Good Guys Wear Black by Lizbeth Selvig

Author:Lizbeth Selvig [Selvig, Lizbeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062370143
Google: JQB0AwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 23287191
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

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DEWEY COULD SEE Rose struggling like a caged lioness in her seat. He could feel it through her skin and in the rigidity of her fingers. Anger wafted off her, and he wasn’t sure he should stop the car. Maybe it was best if he let her have this look and then took her home to process it.

“Let me out.” She took the decision away from him with a tight, heated demand.

“It won’t do you any good to antagonize them now.”

“It didn’t do them any good to antagonize me.”

“Rose, listen. Why don’t we see if Sam Baker is up? Or one of the council members. Or Chief Hewett. Maybe the group is in violation of some kind of law. This is library property, and they shouldn’t be trespassing.”

Her steeled eyes showed she thought about his suggestion—for a microsecond. “Look, there’s Pat Dunn, and there’s Brian Duncan. They’re about to find out what happens when you piss off the librarian. Stop the car and let me out.”

“I’m not going to do that until I see you’re rational. You’re too smart to jump out half-cocked—”

“Dewey . . .” She sounded like approaching thunder.

He dropped her hand and maneuvered into a spot along the curb. Unease gurgled in his stomach. She launched herself out of the car before he’d shut off the engine.

“Hey, I’m coming with you.”

“Fine.”

She marched directly past the half-dozen people planting signs with the intensity of master gardeners and found Pat directing traffic like a construction boss.

“Would you like to explain exactly what’s going on here?” Rose demanded.

“Good evening, Rose. I think it’s obvious we’re organizing a protest.”

“You’re organizing a mob scene—this is extremely inappropriate.”

“Excuse me?” Dewey thought Pat sounded openly hostile now. “You are hardly one to lecture about what’s inappropriate. We’ve asked you as politely as we can to honor the traditions of our town. You’ve come blowing in here and have thumbed your nose at everything we hold to be important. You’re the one not being appropriate.”

“Do we live in the same country?” Rose countered. “How can you be serious? The United States was founded on the principle of free speech. You cannot simply ban a book because you don’t like it. Besides, there are procedures. I showed you what they are.”

“Of course we can. If the town votes to keep something off the shelves, then off the shelves it will stay. This is a campaign to show people who’ve been perfectly happy with the way things have been run for a hundred years that newcomers can’t come in and run roughshod over our town.”

“Roughshod?” Rose’s face flushed beneath an outward expression of calm. “Just because nobody has ever brought this town into the twenty-first century doesn’t mean I’m running roughshod because I’m trying to do it now. I’d like you to remove these signs and act like the thinking adult I believe you are. What kind of example are you setting for our children? For our adults who love to read? That one

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