Page 10 of Dangerous Curves Ahead
It was strange and she had a weird feeling about him.
She knew there was something sinister and wrong about him when he changed his behavior and started to sit on the porch across the street.
Who just sits on a random stranger's porch? Every single day?
Or sits in their car with a notebook and binoculars? No one with anything good to do.
She had to let someone know and went to her supervisor, who told her that no one else had seen him and to let it go. They had even watched for him just to appease her, but the guy must have decided not to come at his regular time that day, so no one had seen him, even when he came later that day. They just said the bank was safe.
She'd tried so hard to have anyone listen to her that something had to be wrong, but with every day that passed and no one listened to her, her manager finally told her that if she brought it up again that she would be suspended.
She hated that something could happen and she didn’t want it on her conscience.
She couldn’t stand it anymore. So, when she went on break one day, she called Raiden from her car.
He had listened to everything she had to say, pissed no one else had and then he had told her that he would take care of it.
She should have gone to Steele himself, but he was so intimidating to her and she just couldn’t seem to find the courage to do so.
And when her suspicions had proved correct, she had been terrified. She sat quietly while the entire thing went down.
Steele and his crew had put a plan in place, just in case, and had been ‘customers’ and when the men came in with guns. Everyone went to the ground, and Steele, Crew, and Jet had sat with them.
Scout was acting as a ‘manager’ and had been herded away with the higher ups.
Steele had waited until everyone was calm, and the guards were distracted, and then he was moving.
He incapacitated the first guard and they hid him behind the counter, tied up. Then Steele, and Crew moved onto the next guy.
They did that for a while, until the last men who were left were the ones trying to get into the vault.
They called out for one of their men to assist them, and were met by the crew of Steele’s men instead.
The main bad guy shot at Steele, hitting him in the shoulder before he was taken down.
Steele never even flinched.
But she watched in horror as blood flowed down his arm through his sleeve and she hated that he had been hurt at all.
Jet was able to take the guy down and the cops were free to swarm the bank, and she was led outside with the rest of the hostages to safety.
She spoke with an officer and gave her statement.
Then she was hurrying toward Raiden, grateful he had come to be there for her. He pulled her in for a hug, calming her swarming belly.
And then she got to meet Kadence. The woman was perfect for Raiden in every way.
And she did her best to move on from the trauma.
They spent the next few days together, with her getting to know Kadence, and Arielle, and helped Raiden plan his engagement to Kadence.
Steele was at their engagement, but as she was helping Kadence, she barely saw him at all that night.
She hated it, but it wasn’t about her, and when she sent him the letter, she was grateful she said her piece and let him know how much she appreciated him.
About a week after the robbery had gone down, the bank manager asked if she was going to come back to work and she refused.
Working at the bank was not what she wanted, not after she had tried to help them and they hadn’t cared or listened to her.
