Lana reached over and laid her hand on Jayson’s arm, hoping her touch calmed him down. She could feel his body shaking from the depth of his anger.
Lana looked back over at Peter and saw he was about to spout off something hateful and gave him a look that froze most criminals in their tracks and shook her head at him in warning. She waited several seconds before she nodded at him to continue.
“I was already getting a good buzz on and hating my life. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do if I didn’t get on with the department. I felt like a fucking failure. Turned down by Uncle fucking Sam, the police department, Border Patrol, and the state fucking troopers.”
Lana watched as Peter struggled against the handcuffs. She looked over at her sergeant and then nodded toward the cuffs. Getting her meaning, Sgt. Bueller stood up and walked over to Peter and removed one handcuff so that she could cuff his hands to the notch that was on the table.
“Thank you,” Peter softly said as he moved slightly to rub his face with his uncuffed hand before giving it back to her to be cuffed to the table. “I was already getting a good buzz from what I had drank when fucking Ashe showed up next to me. Doing her hair twirl and her baby talk like she was the next big star. Bitch didn’t even go to college like her parents had demanded. Just went into the ‘family’ business. Whatever that shit is.”
Lana looked over at Jayson, who was looking at her at the same time. So, Jayson doesn’t know the family business either.
“Family business? I thought her father was the just the mayor of the town and ran some financial company,” Lana admitted after looking back toward Peter.
“Ha. Goes to show what you truly know. Her father, well, her stepfather, was the mayor. Her biological dad was a mechanic and part a motorcycle club that used to be part of this town. They were taken out during a shootout with the FBI three years after we’d all graduated high school.”
“They weren’t taken out here in Hellburn Falls. They were actually doing a run and got busted three towns over, getting ready to take out a rival that was just building their ranks,” Lt. Brown answered the confused looks everyone had on their faces. “They were already under investigation for RICO, trafficking, drugs, and a slew of other shit.”
“Wait, you’re saying that Ashe’s bio dad was part of that?” Jayson asked, confusion in his voice as he looked at Peter.
“You didn’t know?” Peter asked in shock. “I thought you knew everything about her.”
“No. She never talked about her bio dad with me. It was always the stepdad. That was the reason we broke up. It wasn’t just the deal with Chompers. She was also banging her stepdad, and I found out.”
“Ugh, talk about gross,” Rocky, Sunny, and Hollywood said at the same time.
“Go on.” Sgt. Bueller ignored the three women.
“I don’t remember much after that to be honest. She came up, twirling her hair and talking her bullshit baby talk to me. Claimed that now that Jayson was gone, she could focus her attention on me, the one she really wanted. I told her to fuck off. I got up to go to the bathroom. When I came back, she was there with a beer, which she never drinks, and one for me. The next morning, I woke up with some chick in a hotel room who turned out to be fifteen. I was twenty. I got out of there so damn fast, I wasn’t aware of my surroundings. A week later I got a text from Ashe with photos of me and that girl having sex. If I didn’t want it to get out, I was to report to her about anything and everything going on around town. Two days after that text message, I got a call from the Sheriff’s department telling me I was hired and when to report for training.”
“What exactly were you giving her information on?” Lt. Brown asked, the anger in his voice evident in the question.
“Not much, until Jayson came home. Before that, it was mostly if certain people were arrested, what their charges were. Any possible investigations into her stepdad or the MC, when her father was alive. She was starting to get pissed with me because I really couldn’t give her much information since a lot of it, where the MC was concerned, was held close to the vest. But when Jayson came home, that’s when the bitch really started hounding me.”
“W…” Jayson started to ask then cleared his throat. “What fucking information did you feed the bitch?”
Lana watched as Peter deflated at the heat in Jayson’s question. She knew the answer was going to set him way the fuck off.
“That you were home, broken and without Lana. I told her what you said that Lana had left you. Granted you were high from the drugs you were taken for the pain you were dealing with. She even knew where you lived…”
CHAPTER
TWENTY-FIVE
Lana’s heart sunk at the implications that one statement said. Had they harmed Jayson before the blackout drunk night, and he just wasn’t aware of it?
She gripped Jayson’s arm when he started to jump up from his seat to go after his former best friend.
“Peter, for your sake, please tell me she never touched him before the night Jayson was blacked out drunk,” Lana pleaded with him, afraid of the answer.
“No. Even under the pain meds, Jayson wanted nothing to do with her. What we did not plan on was his brother Ryan coming home and setting up a security system in the house that included cameras. Something Jayson requested in case he had a bad episode, and they could find him in the house before they showed up. He was pretty bad with the nightmares for the first year that he was home until Ryan and Bryan both confronted him about getting counseling for everything. So, no. She couldn’t get close to him after the first time she tried. Ryan actually caught her attempting to break in and confronted her.”
“She apparently didn’t take that warning very well the first time. So, she went after Jayson at Rusty’s. What is so important about Jayson that she can’t let him go?” Rocky asked, pointing atJayson, trying to figure out the reason the woman was so fixated on him.
“He told her no. Even admitted he never loved her. This was her way of getting back at him. She was attempting to get knocked up by him so she could use it against him and hold it over Lana’s head. If she ever came back, she would have the one thing that she would never have, besides Jayson.”
“I’m taking from that comment it didn’t work out. She never got pregnant from that one time.” Rocky smirked at the outcome.
“No. It wasn’t just that. It was the fact that he kept moaning Lana’s name. Then he said she wasn’t Lana in the middle of it and pushed her off. When she tried to get back on top of him to ride him, well, let’s just say his hand did the trick better than Ashe’s cunt ever did. He then rolled over onto his stomach and fell asleep. No way for her to collect anything to inject inside of herself.” Peter laughed, shaking his head.
