I returned my attention to the note to distract myself from the inevitable confrontation with my sheriff boyfriend, though just reading the patched-together scraps of shredded paper meant I was taking steps that would likely end in him grinding his teeth and sighing a lot. Oh well, I could live with him being annoyed with me and figured at some point he'd be asking me for input anyway, right?

I skimmed the contents, taking in the gist if not the full details the first ...