Page 369 of Knox Academy Omnibus
Onyx flips him off and comes to drop down on the other side of me.
“I’m sorry I was a dick,” he whispers. I turn to face him.
“I can’t change my past, just like you can’t change yours. So let’s not fight about it.”
I lean forward and place a kiss on his lips. “Go and shower, you smell.”
He smiles against my lips and then nods his head before getting up and leaving the room. Kalen continues with the dramatics.
By the time the movie has finished we are all ready to head to bed. It’s been yet another day that we’ve heard nothing.
‘I’m a Barbie Girl’ starts playing from somewhere beside me and I look up at Sawyer as Kalen starts laughing like a hyena. Sawyer throws him a glare but pulls his phone from his pocket and answers, putting it on speaker phone.
“Any news yet?” he asks Baxter.
“Yes. We’ve finally traced the breach to a computer at a property half an hour west of here. I had a team sent in.”
“Who was it?”
“An Order member by the name of Tony Kean, he was already here under lock down. He grew up with Harold andwas against females joining. He claims he was working alone to undermine The Order, but when pushed about Harold he just said he can’t wait to see what wrath he brings down on us. I looked into their friendship and there really wasn’t one. They went to school together and that was about the extent of it. Tony had put a few requests in over the years with Harold but they all went ignored. It seems to me that Tony had a boner for old Grandpa Knox.”
“Are you kidding me? We’ve been locked down because Harold has a fucking fan club?” I say exasperated. I rub at my temples, this is never going to bloody end.
“Don’t worry, I took pleasure in dealing with him. And I have made sure to reiterate to every other member that going against you will result in a meeting with me.”
“Thanks, Batman.”
Onyx snorts. “Yeah, thanks, Batman.”
“You’re just jealous,” Baxter goads.
“Of what, I got the girl, remember?”
“Correction, you share the girl. I’m her BFF as she likes to put it.”
“Actually Bax, you have to compete with Smalls, Elsie. Adrianne…” Kalen taunts.
“I’ll kill them, easily fixed,” he snaps.
“Okay guys, enough. No need for a pissing contest. Thanks for the update.”
“If it were a pissing contest, I would win.” Kalen laughs. Baxter groans and hangs up the call.
Sawyer sits up straight, and I move from leaning against him. “I have to go and make some calls.”
“Sawyer, I’m the boss, I should be making calls, you need to hand this over to me.”
Frost walks into the room. “With all due respect, I’m head of security and it’s my job to keep you safe, Amelie. Until Sawyerhands over the day-to-day control to me, he does need to go over the security updates.”
“Fine, but Sawyer, tomorrow you hand that title to Frost. He deserves it, and I trust him to have that position. Any and all Order security now needs to be handed to him, do you understand me?”
Sawyer grins at me but nods his head. He is so damn stubborn, needing to be in control of everything.
“So, I guess this means tomorrow we are free again?” Kalen sing songs.
“You’re an idiot, Kalen. We were always free. Amelie wasn’t,” Slate explains.
“Wait, what?”
