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Bound by Redemption (Ravage MC Bound #8)(5)
Author: Ryan Michele

“POS 528777 with infa-red, right?”

“How the fuck you know that?” Jacks asked, his glare turning to me intently.

I pointed to the computer, showing him exactly how I got it. The company’s data system with their millions of homes were listed in alphabetical order, making finding the personal information easy to find.

“Fuckin’ hell,” he grumbled, his hate for me growing. Just when I thought it couldn’t be any deeper, he proved me wrong. “Find out what ya can on them. Ryker has the same one,” he ordered, and I nodded in acknowledgment because I was already on it. While I wanted to be a smartass and tell him, what do you think I’m doin’? I kept quiet and focused on my task. If it made him feel better to boss me around, so be it.

The coughs came and went. I sucked in clean air as much as possible, wanting the sting to clear my lungs. I grabbed the bottle of water from earlier and took huge gulps. It helped my throat a bit.

The brothers came and went as the fire started to go out. All the while, I was on my computers and phone trying to access the burnt as hell system. Unfortunately, it wasn’t hooked up to the main Ravage server. Why? I had no fucking clue, and it would have to be fixed ASAP. Along with firewalls and Fort Knox protection as well.

Buzz was the computer guy when I left. I’d assumed he still was.

The cloud access was difficult only because I had to hack into the cloud company’s system and search for their specific machine. They were more tech conscious and had a ton of security blocks which was good for them, but not perfect.

Technology was just a bunch of electronics all beamed off of one another, trying to tell you your information was safe. Oh, how wrong it was.

Nothing was safe.

Nothing.

There was always a way. It might take time, but it was always possible.

When this was over, the Ravage MC was getting set up with better shit. State of the art programs that only the military used. If they allowed me to do it. At this point in the game, it was better to ask than just do it off the bat.

It took some time to crack through, so much so the flames were completely out by the time I was able to pull it up and began watching the tapes on fast forward of Austyn and Ryker’s place first.

Today’s recording didn’t show anything out of the ordinary. No one around the property, planting anything or inside the house.

Austyn in the house doing dishes, then Ensley and Remy in the house visiting. My heart stopped at that one, and for the first time in a long damn time I found it even harder to breathe. The thought that they could’ve been in there when it blew rocked me to the core. Maybe it was being a father now or having Ensley back in my life. Whatever it was, I didn’t like it. I had to shake that off, or it was going to eat me inside. Nothing could happen to Remy and Ensley. Nothing. It was not an option. Ever.

Ryker came up at the entirely wrong time because the video showed the exact time the explosion happened, and Austyn was thrown into the bathroom cabinet by the force, hitting her back and head on the wall then falling to the ground as if she were a rag doll. Then the tape went dead.

“Fuck. She seemed to be alright when I saw her at the clubhouse,” Ryker groaned, rubbing his hand over his face. “Fuck. She might be puttin’ on a show of being fine. Damn woman. I’m callin’ Doc to come and check her out.” He pulled out his phone and did that.

Then I saw it and rewound the tape back thirty seconds and examined the screen. “This is the site of the explosion.” I pointed to the closet on the other side of the wall from the bathroom Austyn was in. “See how it flashes on this angle?” I showed the guys. “The way it blew, did you see that it was two flashes? One for each explosive? And then look at the flame pattern.”

Ryker took a closer look as did some of the other brothers, taking in everything I'd said.

Buzz came up for the first time, looking at my setup. I knew he was the tech guy for the club, so this should be interesting.

“Do you live in your car?” he asked, and I chuckled, something I didn’t think would be happening in this moment. This was anything but a laughing matter, but it was funny. Technically it could be a possibility.

“Nah, just gotta have my shit when I need it.”

“I need one of these fuckers,” Buzz grumbled.

“At least we know its point of origin. That’ll help to figure out how it got there because we can focus on that area. I’ll do Emery’s and see if we can get the same,” I interrupted, breaking up the conversation and getting us back on track.

“Is that gonna help?” Ryker asked.

“Yeah, I’ll also go backward through the days one at a time and see when it was planted.” I turned to Ryker and Jacks. “Anyone out of the ordinary been in your house? Plumber, cable guy, the fuckin’ Pope?”

Jacks shook his head. “No not mine.”

“We had a fuckin’ lady claiming to be with the US census, but we didn’t let her in the house.” Ryker answered.

“Thought that shit was over with,” Deke added out of the blue.

“They extended the date supposedly, but I wasn’t in the mood to deal with her considering Austyn sent that fuckin’ shit in already,” Ryker explained. This was not helping the situation at all. Answers. We needed to focus, and I had to steer them back again.

“Then someone broke into your houses and were undetected. You have a bigger problem here than just your houses blowing up,” I told them, moving to my second computer, finding Emery and Jacks’ information. I looked through the day to find its point of origin.

Buzz came up next to me. “Why don’t I look at Jacks’, and you focus on findin’ out who was in Ryker’s house.”

I moved over to the first computer, making room for us both. My arm screamed at me, but I pushed it down. “Sounds like a plan.”

Buzz started running through the day at Emery and Jacks’ place, while I was on Austyn and Ryker’s. Someone was in that damn house. That I was positive of. Who and how were the questions now.

The smoke was heavy around us all of the sudden, like the had wind changed directions and was aiming right at us. Not being totally over the smoke inhalation, I coughed a bit more, feeling my lungs burn and shook it off.

Looking up, the firefighters were snuffing out the last bit of embers from the other side, causing the smoke to come our way. If I smelled smoke any time soon, it would be too soon.

Buzz and I kept going on our task, searching and watching until out of the corner of my eye, I saw two uniforms coming our way. Their faces were intent, making me think they did not care for the Ravage MC much.

I reached over and hit the F4 button on Buzz’s computer and then mine. “What the fuck?” Buzz yelled a bit too loudly.

“Cops,” I answered low.

Buzz looked up, seeing the two uniforms making their way to us. “Fuck,” he grumbled.

“What’cha doin’ there?” the cop on the right asked, bending his neck to see the screens. He was lean and appeared to be a runner. He also had his hand on the butt of his gun, ready to draw on at a moment’s notice.

“Just mapping out the area,” I lied, face blank and giving nothing away. Years of torture training did that to a man.

Sure enough the cops stepped around to take a closer look at our screens. On them was a wide aerial map of the entire area in a one-hundred-mile radius with a couple of red circles and arrows on it.

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