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LANDON
Running my hands through my messy hair, I stepped into the abandoned warehouse on Kai’s street.
Misty had stared at me for an entire half hour while I sat there, trying to find the words to say but feeling too ashamed to speak. If I said them out loud, then they were real. And if they were real, then I was my father.
She had told me that we could talk tomorrow, but I didn’t even know if I’d be ready by then.
Kai leaned against a wall with his laptop in his hand, scrolling through it, while one of the Redwood teachers was sitting in the middle of the room, hands and ankles bound tightly to a chair and duct tape over his lips.
I glanced around, brows furrowed. “Where’re Imani and João?”
“Don’t know,” Kai said, closing the laptop and shoving it into his backpack.
“How the fuck do you not know? Where’d they go?”
“I had to meet with Akio to get the stuff. They were supposed to come right here.”
The back door opened, and João strode into the room with Imani following after him.
When her gaze met mine, she immediately hurried away from João and over to me, standing by my side and glaring up at me. “Don’t you leave me with him again.”
“What the fuck took you so long?”
“Where the fuck did you go off to?” João asked, refusing to answer my question.
Imani and João shared a look, and then João turned away and headed toward Mr. Harvey, a Redwood Academy technology teacher.
Finally catching sight of him, Imani widened her eyes and gasped. “What the hell is going on? Why is Mr. Harvey tied to a chair?!”
She went to rush toward him, but João caught her wrist and pulled her back. Kai pulled up a chair for Imani to sit, and João pushed her toward it.
“I told you that you’re going to learn about what really goes on in Redwood tonight. So, sit down and shut up.”
Clenching my jaw, I cut my gaze to João and adjusted the chair for Imani. “Sit.”
Imani blew out a breath and sat down, crossing her arms yet still looking worried. “What’s going on? I don’t even understand what you’re talking about. Mr. Harvey hasn’t done anything to anyone.” She looked at the graying teacher with a frown. “He’s the nicest tech teacher at Redwood.”
Kai stifled a laugh and looked at Harvey.
“Why are you laughing?” Imani asked, rubbing her hands on her thighs. “What’d he do?”
I walked over to Harvey and ripped the tape off his mouth. “Wanna tell her what you did?”
Harvey screamed out, snot dripping down his lip. “I didn’t do anything.”
Grabbing him by his thinning hair, I pulled his head back and hit him straight in the nose. Something I had been wanting to do for days now. Blood spurted out of his nose and stained his white dress shirt.
“Landon, what are you doing?!” Imani screamed and shot up from her chair.
João pushed her back down.
“What did you do?” I asked again, my knuckles soaked in his blood.
“Nothing.”
I hurled my fist into the side of his face harder, knocking him over. His body and the chair smacked against the ground, a wheezing sound coming from the old man.
He grunted and shook his head, tears streaming down his face. “I didn’t do anything!”
