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Chapter 52: Rangeman Test Day Pt2

SlyderPOV

Fuck, I wasn't sure how Stephanie was holding up but personally I was only not collapsing because she was still going. When I was running I could hear her running behind me. I wasn't sure exactly how I could hear her but I could. I would have said it was because of the way she was breathing but I can't say I wasn't breathing any less.

I felt like a locomotive going down the track the way I was huffing and puffing I sort of doubted that steam engines huffed and puffed less than I was at the moment.

I could still hear her and I knew she was sticking close to me. She wasn't passing me not because I wouldn't let her at this point I would have no control not to let her as I couldn't have picked up the speed if I had wanted to because I was already running at full speed.

By the time I had Rangeman in my sites I couldn't hear her as easily but I knew she wasn't very far behind me. When I crossed the finished line it didn't come soon enough and I barely felt like I could keep myself up right trying to catch my breath.

I bent at the waist and put my hands on my knees to keep myself upright after all I wasn't going to collapse in front of these fuckers to tease me. However when my incendia crossed the finish line only matter of seconds after me she collapsed on the ground on her back and not wanting her to be the only one I quickly joined her grabbing her hand.

Truth be told I couldn't wait to collapse and her collapsing gave me the perfect excuse to collapse without being teased. They would never tease her and they couldn't tease me without teasing her.

We managed to get up and make our way to the compound where we did our sit-ups, our pull-ups and our push-ups and then we went to the obstacle course. We made our way up to it and Matt gave us the go ahead.

I took off running part of me wanted to hang out and wait for Stephanie but the more I thought about it the more I knew Stephanie wouldn't want me to show her any special treatment that I wouldn't show another man testing so I went ahead and just ran the course.

I would meet her again on the finish line. Because I knew regardless of which one of us finished this course first we would be waiting for the other one.

I hadn't been long crossing the line when my Incendia crossed it she immediately ran into my arms I could see the excitement in her eyes when she grabbed me her legs gave out from under her and I wasn't really ready for her weight not to mention I was barely holding myself up so we both went down. I somehow managed to not land on her when we went down.

They gave us a few minutes to catch our breath before getting our attention to move on to the next part of the test. I got up on my feet and reached down to help Stephanie up I knew she hadn't had the years of training I had I knew she would tire out before I did so I was determined to help her every chance I got if pulling her to feet was one way then it was one way I was willing to help her.

MattPOV

"The next phase of the test is the defensive driving. I will be riding with Stephanie Acer will be riding with Slyder. This part of the test you must complete the following passing each section in order to pass the Defensive Driving portion of the test. Driving defensively, detecting a tail, losing a tail, tailing another vehicle, and finally driving in excessive speed with obstacles." I told them. I wanted to tell them that rental vehicles will be used for portions of the test but this was something that wasn't permitted because that would be considering helping those that are testing. They should be good enough to pick up a tail or tail a vehicle regardless of the vehicle they were using.

It was all part of being aware of your surroundings and if you learned anything being at Rangeman was that you were to always be aware of your surroundings.

We made our way over the vehicles that Slyder and Stephanie would be using. This was the only portion of the test that I would need to trust Acer with how Slyder did. I knew I could trust him and I knew he would record only the facts not to mention we would have the video and audio going in the car to ensure no information was passed to those testing.

I handed Acer a tracking device that will tell him where the cars are that are trailing him. I have one as well. There were two cars that would be trailing them both were rental. Wire and Chase would each be in the cars tailing Stephanie and Demon and Woody would both be in cars tailing Slyder.

On my device I could see the blips and they were color coded Stephanie was red and Slyder was blue and the vehicles they were being tailed by was same color only darker. Hector had fixed me up with the devices I was certain he had a device that he would use to gage how they were doing. I knew he probably could care less about Slyder but who he wanted to know was Stephanie.

He had taken a phone call earlier that had him acting a little weird. Not that he didn't normally act a little weird, not that you heard me say that, so I didn't pay a whole lot of attention but you could see something had upset him and I briefly wondered how long the person who upset Hector would be breathing.

I climbed into the passenger seat as Stephanie got in the driver's seat. The Defensive driving isn't something that will be tested outside of the other test requirements. Driving defensively is just something you do while you are driving and that is how it will be scored of course I didn't tell them that as it isn't protocol to tell those that are taking the test. It is something that they should figure out on their own.

SPOV
I got in the SUV Matt was in the passenger side and I briefly wondered if one of my other brothers or Carlos would join us but when I looked out the window at them standing around I had my answer. I guess it wasn't allowed for them to come with me.

Part of me felt the panic attack coming but I swallowed hard and tried my best to swallow the fear that was welling up inside of me. I saw Carlos and Lester take a step closer to the vehicle along with Hector and Cal so they must have seen the panic flood my face.

I quickly shook my head letting them know to not come closer I knew I could do this. I knew Matt wasn't going to harm me. My brothers trusted him. Carlos trusted him to run his company in Boston. So I knew I could trust him it was just my fears what Doug had done to me that was causing this and I would be damn if I was going to let him become between me and passing this test.

I took a couple of calming breaths deep in from my nose and release through my mouth and I felt better. I gave Carlos and my brothers a nod that I was okay and reached to start the vehicle. Slyder started his vehicle when I did he smiled and tipped his head to me.

