He threw my 9-year-old sister into freezing grey slush and laughed because he thought no one was watching. He didn't know that twenty combat veterans were sitting in the trucks across the street, watching his every move. He thought he was the alpha. He was about to find out that hurting a little girl doesn't make you tough—it makes you a target. CHAPTER 1 The dashboard thermometer of my beat-up Ford F-150 blinked strictly at 12 degrees, but out there in the Ohio wind, it had to feel like absolut