Kai was a lethal weapon in the sheep’s clothing of a rich gentleman. Pretending to be someone he wasn’t, just like he made Georgie do. His slight English accent was the final touch to his bullshit persona.
Kai strode across the room and opened the sliding glass door as if he owned the place and was a welcomed guest. Cocky son of a bitch. When we talked last night, I’d told him we’d meet today, although I hadn’t intended it to be here or with Georgie around. Kai obviously had other plans.
The bastard headed out onto the terrace, completely at ease. I followed. “Where’s Chaos?”
I raised my gun and pointed it at him, my hand steady as a rock as I tried to stop myself from killing the asshole.
She was sixteen when Kai met her. Sixteen when he pressured her, a vulnerable girl who was being abused by a boy at school and had just lost her brother. The fucker deserved a bullet between the eyes. My finger twitched on the trigger.
“Deck.” Her voice came up behind me and her hand settled on my waist. I lowered the gun. I tried to keep her safe from shit like this all her life, and the irony was she was around it the entire time anyway. “Hey, Tyler.” She paused, her gaze on Kai and she raised her brows, cocking her hip. “Ever think of knocking, asshole?”
I felt the pull at the corners of my lips. I wasn’t sure how Georgie would be with Kai, whether she’d fear him or sass him. The latter was a point for me.
“I like the dramatic,” Kai said, pulling out a chair from the patio table and sat, stretching his legs out. He grabbed Georgie’s coffee mug from earlier, sniffed it then took a sip and set it down.
She huffed. “That’s bullshit.”
“More like traumatic,” Tyler said and yanked a chair out across from Kai and sat.
I kept my hand on my gun resting at my side. Kai glanced at it and a mild smirk emerged. “Not very trusting, are you?”
“I find out my girl has cuts on her caused by you. No, I want to blow you to pieces at the moment.” But that was too clean; first, I’d torture him and make him suffer for oh, about ten years. I felt Georgie’s hand leave my waist. Okay, she had her reasons for letting him do it, but I didn’t have to fuckin’ like it. It sure as hell wasn’t happening again. I had demons, too, except I beat them out by killing the scum of the Earth. Well, I’d fuck her demons out of her.
“Why?” I knew Kai would know exactly what I was asking. Regardless of how much I hated him at that moment, we thought alike.
“If you’d stuck around, you’d know.”
I went for him and Georgie’s grab on my arm did nothing, nor did Tyler’s attempt to pull me away. Kai fought back; the table was pushed over and slipped into the pool as Kai charged me, and we both landed hard on the patio stones. We rolled and I felt the hard clip to the side of my face and elbowed him in the chin before I managed to plow my fist into his nose. I heard the crunch and a satisfied grunt emerged. It didn’t last as his fist slammed me in the lower back and I arched in pain just as he kicked me in the back of the legs. I went flying forward, grabbing out at his shirt and taking him with me as we both crashed into the pool.
It was the cold water and Georgie’s shouting which finally got me to stop. She stood on the edge of the pool, her hands on her hips and her face furious. Tyler was on his phone and I was guessing it was to Vic who was more than likely in the car waiting for Tyler, having no idea Kai was here.
I slapped the water with my hand while looking at Kai. “She no longer works for you.” I climbed out of the pool. “Kill him if he goes near her,” I said to Tyler and went inside to change.
I WATCHED KAI get out of the water, looking cocky and confident even with a bleeding nose and soaking wet jeans hanging off his hips. His white t-shirt was what caught my attention though as I stared at his chest, mouth agape.
Scars crisscrossed his flesh. There wasn’t one inch that didn’t have a scar, and they were obvious even with the tatts he’d had inked over the top of them. He must have known Tyler and I could see them, but he remained stoic as he righted the chair he’d previously occupied and sat.
“You done staring?”
I nodded. Shit, I didn’t know what to say. I knew he had something dark in his past, but the scars were … even through the wet t-shirt they looked painful.
He smiled, flashing his pearly-white teeth. “So, he finally fucked you.”
“Hey, man, you see we’re on the thirtieth floor here,” Tyler said. “Might want to cool it before you’re on the ground floor real fast.”
Kai laughed then kicked out at a chair beside him. “Sit, Chaos. You’re making me nervous standing there.” It was my turn to laugh because the idea of Kai ever being nervous was hilarious. “Need a favor.”