Mrs. Wolfe was behind all of this from the very beginning? What in the fucking world possessed her to be batshit crazy? What kind of drugs has she been taking? What kind of business has she been into?
“But I didn’t do it,” Alec said, almost as if to reassure himself. “I swear I didn’t.”
“Yeah, yeah. Your daddy did it.” João waved dismissively again. “I don’t give a shit what kind of story you tell the town. I just didn’t think you had it in you to kill both your shitty parents. Easier to clean Redwood’s billionaire row for us.”
“I didn’t do it,” Alec repeated, this time more firmly.
Alec didn’t have to say who had actually killed her because if he hadn’t done it, then the only other person with him during that time had been Oliver. I highly doubted that Alec would kill anyone, but if pushed enough … Oliver would.
Especially if it was for me.
“Drop it.” I cleared my throat. “It doesn’t matter anyway. We’re not here to talk about who killed who. We’re here to discuss how we’re going to fix the problem that we have.”
“We’re not going to leave it in your hands,” Imani said to Poison, more specifically to João, while crossing her arms. “Someone tried to kill us, and I don’t feel safe with them running around town.”
João leaned back, blowing out smoke through his nose. “What do you want me to do about it?”
“Let us help you,” Imani said. “Like you agreed to do at the hospital.”
“I wanna take down those fuckers,” Allie said, crossing her arms.
“Me too,” Nicole said.
“Um …” Vera glanced at Blaise, gently drawing her fingers over her wound. She wassupposedto be sleeping now, but Blaise had said she had dragged them out to see us. “I’ll bake you guys some cookies and cheer you on from the sidelines while I recover.”
Sakura leaned back on the couch, one hand on her belly. “Can youpleasemake raisin oatmeal?”
“Fuck no.” João scrunched his nose. “You’d better make chocolate chip cookies if you want us to do your dirty work.”
Sakura’s eyes filled with tears. “B-but I’ve been craving them.”
Vera gently rubbed Sakura’s shoulder. “I’ll make raisin oatmeal and chocolate chip. Don’t worry, Sakura. I got you.”
“So, does that mean you’re in?” I asked João.
João glanced at Landon and Kai, who nodded, and then he turned back to us. “We’re in. Let’s kill these motherfuckers.”