I did the same to him and then backed out of the parking spot heading to the gates of the compound this part of the test was going to be on the streets of Trenton.

JPOV

Momma had been just what the boys needed. I called her and she had come just as always. We made it into the room it was a little earlier than normal but I knew she would come. What can I say? My boys woke up this morning needing a little attention. See if Stephanie had fulfilled her destiny it would have been her job to take care of them but since she decided to go and fucking get involved with thugs and killers and ruin her name, reputation along with our future well in some way it is only fitting that the woman that promised me that life pay up.

So we met early at the hotel and just like every time we meet Momma doesn't have to be told although I admit sometimes I like ordering her around or getting a little rough with her because it is just fun and I can imagine it is Stephanie that I am taking my aggression and I guess to some degree frustration out on.

Today was one of those days when I just wanted to work out my aggression so when she dropped to suck my dick I grabbed the back of her head and proceeded to pound my dick in and out of her mouth but Momma did what I expected she took every inch I pounded into her and begged me for fucking more. I am sure Stephanie would have choked and whined and practically cried and screamed for me to stop with Momma I didn't have to stop because she would give it to me anyway I wanted it.

When I was done and the boys had had their first much needed release I then threw her on the bed flipped her over and drove my dick into her ass until she was screaming. I didn't care why she screamed but hearing her scream only fueled my desire so I was sure to fuck her harder. Grabbing her hips I pounded her harder she knew exactly what I needed and she gave it.

I decided when my boys released for the second time that they weren't done. I hadn't had all I wanted. I hadn't possessed her enough she had screamed, she had taken all I had given and was begging me for more. I briefly wondered why the fuck wasn't Stephanie more like her mom. Momma should have raised her different because had Stephanie been like this well I doubted I would have needed much side meat to keep me satisfied.

I decided to give Momma a little bit and went down on her sucking and biting her pussy she was begging and pleading for me to not stop so I rammed my fingers in her just as my dick had done her mouth and ass only moments ago. It was only matter of a few minutes before she was screaming her orgasm as I took a final and what I am sure was a painful bite but with her that much in the throes of and orgasm the pain wouldn't really register with her.

I didn't give her any downtime before I entered her and once again began pounding my dick home. This time I chose to bite down on her nipples. I briefly wondered if I should leave a mark and thought about what she would do. It would be a bastard thing to do I mean the woman was married and sleeps with her husband nightly. Would he see my mark? Would he know it was my mark? What would he do? Would he care?

I finally decided fuck it and bit down on her nipple until I knew it would leave a mark we would find out what happened. I didn't really care because I was going to have to end this for a little bit anyway. I had to gain Stephanie's confidence again if I am going to get close enough to hurt her so fucking her mom was going to have to stop for a little while.

My dick was disappointed because even though I had my side meats momma just knows what I need and I don't need excuses but then again others have taken care of me I was just going to have to call Joyce more. Joyce lets me do whatever I want and if I ask or better tell her she will make special noises for me. Before you ask I don't ask for the barnyard sounds that Vinnie does, I just like the screams. Screams of passion, screams of pain, and screams of excitement or possibly fear of what I am going to do next.

Grabbing a hold of her hips until I was certain my handprints would be left I pounded my way to my third release. The boys were finally satisfied and if I say so myself so was Momma. She was lying beside me gasping for air basking in her after glow.

I didn't have time to hang around it was still before ten we had only been here about an hour but I had things to do like work so I got up cleaned the cunt juice off of me in the bathroom got dressed and left with her still lying on the bed. I didn't need to say anything she knew I was an important person in Trenton and my work came first. Besides it wasn't like she was my girlfriend or wife she was just a substitution to me fucking her daughter.

I got in my car and started heading back to the streets of Trenton after all keeping the streets of Trenton safe is part of my job.

MPPOV

I was happy when my son called me this morning I hadn't heard from him in a little while I was beginning to think since my bitch of a daughter had dumped him for those murdering thugs that he wasn't going to call me. He had told me he was done with her and I had sort of thought maybe he was done with me as well.

I was so excited when I picked the phone up this morning and it was him. With my mother living in Stephanie's old apartment she isn't around to have to give excuses to for my absences she has no idea where I am going or what I am doing and Frank well he hasn't been happier. I have been taking care of him practically daily to cover the fact that I am taking Joseph as well, so Frank is happy.

He won't question when I leave the house or when I get back. I mean his meal will be on the table at the normal times and I will be as wild in the bed as I want because now that I am getting what I have wanted all these years I am happier. So Frank shouldn't have a thing to complain about.

As far as Frank is concerned he is probably happier than he has ever been well been in a long time. There was another point in my life that I was this happy and made Frank happy and that was when I was taking care of Joseph's father.

It is something about those Morelli men they really know how to satisfy their women and keep them happy. Frank never knew and never has all those years that I went without a Morelli orgasm I tried to get Frank to step up to the plate but he never got it. He never understood how to make me scream so I had to fake it all these years with him.

I mean I had an orgasm eventually but the Morelli men could make me orgasm looking at me or with a single touch and Frank well let's say it took quite a bit more.

