Excuse me?
“She’s the cyber investigator you wanted to speak to?” Tracker asks.
“Yeah. And fuckin’ miracle she’s here because a bounty just went out for her three days ago.” At Nerd’s words I feel myself tense and the air in the room thickens.
This shit can’t be happening.
Chapter Twelve
Amaya
If the earth could just open up a nice big hole and swallow me whole that would be great. I knew immediately when the guy asked me my name who he is. There are few people who I work with in the cyber world who know who I am by name. Though they never use it when speaking to me.
We all have a code we follow in the cyber world and one of those rules we all abide by, is never mentioning our names through the devices.
To have Nerd standing here and calling me by the name I go by when working, isn’t surprising. He’s good but some things he has told me about and I’ve helped. Didn’t know him at the time but I helped because of what it had been in regard to.
“You want to say that again?” Isaac asks.
Nerd pretty much dropped a nice bomb announcing the hit on my life.
I knew it would come eventually. This is why Lincoln needed his dad. He’d be able to protect him where I couldn’t.
“Cyber Reign or as you know her Amaya Lucas, has a bounty out for her worth fifty million dollars.”
Oh boy.
I’m not worth that much.
“Shit, who would want to pay so much?” one of the men in the room asks, crossing his arms over his chest.
“They’d pay a shit load of money for her because she’s a motherfuckin’ genius when it comes to computers,” Nerd announces proudly.
“You are?” Isaac asks, pulling me around and into his side.
“No, I simply work through programs that find the answers people need. I’m a cyber investigator. Nothing more,” I murmur quietly. Not liking the attention on me.
“Affles,” Lincoln says loudly, gaining the attention of the room. I could literally kiss the little boy right now.
“How about you all talk about this stuff later? It seems we have a little one here who wants waffles.” The woman who’d been standing near a man wearing a cut with the name Stoney on it says. Isaac explained to me and Emilia four years ago how the cuts they wear are not vests. Confusing as all get out but it’s not my business.
“Thank you, Rach, any way there’s any left?” Isaac asks.
“Yep, you’re in luck. Harlow cooked breakfast this morning and made lots of waffles and pancakes,” the woman Isaac calls Rach says. She then looks to me and holds out her hand. “Hi, I’m Rachel,” she greets me and then nods her head to the man she’d been standing next to. “This is Stoney. He’s the President of this club and my ol’ man.”
I find it hard to speak but I take her hand and shake it in greeting and nod my head.
Isaac, for some reason, clues into my nervousness and speaks for me. “Amaya here isn’t used to being around a lot of people at a time. She got in last night and is the shyest person I know. Even more shy than Harley.”
“Hey, I’m not shy,” a woman I suppose is Harley pipes in.
“Babe, you are,” Isaac chuckles. “Get over here and meet my ol’ lady.”
“Whatever,” Harley giggles but comes forward. “You need to feed your kid,” she says but her attention comes to me. The woman seems apprehensive in holding her hand out to me. Almost as if she were sizing me up at the same time judging me for who I am. “Hi, I’m Venom’s sister. Well, not his real sister but he’s adopted me as such and so here I am his sister.”
Clearing my throat, I nod. “Um, hi.” Then I look up to Isaac. “Lincoln is hungry and needs to eat.”
“Yeah, Sweetness, and so do you,” he mutters with a grin.
I nod but wonder if they have anything here, I could eat. The smell of bacon is intense, and it makes me want to throw up. Why? Because I’ve not been able to eat meat since the day my father shoved a thing of raw sausage in my mouth forcing me to eat it.
This isn’t something anyone wants to experience and the reason I don’t eat meat or anything it touches and why I could barely eat the pizza last night without puking.
Isaac pulls me with him and sets me at a table with Lincoln and then leaves the room. Others retake their seats and go back to eating. A couple of the women look to me as if they want to come over and speak but don’t. Instead, they take their spots at the tables where they were sitting before.
Whip is the first to come back and sits at the table on one side of me, I reach out and grab the chair next to me and bring it close enough to put Lincoln in it. He’s glancing around the room in excitement. When he looks to me, he shocks me. “Aya, Daddy’s family is big,” he says loudly, causing several of Isaac’s brothers to chuckle.
“Why does he call you Aya? Aren’t you his mom?” Rachel asks.
I shake my head at the same time Isaac sets a plate down in front of me. I don’t have to look down to see what’s on it and already my stomach is turning. Oh God, I can’t eat this.
“Amaya isn’t his mom but she’s his guardian. She got in last night and we still have a lot to speak about but one of them won’t be about Lincoln’s mom. The bitch, I’ll be speaking to her personally when I call her to ream her a new asshole,” he announces.
Um, what?
He’s going to call Emilia?
Oh boy.
I just know she’s
