Yeah, I didn’t think so.I pinch the bridge of my nose. “Don’t you get it? This person is feeding off the fact that we keep hiding shit from each other. They know they’re not strong enough to face us all together, so they wait until there’s less of us. And if they turn us all against each other, that’s the easiest way to take us down one at a time.”

“They’re trying to weaken us,” Laiken acknowledges out loud.

“Exactly,” I say. “And each secret we keep only gives them more power.”

We make a pact, right then and there, to stop keeping things from each other. I also may or may not have drilled it into their thick skulls that if they let Laiken pull some shit like this again, it won’t be some psycho with too much time on their hands that they need to worry about.

Judging by the looks on their faces, none of them want to risk calling my bluff.

I WISH I COULDsay that was the only reckless thing they do, but this is Laiken and Mali we’re talking about. They’re basically gluttons for punishment, and when Cam and I walk in to find a man we’ve never seen before sitting on the couch, I’m ready to put their asses in an adult daycare center while we’re not able to watch them.

“Who the fuck is that?” Cam asks as we both freeze right inside the door. “Who the fuck are you?”

Mali rolls her eyes. “This is Henry. He’s a hacker.”

Cam snorts. “Henry looks like he hunts and pecks as he types. And where the fuck did you find a hacker?”

“Where anyone would. The dark web. Duh,” she answers simply, as if that isn’t going to make Cam and I choke on our words.

Oh dear God.“Cam, are you taking this one?”

He shakes his head. “I’m too weak when it comes to her. You do it.”

“Fair point.”

My brows raise and I tilt my head to the side as I look at Mali, noticing that Laiken sits in the other corner and stays completely silent. And something tells me the popcorn she has resting in her lap isn’t coincidentally timed.

“The dark web?” I ask Mali, and she nods. “Since when do you gothere?”

I’ve heard enough about it to know that’s the last place she should be. I bet she didn’t even think to hide her IP address, cover her camera, or close out of anything else on her computer before she accessed it. It’s like Amazon for illegal shit you’re not supposed to look for, and they don’t call it thedarkweb for nothing. Almost everything on there is downright fucked up.

“Since someone has a vendetta against us and is better at holding a grudge than our dearest Cam over here,” she sasses.

Cam doesn’t even realize he just got verbally backhanded. He’s too busy sizing up Henry. After a moment, he walks over and slides himself between Mali and Henry, forcing them both to move over as he sits.

“That’s better,” he says, pleased with himself.

Meanwhile, I look over at Laiken. When she sees me staring back at her, she freezes. Her chewing stops and her eyes widen.

“Anything from the peanut gallery?” I ask her.

She smiles sweetly. “Have I told you today that you’re hot and a sex god among men?”

Yeah, definitely calling adult daycares in the morning.

Turning back to Mali, I exhale all the air out of my lungs. “Well, since you so kindly invited a total stranger off the dark web into my house, I may as well hear what you’ve got.”

Mali grins triumphantly and leans forward to look past Cam. “Take it away, Henry my boy.”

Cam glares at her and shakes his head slowly—a silent message that calling him anything other than his name is strictly off limits. But that’s hardly what he should be worrying about as I look atHenry.

Our new friend from the dark web, apparently.

If I have gray hairs, it’s because I married half of this generation’s Thelma and Louise.

“Mali said you’ve been having an issue with someone hacking into the cameras at your bar?” he asks.

I tilt my head back and forth. “We did, until Cam ripped the cameras out of the wall.”