Page 139 of Chaos Kills

“Then I’ll take them and see if anything comes out of it.”

Bay stops mid-chew and gapes at me suspiciously with narrowed eyes. “You’re serious?”

“As a heart attack.”

“I could be lying.”

“You could be.”

“It could be an edited one.”

“So, that would mean you’re possibly innocent because why would there be an edited one?”

Bay snorts and takes another bite of the burrito even though she has some still in her mouth. “Because he’s a fuckin’ asshole.”

“Who still has a vendetta against you, apparently.”

“It’s a perfect play,” she replies evenly. “Two boys all over me. It pits South Shore against The Landings again and possibly Wharf Bay.”

“I have nothing to do with Wallace and South Shore.”

“But Torin does with The Landings.”

I lift my shoulders. “And until a hair is touched on my brother’s head, I don’t move.”

“What about his brother’s head?”

I see what she’s doing here.

All roads lead to her if you look at it from the outside. However, I’d like to say that I know this girl a bit. I might notfully understand the stupid shit she does or why, but there’s a difference between that and murdering someone.

And she doesn’t strike me as someone who’d do something like that unless she absolutely had to or your name is Matteo De Leon.

My evidence—Levi Wallace.

She could’ve had him move at any moment, but he didn’t. Their little impromptu dating is something that never sat right but was surprising all the same if it were true.

“Can I ask you something?”

Bay lifts her shoulders. “Sure.”

“Were you dating Wallace?”

Her blue eyes roll as she leans back and catches herself on one arm, but she surprises me by not evading and just answers. “No.”

Huh.

“Then why do it?”

“Because Levi wanted me to get closer to Torin so I could get closer to Emilio.”

Of course, he did.

“And what was your plan?”

“I think you know the answer to that.”

Ambitious.

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