Vengeance Before Virtue by Tyler Porter

Author:Tyler Porter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, mystery, suspense, psychological thriller, action, action adventure
Publisher: Tyler Porter
Published: 2020-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13: Two Sides of the Law

“Show me your hands, Matt!” Demsey yelled as he carefully approached the vehicle one slow step at a time. “O’Bannon! Now! Show me your fucking hands! Put them out the window and do not move them!”

Matt relented and slowly stretched his hands out the window with his fingers spread wide to show that they were empty.

“Place them slowly onto the door, but keep them in sight!” Matt did as he was told.

Demsey finally arrived at the window, but stayed four or five feet back and did not return his gun to its holster. His face was angry, jaw set.

“What did I tell you the first day you were back and I found you in handcuffs?” Matt did not respond. Old habits die hard, and one of his was to go silent during interrogations, having been through too many of them. “I told you to steer clear of the bullshit! Didn’t I!? I told you that I was fucking done doing favors for you! I told you the next time I find you in my cruiser, you were done. And I damn well meant it!”

“I haven’t done anything wrong, Sheriff,” Matt said trying to remain calm in hopes that it would have a similar effect on Sheriff Demsey.

“Don’t lie to me! After everything I have done for your sorry ass, don’t you dare goddamn lie to me!”

“Sheriff, I have never lied to you. There have been times when I’ve refused to answer a question that you asked, but I have never, ever lied to you.”

“Really? Let’s test that little statement, shall we? What happened to your back window, Matt?” He waited for an answer, each passing second seeming to grow more furious. “Is that one too hard? Fine! Let’s try a different one. Why is your back window shattered Matt? Why are there bullet holes in the back of your car?”

“It isn’t what you think.”

“Don’t give me that shit! I am done falling for that bullshit! That’s always your answer, that it’s not what I think. Well let me explain real clear what I think. I think that I got reports on your parents’ street of gun shots. I think that when I got there, I found an empty house, your dad’s car missing, shattered glass in the street which I now know came from your car, and you know what else I found?”

This time it wasn’t that Matt didn’t want to answer⸺he just couldn’t. He couldn’t find the words. He hadn’t stopped thinking about his mother’s crumpled corpse, but he had yet to say it out loud. And apparently he wasn’t going to be able to start now. He met Demsey’s eyes with his and realized that in the all the years that he’d known the Sheriff, and through all the time they’d spent together when he was growing up, he had never seen the man cry⸺not until that moment.

“You can’t even say it!” Demsey screamed as he used his shirt sleeve to clear the moisture from his cheeks.

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