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Red and blue lights flashed on top of the patrol car. I pushed Kai away from me and pulled up my underwear and pants. Fuck, this wasn’t good in the freaking slightest. If the police caught me with Poison, Mom would find out within a couple hours. She had connections.
And if I thought she had been bad before when I failed the test … oh boy, she’d literally murder me. I wouldn’t see sunlight for weeks and would be put right into homeschool for the rest of the year, and who knew … maybe for my college education too.
The police car parked right behind Kai’s motorcycle, the sirens on now. Kai pulled up his jeans and quickly buckled his belt, handing me his helmet and telling me to hop onto the bike. My heart raced in my chest, but I slid onto the back and let him get on after me.
“What are you doing?!” I shouted. “We can’t run from the police.”
Kai started the bike. “We either run or your mom finds out about this.” He paused and looked over his shoulder at me. “João and Landon told me how strict your mom is, and I don’t want to never see you again.”
My chest grew warm, a fuzzy feeling growing inside me. I curled my arms around his taut abdomen and inched closer to him. Who the fuck knew that I’d run from the police with the Poison boys in my final year at Redwood?
The headlights glared even harder in our direction, making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. We were fucked. I didn’t think we’d be able to outrun the police, especially with all Redwood’s grumpy, underpaid cops looking to put someone away on a Friday night.
Shoving open the door, someone stepped out of the car.
I looked over my shoulder and tightened my grasp on Kai. “Kai, they’re com—”
Over the loud hum of Kai’s motorcycle and the rain, the man chuckled, so menacingly and loud, voice filled with laughter instead of the usual anger that the Redwood cops had against the world. I tensed and squinted my eyes at him, the sound so eerily familiar.
“How’d I know that you two would be here?” the man said, moving closer.
“Fuck,” Kai said under his breath, suddenly cutting the engine. “What the hell are you doing here?”
The man stepped closer, and my heart dropped. Fucking João stood behind us with his lips curled into a small smirk and his arms crossed over his chest. The rain poured down around us, waves crashing against the rocks.
I looked into the passenger seat to see Landon sitting in the warm car, looking into the backseat, where there was a police officer tied the fuck up and gagged. My eyes nearly bugged out of my head, and I jumped off the bike and stormed toward João.
“What are you doing?!” I shouted.
“What are you doing?” João asked, arching a brow. “Couldn’t wait until you got home?”
After rolling my eyes, I hurried toward the passenger seat and knocked on the window. Landon glanced at me, then at Kai, and rolled down the window. The police officer in the backseat shouted through his gag, rope binding his ankles and wrists.
“What?” Landon asked.
“What are you doing, Landon?” I asked, eyes wide and chest tight. João might’ve been bound for jail, but I did not want Landon heading there anytime soon. “You stole a police car?! You can go to jail for this! What is wrong with you?”
Landon flicked his tongue against his teeth and looked back at Kai. “We’re working.”
“Working?!” I asked. “How is this working?!”
The man squirmed around in the backseat, kicking Landon’s seat. Landon growled and threw his hand back, hitting the guy right in the head and sending his head flying back so hard that the guy passed the fuck out.
My eyes widened.
Landon turned back toward me. “You were saying?”
“Landon, what have you gotten into? Why are you doing this?”
There had to be a reason—there fucking had to be. Poison always had a reason for something, like beating Harvey the tech teacher to a literal pulp earlier this week. I knew they were bad boys who sold weed, but stealing a police car?!
“Bring her back with you, Kai,” João said, grabbing my arm to pull me away from the car and shoving me toward Kai’s bike.
Landon seethed at him but rolled the window up, and when João got into the car, Landon said something that I couldn’t quite make out.
Grumbling to myself, I slid on the back of Kai’s bike and pulled the helmet back over my frizzy, matted hair. It was going to be a bitch redoing it tonight because I sure as hell couldn’t go to sleep like this.
