The Relic Runner Origin Story Box Set by Ernest Dempsey

Author:Ernest Dempsey [Dempsey, Ernest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 138 Publishing
Published: 2020-08-27T22:00:00+00:00

Four

Cuchara

Tyler shoved the door open and stepped into the county police department building. He ignored the receptionist to his left and kept walking, leaving the woman licking her lips as she wondered what she should do.

"Um, Mr. Mumford?"

"The sheriff knows I'm coming, Amy," Tyler said without so much as a backward glance over his shoulder.

Amy pressed her lips together and nodded before returning to her computer work.

Tyler passed a couple of offices and a corridor leading into the holding tank, then stopped at a wooden door with a reinforced glass window in the center. A placard just below the window was imprinted with the name Sheriff Craig Sanders. The door was cracked open. Tyler took that as an invitation to enter.

He eased the door forward and tilted his head inside.

Sheriff Sanders was hunched over his desk, writing something with a black ink pen on what looked like an official form.

"You're not exactly making things easy for me, Tyler," he said without looking up from the desk.

He finished scribbling on the page and slid it to the side. Tyler stepped into the room and closed the door shut with a click. He shifted sideways to one of the twenty-five-year-old vinyl chairs opposite the cop and plopped into it.

"We weren't doing anything wrong, Sheriff," Tyler defended. "Just having a few beers, killing some bottles."

"With a rifle that some people would deem an assault weapon."

Tyler snorted and rolled his eyes. "You and I know better than that. It's a hunting rifle, Sheriff. Plain and simple."

Sanders leaned back and laced his fingers together atop the desk. "Sure it is, Tyler. But perception counts for a lot these days. Always has, but more now than ever. You know that."

"I do." Tyler slouched in the chair with his hands folded in his lap. Back in his military days, he never would have considered sitting that way. But these people didn't know his past. No one in Cuchara did. The best they knew, he was some rich guy who hit it big with an online business and decided he wanted to buy a mountain for himself.

Along with not knowing his real identity, the townsfolk also had no clue about what he'd been up to for the last eight months—accruing a vast amount of wealth with some well-played investments in the stock market. He doubted any of his other Delta Force teammates fared so well with their share, not that they needed to. The amount of money they made from the German's purchase of the Iraqi loot was more than enough to sustain someone for life. Billy, however, had always known that if he really wanted to be safe, he'd have to grow that initial cash pile into something more substantial.

When he arrived in Cuchara under the alias of Tyler Mumford, his net worth was a whopping thirty million, far more than any individual in the entire county as far as he knew. With such a hefty collection of assets behind him, Tyler set things in motion to

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