Bad Love_Cowboy Romance by Lola Rebel

Author:Lola Rebel [Rebel, Lola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heartthrob Publishing
Published: 2018-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty One

"Well, I'd like to thank you at least for bringing the man along who brought the accusations. I can tell you that Mr. Riley in particular has been responsible for harassing several of my deputies in their duties, and he simply won't listen to reason on the subject of his supposed claims." Sheriff Barnes sat forward. "There simply isn't any basis to his claim that his cattle are being stolen. He brought up north a herd of barely fifty head of cattle, barely six months old. Who would want to steal those cattle?"

The Deputy's face remained neutral. "What do you say to his claim of a witness who says that he's been offered a deal on stolen cattle?"

"I'm sorry to say that there's simply nothing to those claims. I personally rode up to Caspar, and asked after the man. They say he's a drunk, nothing like a ranch owner."

Glen's face darkened. He didn't like any of this. In fact, it downright stunk. Something was going on, and as much as he had hoped to get his hands clean of the trouble that he'd faced so far, it seemed less and less likely that he was going to find anything without digging in deeper.

"That's very interesting news to me."

"We spoke to the man anyways—he doesn't tell the story anything like Mr. Riley here tells it. Mr. Beck said that he, Mr. Riley, and the hussy he's living in sin with, were going around asking anyone who would tell them to name Mr. Rod Dawson as the man who had stolen their cattle, even offering to pay."

Glen grit his teeth but remained silent.

The conversation continued, but he stopped listening. Each bit a lie, compounded on the last part, with just enough of a ring of truth that Glen would be lucky if the deputy didn't walk right out now.

He stayed, though. It was infuriating, but he stayed. There was nothing else to do, after all. If he left, then he wouldn't even be able to hear the lies that Barnes told, and he would be totally unprepared to respond to them afterward.

Glen let out an unsteady breath. The remark about Catherine was uncalled for. Let the criticism of him, of his lifestyle—things that Jim Barnes couldn't possibly have known about Glen's history with gambling, mixed into absurd tales of gambling debts to men he'd never had the displeasure to meet—all of it could come and he would deal with it gladly.

But it was only the star on Barnes's chest that kept Glen from putting a fist through the man's nose. After what the man was saying now, right in front of his face, he wouldn't piss on the man if he was on fire. And what made it worse, was from the look on the Sheriff's face, he knew it, too, and it didn't make one lick of difference.

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