The Sheriff's Fatal Choice

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They took me. Two men. Zip ties. A warehouse.

My husband, the sheriff, sent every deputy he had to save his first love. She'd swallowed a bottle of pills. She was dying.

I didn't call him.

I let them hurt me.

Last time, I called. He came. His team took the kidnappers down. I walked out alive.

The next morning, Hannah Brooks was dead. She'd called him seventeen times while he was saving me. He never answered.

He told me he didn't regret it. I was his wife. I was carrying his child. Savi