Patriot (Savaged Souls MC #4) - K.J. Dahlen Page 0,37

different but something wasn’t quite right.

His sixth sense kicked in as he began wandering around the small room looking for some sign that someone had been in here while he was gone. As far as he could tell, nothing had been moved, that is until he got to the bed. The mattress was askew just enough he knew someone had lifted it.

Damen paused then felt almost betrayed. He carefully lifted the mattress himself. He was prepared to find his weapons gone but his eyes widened slightly when he found they were still there and every one of them accounted for. He also knew they hadn’t been disturbed, just observed.

He lowered the mattress again and sat down in the chair beside the bed. “Damn, who found him and why?” he asked himself. Maybe a better question was why had his things been found but not touched?

He looked toward the door and wondered, “Could I have trained Jase this well cause if it was Jase, Damen knew his weapons would have been fucked up in some way. There was no way Jase would have just not touched them. Lifting the mattress again, he pulled out his rifle and began checking it over. He checked the barrel and the hammer plate, he also checked the firing pin and the sights. Everything was as it should be. Yes, the firing pin was missing but that was his doing. He always removed the pins in his weapons and stored them somewhere else, so no one could use his weapons without his knowledge. The pin someone would use to replace the original just wouldn’t allow the weapon to be fired. This was his own sense of defense and no one else knew about.

He replaced the weapon and sat there thinking. If Levi had sent a third man in after his text about Jase, Damen would have been surprised. Levi thought he was invincible and his own people would just blindly follow his orders. He hadn’t believed Damen about Jase but that was his mistake and he would have to learn a hard lesson when Jase took his daughter’s life. But Levi wouldn’t ever understand much less learn, Jase would eventually end him with a bullet through his head.

As Damen sat there, he made up his mind that if Jase took another shot at Becky he would take Jase out and walk away from the SANG group. They had begun with high hopes but all four men had lost their way. They turned toward greed and that same greed had all four of them by the throat now... none of them could stop what they were doing and go back.

Damen had served these men for too long not to see what they were capable of. He knew he had no choice, his position had been compromised, so he began packing his things and moving out. He hadn’t lived this long in a cutthroat business by being stupid. He still had a trick or two up his sleeve. Tricks he never shared with the others when he’d trained them. Tricks that might just save his own life one day. Well it appeared that day—was today.

When he got to this town several weeks ago, he set up a new identity for himself. He bought all new clothes and a new cell phone. Then he stashed them in a third location, intending not to use them unless his first two locations had been compromised. He did this with every new job he took on. Now his habit would pay off. He felt his position was compromised and now the hunted would become the hunter. He gathered his weapons and packed the few things he knew couldn’t be left behind.

This game was one he was well familiar with. He stripped his clothes off and showered under very hot water. Breaking his own safety seal, he got dressed in fresh clothes and gathered his things. He left behind clothing and anything of his old life that could be traced back to him or the SANG group. Damen had found a few years in, that Levi often used tracking equipment to keep track of his people.

But Damen knew he couldn’t track his weapons they were never out to be seen when Levi was around. He sent one last text to Levi, telling him Jase shot his daughter and he didn’t think the girl would come to him alive. He told Levi he knew he wouldn’t believe him but that would be on him.