The Cowboy and the Doctor by Eve Gaddy

Author:Eve Gaddy [Gaddy, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2017-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Sam brought Shadow downstairs and put him in the mudroom with food, water and blankets for his bed. He was clearly unhappy to be left behind, but he accepted it. Then she wrote a quick note for Glory in case they weren’t back by the time she came to work.

Dylan tried his best to talk her out of going with him. But it was obvious he didn’t really know what he was doing. “Have you done this before?” Sam asked him.

“What, helped out a friend? Of course.”

“That’s not what I meant and you know it. What are you going to do once you pick her up?”

“Take her someplace safe. A women’s shelter.”

“Do you know how to get in touch with one?”

“No, but I’ll figure it out.”

“She wouldn’t call the cops. How do you know she’ll go to a shelter?”

“I don’t, goddamn it. I’ll bring her here if she won’t.”

“For how long? She can’t stay here indefinitely. What if her husband figures out where she is?”

“He won’t. There’s no reason he would.”

“Oh, Dylan, you know that’s not true. This is Marietta. Someone will figure it out and eventually he’ll hear about it.”

He glared at her. “Shit, Sam, what do you want me to do?”

“I want you to quit arguing and let me come with you. I can help her, Dylan.”

“That’s not the point. The point is what will it do to you? Do you think I’ve forgotten why you moved to Marietta in the first place?”

It’s time you get over it. Think of all the women and children you helped and not the few cases that had a bad outcome.

Yes, but murder is a bit worse than a bad outcome.

Stop. Stop thinking that way.

She put her hand on his arm. “I need to do this. It’s time I dealt with it instead of running away.”

“Sam, no one, especially not me, would blame you for not wanting to get involved in this kind of situation again. Don’t put yourself through it.”

“It’s not up for argument. I’m going.” She put her coat on.

Admitting defeat, Dylan shrugged, put his coat on and went out the back door with Sam following.

Sam used the time in the car to call the hospital for a phone number for the women’s shelter in Billings. She was able to talk to someone from the shelter and arrange to bring Dylan’s friend to them.

“The shelter has room for her,” Sam told Dylan after hanging up.

Dylan snorted. “Now we just have to convince her that’s her best option.”

“Do you know how long this has been going on? Is this the first you’ve heard of it?”

“I’m not sure but I wouldn’t be surprised if the son of a bitch has been hitting her since they married. That was four or five years ago. He managed to cut her off from her friends and family by the time they’d been married a year. I saw her in town a few months ago, but it was by chance. She looked like shit, too. Besides the black eye she looked totally beat down.

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