Sekhet by K K Weakley

Author:K K Weakley [Weakley, K K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Wolf Publishing
Published: 2020-06-15T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

A Gift amongst Friends

That night, Chief Jack Budrow fell into his bed following a long, staggering, rather astonishing day. After thirty years on the force, for the most part in Skagit County, where he had thought he had seen it all, his mind had been blown today. A dead girl meandering up the sidewalk, clearly distraught and crying for her parents, was definitely something he had never seen in Twisp before. Or anywhere.

He had witnessed murders, he had been part of that area within the crime scene world, and while he had at one stage in his early youth basked in the crazy, fast-paced world of death and criminality, there was a special, secret reason he had accepted the position of Police Chief of Twisp, although one too many persons knew it.

Every morning, he would park the town cruiser, stroll into one of the coffee shops, and converse with the locals. The old-timers, who knew bits and pieces about everyone who strode past – the free-spirited individuals who lived as one with nature, the working class folks, and the high-class, who liked a certain coffee establishment. But although there was such a distinctive difference within the neighboring citizens, they all blended together wonderfully. That was something Chief Budrow at no time missed about Seattle, where people kept those they considered unusual at arm’s length and away from what is deemed normal living.

Budrow liked for the small town community feeling of union with its inhabitants. Would he ever suggest it as the place to be to a young and up-and-coming officer who was out to get himself a name for himself? No, he wouldn’t, even though he believed with all that was in him that the quality of life was so much more important than the quantity that is gained over the years of kicking ass and taking names. Small town living was not for young newcomers.

Today had been the wake-up call he hadn’t wanted. Budrow didn’t have the resources or manpower to deal with what he feared was going on in his town right now. While the normal tourist trade that came their way three months of the year, hunters seeking to fill their freezers, was usually met with a welcoming chat and information they may or may not find noteworthy, in this moment, Budrow couldn’t help but wish it would be over without exposing him.

Following what could only be described as the nastiest forest fire of their generation, the hunters had dwindled, due to the lack of animals. The deer didn’t frolic in the fields this year, and as Budrow was overhearing many a man and a few women complain, it had turned into a sad state of affairs. Hunters leaving their own towns and homes to enjoy what Twisp and the surrounding areas had to bestow upon them was something the town had thrived on for years. It was, to some degree, what the locals had come to depend on, financially.

A scandal like this, coming at the

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