“You’re sure it was a man’s hand?” Lawson asked and I locked eyes with him.
Then I said softly, “It wasn’t Ginger.”
Another squeeze of the fingers from MM but this time they relaxed.
Lawson sat back and studied me.
“Your sister?” he asked.
“I know she’s in trouble. Bad trouble. And I know that’s why you’re here and eight uniform cops are here for what is normally not likely a priority, all hands on deck call.”
I heard a noise come from MM that sounded like a manly, amused, deep but short chuckle and I looked up at him to see he was grinning. No teeth but he was grinning enough that both dimples had popped out.
When I looked back at Lawson, he had a small, one-sided smile thing going.
“We try to do our best,” he muttered.
“Well, I appreciate it,” I smiled back. “And I hate to disappoint you but Ginger Kidd was not in the vicinity tonight or, if she was, she heard the sirens and took off. Even when she was a kid, she didn’t like cops. I always loved cops, went right up and talked to them, made friends. She ran a mile. We should have known.”
“She did that?” Lawson asked, looking amused.
“Often, first time she was six.”
His face changed as realization dawned and he stated, “You’re not joking.”
I shook my head. “Nope.”
“That was likely a good sign of future trouble,” Lawson remarked.
“Don’t get her started on her Barbies,” MM put in, my body jerked and my head shot back to look at him.
Uh... what? What, what, what? How did he know about the Barbies?
My eyes narrowed on him.
“Do you know about your sister’s troubles?” Lawson asked and I tore my eyes away from MM and looked at him.
“No, except I know she owes the Chaos Motorcycle Club a lot of money and that would be a lot, a lot but they already know I can’t help them out with that because I’m not tight with my sister and I don’t have that kind of money to give to them in order to get her fat out of the fryer.”
“They do?”
“I had a chat with Tack today. He’s aware that the Kidd cupboards are bare or at least I don’t have two plus million stashed somewhere.”
“You had a chat with Tack today,” Lawson repeated and something about him had changed and not in a good way. He looked pissed.
“Um… yeah,” I answered.
Lawson’s eyes flicked to MM then back to me. “You don’t know anything else about what’s happening with your sister?”
“No, except that there’s more but I don’t know what it is. And I don’t want to know. I officially disowned her today. Therefore, officially, she is no longer my sister.”
This garnered another squeeze from MM but Lawson was watching me.
“So you wouldn’t have any idea who might come visit you tonight?” Lawson went on.
I shook my head. “No idea. All I know is, they didn’t take anything and they came right to my bedroom. Make of that what you will.”
Lawson stared at me. Then he did it some more. Then his jaw got tight. Then a muscle jumped in his cheek, his gaze lifted to MM, he took in a breath and shook his head. Then his eyes locked with mine.