Lula asked when I walked into the office.“It wasn’t a big date. It was business.”“I wouldn’t mind doing some business with him. I swear he’s the finest man ever made.”Connie looked up from her computer. “Did I miss something?”“Stephanie had a date with Ranger last night,” Lula said.“It was business,” I told Connie. “He needed someone to attend an event with him. It wasn’t social.”“It don’t have to be social to be sexual with Ranger,” Lula said. “Unfortunately I don’t know firsthand, but I have a active fantasy life.”“If you don’t have any leads on Cubbin you might try to find Brody Logan,” Connie said to me. “He’s got a medium high bond, and he’s got his collateral. Vinnie made the mistake of not confiscating it when he bonded him out.”I pulled the file out of my bag and glanced at it. “It says here ‘religious icon.’ What does that mean? Is it a cross? A picture of the Virgin Mary?”“It’s a tiki,” Connie said. “It’s three foot high and carved out of some sacred Hawaiian tree.”“I thought a tiki was one of them thatched huts they got in the Bahamas,”
