nobodies that she likes sleeping with,” I said. “But he knows that it’s gone, and Nicole tried to blame Kai yesterday.”
“You don’t want Allie hurt. You’d better have a plan to come out with it all,” Kai said to him, following his gaze into the living room. “Soon.”
Jace ran a hand over his face and groaned internally. “I need more time. I’m not ready. I don’t have everything I need or the people I need to get this information out. Once I release it, all of Redwood is going to rally behind my father’s back, and you fucking know it.”
I smirked and pulled a pack of cigarettes out of my back pocket, lighting one up in Mr. Moneybags’s living room. “Not if all of Redwood’s richest burn with him,” I said. “We have the information to blackmail and destroy some of the most prestigious families here. They can’t defend anyone else when their reputations are on the line.”
“You want to blackmail all of Redwood?” Jace asked.
I blew out a puff of smoke. “Redwood billionaires have treated the poor like we’re trash for the past hundred years. I know you would never understand that, as your daddy has given you everything, but it’s fucking time we push back. Fuck the billionaires. I want to watch them desperately grasp on to their hope as we crush them under our fucking boots.”
Jace rubbed his forehead and cursed.
“Are you in?” I asked.
It would happen with or without him anyway.
Jace ran his tongue against his teeth. “Once you take care of Carter for me, I’m in.”
“Take care of Carter,” Landon said, glancing at Kai. “We got that covered.”
“Looks like you got yourself a deal, Harbor,” I said, heading toward the door. “You’d better pull through for us.”
After Kai talked to Allie in the living room, I drove them back to Landon’s place, made up some excuse that I needed to watch Ana tonight so I couldn’t hang, and sped back home in time to find Vera, one of the nerds from school who lived across from me, standing at my front door.
I hurriedly got out of my car and nodded to her. “You’re going to do it?”
She pressed her lips together. “Sure.”
Once I kicked my shoes off at the front door, I let her into the house, passed Ana’s room to tell her that someone was babysitting her tonight, took a quick shower, and tried to pick out something that I could wear on this fucking date.
What the fuck did people even wear? Dating and girls were too fucking hard.
