Officer Moran didn’t get the door, but she did follow me out only after I struggled to get out of the door with my hands super full.
I ground my teeth and headed for Aella’s car.
“Nice ride,” Officer Moran drawled. “You steal it?”
“No,” I said through gritted teeth. “It’s my sister’s. And she’s married to an anesthesiologist.”
As in, she has bookoos of money to spare, and one Cadillac Escalade Ultimate is barely a sneeze in the bucket for her husband to fork out the money for.
“I see there are some open cases on her kid,” Moran pushed as she crowded me.
That’s when I got angry.
“Back. Off!”
Moran’s eyes went up. “Why don’t you make me?”
My eyes were seething with anger as I opened my door and slammed it into her body.
She growled. “I could have you arrested for that.”
“We’re not in Podunk Kilgore!” I seethed. “You have no jurisdiction here.”
“Oh, that was a big word for you.” She pushed closer.
I put everything down, food on the ground, baby in the car but not in the base, ignored the closeness of the woman that was harassing me, and did the only thing I could.
I turned around and swung.
She didn’t see it coming because I guess she expected me to continue to be my bright and sunny self.
Not to react, but to let her push me around.
Which is why I punched her stupidly hard jaw perfectly.
One swing and bam, right in the kisser.
She fell back onto her ass, and I used that time to grab my food and jump in the backseat with Riggens.
Locking the doors, I did the only thing I could think of to do—I called Webber.
Webber answered on the first ring.
“Webb’s.”
“Piers,” I gasped as my hand started to throb.
I’m not sure why I called him Piers instead of Webber.
It was just an instinct that resonated inside of me with rightness.
“Silver,” he said. “What’s going on?”
Moran picked herself up off the grounder rubbing her jaw as I gave him the rundown of everything that happened, ending with ‘please tell Aella and Chevy what’s going on. I would, but I want to keep my phone free just in case.’
He listened to me explain, but I could already hear him on the move.
A door slammed, and then you could hear the rev of his bike. “I’ll be there as soon as I can. Already have Cakes calling Chevy.”
