Page 13 of Bound By Redemption
I looked up to the sky for a moment, then back to him. “I’m not into the ‘good time’ crap. I have a kid and won’t parade anyone in front of her for a quick lay.”
Austyn jumped in. “You just want her because she’s Micah’s. Don’t you have somethin’ you should be doin’ right now? Like, I don’t know, finding out who the fuck bombed my damn house!”
“As you wish, my queen,” Ax joked, taking an overexaggerated bow, turning on his booted foot and making his way into the clubhouse.
“The offer stands,” Raid smiled at me, then followed his brother.
“Ignore them. They have more testosterone than the defensive line of the Baltimore Ravens. They are young and full of come, spreading it around to any woman who will take it.”
“Lord. We’re gonna have more kids running around here then.”
Austyn burst out laughing.
Her smile died as an older man came walking up to us. He had on round glasses and had a long gray beard. I hadn’t seen him before here, but that didn’t mean he didn’t belong here.
“He called you, didn’t he?” she asked the man.
“Let me check you out, and I’ll be on my way.” His voice was deep and had a bit of wisdom behind it.
“Doc, I’m okay. Promise.”
“You were thrown against a wall and cracked your back and head. Then you had to go through the fire to get out. Checkin’ you will only take a minute, young lady,” he retorted.
“How did you know that?”
“Ryker told me when he called. Now let’s get inside, little missy.”
Austyn groaned but hopped down from the table. “You do realize I’m not a little kid anymore, right?”
Doc smiled. “You listen about as good as you did then.” He brushed his arm out for Austyn to go in front of him.
A chuckle escaped me as Austyn turned. “Ryker is gonna get it.” And then she was gone.
Personally, I was happy she was getting looked at.
I was just hoping that Micah was okay.
What was taking so long?
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Micah
“There,”I said, pointing to the screen. The figure was blurry, almost as if they had on clothes that would distort the image on the screen. Add in they wore black, hoodie, mask and glasses—this wasn’t going to be an easy find. They were giving us nothing to go on.
Was I angry? Fuck yeah. My little girl and her mom were in that house not an hour before the blasts. Just the thought of losing them made something inside me crack. Now that I had them, I’d protect them until my dying day.
“Fuck, I can’t tell shit,” Ryker groused over my shoulder as I tried blowing it up only to have it pixelate and distort more.
“Me either. Let me go back and see if I can freshen it up a bit. Buzz, can you go to here,” I gave him the number to the location I was at on the tape and kept going. “See if you can get any images from the outside.”
“On it.” Buzz started his task.
There were a ton of people still here even hours after the explosions had happened. The fire inspector and police chief were in attendance, mostly to see what we were doing in my opinion as they were watching us more than the rubble. I was all for authority, but this was different. This needed to be figured out by us first.
I scaled the image to as perfect as I could get it. Moving the damn mouse sent a twinge of pain through my arm. That just wouldn’t do. “I’ll run this through facial recognition and see if there’s a match, but it’s highly unlikely with all this shit on their face.”
“You have facial recognition software?” Cooper asked from behind me.