I was lying in the bed basking in the afterglow when Joseph left he didn't say anything but I know my son is busy protecting the streets of Trenton so he is busy, important, and was needed out there. After a few minutes I get up and made my way into the bathroom to clean myself up, fix my hair and try my best to cover up my afterglow appearances that is until I get home and take care Frank so I have an excuse for the afterglow.

Looking at my body I couldn't help the gasp that came out of my mouth. My son had left marks. I had bite marks on my nipples, hand prints on the side of my hips how in the fuck was I going to take care of Frank and him not see them?

Frank's love making always included sucking my nipples he loved my nipples and now they had the bite marks of another man. Joseph should have known not to leave marks but we were both into it pretty heavy and I never thought about it. How was I going to hide this?

Maybe he wouldn't be home when I got there and I would have time for the afterglow to wear off before he saw me. I looked in the mirror and immediately squashed that idea after all the way I had just been fucked I would be sporting this afterglow for days.

Long story short, short of a miracle I was screwed I needed to do some fast talking. Maybe I could make him believe those marks were from him last night. I would have to think about that more but Frank was never a wild lover so leaving marks on me wasn't something that he would do or had ever done.

HectorPOV

That fucker had called Stephanie's mother this morning I didn't even need to hear the fucking phone taps to know what that call would lead to, sick fuck. Well at least we no longer had to go stake out the hotel we had snuck back in when it wasn't occupied and placed motion activated cameras.

While it was true they were recording everything we would just delete what we didn't want. It wasn't like we weren't security experts we were good at not seeing what we shouldn't be looking at and at the same time managing to get what we wanted.

Not that anyone wanted to see what they were doing but hey every little bit of evidence helps when you are working with sick sons of bitches.

I had previously placed sensors on their vehicles. I knew her mom would never discover the one on her car but half expected the cop to. I mean anyone half trained would know what to look for and he had never bothered to look.

In his shoes I would be checking my vehicle, my home, my office multiple times a day but then again they all can't be like me. He is too arrogant to think that we would track him boy he should know to never under estimate Rangeman. He should also know to never under estimate the limit we will go to protect my Angelito. I had also activated his phone from the synch that I did when he was at the hotel I was able to tap into the GPS in the phone so I knew where he was even if he was in another vehicle.

As long as his phone was with him I would know where he was.

I had outfitted the vehicles that everyone was riding with a sensor so Matt and Acer could tell how Stephanie and Slyder were doing but I also configured a device for me so I could see how my sister was doing.

I was watching the device along with a few of the other guys when Morrelli's blip popped up on the screen. I had Stephanie's blip being blue, and Wire and Chase who were following her black, but Morelli's blip was red.

I kept quit even though I was cussing to myself. I stood there I didn't want to alert her brothers because I knew they would say fuck the test and go get her and part of me wanted to do that but part of me understood how much this meant to her.

I knew if I left I would raise suspicion and I knew then they would figure out it was because of the extra blip on the screen. Right now no one was questioning it. I knew Ranger would know the second he saw it as well as Manny. I was actually surprised the other guys didn't question it but with Slyder being out there they may have thought that blip was for him.

I felt my hand start to ghost over my knives, it was a given tell I had when things weren't right in my life and I was put on edge. I know it was tell and I know that I shouldn't have it but I just feel better when my hands are close enough that I know I can grab them in matter of less than a second if the need arises.

While the knives would do me no good in this scenario the feelings of being on edge was there so the tell was there and I am certain my actions wasn't lost on my brothers.

I knew what this test meant to her because I knew what it meant to me. When Ranger took me in and gave me a chance to have a life that my skills were used for good instead of the bad that had seemed to always be near me. It changed my life.

Passing that test meant that I belonged among this group of elite men. It is an honor to be considered a Rangeman even though for the most part our jobs of the world go unappreciated, unknown by the people that we work hard to protect. In some ways my Angelito was right we were super heroes we protected the innocent by hunting down and returning to the system the dredge of humanity.

The rapists, the killers, and the thieves we returned them to prison when they thought they could run. We find them when they thought they could hide and we stop them when they thought they could get away with it. Being on the right side for once in my life felt right I had a place. My Angelito just cemented it more.

But doing the work we did made a difference even if it was a thankless unappreciated job I knew the good it did and I knew that while maybe in the grand scheme of things it didn't change much in my mind maybe in some way it was allowing me to make right my many wrongs.

Angelito she didn't need it for those reasons but for others she needed and wanted to become one of us by completing the test. Her just joining us wasn't good enough for her. She wanted to prove that she belonged not that she needed to for us to accept her, hell she had belonged long before today but for her she needed to pass this test.

Even though swooping in and taking her away from the test wasn't the answer I finally decided standing here and watching the fucking blips wasn't helping me. I was her protector and I wasn't protecting anything standing here.

I handed Lester the device and walked away. I didn't explain the blips I would let him figure that out while I slipped away. I was good at that. One moment I was there the next I wouldn't be no one the wiser.

I could help her more being on the streets. The streets I knew the streets I could blind I could move silently and I could act if necessary. Once again I felt my hand ghost over my knives centering myself as I made my way out of the compound.

LPOV

Hector handed me the GPS tracker device. He didn't explain the blips on the device. I knew that Stephanie had both Wire and Chase in cars but I didn't know the fourth blip.

I could see that so far no one was tailing anyone at the moment she was just driving. It looked like both Wire and Chase was waiting for her to pass them and then they would pick up her tail.

