Page 43 of Our Blood, Our Pain

I get up to follow Dima into the office and sit opposite him.

“What’s wrong with your face?” Dima says.

“My face?”

“You look…emotional or something.”

I roll my eyes, it amazes me how he and Lev could get partners. The pair of them together don’t even amount to one full emotion. Yet he notices it on me.

“Just thinking. I’ve just spoken to Jenny and she mentioned that the gang Kai hung around with have been appearing at her house and workplace.”

“They been threatening her?”

“No. She said it’s not every day, but its never happened before. I just feel…unsettled.”

“Gangs are known to be reactive if a member just leaves. Did Kai leave on good terms?”

“I don’t know.”

“You didn’t ask?”

“Why would I ask? I was too busy dealing with the fallout with his mom and moving him here.”

“You were too busy eye fucking him, you mean.”

“D, I mean this with the utmost respect, but fuck you.”

That gets me a large smile from the demon himself. Dima is a lot easier to have banter with, unlike Lev, who has zero ability to take a joke.

“Just ask Kai.”

“Jenny doesn’t want me saying anything.”

“Fucking hell. This is why I don’t do families.”

“What are you talking about? You have a brother and a husband. Plus me and Si. That is a family.”

“Yes, but we’re normal. Not all emotional and shit.”

“You mean human.”

“Whatever. Just sort this shit out, I want you focused. Carlos is having more trouble in his crew. Money has gone missing from our last import. I’ve offered our services.”

“What kind of services?”

“Customer services. You know, ask a few questions.”

“Ahh, that kind of service. I’m down. Been a while since I got my hands dirty.”

“That’s what I want to hear. Now call Si and tell him to meet us with Kai back at the house within the hour.”

A little bit of violence mixed with some Kai should make a great evening.

27

KAI

“Kai, we gotta get back, Dima wants a meeting with all of us,” Simon says, as I finish the last page of financials for the club.

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