Settled on a Mountain: Love is a Cabin Series Book 3 by Jacque Jacobs

Author:Jacque Jacobs [Jacobs, Jacque & Jacobs, Jacque]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Drellag Press, LLC
Published: 2022-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Help May Not Be Enough

Susan Thomas was the senior deputy in the sheriff’s department, so she was on call when additional support was needed. She had just returned from a short lunch in the break room when her mobile rang. She did not recognize the number.

“Please, come help Lottie, now. Please.” The woman’s voice was a low whisper. The line went dead.

“Lottie? Lottie? Who is …” Deputy Thomas remembered that Lottie was Jason Kirk’s mother. She called dispatch. “I’m on my way to the Kirk residence on Dickson Road. Send backup and alert an ambulance to be ready if I need them.” She heard the dispatcher say, “10-4.”

Within two minutes of receiving the call, Susan was out the back door and in her SUV. She flicked on her flashing lights and siren as she headed to the Kirk home, trying to figure out who called. She knew it wasn’t Lottie herself, and she finally realized it had to be Mrs. Brown across the street. Susan let out a big sigh; she was relieved to know giving Lottie her card had paid off. Lottie gave it to Mrs. Brown: two abused women helping each other.

As she turned onto Dickson Road, she saw two deputies were already there. One deputy had his weapon drawn, and the other was positioned behind their vehicle with his weapon drawn. She turned off her siren but left her lights flashing.

Mr. Kirk was sitting in a chair under the tree with his wife on her knees in front of him. He had a handful of her hair and was pulling on it with his left hand. He had a baseball bat in his right hand.

“Sir,” the deputy in the yard spoke calmly. “Put the bat down. Nobody needs to get hurt here.”

“Ain’t putting the damn bat down ‘til this woman tells me where my boy is, or I beat it outta her.” Mr. Kirk’s voice was a bellow.

Deputy Thomas knew she should not intervene with a man who was abusive to his wife unless it was life and death. The presence of a female police officer would likely just irritate him. She said a silent prayer of gratitude for her short hair and the tinted windows on the SUV. The deputies knew she’d let them handle it, and more importantly they knew she’d back them up.

The deputy behind his SUV spoke up. “Hey, buddy, ain’t no woman worth going to jail for, no matter how annoying they are. Right?”

“Might be worth it. ‘bout time I taught her a lesson or two.”

“This ain’t the day, buddy. We’d have to do some police work that we really don’t want to do. You get my meaning?”

Lottie Kirk was shrinking as close to the ground as she could and not have her husband pull the hair out of her head.

Deputy Thomas was trying to figure out if Lottie wanted to give the deputy room to aim his weapon and take out her husband. What Lottie couldn’t know was that this particular deputy regularly won marksman competitions among law enforcement officers in the state.

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