Chapter Thirteen
Rafferty used his key to open his Ma’s front door and made for the living room. ‘Hi, Ma.’ He stopped abruptly as he saw his youngest sister was there. Shouldn’t she be at work? He was even more surprised to see she had been crying.
‘What’s the matter, Katy?’
Katy surreptitiously wiped her eyes, and muttered, ‘Nothing.’ She stood up. ‘I must go. See you later, Ma.’
She acknowledged Rafferty with a hurried goodbye, but she kept her faced averted.
Ma followed her out, giving Rafferty a sharp look as she passed him.
‘Ma?’
She waved her hand at him and shut the living room door behind her.
Rafferty frowned. What was going on now? Don’t say his brother-in-law was getting into law-bending like his brothers? He heard a hurried whispered exchange, then the front door slamme
