Love on the Forbidden Side by Mariah Ankenman

Author:Mariah Ankenman [Ankenman, Mariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509216970
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2017-10-08T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Liam shot up in bed, a cold sweat covering his body. He had been dreaming—no, it hadn’t been a dream, but a memory, a nightmare that haunted him every night and refused to let go.

He and his team had responded to the domestic disturbance call. Not standard FBI jurisdiction, but the suspect had a rap sheet a mile long, including multiple charges for selling illegal firearms. The guy was a midlevel thug for a well-known crime lord. They were hoping once they brought him in, he’d turn on his boss for a deal. When they arrived at the scene, the guy had his wife in a chokehold, gun to her temple, threatening to shoot if everyone didn’t back the hell off. If that wasn’t bad enough, the couple’s ten-year-old son stood just a few feet away.

Liam could still taste the raw anger on his tongue. What the hell kind of bastard beat up a woman, and how much sicker did he have to be to do it in front of his own kid? He would never understand the cruelty of some people. What he did understand was how fear made people dangerous—like the fear of a child watching one parent harming another while a bunch of guys dressed in riot gear pointed guns at them.

Poor kid fully believed his father would kill his mother. Hell, Liam didn’t doubt it either, but they’d had the situation under control. They would have gotten everyone out alive.

A shot of pain pulled his shoulder as he lifted his right arm, running a hand over his disheveled hair. Five more minutes and the dad would have been in cuffs, mom and kid safe in protective custody.

“Shit.”

Terror-filled blue eyes filled his vision, even now though he was awake. Desperation, pure and simple. One minute he was trying to talk the suspect into letting his wife go, the next, the boy grabbed a gun—there had been plenty strewn all over the damn house—and pointed the thing right at his father. Next, all hell broke loose.

The dad screamed at the boy, scaring him, causing him to fire his gun wildly into the air. The father returned fire, and everyone in Liam’s unit tried to take the suspect down before he killed anyone. The whole incident had taken no more than two minutes—and at the end, three dead, four wounded.

The suspect managed to take out his wife and kid before being hit by a barrage of FBI bullets. He and three other officers caught the strays shot by the kid, mostly all grazes. His wound had been the worst.

“Son of a bitch!” Breathing hard, he swung his legs over the edge of the bed and bent between them. Bile rose in his throat.

It wasn’t fair.

The kid had had his whole life in front of him. Sure, it’d been pretty shitty up until then, but they could have helped him and his mom. The FBI had contacts to the Department of Child and Family Services. The kid could have gotten a second chance.

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