“Yeah, yeah.Apology accepted.”Mati rolled her eyes.
Muffy’s eyebrows were lost beneath her bangs, her eyes wide and unblinking.
The three of them sucked at being subtle.
“Right,” David said, pulling his phone from his pocket. “I need to call Chance and Hodges.”
“I still don’t understand. Why do you want Hunter? Is he in trouble?” Muffy asked.
“We don’t know that he’s done anything wrong,” Reese said, smiling reassuringly. “We just want to ask him some questions. I’m guessing by his departure that he knows something. Will you please call us when he turns up?”
“But why would he do anything to you? Our families have been friends for generations.”
David hesitated to say more, but Mati took a gamble. “He may not have realized that what Chaz asked him to do was wrong, if that’s what happened.”
Muffy’s eyes narrowed, her mouth set in a grim line. “If my brother asked Hunter to doanythinghe shouldn’t have, I will fucking end him.”
Mati had no doubt Muffy would do it, too. Mati understood the pain of having stupid brothers. She squeezed Muffy’s arm. “Call us if you see either of them, and I promise we’ll tell you everything we learn, okay? You can be there when we talk to Hunter, of course.”
“We’re not interested in getting Hunter in trouble,” Reese said. “We know he’s just a kid, and we won’t forget that, or stop caring what happens to him.”
David didn’t look like he entirely agreed with that, but fortunately, Muffy wasn’t looking his way.
She nodded, her shoulders coming down a little. “I’ll call. I promise.”
Mati gave her a long hug. “Thank you.”
No one said another word until David was behind the wheel and they were on their way.
Then they all spoke at once.
“I need to call Chance—”
“Hodges will want to know—”
“That sucked donkey balls—”
David and Reese looked at her.
“What? It did. If Chaz dragged that kid into this, I’m going to kick him in the nuts, then let Muffy loose on him.”
“Fair enough,” Reese said. “But until then, we need to figure out what the hell is going on. Chaz was not only in Boston looking for us, but he dragged his college roommate into it.Why?Why was he in Boston? To hurt me? You?” he said, gesturing at Mati. “What possible reason could there be for that?”
“And for running you off the road five years ago,” David added.
“And for trying to hurt your father?” Mati asked.
Reese shook his head. “It doesn’t make any sense.”
David pulled over in front of the bank where Reese indicated he should park. Reese took off his seatbelt. “I need to call Hodges and update him.”
“Ditto with Chance.”
Mati waved at them. “Go ahead. I could use a minute.”
They frowned but made their calls. Mati used the time to close her eyes. She listened to the men bicker over the spelling of the roommate’s last name and wondered how any of this would eventually make sense. Why would Chaz break in? She worked with him sometimes. He could access most of their files on any random day just by asking. In fact, she had been going back and forth with him recently on the real estate project—
Mati sat up. “Oh shit!”
