Jeremy nodded. “The roommate said that the cop visited her several times, until she threatened to get a restraining order. He accused her of making up the story that his sister had run away, but she insisted she’d never have done that.”

“Do you have the name of the roommate?” Dani asked.

Jeremy handed her a piece of paper. “I made notes of everything we found. You think that Laurel Masterson is dead?”

“Yes,” Dani said sadly. “And her brothers are out to get revenge against whoever killed her.”

“One of her brothers is Grant Masterson,” Marcus said, looking at his phone’s screen. “I just ran the search. A Cleveland accountant. Married with three kids.”

“And the cop brother?” Scarlett asked.

“He introduced himself to my friend in the office as Wesley Masterson,” Jeremy said. “It’s on that paper.”

Marcus was already typing the cop’s name into his phone. “Wesley Masterson is a detective with the narcotics department. He was written up in one of the Cleveland papers when he got a commendation after going undercover for three years.”

“Is either Grant or Wesley big and bald?” Dani asked.

Marcus shook his head. “Nope. Neither are bulky. Both about five-ten.”

Dani frowned, putting the pieces together in her mind. “He was undercover for three years? When did he come out from under?”

Marcus checked the article. “January before last.”

Dani sighed. “So he would have been undercover when she initially went missing. He didn’t know she hadn’t come home for the holidays until it was too late. Of course he was frantic.”

“And feeling guilty that he wasn’t there for her,” Keith added quietly. “I would.”

Jeremy patted his hand. “I would, too.”

“Ditto,” Scarlett agreed.

Greg’s forehead was furrowed. “So if this LJM Industries bought Michael’s house, does it mean they killed his stepfather? That a Cleveland cop killed his stepfather?”

Dani shrugged. “Good questions. Maybe? We don’t know. But they connect somehow.” She glanced at Scarlett. “Is that enough to tell Deacon and Adam?”

Scarlett nodded slowly. “The sale of the house will come out when they start searching Brewer’s financials, if they haven’t done so already. This case, what with the way Brewer’s body was dumped and Michael’s testimony about watching Brewer getting murdered, smacks of a hit. Running financials on the victims will be among the first things Deacon and Adam do. LJM will be on their radar soon, so yeah, tell them.”

A quiet rapping on the front door had the dogs barking again. Once again they were shushed. Dani looked anxiously at the stairs while Marcus opened the door.

“Joshua can hear us if he wakes up,” Dani murmured, still signing for Greg’s benefit. “Can you run up and check on him, Greg?”

Greg gave her a sideways look. “You’re trying to get rid of me.” But he got up to do as she’d asked.