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LANDON
“They fucking destroyed this place.”
I stood in front of my parents’ house and looked from window to window. All of them had been smashed through, glass littered around the cement sidewalks. I didn’t know if I wanted to step into the house.
“I took a look around this morning,” Kai said, holding Ana on his hip. “It’s not that bad.”
After shoving my key into the front door, the door creaked open. I didn’t even have to turn the key. The lock must’ve been broken from whichever police officer had raided the place late last night.
Inside, drawers were pulled open. Papers littered the floor. Shelves were knocked over. I headed right toward the basement because they might’ve raided my house and found nothing, but that was because we didn’t keep any important shit up here.
“The basement is clear,” Kai said, walking in behind me and setting Ana on the ground. “I swept it this morning for bugs, cameras, anything they might have placed there. They tried to get into our room in the back, but the alarm on the lock must’ve scared them off.”
I pulled out a broom from the closet and tossed it to Kai. “You find out who it was?”
Kai walked to one of the many broken windows in my house, beginning to sweep. “Not yet. They were pretty covered up but had one of those tattoos that all the Redwood cops have. I’m trying to find a match to anyone inside the police database.”
My lips curled into a smile as I grabbed a garbage bag from the kitchen. “You hacked into the Redwood Police database?”
Once he threw me a smirk, he swept the glass into a pile. “Of course I did. And you can stay at my place. This place is kinda fucked right now. If they raid you again, it’ll be easier to get in,” Kai said. “I have a couple spare rooms for you to crash.”
“I’ll stay there for a little while,” I said.
“But we gotta do all our business here and at the warehouse,” he continued, sweeping the glass into the garbage bag. “I don’t want anyone finding where I live. We got all the money and guns stashed there.”
If they found Kai’s place, we’d be fucked. We never did business there and had only brought Imani there a couple times. Nobody else had really stepped foot inside his house, and we all wanted to keep it that way.
His lips curled into a small smirk as he swept some glass off the wooden floor. “I’m sure Imani would love to come over and help you get set up. The other day at lunch, she was talking about rearranging her room, and fuck, was she so excited.”
Jealousy, or maybe it was possessiveness, burned inside me. He looked so happy, thinking about her.
I glanced over at Ana, who sat on the living room couch on his phone, watching a video on YouTube. She giggled, her small nose scrunching up, then looked over at us. “How do you spell brigadeiro?”
“Why do you want to spell that?” I asked.
“Because I want to watch videos of people making them.”
“Why?”
“Because I want to make them for João. He’s been sad lately.”
“What do you think João and Imani were talking about today?” Kai asked me, a rigidness suddenly in his voice.
It was as if he didn’t know what to think of João and Imani’s conversation at the mall either. After Imani had told me they were in a fight last night, it had bothered me all night.
“João usually gets pissy, but not like that.”
“I know,” Ana announced, grinning as Kai changed the YouTube video to a How to Make Brigadeiros by Yourselfvideo. “João likes Imani!”
I picked up the papers from the floor and clenched my jaw.
“We know that,” Kai said, emptying another batch of glass into the trash. “What’s he pissy about today though? It has to be something big, if he won’t stop acting like a bitch, especially to her while Ana is around.”
“Maybe she doesn’t like him back,” I joked.
But it was far from it because I knew that Imani liked him back. I had seen the way she looked at João, even when he was being an asshole to her. Hell, he’d even brought her out on a date that she wanted to go on with him.
“He loves her!” Ana said, looking at the glass on the floor and picking up a piece.
