“Well, I’m not. I’m having dinner with Tamlyn at Clarke’s. But you and Viv are welcome to join us if you want.”
“No Viv. Just me.”
“Wouldyoulike to join us?”
“And be a third wheel?”
“I doubt Viv would be happy if I set you up on a date. And since when has being the third wheel ever stopped you.”
“True. What time?”
“Seven, but let me check with Tamlyn first to make sure she’s okay with it.She’sthe one who invited me.”
“I’ll await your call.”
“Hold on,” Stone said before Dino could hang up.
“There’s more?”
“I didn’t call you about dinner. You’re the one who brought that up.”
“That’s not the way I remember it.”
“I’m wondering if you had any luck tracking down the guys who beat up Paul Weston.”
“Why is that name familiar?”
“Sara Hirschy’s blind date?”
“The guy you walked in on while he was getting his backside handed to him?”
“The very same.”
“Hold on. I’ll check.” He put Stone on hold and didn’t return for nearly a minute. “No one in custody yet.”
“You may want your detectives to talk to their counterparts in Chicago.”
“And why would they do that?”
Stone told him about what had happened to Leonard Yates, then said, “That’s two men being warned to leave Sara Hirschy alone, in a little over a week.”
“Does Sara know who’s behind it?”
“Sara doesn’t know about Yates, so I haven’t asked. But she didn’t have a clue who beat up Weston.”
“Thereisone suspect I can think of.”
“I had the same thought and already talked to Jack. He said he didn’t have anything to do with it.”
“Just because he says he didn’t do it, doesn’t mean he didn’t.”
“Think about it. Why would he target Weston? It was a blind date, which I doubt Sara even told Jack about. But even if she had, there are other ways he could have warned him off. And as for her soon-to-be ex, Jack said he wouldn’t have waited this long to knock some sense into him.”
“He makes a good case.”
“While I have you, there’s something else I wanted to run by you.”
“About Weston or Yates?”
