"Whatever she's done is not worth it. We'll get the law involved, Ethan, but hurting her will not be worth it."
Ethan held on for one more moment, then released her and walked out the room knowing Renaldo would handle the proceedings from here on with his client's best interest in mind. He knew if he spent another moment in that room with that bitch, he would kill her.
The next afternoon as he was staking out Nanna's home, he saw the long brown coat come out the door. He nearly dropped his coffee trying to sit up from his crotched down position. Pulling the car in drive, he followed the figure all the way to the store and then drove to his site to look for David who lived across the street from the site he was working on. He had to wait until the boy got out of school before he could talk to him, then his mother made him wait an extra hour after that before David could come outside in the cold weather.
He sent David around to the store instructing him to give a message to Nicole. If she wasn't there, don't reveal who sent him and just leave. David came back after a half an hour looking a bit shook up.
"What happened?"
"She wasn't there and a mean old lady who looked like her said she's gone to school away from home. She asked me who sent me and I lied and said my daddy wanted to know about some clothes he dropped off, but it was like she knew I was lying and she tried to grab me, but I ran out." David gave him the ten dollars back. "I don't want to go around there no more until she comes back, mister."
"When will you know if she comes back?"
"My sister works at the corner store near there, I could tell her to look in for her."
"Thanks David."
Ethan decided to go next door and knock on Cleo's door. One of his foremen told him that he had talked to the older woman about the noise early in the morning and Ethan didn't mind adjusting the workman's schedule so she could get some sleep.
Cleo looked very wary when she opened the door to him, but left her security door closed. "Don't I know you?" she asked.
"I use the Laundromat up the street. I wanted to ask you about Nicole."
"There's nothing to ask." She started to close the door. "She don't get involved with customers."