Chapter Twenty-Eight Sophie
After I left the shop I headed to meet up with Nyx.
She told me she texted my tails after I agreed to go out and pick up this asshole, telling them that they can head home because ‘Lash’ had other men coming to take over their place.
I’m hoping that Toby doesn’t check in so I have enough time to pick this jackass up and get some information from him, then head home hopefully a step closer to finding another member of Acid’s table.
I find it extremely annoying that the man apparently does not give two shits about his daughter.
I’ve asked Nyx if she knows if he has sons because apparently he was cool using his daughter as a whore to infiltrate our club.
She dug into his background as well as everything that Wizard had found for the club.
Acid apparently has several kids with several women.
The woman that is his ol’ lady that he appears to think is useless is Lips’s mother.
From what we have gathered the woman was someone he has known his whole life and she loves him, but he could apparently give two shit about her.
He made her his ol’ lady, but really steps out on her especially when she failed to produce him a male heir, which as everyone knows is her fault, that damn woman and her X chromosomes.
Apparently that’s all he cares about. I guess we are in the 1800s.
I mean shit, I didn’t know that was the century we were in or that we were a part of the mafia needing all those boys to move forward in life.
Some clubs are disgusting and I guess I should be thankful I grew up in a place where women were respected and that we were treated like family.
Yes, club business has impacted all my relationships with the brothers of this club because things have been hidden from me, things that should have not been hidden because it involved my family, but at least I was never abused.
It looked like Lips’s mother was not only abused by Acid, but also by Lips herself.
What kind of fucked up daughter acts like that?
She seemed to feed into her father’s delusions.
I mean to think that she thought that if her father were the heir apparent for my grandfather her and Toby would be together.
What kind of stupid shit is that, you can’t change who you are.
I got to the meeting point and got out of my car and headed into the building.
I have been here before, this warehouse by the docks because I would sneak away here to train with them on numerous occasions during my recovery.
When Toby thinks I’m doing what I’m supposed to, he doesn’t check in as much.
What I like is that Nyx taught me how to intercept texts and send texts from others' phones.
So I’ve been able to make him think that I’ve been where he assumes I am.
Now I know when he finds out the shit I’ve been doing he is going to have a shit fit.
But I’ve got some really powerful women at my back.
I’d never go out on my own and honestly while these women are here helping the club, why not utilize them.
I need to become a woman that was more than the ol’ lady my mother was.
I need to be able to protect myself and my family in a different way.
Until Luca gets his shit together and finally can claim an ol’ lady, I’m the ol’ lady in charge now that my mama is gone being that I am the ol’ lady of the VP.
I can do all the mundane shit that my mother did day in and day out, but she couldn’t do a lot of the shit that these women can.
In the end it was part of what got her abducted twice and then eventually killed.
I’m not saying mama was weak, but she was not trained to really protect herself.
She could shoot a gun fine, but not like most women could.
That is part of the problem with the way this club thinks they need to protect their women like they are fragile.
I do not want to be fragile. I don’t plan on what happened to my mama happening to me.
I’m not going to leave my kids without a mother, I know it all sounds wrong and some of the things I feel I’ve been hiding during counseling.
I’m not only angry with my father, the club, and Toby, but I am also holding a lot of anger towards my mama and the fact that she could’ve done more to protect herself.
I am so angry with everyone and I feel like a horrible daughter and wife for feeling the way I do.
My therapist says its normal to feel this way when bad things happen to us, but fuck if I don’t feel like everyone thinks I should just get over everything and I am starting to feel the same way.
But the thought of talking to my father makes my blood boil.
When he calls to talk to the kids, he calls Toby knowing that I needed space.
As I walk to the building and head to the door, I begin pulling my phone out of my pocket when the door opens.
“Hey! Right on time. I added your finger print, retinal scanner and stuff to the system. So next time all you have to do is just do that and come on in. No more waiting for any of us to let you in. Plus once we are done with helping out your MC,
a lot of us are going to be headed out to other places and the next assignments, but we wanted to make sure you had full access to the building.” Nyx says as she opens the door.
