Every single woman in the room stopped and stared at him when he asked his question. Jayson was about to ask what when the women burst into mumbling explicit words at his question.
“Son-of-a-fucking-bitch! Why didn’t I think of that?” Lana stood up and started pacing. “She’d always made snide remarks about how her stepdaddy would sell my ass to the highest bidder or she’d pay to watch his friends take me down a notch or two and ruin me for Jayson.”
Jayson growled when Lana made the statement that she did. That bitch needed to have her ass kicked for years.
“How do we prove all of this? She’s a snake in the grass and it’s obvious she’s got people in high places if she’s managed to get away with this for this long. I don’t think she just started this after high school. I think she’s been a part of it for a long time,” Jayson admitted out loud what he was thinking all this time.
“Jayson, what did she want you to do for work when you graduated high school if you’d given up your dream of being in the Army?” Rocky asked the one question he knew was burning in Lana’s mind.
“His finance company. Her stepdad had a business in New York, which is where he was originally from. His main HQ is still out of NY, if I’m not mistaken. I thought that’s what she was going to be doing, too. Working for him as his assistant. It’s why she pushed me so hard to work for him. She had it all mapped out. She’d start out as her stepdad’s assistant, then when I worked my way up, after we got married, she’d become my assistant. But I don’t remember anything about her dad having ties with a motorcycle club or anyone along those lines.”
“Okay, Hollywood, reach out to your contact. I need you to get with Kenwood here and get all the information you canon this Ashe chick and her stepdad. Send it to our favorite information guy and see what he can come up with. Tell him we need the information asap and that it may be connected to the SA and missing girls. Kenwood, I need you and Lt. Brown to show the rest of us possible locations that the SA may be working out of or that would look good to hold said missing girls for a period of time,” Sgt. Bueller requested of both men.
“There’s several locations I can think of,” Jayson admitted as he scratched the back of his neck.
“Y-you might also want to do a deeper dive into Rusty’s as well,” Peter admitted as he sighed heavily. “I know she’s got some dirt on that pervy old man. What it is, I don’t know, but he’s in deep where she’s concerned.”
Jayson looked over at Peter and almost wanted to punch the man. As soon as he considers giving him a second chance, the dude says something that has him ready to beat the shit out of him.
Looking over at Lana, he knew that he needed to walk out of the room before he did exactly as he was considering. He handed Lana back the phone and walked out of the room and headed back to his car.
He didn’t stop to think about his actions. He just knew he needed to get away.
After driving around for a bit, ignoring Lana’s calls, he wound up in his parents’ driveway. He didn’t really think about where to go, just went there.
When he walked in, he caught his father’s attention and nodded toward the backyard for them to have some privacy. He knew without any doubt he’d get some damn good advice from his father on how to handle the turmoil in his head right now.
“Daddy!”
When he heard his daughter yell his name, the dark cloud that was making his day cloudy lifted. He engulfed his daughter in a hug and breathed her scent in.
When he looked up, his son was standing there waiting his turn too. He just opened his arm and hugged them both.
He knew, with both of them in his arms, he was in for the fight of his life. He would go to hell and back for these two and their mother.
Most heroes sacrifice themselves to protect the most important people in their life. He knew right then and there why the women went for the villains.
He wasn’t a hero. He was a bad guy’s worst nightmare.
For the three most important people in his world, he was going to burn the entire fucking planet down to make sure he takes out anyone and everyone who would even think about harming his family. Fuck the hero, he was going to become the villain in Ashe’s world and by God he was going to make sure she paid for any and every harm she’d ever caused his family.
CHAPTER
TWENTY-SEVEN
Lana looked over at Rocky in complete shock. Jayson didn’t even acknowledge her when she called his name.
She knew his world was upside down right now. Between finding out everything about a girl he dated in high school and his best friend, he was lost in the chaos.
She didn’t know what to think right now, but she knew he needed space and that’s what she would give him. She would give him time to calm down and then see what she could do to find him.
She didn’t think that he would go off the handle and try to find Ashe and beat the hell out of her. That’s what she would do, but she knew Jayson had a calmer temper than she did.
Looking at her watch, she realized it was closing in on quitting time. The team had reached out to their dark web information getter and laid out some ideas they were brainstorming.
Lt. Brown officially put Peter on administrative leave with pay, pending an investigation, and giving him the benefit of the doubt. He was under strict orders he was not to contact Jayson, and he was to contact them if Ashe reached out to him for anything.
“Hey, I’m going to call and check on the twins and see what I need to bring for dinner tonight. I’ll be right back,” Lana told Rocky as she stepped away from the group.
