“I'm leaving soon, anyway.”
Macy, who was now sitting on the other side of Cubby's desk, looked over her shoulder at Ethan and saw the flash of pain at Brad's words.
“So what brings you three in here? You come to talk some more about that Buchanan land business Jake told me about this morning?”
“Nope. Macy—”
“Maybe you should let Macy tell him,” Brad interrupted his brother, “seeing as she has all the details.”
Macy usually let people talk for her; it was just the way things had gone since the business with Brian. Her friends liked to protect her, and she let them.
“No, it's okay—”
“You took the call, Macy, so you tell the sheriff the details.” Brad didn't raise his voice, he simply encouraged her.
“I got another call from Brian, and this is the fourth one now.”
“Four?” Katie said. “I thought you told us a few months ago it was only one?”
“It was, and now it's four.”
“Okay, and the only reason you're telling us now is because these two were with you when you got this one?”
“Katie.” Macy sighed. “I'm telling you now, so let it go.”
The McBride eyes narrowed, but she simply nodded.
“I'll think about it, but first how about you tell us what he said to you?”
She did, relaying everything she remembered.
“Each time he's threatened you by saying he's coming for you?”
Macy nodded, and then swallowed because her throat felt suddenly dry. Damn Brian Delray.
“Do you say anything back, Macy?”
“Yes, I tell him he doesn't scare me and that he… he can't hurt me, or that he's pathetic.”
“Nice work, girl.” Katie smiled at her, then reached across the desk and squeezed her hand. “You got backbone now, don't you forget that ever, okay?”
Macy nodded. She did have backbone, even if sometimes Brian challenged that.
“And he said you can change your numbers but he can still get to you?”
Macy had thought about Brian’s words on the way to the Lair, while she was safe, wedged in a sexy Texan sandwich, and had an idea how he was getting her number. “I’m not sure if this is what’s happening, but his sister, Mel, is like this computer IT whizz kid.”
“And you think she’d help Brian?”
“I’d like to think she wouldn’t but she didn’t like me very much for taking her big brother away. Brian, however, she idolized.”
“It’s possible she could track down your cell number if she was clever with that kind of thing.”
“I’ve only changed it three times. One after he left, two after the first call, and then again last week.”
“But that’s not working, Macy,” Katie said.
“I'll contact the prison, and see if we can get this stopped?”
