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nauseating?”
Jonah’s smile dropped off his face and he resettled his expression into one of scowling disgruntlement more befitting his status as studly badass. “Don’t think so.” He jerked his head. “Let’s do this.”
The first thing that struck Jonah when he pushed open the shop door was the sound of ‘I Feel Pretty’ pouring tunefully from the shop’s sound system. The second thing was the way Kyle and Megan looked towards the door when it opened and the wide, happy smiles fell off their faces the moment they realised who had stepped inside. Lopez pushed the door shut with a casual hand and nodded professionally towards the couple standing in each other’s arms in the middle of the floor. “Afternoon. You got a couple of minutes?” She winced. “And can we lose the soundtrack?”
Megan was the first to recover herself, stepping away from Kyle and then slightly in front of him with a challenging look on her face. “We were just closing up.”
Lopez narrowed her eyes and reached without looking for the sign on the door and flipped it over to read ‘Closed’ and then flicked the latch. “And now you are.” She crossed her arms over her chest and looked pointedly in the direction of the speakers. “Lose the music.”
Megan swelled like an angry toad and had just sucked in breath to start yelling when Kyle placed a hand on her shoulder and said firmly, “Megan, just do as she says.” He looked towards Lopez and Jonah without actually meeting their eyes. “I’m sure this won’t take long, isn’t that right, detectives?”
Shrugging, Lopez said carelessly, “Whatever.” She waited until Megan had switched off the music and returned to Kyle’s side before glancing at Jonah. “You want to start?”
Neither detective missed the way Kyle and Megan tensed up and pressed against each other in unconscious support. Jonah cast his mind back to the sensitivity seminars he and Lopez had attended to try and remember if they had covered anything about offering reassurance and support to nervous victims. He scowled when mainly all that came to mind was snoozing in the back row of the seminar room and jerking awake intermittently when Lopez slammed her elbow into his ribs to stop him snoring. “We know about you. We looked into your background and figured out what’s going on here.”
Neither officer was prepared for the reaction Jonah’s words instigated. All colour drained from Kyle’s face and he actually swayed in place before Megan grabbed at him hastily and yelled, “Get the hell out of here! He’s not talking to you again without a goddamned lawyer, and if you think....”
“ Whoa, chill out there, lady.” Lopez stepped hastily forward and held up her hands. “We’re not about to give you any trouble, just trying to help here.”
Megan ’s lips pilled back in a snarl. “Get. The. Fuck. Out.”
Jonah shoved past Lopez and headed for Kyle who was looking like his entire world was crashing down around his ears. “Look, you need to calm down. You’ve done nothing wrong, but we had to look into your background to see if there was any other reasons we needed to follow up for you being targeted.” He stopped a few feet away from Megan and Kyle when the black woman made a warning noise. Jonah snapped his fingers impatiently in Kyle’s sheet white face. “Yo, Gerritsen, you with me here? We need to know if you think you got hit because you’re intersex. Is someone threatening you and your kid?”
Kyle blinked at him uncomprehendingly and then looked blankly at Megan. “What?” He looked back at Jonah, searching his face with shocky eyes and clutching tightly at Megan’s hand. “I don’t understand. I...you’re not here about...about Shea?”
Jonah threw Lopez a beseeching look, hoping for her to stride forward and do something female and soothing to ease the tense atmosphere. Then he remembered who he was partnered with and gloomily realised that Gina Lopez suddenly morphing into a