“Hey, don’t you turn your back on me, you little bitch!”Daniel snapped, then reached down to grab at my arm.
Camaro instantly sprang into action, snarling wildly as she jumped forward and chomped down on Daniel’s wrist, viciously tearing into it.Daniel shouted in pain, attempting to pull his arm back from between Camaro’s powerful jaws to no avail.
“Camaro, release!”I ordered, grabbing onto her collar to pull her back.She let go immediately, and Daniel stumbled back, clutching his badly injured wrist.
Shit.That wasn’t quite what I was going for but…good fucking girl.
“Stupid fucking dog!”he bellowed, blood flowing down his arm and hand.
I could hear Darren and Sloane rushing over from the commotion, but they weren’t quick enough to stop Daniel from drawing his gun.I knew he was going to point it at Camaro before he had finished aiming it.
“JADEN!”
“No!”I shouted and moved to lunge for him, but then a gunshot cracked through the air, paralyzing me in place.Daniel’s voice thundered with alarm as the gun sprang out of his hand just before he was tackled to the ground by the closest guards.
I was then swiftly ripped away from the scene with the force of a freight train, but the momentum had me turning in a panic to find my dog standing her ground and growling at Daniel and the guards pinning him down.
Turning my head back, I looked up to see Darren scowling down at Daniel as his arm tightened around my middle to then drag me over to Sloane.
“Get the fuck off me!”Daniel shouted between punches.“Darren!Get them off!”
I could see him still fighting and struggling with the guards as I watched on from behind Sloane’s back, her gun raised and trained at Daniel.From the corner of my eye, I could see Scott appear from the shadows, a deep look of concern on his face as he approached.
“Let me the fuck go!”Daniel roared from the ground, still fighting with the guards.
“Nice shot, Sloane,” Darren commented before turning to me to run both his hands down the side of my face.“Are you alright?”
My heart was still racing at the thought of Daniel potentially killing my dog, but then anger quickly replaced it.“No, I’m not alright, I’m fucking pissed!He’s drunk and he drew a gun!All because Camaro was doing her job!”I snapped.“You saw that, right?You saw her bite to protect me?”Fear rolled into my stomach again, ready to sucker punch me if Darren decided Camaro was in the wrong.
“Yes, I saw,” he confirmed, then dragged his hands down either side of my body to land at my pelvis.“Any pain or cramping?”
I shook my head.“No.Physically, I’m fine.”
“Good,” he acknowledged in relief, then stepped away to address Daniel while Scott came to stand at his side.“Let him up.”
The guards released him, Daniel grumbling as he stumbled back up from the ground and wobbled on his feet.“What the fuck, Darren!Why is that beast still alive when it just mauled my fucking arm?”
“Now why would a well-trained guard dog do such a thing?”Darren asked, venom oozing from every word.“What did you do that made her attack?”
“Nothing!I stretched my arm out and then she bit me!”
“In Jaden’s direction?”
“In her general direction, yeah!”
“Why?”
“Because I was trying to get her attention after she disrespected me by turning her back on our conversation.You really need to teach that bitch some proper fucking manners!”
Darren responded to Daniel’s insult with a fist straight to his face, knocking him back down onto the ground.He then stepped over him and pressed his foot into the bloody bite mark Camaro had made.Daniel groaned loudly as he tried and failed to dislodge his arm.
“Ah!Darren, what the fuck!”
Darren then leaned down and whispered something to Daniel that I couldn’t make out.When he was finished, he stood back and allowed Daniel to stand back up.
“Now go see Sid about your arm,” he ordered.When Daniel continued standing there, just glaring at him, Darren shouted “GO!”Daniel scoffed but then turned around and headed back toward the house.“Make sure he doesn’t get lost,” Darren murmured to Scott, who nodded and followed, two guards right behind him.Darren watched them disappear before he turned back around to me.
“Sloane, please escort Jaden back inside.Daniel is not to go anywhere near her,” he ordered.