Kai and I had never fought in the past. I shouldn’t have taken that shot at him. But for some reason, he kept challenging me, and I felt farther away from him now than when he was in prison. What the hell was going on? I expected Damon and Will in my face. Not Kai. In many ways, he was the same as he’d always been. The thinker, the reasonable one, the brother who always looked out for the rest of us . . . But in many ways he had changed beyond recognition. He never smiled anymore, he took courses of action he wouldn’t have in high school, even knowing the consequences, and not once did I see
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