Chapter 42: SHERIFF

"I want that Lawton boy, and I want him I mean yesterday. Son of a bitch thinks he can talk to me like 'at? We'll see about this."

"Sir, we don't have any probable cause to bring him in; there's no evidence..."

"Well fuck it, Thompson, you find some, or it's your ass." I huffed my way towards my office and slammed the door shut. I was heading straight for a heart attack if something wasn't done.

That idiot Royce had made a mess of things before getting his ass blown to hell and back. And now, instead of enjoying my retirement, I find myself two steps away from either death or incarceration.

I know that the Daniels boy had something to do with the murder, but I have no proof, and the idiot people of the town would be up in arms if I touched a hair on his head on account of they all liked his daddy and momma and thought he was justified.

I couldn't call in outside help because that would just open up a whole other set of troubles that I didn't need. Not to mention the fact that we'r