Into Dust by B.J. Daniels

Author:B.J. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2016-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“WE NEED TO talk to you.”

Sheriff Frank Curry recognized the voice as that of Senator Buckmaster Hamilton. Frank raked a hand through his graying blond hair. “We?”

“Russell Murdock and I.”

Frank blinked. He couldn’t imagine what the two of them were doing together. Whatever it was, he was betting it wasn’t good.

“Shall we come by your house or would you prefer to meet us?” Buck asked.

The sheriff had just gotten home, barely had hung his Stetson up on the hook by the door and was about to open a beer and relax. He glanced over at Lynette, who, not surprisingly, was all ears. “Tell me where you are and I’ll come to you,” he said, reaching for his hat.

He heard his wife put the beer back in the fridge and turn down whatever she had going in the oven. She’d been married to him long enough already that she’d learned that his job was never eight to five. Another reason retirement had its appeal. He felt often lately that he was getting too old for this.

Disconnecting, he called to the kitchen, “I’ll be back as soon as I can.”

Lynette peered through the doorway. “Everything all right?” Which was her way of asking what was going on.

“Everything is fine. I shouldn’t be long.” He turned and left, his crows calling goodbye to him as he climbed into his patrol SUV and headed for Russell Murdock’s.

* * *

BUCK WAS TOO anxious to sit. Russell had poured them another drink and then put the bottle away as if afraid they might finish it off.

At the sight of headlights coming up the road, he tried to relax, but it was impossible. He knew Russell thought he was wasting his time talking to the sheriff about this.

“He isn’t going to arrest the man, if that’s what you’re hoping,” the rancher had said.

“No, but at least he can talk to him, let this...doctor know that we’re aware he’s in town and visiting Sarah,” Buck had argued.

“Wouldn’t it make more sense to talk to Sarah yourself?”

Buck had sighed. “Do you really think she is going to tell either of us the truth?” He’d seen that Russell thought she might tell him. That didn’t help his already furious disposition. He wished he hadn’t come here on impulse, and yet he had needed someone to talk to who understood. He was just glad that Sarah hadn’t been lying by omission only to him. She’d kept her former fiancé in the dark as well.

“I heard you bought Sarah a ring,” Russell said from the corner where he’d been sitting, thinking and waiting.

Buck shot him a look as he heard the sheriff park and get out. “I want my family back.”

Russell nodded, but the truth hung between them. Sarah wasn’t the woman Buck had married. That family he’d had more than twenty-three years ago was gone the minute she’d driven her car into the icy Yellowstone River hoping to die. Or hoping to escape. Either way, she’d been gone and Buck’s wife hadn’t come back.

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