Page 127 of Kade

I was dead fucking wrong.

This girl was going to do it. She was, I saw that, but she was going to do it in the cruelest way she could. She wanted to inflict the worst kind of pain she could on Samantha.

I wasn’t going to let that happen.

“What, little brother? Aren’t you happy to see me?”

He didn’t go to her. He didn’t hug her. He just stood there, glared, and fisted his hands at his sides.

She’d been taking him in at the same time, because she let out a harsh laugh. “Are you kidding me?” Her head tilted. Her eyes narrowed, cold calculation smearing her face. Her lips twisted in a snarl. “You were supposed to make contact.”

“I did,” he bit out.

“You were supposed to become friends with their daughter.”

“I did do that.” He glanced at Sam, warily.

Her tone went mean. “You weren’t supposed to start caring for her, you dipshit.”

He flushed. “She’s my sister, Brinna.”

“So?” She taunted. “She’s also the reason Uncle Seb went to prison.”

Sam gasped, her eyes tearing my way, just as mine shot to hers. Shock and alarm branded me. “Uncle Seb?”

She went still, eerily still, before rotating to face me. The entire motion made my skin crawl, but the smile on her face wasn’t right. She wasn’t right. She continued with that mocking tone. “Yes. My godfather. I believe you knew him as Park Sebastian.” She winked at her brother. “Why do you think Iwanted a different nickname? Seb is his name. Not mine. We can’t have the same nickname.”

Uncle Seb. Park Sebastian. Holy shit.

I was rocked.

The ground could’ve fallen out from underneath me and I wouldn’t have noticed.

Our pasthadcome back to haunt us.

“He went to prison.”

“Yes, he did. For what The Network pinned on him.”

She knew about The Network.

She thought they set him up? For being a serial rapist?

She had no idea what he’d done. No idea at all.

“The—” Beltraine asked, his face scrunched up. He cast Steele a look before saying, “Never mind.”

“The Network.” She sing-songed the name, clapping her hands. “I’m so excited for this moment. I’ve been waiting so long for this. Yes, Traine. The Network. It was a secret society that your new Mommy and Daddy destroyed.”

Sam was so pale, shaking her head.

The list of shit he’d done to us, the worst was to her.

“Except they decided they didn’t want to be a part of it so they took something that generations built and they burned it all down to the ground. Much like another building, am I correct, brother-in-law?”

She knew about the fraternity house. She knew about The Network.

I said, “You’re still in contact with Park, aren’t you?”

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