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“Isaac might go after you guys to get to me.”
“I’d like to see him try,” Nic growled low.
The deadly look in the man’s eyes had Kai taking an easy breath. Nic was willing to do what was necessary to protect himself and his man despite being out of the game for years. He was still an enforcer for the Kings, but that wasn’t exactly the same as being a hitman.
“We’re good. He won’t bother with us,” Hawk said. “Not when he’d get all the Kings on his ass.”
Kai nodded with a sigh.
He could see Nic walking out of the bedroom and once he was in the kitchen, Nic asked, “Are you safe?”
Kai felt his lips quirk and he looked up at Steel who narrowed his eyes at him.
“Steel’s taking care of me,” he said and grabbed the phone to turn it and show Nic the man, then turned it back around to grin at Nic.
“Taking care of you… how?”
“Are you asking if he’s buttering my bread? Stuffing my muffin? If he’s creamed my pie?”
Nic shook his head with a chuckle while Steel cursed under his breath.
“Trust you not to be subtle,” Nic said.
Kai shrugged. “I’m only subtle when I’m paid to be.”
Which was, of course, the exact wrong thing to say. Not to Nic. Nic knew the game too well to be offended by that. Steel, though? Guess he still wasn’t over Kai almost popping his brother. Honestly, that should’ve gotten him more cred with the guy than it obviously did. He hadn’t killed Tony, which was the important part. Right?
Steel’s jaw was clenched tight and while he tried to pull off casual, the way he turned and walked out of the room made it very fucking clear that he was pissed.
“Whoops.”
“What did you do now?”
Kai glanced back at his phone and pulled a face at Nic.
“I don’t appreciate your tone, Nic.”
Said tone made it very clear that Nic wasn’t surprised that he had, in fact, fucked up again.
“Remember how I was hired to take out Steel’s brother and sister-in-law? Yeah, I don’t think he found me joking about it as funny as we did.”
Nic blinked at him.
“That Steel?”
“What? You know more than one?” Kai quipped.
Nic shook his head slowly, then said, “Good luck with that.”
“Thanks,” Kai said dryly.
He was going to need a hell of a lot of luck, and not just with Steel. He’d be damned lucky if he got out of this shit alive.
Steel
Hearing Kai joke about killing people had just hit home in a way he hadn’t expected. The anger had exploded inside him along with a whole lot of fear and trepidation. Why was he protecting a man who killed for a living?
It might be hypocritical of him seeing as he’d killed a good few people himself over the years, but that was so very fucking different. Those had been people trying to hurt or kill him and those he cared about. Kai did it for money.
