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daughter. You didn’t tell us. Why?”
    “We were old friends. I didn’t recognize her at first. She’s altered her appearance, been working out with a trainer,” he explained, realizing he was blowing her cover but insistent on saving his own. He’d worry about protecting her from the club later.
    “Why would she do that?”
    “He abused her, man,” Logan explained. “I didn’t want the club to know what she’s been through. Promise me if I tell you what happened to her, you’ll keep quiet.”
    “Yeah, yeah, man. Of course,” Tigger said, always bound by honor when he made an oath to a brother.
    Tigger was an all right guy. He managed dirty business dealings, but Logan had always known it would be the hardest day of his life if he had to bring down the club and Tigger took a fall, too. In recent months, Damsel’s club had been the focus of Logan’s department. If and when he helped take down the Heroes and Rogues, Logan wanted Tigger spared, but he also realized the danger in saving one and damning the others.
    His life would be on the line. Heroes and Rogues would demand that their members on the outside take revenge, make a kill, and even a score.
    “Damsel raised Sassy alone after her mother died. He abused her for over ten years. I’ve known Sassy since I was five.”
    “She was a local girl?”
    “Yeah,” Logan replied. Sassy would back up his story about growing up there. If she didn’t, well, his cover was blown. As far as these guys knew, he’d been a Fall Branch resident most of his life.
    “That’s some shit, man. How the hell can a man abuse a kid and get away with it in this day and age?”
    “I don’t know, man.” Logan needed to avoid further questioning. He couldn’t share anything more without giving away far too much.
    The reason Damsel was able to walk around a free man was because thugs with badges protected him in Sevierville, but around there? No, it wouldn’t have happened. That was why Logan had become a cop—to right the wrongs Sevier County endured while they were held captive and imprisoned by Damsel and his family.
    Peering around a bulldozer, Logan asked a man holding a red flag, “How long before you move this junk?”
    “I told you! Five or ten minutes!” the crew member bellowed.
    “Fuck!”
    “Take a breath, man,” Tigger said. “Your woman looked pretty shaken when she left our place. I doubt she’s running straight toward the man who abused her. Besides, she may have walked and that buys us time. No one picked her up, and she didn’t leave in a cab.”
    “She’ll be there.”
    “How do you know?”
    Logan looked him dead on. “She plans to kill him.”
    * * * *
    The gunfire sounded like an explosion. Sassy pulled the trigger and shot the gun, missing Damsel on purpose, but insisting on gaining his attention, forcing him to turn away from Victory in the process.
    He rushed her, and she took aim again. “Stop right there or I’ll put the next one in your chest.”
    Damsel must’ve believed her. He didn’t take another step.
    Immediately, her spasms gave her away. Damsel looked as if he’d seen a ghost. “Well, I’ll be damned.”
    Sassy jerked, cursing the muscle contractions that made him a believer, realizing he’d only become more arrogant and confident of all the ways he could overpower her. “I’ve spent months preparing for this day, Damsel. Don’t be a fool. I will kill you.”
    He snickered. “Sure you will, lover.” He took another step, and at the same time, his men rushed inside the kitchen, a brotherhood strong enough to support him all the way to the bitter end.
    Taught to keep her eye on the target, Sassy cocked the gun and clutched the grip. “Tell them to walk away.”
    “Stay where you are,” he told them, averting his gaze away from them and back to her. “I’m fifty years old, babycakes. If I go out, you’ll kill me in front of witnesses. I’m not afraid to die when I know the punishment you’ll receive will be