Beth's Absolution: A small town, opposites attract, suspense novel (Twisted Willow) by Maria Secoy

Author:Maria Secoy [Secoy, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: All Write Well
Published: 2023-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Doug

While most people celebrated Fridays as the end of their workweek, Doug saw it as an ominous start to the weekend. There was a much lower risk of getting punched in the face while breaking up a bar fight on a Tuesday, and most of the local wackos slept through Monday. Weekends were the worst. Hell, even on Sundays, the good Christians of the county were known to let a bake sale dispute dissolve into hair-pulling, slap fights that required he or his deputies intervene. He’d gotten the last weekend off, so the next three would be spent responding to whatever shenanigans his constituents could come up with.

Doug’s favorite and least favorite weekend had been when Gary and the Piepers were arguing over rights to a pasture their families had shared for generations, which wasn’t owned by either of them but was leased from the Smiths. Gary had gotten so mad that he’d opened the Pieper’s goat pen before dawn on Sunday. Unfortunately, Donna Pieper had taken advantage of the dry July heat to use her clothesline instead of her electric dryer. By the time she’d gone out to collect the family’s clothes to get everyone ready for church, the goats had turned her best dress into a mini skirt.

Not only had Doug and several other officers spent most of the day chasing goats around in the July heat, but while they’d been doing that, Stan had hiked up and over the ridge to Gary’s property where he’d tried to let the cows loose. When the lazy beasts weren’t interested in running amok, Stan had called Gary out to witness as he threatened to execute one of the cows if Gary didn’t admit to letting loose the goats and agree to let the Piepers have full rights to the pasture.

By the end of the day, Doug had two men in lock-up; the Smiths had decided not to let anyone lease their land anymore; and the entire sheriff’s department was in desperate need of a shower. Judy had been forced to order them all new uniform pants, too. The only upside was that it had been enough to convince everyone to make the switch to cargo pants as the standard uniform official. They were just so much more practical than the stupid, old polyester khakis.

Doug didn’t usually mind the business of the weekends, though he hated when it came with nasty car accidents. Usually, it kept him busy. Tonight, he couldn’t focus on the job though. Beth had texted him that morning to say everything at her place was fine. Apparently, they had visitors show up a day early, but Beth assured him everything was okay.

He hated to admit it, but Doug wanted nothing more than to rip his uniform off and go see her for himself. Screw the job and the law. If those bikers were doing stupid shit that had the potential to hurt Beth in any way, he’d bury them himself. At least Mac was with him all this weekend.

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