And Mo hoped that guy bought something and kept the receipt.
“I’ll go on the record about it,” Mo added.“When I clockedhim at the club, he wasn’t watching Lottie.He had eyes on me.”
“He threatened your life in the last letter,” Lucas noted.
Mo felt the men behind him shift and wondered if they knewthat part.
“Yup.”
“And you didn’t want the police called in?”
“Smithie’s call.Letters addressed to him.”
Neither Lucas nor Lawson looked happy about that.
“But you were directly threatened,” Lawson reminded him.
“I look like a guy who can’t take care of myself?”Mo asked.
“No,” Lawson replied.“The man states his wallet wasforcibly taken from him in Smithie’s office and he was detained against hiswill.”
Well, hell.
No, this wasn’tgonnago easy.
“I was on Lottie,” he reiterated.
“You don’t know about that?”Lucas asked, watching himclosely.
He did.
“I was on Lottie.”
“You don’t know about that,” Lucas repeated, not in questionform this time, but it was still a question.
“Asked and answered,” Lee declared.“Move on, Slim.”
“Lee, let them do their jobs,” Hank said quietly.
Hank, also a cop, knew the game and he knew it had to beplayed.
Lee just wanted them out of the house so it could quiet downfor Lottie.
There was a knock on the door.
Seemed things weren’t going to quiet down for Lottie.
Fuck.
“On it,” Hector said, and he moved.
“I’m sorry, but it wasn’t actually answered, Lee,” Lawsonpointed out.
“Tagged the guy.Waited until the lights went downseein’ as I figured he knew me, and that I might know abouthim, I didn’t want to tweak him by talking into my radio,” Mo put in and Lawsonand Lucas’s attention came back to him.“The lights went down after Lottie’sset.I informed the team.Axl stated he was on him.I got Lottie to thedressing room, she locked herself in.I called it into Hawk.I told him thelevel of my certainty this was our guy, which was high.Hawk made the call.”
“And that call was?”Lawson asked.
“I told you that call, Mitch,” Hawk said, striding towardthem in front of Hector.“Now, Mo doesn’t need an attorney, but I’m fuckin’gonnaget him one just to fuck your day up if this shitgoes on longer.”
