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RETALIATION
RETALIATION
Retaliation
Roy Glenn
© Copyright 2018 Roy Glenn
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Atlantic Beach, Florida
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This is a work of fiction. Any references or similarities to actual events, real people, living or dead, or to real locales are intended to give the novel a sense of reality. Any similarity in other names, characters, places, and incidents is entirely coincidental.
Chapter One
Detective Bautista felt anxious as she drove down the streets of New York City. She looked at her partner sitting comfortably in the passenger seat beside her looking out the window and looking unconcerned as always. But she knew that when the time came, he would be fully engaged and ready for action. That was just one of the reasons why she respected him, and it was one of the reasons why she thought that she was in love with him.
It had been a tough couple of days for her because Bautista felt like Kirk was pulling away from her. But she blamed that on the job and all the work they did for nothing. It was just a few days ago that Bautista thought she was another step closer to nailing Rain Robinson. She had an informant that had infiltrated Jab Baldwin’s crew by getting close to Lucus Hill. Jadonna Marrin used to work for Jada West until she got arrested and that’s how Bautista got her hooks in her.
Everything was in place until Jada got wind of it through her friend, Detective Rachel Dawkins. Jada and Rachel had become friends when the experienced undercover operative easily infiltrated Jada’s fledgling operation using her middle name, Chanté. Therefore, by the time Bautista got to her, Jadonna was dead, as well as Jab Baldwin, Lucus Hill and his partner, Garson Anderson. Now, she had nothing.
The only person that Jadonna told Bautista about that wasn’t dead was Jab’s girlfriend, Ryder. But who the hell was Ryder? Jadonna didn’t know anything else about her. Not even if that was her real name.
“So, we still have nothing,” Bautista said, but then she caught a break.
One of her informants said that he knew Ryder and gave Bautista the address, and that’s where she and Kirk were headed.
When the detectives arrived at the address they’d been given, they exited their vehicle and walked toward a stand-alone house that was badly in need of repairs. Kirk opened the gate.
“After you,” he said with a smile.
“Thank you, sir,” Bautista said and returned his smile.
That’s when the shooting started. Somebody was firing at them with a semiautomatic weapon from the front window of the house. Kirk and Bautista kept their heads down as they ran back to their vehicle for cover.
“I’m gonna call for backup,” Kirk shouted over the shooting as he opened the car door and reached for the radio.
“I have shots fired at this location. Requesting backup!”
When Kirk got out of the car, Bautista was gone. As the car continued to be pelted with bullets, he peeked over the hood of the car to look for her, but Bautista was nowhere in sight.
“Damn it!”
Kirk stayed low and opened the back door to reach for the shotgun. Once he had checked the weapon for shells, he went after her. Kirk went a few cars down while the shooter continued to fire at their car.
By that time, Bautista had shot her way to the side of the house. She reloaded her weapon, took a quick look around and continued to the back door. Bautista kicked the door in and immediately dove for the floor. She looked around quickly, got to her feet and then the detective headed in the direction of the shooting.
Outside the house, Kirk had almost made it to the door when the shooting stopped. He ran as quickly as he could toward the house, but before he got there, the shooting started again. Only now, the shots weren’t being fired at him. the shooter was firing at somebody inside the house.
Bautista.
Kirk kicked in the front door, went inside and then he ran toward the shooting. When he got to the dining room, Kirk saw the shooter.