Page 370 of Eight of Swords, Part Two

I demand answers right now, actually. Was that him?

Kade smiles despite himself. ‘Maybe.’

Did you finally get laid?

‘We’ll discuss it later.’

Yes we will. In enormous detail. I can’t believe it took me getting shot for you to have sex.

‘I think you’ll find the two weren’t connected.’

I think you’ll find the unbearable grief you felt in almost losing me drove you to seek comfort in the arms of a weirdo.

Kade chuckles. ‘You’re not wrong, but seriously. How are you feeling?’

Luca sobers slightly. Pain’s really bad. Haven’t looked in a mirror yet. I think I want to do the blood thing. Noah said it healed you and the boss fast.

‘Whatever you want.’

Thanks. Boss filled me in.

‘On everything?’

Pretty much. He doesn’t look right.

‘I haven’t seen him today. How do you mean?’

Like he’s getting sick.

‘I’m checking in soon. I think we’re having a mega-meeting today.’

I should hope so. He told me about the weirdo. Luca sits back in his high wall of pillows, shaking his hands to relieve the ache of continuously signing. He still has multiple cannulas in. That he knew my brother-in-law, Danya.

Kade’s throat bobs, uncertainty rising up.

Lachlan also killed Danya.

He doesn’t know if Luca knows this or not.

But it brings them to another point.

‘Vasily Sorrenko is here.’

Luca nods, drops his gaze. He told you.

‘He did.’

I never gave him a thing, and I stayed with you because you felt like the family I needed to stick with, Luca signs with a small frown. I can’t explain it, but as soon as I came here, it just felt like home.

‘I know. I trust you, and he wasn’t trying to do anything bad anyway.’

Boss knows too?

‘Yeah, he knows.’

He didn’t say anything. Told me everything else. That you and him are brothers, which makes a lot of sense, actually.

‘Did he tell you what I am?’