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I agreed, but without more manpower, it wasn’t going to happen.

I had a lot of confidence in my abilities, but there were about thirty-five or so teens back here.

Some of them were slamming their hands down onto the police cars, while there were a few

brave souls that were actually standing on one.

Honestly, I thought they needed to go, too, but I didn’t want to risk my life to get them gone.

I was contemplating what I was going to do when two armored vehicles rolled in and parked. One

at the front of the lot, and one at the back.

They had to dodge some teens on their way, but they didn’t stop or slow.

They just drove, knowing that the teens would move or be hit.

All of the teens chose to move.

They did, however, crowd the two vehicles, rocking them back and forth as they began to do their

‘peaceful’ protesting of whatever they were objecting.

The back doors were suddenly kicked open on the closest vehicle.

A red-headed older man decked out in Kevlar and tactical pants stepped out, causing Jonah to

breathe a sigh of relief.

“That’s my brother, Downy,” he mumbled. “It’s the SWAT team.”

I watched as the teens around us forgot all about us in order to go to the crowd that was quickly

growing around the two vehicles.

“Time to go, children,” Downy drawled, sounding jovial despite the hostile teens that surrounded

him.

“We’re not going anywhere!” a young boy spoke up. “You can’t make us.”

“I can,” Downy disagreed. “But I’m hoping I won’t have to.”

“You can’t make us do anything,” a stupidly brave young girl pointed her finger at Downy’s chest.

Downy looked down at the finger poking him, then back up at the girl.

The girl took a hasty step back at the look on Downy’s face.

Downy moved then, allowing the rest of the men behind him to disembark.

All in all, there were six men in the vehicle. One of those men being the chief of police, Luke

Roberts.

I’d heard from quite a few of the men on the motorcycle patrol with me that Luke had once been

on the SWAT team, but a couple of years ago he’d switched to full-time chief—something in which he

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