Lynn.
I’d met him a few times at a couple of parties that I’d been invited to thanks to Harlow.
Lynn was the unofficial president of the Souls Chapel Revenants MC. They were a bunch of ex-cons that Lynn had sprung from prison using means that I tried not to dig into too far.
I wondered if he and Apollo needed to hook up.
Though, Apollo was doing his breaking from prison thing illegally.
His plan was to spring his brother-in-law as well as six other men and give them new identities for them to go find new lives somewhere else.
Hopefully never to be caught again.
Though, there was never a guarantee.
“Now, you’ll have to back out of this, Lynn. We have a real problem on our end. This gal assaulted a cop.”
“I didn’t assault a cop,” Calli hissed. “I assaulted a man who deserved it.”
“I would tend to agree with her,” Lynn said. “Seeing as when Calliope Hodges found Ms. DeGraw, she was beaten to a pulp in Cedrick Hunt’s spare bedroom. Also, have you questioned the child yet?”
My stomach knotted. “Beaten to a pulp?”
Calli growled when the man nearest her jerked, causing the handcuffs around her wrists to tighten.
“Jesus Christ, you big oaf. Watch what you’re doing.”
The police officer looked bashful for all of two seconds before he realized what he was doing and scowled.
He didn’t like that Calli had corrected his behavior.
“Someone better tell me what the hell is going on,” I snapped. “And if you continue to hurt her, I’ll have every single badge in this station revoked faster than you can blink.”
“Sir…” the closest officer said.
The door behind us banged open a second time and another officer leading Cedrick entered, with Cedrick’s child following behind with a female officer.
“Ahh, the man of the hour,” Lynn said. “Why is he not in cuffs?”
“It’s standard protocol to…”
“Ahh, standard protocol.” Lynn snorted. “Yes, that’s exactly what’s going on here. The man was about to lash out against his child, and that woman right there saved her. Yet, you arrest her for some bogus charge because you don’t like that she had to save your asses. And he’s not even in handcuffs despite the fact that he is accused of beating his girlfriend so badly that she had to go to the emergency room. A girlfriend who had to be brought in by Calli. It’s understandable that she wouldn’t be in the best state of mind to watch y’all be inept at your jobs.”
There was a lot of shuffling from foot to foot as Lynn’s words hit home.
“Let me see your hands,” the officer closest to Cedrick ordered. “He’s right. You should be in cuffs since you’ve been arrested.”
Cedrick’s eyes came to me and he sneered. “Ahh, the golden boy has arrived to make this all disappear for perfect little Harlow.”
I ignored him and instead said, “Why is she being detained if she helped de-escalate a situation?”
The cops looked at each other.
“I think it’s best that you let her go,” I suggested. “Otherwise I’ll go ahead and get my lawyer here, and we’ll do this the hard way.”
“Is that a threat?”
“No,” Lynn answered for me. “He’s frustrated, just like we all are. We should be at the hospital worrying about our friend. And instead, we’re here, dealing with y’all arresting a woman for doing nothing short of being a hero.”