I knew it would be a matter of a tag team tail the hardest of all tails to detect because you aren't just looking for one vehicle it is two working together the more cars you add the more complex the tail becomes.

I briefly wondered if the fourth dot wasn't a third tail that Matt threw in to complicate everything. If he tripped her up and she failed I was going to kick his fucking ass. I didn't know why Rangeman had even asked him to give the fucking test. He has to be so fucking anal about everything.

It isn't that I didn't like Matt fuck we are good friends outside of this test but I wanted to cheer for her let her know what a great job she was doing but the rules said that wasn't allowed and mister we are going by the rules had to be giving the test.

He was going strictly by the handbook when it came to his little fucking speeches which had me wanting to ram my fist down his throat on the bullshit speech. He should be one to talk the man was full of nothing but bullshit when you get him outside of the Rangeman walls. But inside he was all fucking pure business, pure by the book kind of man.

Unfortunately the test conducting wasn't as spelled out and if he wanted to use three cars for the tail there was nothing in the guide that prevented it. It was only sort of an unwritten thing that we used two.

I continued to watch the blips trying to figure out the blips. I knew the black dots was Wire and Chase but I couldn't decide which of the other two were Beautiful's the red or the blue.

Knowing Hector it could be either as red was her favorite color and blue well that was the color of her eyes so who knows which way he went on picking her color.

It wasn't long a fifth dot popped on the screen, this one was black, and it had me ready to slam someone into the wall. Tails with four cars involved where nearly impossible to detect for a newbie it took experience to detect you were being tailed. Hell some of the Rangeman we have would miss a four car tail.

Before Stephanie took off in the SUV I had given her a new shirt. Her Shirt said My Best Friend is a Badass Rangeman. I was wearing a t-shirt that I was going to unveil when she passed that said My Best Friend is a Badass Rangewoman and if Matt fucked it up I was going to have fun kicking his ass on the mats after Ranger.

SPOV

My spidey senses have been going off like party favors ringing out the New Year since I left the compound. I knew I was going to be tailed so I couldn't imagine my senses going off I know it is just Rangeman men following me of course I never met the two following me and I barely know the man sitting beside me so I think some of my alarming senses is just knowing they are strangers to me and me being really uncomfortable with strangers at the moment has me in my current alarmed state.

I am glad however for the test that I had to be fully dressed so I have my gun on me and I am glad to say that it is in fact loaded; fully loaded. I also have my trackers and panic button on me.

I was hoping I wouldn't have to use it until the marksman test portion but with the way my senses were alarming me I wasn't so sure.

I passed by a car and a shiver went down my spine. It practically shook me in my seat it was so violent for something that your own body does involuntary. I looked in my mirrors paying attention to my surroundings and sure enough the car pulled out a few cars behind me but that was protocol for tailing someone you didn't want to get directly behind them but on the other hand you couldn't be so far apart that you lost them in the traffic if a light or something were to catch you.

Panic was bubbling up knowing I was now being followed. I had to control the panic if I was going to pass this test. I didn't get a good look at the guy in the vehicle the windows were tinted and now with the window glare and the distance he is keeping I couldn't see the driver.

I made note of the manufacture of the car it was a Honda it was a small four door like an Accord but I am not really good with models of cars and it was grey. I wasn't able to see the license plate as the cars between us where blocking my view but I would continue to watch the car in hopes that I would get lucky and at least get a couple of the letters or numbers.

I wasn't sure if I was suppose to tell Matt that I knew I was being tailed or just do what was necessary to lose the tail but I didn't have time to really think about it before I was shook with another chill. Once again looking back I saw another vehicle pull into traffic behind me and the grey accord. This car was white again it appeared to be a small sedan type car possibly a Ford it was too far back to tell much more.

I took a deep breath in trying to control the panic that wanted to bubble to the surface. Why couldn't just one of my brothers be in the car with me it would have made it so much better. Not only did I have to deal with the tail but I had to deal with a stranger beside me who I was going to have to figure out to trust if I was going to control my own fears enough to pass this test.

While my brain was telling my body that I could trust him the rest of my body wasn't listening my hand shook and I tightened my grip on the wheel to keep from it being seen. I was hoping he was paying more attention to that little device in his hand than he was to me but he was in fact a Rangeman and I knew how they were always aware of their surroundings so I am certain he knew I was about to lose it.

The thought of losing it had my eyes stinging and my forehead breaking out in a fine sheen of sweat my heart was racing due to the panic bubbling up to the surface the fear was staking its claim over my senses and my spidey senses were going off like a five alarm fire when they call fire trucks from every fire house available to the fire.

Looking back I saw that both cars were still behind me this only caused me to shake more and my breathing felt like it was labored almost like when I was running. I knew it wasn't because exertion it was because of the state of panic I was currently in.

Part of me wanted to floor the gas pedal and just speed away as fast as I could but I knew in my state that wasn't the answer I would end up killing us both. I knew I needed to get control of my emotions just like my brothers and Carlos do but they had an advantage they were fearless. I think they were immune to panic, fear, and being literally scared shitless like I was at the moment.

I took a hard right and quickly pulled into a parking spot on the side of the street. I wasn't sure what street I was on but I knew Trenton so it didn't matter. I quickly shut my eyes and put my head back I needed to summons my inner Ranger.

