Page 45 of Clean Hack
It wasn’t until Axe, one of the members from the Moon Hill chapter, moved in behind her and whispered something in her ear, did she snap back to reality a little.
“Looks likeI’mthe one who gets to seeyourfear,” she said and there was an eerie calmness to her tone. I could sense that the statement was personal to her.
Then she stabbed him in the dick.
Oh, yeah.
And I couldn’t help but cringe.
Because…it was in the dick.
There was something about it that I knew every man in the room felt. I imagined it was very much deserved, but still.
Savage screamed out and it came out strangled. Then the girl fell back into Axe’s arms.
Cal took over at this point and shot the man in the head, effectively giving him a well-deserved end, I would have guessed. Then he barked out orders, taking control of everything. Eventually, he turned to me with an amused, curious look plastered on his face.
“And how the fuck is it that you are here anyway?” he asked in a bark.
“Long story?” I supplied because I didn’t have the first clue to even explain it.
“Found your psychic?” Diesel asked, a knowing look barely covered his face.
“Yep,” I said pulling Lucy closer into my side like I was never going to let her go.
That was when things got even more insane.
“FBI. Nobody move.” Was called out loudly from behind us.
Damn, how the hell did we not hear them coming up?
My first objective was to shield Lucy. Right now I needed to be invisible and I had a good feeling she did too. I turned slowly, pushing her body behind mine. Luckily, I was able to shuffle us back a few steps to get lost in the giant crowd. I just had to figure a way out of here without being noticed.
The FBI agent was pissed that Savage was dead, but Burke seemed to know him and was able to ease the situation by handing over the journal that they’d gotten from Savage earlier. You know, right before he ended up dead. It seemed to satisfy the agent and then things got even weirder. Like the kind of weird you’d only see in movies.
The lead agent called his men off and even offered to help the Paragons out with getting medical attention as soon as they got to the hospital. He went as far as to lay out a plan for how this all went down. I knew everyone was all ears because the place was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop.
“Get your men up,” the agent said to Cal. “Take the ones that need medical attention to county. I’ll need a statement from the girl, but as far as I can tell, it looks like the leader of The Devil’s Kings—Savage, as he went by—went crazy and took out half of his men.”
He went on to paint a picture of how the Steel Paragons were in town on an unplanned charity run. Cal agreed by saying that a local women’s shelter was about to get a donation. Then the agent went on to explain how Allison was found running down the road by the Paragons. In his story, Allison had burned the place down before she left but had managed to get the journal, which would somehow later end up in Burke’s hands and that was how the FBI got a hold of it.
Man, this was some confusing stuff to follow along with, especially when I didn’t have the first clue what was going on to begin with.
Then, by some kind of divine angel looking over us and shooting lightning bolts of luck our way, the agent and his team were gone.
The men scattered, going in all different directions and it was like Lucy and I had been forgotten about. Which was fine because we needed to get the hell out of there.
Lucy struggled with me for a moment until I reassured her that it was alright. Then we made our way out and back to my truck.
“Please,” she begged after I told her that we wouldn’t be going to the hospital. “I need to see her. Please, Derrick.”
It broke my heart to tell her no. To speak the truth that we both knew.
“We can’t. The FBI is going to be there and we can’t get near that. We can’t be noticed. Cal and his crew have a free pass, but I have no idea if that extends to you and me. And even if it did, I can’t risk being there. I’ve stayed invisible this long, I can’t risk ruining that.”
“I-” she said, then stopped herself. “Okay, you’re right. But I can’t just leave her. Not after I just got her back.”
“I’m pretty sure I know where to find her,” I said, pulling her across the bench seat and into my arms. It wasn’t a lie. I had seen the way Axe not only looked at Allison, but I noticed the way he would do anything to protect her. There was clearly something there and I’d put money on the fact that Allison would end up in Moon Hill really soon. “Besides, it looks like she’s been through a lot. She needs to get checked out and some time to rest.”
