So, I am going to update this story a bit faster now, than I did before. Just am stuck with this one, I feel like I kinda neclegt my other story, but I just can't help it.

I hope you'll like this chapter. :) THANKS to everybody who keeps reading and thank you for all your support and kind words :) They are more than welcome :) THANKS!

I want to dedicate this chapter to my mother, although she doesn't read it, but it was her birthday yesterday and she deserves it so much that I dedicate that chapter to her :) And she was the one who cemented my decision to keep writing my SMacked stories.

Chapter Fifteen: A Little Girl So Big

We entered the quite big hallway of the mansion and Mac played his charming gentlemen card and let me go inside first. The hallway was bright and had a light yellow wallpaper. The hallway also contained the stair which led either upstairs or downstairs into the basement. I looked upstairs and saw the face of a small girl looking down at us. She had been crying. Her eyes were red and her face was flushed. But her gaze was a mixture of suspicion and curiosity. I rewarded the little girl with the blond, braided pigtails with a friendly smile. She just looked at me and Mac with a sad smile.

"Mommy…" she whined sadly and quietly to get her mother's attention. Mrs. Lawson stopped and looked up.

"Is it okay if Lynn joins us? I don't want to leave her alone for so long." Mrs. Lawson asked us. Mac and I only nodded our head.

"Come down, sweetie." She said to the small girl and waited till she was standing next to us. "Say hello to…"

"Mac Taylor and my partner is Stella Bonasera." Mac introduced us. The small girl looked at us with big green eyes.

"Hi." She greeted us shyly. "Will you catch the man who killed my daddy?"

Mac and I looked at her mother with a shocked expression and so did she look at us and then at her daughter.

"You're a smart little girl, Lynn." I told her. "Yes, we will catch him."

Now Mrs. Lawson led us into the living room which was warm and friendly like the hallway. This time the walls were lightly colored in terracotta. The furniture was modern and very fitting. Mrs. Lawson offered us to sit down on the sofa and we took it.

"Do you want some coffee? Or something else to drink?" she asked us.

"Coffee's just fine. Thank you." Mac said and I agreed to him. When Mrs. Lawson got back with the coffee and some cookies for us and the little girl she sat down in an armchair to our right.

"How can I help you, detectives?" she asked.

"Well, I guess you have been questioned by one of the officers already but would be very kind of you if you could tell us what happened." Mac said.

Mrs. Lawson took a deep breath and started:

"Well… it was nearly 2 hours ago. Jamie wanted to meet some friends today and so he left the house. Shortly after he left I heard a gun was fired outside and I went to see what had happened and if Jamie was okay. As I opened the door and looked outside I saw Jamie on the ground and I saw the blood. I rushed toward him, but he was already dead. Shot into the chest. I looked around but nothing and nobody was to be seen than the neighbors who were coming to see what happened, but I told them to go back inside and call 9-1-1. Lynn was upstairs in her room and having her nap, luckily. When I went back inside with Detective Flack I found an envelope lying in front of my door and I gave it to him."

"What about your son? Where was he?" Mac asked further.

"He's at his friend's home for the weekend. He was supposed to come back in an hour, but I called them and said I would pick him up later. I don't want him to see all that blood outside."

"What are you doing, now?" I asked. Lynn was now sitting on her mother's lap nibbling her cookie.

"I will pack up a few things and go to my parent's house. I don't want to be alone here with the kids."

"Do you have any idea who could have done this?" I asked further.

"Actually he wasn't a foe of anyone, but you know judges always live with the fear of having foes for their sentences. He hadn't had any problem with people but lately he received letters from someone written in Greek. He thought someone must have the wrong address, because we do not speak Greek. He wanted to ask an interpreter to translate those letters, but he never did."

"Can I see those notes?"

"Do you understand Greek?"

"Yes. I am half Greek."

"Wait a moment I go and get them for you. Do you want to come with me Lynn?" she asked her daughter but the little shook her head. As her mother had left the room the little girl looked at me.

"What is it?" I asked her.

"Want to ta…k to you." She said shyly.

"Okay."

"I wasn't sleeping like mommy telled you. I saw dada and black man."

"Black man? You mean a man in black clothes?" I asked surprised and the girl nodded her head.

"Did you see what happened?" Mac asked and again the little girl nodded a single tear now running down her face. Lynn was standing close to us now and I placed my hand on her soft cheek wanting to comfort her.

"Dadda's not coming back to Lynnie." She whined and now she started crying again. I was surprised how she knew that. She must have been about 4 years and still she knew that her daddy died. She saw it all and yet told that to total strangers. I wasn't even sure if her mother new that she saw what happened. I scooped the little girl into my arms.

Just as she stopped crying her mother came back. She saw the flushed face and the red eyes of her daughter and looked at us in suspicion.

"What happened?" she asked us.

"You have a very smart little daughter, Mrs. Lawson. She told us that she saw what happened to her dad and she knows that he won't come back." I said calmly.

"She… she saw… everything? Oh my go…" she started and then looked at her daughter. After a few seconds she turned around to us and handed me the letters. It were three envelopes and this time there was the address of Jamie Lawson written on it. I opened the first one and pulled a small piece of paper out of the envelope. I quickly read the Greek words that were written there and did the same with the two other notes.

The first one said: "Πρόκειται να πληρώσει για αυτήν. Θα σκοτώσω κάθε υπεύθυνα πρόσωπο." Which means: You are going to pay for it. I will kill every responsible person.

The other two informed about the death of two of his victims and the last of them also said that he would be his next target. It was never said who wrote those notes and he never mentioned a name in them.

"Can we take the notes with us?" I asked Mrs. Lawson who had taken her daughter into her arms.

"I won't need them anymore. What do they say?"

"Those were threats. He informed about his victims who died and the last said that he was his next target."

"He should have given them to that interpreter… it would have saved his life."

"I'm not sure about that. He killed two persons already and got away with it. Your husband is the third and we are not giving up on catching him, but we have no identity, yet. He searches for his victims and he'll find them." I said.

"I guess you're right… did it help you to get closer to him?"

"I don't know. We found his motive now, but it'll take some time till we can figure out who he is."

"True detective work isn't as easy as they say in books or in TV… but it always sounds so easy. Do me a favor please and call me when you have him."

"We will. It's time that we leave. Thank you for your time, Mrs. Lawson." Mac said and got up. Mrs. Lawson and her daughter walked us to the door.

"Thank you detectives. Call me whenever you need something. I left my cell phone number with one of the officer."

"Thank you. Goodbye, Mrs. Lawson. Goodbye Lynn." I said to both of them. Mrs. Lawson shook my hand and the little girl rewarded me with a small smile.

"Goodbye." She nearly whispered. Mac said goodbye, too and then we were back in the car and heading back to the lab.

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