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João pulled up his hood, growled, and yanked me closer. “You can’t fucking scream shit like that in the middle of the slums, Vera. You should know better than that. And what the hell do you care if I killed her or not? It’s not any of your business.”
“Not my business?!” I shouted.
João slapped a hand over my mouth and shoved me against his car. “The fuck did I just say about screaming?”
I pulled his hand away and glared up at him. “It is one hundred percent my business if you killed Skylar,” I whispered to him. “That’s not what I meant when I said that I wanted you to take care of her.”
A confused expression crossed his face for a moment, and then he stepped away from me. “Oh, you’re talking about Skylar.”
I furrowed my brows. “Who did you think I was talking about? Who’d you kill?”
“Forget it,” João said. “Look, as much as I would’velovedto be the one to end that bitch’s life, I didn’t do it. I have better things to do than to entertain a rich whore like her who’d do anything to suck off someone’s dad.”
“Well, who was it then? Landon? Kai?” I asked, racking my brain for someone.
But the more I thought about it, the less and less I believed that Kai—the quiet computer whiz in Poison—could’ve killed someone. And Landon? He might’ve been scary, but to end someone’s life? I had known these guys for so long. The only person that I knew who could kill someone and not give a fuck about it was João. So, he was either lying to me or …
“It wasn’t Poison. All we did was find some shit on her and bully her with it.”
“That was it?” I asked, skeptical.
He shrugged half-heartedly. “Might’ve kicked her ass a bit.”
“And what’d that entail?”
“Tying her to the back of my car and dragging her down the side of the road,” João said, an amused expression on his face. I couldn’t tell if he was serious and was rejoicing on the thought or if he was fucking with me.
“You didn’t kill her?” I asked again for clarification.
He sprawled a hand across his chest. “Vera, you think so lowly of me. We don’t kill unless we get paid or they’ve pissed us off enough,” João said. “Skylar was annoying, but not enough for any one of us to end her.”
I furrowed my brows and glanced back at Maddie, who held an umbrella over our heads. Still, none of this made any sense. If Blaise hadn’t done it and Poison hadn’t done it … then who had killed her?
“What can you do about it?” I asked.
A lifeless chuckle escaped his mouth. “What’d you mean?”
“You need to find me information—find out who killed her, when they killed her, and why they’re trying to pin this on Blaise,” I said, poking him hard in the chest. “And I need it as soon as you can get it.”
João laughed right in my face. “You’re fucking kidding me. No.”
“Yes.” I crossed my arms. “Or I won’t ever watch your sister again.”
After grinding his teeth together, João stared at me blankly. “The fuck you think you can boss me around for? You’re going to watch Ana because you need the money, Vera. I’m not getting you any—”
Done with taking his bullshit, I stepped forward. “You’re going to get me that informationandpay me when I watch Ana becauseyou’redoing more than just selling drugs while I’m babysitting your sister. You’re fucking killing people, and if you don’t want people to know—”
“Fine,” he gritted out.
My eyes widened slightly.
Wait, all this time, I just had to put my foot down and João would do as I asked?
“Good,” I said, straightening out my oversize Redwood Academy T-shirt and smoothing out the fluffy pajama bottoms I had gotten from Walmart, which were now soaked up to the ankles from the rain. I regained my composure and shoved my shoulders back. “I expect it soon.”
And with that, I turned on my heel and headed for Maddie’s car.
Was I bullying the bad boy now? Was that the monster Blaise had made? Shit, I should’ve cared, but I didn’t at the moment.
