Page 45 of Hacker Betrayed

Donovan pulled out his phone and tapped the screen. “Fuck, I don’t have access to the cameras at the house. I need to get to Mexico, and I don’t have a plane.”

“You have ten minutes to get to the airport. We tracked a charter plane heading south. I think they took Ashlyn and Mia before they blew up the warehouse. They didn’t remove Mia’s bracelet, so I had her location until they went in the sky,” Brock said.

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Mia

Ammonia assaulted my nose. I tried to move away, but my arms were tied behind my back, and my legs wouldn’t move.

When I opened my eyes, a man I didn’t recognize slipped smelling salts under Ashlyn’s nose. A third chair had Jordan tied to it. Blood dripped from his mouth, and his right eye was swollen shut.

Lydia stepped into the room wearing a tight red dress and high heels. “Hello, big sisters.”

Ashlyn fought the ropes and screamed through the handkerchief stuffed in her mouth.

I didn’t bother trying to scream through the cloth. Lydia would tell us her big plan. Except she sucked at being a criminal. My bracelet was still on, and Brock would have my location. My goal was to keep us alive until help broke down the walls.

“You both are so hard to kill.” Lydia held a gun in her hand. “Mom and Dad tried to tell me you died. I even believed them until you showed up at Ashlyn’s graduation. This amazing family was handed to you, and you walked away. The only problem was Dad was too weak to have you killed. Both our parents are weak. They always have been. I was the one to make sure Grandma and Grandpa died all those years ago so Dad would be in power.”

My grandparents died when Lydia was only seven years old. How did I miss how evil of a person she was? I still couldn’t speak because of the rag in my mouth.

“Once Donovan comes to Mexico, he will see everything I’ve done for him and he will want me as his queen. I tried to get him his son, but I think we’ll be better off starting our own family. Originally I thought I’d just kill you, Mia, but then you fucked with the operation I had Felicity doing for me at the club. The information she was able to obtain every time she went to the club was worth it. Blackmail is quite lucrative. Then rumor got back how you were to come in and look for the mole. The only way to get you off my back was to kill Tabitha, which was fine. I always hated that bitch.”

Lydia marched over to Ashlyn and ripped the rag out of her mouth. “You cost me more. All you had to do was go back to using your original supplier, but you refused. Thanks to my little access, the change cost me millions, so I took it from you. Jordan here couldn’t keep his nose out of your business. Kain fucked up the last transaction.” Kain was another one of Cyrus's kids. He was a year younger than Donovan. “He’s paying for his crimes, but once Donovan sees I’m the only one worthy to be his wife, he’ll pick me.”

“Why do you want this life?” Ashlyn cried.

Lydia’s attention was on my sister as I worked to free my hands from the ropes behind me. I wasn’t sure how many guards Lydia had on her side. Jordan kept going in and out of consciousness.

Lenny, Cyrus's youngest son, came in with a radio in his hand. “We have a helicopter inbound.”

“I knew he would come for me,” Lydia whispered. “Years of planning. The only thing that I wish I had was your son. But once we dispose of your body, I’ll let my husband decide what to do with his bastard son. Watch them while I go greet my king,” Lydia snapped at Lenny.

Lydia turned and left the room.

“When the hell did she become this crazy?” I grumbled through the cloth in my mouth.

“I don’t know. During the years she played you and me. All to win over Donovan. Why the hell did she not just ask him out?”

“He ignored her,” Lenny volunteered. “She’s the dumb one who played mine and Kain’s game. All to get my bitch of a stepmom back. I can’t wait to put a bullet in your head for killing my father. Donovan is a weak leader.”

The radio in Lenny’s hand crackled before it went silent. My boss had hacked the com.

“So you and Kain plan to run the family? What are you going to do with Lydia?”

“She’ll be a nice fuck toy,” Lenny sneered, his eyes glued on me.

The rope dropped from my wrists.

“What do we do?” Ashlyn whispered.

The crazy look in Lenny’s eyes led me to believe he wouldn’t wait for Donovan. He was going to kill me now. “You know a shit storm of people will come for me, right?”

“Oh, I’m counting on the war. I will win.”

Lenny leaned forward and ran his tongue across Ashlyn’s face. Jordan fought his bindings and screamed through the rag in his mouth.

“I haven’t decided if I’m going to kill you yet. You would make a good toy. More submissive than your bitch sister. And this one has to die for killing our father.”

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