Page 82 of Deceit
I glowered back at him. The obnoxious prickreallythought I was going todo anything he ordered me to do.
“Get fucked.”
He snorted.“Be mad at me all you like, but believe me when I say you won’twant to miss this meeting.”
“I’ll say this slowly so it gets through your thick skull. Get. Fucked.”
Kai rolled his eyes as amusement twitched at his lips.“There’s news aboutHerrera.”
My heart lurched. Fuck.Thatchanged things, and the cunt damn well knewit.
AcceptingthatI had no choice but to go with him if I wanted to know whatthe development was, I gritted my teeth as I dressed, ignoring the bickering between Kai and Riley, silently championing her, giventhatshe was attempting to tell him off for his less-than-brilliant plan.
Except, no one told Kai off, including her.
“I’ll drive separately,”I huffed, grabbing my car keys off the side. No way inhell was I going to be stuck in a car with the dickhead.
I didn’t give him a chance to reply before stomping past him and getting intothe car, relieved to see daylight flooding into the tunnel. Kai followed, still smirking at me like the cat who got the fucking cream as he strolled past to get in his car.
Goddammit, why did I have to be cursed with a psycho cousin?
Once we’d turned the cars around in the small space, I tailed Kai out of thebunker, the bright sun burning my retinas. As we pulled into the woods, four SUVs, all containing our men, waited. The sight of them did nothing to calm my worrythatHerrera had made a move while we’d been locked away.
My mind churned as we drove from the hills of Hollows Bay and throughthe city, wondering who in hell we were meeting, and what the news could be. Turning off the highway, my unanswered questions doubled when I followed Kai into the slums of East Bay, the shithole part of the city Riley had lived in before she met Kai.
Although, the area wasn’t quite as shitty as it had once been, Riley was determined to make the place sparkle. I wasn’t convinced; you couldn’t polish a turd, but she was trying her damned hardest to roll it in glitter.
Pulling into the parking lot of the now derelict Club Sin, my brows creased.What the fuck were we doing here? The club had closed after the mass shootout a while back and had since been boarded up.
I parked next to Kai, and as I stepped out, I sucked in a deep breath,relishing the fresh air. Fuck, it felt good to be out of the bunker.
“Why the hell are we at this shithole, and who are we meeting?”I demandedwhen Kai joined me.
Aside from the place being a dump, it was also the place where we lost one of our closest friends. Couldn’t say I was thrilled with being reminded of the time my hands were covered in blood while Kai attempted to console him as he took his dying breaths.
Kai shrugged, seemingly unfazed by the location.“Needed a place out of theway. We’re meeting Bianchi Junior, and he refused to meet anywhere obvious.”
“You should have brought him to the bunker, that’s out the fucking way,”Imuttered, hiding my surprisethatwe were meeting him. Sofia had mentioned he had gone to New York for a few days.
“How long are you going to be pissed about it for, ‘cos to tell you the truth,your attitude is already beginning to grate on me.”
I grabbed Kai’s shirt and stood toe-to-toe to him.“You know what’sreallybeginning to grate on me? Your fucking,‘I can do anything I like, consequences be damned,’attitude.”
He knocked my hands away.“From what I saw, Miles, it looked like theconsequences of my,‘I can do anything I like,’attitude played into your favor. Unless you were forcing yourself on Sofia?”
He raised a brow and smirked. It was only the tires crunching on gravel andannouncing the arrival of another carthatstopped me from slamming my forehead into Kai’s nose.
Fucking cunt.
Straightening up, I stepped away from Kai in a bid to quell the bubbling furyunderneath my skin, and glared as Rafe got out of his car, pulling his hood over his head.
The factthathe’d arrived without his usual security and was attempting to hide his face raised my hackles, and I subtly checkedthatmy gun was still tucked into the back of my jeans after I’d taken it out of the car on the way to the club.
“Can we go in?”he said, nodding to the building behind us.
“Yeah,” Kai replied.
Rafe glanced nervously around as we followed Kai to the side of thebuilding, to a door I’d once kicked open. It now had a wooden board across it, preventing anyone from going in, but Kai ripped it away from the door with ease.
