Page 71 of In the Midst of Chaos

That didn’t happen.

Nate walked up to me, putting his hand on my back and patting me. “We’ll get your girl back, brother.”

Then Andre and Ace followed.

My dad and Gunner were quiet.

They didn’t get a chance to answer when the door opened, and Riley was there. She was wearing her riding leathers. I sometimes forgot she was also a badass. Her hair was in a braid, and she strolled into my father’s office like she owned the damn house.

“My niece goes missing, and none of you assholes can give me a fucking call?” She directed her question at my father.

“We had other things to deal with,” my father told her, annoyed.

She threw a phone at my father. His brows furrowed, not knowing what exactly he was looking at.

Riley got closer to my father and Gunner. “That right there, that innocent little girl, is Humberto’s daughter.”

All of our heads turned toward her.

“How the hell do you know this?” my father asked in disbelief.

“Always underestimating me just because I have a pussy,” Riley spat. She walked around and sat on my father’s desk.

“Before my brother-in-law passed away, he entrusted me with a journal.”

“Why you?” Gunner asked.

“Don’t tell me she was fucking him,” Nate murmured, and Riley cut him with a death glare.

“I loved my brother-in-law,” Riley said, and I almost hung my head in frustration.

I couldn’t keep up with who was fucking who anymore. All I knew was that I needed information on my girl or I would go fucking crazy.

“He was the only family my sister and I had. We grew up in the streets, and he offered us a better life. My sister knew he would never love her, yet she wanted to get his attention no matter the cost. I think it killed her that he never paid attention to her. Then Finley was born, and he adored her.” Riley shook her head. “That’s beside the point. When Finley left, I sent her the journal. She would know what to do to with it better than anyone else.”

“What was in the journal?” my father asked.

“Information on everyone who has ever crossed our data. A map into the underworld if you’d like. And my little niece took that information, picked a school and befriended Sofia since they’re close in age, knowing that it might come in useful one day. “

I was in awe, and I felt like the biggest scum of all at the same time. I’d forced her to move out of the house, yet she found something useful to help us out. Her loyalty to me might have wavered but never to her family.

I didn’t deserve her, no one did, but I was the only one who would fight till the end for her.

“As soon as I got here, I noticed we were one crucial member short,” Riley said, looking around the room to where Leon’s presence was absent.

“I thought the rat was you,” she told my father, and my eyebrows raised to my hairline. “But I now see that Leon was the only one with access to everyone. He was always the emissary between the club and the board. He was the one who notified us when meetings would go down or send messages, and I think that’s why I never got them. Or why I would do things, and then you guys would get mad at me, but I was being told I was doing it for the family.”

That was fucking true. Riley was always in trouble for one thing or another. If Leon wanted her separated, that explained it all.

“Leon had the power to bend information to his will, and no one would have questioned it.” Riley shrugged.

“The guys informed me that he, along with the cartel, took Finnie, and I need her back.” Riley took a deep breath. “She’s the only family I have left. I’ve watched her from afar, but Micah said that if anything ever happened to him or my sister, I needed her to grow on her own because that’s how she would know the meaning of strength.”

“Either Micah was a genius or a sadistic son of a bitch,” Ace murmured.

Riley turned to him, smiling. “He just loved his daughter more than anything in this world, and he knew that people are forced to grow up when they are alone. She’s the sole beneficiary of all of his assets. That’s a lot of power.”

She then turned to me. “Get my niece back, lover boy.”

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