Page 48 of Possessive

"Kurt is smart enough to have eluded us up until now," Reuben said. He leaned against the side of his car, his gaze intent on the small house as though he could look right inside.

"Until now, being the key words here," Hunter said. "He wasn't going to be able to do it forever."

"What are you thinking?" Gianni asked me softly.

I blinked a couple of times. "The same thing you're thinking."

He nodded. "This is much too easy."

"Tracking that dickhead here wasn't easy," Parker said. He didn't exactly bristle, but his tone was this side of offended.

"For someone who got away with what he did for so long, it was," Gianni reasoned. "Something about this is off."

"You think this is a trap," Damon stated.

Gianni glanced at him. "You don't? This isn't what you'd do if you were Kurt?"

I shuddered. Damon was prickly, but he was nothing like Kurt.

"If I was that shithead, I'd stay as far away from us as I could get," Damon said. "I'd be well aware my days were numbered. I wouldn't bother trying to lure us into anything."

"Unless he believes he has something up on us," I said. "Some way to convince us to stop hunting him." I wouldn't be surprised what depths he'd sink to in order to get what he wanted.

"Nothing exists that would stop me," Reuben said. "There's nothing he could say, do or threaten."

"What if he was holding Parker and me hostage?" Hunter asked.

Reuben arched an eyebrow at him.

Hunter winced. "Ouch. Thanks a lot, big brother. We love you too."

"Since it's clear he isn't holding you ransom, you're being offended for no reason," Reuben said. He seemed particularly unimpressed.

"It was hypothetical," Hunter grumbled.

Parker put an arm around his twin's shoulders. "You know Reuben would do whatever he had to do to get us free. He just likes to play with us and piss us off. It's his favourite pastime. Maybe it's our fault for telling him to get a hobby. He made this his."

Reuben grunted, but didn't take the bait any further. "Get closer and see if it is Kurt." He nodded to the twins and Gianni, before gesturing for Damon and me to stay with him.

"I can go too," I argued. "If it is him, I need to see." I wouldn't be surprised if Gianni or the twins killed him on sight. I wanted to see him before they could. I wanted to be the one to kill him.

"Mina," Reuben said, his voice even lower than usual.

"Nothing is going to happen to me," I said. "Not with Gianni, Hunter and Parker there too."

"We'll be fine too," Parker said. "Thanks so much for caring."

Reuben glanced at him and smirked.

Parker just grinned and shrugged in response.

Reuben closed his eyes and exhaled, his breath reluctant at best. "If anything happens to you?—"

"The twins better be dead first," Gianni finished for him.

"Hey," Hunter protested. "Not you too, Gianni. I thought we were friends."

Gianni grinned. "I'm just saying, that's all. The only way anyone gets to her is through us. For what it's worth, I'd be dead too."

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