“Yes,” he answered.
“Told you,” shesingsonged,beaming even brighter.
So much, he was blinded.
“Anyway, come and look.”She grabbed his hand and draggedhim toward the bar, all the way babbling.“So, I had my laptop, as you know.And Tyra came in and asked what I was doing, so I told her, and hers was in theoffice at the garage, so she grabbed it.Then your mom showed, and they liveclose, as you also know, so she popped back home to get hers.And finally,Elvira and Tabby showed, and Vira had hers in her car, so she went out and gotit.And I showed them how to Google up a storm, even though Vira knew how toGoogle even better than me, and we got a lot.But yougottalook at some of it.”
She stopped at the stool she’d left and looked up at him.
“Do you want to sit or…?”she asked.
“You sit,” he grunted.
She nodded, slid up on it, but did it being bossy.
“But yougottalook, so getclose.”
He got close all right.
He came up to her back and leaned into it as well as both ofhis hands in the bar, trapping her between his arms and putting his jaw to theside of her hair.
After he did this, all the women gave each other looks.
Georgie didn’t miss a beat.
“So, last night, before Jackson got handsy—”
Dutch growled.
She twisted her neck to look at him.“It wasn’t fun, butit’s over, honey.”
“We still haven’t talked about that.”
“I know, we’ll debrief, sometime later, but now,listen.”
He felt the men come up behind him as he nodded go toGeorgie.
She looked back to her laptop.
“So, okay, before Jackson proved he was a total dick, hetold me the neighbor’s name, which I think Eddie and Hank kept from us becauseI acted like a lunatic and I think they feared for her life.”
This was not an incorrect assumption.
“And?”he prompted.
“So, yeah, we got busy on Google and Facebook andwefound her.”
He was not certain what the excitement was about.
“And this is good because…?”
She turned to look at him again, her eyes dancing.“Becauseshe has friends.”
“Babe, not sure black-market bad guys have Facebook pages.”
“How about we check,” she suggested.“We’ve compiledpictures of all her male friends.Then we collectedotherinfo abouther Facebook friends so we’d be ready to roll if this dude is one of them.I’llclick through and you let me know if any of them are the ones you saw Carlylewith at that bar.”
It was worth a go, so he lifted his chin.
