Page 150 of Devious Knight
“Can either of you get into the restricted section of the Knights database without being tracked?”
“I can.” Alek raises his hand.
Dmitri smirks and makes a show of bowing to him. “This is the master here.”
“Send me a link, and I’ll check out what you need. It might take me some time, though. The Knights database is set a little harder to get around than most systems.”
“That’s okay. Do what you can.”
He stands and tips his head. “I gotta run. I have a late lunch date with a hot cheerleader. Speak to you guys later.”
“Later.” I give him a curt nod.
Alek dips his head and leaves.
Dmitri comes over to me and sits in the chair where Alek was. He looks at the computer screen again, then back at me.
“Sorry I wasn’t around the other night when you and Logan went to the Black Rose.”
“It’s cool. We handled it.”
“So I heard. Looks like you're torn between emotion and duty again.” He drums his fingers on the desk while keeping his eyes on me.
“I’m not sure if the two are mutually exclusive anymore. They feel like the same thing to me.”
“What’s going on, Kade?”
“Things are not as clear cut as they originally seemed to be with Isabelle. I know why she helped the Malina.” It’s good I can talk to him about this without feeling like I’m breaking Isabelle’s trust. He already knows about what she did at the gallery. Now I can give him her reasons.
“You found out what happened?”
“Yeah. She was tricked. It was to do with her mother.”
I quickly fill him in. By the time I’m finished, he looks exactly like how I feel. Conflicted and torn.
“Jesus. What are you going to do?”
“Her actions still helped them. It doesn’t change anything.”
“But it does, Kade. Because of how you feel about her. You love her.”
His words sound so obvious in my head I can’t believe I didn’t figure that out on my own.
“How’d you know?”
He smirks. “Kade, maybe you should ask me when instead of how. I knew in high school. It was how you looked at her. But I got the most confirmation that night in the woods when we freaked her out. You looked like you were about to kill Logan and me just for touching her. I can imagine how enraged you must have been listening to us taunt her.”
I grin. “I did want to kill you. I guess I should have taken that as a clue because you guys are brothers to me.”
“You can’t love her and hate her at the same time.”
“I know. That’s the thing that’s been screwing with me. Not knowing which emotion to choose.”
“But you’ve already chosen to love her.” He gives me a firm look that stops me from arguing.
“I suppose I have.”
“Are you going to tell her about your parents and…I guess everything?”