Page 96 of Little Liar

“I told her to leave. She won’t be an issue any longer. I’ve sent documentation to the Reznikovs to inform them we’ll be pursuing harassment and attempted kidnapping charges if they continue to push my buttons. In the meantime,” he says, looking up at us, “you’re both leaving.”

“Leaving?” Olivia replies while I sit down, spreading my legs and crossing my arms. There’s no point in me having any input. He’ll want her to leave for her protection—nothing to do with me.

“Both you and Malachi aren’t safe here. I’m going to get you out of town without Igor finding out.”

“What about you and Molly?”

Molly pops another bubble and looks up from her phone. She probably wants to know too.

Before Dad can reply, there are three knocks on the front door.

Getting to my feet instantly, I give Olivia a look that tells her to stay where she is as I make my way to the door.

I swing it open, frowning at the random guy I’ve seen hanging around Adryx and Xander. His eyebrows rise, then he smiles like we’re best friends. “You must be Malachi. Can I call you Kai?” He reaches his hand out, but someone grabs his wrist and drags him away.

“There’s no time for this shit. If my father finds out we’re here, it’ll be my fucking head next.”

Adryx Reznikov is standing beside Abigail, both of them staring right through me. He speaks again. “Malachi, this is Sebastian—my idiot cousin who just killed one of my father’s closest allies and the main reason why he’s in a bad-enough mood to send about forty people here to collect Olivia. They’ve been ordered to kill everyone else on sight.”

I blink, staring at them, unsure if I should try to kill them or to question whether or not I’m high, because why is there a Russian Scot at my front door with the brother of the man who’s trying to steal my girl? And why the fuck is Abigail here?

“So you all need to leave,” Abigail says as she pushes past me and goes straight to Olivia. “Igor is sending people here. Right now. You need to run. We have somewhere you can go.”

Adryx takes up the entire doorway as he walks in, his cousin in tow with a goofy grin as he tries to defend himself.

Olivia frowns, looking over at me, Dad holding Molly close to him. He’s unsure of their presence, as am I.

“We can’t be caught here,” Adryx says, pulling out his phone and going to stand by my father. “Go to this location. My father doesn’t know it exists and won’t think to check there. Take the girl too. They’ll kill all of you and take Olivia.”

I don’t trust them, I sign to my dad.

“It doesn’t matter if you trust me or not. If you don’t leave in the next twenty minutes, you’re as good as dead.”

His cousin, Sebastian, crosses his arms with a frown. “How did you know what he said?”

“I know sign language.” Adryx doesn’t look at him as he sends my father the location. When he glances up to see Sebastian scowling in confusion, he sighs. “Someone close to me is deaf. Do I need to explain more, or can we fucking leave before my father’s men storm the place and finds us conspiring against him?”

“There’s no one deaf in our family. You don’t have friends either.”

“Shut up, Base.”

The other guy shuts his mouth and rolls his eyes. “This is too dramatic for a Tuesday.” He narrows his eyes on me. “So you really can’t talk?” he asks, and I imagine slicing him into pieces—slowly. “Or do you prefer being mute and mysterious to attract your little sister?”

Adryx shoves him. “I’d be careful speaking to him like that. He’s more the act now, think later type.” His eyes shift to my dad momentarily—he must know what I did to him and why he struggles to walk.

A pang of guilt hits me again. I never felt bad before—he made me snap. He made me react the way I did. If he hadn’t hated me my entire time in the Vize house, then I wouldn’t have lost my head and attacked him.

I think.

Adryx clears his throat, grabbing my attention.I apologize for my cousin’s ill manners, he signs.He’s a dick.

I think I like this guy, but I hate Base—he’s like an insane little puppy who won’t fucking stop. Images of me kicking him off a cliff keep springing to mind, and I might need to do just that.

“I think I could take him,” Base stupidly says.

I narrow my eyes, silently telling him to fucking try it.

“I think he’d fight me if I tried to fuck his girl.”