Lyon
Chapter 122

It was now or never. Kat was scared, I could see she was about to panic and the baby was starting to fuss. I couldn’t shoot the bitch in her head because my kid was right there but a knee shot was good enough for what I had in mind.

Kat caught sight of me just as I was lining up my shot but my brave girl didn’t make a sound. I knew her well enough to recognize the look of relief that came into her eyes.

I took the shot just as my little girl noticed me and started to call out for me. The bullet was true, one behind the knee and she dropped with a yell. I was in motion before she hit the ground.

“Get upstairs Kat and call your dad.” I put my knee in the idiot’s back and took the gun from her hand as she flopped around in pain. She wailed in anger and tried pushing me off of her and it took all my strength not to strangle her.

“Get off of me, I have to finish this, she ruined my life, I’m going to kill her.” I pushed my knee harder into her back because it was the only recourse left to me. I could hear the guys rushing the house through the backdoor calling out for me.

“The only reason you’re still breathing is because my wife and kid are in the house. I’d like to put a bullet in your f*****g head and end you right here you crazy bitch.”

She kept struggling to get up and I kept applying more force as the guys bounded into the room.

“Go upstairs Jared, I sent the girls up there.” I turned my attention back to the screaming woman beneath me. All the hate and rage I felt threatened to over power me as I thought of what she could’ve cost me.

“Keep moving bitch and I’ll change my f*****g mind. I always knew it was you. You never fooled me for a second. I got your laptop and I saw the disguises, you’re done. You’re going to spend the rest of your life behind bars where that fuckwit should’ve been and guess what? My wife and kid are going to be very happy for the rest of their lives, I’ll see to it.” I played a hunch and threw a question out at her.

“Where’s that rapist a*****e boyfriend of yours anyway? He needed a woman to fight his battles?” She went crazy under my knee, screaming and cussing, throwing out harmless threats. She’s totally gone, how the f**k hadn’t I seen it that day in the hospital?

“He had to go away because she lied, now I’m all alone and it’s all her fault. Taylor would never have done what she said, she lied.” She started crying, snot and tears flowing freely. I heard sirens coming but didn’t move. Kat was on the stairs calling to me and Jared held a screaming Caitlin while holding her back.

“Come let your dad in Angel, it’s okay, I’m okay.” She seemed disoriented for a minute like she didn’t know if to go to the door or come to me.

“It’s okay, go let your dad in.” By now Drake was pounding on the door. It opened to him and a few of his deputies who assessed the situation and one of them got on the horn to call an ambulance.

I moved off the woman on the floor and grabbed my wife while my guys stood back. They’d put their guns away but were still standing guard.

“You’re okay baby I’ve got you. Get that bitch out of my house.” I turned to Drake who knelt beside the nut who was all but slobbering at the mouth.

“We have to wait for the ambulance she’s bleeding.”

“Put her a*s on the driveway I want her the f**k out of my house now.”

“Colt we can’t do that this is a crime scene.”

“Well do whatever the f**k you need to do and get her out. Here this might help.” I threw him my phone.

“I want that back so make a copy or some shit.”

“What’s this?” He studied the phone in his hand.

“I recorded her admitting to the shit she’s done and the reason she’s here. There’s a laptop on the kitchen table as well, you don’t have to wait for a warrant because it belongs to Elena.”

This whole time the nut was still screaming about killing Kat and I realized I still didn’t even know her real name. Back at the apartment I’d only had time to see the picture of her and Taylor before I went into motion.

There had been no time to dig any farther and I’m glad now that I hadn’t. This shit was going to give me nightmares for a long time. F**k me, she wasn’t supposed to get this close, I f****d up.

“Who is she Colt?”

“She’s from Arizona.” I didn’t need to say anything more; he could piece the rest of that shit together. I needed to go see to my family.

“Tell me what happened here Katarina.” He turned to his daughter while one of his men cuffed the nut on the floor.

