Mac patiently listened to her rant. He didn’t blame her for ranting. Not at all.
“City police, the ones you’d call for enforcing the restraining order?” Angie asked.
Carole nodded. “Not Sheriff Norton. He won’t do a blasted thing to help a woman who needs help. That’s why he was sounding sympathetic. He is sympathetic. And he’s also so pro-guns he won’t bust my husband even when he shoots at a deputy.”
“You heard about that before we got here,” Mac observed.
She laughed. “Small town,” she repeated. “The deputy is married to a high school friend. He called me to tell me the papers were served. But then he told me what happened. He was shook up.”
“Don’t blame him,” Mac said. “Did he think your husband was truly aiming at him or was he firing in their direction to get them to leave?”
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