“She might hear it if this goes to trial,” Lawson saidcarefully.
“I don’t know why, since she doesn’t know dick, so there’dbe no reason to call her as a witness.She doesn’t even know what this guylooks like,” Mo bit off.
“We’regonnahave to talk to her,”Lucas said even more carefully.
“You’regonnahave to wait,” Moclipped.
Lucas nodded.
“So are we done?”Mo asked.
“We’re done, but we’ll need you to come in as soon as youcan to make this official,” Lawson told him.
“And with thiswhackjobmakin’ false statements, what’s my girl up against?”Modemanded to know.
“Hawk’s right,” Lucas answered Mo.“We got him on intent todo grievous bodily harm, stalking, malice aforethought and the Feds got a case.He typed out the letters, but handwrote the addresses, which might have beenballsy, but mostly it was stupid.Threats delivered, an employer took action tosee his employees were safe.In these situations, bringing in security detailsis not unheard of.Even hired security using force when a threat has beenidentified isn’t unheard of and that won’t be a problem.The search of his homepossibly against his will…”
Lucas let that trail, but he wasn’t done.
“If the judge can get past that and what was in his house isadmissible, though, he’s fucked.Our search had a warrant.The judge justfactors that, we’ll be fine.As for bail, the letters alone will give any judgepause.The rest, the DA will drive hard to either have bail set out of hisprice range or hold him until trial since he’s clearly not all there, so notonly a likely flight risk, but just a risk.She’s good.But we’ll stay on thisand if it comes to a point we’re concerned, we’ll bemakin’a lot of calls, so she’s covered.”
That was what he wanted to hear.
Mo got up.
“Morrison, I’ll tell her myself when I see her again, but ifyou can get it in, apologize to Lottie for me.Yeah?”Lawson asked.
Game over.
Mo lifted his chin.
Eddie started to make short work of getting Lawson and Lucasout of there, but Mo didn’t hang around to watch.
He took the stairs three at a time and went to Lottie’sbedroom.
Lottie was curled up in a ball, her head in her mom’s lap,her mother stroking her hair.
Jet, on her other side with Lottie’s feet in her lap, caughtsight of him and gave him a small smile.
“Lawson and Lucas are taking off,” he told Jet.
Lottie’s head came up and her eyes found him.
“You okay?”she asked.
“I’m good, baby,” he answered, moving into the room.“Youokay?”
“She needs her sister’s chocolate sheet cake,” Nancydecided.
“I’ll get on that,” Jet said, scooting to exit the bed.
“How about you get on this and I’ll get on getting thoseboys to move along?”Nancy asked him, tipping her head sideways and down to hergirl.
He was one hundred percent down with that.
Lottie pushed up.
She was down with it too.
