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“By who?” I asked, crossing my arms over my chest.
“I, uh, I…” he stuttered.
I lifted the kid up by the scruff of his neck, then went and parked his ass in the cruiser’s open back door before saying, “You have two options. You can tell me what you know, and why you were going to shoot me. Then you can go home and keep your nose clean. Or, I can read your Miranda rights to you. Then you can go to jail and be charged as an adult.”
“I’m not close to an adult, though,” the kid snapped.
“No,” I agreed. “But sometimes, when you make adult decisions, despite being a kid, you get to have the adult punishment. And attempted murder of a police officer is a big deal. You won’t be charged lightly.”
“You’ll just let me go?” he asked.
“I’ll let you go after talking to your parents.” I shrugged.
And ensuring that they got him the fuck out of the gang he was in, kept tabs on him, and ensured that he didn’t try to shoot any more police officers.
I could tell based solely on how scared he was that he hadn’t wanted to do this.
I could also, now that I was less hopped up on adrenaline, realize that he’d been hiding and trying to convince himself to do it. But he probably wouldn’t have been able to.
Mostly because after unloading the rifle, I realized he hadn’t even had a round in the chamber, let alone taken the safety off.
“I’ll tell you everything,” he said as he held his hands up. “Just don’t talk to my parents. You can take me to jail.”
Nice try, kid. Nice try.
After leaving the kid’s house with Auden on my heels, I had to have a good laugh.
Mostly because, the woman who was the mom of my would-be assassin, Jaylon, had gone off on him from the moment she realized he wasn’t at school.
When she realized what he’d done?
It’d been nuclear.
She had ripped him a new one, and there wasn’t a single thing he could do about it.
The kid was in the wrong.
And after a discussion, it was found out he’d been trying to be tough with his new friends at school. He’d been offered to have a gang initiation, but he had to ‘knock off’ the cop who was putting all their crew in jail or rehabbing them.
That officer being me.
“Thanks for hanging with me for half the day,” I grumbled.
It had taken half a day, too.
First, we’d gone to the police station where we waited for the mom to get off work.
Then we’d gone to Subway to get the kid and his mom food since they wouldn’t be having time to make anything seeing as she would be too busy lighting a fire under Jaylon’s ass—Jaylon’s words, not mine.
And now we were heading back to the station, well after lunch.
Hell, we were heading more toward dinner now instead of lunch.
Auden parked the cruiser in his designated spot and got out.
I followed much more slowly, limping slightly when I got out.
“Knee?” he asked.
