Next in Line (Monarch of the Kohler Mafia) Book 5 of the Köhler Series

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The next day they were back to business, working on finding Hanna, Riche, and even Juan. Xerxes noticed the whole time Riley's focus was on Gen and Lucas, who are sitting beside each dead into their work.

"Tell me one of you in here have found something?"

"A name does that count?" Leah asked, looking up from her computer with a nervous glare. Her eyes quickly looked back down, then over to Peyton sitting beside her.

"Tell me."

"Bruno Wanger," Leah said without looking up. He could see Peyton's hand reach over and hand hers as she whispered something into her ear, then made Leah smile.

"Why does that last night sounds familiar?" X said, looking over to Elijah and Caleb. Elijah was feeding his son while Cay was rubbing Heaven's temples. She had a headache and couldn't leave for work that morning.

"Taylor... That's Taylor's last name," Madison said, making Xerxes's head snap in her direction. "What you the fuck you mean Taylor's last name? I thought all of you killed all the muthafuckers like I told you? What is he to her?"

"H-her uncle Don," One of them said. He didn't catch which one of the girls said it, but he knew it was between Aria or Raine.

"This some bullshit. Just find me a fucking location," Xerxes said as he looked down at a text Leon sent about his sister being pregnant. His eye shot over to Cay and Heav, knowing that was the reason he was in a rush to propose, and both were hell-bent on getting married within weeks before their parents found out.

"So, they all out in the opening with it now?"

"Babygirl, what are you talking about?" Xerxes asked because she wasn't looking at the text, and neither of them knew about Heaven's pregnancy but maybe her twin. His eyes followed hers to Lucas kissing the side of Gen's head and her smiling, turning to kiss his lips.

"Are you still mad because they hid their relationship? That was something new for Gen. Maybe she wanted to explore it first before letting us know."

"Or maybe he pressured her into. Had something over her head and forced her into it."

"Ri, my brother is a lot of things, but Luke forcing someone to date or fuck him isn't one of them. I watched him have his heartbroken and fall out of a passion for the things he loved. Quit school and everything else. He came to me a few months back telling me he wanted love. He wanted what we had and was going back to school. Luke had found himself again. I didn't know until last night he hasn't been with anyone for two years now. Let them be. Both are happy." Xerxes said as Riley turned, glaring at him.

"That's your brother, and you will say anything to may him look good. Genesis is gay and has been gay as far as I can remember. She just didn't change faces. He did something to make her. When I find out what, I'm putting a bullet in his other fucking leg."

"I think you nee--" A hard and loud smack when across Xerxes faced before he could finish as Riley jumped up storming from the room.

"DAMNNN BRO! What you do to her?" Keandre said, looking surprised as Xerxes glare over at him standing.

"Excuse me for a moment."

"Don't kill her X," RJ laughed as he walked out. Once he was out the door, most of them burst into laughter. He was to focus on finding Riley, knowing her short legs didn't carry her far. Soon as he found her, he grabbed her by the neck, forcing her to the wall.

"What the fuck is wrong with you? I let this behavior slide when you were pregnant, Riley, but now you're just acting out."

"Let go of me. You're hurting me."