"Move!" Hunter barked arrogantly. "Or the cops will drag you off!"
Chapter II: The Laugh on the Driveway
Marcus didn’t panic. He didn’t shout or step backward.
Instead, a broad, booming laugh erupted from Marcus’s chest as he shook his head in pure amusement.
"Ha-ha!" Marcus laughed, pointing back over his shoulder toward the street where two marked patrol cruisers had just pulled quietly up to the curb.
Marcus leveled a calm, knowing grin directly at Brenda and her son.
"Those are my cops."
Brenda’s confident smirk flickered, while Hunter looked over his shoulder in sudden unease as four uniformed officers stepped out of the vehicles, striding purposefully onto the driveway.