Total pages in book: 59
Estimated words: 75754 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 379(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 253(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75754 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 379(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 253(@300wpm)
Whatever the reason, I was happy for it.
I liked the possessive action coming from her.
Any other woman and it would’ve pissed me off, but Ruthie was mine. And she could have me. Touch me. Do anything she fucking wanted to me and I’d allow it.
Officer Ryan’s eyes narrowed, and it was then I saw that he was attracted to Ruthie.
His eyes had dilated the moment she’d come into the room, and then darkened when he saw how she was holding on to me.
And I knew the second he decided he was going to be a dick.
He pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to her. “Didn’t want it to get wet this time.”
Ruthie took it from his outstretched hand and crumbled it in her hands.
“Thanks,” she said through gritted teeth.
I took the crumpled piece of paper from her hand and scanned it quickly while Officer Ryan turned his back to us and started down the walk in the rain.
I followed him out the moment I realized she was getting a ticket.
The water hit my chest and started to slide down my skin in cool rivulets, but I couldn’t even contemplate that right then because I was so goddamned pissed.
It was likely steam was pouring off my skin with how mad I was.
I looked first left down the street, then right.
In those two glances, I saw eight cars, three on the left, and five on the right.
“Did you give them tickets, too?” I asked.
He didn’t say anything, only started towards his car.
Rage boiling in my gut, I pulled out my phone and hit Loki’s face on the screen.
“Yeah?” Loki asked roughly.
He sounded like he’d been sleeping.
But I didn’t care right then.
“I’m about to fight a cop…” I said, making the cop walking away from me freeze. “How many years in prison is it if I hurt him?”
“Threatening one’ll get you prison time, too. Where are you?” He asked, sounding more alert now.
“I’m at Ruthie’s. And this isn’t a fuckin’ threat. This is real life, I’m going to bust his face in, seriousness,” I spat.
“I’ll be there in ten.”
I bet it was more like five, but I didn’t contradict him.
I also knew he’d be calling in backup.
The rain started to pour down harder, and my pants really started to get soaked.
My phone would probably be fried shortly, too.
Yet that didn’t bother me.
I was so fucking tired of Ruthie being treated like shit.
Beyond tired of it.
I was tired of it three months ago, and it split me in two to know she’d been dealing with this while I was gone.
“So tell me,” I snarled. “Did you give all of them tickets, too?”
The officer looked wary.
His hand was hovering close to his gun as if he was ready to go for it at any second.
And his eyes were watching me like I was a poisonous snake ready to strike.
“I can’t divulge that information,” he answered smoothly.
I smiled. “You can’t, can you?”
My eyes perked when I heard motorcycles heading towards us, and I smiled.
Which made the jerkoff in front of me step back.
This time he rested the palm of his hand on the butt of his gun.
“You gonna go for that without reason?”
“All I have to do is fear for my life, and there’s my reason,” he answered.
“Do you fear for your life?” I asked him.
He didn’t answer.
The motorcycles that’d been coming towards us finally stopped, but I didn’t look at them.
You didn’t take your eyes off a target that was ready to shoot.
“What’s going on here?”
Loki.
“Officer?”
Silas.
“Sterling, what the fuck is going on?”
Cleo.
I smiled darkly at the officer, and his eyes narrowed.
“Y’all need to back up and step back to your bikes. There’s no reason you need to be here,” Officer Dickhead said.
“Actually, these are my brothers,” I said. “And they have every right to be here.”
“Not right now they don’t. I’ll call in back up if you don’t get on your motorcycles right now and leave,” he growled.
I was completely soaked to the bone when I heard the first siren.
And it was obvious the second Officer Ryan heard the first siren, that he was relieved to be having backup.
I had a feeling he didn’t know what kind of connection that I had, nor who and what I was.
Because if he had, he would’ve known that it was futile to try anything with me.
The Dixie Wardens owned this town.
Something he found out when Trance finally showed.
Loki caught his eye and gestured forward.
When they both got to my side, they turned to stare at Officer Ryan like he wasn’t playing on their team.
“Officer,” Loki said. “What’s going on?”
Officer Ryan looked from me, to Loki, to Trance, then back to Loki before saying, “Gave the woman a ticket for parking overnight. He wouldn’t let it go.”
He pointed me out like I was a schoolyard bully, and it made me want to laugh my ass off.
I managed to suppress it, though.
Instead I crossed my arms over my slippery chest and waited.
And it didn’t take long.
“What do you mean you gave her a ticket for overnight parking?” Loki asked.
Officer Ryan sneered at Loki.
“She was illegally parked,” he defended.
Loki looked up and down the street and pointed at several different cars.
“Did they get tickets?” He asked.
“No.”
“Why not?” Trance asked.
Officer Ryan sneered. “Because they weren’t there all night.”
“How do you know she was there all night?” Trance countered.
“Because I came at the beginning and end of my shift,” he said. “She was there both times.”
“But you don’t know that she was there all night. It could be that she was there when you came, left in between, and came and parked once again,” Trance said.
“In the exact same spot?” Officer Ryan countered.
“Well, you can’t prove that she didn’t move, unless you have video surveillance of it. Not to mention you started shift at ten at night, and it’s only just now sun up,” Loki said. “And if you didn’t give these people over here tickets,” he indicated the cars with a pointed finger. “Then that’s not fair and equal treatment.”