drag me down | grayson dolan

【fifteen】

A tight ball of anxiety fills my stomach as Duke stops his car along the sidewalk. I watch him shift the gear into park before turning to look at me.

"Where are they?" I bounce my leg up and down, my eyes glancing to my outfit for the day. I'm wearing dress pants and a white button down blouse.

"Relax, they're on their way." He calmly reassures me.

My eyes focus on Asher's jeep in the driveway. He's home, which causes electric nerves to fill up my insides.

"Why can't we go in and do it? We're armed." I mumble with annoyance, motioning toward the hand gun in his lap.

"We're undercover, Asher would expose us." Duke practically rolls his eyes at my question. "Angelo gave me this in case of an emergency. I can't pull the trigger unless I really need to."

"I wanted to be the one to arrest him." I let out a sharp breath.

"If they even arrest him." Duke debunks my hopeful thoughts.

"They better, we all know he's involved with the robberies." I look down at my hands.

"Moment of truth." His voice fills the quiet space.

My eyes move up to a police car pulling into Asher's driveway. My heart jumps as I watch two officers get out of the vehicle.

"Who is that?" I lowly mumble, watching them closely.

"Officer Matthews and Officer Ryder. They don't do undercover work." He explains to me.

I nod my head and watch them knock on the door. After a few minutes, Asher swings it open. A cigarette is hanging out of his mouth and he isn't wearing a shirt. His inked body is in perfect view. He looks extremely pissed off as he angrily talks to the officers. They show him the warrant and proceed to push through the house.

"What if something happens to them?" I anxiously ask.

"That's why I have this." Duke holds up the gun. "They need to search his house first."

"I know how it works, I'm just anxious." I say while gulping.

"Not getting enough action from Grayson?" Duke says with a smirk.

"Shut up." I roll my eyes while staring at him.

"Where did you say you were today?" He raises an eyebrow.

"I haven't talked to him yet, it's early." I casually shrug.

Another police car turns onto the block, which causes me to furrow my eyebrows. "More back up?" The car parks in front of Asher's house. Angelo gets out of it along with two officers.

Before Duke can say anything, gunshots are heard from inside. Angelo and the other two men rush into the house with guns in their hands.

My eyes widen as I look at Duke. "Should we go in?"

"I don't know." He quickly stutters. "We weren't supposed to."

"But you have a weapon." I point out, wanting to grab it off his lap.

"Just wait." He raises his hand to stop me from speaking.

A few minutes later, one of the officers is dragging Asher over to the police car. He's handcuffed and trying to curse them out. Two of Asher's friends are also being escorted into the vehicle.

"They got him!" I scream with happiness.

"Holy shit, good work Jacobs." Duke looks back at me with a wide smile.

Once the police vehicle drives away, Duke opens the door. I follow his lead and step into the hot air. We both walk side by side across the street, practically running up the driveway.