Winter is always careful, and she makes sure she has all the facts before she speaks on anything. Especially concerning the range and the running of the business. Target walks into the apartment and gives me a serious look.
“Have you heard any more on the Victoria mess?” Target sits next to Winter, but I notice he is very careful he doesn’t disturb her paperwork. Pussy!
“No, as yet I’m waiting for Forest to get to me with anything he finds. I spoke to Aaron, and he’s going to do some digging, as is Specs of course. I am going over to BaronsSecure and speak with Delta. I reckon she may get more out of Victoria than I will. They can do the web talk, you know,like they do!” I chuckle.
“What’s the Weekender for?” Winter asks as she looks up for more than a moment.
“I’m taking some gear to Victoria’s. When she gets released I’m going to stay with her, you know, make sure she’s okay.”
Winter frowns and gives me a penetrating look. Now, if I wasn’t trained to withstand torture I’d squirm, but I hold myself and I see Target smirking out of my visual periphery.
“You trying to tie her down, Chaos?” Winter asks, and I turn my attention to her fully.
“I don’t even know her, Winter. But I know something about the whole situation is wrong. She saved that kid, yet the parentshaven’t even checked if she lived or died. She is running from something, and she’s a computer whiz. I’m not walking away from her to leave her fighting whatever is chasing her,” I state with such fierceness that I surprise even myself.
Winter nudges Target with her elbow, and he gives her a nod. I give them both a frown before grabbing my bag and walking to the door. “See you later,” I snap before closing the door as I leave.
Opening Victoria’s apartment, I step inside and notice how stuffy it is. I open the window in the kitchen before walking through to the bedroom and opening that one too. Looking around I check that nobody has been in here since I was here with Mia, and it's all the same. I run my eyes slowly over every inch of the bedroom, living room and kitchen, but see nothing out of place.
A knock on the door has me tensing up, but I relax when I hear Amelia’s voice. “Chaos, I know you are in there, open the darn door.”
Quickly walking to the door, I open it and see Amelia, Bitty and Sybil. Now, they each have bags in their hands, and I grab as many as I can from them while they push past me and into the apartment.
From that moment I may as well not be in the place. Taking over is a light way of saying they set to cleaning everywhere. I mean the fridge, freezer, stove, counters, and then delegate jobs to cover the rest of the apartment.
The bags had groceries, and more than enough frozen meals. Some I recognize as Meat’s meals and I reckon I’m going to be eating well while I’m here.
Amelia walks over to me where I’m pushing the living room chairs back into place now Bitty has finished dry mopping the wood block flooring. “Chaos, are you going to the hospital?”
“Not yet, I have to see Forest or Aaron before I check on Victoria. Jack spoke to me this morning, and he said to do what I have to as he’s slept enough to stay with Victoria until I get there.”
“He’s a good one. Going to make a good brother. He has found family in the club, and it’s what he desperately needed. I heard he is going to be working with you and Target soon?” Amelia questions, and I know she’s going to miss him being around.
“Yeah. We are going to train him up on weaponry and get him fully trained. I don’t think he’ll want to join the military, but we can teach him more than enough to hold his own with the brothers, and any fucker that comes along causing issues.”
Amelia pats my forearm. “That’s a good thing, Chaos. He feels like a grandson after all the time we’ve spent with him. We’ll miss him, and playing pranks on him, but we know it is what he needs. Who wants to follow old women around until they die…”
“Hey, none of that. We all love you. You are family to us, and we don’t see you as old women. You are who you are, and that’s all that we know and need to know. Your age has nothing to do with that, Amelia. Now, I have a question I’ve been meaning to ask you?”
“What’s that?” Amelia’s interest perks.
“Are you keeping up your training with your cane? I know you’ve taught Bitty and Sybil how to use it as a weapon.” I wink at her, and she gives me a sweet smile, but she’s not fooling me. She is wicked when she wants to be even though she’s a tiny thing compared to most of us.
“I add the cane into our training once a month. Don’t you worry I can knock someone’s head if need be.” Patting my arm again, she stops smiling. “Okay, get off and do what you have to do. We’ll make sure this place is spotless and you have all the food you need. When you bring Victoria home, you won’t have to worry about anything.”
I hand the key over to Amelia so she can lock up when she leaves, but as I head out I turn. “Call Specs and ask him for a better lock. If you ask nicely, maybe Wings, Buzz or BS will fit it?”
“Go on, I’ll sort that out,” Bitty laughs, and I head out to speak with Forest before I go to the hospital.
****
Walking into the Sheriff’s Office, I give Gemmy a huge smile. “Hi, Gemmy, how are you this fine morning?”
“Hi, Chaos. I’m good. Are you here to see Forest?” As usual, Gemmy gets right to the point.
“I am, or Aaron. Either know what’s going on, or I hope they do.”
“Go through. Forest is in his office.”
