Avenging Laura (Special Forces: Operation Alpha)

Chapter 45

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE

Laura woke up and realized she was alone in the bed. When she rolled over, Highlander’s side of the bed was cold. She looked at the clock and realized it was just after ten p.m. They had slept the whole day and most of the night away.

Her stomach had started rumbling when she had decided to get up and go into the kitchen. Padding over to her dresser, she put on sleep shorts and a tank top before she walked out of the bedroom in search of her husband.

Seeing the light in the kitchen, she headed that way and stopped cold. She could see that Highlander was zip tied to their kitchen chair, with duct tape on his mouth. He had a black eye with blood oozing from his shoulder. She could see that he had been shot.

“Joe!” Laura started to run toward him only to stop short when she saw Cyrus sitting in a chair opposite her husband and a gun raised toward Highlander’s head.

“Ah! Sleeping beauty rises! Finally. It really would have taken the fun out of putting a bullet in your ass while you slept. I wanted you to know who did it. Now, before we get down to business, where the fuck is my mother?” Cyrus demanded, his voice ice cold.

“You wouldn’t know the meaning of the word having fun if it bit you in the ass, Cyrus. How did you get into my house?” Laura ignored his question.

Cyrus fired a bullet, hitting the wall behind Highlander’s head. Cyrus putting a bullet through the wall by the garage door would not cause alarms as it wouldn’t make much of a sound to anyone outside.

“I asked you where my mother is. The next bullet will go either into his head or his heart,” Cyrus warned her, raising his weapon toward Highlander’s head.

“She’s in jail waiting for her arraignment tomorrow morning,” Laura answered, inching closer to Highlander.

“Do not move another inch or I will put a fucking bullet in his head. I don’t give two shits what Maria wants with his sorry ass.”

“You kill me or my husband and you’ll never get your mother out of jail. She’s going away for a long time, Cyrus. If they catch you, you’ll never see the light of day either,” Laura warned the dangerous man.

“Yes, I will. Once I do what my father ordered me to do, I’ll be out of here. He’ll get my mother out of jail, and we’ll be long gone before any of your stupid bitches figure out you’re dead!” Cyrus smirked at Laura, raising his weapon.

She realized then why she never heard the shot in the house. He had a silencer on the barrel. They wouldn’t have heard the gun outside the house either. Fuck! She had to stall while she figured out how to get her and Highlander out of this alive.

“You kill either one of us, you’ll have a target on your back for the rest of your life. Not only that, but you also run the risk of making more waves for the organization than Maria already has with the shit she’s pulled. You’re expendable in their world, Cyrus. Maria is currently useful since she’s the face of Arrow. You’re not. You are just a pawn on a chessboard that can be gotten rid of at any time,” Laura warned Cyrus of what she knew would happen.

“My mother is not expendable. David loves my mother. He loves both of us!” Cyrus screamed at Laura, pointing his gun at her.

“If he loved you or your mother so much, why are you both still here in San Diego? It’s not to hold down the fort, Cyrus. It’s not to run their San Diego operation. When he ran, he took Maria with him. You and your mother were nowhere near their base of operation on the day we took it down. You, your mother, and Kathy are the escape goats. You honestly think they are going to allow you three to live once it gets out that you three were arrested?” Laura pointed out as she looked around.

Looking over at Highlander, his eyes went down toward the table. Looking at where he was looking, she didn’t see anything. Why the hell was he making googly eyes at the table the way he was?

“You’re lying! He wouldn’t sacrifice me or my mother like that. Your mother, yes. He hated that bitch!” Cyrus spewed at Laura, jabbing his weapon at her.

“Who doesn’t? Yet while he hated her, he still fucked her now and then. He and Kathy even had threesomes with your mother. He even watched her with other men, allowing those men to do what they wanted to her. Just like he did Kathy. Your mother was not the only one he had kids with. You’re just another in his long list of pawns to use.”

“Sit down! Stop moving around, damn it!” Cyrus growled at Laura, demanding she sit in the location that Highlander had been trying to get her to look.

Laura sat down at the table trying to keep her cool. Cyrus was a cornered animal right now and that made him very dangerous.

“Think, Cyrus! He told you what to do to me. Maria wanted more done to me and he stopped her from much worse. He only wanted me ruined. Maria wanted me dead. He won’t allow you to touch Dominick.”

“He’s next on my list! He thinks he’s better by turning his fucking nose up at our father.” Cyrus seethed as he glared at Laura.

“He doesn’t think he’s better than anyone. He doesn’t agree with the lifestyle. He thinks women are to be cherished. Loved. David doesn’t do that. If he did, your mother would be with him. He will tell you whatever he thinks you need to hear to do his bidding. Why do you think he has Maria with him?” Laura dared to poke the bear as she looked Cyrus in the eyes.

“She’s his daughter!” Cyrus screamed at her, spittle flying everywhere.

“No, she isn’t. Even your mother knew she wasn’t. She’s his plaything. She was bought by David from one of his people as a baby and raised to do his bidding. She was groomed from birth to be his. They told people she was their daughter so no one would think twice,” Laura explained to Cyrus what both Deanna and Kathy had told her.