Chapter 3
1561 Words
Lance’s POV
Aliza Ace Amherst.
How?
Why does it happen to be that the person that hacks my empire is a 21 years old woman, with a very familiar name?
“Boss, Chase will arrive soon.” Aidan informed me.
---15 minutes later---
I heard a knock at my office door.
“Come in.”
“Hey Lan.” Chase said.
Chase, Nash, Aidan and Xander are the only ones that can call me by my name. They are my right hand men. My brothers.
“I need you to read this file about the girl who hacked our system while you were gone.” I handed him a file.
“I leave for one day and your empire is attacked.” He chuckled.
“You know if it was a physical attack I would’ve won, but it’s obviously a virtual threat, now hurry up and read it then follow me to the cell.”
“Lance…” He called me by my full name, he doesn’t do that unless it’s something very important.
I nodded. “I see that you’ve read it, that’s why I called you.”
“I hope it’s not, because if it’s what I think it is…”
“You can’t take back what has been done C.”
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Aliza’s POV
The man stopped using me as his punching bag 5 minutes ago and left. I was untied and Jaxon and Nika were brought back in the cell.
It took a lot of effort to convince them that I was okay. I sat between Jaxon and Nika and slept on her shoulder.
I woke up to the sound of arguing and some shaking me violently.
“You asshole can’t you see I’m sleeping?!” I rubbed my eyes while complaining.
“Ali, I’m serious.” I heard Nika’s voice. All of last night events came rushing through my memory.
At the moment, 2 guys came in the room and stood close to us while we were huddled in the corner. One of them had a hood covering his head.
“We found out some very interesting things…” The disgusted dude with the deep tone said while the other one paced around.
“Which is..?” Jaxon asked.
“Background information about the Princess.” He said pointing at me.
The other dude cleared his throat and came closer to us. “What’s your name?”
“I told you before, Its Aliza Ace Amherst.”
“You’re lying.” He said shaking his head.
“Why on earth would I lie about my name?”
“You don’t want to test me right now.” The disappointed guy glared at me.
“You can check all my documents, it’s my real name.”
He shook his head. “I’s going to ask you question and you will answer truthfully.” I nodded.
“What’s are your parent’s names, are they alive or not and how many sibling do you have.” He asked.
“Eunice and Aldrey Amherst. They were murdered by a mafia. I have 1 brother named Caleb, or I had…”
“Tell me what happened to him.”
“He disappeared when I was 19, he was 21 at that tame. 2 years ago. I tried finding him but it was useless. He just disappeared. So I moved back to NY and stayed at our old house.”
“Look up at me.” He ordered and I looked up at him, I had my jackets hood over my head so my face wasn’t showing until I looked up.
“Muffin. It’s you.”
“How do you know that name…?”
He stepped into the light and removed his hood.
“You have the same hair and eyes.”
“You look alike.” Nika said shocked.
“Maybe mom made some brownies…?” He said smiling sadly.
---FLASHBACK---
“COME ON! Mom said lunch is ready!”
“OKAY IM COMING!” I said jumping off the swing in our garden.
“Do you know what she made?” I asked him while walking back home.
“No...” He shook his head. Maybe Mom made some brownies…?”
I shook my head. “She made muffins I can feel it.” I said and he laughed.
“Muffins? When did you like them…?”
“I only like chocolate and red velvet muffins!”
“Okay then, that’s your new nickname! Muffin.” He laughed when I playfully punched his arm.
---END OF FLASHBACK---
“Ali…” Nika put her hand on my shoulder and I got out of my trance.
“Is it actually you?” I asked hopefully.
He removed his hood and I couldn’t help but notice. He looked like an exact copy of my missing brother, my supposedly dead missing brother.
“Are you Caleb…? My brother Caleb?” He nodded.
“If our actually him, show me the scar he got when I pushed him off to the swing when we were 6 years old.”
He rolled up his sleeve and showed me his wrist and there it was, the scar. The same one Caleb had.
“It’s you.” I ran to him crying, he pulled me close and embraced me.
“It’s really you. You’re not dead. You’re alive.” I cried on his shoulder as he wiped his tears away.
“Why did you leave me?”
“It’s a long story that was only completed now.”
“I have time.” I smiled softly.
“2 years ago, the Ultores reached out to recruit me since they heard about my skills, like Mom and Dad. I refused, but they threatened to kill you if I didn’t leave and cut off all contract with you. I left you alone, but I had to, they were going to kill you if I didn’t.”
“3 months after working with them, I wanted to leave bit I wasn’t allowed to, so I planned to hide all the tracks that may lead to you or me so we can run away somewhere else. They found out before I could finish everything. They showed me a video of them killing you and burning your corpse. Turns out now that wasn’t you, but I only just found out.”
“I left them. I escaped. I had nothing to lose anymore. Lan here.” He said pointing at the disgusted dude with the deep voice.
“Lan asked me to join them since I have all the information they want about the Ultores and he said that they were our common enemy. So I joined his Mafia. The Imperium Empire.”
“What going to happen to us now…?” I asked scared.
“That up to Lance, muffin…” He said turning to Lance
“She can’t leave. She knows too much. She’s talented like you are. So she can work for us.” He said smirking darkly.
“No, I’m never going to join your Mafia. Your murderers.”
“Well, you can die. Kill her.” He said turning around.
“No Lan! You can’t!” Caleb screamed.
“Calm down Chase.” He said. So they called Caleb ‘Chase’? I thought about it for a second.
“Hold on.”
He turned around with raised eyebrow. “You don’t want to die I see?”
“I can work for you, but I won’t join your Mafia, I will only do minor things since you have Caleb to do the rest.”
He thought about it for some time. “Deal. I will send you your contract in the morning. Now go change out of this mess.” He said pointing at my clothes. I was still wearing my work uniform from this morning.
“Wait what about Jaxon and Nika?” I asked him.
“Jaxon is off the hook. Nika knows too much so she has to join us too.” He said pointing at Nika.
“What do you say?” He asked her smirking at the fear on her face.
“I agree, but I have to stay with Jaxon.” She demanded and Lance nodded and he left the room and another person entered the room. It was a woman my age.
“Hey I’m Akixandra.” She greeted us.
“When did you start acting nice Aki?” Caleb asked mockingly.
“This Aliza, Annika and Jaxon.” Caleb said pointing at my friends and me.
“I have a question, why do you guys call him Chase? His name is Caleb.” I asked confused.
“When I came here I didn’t want the Ultores to find me so I changed my name to Chase Smith. That’s why you couldn’t find me when you searched.”
“And since then we have been calling him Chase, I guess the name stuck around.” She said and I hummed on ‘okay’.
“Well then, let’s get you cleaned up.” Aki said while holding the door out for us.
Nika and Jaxon left while I stayed behind with Caleb.
“Promise me you won’t leave me again.” Caleb looked at me confused.
“Promise me.” I repeated.
He smiled softly and hugged me. “I promise.”
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