Page 5 of Betrayed

After reporting in, he cut through some driveways and tried to avoid Daryl. But the man caught him.

“Well? Where are you going?”

“To an accident. Cooper got the suspect. It’s taken care of.” Logan got in, avoiding any further conversation with the man he detested.

He flipped his lights and siren on and raced to the accident.

He was first on the scene. A one-way street intersected with a two-way in a residential area where old houses and ancient trees towered. A green coupe appeared to have t-boned a brown sedan and pushed it into a black minivan. After radioing in, Logan bolted to the closest vehicle. The air bags had deployed.

The window was down. Logan pushed the airbag out of the way. “Are you okay? Are you hurt?”

A young man’s battered face appeared. He groaned. “Yeah, I’m fine. What happened?”

Logan reached in and turned off the engine. “That’s a question I want to ask you in a minute. Hang tight for a minute. Let me check on the others.”

“Sure.” The guy groaned again.

The middle car did not look good, but the driver was probably okay since the direct hit was to the back door. He hoped there wasn’t a child sitting behind the driver.

Logan snapped his mind away from the dark thoughts that threatened. Focus.

He knocked on the window covered by an air bag.

The airbag deflated, and a man’s profile appeared. Miles?

Too many familiar faces today.

Miles rolled down the window about four inches before it refused to go any further.

“Hey, Miles. Go ahead and turn off your engine.”

“Logan?”

“Yeah, dude. The engine.”

“Oh, yeah.” Miles blinked but turned the key.

“How are you feeling?”

“Doozer of a headache.”

“I bet. I’m gonna check on the other vehicle, okay? Don’t try to move. The fire department will be here soon.” Logan tried not to growl at the thought. There were plenty of teams of firefighters in the city. Maybe she wouldn’t be working right now. But a quick glance around reminded him the accident was in her house’s district.

He went around Miles’s sedan and found the minivan empty. Thankfully, it appeared to have been parked.

A fire truck’s siren echoed off the houses before it came into view. A block down, it turned the wrong way onto the one-way street and stopped near the end of the minivan. An ambulance pulled up too.

Sure enough, AJ and her crew jumped out of the fire truck.

Seriously! He managed to keep any curse words that wanted to come out inside. This town wasn’t so small they’d both respond to the same call, right? Apparently, it was.

He sucked it up and went to Captain Ty Washington and reported what he knew. “Miles Blumetti is probably good and stuck.”

Logan accidentally made eye contact with AJ.

Their eyes stayed locked for a moment before she shifted and broke the connection.

Logan clenched his fists. He needed to focus on helping.