“That is great, thank you! So where are we heading and who did we find?”
“Come on back, we will walk you through what is going on.”
I begin to follow her back, “Who is all here?”
“Well we called in a few other Sirens, figured we could try and get rid of these bastards. Hopefully we can make this little piggy squeal and get all the answers we need on where this little nasty bastard is. I swear the more I look into him and the people around him the more disgusted I get.
To think that he is blood with your father is crazy. There is no way they are anything alike.”
We walk into the computer room and there are more women here than I thought there would be. I was surprised, Alessia walked over to me and smiled.
“Hey Sophie, how are you doing?”
“I’m fine, excited. Glad we finally got a lead!”
“Well we are too! We want to put an end to these assholes as well as the Baranov family that’s helping them. Even though the Russians might be more of a challenge. So how about we introduce you to everybody who has been working on this little case with us.
I put together this team for exactly what we have needed and honestly Nyx had found one of the men before now, but we have been keeping an eye on him.”
We walk over to the conference table and I sit down next to Nyx. My training has mostly been just Alessia and her so I have not met the whole group of assassins and I would love to someday meet them.
“Alright so lets do some quick introductions, how long do you think you have before your husband notices you are missing?” Alessia asks me.
“It could be awhile, I told him I was working late and then going out with friends. So unless someone gets in touch with him, he isn’t expecting me home for some time.”
“Alright, well that is perfect. After we walk through our plan we are going to head out and pick up our new friend and see what we can get out of him. So let’s start with the introductions. Right here we have Ana Petrov, she goes by Viper. She is kind of our enforcer,
she goes on high threat extractions and she is great at dominance interrogation.She’s combat trained. She is good at physically cornering targets, immobilizing them and delivering fear without touching their pain points.”
She points to a woman with jet-black hair that is tied in a tight braid.
She has ice blue eyes and pale skin. She is lean, coiled with muscle.
“Next we have Marcella Voss or Raven as she likes to be called.
She is our tracker, our infiltrator, our psychological destabilizer.
When we located evidence that the SAA of Acid MC had been hanging out in a bar a few towns over in Ridgemend we sent her over there to work as a bartender to see what we could figure out.
Turns out all the council brothers have split up so that they can’t all be tracked at once.
However, we think that they probably all know where to locate each other.
Acid has been hard to find because for whatever reason the Baranov family thinks that he is some big deal that will help them take over this part of the country after they take out your family.
Now we are just spitballing with that information because we haven’t obviously picked anybody up yet.
Now this is Lidia Alvarez or as she is called Wren.
She is our psychological interrogator and emotional profiler.
We call her the Whisperer; she is best known for psychological interrogation, emotional leverage and breaking loyalty without violence.
Basically we have her here and she is going to break this asshole when we get him.
Next we have Tara O’Neill, called Echo, she is one of our tech intel persons, she is a psychological trapper and an evidence interrogator.
She is the Shadow Listener she is best known for evidence based manipulation, cornering targets with the truth they didn’t know she had.
Next we have Harper Quinn, or Anchor, she is the captor, transport and containment and or dealmaker.
She is our handler, she is best with large scale containment, logistical traps and forced compliance.
Then of course you know Fiadh Donnelly, Nyx.
Our Phantom, who is perfect for disappearing people.”
Nyx smiles at me and then takes over where Alessia stopped, “So now that we have those introductions done, we have a solid plan to capture Darrel ‘Snip’ Travis. Don’t ask me about his name, but since Raven got a shitload of information about his life from him confiding in his bartender,
we know a lot about him personally. We can find him at the bar, he usually is there every night of the week. We will get him and bring him back here to one of our interrogation cells. We will let Viper and Wren go at him once we get him here, unless someone else feels that they can get him to talk..
You will observe for now. This can be included in part of your training. We will keep him here for as long as it takes until we figure out all we can get from him. If he breaks that is, but we will definitely not be sharing anything with your dear MC brothers. This is our case now.