Byron reared back as Vanda smoothly continued, “Yeah, that’s right, I know about your little brother and Virgil Curtsie—I had one of our computer geeks ‘Google’ you the day we met—I may be a hot little number, Byron, but I am also a pretty damn good cop. That list your friend Llewellyn had is connected to that event. You know the rest, I think, or have figured it out by now.”
Byron stared hard at her for several moments; then said, “Tom and I killed Virgil Curtsie, Vanda, the man who took my little brother. We were just kids, and I don’t think we set out to do it, but to be honest with you, I don’t really know anymore. But now, all these years later, it seems someone wants revenge for that killing—that’s why they took Thomas.
“As to the list, I’m just not sure. It became apparent to me d