I needed to become the badass that wasn't afraid. I needed to become the badass that was my best friend. At least according to the shirt Lester gave me. It said my best friend is a badass Rangeman. I needed to be that.

I took a calming breath hoping it would help get my emotions back under control and I only hoped that Matt wouldn't fucking fail me for this. When I opened my eyes I took in my surroundings and I saw where the grey car had pulled ahead of me and parked several spots in front of me while the white car had parked several spots behind me. Fuck.

Fuck, double fuck, triple fuck I was trapped between the two cars and I once again felt the panic. I needed to be Ranger. What would Ranger do? What would Ranger do? I kept repeating in my head looking at the cars I saw the men exit them and step up onto the side walk. I think my heart leaped out of my chest.

One of the guys was slightly smaller but the other one was large and they both had that badass Rangeman walk fuck I was a sitting duck neither man I knew but I was expecting that mentally emotionally on the other hand I wasn't as ready or expecting as I thought because I felt myself shudder from fear. Watching them stepping closer to my vehicle each of them closing the distance wasn't helping.

I felt my eyes widen, I felt my breathing hitch and I knew I was only seconds away from being frozen by my fears. It was in that moment that flashes of my brothers appeared before my eyes Ranger, Lester, Cal, Bobby, Tank , Hector and Woody all in full swat mode when Woody flashed in front of my eyes I knew what I needed to do.

I had never cut the vehicle off. I let them take a step closer and I knew I wanted to be on the other side of the street going the other direction so I took advantage of the light that had for the moment stopped traffic on the street and floored the gas pedal while turning hard and pulled a three-sixty out of the spot leaving them standing there a good fifteen to twenty feet from their vehicles. In that time I could be long gone as I flew to the light and fucking ran it. I knew the streets well enough to lose myself let alone a tail.

I didn't let up on the gas until I knew I was long out of their site before they got to their cars, got into traffic they would never see me. I turned so many times at first they would never know which direction I went. In actuality I was making a huge freaking circle only not in a circle form.

I was back in control or at least for the moment I was back in control. Now it was time for me to pull the tail.

I knew that unless they followed each other I wasn't going to be able to tail both cars it wasn't said which car I was suppose to tail so when I found them again I would pick one. I knew they would be pulled over somewhere hoping that I would once again pass them so I had to be looking for them the last thing I needed was for them to take back control and start tailing me again.

My spidey senses had calmed a little but they were still on alert. The fear was still there it was just being masked by my inner Ranger or I should say my inner Woody because it was clearly Woody that got me out of there.

Now I needed to pull out my inner Junior out and track these fucker down on the streets of Trenton. I needed to get this test over with and get back to the compound with my brothers.

I slowed the vehicle down slightly remembering that tails were usually picked up because of erratic driving trying to keep up with the car you were tailing. Right now I hadn't spotted their car but when I did I didn't want to change my driving and draw attention.

I knew they would be in the area as it was in fact a test but I knew they wouldn't just be in plain sight it would be a challenge to find them.

The closer I got the more my spidey senses sounded off. I was ready to cuss myself because I knew it was going to cost me the test. I wasn't going to pass the test and it was because of my fucking panicking all because of Doug all encouraged by Joe. Part of me wanted to hunt that fucker down and put one of my bullets between his eyes but I knew that wasn't going to happen today.

Hell I knew that wasn't going to happen period. He scared the shit out of me and while I stood up to him before in his bedroom it took all I had to do it without shaking and it took having my brother's and Carlos with me to do it.

Right now Matt was in the car and I already wasn't sure that I could trust him let alone trust him along with Joe who had already proved to me that I couldn't trust him. Doug had left me fractured and this part of the test was showing me just how much. I knew Matt knew Joe and I know he talked to him but right now I was questioning if I could believe what he said or if he had come up with a deal with Joe like Doug. This line of thinking wasn't helping my fears, panic, or my spidey senses.

I spotted a grey car that looked like it could be the car I wanted to tail but I wasn't sure. I was too far away and let's face it there are more than one grey Hondas running around.

I was hoping that it was the car I needed to tail because I really needed something to take my mind off of the path it was currently on because I was scaring the shit out of myself with all the different scenarios and possibilities I was coming up with. I needed to get it through my thick head I wouldn't be here with Matt in the vehicle beside me if Carlos didn't trust him implicitly. I knew it on one hand but on the other hand I couldn't make myself believe it with my spidey senses going off the way they were.

My brothers and Carlos had always told me to believe in my spidey senses so I had to decide trust Carlos wouldn't allow Matt in the car with me if he didn't trust him fully or listen to what my spidey senses were telling me because they never failed me. I was caught between the two and I didn't know which to believe and follow. I wanted to believe both but right now they were in complete contradiction to each other.

I decided to check the car out further and pulled over into an available spot. I only needed to see the driver and then I would know if I had the right vehicle. The car flashed its tail lights and started moving and I decided to give it a few seconds and pull out behind it.

I still wasn't sure if it was the right one but deciding not to lose the vehicle until I figured it out I let a few cars get between us and pulled out.

Besides it was better than just sitting there and letting my senses and my mind drive me completely insane.

I was following the car and knowing the streets of Trenton I knew I could circle around a couple of streets and come out possibly ahead of the vehicle or just where I was. This would throw them off if they had picked me up tailing them.

