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Kai shook his head “Michael…”

“Our life th threatens people”

I looked around,eye contact with all of the whatever they wanted, because I wanted the to let Kai feel like he’d done so and those kids being lost to us forever

“We’re not changing,” I told them

Kai stepped up to“And in another ten years when another eneain?”

“They won’t want to mess with your kid in ten years,” Will joked

“This isn’t funny!” Kai growled, not caring who heard him “My kid—”

“Didn’t go looking for any of this!” I finished for him “None of this is his fault He did what any animal on this planet does when someone threatens its life”

Kai fell silent, and I didn’t back down I knehat he orried about I understood What if a bully got on Mads’s last nerve soht and caused ained for?

What if everything he’d learned at the dojo and with his grandfather had turned hi we couldn’t control?

But none of that would happen

Not really

Mads was taught just as ht The only thing that unnerved me was how much more efficient he was at it than me

“Now, let’s go ho tree and tuck our kids in,” I told all of theht spreads like wildfire, and anyone with a beef will think twice about coain”

“Hell yeah,” Damon muttered

He and Will headed off, cliazes locked

“We’re all watching hi him”

Kai wasn’t alone

His jaw flexed

“He could be a ht now,” I pointed out “He brought hiht”

We taught soldiers to kill people to save a nickel on a barrel of oil Whatever Mads did or didn’t do tonight, he’d had no choice

Finally, Kai’s eyes dropped, and his chest caved as he nodded