𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐚-𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐎'𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐫

𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥

EMMA-BROOK O'CONNOR

Letty drove us to the bottom of the cliff. "Holy shit" Dom's car was torn to pieces. We all rushed out to help them get out. "Looks like our demon love child worked" Tej spoke. "That's one way down a mountain" Brian smiled.

"Where's Ramsey?" 

ON THE DOCK

We all sat on the dock, waiting for Ramsey to wake up. "Em" I notice Dom standing next to me. He signalled that he wanted to talk alone. "What's up?" I asked. "Before the mission, What happened?" He asked.

I realised that he was talking about Tej and I. "It's nothing, forget about it Dom" I began to walk away. "Hey, it's not nothing when it comes to you. Talk to me" He forced. I sighed, I never thought I'd have this talk with Dom.

"Tej and I are done, it's over"

Dom looked pissed off but kept his cool in front of everyone. I just wanted to go home. I walked back to the dock. "Hello Kitty's awake" Letty spoke. "She don't look like a hacker to me" Roman confirmed.

"Oh yeah? And what do hackers look like?" Tej asked. 

"They don't supposed to look like that. I'm just sayin' like, you know how they normally wear them little weird glasses that's all crooked, pimples all over they face from drinking soda? I mean trust me, with a body like that, ain't gonna park it behind a computer" Roman explained his perspectives on hackers.

"How are you feeling? Did you hit your head? Feeling nauseous? Ears ringing?" Brian asked as she nodded her head. "No?" 

"Where's my shoe?"

"Oh it flew off when you crashed. If you start experiencing any of those things, let me know, okay?" Brian smiled. "I don't know whether to thank you for rescuing me or kick your ass for throwing me off a cliff" Ramsey suggested. "Thank us or kick our ass huh?" Dom smiled. "How 'bout you tell us where that device is?"

"I mailed it to a friend in Abu Dhabi" 

"That was pretty easy. That other team would have tortured you for that information" I smiled. "I didn't trust them, I trust you" She spoke, I was shocked. She trusted us? "Now, why would you trust us? You barely know us" Letty spoke. 

"I know enough"

"Ex-cop. Military, something like that. The way you took out them guys shows training"

"Sister of ex-cop, I can tell he's taught you some stuff. Not afraid to be alone"

"Tech guy, offended by the hacker remark, naturally"

"Alpha"

"Mrs. Alpha"

and last but not least...

"Joker"

Roman stood up. "Wrong, Double Alpha. Man Candy. You know what I'm saying?" Roman smiled as he tried flirting with Ramsey. "Man sit your candy ass down, man" Tej teased. 

"The disrespect is real around here"

"Life is binary. Zeroes and ones. One two things keep a group like this together, fear or loyalty and I don't see a drop of fear among you guys" Ramsey actually quite figured it out. "Very impressive. Just one thing. They not married" Tej was talking about Dom and Letty.

"She's so off, it's crazy. You just gonna roll with it? You telling me there can't be a double alpha in one group?" Roman cried. "You work for U.S government?" Ramsey asked. Letty laughed. "We got similar interests" Dom said.

"Tej, call it in. We're going to the Middle East"

IN THE PLANE

I was laying on one of the benches in the plane, playing with my necklace. "Hey Dom, it was pretty wild on that mountain huh?" I heard Brian speak. "Nah it was too close but we got the job done" Then I heard Dom's voice.

"You know what, the crazy thing is..." "You miss the bullets"

"Yeah that's messed up huh?" Brian laughed. "Brian, I've seen you jump from trains, dive from planes. Hell, I saw your courage the day I met you" Dom smiled. "Right" Brian nodded. "Wanna know the bravest thing I ever saw you do?"

"Be a good man to Mia" "Be a great father to my nephew Jack"

"And being an amazing brother to your sister Emma"

My heart sank. I've never heard Dom say something like this before or at least in a while. Brian really has been an amazing brother to me, I was just too fucking dumb to realise.

"Everyone's looking for the thrill, but what's real is family"

"Your family. Hold on to that, Brian"

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

We all arrived in Abu Dhabi. Ramsey decided to go for a swim in which she proceeded to whilst Roman and Tej watched her. Simps. I rolled my eyes at the sight of them basically drooling all over her. Especially, Tej. How could he simply move on from what happened between us?

"You know, it's hotter than I thought it would be" Roman spoke. "Yeah, well. We are in the desert, so it would be hot" Tej nodded. "Oh no, I ain't talking about the weather" The two continued to watch Ramsey as she slowly walked out of the water.

"My, my, my"

"Now that is a woman that's worth falling out a plane for" Tej smiled as I deeply sighed. "Get out of that, man. I got dibs on that. You see me looking at that" Roman smiled. "Did you just say 'dibs'? What, are you in the fourth grade?" Tej called him out.

Tej and Roman continued to argue about Ramsey. "Are you guys for real right now? Look at you, you both look whupped already. You got stalker eyes" Letty teased. "I guess that's what made him cheat" I spoke quietly in the hopes no one heard me. Brian heard me, shit.

"What was that?" Brian asked me. "Nothing" I nodded and smiled. Brian looked confused and walked away. 

"I tried to call dibs on Ramsey, two years ago. Her knee, my balls.. trust me, you don't want to do that" This random dude walked towards us. I gave him the 'disgusted' look. He noticed Ramsey walking back to the group. "Hey! Ramsey!" He greeted.

"Hello, Safar" She smiled.

"I see you've made some new friends" He smiled back. "Yes, some short-tempered new friends. I need the speed drive I sent you, where is it?" She asked. "Oh good. You will be pleased to know, I sold it" He clicked his tongue. 

"You sold it?"

Ramsey does not look too impressed. "You hear that?" Letty teased. "I asked you to take care of it. Why on earth would you sell it?" Ramsey scolded him. "We're gonna need it back" Dom spoke from behind Ramsey.

"Impossible"

"Safar, I stashed something inside it. It's important" Ramsey nodded. "Okay, okay. Uh, good news. It is safe and the bad news is uh... its very safe"

A MINUTE LATER

"I sold it to a Jordanian prince, living up there, a trust fund billionaire. Said he wanted to use it for his supercar" Safar smiled. "Now see, this? This I like. Billionaire, supercar..." Roman laughed. "What makes it so super?" Ramsey asked.

"242 mile per hour top speed and it's bulletproof"

"242? Am I the only one aroused right now? It's like... you know what I'm saying? Whoo-hoo" Roman tried to spice the mood up a bit with his happiness. Everyone just nodded in disappointment. Roman realised no one actually cared and dropped his smile.

"Whatever"

"Where does he keep it?" Dom asked. "In his penthouse. Tower number one" Safar looked up at the 3 tall buildings in front of us. "Now, why in the hell would he keep his car in his penthouse?" Tej asked. "He's a billionaire, my friend. He can do whatever he wants. Now, tomorrow happens to be the longest day of the year. The prince wants to celebrate it, host a party tomorrow afternoon" Safar gave us every detail we needed without even knowing it.

"So you can get us up there, right?" Brian asked. 

"Sure but uh... not dressed like that"