Page 30 of The Saviors: Part One

I still don’t know how to answer that. I want nothing more than to get lost in her green eyes. But dating the same girl as your best friend? I’ve seen it work several times over, but could Sean and me? “I don’t know how to answer that yet.”

He pockets his phone. “You need to figure it out because we’re going to her house later for dinner.”

“I don’t have to tag along.” I whip the truck in front of the house and shove it into park.

“She asked if you’d come.”

“She did?”

“Jesus Christ. Yes. As soon as we get done, we’re going back over there.” He climbs out of the truck, and I follow behind him. “And I agree, Axel doesn’t need to know yet.”

“It’s going to be hard hiding it from him.”

“They don’t call me Shadow for nothing.”

“It’s about fucking time,” Axel’s voice hits us as soon as we walk into the foyer. He walks around the corner, glaring.

“We came as soon as you called. Chill,” Sean says, kicking his boots off.

“You should have come home last night,” Axel growls, getting in Sean’s face.Here we fucking go.

“First of all, back the fuck off,” Sean grits out, holding onto his temper by a thread. “Second of all, something was going on. We’re here now. Let’s get on with it.”

“Do I have to remind you—”

Sean interrupts Axel by brushing past him and bumping his shoulder in the process. “No, dickhead, you don’t.” He continues walking toward the voices in the kitchen, and Axel whirls on me.

I hold a hand up. “I suggest you don’t talk to me until you calm down.”

“I expect this out of Sean. But you, Kai? I thought I could trust you.”

I raise a brow. “I don’t come home one night, and you don’t trust me?”

I follow the path Sean took, leaving Axel fuming behind me. I do everything that he tells me because I owe him my life, but I won’t be talked down to. None of us deserve that shit. I pull out a chair at the dining room table where Nolan already has his laptop set up.

“Sorry, you had to wait.”

He smiles. “All good. I was fine waiting.” At twenty-one, he’s one of the smartest kids that I know. It’s weird how he fell into our laps, but I’m glad he did. He seems much happier away from his sorry excuse for a family.

Axel pulls out a chair, dropping into it heavily. “Now that we’re all here,” he gives me and Sean a pointed look, “What you got, Nolan?”

“Like I told you, it’s heavily encrypted.”

“That’s fine. Just give us what you do have.” To Axel’s credit, he softens his voice when he talks to Nolan. The rest of us aren’t so lucky.

Nolan nods. “I found a few things. First is the warehouse we already know about, but he has another one about two miles from there. Second, he has a large amount of cash sitting somewhere. I’m still trying to figure out where. Third, he has passports, a new license, birth certificates, you name it, under a new name. They came from a place called Daybreak.”

“What else do you know about it?” Cole asks, sitting up in his chair.

“Not much, but I think it’s here.”

“In Forest Grove?” Axel asks, and Nolan nods. “How long until you can get an address?”

“If that’s my sole focus, a couple of hours.”

“Do it,” Axel demands. Nolan makes his way back to the office, and Axel turns to Sean and me. “Do either of you want to tell me what the hell is going on?”

“Nope, because there isn’t anything going on,” Sean answers.