Chapter 14
Marcus woke up and glanced at the clock. It was nearly 5:00 in the morning. Sometime during the night, they’d made their way to the bedroom. Angie was curled up next to him, smiling slightly as she slept. He envied her; he had no idea how she could smile at a time like this.
He eased out of bed and started to pull on his clothes. He was quiet – what he was about to do, he didn’t want Angie involved in. He grabbed one of his rifles from the closet and set it next to the bed, leaning up against the nightstand. Marcus didn’t want to leave Angie, yet he didn’t want her involved in what he was about to do.
He’d been a sheriff for so long that it had become a part of him. Sometimes he couldn’t distinguish Marcus the person from Marcus the Sheriff. But all of that had gone
