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I needed to know nothing had changed since he’d learned Logan and I still had our dark sides.

Bottom line, I liked knowing my best friend still was my best friend, and I didn’t care how I found that out. Not right now. Everything would be smoothed over later, but Nate didn’t know that.

I heard a beep, and he spoke into the phone. “She said there’s a button on the right side. A tiny button. You have to look at it squarely or you won’t see it. It’s supposed to blend in with the panel. She doesn’t know the code, but if you hit that button, you’ll have thirty seconds to get out of the house.”

His phone beeped.

He cursed, his voice tightening. “She didn’t ask why, Mason. Fuck you, man. That’s my sister. So goddamn good, and she never even questioned me why I was asking that shit from her.”

Logan was coming up the stairs. He raised his chin in question.

“It’ll be fine,” I told Nate.

“I fucking hope so. If she mentions this to Blaise, he’s going to ask why, and when he doesn’t believe my lie or when he checks out my lie, he’s going to raise hell. You don’t know that side of my brother-in-law.”

“They’re in Europe. You have time to evade.”

“You’d never lie to Logan for me—”

“I’d lie to Taylor for you.”

Logan punched my arm, glaring. I shrugged. It was true. I’d lie to her if Nate asked me to. Now, if Sam or Logan himself asked me about it, I wouldn’t lie to them. Maybe it wasn’t quite fair, but I also didn’t care.

“That’s not the same,” Nate countered.

“I have to go. We can fight about this later.” I ended the call before he could say anything more.

“You go first. I know how to arm it.”

Logan’s eyes were narrowed into slits, but he didn’t linger. I heard the garage door go up, and Allen’s truck started. He backed out. The garage door began to lower. I waited until it was on the ground before hitting the little button and taking off, leaving through the side door. That would lock behind me too.

Logan was almost to the street when I ran past him.

I crossed the street to my Escalade, climbed in and followed after him.

The first phase was complete.

26

MASON

There was a soundproofed room inside an empty Kade Enterprises warehouse. I had every intention of looking into why it had been soundproofed, but until I had time, we were going to make use of it.

Once we had Zeke strung up so he wasn’t going to hurt himself, it was time. Logan and I kept our masks on, and I trained the spotlight on him. “Wake him up.”

The room was warm and it smelled weird, but it’d do for what we were about to do. This was not going to be pleasant. Logan picked up the smelling salts and put them under Allen’s nose.

He jerked awake with a cough and a deep groan.

Logan stepped back, disappearing into the shadows with me. We waited until Zeke got his bearings.

After a moment, his eyes squinted against the light. He tried to move, but his arms and legs were both tied in place. Only then did panic start to hit him. He tried to see us, but the light hurt too much. He flinched, twisting and trying to move away. “What the fuck?What the fuck?!” He struggled against his bindings. “Let me go.” He took a deep breath, fighting again. “LET ME GO!NOW!”

Logan started laughing, trying to be quiet.

Zeke froze, glaring at us. “You think this is funny? You fucking sick psychos. You twisted, fucking sick psychos. Who are you? When I get out of this—”

I was suddenly not in the mood to hear any threats. “Shut up.”