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“Thank goodness that you’re safe,” she said into my ear. “I thought it was Akio’s family.”
“I … I just killed in front of you, and you’re okay with that?” I asked, needing to make sure.
She might’ve seen people die before—we’d done some pretty fucked up shit with her around—but she’d never seen me kill anyone before. At least, not that I could recall.
But who the fuck knew? My head wasn’t in the right place right now. I was plagued with guilt for killing both my parents even though they’d deserved it. My parents might’ve been assholes, but at least they had both still been alive.
Now, nobody in Poison had anyone. Nobody except Imani.
“You were protecting me,” she said, stroking my face with her soft hand. “And you said it yourself … I’m Poison now. I would never be afraid of you, Landon, because I know that you would never hurt me. We’re in this together, to the very end.”
“Until the very end,” I whispered.