So I turned left and sped down the block turning right I was running parallel but this road had no other connections to the road they were on until up several blocks so I sped up the road. The only thing I had no idea of is if they maintained their speed.

Turning right to head back to the road they were on I saw the vehicle pass through the intersection and now I was able to get a good look at the driver it was in fact one of the vehicles so I was right to tail him.

I turned left and fell back in behind him several cars behind him.

I knew he had to know I was there I mean he was previously tailing me and now I was tailing him but this was a test not necessarily real life where hopefully whoever it was I was tailing wouldn't know to actually look for a tail.

I took advantage of another chance to turn off the one road and this time I turned right and did the same loop back once again falling behind him several cars between us. I was hoping that if he was checking his mirror he would see our vehicle and then see it gone.

Then he would probably see it again but at least it was better than just tailing behind him and he seeing it the whole time.

He turned left at the next intersection and I too turned left but I fell into a parking spot to wait for a few other cars while I had my eye on him. Before he could turn or get out of eye sight I pulled back out into traffic.

I maintained normal driving speeds and didn't drive erratically to draw more attention to my vehicle. But should he discover me I was ready for the sped up to catch up further with him to keep from him losing me.

Just as the thought came in my head he picked up speed I took advantage of a detour and turned right where I could speed up circling around like I had done before so I could get closer to the vehicle. Which when I turned left back on the road I was only a couple of cars from him now it would be much harder for him to lose me.

Tank had taught me these tricks when you were conducting a tail with only one vehicle I only hoped it was enough to make up for what happened earlier and I pass this portion of the test. Finally the vehicle pulled over and parked and I did the same only several spots behind him. He got out and went into the store. I wasn't sure if that meant that test was over or not so I just sat there waiting for him and then I had an idea and pulled out and went up ahead of him turned and circled around so that I was on the side street waiting. Just in case it wasn't over I wouldn't be where I had parked when he came out of the store.

When he came out of the store I saw him look in the direction I had parked and I smiled to myself. He got in the car and pulled back into traffic when he passed me he was looking the other direction so I am not sure if he saw me or not but once again I picked up his tail a few cars separating us.

My spidey senses started sounding off again I checked al my mirrors and looked around the grey car was still in front of me. However when I checked my rear view mirror I saw it I saw what had my senses going haywire and my panic raising to the level it was currently at, it was Joe.

LPOV

I had been watching the dots trying to figure out what was happening. I was disappointed that I wasn't out there with her but Asshole insisted that we not be with her he wanted to see what her skills sets were and how she reacted.

I knew it made sense on one hand but I wanted to see her excel just like I know Rangeman did. Rangeman stood down when Matt made his request because he had asked him to conduct the test I knew he wasn't happy about that when Matt asked him to stand down and not participate in the test in any capacity but sometimes you shouldn't ask for what you don't want because more than not you fucking get it.

Stupid fucker I should call his ass to the mats for that dumb fuck of a decision. He had effectively shut us all out and Matt was using his team from Boston and not us.

Watching the blips I was trying to figure out all the players. I briefly wondered if Slyder was one of the dots and then cast that thought aside while I knew Slyder's vehicles and those following him had trackers like Beautiful's did I was pretty certain Hector wouldn't have coded them to show because he would not have cared how he did.

Don't get me wrong Hector probably liked Slyder just as well as the rest of us but Stephanie now she he loved, he would want to know every second how she was doing so I knew the dots were hers but I couldn't figure the extras. I could only assume that Matt had pulled in more vehicles than I was a typical test.

I decided Manny would know so I called Manny over "hey Manny come here and look at this." I called out and he and Rangeman along with a few others walked over for me to show them what I was looking at. I think they thought I had some news about how she was doing.

Manny took one look at the device and started cussing "Fuck, that mother fucker." I instantly went on alarm what the fuck had set Manny off. Not that it took a whole lot sometimes but when his Wifey was at stake it took very little.

"What, what the fuck is the matter?" I asked him thinking he was going a little to the extreme even with the extra dots.

Manny pointing to the dots "The Blue one is Wifey's the Black ones are Rangeman and the red one there well that is Morelli's." Fuck. Now I knew what had set him off. Joe was right there with her.

I was all of a sudden glad there were three black dots on the screen and I wanted more.

Rangeman spoke up first "Tank who do we have out there. Who are the black dots?" Tank looked at a device he had.

"Chase, Wire, and I don't know the third dot. She is only supposed to have two tailing her." Tank said.

I instantly knew who the third black dot was and I silently thanked God. I wasn't going to say who it was but Manny spoke up.

"That third dot I would bet is Hector see how it is keeping its distance since he is no longer here and he would have instantly known the dots I suspect he took off and he is keeping an eye on her." Manny said. It all made sense now why he just handed me his device. I never paid attention to him leaving.

I saw Rangeman relax a little knowing that Hector was out there. Hector could blend he could be there protecting her in a second if necessary or he could be like a ghost never seen yet her shadow the entire time.

I don't know how he did it but he could do it with the best of us hell on these streets he was better than most of us the only one that was better on these streets was Rangeman and let's face it he could be like fucking smoke none of us were as good as him and none of pretended to be either.

