Mick was upset too. This was the last thing he would have ever thought about Katrina.Katrina? It wasn’t possible!
Or was it?
She did pay out three million dollars.
She did call him for help.
If it was bullshit, why would she go to those lengths? Why did she cry in his arms?
He looked at Javon. “Tell us what happened,” he ordered him.
But Javon was shaking his head again. “I told you I don’t know what happened. Trina never told me none of that. She called me and we cried together the night it happened. But it happened.”
“That’s bullshit,” Reno said calmly. “That’s bullshit.”
“That’s all I know,” Javon said.
“Do you still have the photos and the video?” Mick asked, and Reno looked at him.
But he shook his head. “When she paid them and they gave her that video, she destroyed it.”
Mick stared at him. “What about this new round of extortion? What evidence they showed? The same thing?”
“Photos this time.”
“Do you have those?”
He shook his head. “I destroyed them after I showed them to Tree.”
Reno resented him calling his wife by her nickname. For some reason that bothered him.
“When did she supposedly do this thing?” Mick asked him.
“Long time ago. Back in Reno, Nevada when she was dating this guy named Scotty Labaray, and I was one of his henchmen. She was young and so was I. Neither one of us knew what we were doing. Just two country-ass kids trying to make it in this world. That was us.”
“Who else knew about it?” asked Mick.
Javon had to think about that. Then he shook his head. “Nobody that I can think of. Except . . .”
“Except what?”
“She did say something about Latoya.”
Reno looked at him. “Who’s Latoya?” Mick asked.
“She was a friend of hers. I don’t know the details, but I remember her mentioning that name that night.”
“What’s her last name?”
Javon was searching his memory. And shaking his head. “Munson or Dunson. A name like that. I just mainly knew her as Latoya.”
“Do you know where she’s living now?”
“I know she left Reno, Nevada shortly after it all went down. I remember that. But I don’t recall anything about where she went. But I do remember Trina mentioning her name that night.”
That was better than nothing, Mick thought.
But Reno? It was a bunch of nothingness to him because he knew it wasn’t true. He would have to hear it straight from Trina’s mouth, and nobody else’s, for him to ever believe for a second that anything Javon just told them was true.
