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“Noted,” Lucas muttered back.
That meant they’d search through the guy’s stuff and try to find a receipt to place him at the store, verifying Mo’s statement so Mo didn’t have to be a hundred percent on placing him there.
And Mo hoped that guy bought something and kept the receipt.
“I’ll go on the record about it,” Mo added. “When I clocked him 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 knew that 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 was forcibly taken from him in Smithie’s office and he was detained against his will.”
Well, hell.
No, this wasn’t gonna go easy.
“I was on Lottie,” he reiterated.
“You don’t know about that?” Lucas asked, watching him closely.
He did.
“I was on Lottie.”
“You don’t know about that,” Lucas repeated, not in question form 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 be played.
Lee just wanted them out of the house so it could quiet down for 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,” Lawson pointed out.
“Tagged the guy. Waited until the lights went down seein’ as I figured he knew me, and that I might know about him, I didn’t want to tweak him by talking into my radio,” Mo put in and Lawson and Lucas’s attention came back to him. “The lights went down after Lottie’s set. I informed the team. Axl stated he was on him. I got Lottie to the dressing room, she locked herself in. I called it into Hawk. I told him the level of my certainty this was our guy, which was high. Hawk made the call.”