I looked at Ranger "Rangeman what do you want us to do?" the thoughts of killing a cop came to my mind I briefly wondered if we would have time to snatch him kill him dispose of him before Beautiful got back to the compound.

But Ranger's reply had me confused "right now we do nothing Hector is out there watching her and she is with Matt who I trust to keep her safe. Hector will keep the fucking cop away from her and let her finish her testing that is most important she has put so much into this test if we take it away from her she will never forgive us. Let's trust her. She has her gun and before you ask it is fully loaded."

We all knew what saying that was costing him. Hell none of us wanted to do what he was saying even though we all knew it was the right answer. You could tell as he was saying the words he himself wasn't necessarily agreeing to them but he was going to stand behind them as being the right thing to do like it or not.

At least Hector hadn't asked he had just acted and now I was sorry that I had asked because we all knew we would be on edge until her vehicle was safe back within the gates of the compound.

Fuck this wasn't going to be easy.

HectorPOV

I left the compound went back to Rangeman grabbed one of the trackers and placed it on my personal vehicle. I didn't want one of the black Rangeman vehicles but I wanted to let the guys at the compound know I was out there watching her back.

I knew it would take them a little bit to figure out but knowing Manny was there he would know as soon as he saw the blips on the screen.

I found Joe when I saw that Angelito had pulled over with Chase in front and Wire parked behind her I briefly wondered what was happening. Why she would have pulled over and let them block her in but when they exited the cars they were closing the distance to her she let them get almost to where her vehicle started and stopped but still another six or so feet and she peeled out of the spot pulling a three-sixty I wasn't even aware she could do. She Left them both standing on the sidewalk about twenty or more feet from their vehicles.

Holy shit she had done it there was no way they would make it back to their vehicles and get in traffic and be able to find her. I couldn't help but smile at the fact that I had the opportunity to see her. I don't think she ever saw Morelli he was in a different vehicle since I had now had access to his cell phone since I had put the tap on it I had placed a program on it that used the GPS from the phone so I could track the phone just like we could all Rangeman phones.

Morelli went to pull away from the curb to follow her but quickly found that he had two flat tires sidewall damage on the tires from hitting the curb. You know he should be a better driver.

I saw him exit the car circling the car looking at his tires he cursed scanned the area and hit the top of the car in defeat. He could scan all he wanted but he would never see me I faded back into the shadows of the building.

For now the cop was handled. My hands ghosted over the handles of my blades and I took a moment to get lost in thoughts of sending the solid steel blades through his throat and let the wave of pleasure those thoughts brought me wash over me. Days that I relished in killing someone had been long behind me until this fucker hurt my Angelito.

I would gladly and proudly wear another tear to rid the world of this sick son of a bitch.

SPOV

Joe was standing on the side walk he had seen me and started my way but I was moving down the road so I knew he would never catch me. It didn't stop the fear bubble up from seeing him. I needed to deal with this but today wasn't the day.

I couldn't continue to live my life in fear of him. We had to come to an understanding I wasn't planning on running from him my entire life and he wasn't planning on leaving Trenton as far as I knew. We would have to come to a way to live in the same town without terrorizing each other. I briefly wondered if I hadn't paid him that visit in his bedroom would he still be after me.

Thoughts of what he had said to Matt that he was done with me flooded my memory further adding to my fears. What if he really did want to kill me? Would he actually take it that far or was that just foolish words a lover tells their partner to prove how much they are devoted to them and they don't actually mean literally bury you.

Needing to once again clear my thoughts I focused back on tailing the grey Honda. I could tell that we were heading in the direction of the compound and wondered if this part of the test was finished.

Until we made it back to the compound I wasn't going to go slack on protocol. I was going to make sure I continued to tail him and continued to elude him where I could when the streets became less busy I allowed more space between us when they picked up I closed the gap a little with cars between us.

I wasn't driving as though I was trying to keep up with someone I was just driving as if I was minding my own business being aware of my surroundings and always making sure I had space around me to escape should the need arise.

My spidey senses had calmed a little since pulling away from Joe although they were still on edge they at least weren't going off like the fourth of July firework finally.

I was never so glad to see the compound part of me wanted to floor the accelerator and go around whoever it was in the grey car. I needed to feel Carlos' arms around me. I need to hear him whisper in my ear that he was proud of me and I needed to feel the safety he provided me wash over me and let it wash my fears, my terrors away.

The closer we got the more I already wanted to be there and I felt my eyes stinging from tears that were just waiting to fall. I didn't want to cry right now but feeling the way I was it was doubtful that I was going to be able to stop it. My feelings had run the gamut and I didn't know if I was going to be able to further control them.

When we turned into the road to the gate I had lost my patience and I quickly sped around the grey car up to the gate I punched the number as fast as I could and it was all I could do to wait for the gate to open wide enough for our vehicle to fit through it.

The second I had clearance I floored it and sped to where Carlos was. He was all I could think about I knew the test wasn't over but I needed him and I wasn't asking. I was just doing what it was I needed to do.

Pulling up to where they were standing waiting on me I slammed on the brakes threw the car in park and jumped out running for all I was worth toward Carlos. I held my arms up when I got close and he opened his arms for me he knew I wasn't going to stop until I was in his arms.

