Kai sat on the couch opposite of me and Landon. I stared at him and swallowed hard, my stomach in tight knots. I couldn’t stop thinking about the picture he had sent privately to me earlier tonight. That image of a man he had beaten to death was burned into my memory forever. And I didn’t know what to think. Kai was more violent than I’d thought, a monster almost. After smoking out of a bong, Kai rested it on his knee and leaned back with his heavy gaze still focused on me. I shifted on the couch and sank down against Landon, pulling my eyes away from Kai and hoping that he wouldn’t show me that picture again. Or keep his promise that if I got in trouble again, I would have to kill a man like that. Still, I couldn’t help but look over at him one more time. There was a splatter of bloo

