Unhinged Kallie (Buchanan Brothers Book 3) by Brooklyn Cross

Author:Brooklyn Cross [Cross, Brooklyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

CARTER

A door slammed closed, and I sat up straight, looking at the time. It was two in the morning, and all I could think was that we were being robbed, and god help them. Then I heard Kallie’s voice. I threw off the covers and ran for the hallway.

“Dad, please don’t do this,” Kallie said, and I relaxed when I realized there was no immediate threat.

“I told you this is non-negotiable.” Cain’s voice was as cold as ever while I could feel Kallie’s anger from the stairs.

“This is not fair.”

“Not fair?” What sounded like a fist landed on the counter, and I jogged down the rest of the stairs. Cain glared at Kallie, and I’d honestly never seen him this angry. “What you did was irresponsible. After our talk about the football team, I would have thought you learned your lesson, but you’re too much like Abel. You don’t think before you act.”

“I did think,” she tried to reason.

Neither seemed to notice me as I walked closer and leaned against the wall. I was trying to act relaxed, but I was anything but. This tension between them was new, and even though I didn’t think Cain would turn on his daughter, there was always that little voice in the back of my head reminding me he was different from the rest of us. He called himself an apex predator, and he was.

“No, you half thought and then acted. If you’d thought, we wouldn’t have had to spend the last two hours scrubbing down a house and body.”

Words you would never hear in another house, and they were said like she’d forgotten to load the dishwasher.

“You didn’t even finish your kill. I had to do it. That is the worst rookie mistake. If she’d lived and they found even a single fiber of corroborating evidence, you would be in a cell.” Cain tapped the side of his head.

“I wanted to prove to you that I could do this. You didn’t trust me and followed me, then treated me like a child.” Kallie growled, her hands balling into fists.

“I treated you exactly how you acted,” Cain yelled back.

Kallie crossed her arms. “I just wanted to prove I could do it alone and be as good as you.”

“And if you start using the intelligence you were gifted with rather than the emotions that burn through your veins like toxic waste, you will be. But until then, all you’ve proven to me is that you’re not ready. No more killing until you’re eighteen, and you will train with me and only me from now on.”

“But Dad, I just got the training wheels off.”

Cain walked toward her and stared down at Kallie with an intensity that made the hair on my arms stand up. “And now you will have them put back on. I lost your mother when I didn’t listen to my instincts. I will not lose you too. Do not leave this property again for one of your extra excursions, or I will know, and you will like your next punishment even less.

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