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“You’re pretty good at running your mouth,” Aadi quips.
“You don’t seem to mind my mouth,” she throws back, and Kalen loses it.
“Let’s wrap this up. I’ll have all the information you need forwarded to each of you. I can’t emphasise enough how important it is that we get this sorted as soon as possible.”
They all agree and we end the session. I sigh in relief that I made it through my first official meeting. Let’s just hope that everything else runs as smoothly. But for now, I want to go and see my dad. I’ve missed him, and sometimes a girl just needs a hug from her daddy.
Chapter Thirty-One
Amelie
Baxter makes a swift exit. This whole sex trafficking has him more focused than I have seen in a long time. It scares me to see him like this because I know what he is capable of and innocents do not need to be in his firing line when he explodes. The clean up is not going to be pretty. I just need him to not kill anyone before we get some answers.
“Will you be okay if I leave?” Sawyer asks. “I need to make sure that all the new laws are ready to be sent to every headquarters around the world, and then I have to help with all this year’s recruits.”
“I’ll be fine. How does that work exactly, do they run like us and have someone in charge?”
Sawyer laughs. “You’re in charge of everything. Each country has a board, all of which are changing hands today, which is why it has taken me so long. I wasn’t just sorting problems in our backyard. Theirs are run by their own families that were appointed for each country. So while The Order was founded here and we are the top of the food chain, there are alsoimportant families that help keep everything running smoothly. Everywhere except Australia, that is, because your grandmother is a force to be reckoned with.”
“Wow, okay,” I say, scratching my head. I knew The Order was ‘worldwide’ but I hadn’t really thought much beyond that. I thought it was a generic term for really big, notliterally everywhere. There is still so much that I need to learn.
Slate, Onyx, Kalen and I head back to the hotel. I want my dad to officially meet the twins as my boyfriends. Aadi and Bex have to stay behind to meet with the other recruits. They are all being given tasks to help aid the takedown.
Frost escorts us back to the hotel, and Jasper is there waiting for us to take over. With Elsie occupied today he is back on duty.
Slate takes my hand as we walk through the doors. His hand is sweaty, and I look up at him.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?”
“He’s nervous about officially meeting your dad. I’ve told him how awesome he is but he doesn’t believe me,” Kalen crows with a laugh.
“Shut up! This is just getting real, that’s all. The whole ‘meet the parents’ thing. I know Amelie has met our parents, but this is her dad and she’s his daughter,” Slate huffs.
“That’s generally how it works,” Onyx quips, earning him a smack on the back of his head from his twin.
“You’re both assholes. This is a man from a founding family, so he grew up training in The Order. He could probably kill us before we could even think about defending ourselves.”
When my father was seventeen, he came over here to attend a boarding school. There are a few gaps in the story because my information came from Baxter and everything with him is on a need to know basis. He likes to keep bombshells up his sleeve, just so he can whip one out at a moment’s notice.
“My dad is a big teddy bear,” I protest, defending his honour, but I’m sure Slate is actually right. I’m still afraid to look at his file to see what he did exactly and how he managed to be allowed to go home and take a back seat within The Order.
Kalen knocks on the door,bang bang bang, stop,bang bang, stop.
“What are you doing?” Onyx snaps.
“It's a secret knock, duh.”
The door flies open and the doorway is filled by Smalls. My eyes go wide and my mouth hangs open.
“Are you just going to stand there catching flies or are you going to give me a hug?” Smalls asks, followed by a laugh.
I step forward into his arms and he pulls me into a bear hug. “I missed you so much, baby girl.”
Onyx growls and I go rigid in his arms. Smalls and I have resolved our feelings for each other, but sometimes habits are not as easy to break.
I take a step back from his embrace and Onyx takes my hand and pulls me to his side like a damn caveman. I shake my head at him.
