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I’ve spent days wondering if I pushed it too far. If I went far past any games she wanted to play. If I showed her too big of glimpse of the monster inside of me.
She should have used her fucking safe word. The few times I’ve seen her since, I’ve wanted to grab her and shake and scream in her face, asking why she didn’t.
But we’re past that now, and in whatever dead zone this is.
I scowl as the four bikes peel away from the Mori estate. I’d say Freya barely looked at me when she walked out to join them, but she could well have been staring me in the face and I wouldn’t have known. Since they were going out before sundown, Hana helped her get kitted out in full riding gear almost like a racer would wear, covering her from chin to toe. She had a black-out helmet on, too.
But I’m sure she didn’t look at me. I’m fairly certain I’d have felt it if she had, even through the visor.
I’m about to head back inside when I hear the roar of an engine careening up the driveway. I turn to see Kenzo’s Porsche come flying up the hill before he screeches to a stop and springs out of the car.
Something’s wrong. Kenzo’s face is lined with anxiety, his eyes darting around the yard as if searching for something.
“What’s going on?” I growl, worry in my tone.
“Where is she?!” Kenzo snaps coldly.
“Who, Annika?” I frown, nodding past him in the direction he just came. “You just missed them.”
“What?”
A cold sensation creeps up my spine when I see the pure fear explode behind his eyes.
“She, Hana, Tak, and Freya just took off on bikes. They’re headed up the mountain road toward Sakamoto Castle—Kenzo!”
My cousin bolts back to his car, lunging behind the wheel and revving the engine to a roar. Before he can leave, I’m jumping into the passenger seat next to him.
Whatever the fuck is going on, my usually stoic, unshakable cousin looks scared to death about Annika.
And Annika is withFreya.
Kenzo whips around to shoot me a look. “What the fuck are you doing?”
“Coming with you,” I growl.
“Buckle up.”
My back flattens against the seat as Kenzo roars down the driveway, past the guards at the front gate, and out onto the mountain road.
“What the fuck is going on, Kenzo?” I hiss as I do up my seat belt.
“Leka.”
My stomach drops at the name.
Leka as inValonLeka, the Albanian psychopathic fucker that I know Freya and Annika once worked for.
Except Valon isdead. A week ago, that fuckhead Ulkan Gacaferi used Valon as bait to draw Kenzo and Tak to that house in the Kamigyo Ward where they were attacked. Tak got away…and Kenzo was kidnapped before Annika and I got him back in one piece…and now Valon is fuckingdead. I saw the blood at the house, from Ulkan cutting him up. The police found his fuckingbody, for fuck’s sake.
“How?” I hiss, glancing at Kenzo.
He grits his teeth as we roar at breakneck speed around the twisting mountain roads toward Sakamoto Castle, the tourist spot where Freya, Annika, Tak, and Hana were headed.
“Chief Hajime was paid off,” he spits. “I just came from the precinct.” He sends me a terrified look. “They never found Leka’s body at all.”
“Fuck,” I snarl. “And he’salive?!”
I clench my fists.
