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“You’re staying here tonight. I can’t let you go back over there. Jace would try to kill me.” Kai placed a hand on her shoulder and turned toward her. “And, plus, it’s the only way you’re safe.”
“Why does he trust you guys?” she asked.
“Jace?” Kai asked, brows furrowed. “Because we do good work for him.”
“And why did my dad trust you?”
All the emotion on Kai’s face evaporated. He sat back up very uncomfortably and shifted in his seat. “What makes you think your dad trusted me?” he asked. Not trusted Poison, but him—Kai.
Something had gone on between Allie’s father and Kai, and I didn’t think that Kai wanted her to know about it yet. If he did, he would’ve told her every secret that he had about him. He wasn’t ready for her to know.
“A couple weeks ago, you said he did a favor for you,” she said to him. “What was it?”
Kai tore his gaze away from her and grabbed her beer. “You keep asking me questions that you know I can’t answer about our business.” He was suddenly cold and distant even. “Ask me something I can answer.”
“No.” She crossed her arms and lay back on the couch. “I want you to answer this for me. He was my father. I want to know what kind of business he was in before he was killed.”
“Keep dreamin’,” João said from the other side of the couch. “If you want to know what happens when we do business with someone, why don’t you offer up a job, and we’ll show you how it works?”
She narrowed her eyes at him and then tore her gaze away and stayed silent, bleeding all over my couch. But I didn’t give a fuck anymore. This was all my parents’ shit, and they wouldn’t be back for it.
