Chapter Forty-four
Mickey was watching Lena carefully. The more she found out about the woman, the more questions she had: She remembered waking up, alone in Lena’s bed. Where had Lena disappeared to in the middle of the night and what was that squealing sound, like truck brakes? What muddled conversation had she overheard Lena sharing with Butch while she lay hidden under the gantry stairs? The night they planned to escape in the crew-boat, the men were one step ahead of them. Who tipped them off? And now Lena, despite being injured, decides to visit Butch in the middle of the night? To administer medical aid? Why should she care?
Lena shifted a page in some report she was reading and didn’t look up when Mickey got to her feet to address the women. “I wanted to get everyone together and
