Mitch Lawson was about doing what he could to make thingsright, not the other way around.
Freaking Lottie like that wasn’t in his DNA and knowing hedid gutted him.
But that was on Mo.
She’d shown her level of fear that first night.
He should have known something like this would happen andthe second Mitch and Slim showed, he should have been on that.
“I know you didn’t,” Mo replied.“She knows you didn’t.She’s a together woman.Puts on a tough front.Even I didn’t know she wasn’thangin’ in there, Mitch.And you couldn’t know, Lottiebein’ how she is, that we hadn’t kept her up to date.That’s on me.I should have warned you.But like I told you outside, shedoesn’t know anything.The first letter, that’s it.”
Lawson nodded.
“Right.Let’s just get this done,” Mo said, moving into theliving room.
He was shocked as shit when they settled in, the Nightingalebrothers (Lee and Hank), the Chavez brothers (Eddie and Hector), Tex, Vance,Luke and Ren all stood at his back.
Guess his approval rating went up.
In that moment, he couldn’t care less.He needed to focus ongetting this done so he could get back to his girl.
He leveled his eyes to Lawson and Lucas who sat next to eachother at the dining room table after Mo sat in the chair at the head, whereLottie had been.
Lawson had dealt with it (for now) and had his game face on.
And Lawson started it, taking point as bad cop, though Mosuspected Lucas might not take the role of good.
“Axl reports he locked this guy down because you called himin the crowd.”
Axl would not report that.
Fuck, this wasn’t going to go easy.
But it couldn’t.
If they appeared to be sweeping shit under the rug, thiswhackjobcould walk.
“I didn’t get a good vibe from him, but he wasn’t notable,which is why I didn’t clock him at King Soopers where I saw him first,” Mosomewhat confirmed.“But I made the call and Axl said he was on him.I don’tknow anything about locking him down and that wasn’t our remit, so I can’tconfirm if he locked him down.But I’d be surprised Axl would do that unlessthe man gave Axl a reason to lock him down.”
“The suspect reports, when he was approached, he tried toleave and wasn’t allowed.Were you a witness to that?”Lucas asked.
“I was on Lottie in the dressing room.So no.”
“You just tagged him as a person of interest and then youtook care of Lottie,” Lawson said.
Mo nodded.
“You need to make a statement on the record of that and theKing Soopers sighting,” Lucas remarked.“You sure it was him at the store?”
“A hundred percent, honestly, no.But gut, the second I sawhim in the club, I’d bet all I had on the fact it was himcheckin’out cucumbers.”
Lawson and Lucas looked at each other.
“Receipt,” Lawson muttered.
“Noted,” Lucas muttered back.
That meant they’d search through the guy’s stuff and try tofind a receipt to place him at the store, verifying Mo’s statement so Mo didn’thave to be a hundred percent on placing him there.