“She came in through the backdoor, I’m sorry Colt I didn’t realize the alarm was off. I forgot.”

“It’s okay Angel don’t think about that now.” I held her close and smoothed her hair while she told her dad what had happened.

“She, she had a gun and she started saying all these things, she killed Donna, it wasn’t suicide.” She broke down then and that was enough for me.

“That’s it get her the f**k out of here I don’t care crime scene or not.” I wouldn’t give her the satisfaction of seeing how upset my wife was, there will be no victories for her today and if it took everything I had I would make sure Kat didn’t spend another thought on this murderous bitch.

The ambulance showed up and the nut job was taken away in handcuffs with a police guard. I called up Xavier and Paul who had been the only two who’d gone home because they were supposed to take the night shift on this bitch.

I guess one of the others had let them in on what was going down because they were already here. I wasn’t taking any chances that she might escape the cops so I sent them to the hospital to stand watch.

Drake walked over to where Jared stood with the baby and took her from him rocking her back and forth in his arms. He had tears in his eyes and I could only imagine the shit that was going through his head. His kid had faced danger twice now and this time had been too close for comfort.

“You guys are gonna have to come down to the station.”

“Fine, we’ll follow you down there just let me call mom to come stay with the baby.” I didn’t even think of asking Jared because I know my guys, none of them were going to let us out of their sight for the next little while.

We all face danger from time to time, it’s par for the course with our lifestyle, but not when it came to our women and children. I could argue with them that tomorrow was Xmas and they should go be with their families but I knew it would be a wasted effort.

Drake left while we waited for mom and the guys all sat around pissed off and glum. She’d outsmarted us on our own turf; that shit was a hard pill to swallow. I should’ve been more careful with them, should’ve put my anger aside andshit there was a whole lot I should’ve done different but hadn’t. Now I’ll have to live with the sight of my wife and kid being held at gunpoint for the rest of my life.

***

We spent damn near the whole night down at the station. Drake did his thing with the information we’d uncovered and we finally learned who she was. Rachel Chappell, former girlfriend of Taylor Porter from Phoenix Arizona.

She was twenty two years old, from a good family who had already put out a missing person’s report on her months ago, which meant she’d been in the area or close by for a while. That shit gave me chills.

She’d found Kat from that stupid YouTube video after her fight with Jennifer at the mall of all things; what were the f*****g odds? With the recording of her admitting to killing Donna shit went down a whole new avenue.

There were calls made to Arizona to the authorities there who had to open a case in what they had thought was a suicide. Since her present crimes were small change compared to murder, they were gonna get her first I guess or at least that’s what I got from what Drake told us.

I didn’t miss the flicker of his eyes in my direction when he reached the part on the recording when she claimed Taylor had disappeared to make a new start. Kat didn’t seem any the wiser and that’s all I cared about.

She was beating herself up for forgetting to set the alarm but between the car getting run off the road and being held at gunpoint I couldn’t replace it in me to be mad about that shit. I’d spent way too much time in the last few days mad at my girl.

That isn’t what I want our lives to be. I had finally come to the understanding that my Angel was always going to be innocent and just a little bit na?ve and the truth is I wouldn’t have her any other way. I’ll just have to see about keeping her and whatever kids we have as protected as it was in my power to do.

“Can we get out of here? I need to get home to my kid.”

“Sure, you two can get out of here, she’ll be in the hospital until the cops from Phoenix come to collect her I guess. We’ll have to wait and see what happens there, sometimes these things can drag on forever. But when they’re done with her there it will be our turn, unless the D.A. decides not to pursue it. She killed a witness in the process of a case, she can get the death penalty for that.”

“Good I hope they fry the bitch, let’s go Angel. And the next time I tell you people something’s off maybe you’ll listen to me.”

“Okay son, you were right, I should’ve listened but I didn’t have much to work with and we have to go by the book.”

“Yeah f*****g around with that book almost cost you your daughter and granddaughter, no thanks.” I took my girl and headed out of the station.