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forging a different way.
    When I fell
into this little sideline, he was one of the first people I’d tapped for help.
It was always good to have someone on the right side of the law for all that
the department was full of crooks and assholes. I knew that Jake was like me.
He could be trusted. I didn’t know what he was doing here tonight though, since
I hadn’t called him in since I’d asked him to be on the lookout for Sid.
    He came around
the side of the building like smoke and I couldn’t hold back the smirk. Fucker
thinks he’s cool. I can’t see where having a wife and kids have softened him
any, but he didn’t have that ‘I’d skull fuck you for breakfast and then piss in
your eye’ look about him anymore.
    Before I could
open my mouth to ask him why he was here he beat me to it. “Where’s your boy
Deke?” Oh shit. I wasn’t about to show my hand, there wasn’t anything I
couldn’t get my guys out of and I’m pretty sure that Jake wouldn’t burn Deke
for a piece a shit like Sid, but it never hurt to be careful. “Who wants to
know?” He cocked his brow at me with a ‘don’t fuck with me’ scowl and I was
hard pressed to keep my laughter in check.
    We both know
his intimidating tactics wouldn’t work on me though I felt Stryder shift nervously in his chair. Jackass, that only brought him to Jake’s
attention and the other man turned one of his glares his way. “Cut that shit
out Jake, now what do you want with my boy?”
    “I’ve been
keeping an eye on the Carter place since you told me about asshole number two’s
threats against our girl. I figured you’d have eyes over there as well, but
what I was not expecting was to be saving Sid from crazy ass Deke. You’ve got
to do something about that one Masters he’s not wrapped too tight.”
    “ Deke’s cool, he just gets a little jumpy every now and then.”
    “Frogs get jumpy, this one’s
something else altogether. I had my guys run Sid to the hospital because Deke
wasn’t looking too excited about doing it himself.”
    “Where is he now?”
    “I left him there watching the
flames so they don’t get out of control. Couldn’t you come up with a better
idea than torching the woods?”
    “Nah, that
place has been used to hide too much evil over the years, it was time someone
took care of it. Now no one can use it as a cover to hide dark shit.” Dwayne
had kept his victims hidden back there in a makeshift underground bunker he’d
built.
    Men had
scoured those woods for days without a trace of anything and the whole time
Stephanie had been buried under there. She could hear people going by overhead
calling out to her, so close and yet so far away. I’m sure that had only added
to her torment, and was now feeding her fear that no one would ever hear her or
come when she was in distress.
    It was by
sheer luck that she’d survived after he’d taken her out and left her for dead
elsewhere. No one knew why he hadn’t killed her there in his drop sight but we
were forever grateful that he hadn’t. When she’d been found badly beaten and
bruised with her head barely on her shoulders no one thought for a minute that
she’d live let alone live to tell where she’d been kept.
    She was one
strong little angel. It was because of her that they’d been able to close at
least three cold cases of other young girls who had gone missing over a ten
year period from the area and there were believed to be even more who’d found
their demise at his hands.
    When the
bunker had been unearthed there’d been DNA from the three cases that were now
considered closed and they were still sifting through the shit they’d found
down there. “I figure burning the shit would serve two purposes, he can’t use
it anymore provided he ever sees the light of day again and the way the justice
system works I’m not too sure that’s not an option. And two, when I drive
Stephanie by there later she can see that her hell hole has been destroyed.”
    He just