expression clouded, and Finn was afraid the little boy was about to burst into tears. “Maybe the bad man has him.”
What? Finn glanced at Eva, wondering if he’d heard the child correctly.
Eva had gone pale. She dropped to her knees beside Mikey so she could look him in the eye. “What bad man, sweetie? Did you see a bad man?”
Mikey dropped his stuffed Cocoa and picked up two plastic dinosaurs, slamming them together with glee.
“What do you think?” Finn asked in a soft voice. “Do you think he saw something?”
“I don’t know.” Eva’s expression was full of concern. “He’s only three years old. Maybe he just heard something on TV.”
“He watches cop shows?” Finn asked wryly.
“No, but have you seen some of the cartoons? Several have bad guys in them.”
“Bad guy,” Mikey repeated. “Mommy said the bad guy is real, not make-believe.”
“Mommy said that?” Eva asked in horror. She swayed as if she might go down, so Finn put his arm around her waist.
“Easy,” he murmured near her ear. “If Mikey sees that you’re upset, he’ll cry.”
“I don’t understand,” she whispered. “What does he mean? Why would Malina tell him the bad man is real?”
Finn had no clue, but he remembered seeing her sister’s name on the list of people who had been fired from the training center. Something Eva didn’t seem to know.
He wondered if there had been more going on in Malina’s life than Eva was aware of.
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