His Wicked Mouth by Jessica Mills

Author:Jessica Mills [Mills, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BrixBaxter Publishing
Published: 2020-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Garrett

My hands tightened on the wheel and I grimaced as the car door of the police cruiser opened.

“Not now,” I muttered under my breath.

Roy Hayes touched the back of my car with his fingertips and took a few steps closer to my window. I rolled it down with the button and waited for the inevitable shitstorm of smugness, holding my ID in my hand already. The registration was in the glove compartment, but I didn’t trust Roy Hayes not to open fire if I suddenly reached for it.

The Hayes family, and especially Roy, had had it in for the Montgomery family for years. Decades. A land dispute from a time before I was even born created a war between the two families, and the Hayes family decided to go into law enforcement to bully their way around. It wasn’t enough to harass my father, my brothers, and me. They harassed everyone in town. The Montgomery family, by nature of having enough money to pay for lawyers should we need them and absolutely no desire to have a Hayes tell us what to do, often were the only ones to buck them.

And no one had done more bucking than me.

I spent years throwing down at school and bars and anywhere I could get into trouble, and it was almost always Roy Hayes throwing me into cuffs and shoving me in a cell for the night. To be completely fair, sometimes, maybe even most times, I deserved to be locked up somewhere for the night. I caused my fair share, and maybe several other people’s worth, of causing trouble, and they were the Law. With the capital L.

But I hadn’t stopped there. I’d pissed in their jail cells, gotten out in the morning, got drunk in daylight right in the middle of Main Street, drove through a few of their fenceposts, and then said some things about their sister that would make a sailor blush. Or give me a handshake. Or both.

Everything I did to antagonize them was deserved though. These sons of bitches had been after us since Daddy successfully beat them in court, and ever since, they had been trying to exercise an unlawful amount of force on us and used their position as lawmen as their shield. It wasn’t an event when a Hayes boy and a Montgomery got into a fistfight in public. It was just another Friday night.

Roy made it to the window but kept his eyes sweeping over Cassidy’s truck, not paying any attention to me at all. It seemed like he was looking for anything he could that would let him write me a ticket or otherwise get me in trouble. Or rather Cassidy, since as far as he knew, he was driving the truck. I smiled. Boy was he in for a surprise.

“A little birdie told me,” Roy began coldly, “that you’ve been talking to my little sister, Cass. Care to explain what the hell that’s all about?”

The light of the flashlight swept up to my grinning face and he instantly recoiled, jumping back like he’d seen a ghost.

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