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“I need you to go upstairs and tell them to close their doors and not to come down here.”
My heart started beating fast.
“Kyenna, what the fuck happened?”
“Averie, please.”
I could tell by her tone how serious this was. Kyenna had this way of going extremely calm when something serious happened. I had seen it after Rah died. She did it again at the reading of the will. I had no idea what she did when no one was watching, but when eyes were on her. She held herself together well. The more shit around her fell apart, the more controlled she became.
“Have a seat,” I told her as I walked up the stairs to Kaiden’s room.
“Kaiden, can you get Khari and bring her in here with you until I come and get y’all?”
“Why? Did something happen?”
“No, I’m about to talk, and I don’t need y’all in my business.”
“Is it Q?”
“Kaiden! Now!”
He finally listened and went and got his sister. Once they were back in his room, I closed his door and walked back down to the living room.
“What happened?”
Kyenna sat her purse down on the end table. She was making herself comfortable enough to stay for a conversation.
“Can you sit down, Averie?”
“Kyenna, you’re really starting to piss me off.”
“Averie, sit down. Please.”
“Is this about Q?”
Her face didn’t change, but she did shift. If I hadn’t been paying attention, I would’ve missed it. I stopped breathing for a second.
“Where is he?”
“I need to tell you some things first.”
“No! You need to answer the question I just asked you.”
Kyenna crossed her legs and fiddled with her French-manicured nails.
Kyenna!”
“Q was involved in Rah’s murder,” she blurted.
The words didn’t make sense. I had to laugh to stop myself to stop from being upset. It wasn’t shit funny. My brain was rejecting what she had said.
“What?”
“I found old distribution records. Q had money tied into King Distribution through D12. Rah was trying to dismantle parts of the operation before he died, and Q had millions tied into it.”
“What the hell does that have to do with him killing Rah?”
“I didn’t say he pulled the trigger.”
