to pay the price for it. If he could at least have seen his little girl again, so young and because of his unreliability, she would have to die now. But he would not give up without a fight and without retaliation.He reached unobtrusively into his jacket and felt his gun hard and cold under his hand. Perhaps it had been a mistake on DeCloud not to have her disarmed. A mistake he would regret. With narrowed eyes he waited to see what would happen.
"The goods were picked up, along with some of my men. I thought that I gave you a clear understanding of what would happen if things didn't go according to my wishes." The sound of his voice now sounded like that of a madman and his eyes were hateful. "Well, then you must now draw the conclusions and you know what that means Detective Brown. You both toddled into my work for too long and now it's over." With one hand he pointed at Ricardo. "Now is your chance to prove that you are of use to me and show your loyalty to me. Shoot them both."
Cam just saw Ricardo grabbing a gun and drew his too.Beside him, Ben had come to the same decision and shot Ricardo directly in a split second, but only hit him in the arm and disarmed him.
What happened next is hard to understand. Several of the men were also armed and fired. Cam met 3 of them and saw them sink to the ground before feeling a sharp pain in his shoulder himself. He lost his gun and found himself on the asphalt in the same second. Next to him, Ben was also lying on the floor and no longer moved.
All was lost now, Cam thought.
A black shadow appeared over him and looked down at him with satisfaction. "It was a good try, but you won't get Detective Brown against me. This is probably the end of you. Let me also say that I was deeply impressed with your work. You had been an equal opponent, better than any other cop I have come to know over the years and so that I can show you how much I honor you, I will give you the coup de grace.See you in hell."
Cam hadn't noticed the last words because the high blood loss had weakened him further. He was vaguely aware of the weapon hovering overhead before he lost consciousness and everything around him went black.