Pierce by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Military, Fiction
ISBN: 9781773361468
Publisher: Valley Publishing, Limited
Published: 2019-04-08T18:30:00+00:00

Pierce barely managed to get connected to Pete when the bullet came through the door. From the corner of the living room, he stared at the three men outside.

Pete called out, “What am I hearing?”

“Someone just shot through your door,” Pierce said, “barely missed your brother. He was trying to run out with another duffel bag full of electronics, like your laptop and your monitor.”

Pete started swearing again. “That’ll be Jed,” he warned. “Something is wrong with him in the head. You better watch yourself. Somehow you’ll have to disarm him, but he’s got a houseful of guns.”

“Yeah, well, it’s not like any law enforcement will be of much help around here. Hedi is here, but she’s just one against three,” he said. He didn’t want to discount Hedi’s help, but Jed wouldn’t listen to her any more today than he did the last time. Jed didn’t respect authority, and he certainly didn’t respect women, so Hedi was a double target.

“And he’ll shoot you if he sees you,” Pete said. “Hedi’s dad needs to come.”

“Maybe. Call the current sheriff please,” Pierce asked.

“I will, but it won’t do no good,” Pete said. “That sheriff is useless.”

“Okay, but you and I both need to call regardless.” He hung up the phone from Pete and made a 9-1-1 call to dispatch, telling them exactly what was happening. “If that lousy sheriff of yours doesn’t get down here with his deputies, at least this recorded call will be produced when the higher-ups appear, investigating why he didn’t do anything. And he’ll get charged with manslaughter himself for not stepping in.”

The dispatcher gasped. “I don’t know who you are, but the sheriff will obviously find out.”

“Go ahead and tell him. And your dispatch call had better be recorded. If it’s not, you can bet there’ll be hell to pay.” And he hung up.

He sent Badger a message, letting him know what was going down. This was getting ugly, and it was getting ugly very, very quickly. There was a short and hard response. Something about you do what you need to do. This needs to hit the news stations. And not a bad idea at that. He pocketed his phone and walked to the front door, opened it a crack and called out, “Well, Jed, here we are again, huh?” He shoved the door open and motioned for Ross to step out.

“I’m not walking out there. Jed will shoot me,” Ross cried out.

“Jed, Ross wants to leave. You going to let him?”

“Sure enough,” Jed said. “Ross, come on out here.”

But Ross shook his head. “Don’t make me go out there. I tell you that he’ll kill me.”

“What do I care?” Pierce said. “It’ll save us a whole pile of legal fees.”

Ross just looked at him, then walked to the couch and sat down. “I’m not leaving,” he said. “Outside is crazy land. Inside you guys might be crazy too, but you just might live through this. Out there, there’s no way I will.”

“Sorry about that, Jed,” Pierce yelled.

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