The Leader by Dustin Stevens

“Six quarts is way more than necessary for something like that,” Reed said. “It’s not just overkill...”

Letting his voice trail off, he blinked several times, bringing himself back into the moment with the realization that it was a statement.

Of what, he had not a clue.

The call was not unlike several others that Columbus Police and state Bureau of Criminal Investigation Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner Billie had received over the years. A domestic squabble involving a man armed with liquid courage from a night at the bar, convinced that his girlfriend was having an affair with her boss. Unable to be talked down, he had grabbed a gun from the nightstand and stormed off, intent on meting out his own form of justice.