" Get that son of a bitch to jail,” he said
through his teeth, “before I kill him!”
His eyes were testimony enough to the intent of the
statement. He’d forgotten law, duty, honor, everything, in
the grip of the worst fear he’d ever felt. If she died, he
would be lawless. Nothing would matter to him in the
world, ever again, except revenge. "

― Diana Palmer , Lawless (Long, Tall Texans #23)