Total pages in book: 62
Estimated words: 57240 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 286(@200wpm)___ 229(@250wpm)___ 191(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 57240 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 286(@200wpm)___ 229(@250wpm)___ 191(@300wpm)
Before him there was a definite problem, but nothing like what he’d unleashed on the streets. It was like the drug of choice got worse from day to day.
With that came a new kind of criminal element and a whole new brand of crime and destruction. We’d gone from a few robberies and other petty crimes perpetrated by humps looking for money to get their next fix, to crazed out of their minds motherfuckers taking out whole families; some of them eating the flesh of their victims.
People were afraid to walk the streets, businesses were suffering and the criminal element was taking over. That’s where I came in. I’d already built a reputation for getting things done, and fast.
That no nonsense rep is what had got me on Rossi’s radar. I went in hot with one thing on my mind. To take the streets back; but it wasn’t as easy as all that.
As fast as we got one thing off the street, there was a new more deadly strain right behind it. I didn’t want that shit around my kid, didn’t want him growing up in a place where that shit was the norm, so I went at it hard.
I’d shared some of what I was doing with Rawlins and Rogers. The two men I thought was best equipped to handle what I wanted done. They too had reputations on the job, and as their superior I’d chosen them to have my back and I theirs.
We’d worked it on our downtime and between cases. It helped that the city wasn’t given to much crime other than a domestic call or a traffic stop here and there. That was before the drugs took over and we were ass deep in crime.
We were making good leeway, plowing through the detritus, until somebody got greedy. I should’ve seen it coming but I didn’t. I was too focused on the end game and forgot to watch my six.
Something I wasn’t in the habit of doing, but coming on there to the end, Dee had been acting up and I was staying away more and more. Her shit had caused me to lose focus a little which was a shitty excuse but there you have it.
Even though I hadn’t been anywhere near Shelly, she had started becoming more demanding of my time. I never begrudged her that, but I had a job to do.
All those nights I was out working the streets, trying to make shit safe for my kid, she thought I was somewhere with Shelly. I’m not sure if she really believed that or if it was just an excuse to yank my chain because I wasn’t giving her what she wanted, namely me. But it had pushed me away rather than drawing me closer.
When I wasn’t tending to my son, I’d been putting my all into the job. Now that the average Joe saw that we were on their side and they were no longer afraid to talk to cops for fear of being sold out, things were moving.
And then the explosion came and threw me out of whack. I guess if they couldn’t kill me that was the next best thing. Not many could come back from a loss like that; not and be the same anyway.
Now I was back behind a desk because the powers that be thought I needed more time to get my shit together before I could be trusted back in the field.
The takedowns the last few weeks had been hard won because I’d made such a stink that the captain had no choice. I had no doubt he was even now trying to come up with ways to stick my ass behind this desk again because those humps were bitching and moaning about being handled too rough.
Forget the fact that they were selling poison to our kids, destroying lives and dreams at five dollars a pop, sometimes less. They were the victims. I give a fuck.
13
Nick
Once the light beyond the window shades in my office changed, I kept checking my watch, almost noon. I called in my lunch break and headed out.
I felt like I did when we were teenagers, when we walked the halls together between class. I got the same rush, the same intense feeling in the pit of my gut.
It was only as she walked down the front steps of her office building that I gave any thought to what our being out in public together would mean.
This was a small town and everyone here pretty much knew each other. I bet it wouldn’t be five minutes before we ran into someone we knew or who had known us back when.
I didn’t much care come to think of it, and stepped out to open her door. My dick got hard just watching her walk to me as I took her in; but my eyes were hidden behind the dark lenses of my shades so she couldn’t give me shit for undressing her in public with my eyes.