Page 92 of Road to Redemption

Standing in the doorway, Dom’s hair was messy from her bike helmet. She swept it from her face as she stood on the threshold. “Well, Major Callahan, you were right.”

“No shit.” Leo scoffed, lifting my legs off her lap and standing up. “What’d you find?”

Dom’s face darkened as she looked down at me on the couch. “An email cache, thousands if not millions of them on a remote server.”

Pumping her fists, Leo let out a cheer. “Let’s fucking go.”

“We don’t have long, I put a bug in there to give us remote access but it won’t take a while for Zeus’ tech nerds to find it. We’ve gotta pull everything we can off of there, search everything we can and make sure we have them before we get kicked out.” There was a glint of hope in Dom’s blue eyes, something in them disturbed but optimistic that we might actually succeed.

Leo ran down the hall and came back with her laptop in hand as Dom got settled in her usual chair, popping open her own computer.

Once Dom got Leo set up on the server, the two of them locked in.

I watched them work, quickly scanning file names and starting to drag them over to their own hard drives. They could spend the next couple weeks reading through all of them, figuring out if any of it was valuable.

But right now, they needed to make sure Isaac couldn’t rip the evidence out from under us.

Spencer clapped her hands as she entered the living room. “So, how do I look–”

Stopping in her tracks, her gaze flicked between Dom and Leo’s laptops before landing on me. “What’d I miss?”

I stood from my spot on the couch, brushing a loose strand of her messy hair from her face. “Leo was right, Isaac’s been hiding a cache of emails on some dinosaur server. They’re ripping files.” Straightening out her vintage leather jacket, I admired her outfit. “But you look amazing.”

Clearing her throat, Spencer blew out some warm air. “And we’re sure this is a good idea?”

Confident, I nodded. “Yes, babe.”

Lifting an eyebrow, Spencer smiled. “Look who’s giving out pet names now.” She bit her lip. “And we think he’ll still want to talk to me?”

“Of course. He’s your nephew, he adores you. It will be completely fine. And I’ll be here when you get home for a debrief.” My eyes flicked to Dom and Leo who were clicking away on their keyboards. “And so will these two zombies.”

Spencer planted a kiss on my cheek. “You’re so perfect, Bunny.”

With that, Spencer headed out to face her nephew.

My eyes caught on my phone, sandwiched in the couch cushions. Shaking the chill that moved through my body, I turned my back on the device.

Tonight, my three protectors needed me.

Even if the question of my mom’s involvement lurked in the back of my mind, there was nothing I could do about it tonight.

I’d have to press my lovers on it in the morning. There wasn’t much time to waste.

With any luck, we could get ahead of the tsunami that was about to engulf our worlds before it all came crashing down on us.

49

SPENCER

The nice thing about driving a bike was that there was always a parking spot right out front.

Under the bright fluorescent streetlight, I watched the entrance of the parking lot. I leaned on my Suzuki, rapping my fingers against the polycarbonate of my helmet.

This is going to suck.

It wasn’t until Caleb’s car pulled up, a beat up sedan I’d hooked him up with when he got a job at 16, that I got out of my head. The thing was in the shop every other month at this rate, but it got him around. I’d set one rule: he had to take his sister to her after school activities.

A pit formed in my stomach as Caleb hopped out of his car and walked toward me.