I hit him at full speed and he didn't budge it was almost like hitting a wall and had it not been for his arms ready to wrap around me I would have bounced off of him and landed on my ass.

I threw my arms around him and buried my head in the crook of his neck and chest inhaling as fully as I could letting his special scent wash over me calming me. I felt him pull me tighter to him and like I feared I felt the tears spill down my cheek.

I had my eyes closed tight and I was just letting what being in his arms does to me happen. I was calming down, my spidey senses were gone, I was safe, I was secure, and there was no panic. There was just calm, love and acceptance.

I felt completely drained and I knew the test wasn't even half over. My emotions had zapped me and I needed to recharge but I knew there was no time. There was no recharging I would just have to push through the exhaustion, push through the hurts, the aches, and push through the tiredness that just had me begging for a bed.

Carlos didn't say anything he just held me he had to know the tears were flowing from my eyes but he said nothing he only brought his hand up and covered the side of my face that was visible holding me to him.

He never questioned what was wrong why I was in such a state he only offered what I needed and that was him holding me.

I wasn't sure what Matt, the other guy driving the car, or my brothers thought of my actions and right this second I didn't really care I only hoped that it wouldn't cost me the test but I was pretty sure my actions earlier had already cost me the test. Of course I wouldn't know until it was over if I had failed.

Right now I wasn't so sure that I would pass myself so I wouldn't blame him if he did in fact fail me I mean he had seen me practically fall all to pieces in that vehicle. He had seen me speed past the car to get here and speed through the compound until I found Carlos and then practically bowl him down because I couldn't get to him fast enough.

I hadn't explained anything in fact during the whole test there hadn't been a single word spoken.

Currently no one was saying anything everyone was quiet and I knew they were watching me I could feel their eyes on me even with mine closed and my face buried in Carlos's chest and neck I could feel their eyes on me.

It had been a few minutes that Carlos then spoke I guess my not letting go of him also set off alarms in him. "Babe" I knew this Babe meant are you okay but I waited.

He pulled back slightly and I fought the urge to pull him tighter against me to close the distance that he had created. "Babe, are you okay?"

No I wasn't okay. I wanted to scream that I wasn't okay. Did I look like I was okay? But I realized my anger at the moment wasn't at him it was at me. But even with that being the case I couldn't scream or yell at him not the man that was giving me everything I needed.

"Yeah I am okay. Just shaken I needed to feel your arms around me." I finally told him.

He squatted a little and pulled back more so he was looking me in the eyes and I felt embarrassed the longer I was standing here the more embarrassed I felt I felt stupid for the way I had acted, I felt like my actions just proved how un worthy I was of becoming a Rangeman.

I could feel the heat lighting up my face and I felt childish for my actions. I looked at him and said the only thing I could think to say. "I am sorry."

"Babe why are you sorry?" He asked me. Of course now he would ask me a question that I really didn't want to answer.

"Carlos, I failed the test when we were on the streets I completely panicked I let fear control me. My spidey senses were going off and I didn't know why I was panicked because I was in the vehicle with Matt with two other men I didn't know following me. I ended up pulling onto a street parking and I let them trap me. I got away and lost them but not before I completely panicked over the situation. I tried to trust Matt in the vehicle with me but my spidey senses were going off and I didn't know which one to believe or trust." I confessed to him, it all just sort of spilled out sounding as if it was one constant word instead of the many that it actually was.

"Babe its okay you are safe now." He told me pulling me closer to him.

Tears had sprung forward in my eyes at the thoughts of failing the test. I had been so set to pass the test but my panic and fear had controlled me there was no denying that.

"After I got away I circled back around to follow one of the cars and I saw the reason for my panic at least I think it was the reason Joe was there on the streets. I didn't see him the first time but when I was tailing the grey car I saw him. He didn't do anything or say anything because he never reached me. I just couldn't wait to get back here and feel your arms around me." I further confessed to him and all of my brothers that were standing around me.

I finally glanced at them half embarrassed of my action and confessions, and half ashamed of myself for failing the test that they had been training me, working with me, and believing in me that I could pass. I had let them all down including myself.

"Guys I am sorry." I told them looking at the for the first time since I got here. Lester spoke up first.

"Beautiful what makes you think you failed? Did Matt tell you that you failed?" He asked me and I shook my head no. He hadn't said that I failed.

"Well then Beautiful it isn't over until the fat lady sings and I don't see any fat ladies singing so I suggest you get back in that vehicle." He pointed to the vehicle where Matt was currently sitting he had never gotten out "and finish this fucking test. Show him what you are really made of Beautiful." Lester said smiling.

God there was a reason he was my best friend and there it was right there he wasn't going to let me claim defeat until I had in fact lost and been told I failed the test. I stepped back taking a deep breath centering myself.

I was going to go finish this test and fail it I may or pass it somehow by the sheer grace of god I was t least going to finish it.

Carlos spoke "proud of you Babe." Just those words alone had recharged me and along with what Lester had said I had my second wind to at least finish the test even if I didn't pass it I wasn't throwing in the towel now. I hugged Lester for telling me exactly what I needed to gain the strength I needed to pass the test and I stepped away from my brothers and got back in the vehicle with Matt.

Shutting the door I pulled the vehicle out and headed to the driving course within the compound now was time for driving in excess speed and the fast pick up that I had been training for.

I was now ready to finish this.

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