The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)

by Nora Sakavic

"Andrew doesn't give ground to anybody. Why does he keep saying yes to you?"

"He's high," Neil said, twirling a finger near his temple. "He thinks it's funny."

People talked about his trial and how it saved them from Andrew. No one said what they were doing to save Andrew from himself.

Andrew put his hand over Neil's mouth to shut him up and said, "Liar. But that's what makes you interesting. It's also what makes you dangerous. I should know better by now. Maybe I'm not as smart as I thought I was. Should I be disappointed or amused?"

He withdrew completely, leaving just the memory of his heartbeat against Neil's mouth, and spun away.

He wanted them to take statements, eyeball the obvious details of the gruesome scene, and shake Aaron's hand on their way out.

Nicky and Kevin looked like the night had beat them up and left them for dead.

"Oh, Neil is back. We thought perhaps you got lost." "I'm never lost," Neil said. "And never found," Andrew added with a sage nod.

"Would you want it back?" Betsy asked. "Do you have any idea how much it cost?" Neil asked. "Yes, I want it back." "It wouldn't bother you that it was used as a murder weapon?"

"It didn't kill anyone important."

Neil waited, but Andrew didn't let go. With so many people watching them Neil couldn't lift his shirt. He did the next best thing and dragged one of Andrew's hands under the hem. He pressed Andrew's palm to the ugly scarring across his abdomen.

Speaking of unpredictable assholes, when did that happen?" "When did what?" Neil asked. Wymack eyed him. "Forget it."

It's about family. Not necessarily the one we were born with, but the one we chose.

"Neil hit Riko," Matt said. "It was beautiful."

"What?" Nicky squawked. "Not fair! I missed it! Go do it again. Or not," he added quickly when Wymack leveled a death glare at him. "You can't blame a guy for dreaming, right, Coach?"

A jumble of lies had nothing to fight for. But Neil Josten was

a Fox. Andrew called this home; Nicky

He was their family. They were his. They were