High-Sided (Armed & Dangerous #3)(63)

When the door opened, I was ready to fight. Donnie’s eyes met mine and they widened when he saw the gun pointed at his chest. “How could you?” I growled, hissing through clenched teeth. “My father? Levi? You’re gonna rot in hell for what you’ve done.”

Logan appeared behind him and so did Micah and Gary. My father unsteadily rose to his feet, his head held high, even though his best friend tried to murder him. Logan was so overfilled with rage I barely recognized him. “He’s going to go through me before he makes it there.”

Donnie jerked around and Logan struck. He punched him in the face and they fell to the floor. Logan smashed his head into the rotting floor and punched him until his hands were covered in blood.

Micah grabbed Logan around the waist and hauled him back. “That’s enough!” he shouted.

Logan held up his hands and stepped away, his chest rising and falling with rapid breaths. “I’m good.”

I ran over to my dad and hugged him, feeling the bullet proof vest underneath his shirt.

“I’m okay, peanut. It’s just a scratch. Hurts like a bitch though.”

I held onto him and watched Logan and Gary handcuff Donnie and haul him up to his feet. “Dad, I’m so sorry. I should’ve told you about me and Sean. It was a long time ago.”

He shook his head. “It’s all right. There’s nothing to explain.” My father stepped toward Donnie, who stared at him with hate-filled eyes. “Looks like you lost again, my friend.” Then he glanced at Logan and Gary. “Do you mind?”

I didn’t know what was going on, until Logan and Gary stepped to the side to give my father room. He reared back and punched Gary so hard in the face it knocked him out. It only gave him a few seconds of retribution, which was nothing compared to what Donnie and Angela had done to him.

Lights flashed outside the windows and I heard other voices. Gary spoke up, “Looks like my men are here. I found a few cans of gasoline outside. It appears Mr. Baker was going to torch the place.”

“So that’s why I smelled gasoline,” I stated.

Micah stood beside me and my dad as we watched Logan toss Donnie into the back of one of the police cars.

I looked at his unbuttoned shirt. “I see you were wearing a vest too.”

Chuckling, he finished taking off his shirt, showing me his vest and the wire he had strapped to it. “Never leave home without one. It’s saved my life more times than I can count. Not to mention, we have enough evidence to put douchebag and your whore of a stepmother into prison for life.”

“Good, but they deserve a lot worse than that.”

“Their time will come.” He squeezed my shoulder and walked outside. Now that the police had lights on everywhere, I could see Donnie’s red Camaro. Maybe they’d be able to find the evidence where he ran Levi off the road. I never knew Donnie had a car like that.

“Richard, come here. Let’s get that arm looked at,” Gary demanded.

My father kissed my cheek. “Be right back. I think Logan wants to check and make sure you’re okay.”

I met Logan’s gaze. He approached me cautiously, trying his best to keep his bloody hands hidden from sight. “Are you okay?” he asked, his voice soft. “It killed me having to leave you in there.”

Wrapping my arms around his waist, I breathed him in. “I’m fine. I think I’m just in shock. I never expected it to be Donnie and Angela.”

He hugged me back, his grip tight. “Me either. Imagine how Sean’s going to take it when he finds out.” My heart broke. I didn’t want to have to tell him the vile things his mother did. But he had to know.

Gary bandaged up my father’s arm and they came back. “We need to bring in Mrs. Bennett,” he announced. “I’ll ride over there now to issue her arrest.”

“And I’m coming with you,” my father said. “I want her to know I’m alive and well.”

“Same here,” Logan snarled. “That bitch has tried to kill me not once, but twice. If I wasn’t a nice guy, I’d beat the shit out of her.”

Anger boiled in my veins as visions of Levi, Logan’s accident, and the betrayal to my father ran rampant through my mind. All of them could easily be dead right now. I squeezed Logan’s arm, my body ready for a fight. “That’s what you got me for.”





While some of the other officers stayed at the cabin to collect evidence, Logan and I hopped in the backseat of Gary’s car, and my father got in front. Micah opted to stay behind to help the others.

It seemed Donnie wasn’t going down without taking my stepmother with him. According to him, it was all her idea to conspire together in the first place. They had to keep their schemes going, until my father made Sean a co-owner. Once that took place, they put everything in motion. Micah was the icing on the cake. When they saw how volatile he was, and how much he hated Logan, they figured he’d be a good candidate to pin everything on. That was why Donnie was going to torch the cabin with him and my father in it, to make it look like a gambling deal gone bad.

Donnie also revealed how Angela had in fact switched Janie’s brake line with a rusted one, so it would fail. Apparently, she grabbed an old line from our shop. We would have the actual proof when Logan and Micah searched through the video feed on the cameras they left in our garage.