Page 29 of Lawless Ride

“I wonder how far away their office is,” said Harlan.

“Molly will know. We’ll ask her when we get to the shop.”

“It’s Saturday. She won’t be there. That’s why we have to drive down to feed the prisoners.”

“Right. I’m not thinking straight because the girls mentioned Annie-girl coming for a visit and now I’m off-center.”

Harlan laughed. “Your part-time wife make you nervous?”

“You bet she does. She’s gonna make you nervous too. She has that effect on the male population.”

“Don’t matter the age?” Harlan was snorting. “I think she’d be kind of old for me.”

“Nope, nine to ninety. You can kiss your ass goodbye.”

After Harlan stopped laughing, he said, “We need to look shit up. I guess we could do it on Molly’s computer while we’re in the office.”

“She has a security password,” I said. “Billy always looked everything up for me at home, but he took his laptop with him to rehab. I guess we need one of our own. If we had one at the ranch, you could take over our research.”

Harlan grinned. “Never had me a laptop.”

“We need a store around here that sells them.”

“Electronics store in Cut Bank. Saw one on the main street.”

“Never noticed it, but no matter, we’ll get us one this weekend for sure.”

I unlocked the back door and while Harlan went in to brew a pot of coffee for the prisoners, I ran across the road to the diner to get the breakfast specials. We’d had Jonah Hacking for so long, I tended to forget he was sitting in the last cell. Must ask Molly when his trial was coming up. Had to be soon.

When I got back to the shop and delivered the food to the prisoners, Tanya Boyd was crying.

“I don’t see why I have to stay in jail. I haven’t done anything.”

“You were the last person to see Tory Masters alive, and since you don’t want to tell me what you were doing in his house the day he died, you will continue to be my number one suspect.”

“But I didn’t kill him.”

“Are you going to tell me who did?”

“I don’t know.”

“Tell me what you were doing in his house the day he died.”

“I can’t.”

“There you go. Enjoy your breakfast, Mrs. Boyd.”

Sunburst Acres Trailer Park.

Before going back to the ranch, Harlan and I took a run up to Sunburst Acres to see what Grant Andrews and his sister, Josie Masters were up to.

Two pickup trucks and Josie’s Subaru were parked in the driveway and by the sounds of it, a big drug party was in progress inside the trailer. Music was blaring and we knocked, but they couldn’t hear us.

I tried the door, and it wasn’t locked. We walked in and I smiled. Fentanyl, cocaine, meth, weed, and heroin scattered in profusion on the kitchen table and the counters. Drugs were everywhere and even in the air. The trailer reeked of weed. Whatever your drug of choice, they had it. Take your pick.

Grant, Josie and two more drug buddies were having themselves a time.

“Y’all are under arrest. Down on your knees. Hands on your heads.”

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