Page 271 of Boys Who Taint

She frowns but still dials Heath’s number. “Okay…” she says, as she puts it on speaker.

After a while, he finally picks up. “What do you want?”

“Where did Silas take him?”

“Dude … please don’t ask me to interfere.”

“He’s my fucking cousin, Heath. I’m not letting Silas rip him to shreds. Do you know what we’re risking here?”

“I know, but he’s my best friend.”

“You’re just saying that because you’re both fucking Ivy,” Cecelia says, and I’m proud of her. Definitely my sister all right.

“It’s not just that. I owe him my loyalty.”

“Bullshit, Heath. You’re my brother. You owe me too.”

He sighs out loud. “Goddammit, Silas is gonna kill me for this …”

“Just tell me before I make Max tell me instead!” I shout while driving.

“All right, all right. He’s probably at the Shack, if I know him well enough.”

“The Shack?” I mumble.

“The abandoned house, when you drive down from the mountain. You know, the one people think is haunted.”

“Oh … the druggie house,” Sisi mutters.

“Got it,” I reply.

“Don’t tell him I told you. I don’t want to ruin thin—”

“Call Max and Ivy, tell them to come to the Shack,” I interrupt. “You too.”

“What? No, Max is Levi’s half brother. It’s insane to put him between Silas and Levi, that’ll destroy him! Not to mention Ivy.”

“Listen to me, if we don’t nip this shit in the bud before it explodes, our families are going to kill each other,” I growl back. “So get everyone to the Shack,now.”

I turn off the phone and focus on driving there as fast as I possibly can.

“Open the glove compartment.”

Cecelia presses the button and out falls my gun, right into her lap, and her eyes widen. “Apollo, what the fuck are you doing with this?”

“It’s for emergencies.”

“Does Dad know you stole this from him?”

“No, and I wanna keep it that way,” I say, looking at her intently.

“What are you gonna do with this?” she asks, hesitation in her voice.

“If it comes down to it …” I say as I grab the gun, making sure it’s loaded and ready to go. “You’re gonna have to pick a side. Pick the right one.”

Levi

Ten minutesago

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