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“It’ll be over soon,” Carter responds, neither of us daring to move even an inch.
“This is your last warning,” the one cop calls through the speaker, and I’m all too aware that he’s going to feel the need to call for backup. He has to know at this point that they should’ve never come here. Or maybe he believes the detective. That it’s just an arrest and the other man is on their side.
There’s only a small pang of guilt that flows through me as the cop door opens with the faintest click and the bang, bang, bang shoots out.
I turn in my seat, leaning out of the window and aim for the second cop, knowing my brothers have the others.
My body jolts and the world slows down as the bullets fly. The second cop ducks down in his seat while the window finally breaks from the relentless gunfire. The detective’s car is fucked, popped tires and shattered glass.
In my periphery, I see the detective lifeless. He never had a chance. The first cop is in the driver's seat, the second still hidden but trapped.
Jase is faster than me and closer, striding up to the cop car and yanking the door open, a gun pointed at the cop’s face. Daniel’s on the other side of him and Carter and I make our way up to the car.
We have him surrounded. Jase removes the keys from the car, and the glass crunches under my feet as I walk up. Daniel reaches through the shattered window, opens the door from the inside and pulls the man out. He’s dressed in his blues.
“Officer Angino didn’t make it,” I comment as I realize it’s McKinley that’s on his knees in the gravel road, begging for us not to kill him.
I swallow thickly, my finger on the trigger as my brothers wait silently. Not responding to the pleas echoing out into the cold night from the man. His breath turns to fog as he heaves in and out.
“You call for backup?” I question and McKinley looks at me a second too long, debating what answer to give me.
Bang!The gun kicks back in my hand and the poor bastard screams out, gripping his knee. Blood slips between his fingers as his shoulder slams into the gravel road and he crumples over.
“Don’t lie to me,” I tell him calmly as I bend down.
He pathetically attempts to hold back the tears of pain and shakes his head. His teeth bite down into his lip. I imagine right now every regret is piling up in the forefront of his mind.
“Look at me,” I command and tap the gun against his cheek. The heat of it is searing and he bucks back.
“Do you have someone you love?” I ask him as he stares up at me. Wide-eyed, full of fear. He might be a prick but he’s not dumb.
“He has a wife and kids,” Daniel answers for him, crossing his wrists in front of him, gun still in hand. I look over at Jase and Carter, and Carter nods slightly.
“Tell me yes or no and they’ll be safe. You understand. Either way, you answer, I end this quickly, and make sure no one touches them.”
The poor bastard’s face scrunches as he shakes his head in denial. As if he could wake himself up from this nightmare. But there is no way out of this life. He knows that. He made that choice.
“Nate, he’s your informant?” I swallow thickly as he stares back.
“I’m going to raid your office, your everything, looking for all the evidence and proof. I’m going to find out some way and if your family is there…I’d prefer if you kept them safe by answering me.”
Slowly he shakes his head. “We worked with your waitress, Scarlet. She said there was a guy who had intel and gave it to her. But I never spoke to him. Not once.”
“Are there any other informants?”
“No,” he shakes his head recklessly. “We were here for Nate. His connection was lost and we were told to get him out. That was it. That’s all I know.”
I nod, believing his panicked words as he pushes them out as quickly as he can. He peers up at me with a look in his eyes that tells me he’s praying that I believe him. And I do. I already knew all of that, I just needed to hear it out loud. And Jase needed it recorded, so he can show it to the men, destroy it, and end the rumors.
“I’ll keep my word. No one is going to harm your family, even though you all went after mine. I promise.” He opens his mouth to say something but I put a bullet in it and then another in his skull. He falls backward in a thump and with that, I know this shit is over.
It’s just a matter of cleaning up the scene, washing all this shit off me, and then climbing into bed with my wife.
BRAELYNN
Seeing my mom at the Cross estate is something else.
My heart beats anxiously, and I can’t stop watching her. Declan and his brothers don’t know her like I do. I hope none of them can tell that her smile is forced and she’s only being polite.
