Unexpected Returns (Finding My Home) Book 9 by Nikita Parmenter

Author:Nikita Parmenter [Parmenter, Nikita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

He's also the best one to look over them since he’s the only one, other than the tech guys, who would understand what was on it, and they would take too long to get here right now.

While we wait, something occurs to me.

“So you’re just tech, as in building and designing things, right?” I ask her.

She nods curiously, clearly unsure where I’m going with this line of questioning, “Yeah, pretty much. I design what he asks me to, and then I build it. Depending on the complexity of the design, I either do just a few, or I build a prototype, and then he gets someone else to build them. In the last year or so, I’ve been making my designs that are overly complicated so that only I can build them, and then he only has a few and can’t equip all of his people with this dangerous tech. It's not much, but it does make me feel slightly better to push back a bit and have some control over who gets them.”

She is a really good person, and she’s managed to stay that way even after all that she’s been through. I’m sure she has her demons, and pretty fucking big ones at that, but it impresses me that she still has her morals despite the world she’s been living in.

“Sometimes it’s the things that seem small to us that actually make the biggest difference when it comes to pushing back against controlling assholes,” I tell her.

She meets my eyes as understanding fills hers, nods, and then asks, “I feel like you were going somewhere different with that question?”

“Yeah, I was. Are you responsible for the Looney Tunes calling card that he leaves?”

She rolls her eyes, “Absolutely fucking not. He thinks he’s being funny, and he’s really not.”

“Yeah, that makes sense,” I reply. As I’m about to ask another question, the door opens again, and Rylie interrupts us.

Rylie smiles, “You check out. We’ve also found you're using your original name, and it was reported that you and your mother went missing about four years ago, and no one has seen either of you since.”

Emmerson nods, “Yeah, we weren’t allowed to stay in contact. We’ve basically become prisoners, my mother more than me. The more compliant I was, the more freedom I was granted, hence why I was able to be out tonight. I was actually supposed to meet Hunt, but he didn’t show up. Either something happened, or he got tipped off that you guys were there. If he’d known that you guys were there though, he would’ve seen me, and there’s no way that he would’ve allowed me to be taken.”

I frown. That’s definitely something to be concerned about. I’m just hoping that it’s the first and not the second.

“We’ll sort it.” Rylie assures her, “I just need to borrow Ever; we need to figure out the next steps. Are we right in assuming that you will help us take down Hunt and identify all of the tech he is using?”

Emmerson nods, “Absolutely anything you need, but I want my mom.

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