Page 48 of Love Under Protection

“You sure about this?” Landry asks.

“Listen, I don’t have a whole lot of money to burn, I want this dealt with sooner rather than later so we can all move on. Maybe all he needs is a little incentive to stay away.”

“You’re the boss. We’ll take my car.”

Landry has us to the property on Grove within the hour. We don’t even have to wait long for Sawyer to make an appearance. As soon as I see him, I’m out of the car and on him. Deep down, I know this goes against everything I know is right, but goddammit he’s out of control and needs to be stopped.

“Want to tell me who the fuck you are and why you’ve been following my girlfriend around?” I pin the son of a bitch to the outside wall of the house by his neck.

He spits in my face, and I land a punch to his nose. The bone crunches under the impact and blood begins to pour.

“Fuck you. She’s mine. The little whore couldn’t keep her mouth shut. All she had to do was play the part of my doting wife. Once we were married, she would come into a nice little sum of money that would then be ours. I had big plans for that money and for her. She couldn’t stand the fact that her little cunt wasn’t enough to keep me satisfied, so she ran away.”

This time I lift my knee and connect with his nuts.

“If you know what’s good for youSawyer, you’ll back the hell off and go back where you came from,” I warn him.

I have never been a violent man, but I damn well will protect those I care about. It’s in my blood.

“Not a chance in hell. I’ll get what’s mine.”

“Yo. That’s enough. Turn him loose. Time’s up,” Landry calls out.

I want to do so much more, but I listen and drop the guy.

“If I see you around here again…”

“What are you going to do, big guy? You know you’ve got nothing on me. You think because you have a badge that you’re untouchable?”

This dude seriously doesn’t stop. I’m about to throttle him into next week when Landry grabs me around the shoulders and pulls me back. “I said, time to go.”

Sawyer stands there and watches us walk away. Landry damn near throws me into his car and pulls off.

“Jesus Christ. Want to tell me what that was all about?” he asks.

“A friend’s ex.”

“That’s it?”

“Yup.”

“Dude. Do you realize who he is? That’s Sawyer Flynn, he’s a multi-billionaire. Buys out all these small companies, breaks them down then resells them to the highest bidder. If I knew you were planning to rough him up, I would have never given you his information.”

“Yeah well. Thank you anyway. At least I didn’t go through the department on this,” I defend.

“Yeah, you better hope he doesn’t press charges.”

“Whatever, I’m not worried about some rich prick who thinks he can get away with bullying women. If he thinks he can press charges, let him bring it on.”

“She really worth losing your badge, your career?”

“I’m not going to lose anything and if I did? She is absolutely worth it.”

Landry nods. “Then I’ve got your back.”

“Appreciate it, man.”

Chapter 27

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