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She shrugged the vest over her shoulders and secured the Velcro straps on the sides. The weight of the vest was reassuring, made her feel like she was ready for anything. She bumped her fist against the front of it a few times to remind herself that yes, it would protect her if it came to that.
Tingles of nervous energy started to pick up throughout her. Another look at the dirt lane leading up to the cabin, and Piper moved out.
She angled through the trees the same way she’d come before, getting within sight of the cabin and stopping again to give herself a second to observe. The three bikes were still sitting there, each with a helmet hanging off the handlebars.
So they definitely had to be in there. Now how was she going to affect the arrest of three armed suspects on her own?
First things first. She had to get a closer look. For all she knew, the three of them were so absorbed in counting their money from the bank robbery that they’d never see her coming.
She moved through the trees around toward the back of the cabin. The ground dipped down a bit, and she was able to use a sort of narrow gully to get to within twenty yards of the cabin without the possibility of being spotted.
Piper thought she could hear voices, or laughter, coming from within the cabin, but it might have been her mind playing tricks on her. Her heart was beating fast, pumping out a rapidrhythm in anticipation of trouble, and she forced herself to pause and try to get it under control.
She couldn’t afford to pop off, or make a bad decision in a panic because her nerves were revved up too high. A little buzz of energy was good, to keep her edge sharp, but too much would make her clumsy.
They’d taught her back in the academy to blow out a slow breath at times like this. Something about it forced the heart rate to slow down a little. So that’s what she did, she blew out a slow, controlled breath, and when she felt more smoothed out, she moved a little closer to the cabin.
She was just passing by the closest tree to the cabin, right on the side of it, when she heard a loud crash of the front door slamming open. Piper shrank behind the tree and froze, catching the last bit of a sentence coming from the man leaving the cabin.
“… take a piss out here in the great outdoors, like a man does!” he said, nearly shouting.
Peeking around the edge of the wide tree, Piper could see him. It was Black Tooth, the guy from the races the night before, all right. The one she’d dropped with a finger jab to the throat. He was naked from the waist up, ribs poking out of his rail skinny body, and he clomped his way heavily just past Piper’s tree before noisily grunting as he unzipped his pants.
“Fucking going to explode,” he muttered, right on the other side of the tree from her.
Piper could hear the unmistakable sound of a stream of piss hitting the leaves. It was almost surreal, almost funny, that he was right there draining the snake completely oblivious to her only a few feet away, and she had to bite on her hand a little to keep from laughing.
It wouldn’t be funny if they spotted her. Still, she wasn’t about to let this opportunity go to waste, so she eased around the tree, watching carefully where she put her feet.
She didn’t need to have taken so much care. Black Tooth seemed to be lost in a mid-pee form of ecstasy, his mohawked head tilted back, eyes shut, as he waved his hips back and forth to wave his stream of urine from side to side.
Piper rolled her eyes at the antics, stepped right up behind him, and pressed the barrel of her gun into the small of his back.
“Freeze,” she said.
He froze, piss stream still streaming, and whispered, “Oh, shit.”
“FBI. Put your hands in the air.”
“Oh,shit,” Black Tooth said, shoulders slumping, still peeing away with his hands on his package.
“Put your hands in the air, goddamnit!” Piper whispered harshly.
“I’m still peeing, dude,” Black Tooth said, nodding down at his business.
“I’m not a dude,” Piper said, “and if you don’t put your hands in the air, you’re going to be leaking out of more than just your dick.”
“Okay, okay,” Black Tooth said, putting his hands in the air as his stream petered out to a trickle and finally stopped. “Damn.”
“How many inside?” Piper said.
“Why you doing this to me, man?” Black Tooth whined. “I can’t catch a break, I swear to God. I can’t go to jail.”
“Then don’t rob banks, stupid,” Piper said, jamming her pistol harder into his back. “Now, how many?”
“Two, dude.Two.”
“Still not a dude,” Piper said. “Put your hands behind your back. I’m going to cuff you.”
